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Japan's first person in space

Toyohiro Akiyama, a reporter for the Japanese television broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting System, signs the Soyuz space capsule, which was charred upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere, in a field in Arkalyk in the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan on Dec. 10, 1990. He became the first Japanese to travel into space.

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Soyuz rocket launch in 1990

The Soyuz TM-11 rocket carrying Toyohiro Akiyama, a reporter for Japanese television broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting System, and two Soviet cosmonauts -- commander Victor Afanasyev and engineer Musa Manarov -- launches off from the Baikonur space center in the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan on Dec. 2, 1990.

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Japan's first man in space

Toyohiro Akiyama, a reporter for Japanese television broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting System, is pictured in a space suit on Nov. 2, 1990. He became the first Japanese to travel into space as a crew member of the Soyuz TM-11 rocket launched a month later from the Baikonur space center in the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.

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Japan's first man in space

Toyohiro Akiyama, a reporter for Japanese television broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting System, waves from on top of the Soyuz space capsule in a field in Arkalyk in the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan on Dec. 10, 1990, after returning to Earth. He became the first Japanese to travel into space. (Pool photo)

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Japanese entrepreneur to join Russia space agency's training program

TOKYO, Japan - Satoshi Takamatsu (R), 51, president of Space Travel, a Japanese startup firm providing space travel services, shakes hands with Toyohiro Akiyama, a journalist known as the first Japanese to have flown in space, during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2015, held to announce that Takamatsu will join a space flight training program provided by the Russian Federal Space Agency after being accepted as a standby for a visit to the International Space Station.

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Protesters seek elimination of nuclear power in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Toyohiro Akiyama (front R) and novelist Kenzaburo Oe (front 2nd from R) join a march calling for the elimination of nuclear power generation in Japan on March 15, 2014 in Tokyo. About 5,500 people gathered at Hibiya Park in Tokyo before the march.

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Fukushima farmers reluctant to leave cows

IITATE, Japan - Cattle farmer Toyohiro Sato feeds cows in the village of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture, which is largely within the 30-to-50 kilometers range from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on April 12, 2011. The government plans to issue an evacuation directive to the village due to high radiation levels, leaving many farmers concerned about what to do with the 2,500 cows in the village. Sato, 29, said he has affection for the cows he has raised and he wished there is a way to take them with him.

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Japanese astronaut Akiyama speaks to children

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Japanese astronaut Toyohiro Akiyama speaks to children on the importance of environmental preservation during his visit to the 2003 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on July 6.

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Japanese astronaut Akiyama speaks to children

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Japanese astronaut Toyohiro Akiyama speaks to children on the importance of environmental preservation during his visit to the 2003 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on July 6. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima farmers reluctant to leave cows

IITATE, Japan - Cattle farmer Toyohiro Sato feeds cows in the village of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture, which is largely within the 30-to-50 kilometers range from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on April 12, 2011. The government plans to issue an evacuation directive to the village due to high radiation levels, leaving many farmers concerned about what to do with the 2,500 cows in the village. Sato, 29, said he has affection for the cows he has raised and he wished there is a way to take them with him. (Kyodo)

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Japanese entrepreneur to join Russia space agency's training program

TOKYO, Japan - Satoshi Takamatsu (R), 51, president of Space Travel, a Japanese startup firm providing space travel services, shakes hands with Toyohiro Akiyama, a journalist known as the first Japanese to have flown in space, during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2015, held to announce that Takamatsu will join a space flight training program provided by the Russian Federal Space Agency after being accepted as a standby for a visit to the International Space Station. (Kyodo)