English: Cosmonaut Toyohiro Akiyama was the joint 239th person and the first journalist and the first Japanese person in space on the first commercially organized spaceflight in history. He traveled to the Mir space station on 2 December 1990.
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Cosmonaut Toyohiro Akiyama was the first journalist and the first Japanese person in space on the first commercially organized spaceflight to the Mir space station in December 1990.