Toyohiro Akiyama
Toyohiro Akiyama was born in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan on July 22nd, 1942 and is the Japanese TV Journalist. At the age of 81, Toyohiro Akiyama biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Akiyama attended and earned his bachelor's degree at the International Christian University located in Mitaka, Tokyo. He then joined the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) as a journalist in 1966. He worked for the BBC World Service from 1967–1971 before becoming a correspondent for the TBS Division of Foreign News. From 1984 to 1988, he served as TBS chief correspondent in Washington D.C.
Later career
Akiyama returned to TBS after completing his spaceflight and became deputy director of the TBS News Division. He retired from TBS in 1995, because he disagreed with the active commercialization of television.
In April 1991, he shot a film, with a group of Japanese journalists, about the state of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan.
From January 1996, he engaged in organic farming with rice and mushrooms in the Abukuma mountains in the town Takine, near Tamura, Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture. He also wrote books and give lectures focusing on environmental issues. In March 2011, he was personally affected by the Fukushima disaster and was forced to abandon his farm.
On November 1, 2011, he became a professor of agriculture at the Faculty of Arts, Kyoto University of Art and Design.