20 years have passed since Mouri's first flight
A Gathering of Japanese Astronauts
October 11, 2012, Tokyo, Japan - Former TV journalist Toyohiro Akiyama speaks during a panel discussion at a symposium in Tokyo on Thursday, October 11, 2012. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency sponsored the meeting in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first space flight by astronaut Mamoru Mori in September 1992. Akiyama became the first Japanese to have flown in space when he took to the Mir space station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 1990.(Photo by AFLO) UUK -mis-