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Asteroids discovered: 16 <ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
5333 Kanaya 18 October 1990 Template:SmallTemplate:Ref label
5334 Mishima 8 February 1991 Template:SmallTemplate:Ref label
5743 Kato 19 October 1990 Template:SmallTemplate:Ref label
6251 Setsuko 25 February 1992 Template:SmallTemplate:Ref label
6419 Susono 7 December 1993 Template:SmallTemplate:Ref label
6792 Akiyamatakashi 30 November 1991 Template:SmallTemplate:Ref label
6961 Ashitaka 26 May 1989 Template:SmallTemplate:Ref label
7472 Kumakiri 13 February 1992 Template:SmallTemplate:Ref label
8273 Apatheia 29 November 1989 Template:SmallTemplate:Ref label
9033 Kawane 4 January 1990 Template:SmallTemplate:Ref label
28004 Terakawa 2 December 1997 Template:Small
29624 Sugiyama 2 October 1998 Template:Small
35441 Kyoko 31 January 1998 Template:Small
40994 Tekaridake 20 October 1999 Template:Small
53157 Akaishidake 5 February 1999 Template:Small
55873 Shiomidake 26 October 1997 Template:Small
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Template:Nihongo is a Japanese astronomer affiliated with the Susono Observatory (886). He is a discoverer of minor planets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 16 numbered minor planets during 1989–1999.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />

In 1992 he discovered the asteroid 6251 Setsuko in collaboration with astronomer Toshimasa Furuta, and named it after his wife Setsuko Akiyama (b. 1953) in May 1996 (Template:Small).<ref name="springer-Setsuko" />

The main-belt asteroid 4904 Makio, discovered by Yoshikane Mizuno and Toshimasa Furuta at Kani Observatory (403) in 1989, is named after him.<ref name="Schamdel" /> Naming citation was published on 5 March 1996 (Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />

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