Akira Yoshino
Akira Yoshino (born January 30, 1948, Suita, Japan), aged 78, is a Japanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery. Yoshino's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Order of Culture and Japan Prize.
Akira Yoshino’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Pig, with 
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Akira Yoshino’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Akira in the U.S.?
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~9,837
Americans share it since 1880
2008
its peak year
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Akira’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 5
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Akira, according to the stars
Core essence
Akira is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Akira is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Akira wants to be loved
Akira wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Akira, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Akira creates
How Akira makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Akira builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Akira is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Akira is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Akira channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Akira's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Akira sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Akira Yoshino's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 30, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Akira Yoshino was born on January 30, 1948, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Akira Yoshino's birth date, January 30, 1948, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Akira’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Akira Yoshino's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Akira Yoshino combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Akira’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Akira Yoshino, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.8° to 1.1° orb
Akira’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
Akira’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.4° to 1.6° orb
Akira’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.4° to 2.5° orb
Akira’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineUranus2.7° to 4.2° orb
Akira’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineNeptune3.3° to 4.3° orb
Akira’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionPluto4.2° to 5.3° orb
Akira’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn5.1° to 6.7° orb
Akira’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableVenussquareJupiter5.8° to 6.8° orb
Akira’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto6.1° to 6.2° orb
Akira’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 3.0° to 17.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Akira’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironScorpio 23°27′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Akira carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresTaurus 1°02′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Akira is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosPisces 1°34′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Akira is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 21°20′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Akira needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 10°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Akira at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 0.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.3°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.5°
- Eros opposition Mars 3.0°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Akira’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Akira is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Akira’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Yod onto Venus · Neptune, Pluto, VenusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mars quintile Uranus 0.0°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.8°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Akira Yoshino, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Akira’s cards
Every card is computed from January 30, 1948, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Akira Yoshino, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Akira’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4701206, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by 大臣官房人事課, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Akira Yoshino at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Akira Yoshino’s chart
- How old is Akira Yoshino?
- Akira Yoshino is 78 years old, born January 30, 1948 in Suita, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Akira Yoshino?
- Akira Yoshino is an Aquarius: born January 30, 1948, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
- What is Akira Yoshino's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 30, 1948 birth.
- What time was Akira Yoshino born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Akira Yoshino's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the January 30, 1948 birth date.
- What is Akira Yoshino's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 30, 1948 birth date.
- Where is Akira Yoshino's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Akira Yoshino's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
