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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Akira
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.?
#983
US rank in 2025
~9,837
Americans share it since 1913
2008
its peak year
Akira is in US records from 1913, but 1948 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2008.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Akira’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
5
Soul Urge · freedom
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on A (1) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Akira’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Akira apart
Akira Yoshino took the Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize in 2011, at 63.
University of Osaka and Osaka Prefectural Kitano High School shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Akira Yoshino under Scientists from Osaka Prefecture, People from Suita and University of Osaka alumni.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882) and Felipe VI of Spain (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Osaka, Osaka Prefectural Kitano High School and Kyoto University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2019), Global Energy Prize (2013) and Order of Culture (2019)
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Wikipedia editions
- 60
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. Working below.
Where Akira sits
Six lines
Akira’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Akira Yoshino
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Suita on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Suita that night
Computed for 34.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Elnath stood nearest the zenith over Suita at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.2° above the horizon in Taurus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
From 34.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −55.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 76% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.
How unusual Akira's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Venus · Five planets retrograde · 1 unaspected planet
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurytrineUranus2.7° to 4.2° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto4.2° to 5.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn5.1° to 6.7° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter5.8° to 6.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto6.1° to 6.2° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 23°27′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 1°02′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 1°34′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 21°20′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 10°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Akira’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Akira’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on January 30
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt1882
- Felipe VI of Spain1968
- Christian Bale1974
- Tyla2002
- Kid Cudi1984
- Dick Cheney1941
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Billie LourdAmerican actress
- Janelle MonáeAmerican singer and actress (born 1985)
- Cory MonteithCanadian actor
Other Aquarius Pig charts
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- Pierre GaslyFrench racing driver
- Madison KeysUS American tennis player
Other Evergreen Scholars
- Lei JunChinese businessman, cofounder and CEO of Xiaomi
- Mac DeMarcoCanadian musician
- Benson BooneAmerican singer
- Lee Jae-yongSouth Korean business executive
Famous people with Life Path 8
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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Akira’s cards
Computed from January 30, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Akira’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4701206 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Akira Yoshino.
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.
- 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 is Akira Yoshino's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Akira Yoshino's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
