Okuro Oikawa

Okuro Oikawa (及 川奥 郎, * 1896, † 1970) was a Japanese astronomer.

Oikawa worked at the Astronomical Observatory of Tokyo, where he - the end of the 20s - discovered included eight asteroids. He was the first Japanese to the succeeded in discovering an asteroid. He even dedicated the asteroid ( 2667 ) Oikawa.

• Japanese
• Astronomer ( 20th century)
• Born 1896
• Died in 1970
• Man