It has been announced that the late Prof. Furukawa, who was also an astronomer, applied for an asteroid he discovered in 1982 named after the late professor emeritus Yoshiro Okada, one of his friends, and the IAU approved this application.
Name: Okadayoshirou
Number: 43753
Date of Discovery: 14/11/1982
Yoshiro Okada (1930-2014)
Historian. Our professor emeritus since 1993.
Reference Site
–IAU Minor Planet Center