The asteroid was discovered on 12 January 1983, by American astronomer Brian Skiff at Lowell's Anderson Mesa Station, near Flagstaff, Arizona.
[12] Akirafujii has been characterized as a dark C-type asteroid by PanSTARRS' photometric survey,[11] which agrees with the Mitidika family's overall spectral type.
The ambiguous lightcurve from Chiro Observatory showed a rotation period of 10.635 hours with a brightness variation of 0.35 in magnitude, when using the longer solution (U=2).
[7][8][5][6] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) derives an albedo of 0.07 and calculates a diameter of 15.2 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 12.6.
[3] This minor planet was named in honour of Japanese astronomer Akira Fujii (born 1941), a prominent astronomy communicator and astrophotographer at his Chiro Observatory in Shirakawa, Fukushima prefecture.