Kiichirō Furukawa (Japanese: 古川 麒一郎, Hepburn: Furukawa Kiichirō, Kunrei: Hurukawa Kiitirô, 22 July 1929 – 29 June 2016)[1][4] was a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets at the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory.
[5] Furukawa was also associated with Nagoya University Department of Astrophysics.
[6] Asteroid 3425 Hurukawa, a member of the Eos family and discovered by Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg in 1929, was named in his honor.
[5] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) on 16 December 1986 (M.P.C.
[7] Kiichirō Furukawa was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, credited by the MPC under the name K. Hurukawa with a total of 92 co-discovered numbered minor planets, all of them in collaboration with astronomer Hiroki Kosai.