Yoshiaki Arata
Japanese physicist
Yoshiaki Arata (荒田 吉明, Arata Yoshiaki, born 1924) is a pioneer of nuclear fusion research in Japan and a former professor at Osaka University. He is reported to be a strong nationalist, speaking only Japanese in public. He received the Order of Culture in 2006.
Arata started researching and publishing in the field of cold fusion around 1998, together with his colleague Yue Chang Zhang.