Thread:Kiyuhito/@comment-40594-20141013235822/@comment-40594-20141016072613

Nope. Sorry if I implied otherwise, but I'm just a fan. I believe it was none other than John Szczepaniak (the author of that Retro Gamer interview posted above) who tried to get a hold of Akamatsu, since he was interviewing numerous Japanese game developers for his book.

Anyway, there are numerous people named Hitoshi Akamatsu on Facebook, but I doubt any of them is the man we're looking for. It's possible that he's pretty reclusive, assuming he hasn't been dead all these years.