Masuaki Kiyota

Masuaki Kiyota (清田益章)
Born	(1962-04-30) 30 April 1962 Adachi Ward, Tokyo, Japan

Masuaki Kiyota (清田 益章, Kiyota Masuaki) is a Japanese self-professed psychic (エスパー, esper). Kiyota became famous as a child psychic in the 1970s after television appearances during which he was supposed to have bent spoons using telekinesis, similarly to Uri Geller, and to have projected mental images onto photo film. In addition to these performances, Kiyota also claimed that he was in contact with an extraterrestrial being called Zenev (ゼネフさん) and had been teleported to Mars.

Selected Works

• 日笠雅子, ed. (1988) (in Japanese), 超能力野郎 清田益章の本当本, 扶桑社, https://www.amazon.com/dp/4594002234/?tag=apopheniacs-20  — [English: "The True Book of Masuaki Kiyota, the Psychic Guy"]
• 清田 益章 (1992) (in Japanese), 清田益章の超能力開発講座―エスパーが教える念力・透視・テレパシー!, https://www.amazon.com/course-development-Kiyota-chapter-Psychokinesis/dp/4051060411?tag=apopheniacs-20  — [English: "Masuaki Kiyota's Psychic Power Development Course - Psychokinesis, Clairvoyance, and Telepathy - Taught by an Esper!"]

Other Media

• マインドシーカー ["Mind Seeker"] (1989), a psychic training simulator game developed by Namcot with Kiyota, released for the Nintendo Famicom system.

Appearances

• Exploring the Unknown (30 Oct. 1977), an NBC-TV documentary, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266521/

Reading

• Uphoff, Walter; Uphoff, Mary Jo (1980), Mind Over Matter: Implications of Masuaki Kiyota's PK Feats with Metal and Film for Healing, Physics, Psychiatry, War & Peace Et Cetera, Oregon, WI: New Frontiers Center, https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Mind+Over+Matter%253A+Implications+of+Masuaki+Kiyota's+PK+Feats&tag=apopheniacs-20 

Press Coverage

1970s-1990s

• "Blurred 'psychic' film could open door in research", The Capital Times (Madison, WI): 17, 12 May 1979, https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-capital-times-blurred-psychic-film/137898929/ 
• "Professor Now Expert On Paranormal... Uphoff Uses Film To Test Psychic", The Sheboygan Press (Sheboygan, WI): 35, 17 May 1979, https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sheboygan-press-professor-now-expert/137931916/ 

2000s-2020s

• "元スプーン曲げ少年、人生も曲げた…大麻所持で逮捕" (in Japanese), Sports Hochi (hochi.yomiuri.co.jp), 1 Nov. 2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20061114133906/http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/topics/news/20061101-OHT1T00082.htm  — [English: "Former spoon-bending boy who also bent his life... arrested for marijuana possession"]
• "元「超能力少年」清田益章さん（61）が語る「“3億円で教祖”の誘いも興味なし。今はマンション経営で悠々自適の日々」" (in Japanese), NEWS ポストセブン (news-postseven.com), 1 May 2023, https://www.news-postseven.com/archives/20230501_1865260.html?DETAIL