Kazuhiko Yamashita
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Kazuhiko Yamashita has been a general authority
General authority
In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , a general authority is a member of certain leadership organizations who are given administrative and ecclesiastical authority over the church...

 of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since April 2011. He is a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy

Yamashita converted to the LDS Church in 1971. Yamashita has a bachelors degree in physical education from Saitama University
Saitama University
Saitama University is a Japanese national university located in a suburban area of Sakura-ku, Saitama City capital of Saitama Prefecture in Tokyo Metropolitan Area....

, a masters degree from Tsukuba University and also studied the philosophy of physical education at Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

. He was a professor at various Japanese universities. Most recently Yamashita was a professor at Fukuoka University
Fukuoka University
is a private university in Fukuoka, Japan. It is the largest general university in western Japan, with more than 20,000 students. It is sometimes mistaken for a national university...

.

In the LDS Church, Yamashita has served as both a bishop and a stake president of the Fukuoka Japan Stake. He served as an area seventy from 2001 to 2011. He and his wife Tazuko Yamashita are the parents of six children. They were living in Fukuoka
Fukuoka
Fukuoka most often refers to the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture.It can also refer to:-Locations:* Fukuoka, Gifu, a town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan* Fukuoka, Toyama, a town in Toyama Prefecture, Japan...

, Japan at the time of his call as a general authority in April 2011.

Publications

  • "Feudality of College Sports in Japan" in Journal of the Philosophy of Sport Vol. 13, issue 1.

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