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Haven't thought about this singer for years, but she suddenly came to mind, when doing various searches on U-tube on various parts of Japan.
She's LDS and appeared on a weekly TV show, did numerous commercials and has done 15 albums, she would be 41 today, same age as myself.
Here's one of her songs
Yuki Saito
Saito
She was born in September 10, 1966, same year as myself, and was a popular Japanese pop singer in the mid 80's, when I was living just outside Tokyo, Japan on an LDS mission.
I was in Japan from July '85 to June '87 and she was a great influence and example to the Japanese LDS community, which was also helpful in breaking the ice with cold contacts, those we would approach on the street and ask "Have you heard of the LDS/Mormon church?" and most everyone would say yes, because there was also an LDS return missionary who became a famous comedian/game show personality in Japan and everyone knew who he was, and that he was also Mormon, then all we had to say is Yuki Saito's name, and they all knew who she was, and then we would mention that she was also LDS/Mormon. It helped tremendously in calming people's fears of who we were. God really worked in mysterious ways, in Japan, in the 80's, and as a result of these two LDS celebrities, there was a slow and steady growth of LDS members, in one of the most unlikely parts of the world... Kent Gilbert was also another return missionary, who was a lawyer, who also became and actor in Japan, so we also mentioned his name and most recognized it...
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Yuki was in one of the stakes I was in for a while. Her father was also the stake president at the time. The current quorum of the 70's member Yoshihiko Kikuchi, was also one of the former stake presidents of that same stake, before being called to serve in Salt Lake in 1977.
Saito Yuki
Yuki Saito ~ LDS Japanese actress, pop singer and writer
Yuki Saito ~ Wiki
Yoshihiko Kikuchi, General Authority
Yoshihiko Kikuchi ~ Wiki
Christians make up less than one percent of the total population in Japan and if you break it down, a much much smaller portion of the pupulation is LDS, of course, in a country in which most consider themselves Buddhist or Shinto. Most housholds have small Shinto shrines in them, In which pictures of ancestors are placed, and prayers are offered on their behalf.
She's LDS and appeared on a weekly TV show, did numerous commercials and has done 15 albums, she would be 41 today, same age as myself.
Here's one of her songs
Yuki Saito
Saito
She was born in September 10, 1966, same year as myself, and was a popular Japanese pop singer in the mid 80's, when I was living just outside Tokyo, Japan on an LDS mission.
I was in Japan from July '85 to June '87 and she was a great influence and example to the Japanese LDS community, which was also helpful in breaking the ice with cold contacts, those we would approach on the street and ask "Have you heard of the LDS/Mormon church?" and most everyone would say yes, because there was also an LDS return missionary who became a famous comedian/game show personality in Japan and everyone knew who he was, and that he was also Mormon, then all we had to say is Yuki Saito's name, and they all knew who she was, and then we would mention that she was also LDS/Mormon. It helped tremendously in calming people's fears of who we were. God really worked in mysterious ways, in Japan, in the 80's, and as a result of these two LDS celebrities, there was a slow and steady growth of LDS members, in one of the most unlikely parts of the world... Kent Gilbert was also another return missionary, who was a lawyer, who also became and actor in Japan, so we also mentioned his name and most recognized it...
.
Yuki was in one of the stakes I was in for a while. Her father was also the stake president at the time. The current quorum of the 70's member Yoshihiko Kikuchi, was also one of the former stake presidents of that same stake, before being called to serve in Salt Lake in 1977.
Saito Yuki
Yuki Saito ~ LDS Japanese actress, pop singer and writer
Yuki Saito ~ Wiki
Yoshihiko Kikuchi, General Authority
Yoshihiko Kikuchi ~ Wiki
Christians make up less than one percent of the total population in Japan and if you break it down, a much much smaller portion of the pupulation is LDS, of course, in a country in which most consider themselves Buddhist or Shinto. Most housholds have small Shinto shrines in them, In which pictures of ancestors are placed, and prayers are offered on their behalf.
