High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yoshihiko Kikuchi (born July 25, 1941 in Horoizumi, Hokkaid?, Japan) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1977. He is the first native-born Japanese to be called as a general authority of the LDS Church. Kikuchi was also the first resident of an Asian nation to become a general authority. Since October 2009 he has had the longest tenure of any active member of the church's First Quorum of the Seventy. Growing up during a time when Japan was at war with the United States, Kikuchi's father was killed in a U.S. bombing raid. With a reason to hold a grudge against Americans, when contacted by American missionaries of the LDS Church after the war he was initially resistant to having anything to do with them, but was nevertheless responsive to the missionaries' message and was baptized at age 16. Three years after his baptism, Kikuchi entered service himself as a missionary in his own country, serving for three and one half years.

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