Education
Yamashita has a bachelor"s degree in physical education from Saitama University, a masters degree from Tsukuba University and also studied the philosophy of physical education at Brigham Young University.
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Yamashita has a bachelor"s degree in physical education from Saitama University, a masters degree from Tsukuba University and also studied the philosophy of physical education at Brigham Young University.
He was a professor at various Japanese universities, most recently at Fukuoka University. As an area seventy, he served as a counselor in the church"s Asia North Area from 2006 to 2008. They were living in Fukuoka, Japan at the time of his call as a general authority in April 2011.
In April 2012, he was again assigned as a counselor in the Asia North Area.
From July 2013 to July 2015, he served as president of the church"s Japan Nagoya Mission before beginning another term of service as a counselor in the Asia North Area in August 2015.