Mikihiro Yasutake

Mikihiro Yasutake, often just referred to as Hiro, is a consistent contestant on Survivor: REM. She has 10th casting priority, and thus is guaranteed to appear on every season.

In Borneo, in spite of her wacky antics and temperaments, Hiro was generally well-liked by everybody. She had a bizarre showmance with Yutaka Furutani, which she claimed was all fun and games. After winning the first two individual challenges (the latter of which resulted in Kaori Funai wondering if she was getting "too close" to her sister), Tsutomu Wada deemed Hiro a threat moving forward and convinced his alliance to target her and vote her out, making her the first member of the jury.

Borneo
Hiro started the game as a member of the Pagong tribe. She was known for his wacky antics that kept her tribemates entertained, despite the harsh environment, one of which is "inventing" a "Coconut Phone" to "contact" the outside world. She is also known for her close relationship with tribemate Yutaka Furutani.

Hiro's tribe won the first Immunity Challenge but lost the second. While the rest of Pagong voted out Takeo Hamasaki, as he was deemed the most annoying member, Hiro and Takeo both voted for Isao Amano, as they thought she was the laziest member.

Pagong came back by winning the third Immunity Challenge but later lost the fourth one. The majority of the tribe voted for Isao; however, Hiro voted for Osamu Morioka, as he annoyed her. The pattern continued as Pagong won the fifth Immunity Challenge, but lost the preceding challenge. After tribemates Annaisha Hattori and Komako Noguchi made a disparaging joke about men, Hiro sided with the men of the tribe and voted out Nasha 4-2.

After the merge, Hiro won the very first individual Immunity Challenge on Day 21, protecting her from being voted out. At Tribal Council, while the members of Pagong (and Kishou Yamaoka) voted differently, the four-way Tagi alliance stuck together and voted out Isamu "Shimada", as he was Pagong's leader. Hiro voted for Mori.

Hiro then won the Day 23 Reward Challenge, and she was rewarded with a video from home from his sister. At Tribal Council, the former Tagi members and Mori voted for Hiro, making her the first jury member ever on Survivor, while Hiro voted for Mori. Hiro abruptly burst into a round of fake tears after being voted out which prompted everyone including Jeff Probst to laugh (with Kaori Funai thinking for a moment Hiro actually was crying).

As a juror, Hiro became the swing vote between who won between the final two, having her three other Pagong comrades voting for Midori Harada, while the three Tagi jurors voted for Tsutomu Wada. She asked both Tsutomu and Midori to pick a number between 1 and 10. Tsutomu was closer, and Hiro became the only Pagong member to vote for Tsutomu, making Tsutomu the Sole Survivor. Hiro faced heavy criticism after the show for apparently allowing the whole game to come down to guessing a number, but she later explained that she had always intended to vote for Tsutomu and her number-picking question was just a way of mocking the serious nature of Tribal Council.