Elder Kazuta Takara speaks into an intercom box outside the gates to a Tokyo residence. The speaker phones have been coined "kekko" boxes or "no thank you " boxes by the missionaries because that is the response they nearly always get when they introduce themselves as LDS members. Most Japanese are either Buddhist or Shinto so they do not readily accept christian theology. The missionaries rarely get invited into a Japanese home when they are out proselytizing - most of their conversations are through intercoms or closed doors. Elder Takara is a 2nd generation Mormon from Kyoto.