Midori Harada

Midori Harada is the Runner-Up of *Survivor REM: Borneo* and *Survivor REM: The Australian Outback*, and a consistent contestant on Survivor: REM. She has 12th casting priority, and is thus guaranteed to appear in every season.

In *Borneo*, as a member of the Tagi Alliance, she was in a great spot to make it to the end, but with her morals conflicting with the nature of the game, she defected. Her betrayal was met by her peers as pandering to garner more jury votes, and she was thus forced to resort to winning challenges to save herself. She won the last four Immunity Challenges, which enabled her to make it to the Final Tribal Council where she was the target of Shieri Yasude's infamously impassioned "Snakes and Rats" speech and ultimately lost to Tsutomu Wada in a 4-3 vote.

In *The Australian Outback*, she was known for her love-hate relationship with Kishou Yamaoka and becoming the first ever contestant to win five Immunity Challenges in a single season. She infamously voted out Takeo Hamasaki at the final three, and took Annaisha Hattori to the Final Two with her. However, this move proved to be fatal as Nasha was awarded the title of Sole Survivor in a 4-3 vote, thus leaving Midori as the runner-up.

## Career

### Borneo

Midori started the game on the Tagi tribe. After Tagi lost the first Immunity Challenge, Midori tried to get fellow tribe members, Renjiro Hatanaka, Shieri Yasude, and Ryujirou Yoshioka, to vote out Kaori Funai, whom many people found annoying. Midori's plans failed when Eri decided to join the others in voting out Renjiro due to his weakness in challenges, despite everybody on Tagi liking Renjiro.

At Tagi's next Tribal Council, Midori once again lobbied against Kaori. However Eri once again voted with the others, and Ryuji was voted out. On Day 11, Midori talked with Tsutomu and Eri about forming an alliance. The alliance later asked Kaori to join so they would have a majority.

The Day 15 Immunity Challenge required the tribe to select one rower. Midori, who had experience in the kayak, naturally took the position as the rower. Midori went up against Pagong member Komako Noguchi. Initially, she and Tsutomu believed her capacities on water would be beneficial, especially since they weren't sure how well Komako would do in the challenge. The Pagong tribe got out to an early lead and never looked back, eventually winning the challenge, which upset Midori intensely for the rest of the day.

The Tagi Alliance claimed their first victim at the following Tribal Council, voting out Ronia Kimura, as they were worried about her ailing health. Midori made the merge with the other members of her alliance and Kishou Yamaoka. The alliance stuck together and managed to gain the majority in the new Rattana tribe, as the old Pagong members and Kishou decided to vote based on their own personal feelings.

The alliance continued to systematically eliminate the remaining Pagong members. Throughout the game, Midori formed a tight friendship with Eri, however, she started to waver from the alliance; instead, she wanted to vote out people who she thought did not deserve to be in the game. Targeted for her betrayal, Midori was the next to go on Day 33, but she managed to win the Immunity Challenge, resulting in the last remaining ex-Pagong member still in the game, Yutaka Furutani, to be voted out. Midori was targeted again, but after she won Immunity again on Day 36, this resulted in the only ex-Tagi to not be part of their alliance, Kishou, being voted out.

On Day 37, Midori won her third successive immunity, and she faced a tough decision: either vote out Eri, whom she had formed a strong friendship with, or the deceptive Tsutomu. Midori initially sided with Eri, forcing a 2-2 tie at Tribal Council, but at the revote, Midori switched her vote from Tsutomu to Eri. Midori went on to win the Final Immunity Challenge and won the right to select who would join her in the Final Tribal Council. Midori cast the sole vote to eliminate Kaori at Tribal Council, deeming her to be a bigger threat to win the game than Tsutomu.

At the Final Tribal Council, Midori received a harsh speech given by a furious Eri since Eri believed that she had abandoned the alliance and betrayed their friendship. Eri proceeded into comparing the final two to animals they lived with for the past month, with Midori and Tsutomu being a rat and snake respectively, asking the jury that they should vote the way Mother Nature intended, for the snake to eat the rat. Ultimately, Midori lost to Tsutomu by one vote, gaining the votes of ex-Pagong members Osamu Morioka, Komako, and Yutaka.

### *Voting History*

**^1**  In Episode 13, the vote ended with a 2-2 tie between Tsutomu and Eri, forcing a revote. Midori voted for Eri on the revote.
**^2** Jury votes that are not cast for a finalist are counted as votes against, so although Midori avoided every standard elimination vote, 4 votes she could've earned were instead cast in favour of Tsutomu.

### The Australian Outback

In the beginning, Midori quipped that the trip to find their camp, 'fired her up' because it was a good way to see what her tribemates were made of. She took on an early leadership role in the tribe. She then made a plan with Takeo to keep the tribe moving along the creek bed; Takeo scouted ahead to see how much farther the camp was.

She was a physical asset to his tribe. He helped them win the first Immunity Challenge. However, the second Immunity Challenge was not strength based and Ogakor lost. Midori, with the other Ogakors in a unanimous vote, ousted Yutaka Furutani.

Initially, Midori and Kishou seemed to have some chemistry. Although there was suspicion that Kishou had ulterior motives. After Mori's poor performance at the third Immunity Challenge, Midori voted with the rest of her tribe and eliminated him. After losing their third consecutive Immunity Challenge, Kishou boldly alienated Nasha and Takeo by stating that Midori, Amber, and Eri were his friends. This gesture caused Nasha to ask Midori his opinion of Kishou, slowly broaching the subject of voting with them. Midori did not want to vote for Takeo, who was the main target next Tribal Council. She bonded with Takeo and saw him as a valuable ally to have later on in the game and so that night Midori voted with Nasha and Takeo to force a tie in Ogakor. Since Eri had received a previous vote in the last Tribal Council, she was eliminated. After Ogakor's three-time Immunity losing streak, they picked up their game, and all five remaining Ogakors remained intact until the merge. Midori became one of ten castaways to comprise the merged Barramundi tribe.

Due to Ogakor's plan to make Kucha believe she had received past votes cast against her, the rival Kucha tribe cast their five votes for her at the merge. Midori got the back of her Ogakor comrades and all of them voted for Kucha member Mikihiro Yasutake. After a deadlocked tie, previous votes were taken into account. While Midori had no previous votes, Hiro already had two (from Renjiro Hatanaka and Isao Amano), this caused Hiro's ouster. Midori would later become a force to be reckoned with, winning eight of the final ten challenges, while her core alliance of Nasha and Takeo had voted the competition off, thus leaving the threesome as the final three castaways. Midori's winning streak not only spared hier from elimination but also made a critical decision of taking either Nasha or Takeo to the Final Tribal Council. Although he thought Takeo would be easier to beat, he felt that Nasha was more deserving, sending Takeo to the jury.

At Final Tribal Council, Midori's decision of bringing Nasha was considered by fans as a big mistake, and which was widely believed to have cost her the competition, because four of the seven jury members gave their votes to Nasha, making her the second Sole Survivor and leaving Midori as the runner-up.

### *Voting History*

**^1**  In Episode 4, the vote ended with a 3-3 tie between Takeo and Eri, forcing a revote. Midori did not change her vote on the revote.
**^2**  In Episode 7, the vote ended with a 5-5 tie between Midori and Hiro, forcing a revote. Nobody changed their vote on the revote, eliminating Hiro due to previous votes against him.
**^3** Jury votes that are not cast for a finalist are counted as votes against.