On January 27, 2024, the results of the 56th "Miss Japan" beauty pageant were released, and the 26-year-old Japanese-Ukrainian beauty model - Shiino Karolina won the championship and became the latest Miss Japan!
The "Miss Japan" beauty contest began in 1950, claiming to "discover a beauty with Japanese characteristics", and the participating beauties must be at least 15 years old and above 1.52 meters tall!
The first Miss Japan Fujiko Yamamoto became"Showa Beauty"Synonymous, graduated from Kyoto Prefectural No. 1 High School for Girls, and after being crowned the champion of Miss Japan, she began to participate in movies, writer Yukio Mishima picked Fujiko Nakamoto at a glance and asked her to be the heroine of her ** adaptation of the movie "Made in Japan"!
Won in the 90s"Miss Japan"'s Norika Fujiwara has also become a well-known actress in the Japanese entertainment industry.
Recently, the 56th "Miss Japan" beauty pageant was held in Tokyo, and a 26-year-old beautiful model Shiino Carolina won the crown.
Carolina's biological parents are both of European descent, and she now lives in Japan with her mother and stepfather, and changed her surname to Shiino with her Japanese stepfather, and the organizers of the "Miss Japan" contest say that she is the first winner of European ancestry!
Shiino Carolina said when accepting the award that she has been discriminated against and estranged by a lot of ** in Japan since she was a child, but she lived in Japan at the age of five.
However, there is a great controversy within Japan about this Miss Japan, after 2015, Miyamoto Ariana became the first mixed-race child to win the "Miss Japan" crown, with a Japanese mother and an African-American father, and Japan questioned whether the mixed-race child was qualified to represent the most beautiful person in Japan.
This time, Shiino is completely "of European origin", and the event party said that it is fully compliant, because Miss Japan allows single women between the ages of 17 and 26 with Japanese nationality to participate, and these conditions Shiino meet the requirements.