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So, people don’t believe that the woman crowned Miss Japan is Japanese

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With a Japanese mother and African American father, Ariana Miyamoto has become the first bi-racial woman to be crowned Miss Japan. The question of whether a person of mixed race should be eligible to win the competition has since provoked a heated argument on social media, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports.
Meet the stunningly beautiful Miss Japan (Picture: Youtube.com/bbcnews)

Ariana Miyamoto is the first mixed-raced woman to ever be crowned Miss Universe Japan, but she’s not getting the attention she deserves.

With a Japanese mother and African American father, Miyamoto is what’s known in Japan as a ‘hafu’ (not foreign but not fully Japanese), and this, according to people on social media, means that she’s unworthy of the title.

‘I’ve lived in Japan all my life, but if I say I’m… Read the full story


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