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 Carolina won the championship and became the latest Miss Japan!
The "Miss Japan" beauty contest began in 1950, claiming to "discover beauties with Japanese characteristics", and the participating beauties must be at least 15 years old and at least 1.52 meters tall!
The first Miss Japan Fujiko Yamamoto became synonymous with "Showa Beauty", graduated from Kyoto Prefectural No. 1 High School for Girls, and after being crowned Miss Japan champion, she began to participate in movies, writer Yukio Mishima picked Fujiko Nakamoto at a glance and asked her to be the heroine of the film "Made in Japan" adapted from her novel!
Norika Fujiwara, who won "Miss Japan" in the 90s, 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 European, 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!
When Shiino Carolina received the award, she said that she had been subjected to a lot of invisible discrimination 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.
This time, Shiino is completely "European blood", 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.