Ukrainian-born model wins Miss Japan

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1. Heads are going to detonate likes it’s going out of style 🙂

   I remember what happened the last time this happened, it was raining brain matter for days.

2. She’s pretty, and she’s got citizenship. Sounds legit, she ain’t a yamato nadeshiko but times they are a changing.

3. Check out the Japanese MSN site comment section to read neto-uyo outbursts. They are hilarious.

4. I hope the judges voted for her because she deserves it, not because of her Ukrainian roots.

5. Oh no… 😬

6. Yeah well Israel is not in Europe and they still won Eurovision Song Contest couple years ago.. same thing

7. Next up, white chick wins Miss Nigeria!

8. I saw her on Twitter and she is quite beautiful.

9. I’ve worked for a beauty pageant a little bit. I don’t know about Miss Japan, but it seems like all the pageants are set up beforehand. They already know who will be winning the contest because there are investors (usually corporations or clients to “her”) behind the scenes.

   As long as she gets her popularity, it’s a winning game for the investors.

10. Most asian cultures find caucasians beautiful. So much so that this is a problem. I know this about Indians, thai and Chinese. Didn’t know this was a thing in Japan as well.

11. The desperation of trying to make these outdated, misogynistic beauty pageants seem relevant is just cringey. Just get rid of them altogether.

    You see the same desperation in other places, “Bobby the transsexual is crowned Miss Ireland”… no one cares.

12. 賛否両論なのも頷けるかなと。

    日本って植民地だった歴史がない島国だから、今に至るまで「日本人ぽい見た目」っていうものをどうしても持ってしまうんだと思う。自分も、そういうステレオタイプを捨てる努力はしてるけど、育つ中でどこかでステレオタイプを植えつけられたんだろうなと思う。

    (They will say we choose her because she has Japan’s nationality.
    But I comes to think, how about if they were transgender?)

    Btw, What is the reference of “Kawaii” or “Beautiful”

13. Tzai nee zi?

14. I never understood these Miss [place] competitions, they’re never the most beautiful girls in the country. Not saying they’re not pretty, but they don’t even come close to some Japanese models out there.

15. And this is burning in Twitter 😅

16. Enjoying people forgetting these events aren’t purely about physical beauty, even though they do have a large weighting.

    Also enjoying idiots (both Japanese comments online, and foreign commenters here) malding or criticising her ethnicity. Newsflash, you can be white and Japanese!

17. Pandering 100%

18. White worshipping much??

19. Ugh, lame

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    *Edit: What?! She’s not Ukrainian!

20. I am sure this will be a very normal comment section

21. Who pays attention to beauty pageants unless they do something like this? She *is* Japanese in all meaningful senses of the word, but I can’t help but think that this decision was made to also generate controversy.

22. Oh, that’s very interesting! Don’t know her personally, but she is actually a friend of a model that I know and I’ve seen her before at auditions (model world is small here).
    I also believe she won Best Body Japan a few years ago. She seems quite passionate about beauty pageants and modeling, and is probably also passionate about Japanese culture, so I think it is more than deserved! Also, she grew up in Japan and has the Japanese citizenship, so I see no problem. I fully support her win. It will definitely be interesting to see how she will perform on international stage.

23. There are so many Miss this Miss that competitions and I have run into several women who have competed in these and I get the impression that any decent looking woman can compete. Not sure what it is supposed to represent.

24. I’m sure there is a political agenda behind this farce. Imo people who want to make Japan “diverse” gave her the title. 2 non-Japanese winners (Black woman won in 2014) in the last decade. What a joke. Stop racism against Japanese.

25. >The 26-year-old model, who was born in Ukraine, moved to Japan at the age of five and was raised in Nagoya.

    >She is the first naturalised Japanese citizen to win the pageant, but her victory has re-ignited a debate on what it means to be Japanese.

    I’m ethnically Japanese, have JP citizenship, am older than her but I’ve only lived here for almost half her age; so she’s definitely more Japanese than I am.

26. So are japanese women so ugly they have to choose a foreigner? 🤔

27. I follow her on Instagram I thought she was half

28. Yeah….. Not sure about this one.

29. Oh I can see it wasn’t a beauty contest…