Japan Miss Universe contestant, Ariana Miyamoto, is facing backlash at home after winning the beauty pageant. Ariana has been criticized by fans for not being Japanese enough to represent their ...

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She beat 35 other contestants to the Miss Universe Japan title. “The abolition of the age limit and the inclusion of married women have shown me that women’s empowerment knows no boundaries.

Ariana Miyamoto, a native of Nagasaki who has a Japanese mother and an African American father, also faced fierce criticism when she was chosen to represent Japan in the Miss Universe pageant in 2015.

It appears that the Miss Grand International pageant’s beef with the Miss Universe competition is over, at least for now, as the younger global tilt’s owner Nawat Itsaragrisil has acknowledged ...