The Ukrainian-born winner of this year's Miss Japan beauty pageant and the contest's organizers say she has renounced her title after a magazine published an article about her affair with a married man.
Karolina Shiino was crowned Miss Japan on Jan. 22, setting off renewed public debate over what it means to be Japanese in a country where homogeneity and conformity are still valued.
In a message posted on Instagram on Monday, Shiino said that after the article came out, she offered to give up her crown and resign from her modeling agency. She said her offers were accepted.
The Associated Press could not immediately reach Shiino for comment.
The Weekly Bunshun magazine reported last week that Shiino had been in a relationship with a doctor who is married. Initially, she appeared to confirm the relationship but said she did not know he was married.
Later, she said her earlier explanation “was not true” and that she was aware of his married status and that he had a family. She apologized and said she was in a state of shock and fear over the report and panicked, which is why she was not able to tell the truth.
“I'm very sorry for causing the tremendous trouble and for acting as if betraying everyone who has supported me,” she said on Instagram.
!chuds typical ukkkraine moment
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I always thought poc foids were just sneeding about white women having an advantage just for being white, but maybe they have a point
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i don't even understand, was the vote for "Miss Japanese
Twig"??
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Coomer japanese judges voted for the s*x doll ethnicity how are we surprised
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Japanese women are pretty hot: this white woman won fair and square
White women have the tits advantage, but Asian women have the thinness thing going for them, so it cancels out
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Youre forgetting the novelty factor
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