Ukraine-born Miss Japan has relinquished her title following a tabloid report that she was having an affair with a married man and weeks of heated public debate on her eligibility. Karolina Shiino ...

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 ...

Crowned Miss Japan this week, Ukrainian-born Carolina Shiino cried with joy, thankful for the recognition of her identity as Japanese. But her Caucasian look rekindled an old question in a country ...

The foreign-born Miss Japan winner, who shook up the ... She was born in Ternopil, Ukraine, and became a Japanese citizen in 2022 after moving to the country at the age of five with her mother ...