Foreign-born Miss Japan winner resigns title after adultery scandal
When a foreign-born contestant won Miss Japan last month, it sparked much wringing of hands from certain sections of the commentariat and internet, and a roughly equal amount of earnest gushing about how much Japan was changing.
Karolina Shiino, who was born in Ukraine but has lived in Japan since the age of five and eventually naturalized as a Japanese citizen, was awarded the title of Miss Japan in a ceremony in January. The face of Japan was now officially a white woman. This was enough of a news story to make waves internationally.
Now, as they say, the plot thickens. The 26-year-old Shiino has resigned her title as Miss Japan, not because of pressure from trolls but because she was having an affair with a married man with a family.
The details are actually a little sad for her, since she wasn’t really the guilty party in this sordid tale.
The man, Takuma Maeda, is one of those hot and hunky celebrity doctors that seem to bag famous ladies. He had apparently told Shiino that he was divorced and single, though she reportedly still continued to see him after she found out about his family.
A tabloid broke the story on January 31 with a picture of Shiino holding hands on date with the doctor, claiming they had been in a relationship for three years. Maeda was also a judge on a previous beauty contest (though not, it seems, the Miss Japan pageant held in January).
It is easy to see why Shiino would be such a catch for an alpha male in Japan: she is fully acculturated and speaks Japanese with native fluency, but has exotic, Eastern European looks.
Shiino and her agency initially denied adultery but the fallout was quick. She was dropped by her agency on Monday after they found out she had continued seeing Maeda, and it was also announced that Shiino had “voluntarily” given up her title as Miss Japan.
With her promising career as a model in tatters, the future looks rather bleak for Karolina Shiino. We wonder what the professional and personal impact, if any, for Dr Maeda are.
On the other hand, perhaps it’s time we said sayonara to beauty pageants in the first place, with their outdated expectations of moral perfection for the female contestants.
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“she wasn’t really the guilty party in this sordid tale…she reportedly still continued to see him after she found out about his family”. No matter how nonsensical, do whatever it takes to promote that women should never be responsible or accountable for their own actions and decisions.
Feminazi’s reply: Yeah but… yeah but…yeah but the man.
So you don’t cry yourself to sleep, yes, he was ALSO guilty, assuming him and his wife didn’t already have an agreed upon arrangement. You see how easy it is to hold people accountable, no matter what their gender is? You should try it sometime.
From Nextshark “But on Monday, the association admitted that Shiino had known about the doctor’s marriage and apologized for initially denying it.”
See, this is what’s called a liar. So she’s not so sweet and innocent, while the big bad guilty man forced her.
> “Maeda was also a judge on a previous beauty contest (though not, it seems, the Miss Japan pageant held in January).”
He has also served as a judge for the Miss Universe Japan last year. He just didn’t serve for this year where his mistress won.
“outdated expectations of moral perfection” my ass! That is obvious conflict of interest to me.
Good riddance, only women born in Japan should be awarded the title of miss Japan and be allowed to enter that competition
let my niggas live!!
arent there shops/businesses where outside is stated “foreigners not allowed”…while this one is “Miss japan”? pretty grotesque….from a foreign pov (i am european/caucasian) she just seems like a random “white” woman….its like “miss austria” is chinese or thailand,etc woman…
>> arent there shops/businesses where outside is stated “foreigners not allowed”
Only prostitutes, love hotels and some hot springs ban foreigners
>it sparked much wringing of hands from certain sections of the commentariat and internet
… from people who turned out to be absolutely correct. She was a nepotism win.
I get that this is not the site to read opinions from people who have a moral compass, but must you continue to run water for her even when her offense was so obviously bad?