Ukrainian Immigrant Wins Miss Japan Competition: Actual Japanese Not Impressed

01/27/2024

A Muslim Egyptian invader to the United Kingdom and member of the Lügenpresse, is part of a coterie of outsiders in Japan who think a Ukrainian born in Ukraine and of Ukrainian ethnicity is Japanese or that Japan needs more non-Japanese. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Carolina Shiino is not Japanese, she might be more slightly more Japanese than Naomi Osaka, but only because her Japanese language skills are better and she has lived in Japan longer than Osaka. Also because the very White Shiino is much more intelligent than Osaka and therefore been better able to adapt to Japanese language and culture. In the end, though, she is not and never will be Japanese. No more so than Jared Taylor, who was actually born in Japan.

But a Muslim BBC invader (Shaimaa Khalil, the BBC’s Tokyo Correspondent) wants you to think that anyone can be Miss Japan, because, well, multiculturalism or there aren’t enough Japanese models around to be Miss Japan, but mostly because Globohomo wants Japan destroyed, likely because of Japan’s actions during the late global unpleasantness.

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”There have been racial barriers, and it has been challenging to be accepted as Japanese.”

That’s what a tearful Carolina Shiino said in impeccable Japanese after she was crowned Miss Japan on Monday.

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.
Ukrainian-Born Model Winning Miss Japan Re-Ignites Identity Debate, by Shaimaa Khalil, BBC, January 24, 2024

Apparently not all Japanese agree, most don’t, with an Egyptian Muslim, that Shiino can be Japanese or represent the Japanese people. And that is the usual reaction of the Japanese; to be Japanese one must be born in Japan to Japanese parents, live in Japan, and practice Japanese culture. Two strikes against Shiino. Even Japanese who are too long outside Japan can lose their Japaneseness, something the Tokugawa Shogunate knew instinctively when they banned Japanese who left Japan from returning upon pain of death.

While some recognised [sic] her victory as a “sign of the times,” others have said she does not look like a “Miss Japan” should.

Her win comes nearly 10 years after Ariana Miyamoto became the first bi-racial woman to be crowned Miss Japan in 2015.

Back then, with a Japanese mother and African American father, Ms Miyamoto’s victory raised questions about whether a person of mixed race should be eligible to win the competition.

Now, the fact Ms Shiino has no Japanese parentage has upset some on social media.

The Japanese people aren’t having it. They know she is not Japanese.

“This person who was chosen as Miss Japan is not even a mix with Japanese but 100% pure Ukrainian. Understand she is beautiful, but this is ‘Miss Japan’. Where is the Japaneseness?” said a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“If she was half [Japanese], sure no problem. But she’s ethnically 0% Japanese and wasn’t even born in Japan,” said another comment.

Others said her win was sending the “wrong message” to others in the country.

“I think that Japanese people naturally (would) get the wrong message when a European looking person is called the most beautiful Japanese.”

Others questioned whether choosing the Ukrainian-born model was a political decision.

“If she were born Russian, she wouldn’t have won. Not a chance. Obviously the criteria is now a political decision. What a sad day for Japan,” one person alleged.

Interesting aside: Shiino has worked hard at being Japanese, even learning Japanese polite speech, kenjōgo, the most polite form of Japanese.

“She speaks and writes in beautiful and polite Japanese,” Ms Wada said. “She is more Japanese than we are.”

Of course, Shiino complains, something that a real Japanese would never do. Complaining in public is considered boorish behavior and is shamed by real Japanese.

“There have been racial barriers, and it has been challenging to be accepted as Japanese…”

“Being recognised as a Japanese in this competition fills me with gratitude.”

Sorry, Carolina, you aren’t Japanese and never will be. No one recognizes you as Japanese, other than servants of Globohomo in Japan.

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