Priyanka Yoshikawa smiles as she holds the trophy after winning the Miss Japan title during the Miss World Japan 2016 Beauty Pageant in Tokyo. The half-Indian twenty-two year-old model won the title to represent Japan for Miss World 2016. Priyanka Yoshikawa faces backlash after many complained that Miss Japan has to be "pure" Japanese rather than "half". Priyanka Yoshikawa's tearful victory comes a year after Ariana Miyamoto faced an ugly backlash for becoming the first black woman to represent Japan. "Before Ariana, haafu girls couldn't represent Japan," Ms. Yoshikawa told AFP in an interview.

Source: The Hindu September 06, 2016 06:19 UTC