Miss Universe Japan Bashed For Having An African-American Father

After Ariana Miyamoto was crowned Miss Universe Japan, citizens of the country flocked to social media to express their rather harsh opinions about the multiracial beauty representing their country.
The daughter of a Japanese woman and an African-American man, Ariana Miyamoto, 20,was scrutinized by many after winning the coveted pageant title with rude remarks being said about her.
Many unhappy citizens of Japan bashed Ariana saying she did not look “Japanese” enough to be the winner of the pageant.
Here are some of the harsh comments on Twitter about Ariana, translated into English:
“Is it ok to choose a haafu to represent Japan? Sometimes the criteria which they use to select Miss Universe is a bit of a mystery”
“Even though she’s Miss Universe Japan, her face is foreign no matter how you look at it!”
“Beauty contest. Miss Universe Japan is….wha? What kind of person? She’s ….not…..Japanese…right?”
According to local media, she was initially a little wary about entering the pageant because she was “h?fu,” the Japanese word used to refer to multiracial or multi-ethnic half-Japanese people.
“The selection of Ariana Miyamoto as this year’s Miss Universe Japan is a huge step forward in expanding the definition of what it means to be Japanese,” filmmaker and co-director of the film “Hafu,” Megumi Nishikura told NBC News, “The controversy that has erupted over her selection is a great opportunity for us Japanese to examine how far we have come from our self-perpetuated myth of homogeneity while at the same time it shows us how much further we have to go.”
According to the film, “Hafu: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan,” 20,000 half-Japanese people are born in Japan each year, including both multiethnic and multiracial people.
“In a country where the majority of fashion beauty magazines and TV shows are reigned by ‘h?fu’ models and actors,” filmmaker and co-director of the film “Hafu,” Lara Perez Takagi told the press, “It was actually about time that a mixed-race Japanese girl won the Miss Universe pageant.”
In her first televised interview since winning the crown, Miyamoto explained to reporters that while she doesn’t ‘look Japanese’ on the outside, on the inside, there are ‘many Japanese things about her’.
Keep it up miss.