{"id":61691,"date":"2024-02-06T18:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T09:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/ukraine-born-miss-japan-returns-title-after-revelations-about-affair"},"modified":"2024-02-06T18:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T09:04:08","slug":"ukraine-born-miss-japan-returns-title-after-revelations-about-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61691","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine-born Miss Japan returns title after revelations about affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karolina Shiino had already caused controversy when she became first European-born woman to win title<\/p>\n<p>A Ukraine-born woman who was criticised for not being \u201cJapanese enough\u201d after winning the Miss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> contest last month has relinquished the title after a weekly magazine revealed she had been having an affair with a married man.<\/p>\n<p>Karolina Shiino drew praise and criticism after she won the Miss Japan title last month, becoming the first woman of European descent to receive the accolade. The 26-year-old was born in Ukraine to Ukrainian parents, who moved to Japan when she was five.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/ukraine-born-miss-japan-returns-title-after-revelations-about-affair\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karolina Shiino had already caused controversy when she became first European-born woman to win titleA Ukraine-born woman who was criticised for not being \u201cJapanese enough\u201d after winning the Miss Japan contest last month has relinquished the title afte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,221,88,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-japan","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61692,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61691\/revisions\/61692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}