The Ukraine-born winner of the Miss Japan beauty pageant has given up her crown after a tabloid report revealed her affair with a married man.

Karolina Shiino, 26, was crowned Miss Japan two weeks ago but her win sparked public debate due to her heritage.

While some welcomed the naturalised citizen’s crowning, others said she didn’t represent traditional Japanese beauty ideals.

Amid the furore, a local magazine published an expose alleging an affair.

The article in the Shukan Bunshun reported that Ms Shiino had engaged in a relationship with a married influencer and doctor. The man has not provided any public comment.

  • @KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    639 months ago

    I don’t really get any an affair would matter after the fact for what is essentially a popularity contest, but… sure I guess?

    • @CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      349 months ago

      Participants can‘t even be married so it‘s probably quite big of a deal to them. And that might be shocking to some, but in many aspects the oh so praised Japanese culture is really lacking behind the west in many aspects.

    • Lath
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      139 months ago

      Because the miss thing is supposed to represent the epitome of Japanese women on the international stage and having an affair is bad PR.

      • @vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        -59 months ago

        She wasn’t the one having the affair. He was.

        But of course it falls upon women to ensure a husband’s fidelity, because we men are all slobbering troglodytes without a will of our own, only an incessant craving for cunt. Or something.

        • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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          189 months ago

          I thought some of my slobber was addling my brain - you had me check Wikipedia:

          An affair is a sexual relationship, romantic friendship, or passionate attachment in which at least one of its participants has a formal or informal commitment to a third person who may neither agree to such relationship nor even be aware of it.

          Perhaps you use a more limited definition. Anybody else agree with VZQ? (Only talking semantics.)

          • @vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            119 months ago

            The way I use the word, the entire relationship is the affair, but only the cheater is having an affair.

            YMMV of course.

          • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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            89 months ago

            The person who committed to a monogamous relationship is at fault - not the unattached person. When you enter into a monogamous relationship you agree to a contract with your partner even though you know you’ll, at times, be tempted to violate it. Cheaters are fucking assholes but “home wreckers” aren’t seducing their partner to do anything they wouldn’t do anyway. Don’t be a jerk and purposefully try to pursue someone in a monogamous relationship… but if it happens it’s the person violating their relationship rules that should carry the vast majority of the blame.

            Just as a historical aside “the other woman” was often considered at fault because… you guessed it misogyny! The husband couldn’t be at fault it was a temptress that lured him to do wrong. We’re moving beyond this impression as a society but you’ll still see it occasionally.

            And, if you think monogamy won’t work for you then be up front about wanting an open relationship… this isn’t the 1800s, it’s perfectly acceptable to have a non-monogamous relationship… just respect your fucking partner(s).

            • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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              79 months ago

              just respect your fucking partner(s).

              Not too bad to extend that to “respect people” eh? Fellow sufferers of the human condition.

              We’re all adults, we all know hurt - I’d feel guilty if I were involved with a cheater, and I think that’s a good thing for humanity.

              Glad we’re leaving that temptress narrative behind for sure.

              • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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                19 months ago

                Oh, definitely, respect everyone… but if you enter into a monogamous relationship then especially respect your partner. And the unattached person should feel guilty if they knowingly let themselves be used to violate a relationship… but they remain the less guilty party.

            • @LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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              The husband couldn’t be at fault it was a temptress that lured him to do wrong. We’re moving beyond this impression as a society but you’ll still see it occasionally.

              We should move away from it but we should be aware that it’s ingrained in our genetics and emotional responses. A man sleeping with married women is a reproductive strategy that paid of many times - reproduction without material cost. A women in a materially stable marriage that is sleeping with a beautiful or strong man is improving her genetic lineage too. And the balance of power for sexual selection is somewhat wonky.

              I’m not advocating any naturalist bullshit but we inherit some icky garbage from our evolution and evolved some social behaviors to deal with them (e.g. stoning adulterers). Some behavioral patterns and emotional responses won’t go away easily and can’t be easily negated using purely intellectual arguments.

              My point is that it’s at least ok to find Karolina Shiino less popular after knowing she had an affair. Especially for something as superficial and primitive as a beauty contest.

              as a temptress that lured him to do wrong. We’re moving beyond this impression as a society but you’ll still se

        • @HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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          89 months ago

          Yeah, that’s a discussion you won’t win.

          I’ve tried everything from “she’s not the one who promised loyalty” to the fact they were two consenting adults so mind your own business.

          Blame the cheater, not the person who they cheated with, I fully agree - but I think lemmy and reddit have been cheated on a few too many times.

        • tiredofsametab
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          49 months ago

          In Japan, you can be on the hook (sued) for knowingly engaging in a relationship with someone you know to be married. It’s usually about breaking up the marriage, from what I understand. Sex of the people involved doesn’t matter here.

        • Lath
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          09 months ago

          Politics are always ugly. We should get rid of them altogether.

              • @jet@hackertalks.com
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                -109 months ago

                The fact we are talking about it now, means the context is important to many Japanese people to make a distinction between ethnically japanese and japanese citizen.

                • @Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
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                  79 months ago

                  Well in this case there is no distinction, she is Japanese and ethnically she is eastern European/Ukrainian. So… Japanese? It’s cool that you like the distinction, but I responded to someone who said she is technically not japanese, which is technically incorrect. She is, just not ethnically.

              • @jet@hackertalks.com
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                -59 months ago

                For a mostly mono-ethnic country people make assumptions from one name to another. We get these in places where the ethnicity and country share the same name.

                Contextually nobody is writing articles about non-etnic Canadians being surprisingly special for being non-ethnic.

                • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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                  49 months ago

                  You must be the kind of guy who insists on calling a black US citizen an “African-American” just to make sure they understand their position as not being true US citizens no matter their citizenship status or the number of years their family has been living in the country.

        • Lath
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          29 months ago

          Technically, it’s the culture that’s being represented.

  • @SmokumJoe@lemmy.world
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    319 months ago

    Why do people still pay attention to this weird beauty contest bullshit? Why is it news? How is it still a thing?

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    The Ukraine-born winner of the Miss Japan beauty pageant has given up her crown after a tabloid report revealed her affair with a married man.

    Karolina Shiino, 26, was crowned Miss Japan two weeks ago but her win sparked public debate due to her heritage.

    While some welcomed the naturalised citizen’s crowning, others said she didn’t represent traditional Japanese beauty ideals.

    The article in the Shukan Bunshun reported that Ms Shiino had engaged in a relationship with a married influencer and doctor.

    In its initial response to the report last week, the pageant organisers defended Ms Shiino, saying she hadn’t known the man was married.

    Ms Shiino also apologised to her fans and the general public in a statement on Monday, where she said she had acted out of fear and panic in response to the report.


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    • Something Burger 🍔
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      19 months ago

      On the thumbnail she looks like a blobfish but that’s just how the picture is taken. There is another one in the article where she looks much better.

  • @devilish666@lemmy.world
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    -409 months ago

    I remembered that Japan adheres to the jus soli system, meaning that every person born in Japan must indirectly be a Japanese citizen.
    But in the end if she born in Ukraine she’s not japanese citizen

    • @EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee
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      289 months ago

      Jus soli would mean that every person born in Japan would directly be a Japanese citizen, but not that citizenship can’t be acquired through other means as well.

    • tiredofsametab
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      Japan does not grant citizenship to those born here. There are multiple ways to acquire Japanese citizenship, most of which are based on the most recent couple generations of parents/grandparents. Multiple citizenship technically isn’t allowed, either. Anyone naturalizing to Japanese citizenship must relinquish their existing citizenship(s) unless the other country does not allow relinquishing. If found out, the Japanese government can take action to revoke citizenship (or at least parts of it; there are actually court cases about this).