A half-Indian woman has been crowned Miss World Japan, the second year in a row a biracial person has won a beauty pageant in the country. Priyanka Yoshikawa, 22 and who also has an elephant training licence, said she would use her win to "change perceptions". Last year, Ariana Miyamoto was the first mixed-race person to win the Miss Universe pageant. Critics complained then that a "pure" Japanese should have won. Only about 3% of babies born every year in Japan are biracial, or "haafu", the Japanese word for half. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37283518 Japan's modelling world is dominated by half or biracial models and they tend to win beauty contests with their slender figures and wider eyes compared to pure Japanese contestants. Close to 10% of babies born in Tokyo are biracial nowadays. The cover of a teen fashion mag below features half or half-looking models, too. The Japanese are getting genetically healthier with the influx of West Eurasian haplogroups and there is strength in diversity.
