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A Ukraine-born beauty queen and what it means to be Japanese
The Ukrainian-born winner of a Miss Japan contest has reawakened a long-simmering question on the archipelago: What does it mean to be Japanese?
Karolina Shiino, the 26-year-old winner of this year’s........
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