Model Karolina Shiino, 26, became the first person of European descent to win the beauty pageant on January 22. She was born in Ternopil, Ukraine, and became a Japanese citizen in 2022 after ...

Carolina Shiino was born in Tarnopol in 1998. At the age of 5, she immigrated to Japan after her mother, Svitlana, married a Japanese man. Shiino herself claims that growing up in Nagoya from such ...

Karolina Shiino was crowned Miss Japan on Jan. 22, setting off renewed public debate over what it means to be Japanese in a country where homogeneity and conformity are still valued. In a message ...

Shiino has lived in Japan since moving here at age 5 and became a naturalized citizen in 2022. Now 26, she works as a model and says she has as strong a sense of Japanese identity as anyone else ...