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 ...

Crowned Miss Japan this week, Ukrainian-born Carolina Shiino cried with joy, thankful for the recognition of her identity as Japanese. But her Caucasian look rekindled an old question in a country ...