5/29/2007

Japan’s Riyo Mori wins Miss Universe 2007!

NEWS FLASH

Miss Japan Crowned Miss Universe 2007
CBS News -MEXICO CITY, May. 29, 2007—Riyo Mori, a 20-year-old dancer from Japan who hopes to someday open an international dance school, was crowned Miss Universe 2007 Monday night….

And of course here are the pix!

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Former title (May 24):
“Japan’s handicap at the Miss Universe contest”

I was looking through Yahoo Photos and the MSN-Mainichi Daily News photo specials of the Miss Universe 2007 “native dress fashion show” and trying to find Miss Japan. She was missing and was nowhere to be found.
However, I did find a plenty of girls of the Americas wearing almost no clothes as their “native dress” including Miss USA with a nipple slip.

Miss Universe contenders don outfits with dolphins, corn in Mexican capital
MSN-Mainichi Daily News: Photo Specials… Miss Universe’s native dress fashion show in Mexico City, Sunday, May 20, 2007. Maldonado will compete for the 56th Miss Universe 2007’s title on May 28 in Mexico City… contestants put on a fashion show reflecting their nations’ customs and traditions….

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I guess there was a reason why Miss Japan wasn’t shown in the Mainichi or Yahoo Photos. She was wearing a modified but unflattering oiran [花魁 ] (top-class prostitute) costume.

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UPDATE:
The demented experts at the Yomiuri get it all wrong.

Yomiuri: Beauty’s ‘Japaneseness’ criteria
….Many, while welcoming Mori’s win as good news, are skeptical of the wisdom of her heavy use of makeup in the contest. Though her pictures seen on the Internet are mostly natural, her makeup on the Miss Universe pageant stage was a bit much, making it questionable whether her victory can be a true recognition of the pure, unadulterated beauty of a Japanese woman…

The photos prove the “pure, unadulterated beauty” is the Japanese winner and the tranny trailer trash is Miss USA.

AP – Fri Jun 8, 1:22 PM ET
Riyo Mori, top, Miss Universe 2007 from Japan, and Rachel Smith, Miss USA 2007, pose at the Top of the Rock observation deck in Rockefeller Center, New York, Friday June 8, 2007.

Posted by Taro in Arts/Culture, General, Pop Culture | 8 Comments »

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1. lisa Says:
   May 26th, 2007 at 4:39 am

   miss japan still looks the best!

2. Taro Says:
   May 26th, 2007 at 2:45 pm

   miss japan still looks the best!

   

   Perhaps but….
   …This year’s Miss Japan most likely does not have the winning potential the previous Miss Japan, Kurara-san , who made it to runner-up status wearing an aka-ninja (red ninja) costume which was discussed in length in the 3Yen report, Miss Universe in ninja high heels.

3. lisa Says:
   May 26th, 2007 at 3:19 pm

   yeah, the ninja heels kind of rock. her bikini photos did not come in, unfortunately

4. Taro Says:
   May 26th, 2007 at 5:42 pm

   Sorry Lisa, but the links are one year old and rather “crufty.” Here are the photos that old Bikini link went to:
   

   (And just just for the record, I’m not really some kind of bikini pervert—This is a commercial, for-profit, news blog and this topic always has the greatest number of income generating hits).

5. Taro Says:
   May 29th, 2007 at 2:02 pm

   In reference to last years report, “KURARA CHIBANA is the real Miss Universe 2006,” our 3Yen.com reader “Gem” wrote:

   …this year 2k7 Japan won and I would say definitely that she conveyed her thoughts well and was quite a bit better at doing so than Miss Kurara Chibana….

   Hi, I’m from Barbados I just picked up this message in passing since i’m very interested in this. But i want to say while i do think maybe the crown should have gone into other hands than the ones they were in for 2k6 I severely doubt that the minor differences between the translations of the interpreter and the other person who posted would have made a significant difference. In actual fact, if she had bashed the males as the originator of this message seems to be indicating by their translation that would have been worse. And 2) if the translation is correct as oppsed to that of the official interpreter then she certainly didn’t do what she was supposed to which is ANSWER THE QUESTION AS COMPLETELY AS POSSIBLE IN 30 SECONDS. Yes she does answer the question in both versions of thr translation. However, she does not answer it in any of them, with the completeness and without ambiguity and with clarity so that her words and meanings can not be mistrued in any way. Since miss universe would be a spokesperson for several products and agencies and organisation these are necessary. And the girl who can meet the majority of the criteria required for effective communication will get big marks towards her final score. And i believe that is a big part of why she did not succeed although i would say she is a very pretty girl and her national costume rocked!!! of course this year 2k7 Japan won and I would say definitely that she conveyed her thoughts well and was quite a bit better at doing so than Miss Kurara Chibana.

6. Taro Says:
   May 29th, 2007 at 2:19 pm

   I just read this sharp comment on, Riyo Mori, Miss Japan’s win:

   Japan has been doing a lot better at these pageants since they stopped letting Japanese choose the entrants based on their own standards of beauty. I heard that a French woman is in charge of it now. Japanese tend to emphasize the cute girly look over the mature sexy “woman” and were choosing entrants that they thought were “cute” (imagine Morning Musume with crooked teeth here) but who just couldn’t cut it alongside the amazons that enter these pageants.

7. ksny Says:
   May 29th, 2007 at 8:56 pm

   She is beautiful but I think she doesn’t look like typical Japanese lady.

8. Taro Says:
   May 29th, 2007 at 8:59 pm

   …she doesn’t look like typical Japanese lady

   I think that not looking like a “typical Japanese lady” was the whole idea.

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