beauty pageant

Reference | EXPLAINER Oct 31, 2016

The bright side, and dark, of Japan's university beauty contests

by Shusuke Murai

On Oct. 4, Keio University in Tokyo announced that a student group responsible for organizing its annual beauty pageant had been ordered to disband for conducting "dangerous acts," including forcing minors to drink. The announcement was soon followed by news that male members of the ...

National / Politics Mar 4, 2016

Abe tells opposition leader's beauty queen daughter to run for LDP

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told the 20-year-old daughter of an opposition party leader to run for the LDP during a meeting Friday to celebrate her win in a beauty pageant. Mika Matsuno, a sophomore at Keio University's Faculty of Letters, visited Abe at his ...