After winning the Miss Japan competition last month, a woman from Ukraine who was ridiculed for not being "Japanese enough" gave up the title after it was revealed by a weekly magazine that she had been having an affair with a married man.

After becoming the first woman of European heritage to win the Miss Japan title last month, Karolina Shiino received both positive and negative feedback. The 26-year-old's parents, who immigrated to Japan when she was five years old, were originally from Ukraine.

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