Miss Japan gives up title after affair with married man
The Ukrainian-born winner of this year's Miss Japan beauty pageant and the contest's organisers say she has renounced her title after a magazine published an article about her affair with a married man. Karolina Shiino was crowned Miss Japan on 22 January, setting off public discussion on an old question about what it means to be Japanese in a country where homogeneity and conformity are still valued. In a message posted on her Instagram site on Monday, Shiino said that after the article came out, she offered to hand back her crown and resign from her modelling agency over it. She said her off...