Archive for the ‘Miss Japan’ Category
Riyo Mori started a blog long before she won the Miss Universe pageant. You can read her latest posts here. It will be fascinating to see how long she will be able to keep posting her experiences as Miss Universe. I’m thinking that the Miss Universe Organization (MUO) has some policy about title-holders blogging, much [...]
People.com ran an interesting article. Apparently, back in Feb Oprah wore the same Gucci dress that Riyo Mori wore when she was crowned last week. People has pictures, and there are a tonne of comments about which one wears the dress better.
Seventy-seven of the most beautiful women in the world begin leaving Mexico City after a month of intense competition filled with laughter, tears, camaraderie, quesadillas, and margaritas! But for one them, Miss Japan Riyo Mori, who was crowned in front of a televised audience of over one billion people, her journey will be to New [...]
And the debates begin about which candidate is more beautiful – Miss Korea Honey Lee or Miss Japan Riyo Mori. The Internet is rife about how the translator messed up Miss Korea’s answer and cost Honey Lee her Miss Universe tiara. We’ll never know the judges reasoning as to why Miss Korea placed 3rd runner-up, [...]
And so we have our second winner from Japan! Riyo Mori is the second Japanese woman to win the pageant. The first Japanese, and indeed the first Asian, to win the Miss Universe pageant was Akiko Kojima in 1959. It took almost 50 years for another Japanese woman to be crowned Miss Universe. It was [...]
HOW FABULOUS IS THAT! I love it! The first Miss Universe from the Far East since Miss Thailand in 1988!
The month-long love fest between Miss Korea Honey Lee and Globalbeauties continues right up to the final hours of the Miss Universe pageant in Mexico City. What’s not to love about Honey Lee. She’s one of the most adorable and beautiful candidates ever to have graced the runways of the Miss Universe pageant. Honey Lee [...]
Ines Ligron is the national director of the Miss Japan pageant, and she’s on the ground in Mexico City schmoozing with the girls, the media, and other pageant officials. She has this to say about Miss Japan Riyo Mori’s chances: “Everybody expect Japan to win, it is very exiting to be here. The show ill [...]
So we’re down to crunch line. It’s 9 hours to the live telecast and who will be Miss Universe 2007 top 15 line up. Who are the Miss Universe 2007 favorites for the title? Top 5 – Miss Korea, Miss USA, Miss Italy, Miss Japan, Miss Guatemala Top 10 – Miss Venezuela, Miss Tanzania, Miss [...]