The is a beauty contest

Beauty contest

A beauty pageant or beauty contest, is a competition that mainly focuses on the physical beauty of its contestants, although such contests often incorporate personality, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria...

 and audition contest name that has been held every year since 1987 in Oscar Promotion, and is the sister pageant of the Japan Beautiful Girl Contest. When a bishōjo

Bishojo

is a Japanese term used to refer to young and pretty girls, usually below university age. Bishōjo is not listed as a word in the prominent Japanese dictionary Kōjien...

 wins the Japanese Girl pageant, the first runner-up becomes Japan Bishojo Contest. The contest is similar to Miss USA

Miss USA

The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA...

, Miss World

Miss World

The Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951...

, Miss Universe

Miss Universe

Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....

, and Miss Japan

Miss Japan

is a beauty contest that has been held by a diet gym company and Yomiuri news group every year between winners of the Japanese block pageants.Winner is chosen out of 2000 candidates.- Winners :-External links:* on Sports Nippon...

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Many of the winners have careers related to popular culture. Miki Fujitani, the 1987 winner, is also a voice actress

Seiyu

Voice acting in Japan has far greater prominence than in most other countries. Japan's large animation industry produces 60% of the animated series in the world; as a result, Japanese voice actors, or , are able to achieve fame on a national and international level.Besides acting as narrators and...

; she is best-known as the voice of Kaoru Kamiya

Kamiya Kaoru

, known as Kaoru Kamiya in the Media Blasters English-language dub and Kori Kamiya in the English Sony Samurai X dub, is a fictional character from the Rurouni Kenshin universe created by Nobuhiro Watsuki as a main protagonist of the media franchise, which consists of a series of manga, anime,...

 in Rurouni Kenshin

Rurouni Kenshin

, also known as Rurouni Kenshin and Samurai X, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. The fictional setting takes place during the early Meiji period in Japan. The story is about a fictional assassin named Himura Kenshin, from the Bakumatsu who becomes a wanderer to...

. Aiko Sato

Aiko Sato

is a female Japanese judoka. She won the gold medal in the lightweight division at the 2011 World Judo Championships.-External links:* at the judoinside.com....

, the 1992 winner, is an actress known as Kotoko Aihara in the 1996 drama version of Itazura na Kiss

Itazura na Kiss

is a popular shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Kaoru Tada. Itazura na Kiss began to be serialized and published in 1991 by Shueisha through Margaret Magazine. It became successful very quickly and became the manga series that Tada became known for in Japan...

. Azusa Yamamoto, the 1997 contestant and favorite to win, is an actress; she is well-known as Furabijō in Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger. Moeco Matsushita, another 1997 contestant and winner of best multimedia, is an actress and singer. Her most famous role as an actress is Hina Kusaka in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon

is a Japanese tokusatsu television series in the Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon metaseries originally created by Naoko Takeuchi. It is produced by Toei, the same company that produces the Super Sentai Series and the Kamen Rider Series and of which their animation firm Toei Animation, produced the...

. Aya Ueto

Aya Ueto

is a Japanese actress, singer, model, tarento, and occasional radio personality. Born in Nerima, Tokyo, Ueto was discovered when she participated in the 7th Japan Bishōjo Contest, where she won the special jury prize...

 another 1997 contestant and winner of the Judges' Special Choice Prize is an actress her best roles are Azumi in Azumi

Azumi

is a Japanese manga series created by Yū Koyama in 1994. The manga was originally published by Shogakukan and serialized in Big Comic Superior, and was later adapted to two feature films starring Aya Ueto, a video game and a stage play. Azumi received an Excellence Prize at the 1997 Japan Media...

 and Azumi 2: Death or Love

Azumi 2: Death or Love

is the sequel to the Japanese film Azumi based on the manga series by Yū Koyama.- Plot :Azumi 2 continues shortly after the end of the previous film with Aya Ueto returning in the title role of a young assassin charged with keeping the nation from falling into a new civil war.Azumi and her only...

 and Yoko Misaki in Attention Please

Attention Please

is a manga by Chieko Hosokawa about the training of flight attendants for Japan Airlines originally serialized in Shōjo Friend from Kodansha beginning in 1970. Tokyo Broadcasting System adapted a TV drama from the manga in 1970. Thirty-six years later, Fuji TV produced a new drama series in 2006...

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Winners

First (1987)

Grand Prix：Miki Fujitani

Miki Fujitani

is a Japanese actress who was born in Nagoya.In addition to her many live-action film roles, she has had some anime voice roles as a Japanese voice actor, namely Kamiya Kaoru in Rurouni Kenshin and Chun-Li in Street Fighter II The Movie....

Second (1988)

Grand Prix：Naomi Hosokawa

Naomi Hosokawa

Naomi Hosokawa is a Japanese actress.-External links:* *...

Maintainer:Yuko Anai

Yuko Anai

Anai Yuko is a female Japanese popular music artist. She started her career as a member of a group called Tokyo Performance Doll. As UL-SAYS, she sung the opening song Oh my Darin for Urusei Yatsura. The song was recorded around August 1991...

, Mikiyo Ono

Mikiyo Ono

Mikiyo Ono is a Japanese actress and 1988 winner of the Japan Bishojo Contest.-External links:...

, Erika Haneda

Third (1989)

Grand Prix: Mitsuyo Obara

Music Division：Jyuria Matsuda

Fourth (1990)

Grand Prix：Akane Oda

Model Division：Asami Ishikawa

Fifth (1991)

Grand Prix：Masami Imamura

Maintainer：Maria Saito (Nihon TV announcer)

Sixth (1992)

Grand Prix：Aiko Sato

Aiko Sato

is a female Japanese judoka. She won the gold medal in the lightweight division at the 2011 World Judo Championships.-External links:* at the judoinside.com....

Special：Ryoko Yonekura

Ryoko Yonekura

is a Japanese ex-fashion model and actress. She studied classical ballet for 15 years from the age of five. A member of the Oscar Productions agency, she won a national young beauty award in 1992. In 1993 she started her career as a model, working for fashion magazines such as CanCam. She announced...

Actor Division：Sarina Suzuki

Maintainer：Misato Tanaka

Preference：Kaori Mochida

Kaori Mochida

is the female lead singer of Japanese pop group Every Little Thing.- Biography :Kaori Mochida was a child actress, appearing in children's magazines and TV spots. Using the stage name of she sang with a girl band called , a group similar to Morning Musume. They changed their name to...

Seventh (1997)

Grand Prix：Atsuko Sudou

Multimedia：Moeco Matsushita

Actor Division：Manami Hashimoto

Music Division：Mami Nejiki

Special：Aya Ueto

Aya Ueto

is a Japanese actress, singer, model, tarento, and occasional radio personality. Born in Nerima, Tokyo, Ueto was discovered when she participated in the 7th Japan Bishōjo Contest, where she won the special jury prize...

 and Shinobu Ikehata

Maintainer：Mai Fujiya

Preference：Azusa Yamamoto

Azusa Yamamoto

is a Japanese bikini idol, actress, and tarento.-Films:* GoGo Sentai Boukenger vs Super Sentai - .... Furabijo* Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger The Movie: Full Blast Action .... Student...

Eighth (2002)

Grand Prix*Multi Media (same)：Asuka Shibuya

Grand Prix：Mizuho Sakata

Ninth (2003)

Grand Prix*Multi Media (same)：Mayuko Kawakita

Tenth (2004)

Actor Division：Saki Fukuda

Saki Fukuda

is a Japanese actress and singer.She appeared in the 2009 live action film Yatterman as Yatterman 2 "Ai-chan."-Dramas:* 3-nen B-gumi Kinpachi Sensei 7 * Donmai * Fushin no Toki...

Eleventh (2006)

Grand Prix：Tantan Hayashi

Special Award：Shiori Kutsuna and Rikako Tanaka

Music Division：Not available

Actor Division：Karen Miyazaki

Model Division：Emi Takei

Emi Takei

is a Japanese actress and model.-TV Dramas:*Otomen as Kuriko Tachibana*Liar Game 2 as Saeki Hiroka*GOLD as Saotome Akira*Taisetsu na Koto wa Subete Kimi ga Oshiete Kureta as Hikari Saeki...

Multi Media：Emi Takei

Emi Takei

is a Japanese actress and model.-TV Dramas:*Otomen as Kuriko Tachibana*Liar Game 2 as Saeki Hiroka*GOLD as Saotome Akira*Taisetsu na Koto wa Subete Kimi ga Oshiete Kureta as Hikari Saeki...

Twelfth (2009)

Grand Prix：Ayano Kudo