Aisha Tochigi crowns Miss Universe Japan 2021 Juri Watanabe in Tokyo

When Aisha Harumi Tochigi competed against 37 other Miss Universe Japan 2019 candidates at Yamano Beauty College in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan on August 22, 2019, she finished in the Top 5. On October 29, 2020, she competed against 29 other Miss Universe Japan 2020 candidates at Yamano Hall in Shibuya. She won the title.

On September 22, 2021, Tochigi crowned her successor Juri Watanabe in Tokyo. The latter will represent Japan at Miss Universe 2021.

Miss Universe Japan 2021 results

beauty pageant: Miss Universe Japan international membership: Miss Universe national director: Hiroko Mima

edition: 24th date: September 22, 2021 venue: Tokyo, Japan candidates: 32

JUDGES

1. Erica Angyal
2. Jane Aiko Yamano
3. Miyako Miyazaki
4. Momoko Abe
5. Nako Motohashi
6. Rui Matsukawa
7. Yushin

FINALISTS

PLACEMENT	NAME
Top 32	Ai Igarashi Aira Kosako Anna Saito Aya Nakamura Ayaka Yazaki Ayano Kubo Ayumi Hamahata Chrisriana Chiba Haruka Kimpara Hikaru Watanabe Kumi Miyamaru Mai Amano Mao Nakamura Miku Nagaoka Momoko Tsuchida Nao Okamoto Sharnie Fenn Shiho Saito Tatsuki Hashimoto Tomoyo Ikeda
Top 12	Ayano Dulmi Obata Julia Tasaki Miku Okabayashi Minae Aoki Rinna Tanaka Sayo Nodake Sophia Hibi
Top 5	Airi Hasuo Izumi Sabrina Nishida Juri Watanabe Sachino Fukuuchi Saria Oikawa

WINNERS

PLACEMENT	2021	2020
4th runner-up	Sachino Fukuuchi Hyogo	Marina Little Toyama
3rd runner-up	Saria Oikawa Iwate	Kilala Watanabe Saitama
2nd runner-up	Airi Hasuo Tokyo	Yuki Sonoda Kagoshima
1st runner-up	Izumi Nishida Hokkaido	Raimu Kaminashi Gifu
Miss Universe Japan	Juri Watanabe Tokyo	Aisha Harumi Tochigi Chiba

Tochigi is the second Miss Universe Japan of mixed race. She was born to a Ghanaian father and a Japanese mother.

The first one was Miss Universe Japan 2015 Ariana Miyamoto of Nagasaki, Japan. She was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki to an African American father and a Japanese mother.

Miss Universe Japan 2008 Hiroko Mima has been the national director of Miss Universe Japan since 2018. Japan was represented in Miss Universe by the winner of Miss Japan from 1952 to 1995 and Miss Universe Japan since 1998.