13 things about Miss Universe Japan 2024 Kaya Chakrabortty

Kaya Chakrabortty (チャクラボルティ雅) won the 27th edition of Miss Universe Japan. She represented Japan in the 73rd edition of Miss Universe.

BIOGRAPHY

Chakrabortty is a Bangladeshi-Japanese emergency medical technician, figure skater and beauty queen born in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan to a Bangladeshi father and a Japanese mother. After graduating from Bloomfield Hills High School in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, United States, Chakrabortty entered Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.

On August 6, 2025, Chakrabortty turned 24. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. From 2015 to 2019, Chakrabortty was a member of the Michigan High School Team Figure Skating Champion.
2. She was the U.S. Figure Skating Senior High School National Champion in 2018 and 2019.
3. From 2014 to 2019, she attended Bloomfield Hills High School and was the captain of the school’s varsity figure skating team.
4. From 2018 to 2019, she worked at Sushi Hana in Bloomfield Hills as a food server.
5. In 2019, she joined the East West Pain Institute in Lake Orion, Michigan as a medical scribe and started working as a personal manager and an assistant to Yuka Sato in Bloomfield Hills.
6. From 2019 to 2024, she attended Michigan State University where she earned her bachelor’s degrees in human biology and neuroscience.
7. From 2019 to 2020, she was a manager at BAPS Home Style Korean BBQ Cuisine in East Lansing, Michigan.
8. From 2020 to 2022, she was the president of Michigan State University’s Japan Club.
9. In 2021, she was a research assistant at Dr. Deepak Gupta‘s anesthesiology department in Detroit, Michigan.
10. From 2022 to 2023, she was a U.S. Figure Skating Association figure skating coach in East Lansing.
11. In 2023, she was an anesthesia research fellow at Detroit Medical Center in Detroit.
12. She won Miss Universe Japan 2024.
13. She was a Miss Universe 2024 semifinalist.

TIMELINE

Chakrabortty is fluent in Japanese, English, Spanish and Korean. She is 5’6″ tall.

2010s

• In August 2014, she entered Bloomfield Hills High School in Bloomfield Township.
• In October 2018, she joined Sushi Hana in Bloomfield Hills.
• In May 2019, she graduated from Bloomfield Hills High School and joined the East West Pain Institute in Lake Orion.
• In August 2019, she left Sushi Hana and entered Michigan State University.
• In September 2019, she joined BAPS Home Style Korean BBQ Cuisine in East Lansing.

2020s

• In March 2020, she left BAPS Home Style Korean BBQ Cuisine.
• From May 2021 to August 2021, she worked at Gupta’s anesthesiology department in Detroit.
• From July 2021 to August 2021, she worked remotely with Come On Out as a coach helping students at Toshin Language School in Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan to develop their language skills.
• From June 2022 to August 2022, she worked remotely again with Come On Out.
• In August 2022, she became a U.S. Figure Skating Association coach.
• From May 2023 to August 2023, she was Detroit Medical Center fellow.
• In August 2023, her role as a U.S. Figure Skating Association coach ended.
• In May 2024, she graduated from Michigan State University.
• On July 25, 2024, she competed against 35 other Miss Universe Japan 2024 candidates at Yamano Hall in Tokyo and won the title.
• On September 6, 2024, she visited an orphanage in Bali, Indonesia.
• On November 16, 2024, she represented Japan at Miss Universe 2024 and competed against 124 other candidates at the Arena Ciudad de México (Arena CDMX) in Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, Mexico. She finished in the Top 30.
• On July 16, 2025, she crowned her successor Miss Universe Japan 2025 Kaori Hashimoto at the Sakura Hall of the Shibuya Cultural Center Owada in Shibuya, Tokyo.