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Others also expressed pleasure that Japanese were making their names known across the globe.
"It is great that more young people in the entertainment business are venturing out into the world and being ambitious, not only in beauty pageants," said Yoko Sato, a 40-year-old housewife also attending the men's swimwear contest.
But some complained that Mori was not sufficiently representative of Japan, where meekness and modesty have long been qualities valued in women.
"She's not exactly a traditional Japanese beauty," one elderly woman told Fuji TV when shown a photograph of the beauty queen. "She's more of an exotic type."
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