Miss Japan: First mixed-race winner provokes debate

With a Japanese mother and African American father, Ariana Miyamoto has become the first bi-racial woman to be crowned Miss Japan.

The question of whether a person of mixed race should be eligible to win the competition has since provoked a heated argument on social media,

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports.

Hafu film footage, external courtesy of Megumi Nishikura and Lara Perez Takagi