Ariana Miyamoto

Birth Name: Ariana Mamiko Miyamoto

Place of Birth: Nagasaki, Japan

Date of Birth: 12 May, 1994

Ethnicity:
*African-American (father)
*Japanese (mother)

Ariana Miyamoto (宮本エリアナ) is a Japanese model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was Miss Universe Japan 2015, and placed in the top 10 of Miss Universe. She is the first person of mixed heritage (hafu) to win Miss Japan. She has been an honorary ambassador of tourism for her home city, Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture.

Ariana is the daughter of a Japanese mother and an African-American father, Bryant Stanfield. Her father was stationed at a U.S. Navy base in Sasebo. Ariana grew up in Japan, and is fluent in Japanese. She moved to the U.S. at age thirteen, living in Jacksonville, Arkansas with her father, but returned to Japan to attend high school.

Ariana is married to a Hong Kong man, with whom she has two children.

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