Japanese Pageant winner a sex star

In the almost 100-year-old annals of Japanese beauty contests, there's never been an incident like the one rocking the pageant world right now, with newly crowned Miss International Japan Hisako Shirata exposed for having performed nude sex scenes for the camera, according to Shukan Shincho.

Though Japan has over 1,000 established beauty contests (ranging from Miss Glacier in the north to Miss Hibiscus in the south) in a history dating back to 1908, Miss International is regarded as one of the Big Three, together with Miss Japan and Miss Universe Japan, the weekly says.