Miss Universe Japan model admits plastic surgery

Former Miss Universe Japan runner-up, model, and actress Biwon has admitting having plastic surgery last year.

We found this amusing because many Japanese girls like to discard the amazing “bijin” quality in Korean women with the excuse that it’s all just due to plastic surgery.

Certainly it is more common and latent on the peninsular. However, it’s a dirty secret in Japan (along with how idols essentially have to sleep with their management at the start of their careers) that many idols and singers have used plastic surgery to enhance their “perfect” look. Unlike Korea, though, few will admit it, which is what makes Biwon unusual. Perhaps that’s her half-Korean side coming out! (Her mother is Korean-born.)

Celebrities rumored online to have had surgery include actress Misaki Ito, singer Ayumi Hamasaki, model/singer ICONIQ (of Korean extraction), actress Keiko Kitagawa, idol Yuko Oguro, Ryoko Yonekura, and singer Ai Otsuka.

In Japan a few years ago it became extremely popular with certain class of girls (often gyaru) to have double eyelid surgery to give the impression of a bigger, more western eye. You could identify the culprits not so much from the results but from the gauze eyepatch they wore over one eye while it is was healing (obviously they only did one eye at a time!). In the mid-2000s, a walk around central Osaka would reveal dozens of these girls, and sometimes even guys.

The most famous Japanese proponents of plastic surgery are the incredible Kano Sisters, who have had so much work done to them that they know resemble a pair of plastic toys.