Miss Universe 1959- Akiko Kojima Tribute

[windmillsofyourmind2]

A salute to Japanese women! The first international, non-Caucasian beauty queen, the first non-White winners of the World Cup, and for that stunning, historic win over the USA women in softball which ranks as one of the most stunning upsets in Olympic history. Go Japan!

[charisseLMB]

is she already dead???

[PungiFungi]

It is well documented in the early years of Miss Universe, Latinos bitched and moaned about how judges are biased against them...which made victories like those from Japan, the Philippines, and Thailand all the more sweeter. Asians don't want preferential treatment, they want to win on their own merits.

[kruegertown89]

Riyo Mori kicked ass in the preliminaries and won the swimsuit competition the night of the Miss Universe pageant. She definitely deserved to win. You Latinos & others need to get a life & get over yourselves. Anyway, everyone believes that Kurara Chibana should've won the Miss Universe title in 2006, but that greasy, Zuleyka bitch from Puerto Rico won the title, so payback is motha fucka, isn't it? LOL

[pagliacci567]

Are you people completely retarded? Miss Japan 1959, was the first ever non-Caucasian woman to win Miss Universe. Japan made beauty pageant history. It was the first time a non-Caucasian woman won an international beauty pageant. Akiko Kojima is a Japanese name. What other name would it be? It's definitely not Chinese or Korean, for God's sake! The person who posted this video should have made that crystal clear, because there are too many retards out here.

[missuniworld]

where is she now????

[san3517]

en las epocas de las bellezas naturales!

[buddyepsen]

Helluva beauty. And, what makes her win even more impressive, 1959 weren't no such thing as political correctness like today, matter a fact Akikio probably had an uphill fight all the way being of Japanese ethnicity. Great tribute.

[ALEXANDER7210]

pero nadie sabe si aun vive si esta viviendo en Japon o en usa?

[boricua15able]

@ALEXANDER7210 Hasta el momento lo unico que se es que vive, porque la unica Miss Universe fallecida fue Hillevi Rombin de Suecia, ganadora del 1955, que murio en un accidente aereo en el '96. Pero no se donde vi hoy dia

[servegiorgio]

Akiko Kojima miss universe 1959 and Riyo Mori miss universe 2007 the two japanese women who have won the miss universe crown in history. very nice.

[boricua15able]

Shes beautiful!!!! love her last pic!!!

[FELLITOG]

ALGUIEN QUE HA SIDO DE ESA JAPONESA?

[servegiorgio]

@FELLITOG la ultima aparicion en miss universe, fue en 1976 en Hong Kong, en la eleccion de miss universe ese año.

[Josephemo89]

she looks like a man wearing woman dress!!hahaha

[mapiorco]

la colombiana le dio la corona ala japonesa 1958 y el año pasado la japonesa por poco le da la corona ala colombiana 2008 que controversia esta vez fallamos pero hubiera sido muy bello que colombia hubiera ganado, CIERTO

[dodremon]

Muito bonito esse tributo a Akiko Kojima,essa linda japonesa que venceu o Miss Universo 1959. Ela e Riyo Mori,a japonesa do ano passado são as únicas japonesas eleitas Miss Universo na história do concurso.São 2 beldades japonesas!!!

[alfilina]

i dont find her beautifull same with riyo mori who had plastic surgery....

[mmokayy]

Riyo Mori deserved to win. It is the beauty of her whole being that won. Surface beauty is only one component of winning the Miss Universe contest.

[gercc89]

@mmokayy welll im from Colombia and to me that nigth miss universe 2007 the most beautiful girls were miss Brazil, and miss Japan... it wasnt a surprise that riyo won.... she is very pretty and has a nice body, plus a good personality....

[superdani321]

wow!!! thats all there is to say, also for japan 2006, however..  japan 2007, the miss universe winer ..how ugly!!

[superdani321]

wow!!!!! thats all im gonna say!, however japan 2007.. ew!

[GurlyMeh098]

more beautiful than riyo mori

[joyseng]

I doubt so. Miss Universe is only telecasted on TV in 1960+.

[lalozorrillo]

la ultima foto ella se ve bellisima,

las primeras versiones de la corona miss universo estan muy feas hay 3 versiones que me gustan mucho no recuerdo el año de una de ellas pero la ultima que se entrego a denise quiñones es una y la nueva mikimoto sobre todo me encanta la ultima

[ilm444]

i love to see the final questions answered by the winner of all miss universes.

[Papo10827]

was she crowned in a bathing suit?

[tigerquay]

silly ass.

[hairspraygeek411]

wow i hope i cold see her crowning video i hope it would be interseting id you know that she won bestnational costume and miss congretitity

[aminrd2]

wow shes beautiful i wonder if her crowning video is here, if anyone has it it would be nice if they put it here

[tbear0827]

In 1959 I watched in amazement that Japan had WON!

About 14 year prior a Hbomb had destroyed most of Japan (Nagasaki and Hiroshima)

Man - Japan you have come along way!!!!

[charlesmichael]

wow~!

[erospsyche]

I heard she answered the question and answer segment so well it wowed the judges. The question was what would she say to the first man who landed on the moon?

[charlesmichael]

nope. that was 1969. won by philippines

[erospsyche]

Oh. u must watch lot os tv!

[mochamist21]

Nice tribute, she's pretty.