<Tr> <Th> Major competition (s) </Th> <Td> Miss World Japan 2016 (Winner) Miss World 2016 (Top 20) </Td> </Tr> <P> Priyanka Yoshikawa (吉川 プリアンカ, Yoshikawa Purianka, born 20 January 1994 in Tokyo) is a Japanese interpreter and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World Japan 2016 . She is the second hāfu (multiracial) woman to be Miss Japan after Ariana Miyamoto, who won the Miss Universe Japan title in 2015 and fourth who be turned a contestant after Ariyana, Yusuke Fujita (Mister Global Japan 2016) and Yuki Sato (Mister World Japan 2016). Her mother is Japanese . </P> <P> Yoshikawa's mother is Japanese and her father is Bengali Indian . Her great - grandfather Prafulla Chandra Ghosh was the first Chief Minister of West Bengal . </P> <P> Yoshikawa was born in Tokyo . From ages 6 to 9, she lived in Sacramento, California . She also lived in Kolkata for one year before returning to Japan . She speaks fluent Japanese, English and Bengali . Before becoming Miss World Japan 2016, she worked as a translator and art therapist, and also has a license to train elephants . </P>

Miss world japan 2016 is a great grand child of a former chief minister of