Priyanka Yoshikawa - Wikipedia Priyanka Yoshikawa The native form of this personal name is Yoshikawa Purianka. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals. Priyanka Yoshikawa Priyanka Ghosh ( 1994 - 01 - 20 ) 20 January 1994 ( age 24 ) Tokyo, Japan Height 1.76 m ( 5 ft 9 ⁄ in ) Title Miss World Japan 2016 Beauty pageant titleholder Hair color Black Eye color Brown Major competition ( s ) Miss World Japan 2016 ( Winner ) Miss World 2016 ( Top 20 ) 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. Contents 1 Personal life 2 Miss World Japan 2016 3 References 4 External links Personal life 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. 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. Miss World Japan 2016 On 6 September 2016, Yoshikawa was crowned as Miss World Japan 2016 ( Miss Japan 2016 ). She competed at Miss World 2016 pageant on December in United States & placed in the top 20. References Jump up ^ `` Half - Indian Priyanka Yoshikawa Crowned Miss Japan ''. Retrieved 10 September 2016. Jump up ^ `` Miss Japan won by half Indian Priyanka Yoshikawa - BBC News ''. Retrieved 10 September 2016. Jump up ^ `` Miss Japan won by half Indian Priyanka Yoshikawa - BBC News ''. BBC News. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016. Jump up ^ Kantho, Kaler. `` বাংলাদেশি বংশোদ্ভুত প্রিয়াংকাকে নিয়ে ভারতে মাতামাতি - কালের কণ্ঠ ''. Retrieved 10 September 2016. ^ Jump up to : Singh, Karan Deep ( 8 September 2016 ). `` New Miss Japan Priyanka Yoshikawa on Her Indian Origins : I Thought I Was n't Normal ''. Retrieved 10 September 2016. Jump up ^ `` Half - Indian Priyanka Yoshikawa crowned Miss Japan, but not everyone 's impressed ''. Hindustan Times. AFP. 5 September 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016. Jump up ^ McCurry, Justin ( 6 September 2016 ). `` ' Haafu ' and proud : Miss World Japan won by mixed - race contestant ''. The Guardian. Retrieved 10 September 2016. Jump up ^ Kantho, Kaler. `` এবার মিস জাপান হলেন বাংলাদেশি কন্যা প্রিয়াঙ্কা - কালের কণ্ঠ ''. Retrieved 10 September 2016. External links Priyanka Yoshikawa on Twitter Miss World Japan Awards and achievements Preceded by Chika Nakagawa Miss World Japan 2016 Succeeded by Haruka Yamashita Miss World 2016 contestants Madeline Cowe Anastasia Lin Yaritza Reyes Mirka Cabrera Nadeen Osama El Sayed Morgane Edvige Antoinette Delali Kemavor Priyadarshini Chatterjee Natasha Mannuela Priyanka Yoshikawa Tatiana Kumar Bayartsetseg Altangerel Katarina Keković Asmi Shrestha Debbie Collins Alessandra Bueno Pierina Wong Catriona Gray Stephanie Del Valle Yana Dobrovolskaya Christine Barbier Daniella Walcott Audra Mari Diana Croce Miss World delegates of 53 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 This biographical article related to Japan is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This biography article about an Asian contestant in a beauty pageant is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Priyanka_Yoshikawa&oldid=849193145 '' Categories : 1994 births Living people Japanese beauty pageant winners Japanese female models People from Tokyo Japanese people of Indian descent Japanese people of Bengali descent Japanese Hindus Miss World 2016 delegates Japanese people stubs Asian beauty pageant contestant stubs Hidden categories : Articles with hCards Articles containing Japanese - language text Twitter username same as Wikidata All stub articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia বাংলা Français Bahasa Indonesia 日本 語 Occitan ไทย Edit links This page was last edited on 7 July 2018, at 06 : 04 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: miss world japan 2016 is a great grand child of a former chief minister of
Answer: West Bengal