Actress Satomi Ishihara, 28, is the winner of the third annual "Woman of the Year" award, which took place Thursday night at the Japan Jewellery Fair 2015 in Tokyo.
The Japan Jewellery Association and the organizers of the fair selected Ishihara from a field of hopefuls spanning the worlds of show business, sport and business.
At the ceremony, Ishihara got to wear a necklace and ring valued at 200 million yen.
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harvey pekar
Woman of the Year for her contributions to the plight of jewelry or Woman of the Year for what she's done for other women or Woman of the Year because hey, her name sells?
sensei258
Woman of the Year because nobody else wanted to be bothered with another meaningless award.
SenseNotSoCommon
...for her passionate efforts in tackling Japan's 16% child poverty rate?
Kurobune
The last sentence of the story says it all ! (Got to wear?) LOL The Japanese have a saying for this type of situation. (Hana yori dango.)
Kenny Iyekawa
Strange...
wanderlust
Best Womanist?
Miss all of those ridiculous award titles...
sighclops
For doing WHAT? She has no talent!
smithinjapan
You have to love the 'qualifications' Japan has for the multitude of stupid awards they give. In the US or other developed nations women are busy fighting the 'war on women' to keep what little equality has been gained -- but this young woman is... an actress!
Mirai Hayashi
Another meaningless popularity contest.
toshiko
Jewellers in Japan is promoting jewel sales in Japan. It is not created by this young girl. Meaningless or not, Japanese jewelers have to compete against foreign jewelers
@SenseNotSoCommonAUG. 29, 2015 - 09:02AM JST
Satomi Ishihara receives 'Woman of the Year' award
...for her passionate efforts in tackling Japan's 16% child poverty rate?
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Did she create Japan's 16% child poverty rate?
skinnee
Finally!
Satomi has been patient and humble after being overlooked for so long by the judges.
This long-standing and honored award, steeped in history and great women, didn't need to wait a full year to crown its champion.
theeastisred
She is certainly very pretty. And that is the only reason for this little vignette after all, isn't it.