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s. A new representative is chosen annually, and many careers have been launched or enhanced due to being selected during the annual contest. The Clarion Girl campaigns began in 1975 with the selection of Agnes Lum as the first Clarion Girl.

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were chosen in following years. As of 2002, Clarion stopped selecting one per year, and began working jointly with

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Clarion Girls through the years

# Agnes Lum (1975) # Maile Dale (1976) # Sabine Kaneko (1977) # Mayumi Horikawa (1978) # Naomi Tanaka (1979) #

(1980) # Yumi Hasegawa (1981) # Kaoru Ōtake (1982) #

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(1983) # Yuri Kurokawa (1984) #

(1985) # Mika Shiokawa (1986) # Miki Kawashima (1987, real name

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) #

(1988) # Megumi Yūki (1989) # Reiko Katō (1990) # Shōko Ueda (1991) # Shiho Shinjō (1992) # Noriko Tachikawa (1993) # Misa Takada (1994) # Chiaki Hara (1995) # Naoko Izumi (1996) #

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(1997) #

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(1998) # Natsu Tōdō (1999) #

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(2000) # Eliana Silva (2001) # Airi Tōriyama (2003) # Aoi (2004) # Miku Sano (2005) # Uri Yun (2006) Sources:

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Clarion Girl
(official site) 1975 establishments in Japan Japanese female models Beauty pageants in Japan Japanese awards