is the 2011 winner of the

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("Miss Japan" in Japanese) beauty pageant. She graduated from the faculty of law at

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. Yanaka spent much of her youth with her family posted in other countries. She spent four years in

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, and another four years in the

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. Her father was working near the

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on September 11, 2001. She says following the news, that day, while waiting to learn if her father was safe, was what inspired her to become a newscaster. She was hired as one of the host's of business oriented television show in September 2011. French jeweller Louis Golay International designed Yanaka's tiara. She is also a television journalist, and currently anchors at

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Japan (known as Nikkei CNBC in Japan). She later started working at

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as well. On April 1, 2014, Yanaka, and two other women, were named as brand ambassadors for a line of women's apparel. Yanaka and the two other women, were anchorwomen, and the line of clothing was designed to appeal to women who wanted to look like anchorwomen.

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