, is a

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actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned

Miss Universe Japan 2017 Miss Universe Japan 2017 ( ja, 2017 ミス・ユニバース・ジャパン), the Miss Universe Japan pageant, took place in the Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo, Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan, on July 4, 2017. Sari Nakazawa of Shiga crowned Momoko Abe of Chiba at ...

and represented

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Miss Universe 2017 Miss Universe 2017 was the 66th Miss Universe pageant, held at The AXIS at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States on November 26, 2017. At the end of the event, Iris Mittenaere of France crowned Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters of South Af ...

Life and career

Momoko was born in

Chiba Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama Prefecture to the ...

. Her mother is a professional golf player. Her father is the television reporter Yuji Abe. Since childhood she learned how to play golf, piano, swimming and ballet. She speaks English and Japanese fluently, and studied Philosophy at the

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in Tokyo.

Miss Universe Japan 2017

On 4 July 2017, Abe was crowned Miss Universe Japan 2017. Abe was crowned the winner by outgoing titleholder Sari Nakazawa.

Miss Universe 2017

Abe represented

and won the Best national costume award.

References

1994 births Living people Miss Universe 2017 contestants Japanese beauty pageant winners Japanese female models People from Urayasu, Chiba {{pageant-bio-stub