is a Japanese news caster, commentator, journalist and the 2011 winner of the Miss Nippon ("Miss Japan" in Japanese) beauty pageant. She graduated from the faculty of law at

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Biography

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

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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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1990 births Living people Models from Tokyo Miss Nippon Japanese beauty pageant winners Japanese television journalists Women television journalists Keio University alumni Japanese expatriates in Singapore Japanese expatriates in the United States NHK CNBC people {{japan-bio-stub