Haruka Yamashita

Haruka Yamashita
Born
Haruka Yamashita

(1995-11-28) 28 November 1995 (age 29)
Tokyo, Japan
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Beauty pageant titleholder
TitleMiss World Japan 2017
Hair colorBlack
Eye colorBrown
Major
competition(s)

Haruka Yamashita (Japanese: 山下 晴加, Hepburn: Yamashita Haruka, born 28 November 1995) is a Japanese model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the Miss World Japan 2017 and represented Japan at Miss World 2017. She also went to Thailand to shoot a television series Oh My Boss where she played a Japanese top idol in a few episodes.[1][2][3]

Personal life

Haruka was born in Tokyo, graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from Keio University in 2018, worked for 4 years at Morgan Stanley as an Investment Banking analyst and is currently an MBA student at MIT Sloan School of Management.[4]

Pageantry

Miss World Japan 2017

On September 4, 2017 Yamashita was crowned as Miss World Japan 2017 by Priyanka Yoshikawa Miss World Japan 2016 and Top 20 in Miss World 2016. She represented Japan in Miss World 2017.

Miss World 2017

She competed at the Miss World 2017 where she placed Top 15.

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2021 Oh My Boss Miyakawa Arsuuki (Japanese idols) Support role [citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "Haruka Yamashita is Miss World Japan 2017 /Beauty Pageants - Times of India Videos". The Times of India. India. Archived from the original on September 11, 2017. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
  2. ^ "Haruka Yamashita is Miss World Japan 2017...Pageant Tv...On Fow24news.com - FOW 24 NEWS". www.fow24news.com. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
  3. ^ "February 26, 2018". The Japan Times. The Japan Times. February 25, 2018. Archived from the original on January 8, 2019. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
  4. ^ "Haruka Yamashita - Education details". www.linkedin.com.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Miss World Japan
2017 		Succeeded by
Kanako Date