You know, I went home and thought about this more yesterday. It seems to me that this will be another opportunity for the Japanese people to jump onto another bandwagon. Because of the win by Miss Japan to become Miss Universe, now all young girls will actively to go out there and become beauty queens.

I'm not trying to poke fun at the Japanese because I do have a love for the country and it's people. However, I also have seen on many occasions, these huge trends of Japanese people deciding they are going to do something. I remember a friend of mine, who had an aversion to any type of physical exercise, who suddenly decided to train for - and run - a marathon. When I asked her why, she said she was inspired by a story of a woman who went on to compete in marathons for the Olympics. It seemed that suddenly, after that, large numbers of women trained for marathons. They did only one and then decided that it was enough. Just to prove it. To me, if you become a runner, then it should be a lifelong thing - not just a one-off because some other housewife had done it.

I am sure there are hundreds of examples of it. When I was in Japan, women all jumped on the "Juliana's" bandwagon with their "body-con" clothing and their behaviour even put Britney to shame. That was a good 17 years ago. Ten years ago, it was yoga. Now it's "hot yoga".

Okay. I know it happens everywhere but the Japanese seem way more intense with these things. And, I can certainly see a rush of young women who are getting prepared to go the way of the beauty queen...

I promise now to let this go. I just thought it would be truly amusing to see an onslaught of Japanese beauty queens. My advice though? It's probably better for them to look like licca than Barbie...