Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rui Watanabe is a beauty pageant titleholder who represented Japan in Miss World 2007 in China. She teaches yoga and is a fitness instructor. Her ambition is to take lessons in Hong Kong to become an action film star. She was one of the finalists of 2008 edition of Miss Universe Japan. The Miss Universe Japan Organization was created in 1998 in response to Japan''s recent lack of finalists at the Miss Universe pageant. It is a branch from the late Miss Japan pageant. The Miss Japan pageant had existed from 1952 to 1997. During that period, the pageant managed to produce three top 5 finalists and a winner, Akiko Kojima, who claimed the first crown for Japan in 1959. After a semi-finalist placement in 1975, Japan managed to place only one more time prior to 1997, in 1988, where Mizuho Sakaguchi took 4th place.