Japan beauty hoping U.S. grandfather tunes in to Miss World

Japan beauty hoping U.S. grandfather tunes in to Miss World

CHATAN, Japan - From left to right, Elza Sasaki, Miss World Japan 2009, her grandmother Chiyoko Inafuku, and her mother Tammy Sasaki pose for a Kyodo photographer at the beach in the town of Chatan near Inafuku's home in Uruma in Okinawa Prefecture on Aug. 12. (Kyodo)

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