Hiroko Mima (美馬 寛子 Mima Hiroko, born December 5, 1986 in Tokushima Prefecture) is a Japanese fashion model, athlete, beauty queen and Miss Universe Japan 2008. she represented Japan at Miss Universe 2008 and placed Top 15.
Mima currently attends Nihon University and her major is physical education. Mima suffers from a bone marrow disease which left the right side of her body incapacitated for three months when she was 13 years old, and a nerve disease called Guillain-Barré syndrome in junior high school. Since then Mima has returned to sports and competed seven times at the Japan National Track and Field Competition. She competes in the track and field team with a high jump of 1.65 m, approaching her own height of 1.73 m.Shortly after losing her grandmother, who died when she slipped on the bathroom floor, Mima lost her father in a car accident before winning Miss Universe Japan 2008.
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