Japanese Hotties Hit The Runway For Lingerie Contest

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While Americans were getting shitfaced and grilling up sausages this past weekend, Japan was contemplating the future of an extremely important national resource: lingerie.

At the Japanese final of the Triumph Inspiration Awards, students of Tokyo’s Bunka Fashion College outfitted a crew of models in the country’s most innovative undergarment designs. The winner, Midori Matsuo (whose design is seen on the third model from the right), will be going to Beijing on July 31 for the international final, where her skimpies will go head to head with entries from 29 other countries. See close-up shots of some of the competition’s standouts in a gallery after the jump.

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