Rina Fukushi on what it means to be a mixed-race model in Japan cnn.com

For 18-year-old model Rina Fukushi, Tokyo is home.
Successful hafu models like Fukushi -- and contemporaries like Kiko Mizuhara and Rola -- have become fashion week regulars, their faces regularly splashed onto international fashion campaigns and magazine covers.
1 / 7 "I was teased when I was in elementary and junior high school because I looked foreign," Rina Fukushi recalled, in an interview with CNN.
Successful hafu models like Fukushi -- and contemporaries like Kiko Mizuhara and Rola -- are using some of these stereotypes to their advantage.
It is apt that Fukushi, one of the most popular hafu models in Japan, is interviewed at Frescade , a vintage store in central Tokyo.