. >> ariana miyamoto says in her native land of japan, most people see her as a foreigner. >> my appearance isn't asian, but i think i'm very much japanese on the inside. >> miyamoto was born to a japanese mother and an african-american sailor, who left japan when she was a child. in japan, she's called a "hafu", or half-japanese. >> i don't think the equivalent word for hafu exists overseas, but in japan you need that word to explain who you are. >> in pictures from her childhood, with a friend, on the volleyball team and in middle school, miyamoto looks happy. but she says she was constantly bullied, and called kurumbo, the japanese equivalent of the "n" word. >> i didn't cope at all. i didn't tell my parents or my friends. i was the type to just keep it inside me. >> after two years getting to know her dad in arkansas, miyamoto returned to japan and dropped out of high school. then one day, a close friend, who was also mixed-race, killed himself... inspiring her to find a way to speak out for other hafus in japan. at 20, miyamoto became the first half-black japanese woman to be named mis