Ikumi Yoshimatsu from Japan was crowned Miss International 2012 on 21st October 2012 in Okinawa, Japan. She was 25 years of age when she won the title. The beauty is a Japanese Hollywood actress, stunt woman, book author, opinion leader, social activist. It was Japan's first Miss International win in the 52-year history of the pageant. She was a featured presenter at Ted Talks where she advocated for stronger laws to protecting women in Japan.

Ikumi started the Global Student Diplomacy Network in 2015 to connect elementary and middle school classrooms from various countries with each other by skype for cultural exchange. The first exchange featured special guest Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul and Mary and the governor of Saga Prefecture, Yasushi Furukawa. She obtained a degree in education and international education at the University of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo, Japan. Ikumi is both an actress and stunt double for Tao Okamoto in three episodes of the HBO series "Westworld”. She is also acting in Michael Bay's Netflix movie "6 Underground. Ikumi has been cast to star in, and is currently filming the international action thriller, with 10 episode of action series ‘Light Stinger’. Ikumi starred as the lead actress in Nico Santucci's movie Sarogeto starring alongside Winsor Harmon and Eric Roberts.