endangering our health and our well-being and our property value … I would like for you very much to reconsider their bid to build the cell tower so close to our homes.

major international spirits competitions now have an independent shochu category.Labeling and selling shochu as soju is like selling tequila as scotch or bourbon.

saying the law clears up confusion for consumers.The end to identity crisis with bottle labels showing the Japanese kanji as焼酎 (phonetically pronounced ‘shochu) while the English copy shows ‘soju.Mutual Tradings director of Sake Specialist Division.

soju was the only Asian spirits category.Kanai noted that at the annual Los Angeles International Wine Spirits Competition held in 2010 at the Fairplex in Pomona.

Japanese Restaurant Association of America.

JSS has lobbied for the changes and acknowledged Assemblymembers Muratsuchi and Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles).in Tule Lake Segregation Center.

” thanks to his daughters efforts.Takashi Hoshizaki was one of 63 members of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee who refused induction into the military during World War II.

military to remove persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast and set into motion their incarceration into concentration camps during World War II.about those who resisted their circumstances and sought to exercise their rights as Americans.