Asian Advocacy PrizeLydia Lee

Famous wagyu beef from Kagoshima is grilled as visitors wait for a taste.the always-popular pavilion for sake.

Photos by MIKEY HIRANO CULROSS and JUN NAGATA/Rafu ShimpoPASADENA —?Mutual Trading Co.Also featured was globally-renowned wagyu beef.The latest in restaurant and production equipment was on display.

even fine cutlery and kitchenware.Highlights of this years expo included new technologies to freeze fish and seafood at ultra-low temperatures.

preserving its freshness in ways previously unattainable.

Workshops included a demonstration of how to properly wrap bento boxes in the traditional furoshiki.acrylic and vinyl color and gold leaf on handmade Japanese paper.

Along with the scrolls will be a large mural.Kimura was born in 1978 in Izu.

her 17-year odyssey is of a young Japanese woman who leaves her culture and home.The collaboration between Yoshimura and Kimura is unique; he agreed to design and mount Kimuras paintings because he valued her vision and relished the challenge of melding a centuries-old tradition with a contemporary artists vision.