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The 2007 Japanese New Year Celebration
Monday, January 1, 2007
Come and enjoy the Japanese traditions of celebrating New Years.
 The
Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California
(JCCSC) will hold its traditional New Years
festivities, “Oshogatsu in Little Tokyo” on January
1, 2007 (Monday). This “Oshogatsu in Little Tokyo”
offers the atmosphere of a Japanese New Years
celebration here in Los Angeles so that more people
can experience it. The purpose has been to introduce
traditional Japanese culture to many more people in
order to inculcate understanding between Japan and
America ever since the first event was held in 1999.
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Kawai Kalender of Events
by Louis Kreslie
2/2007
 Fujiko
Hemming in Orange County - Feb13
Internationally acclaimed pianist Fujjko Hemming returns to
LA after three years since her last solo recital at UCLA.
This time she is here to perform Beethoven’s Concerto No. 5
"Emperor" with the Glendale Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Steven Mercurio. The show will also feature Sumi Jo, a
soprano soloist from Korea, who will also perform with the
Glendale Symphony Orchestra. Her set will feature works
from
Donizetti, Verdi,
Rossini, and Bernstein. The
concert will be held at the beautiful new
Reneé & Henry Segerstrom Concert
Hall of the Orange County Performing Arts Center.
Tickets range from $25 to $85.
For tickets: 1-888-507-3287 All American Ticket. For More
information, try fujiko-hemming.com or samonpromotion.com.
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TIDBITS of the month
Louis
Kreslie 2/2007
Valentin's Day Dinner at Thousand Cranes
Why not treat your special someone to a fabulous romantic dinner? Bordered by the serenity of a Japanese garden, Thousand Cranes, located in the New Otani Hotel and Garden will serve a gourmet multi-course Valentine’s Day Dinner on Monday, February 14. The restaurant features a quiet, elegant ambience and kimono-clad waitresses providing polite and gracious service.
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| ARTICLES |
 PET
CARE NEWS
Dr. Alice Villalobos
8/2006
Why
You Can/Should Adopt
National Pet Week was in May and June was National
ADOPT-A-CAT month. The human-animal bond that we share
with our dear pets enriches our lives. Our society
needs to be more aware that millions of dogs and cats,
that could be wonderful pets, die every year in the
pounds just because they did not have a home to live
in. Society is more sensitive about animals but needs
to be more willing to adopt.
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Restaurant Review - K-ZO
1/2007
K-ZO
Offers Chic and Delicious Japanese and Continental Cuisine
 Hearing
that there was a chic new restaurant that had opened in downtown
Culver City, I hot-footed it over there. With popular restaurants,
parking is always a worry, but K-ZO is located on the first floor
of a building that has a large parking structure, so it was easy
to park the car, something I was grateful for.
Pushing open the
heavy glass door, I was immediately greeted with a thunderous
welcoming chorus. At 7:00 o’clock pm on a Thursday, there was a
huge hubbub of guests seated in the front area. The adjoining bar
counter was already filled with guests and there were others
waiting.
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Sushi Chef Contest
12/2006
 7th
Annual Japanese Food Festival at The New Otani Hotel & Garden
The 7th Annual Japanese
Food Festival was held this past October 29th at the New Otani
Hotel & Garden in Little Tokyo. Naturally, sushi and tempura,
central to Japanese cuisine, were featured, but entertainment
representative of Japanese culture was also presented, including
koto performances, a maguro tuna cutting and preparation
demonstration and a Ryukyu Okinawan dance show.
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Entertain your BRAIN
Robert J. Terry 2/2007
Sweet Family Fare on Magic Bell !
Be With You, broadcast Sunday nights at 7:00 pm on KXLA, Channel 44 and subtitled in English, is another production of the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), one of the six major networks in Japan. It took a best selling novel written by Ichikawa Takuji, “Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu” (“Now We Go To Meet”), which was just made into a hit movie a couple of years ago, and remade it as a 10-part series. That shows just how popular the story was in Japan. On the TBS website (http://www.tbs.co.jp/ima-ai/scene.html)
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Business
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Small Business Smart Business
---Nancy
Kikuchi 2/2007
How to Start a Restaurant in LA County
Having worked as the Business Counselor in the Japanese and Japanese American communities, for almost 7 years, I’ve assisted many merchants and entrepreneurs over the years. I must say, of all the various industries of businesses here in Little Tokyo, the majority that I have helped have been restaurants. |
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