Special Report: L.A.Bunnies

The Sakamoto family is a normal family in L.A. The children are seen playing with two bunnies. These bunnies actually faced death before coming to this family a year ago. Thanks to one lady in particular who played an important role.
Her name is Lejla Hadzimuratovic. She rescues the bunnies that are picked up from L.A. streets, recovering them and finding Foster homes and permanent homes. She first encountered these bunnies sold on the streets of Downtown L.A. Fashion District in 2008. This place is widely known for illegal selling of different products and there are watchmen all over. They look out for the police as well as media. These watchmen protect the selling of bunnies too. We found the illegal selling of bunnies on the day of our shoot. When we confront them, they quickly cover the bunnies with a large black bag and attack our cameraman, telling us to stop filming.
At the Animal Shelter, there are many dogs and cats that are deserted from careless owners. Bunnies are also here. There are those rescued from illegal selling on the streets to those who were deserted from owners because they are“too big.”If they do not find homes, they are put to sleep.
On January 15th, a call was made to Lejla that 5 bunnies were taken off the streets of Fashion District. This Cleaning company formed a relationship with Lejla and will make sure the bunnies don’t end up at shelters. First, Lejla will give antibiotics to the bunnies to prevent diarrhea. And then give milk because they can’t drink their mother’s milk anymore. Through research, she has found that goat milk is the best for baby bunnies. The bunnies are treated and sent to foster homes.
Lejla helped 500 bunnies last year. She cries out to owners the importance of love. It takes one person to save an animal that are thrown out by irresponsible owners.

VX2011

World Exchange Conference was held between January 23rd to the 25th in Downtown. This is where the Government, Corporate, NPO and etc can present their cutting edge environmental policy and environmental technologies to the world. This is the 4th year.
The most popular product was the eco-car. Nissan introduced their electric car, Leaf. This electric car was sold from December of last year in 5 States; California, Oregon, Washington, Tennessee. On the other hand, the Japanese American companies presented Japanese environmental technologies to America.
This year, they plan to have the conference in Toronto, which will be the 1st time out of California. Businesses relating to environment are showing a tremendous growth and will continue to grow.

JBA New Years Celebration

On January 14th, JBA（Japanese Business Association) held its New Years Greeting Celebration. Because it will be JBA’s 50th Anniversary this year, there were over 420 guests. The highlight event was the door prize that included flight tickets to Japan and 80 other presents.

JRA New Years Celebration

On January 24th, the 12th JRA, Japanese Restaurant Association of America held its New Years Reception. The new President, Isao Hatano handed the previous President an award of appreciation. The previous President was Katsuya Uechi, who served for 2 years.
This will be Hatano’s second time as the President. In his speech he mentions the importance of having bilingual members because of growing numbers in American owners within the Japanese restaurants.
JRA plans to have a Food Festival in Hollywood this year in November. Their goal is to have over 3,000 guests.