On September 12, 2012, US Delegates of the San Francisco-Osaka Sister City Association attended its Gala dinner in celebration of its 55th anniversary at the Osaka Hilton. Among those delegates were SF-Osaka City Association’s Co-Chair Kathleen Kimura, Board Member Tasha Yorozu and her colleague Anne Lew. These delegates met with Osaka Mayor Hashimoto and mingled with US Consul General of Osaka Japan, Patrick Linehan, his husband Emerson Kanegusuke, California Culinary Academy’s President Peter Lee, Suntory’s General Manager Kazuyuki Takaya, Osaka Hilton’s General Manager, Herman Ehrlich, US Department of Agriculture’s Marketing Specialist, Akiko Kashiwagi and many others.