sentences:  Currently, the alcoholic beverage industry in Japan is large and powerful.For example, in fiscal year 2013, Suntory, one of the country's largest beverage companies, recorded sales of 570.7 billion yen (about US$4.7 billion) in alcoholic beverages, excluding wine Currently, the sales revenue from powdered alcohol has been too small to affect the sales of liquid-alcohol companies.Additionally, powdered alcohol's market share is currently too small to be considered as a statistical item in Japanese tax reports.