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• The LDP and its ruling partners plan to submit a bill to Diet authorizing the SDF to use force in overseas missions.
• The justice ministry will ask the Diet to approve its request to raise the maximum prison sentence for crimes committed by juveniles from the current 15 years to 20 years.
• Japan’s new national police chief, Tsuyoshi Yoneda, said his priorities are “cybercrime, terrorism and measures against crime syndicates.”
• Three workers at a Tokyo-based export company were arrested for violating the government’s sanctions against Iran by conducting business with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line.

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• 28Nationalities represented at a disaster drill for foreigners in Sumida-ku last month
• 14Consecutive years that Japan has cut its official development assistance
• 91Number of times Japanese fighter jets scrambled against Chinese aircraft from October to December, according to the Defense Ministry
  

Newly Released Emergency Ration Cup O’ Noodles Last for Three Years

The Cup O’ Noodles that “saved your life” in college may now actually save your life in an emergency situation.

Reported to be ready in three minutes, but last for three years, these emergency ration ramen noodles were cooked up in the test kitchens of the Cup Noodle Museum in Kanagawa prefecture and the Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum in Osaka. Two types of emergency ration instant ramen are available: “Chiken Ramen” and “Cup Noodles.” Each canister of ramen has a shelf life of three years and will be available for a limited time from Nissin Foods.

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N. Korea warns U.S. commander in S. Korea over drills

February 23, 2013

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PYONGYANG, North Korea--North Korea warned the top American commander in South Korea on Feb. 23 of “miserable destruction” if the U.S. military presses ahead with routine joint drills with South Korea set to begin next month.

Pak Rim Su, chief of North Korea's military delegation to the truce village of Panmunjom inside the Demilitarized Zone, sent the warning Feb. 23 morning to Gen. James Thurman, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said, in a rare direct message to the U.S. commander.

The threat comes as the U.S. and other nations discuss how to punish North Korea for conducting an underground nuclear test on Feb. 12 in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning Pyongyang from nuclear and missile activity.