Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NAGOYA, Japan, March 31 (UPI) -- The 2005 World Exposition, under pressure from the Japanese prime minister, will change its food policy to allow visitors to bring in homemade lunches. Junichiro Koizumi said in his newsletter that he expected organizers of Expo 2005, which opened March 25 in Aichi prefecture and will close Sept. 25, to change a highly criticized policy that has outlawed visitors from bringing in packed lunches and canned and bottled drinks, the Mainichi Shimbun reported Thursday. Advertisement Sparked by scenes of families dumping lovingly prepared packed lunches before being permitted to enter the Expo grounds, Koizumi asked organizers to rethink their food policy. Expo organizers and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said they were working to come up with a revised policy that would meet Koizumi's request. But canned and bottled drinks, as well as store-bought lunches, seem likely to remain banned. "From the necessity of safety issues, such as dealing with the threat of terrorism, some foods and drinks may still be banned from the site," the prime minister said in his newsletter.
