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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akita Prefecture-based cartoonist Tim Ernst created the drawing immediately after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and circulated it on Facebook, asking people to use it however they want to spread hope.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Loud and clear: Demonstrators offer their thoughts on the antics of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the company behind the leaking Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, at a protest in Tokyo in September.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ever-decreasing circles: Emperor Akihito, flanked by other members of the Imperial family, waves to well-wishers from the balcony during a New Year's public appearance at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 2.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Art aid: The Japan Times is offering readers the chance to own a limited-edition color poster inspired by the disaster in Tohoku and created by illustrator Chris Mackenzie, with all proceeds going to The Japan Times Readers' Fund. The B2-size poster (728 mm x 515 mm), printed on high-quality, semi-gloss-coat paper, is available for ¥5,000, including delivery. Mojoprint (www.mojoprint.jp) in Osaka has generously offered to print the posters for free, meaning more of your money will go toward helping with the relief effort in Tohoku. For full details on how to order online and by post, please visit www.japantimes.co.jp/info/poster-donation.html.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Justice delayed: Catherine Fisher was raped 10 years ago by an American sailor stationed at the U.S. Yokosuka Naval Base. Since then she has been fighting a legal battle to prosecute her attacker, Bloke T. Deans, who was allowed to return to the U.S. and was reportedly subsequently offered an honorable discharge from the armed forces.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A day at Suma Beach: The city of Kobe is considering a way to ban people from exposing their tattoos at the beach. The body-art form is commonly associated with criminal yakuza gangs in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Punch]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A changed man: Wayne Douglas took his fight for justice and compensation over a debilitating addiction to benzodiazepines as far as the Supreme Court of Japan, which refused to hear his case. Douglas was prescribed the drugs for seven months as part of what the doctor allegedly called a "radical" course of treatment.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Free hugs: Snow Hanada can hold her Dominican husband now that he is on provisional release from the East Japan Immigration Center in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, where he was held for seven months after overstaying his visa. Now she wants to help other families going through the same separation ordeal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2011/01/25/issues/waiting-for-the-wikileak-dam-to-break/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All's well: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gives a thumbs up from behind the tinted window of a police van as he arrives at Wandsworth Prison in London last month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Girls look at parts of the Berlin Wall at an exhibition in Tokyo in 1990. Germany was reunified two months before Hassett arrived in Japan but the Soviet Union still existed. COURTESY OF MICHAEL HASSETT, AP]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-01-23T20:44:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-01-23T20:44:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[If walls could talk: Then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem in 2006. Japan and Israel are both islands (Japan literally, Israel due to conflict with its neighbors), but the effect of this isolation on each country's people has been very different, with Japanese increasingly turning inward while Israelis opt to break out of the Middle East the first chance they get.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arudou]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-01-23T20:46:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-01-23T20:46:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of academia: "All of the Chinese students are gone," said Xiaoye Wang, a third-year liberal arts student at Waseda University in Tokyo, recently. "I'm the last one."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A promising life cut short: Hoon "Scott" Kang died five days after he was found unconscious in a stairwell in Shinjuku's Kabuki-cho district with severe head injuries.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[TEPCO targeted: A man attends an antinuclear vigil marking the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in front of the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on April 26.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Room to grow: Reina, Takahiko, Hiroko, Genki and Ryuma Nishida pose for a picture in Thailand in April.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture is worth a thousand words: Nikolaos Zaimis, first counselor of the European Union's delegation to Japan, reads the Greek tale of "Icarus" in Greek in front of families during a book-reading event at the EU office in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Back on campus: Foreign students take a lunch break at Temple University Japan in Minami-Azabu, Tokyo, last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2011/09/06/issues/sexlessness-wrecks-marriages-threatens-nations-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-01-24T17:19:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joined by injustice: Americans Sung Won Kang and Charles Lacey, both of whom have lost close family members in mysterious circumstances in Japan, discuss their experiences at a sushi restaurant in Tokyo on Sunday. Kang and Lacey are both deeply unhappy with the way the Japanese police have dealt with their cases.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Benten, the eight-armed goddess of the sea, lives on her own special island off the coast of Shiraishi Island.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2008/08/23/our-lives/reaping-summers-rewards/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For the record: The considerably internationally minded  Iehiro Tokugawa would have been, if the feudal system were still alive in Japan, the 19th shogun in the Tokugawa family line.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Much confusion has arisen over what forms of I.D. foreign residents must show in order to be able to purchase a cell phone.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heidi Bean and Robin Tierney, who met in Japan in 1997, will move back here later this month with son, Max.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sumo wrestler Baruto, aka 20-year-old Kaido Hoovelson, was encouraged to come to Japan by his judo coach, who described the life of a wrestler as "a lot of sleeping, a lot of eating, a little bit of training. But for the past three years, Baruto's life has been characterized by "a lot of cleaning, a lot of training, a little bit of sleeping."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/03/22/issues/fresh-foreign-angles/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/03/08/issues/creating-laws-out-of-thin-air/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-07T18:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/04/19/issues/home-is-where-hardship-is-for-japanese-returnees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-07T19:05:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20050419zga.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artist Kentaro Yamada says he felt a loss of identity upon returning to Japan, and wondered "if (I) was the only one feeling puzzled."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/04/26/issues/the-shows-over/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-07T19:07:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20050426zga.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Filipino community has come under the spotlight in light of recent changes to the lmmigration Law.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/05/10/issues/japans-gender-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-08T11:18:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-02-08T11:21:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-02-08T11:21:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-02-08T11:30:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/06/07/issues/have-you-heard-the-one-about/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-08T11:32:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20050607zga.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kokkuri-san is the Japanese equivalent of the ouija board, and has inspired a movie of the same name (below).]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/07/12/issues/a-fight-to-the-death/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kin Sunae, Kan Kyon Nam and Gen Akio have vowed a flight to the death over the town of Utoro, from which they face eviction. (above) The tiny village of Utoro, in Kyoto, has been the subject of one of Japan's longest-running legal battles.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-02-08T11:46:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign mothers who have filed a lawsuit challenging Japan's Nationality Law meet in Tokyo to discuss their plan of action.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-02-08T11:59:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tofu salad]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign warns off potential intruders from a U.S. military installation on Okinawa.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/08/09/issues/bad-boys-bad-boys/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-08T12:23:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-02-08T14:09:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kwak Kwi Hoon]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Group think: At undoōkai sports days, the relay races are a chance for the fastest runners to show off their skill.  The emphasis is still on working together as a team, and not about seeking individual glory.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Islanders perform the Shiraishi Dance on the beach during Bon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/09/13/general/readers-write-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-12T11:18:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/09/13/issues/scales-of-justice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-12T11:18:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/09/27/issues/time-well-spent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-12T11:19:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/09/20/issues/brought-to-heel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-12T11:31:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/09/06/issues/the-empire-strikes-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-12T11:33:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/10/18/issues/ministry-missive-wrecks-reception/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-12T11:55:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/10/25/issues/japan-sees-beginning-of-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-12T11:57:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Author Alex Kerr believes the election and re-election of the Koizumi government signals a desire for change in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/11/22/issues/the-ic-you-card/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-13T11:21:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/11/29/issues/ic-scheme-gets-frosty-reception/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-13T11:21:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/11/08/issues/speed-trap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-13T11:21:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/11/15/issues/dating-divide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-13T11:23:15+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/11/01/issues/people-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-13T11:25:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Henoko Base protestors maintain their demonstration against the building of a U.S. facility off the coast of Henoko village.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/12/13/issues/the-nhk-man-cometh/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-13T11:33:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/12/06/issues/genki-drinks-riding-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-13T11:35:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The range of "genki drinks" on offer in stores in Japan is staggering.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/12/27/issues/finding-a-job-after-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-13T11:36:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2005/12/20/issues/ho-ho-homesick/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-13T11:37:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/01/20/issues/dont-mention-the-l-word/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-13T12:13:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20040120zga.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign men can sometimes find it difficult to express their feelings, and some girls prefer it that way.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/01/27/issues/rural-lifes-slow-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-13T12:14:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[While more young people are looking to move to the country, a lack of jobs and resources means they can't be accommodated.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/01/06/issues/freedom-of-speech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-13T12:14:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/01/13/issues/forensic-science-fiction/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/02/17/issues/enduring-life-in-the-japanese-company/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-13T12:25:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[After-work socializing, or "tsukiai," usually involving driking, is an integral part of life in the Japanese company.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/02/10/issues/is-iraq-really-safe-for-anyone/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/02/03/issues/real-last-samurai-fights-for-attention/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Richard Nishizawa (left) and Angela Luna were banished from Japan for 5 years for overstaying their visas]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/05/11/issues/kidnap-crisis-poses-a-new-risk/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/06/08/issues/hidden-plight-of-detainees/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/07/27/issues/know-the-law/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Police officer stands guard at Shinbashi station in Tokyo in March. More police have been deployed in train stations and transport hubs as fears of a terrorist attack increase.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/07/13/issues/the-big-squeeze/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-02-13T14:50:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/08/31/issues/i-want-to-clear-my-name-and-the-name-of-my-country/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Islam Mohamed Himu says that he has "lost it all" since his arrest. "I am zero... no, not zero, minus."]]></image:caption>
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