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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Role reversals: Kazuho So as Hailey, the salaryman dances with Seina Sagiri in the role of Ella for "Shall we dance?" Though Sagiri is known for playing male roles in Takarazuka, in an unsual move, she takes on the female lead this time.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-30T23:16:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-30T23:17:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Breaking good: Breakdancer Noritoshi "Nori" Kikuchi (left) competes against South Korean breakdancer Wing at last weekend's Red Bull BC One breakdancing competition.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/12/04/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/feature-exhibition-on-matsuri-and-the-sacred-art-of-kasuga/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/01/02/films/film-reviews/odd-thomas/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Insidious: Chapter 2]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of fashion?: U.S. singer Katy Perry receives a kiss from a boy after he presented her with a bouquet of flowers on the red carpet at a central London cinema for the European premiere of her film "Part of Me" in July  2012. A pair of Perry's false eyelashes have been added to an exhibit on cheap fashion at Britain's Victoria and Albert Museum.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/01/04/books/book-reviews/botchan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?']]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[“Hiten” (“Flying Apsara,” 12th century)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/01/09/films/film-reviews/tricked/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/01/09/films/film-reviews/killing-season/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High seas: A print of the“Great battle at Lüshun Bay” (above) shows sailors on a Japanese battleship firing on a Russian battleship during the surprise naval assault on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur (Lüshun).]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/04/01/music/la-lifestyle-gives-starro-a-new-take-on-making-music/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Starman: Producer Shinya Mizoguchi, aka starRo, took inspiration from Los Angeles' "beats" scene.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protection at any cost: Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) blurs all lines between loving father and merciless torturer as the search for his missing daughter unfolds in "Prisoners." © 2013 Alcon Entertainment, LLC.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/05/07/arts/openings-in-tokyo/collection-exhibition-2014-spiritual-world/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flower power: An image of one of the gardens at last year's International Roses and Gardening Show offers a taste of what to expect this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/06/21/books/book-reviews/case-sharaku-murders/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Back to basics: Pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu performs at the MTV Video Music Awards Japan on June 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/06/24/music/electronic-remains-ursula-bogner/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/06/25/stage/insects-inspire-butoh-master-maro/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/06/25/stage/outsiders-jacob-sensory-feast/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/06/25/stage/scary-stories-series-reaches-limit/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/06/19/films/film-reviews/third-person/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German links: A portrait by an unknown painter of Ogai Mori from the Mori-Ogai-Gedenkstatte museum in Berlin.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/06/28/books/book-reviews/zen-landscapes/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/06/27/entertainment-news/ailing-conductor-ozawa-returns-podium-europe/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiji Ozawa conducts young string players Thursday in Rolle, Switzerland, in his first international appearance in three years or so.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Last rites: In a scene from the 2013 production of "Honchos' Meeting in Cowra," Japanese prisoners of war resolve to mount a suicidal banzai charge in a bid to fulfill the Imperial Military Regulation requiring them to die rather than be captured.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Only the sound of work: A Carthusian monk shovels snow outside the Grande Chartreuse monastery in the documentary “Into Great Silence.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/07/09/stage/blast-comes-marching-back-tokyo-drummer/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beat that: Naoki Ishikawa takes center stage in a dynamic number from “Blast!”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/07/09/films/film-reviews/dance-reality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T23:19:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Dance of Reality (Japan title: Reality Dance)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/07/09/films/film-reviews/devils-violinist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T23:24:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Devil's Violinist]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-10T01:24:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fading Gigolo (Japan title: Gigolo in New York)]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Into Great Silence (Japan title: Oinaru Chinmoku e Grand Chartreuse Shudoin)]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the beaten path: Aiko (Mei Kurokawa, right) cycles by Taiwan’s tourist sites, guided by Tong Tong (Theresa Daley) in “Nanpu (Riding the Breeze).”]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fairy's tale: Angelina Jolie plays the title character in "Maleficent," which tells the story of "Sleeping Beauty" from the villain's point of view.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/07/10/films/film-reviews/maleficent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T18:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[MALEFICENT]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uninvited: Maleficent crashes the king's party. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/07/10/arts/combinations-that-break-the-surface-like-a-lotus-flower/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T18:03:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/07/10/arts/openings-in-tokyo/takehiko-inoue-interprets-gaudis-universe/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-10T18:01:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/07/10/arts/openings-in-tokyo/george-nelson-architect-writer-designer-teacher/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Bubble Lamps" (ca.1952)]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The reconstructed skeleton of an Elephas namadicus (male)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/07/12/music/soundcloud-music-service-said-to-near-deals-with-record-labels/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Die another day: Key art from the manga version of Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s novel “All You Need is Kill” by Takeshi Obata.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-16T10:46:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Past sounds: The Sakimitama-Kushimitama event is performed for the first time two years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/07/16/films/film-reviews/les-reines-du-ring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-16T23:32:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/07/17/arts/openings-in-tokyo/ancient-egyptian-queens-and-goddesses-treasures-from-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-new-york/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-17T18:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/07/17/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/two-tapestries-the-miho-merciful-mother-kannon-and-the-lotus-miroku/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Miho Merciful Mother Kannon" (1994), tapestry by Kawashima Selkon Textiles Co., Ltd.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/07/16/films/man-lives-art-dying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-17T17:06:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The master of death: Seizo Fukumoto's trademark dying manoeuvre is the ebi-zori (prawn cut) where, after being sliced with a blade, he bends over backward, twitching.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/07/17/arts/to-perceive-is-to-see-felix-vallottons-genius-at-work/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/07/17/arts/nao-tsuda-takes-us-beyond-the-straight-and-narrow/</loc>
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