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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Getting informed: Panicsmile comprises (clockwise from top left) DJ Mistake, Geru Matsuishi, Hajime Yoshida and Kenichi Yasuda. The group's new album, "Informed Consent," tackles politics and takes the group back to its sonic roots.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On cue: The cast of Kunio's Q1 "Hamlet" perform in the work's face-the-audience style.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-24T20:13:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jean-François Millet's "The Angelus" (ca. 1857-9)]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A broken piece: Miwako Wagatsuma stars as Kaede in pink film director Yuji Tajiri's "Broken Pieces" — a break from his standard genre.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese dish served at Uwotoku, a top restaurant in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A performance of nufabushi, a form of Okinawan dance.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-25T18:54:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota's staff demonstrate a Winglet at Mega Web in Odaiba, Tokyo.  SATOKO KAWASAKI]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-25T19:38:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bang on: Eric P. Sherman, president and CEO of creative studio Bang Zoom!, explains how he went from cab driving to Japanese anime importer.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Photo taken in May shows blues singer Marikofun, who sings about ancient tomb mounds, called "kofun" in Japanese. In the previous month, the musician, whose real name and age remain undisclosed, released her first album titled "Kofun de Kofun!" using two senses of "kofun," which means both "ancient tomb mound" and "excited."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Left: Claude Monet's "La Japonaise (Camille Monet in Japanese Costume)" (1876); Right: Utagawa Hiroshige's "Plum Estate, Kameido" from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo"]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Set the stage: Maestro Taijiro Iimori stands next to a poster for the "Parsifal" production he will conduct at the New National Theatre, Tokyo. Iimori is widely considered an expert in conducting the works of Richard Wagner.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New artistic views: "Fishing Village at Sunset," a section of Muqi Fachang's 13th-century "Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers" handscroll, which was cut and remounted for Ashikaga Yoshimitsu as eight hanging scrolls. (On display till Oct. 19.)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/08/19/music/musician-rory-viner-turns-japans-suicide-statistics-song/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suicide told through music: Rory Viner has composed a song for piano using statistics on suicide from the National Police Agency.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Idol worship: Necronomidol (from left: Henmi, Sari, Tachibana and Kakizaki) draws on themes of the occult for its aesthetic.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Risky business: Ena's new album, "Binaural," is packed with dancefloor experimentation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/10/28/music/2328-umbrellas-four-unicubs-one-drone-ok-go-brilliance/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[bts_01]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With the drone flying overhead, OK Go with school girls in tow, glide through the stadium courtyard.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2007/08/09/films/in-pursuit-of-intimacy/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[MOVIES]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Watching the world burn: Charlotte Gainsbourg, pictured here as Joe in "Nymphomania: Vol. II," plays central characters in the films of Lars von Trier's so-called depression trilogy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/10/29/films/film-reviews/nymphomaniac-vol-ii-overflowing-philosophy-digressions-religious-visions-sex-even-humor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-29T22:36:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/10/29/films/film-reviews/equalizer-like-argument-couple-married-long/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/10/29/films/film-reviews/dracula-untold-never-dracula-wielded-power-grand-scale/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/10/29/stage/millepieds-l-dance-project-arrives-triple-bill-disparate-delights/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-29T19:43:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/10/29/films/takeshi-kitano-blasts-domestic-film-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-29T19:48:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beyond outrage: Director and TV personality Takeshi Kitano took aim at the Japanese film industry at a recent talk event as part of the Tokyo International Film Festival.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/10/29/stage/high-drama-festivaltokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-30T11:20:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Table manners: Kathryn Hunter and Jared McNeill in "The Valley of Astonishment," a top draw at this year's Festival/Tokyo, where Sachio Ichimura is first among equals on the organizing committee.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/10/30/arts/looking-back-1964-japan-envisions-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-30T19:56:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Posters and possessions: (clockwise from far left): Poster for the "Paralympic, International Sports Competition for the Physically Disabled" (1964).]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/10/30/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/principles-art-genpei-akasegawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-30T19:57:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Genpei Akasegawa's "Impounded Objects: Works Wrapped in Model ¥1,000 Notes III (Bag)" (1963)]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/10/30/arts/openings-in-tokyo/japanese-artists-paris-part-1-1910s-30s-selected-collection/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-30T19:57:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seigoro Sawabe's "Studios of painters at Meudon" (1913)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/10/30/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/10th-anniversary-special-exhibition-japan-architects-1945-2010/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiyonori Kikutake's "Marin City" model (1963).]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[OK Go — (from left) Andy Ross, Damian Kulash, Tim Northwind and Dan Konopka — demonstrate their prowess with open umbrellas in Shibuya.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/10/31/music/review-zapp-at-billboard-live/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Raining money: Rie Miyazawa stars as Rike Umezawa, a bank teller turned adulterous embezzler in "Kami no Tsuki (Pale Moon)."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In demand: Author Fuminori Nakamura is currently undertaking a book tour in the United States in support of new novel "Last Winter, We Parted."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/11/05/films/queen-versailles-2/</loc>
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