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		<lastmod>2015-04-06T22:50:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Glorifying death: Members of the Los Bukanas de Culiacan music group, who write songs about the exploits of real-life members of Mexican drug cartels, pose on a street in Los Angeles.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sound travels: A still from the documentary film "KanZeOn," directed by Neil Cantwell and Tim Grabham, shows Eri Fujii playing a Japanese reed instrument called the shō .]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shout it out: Mayuko Hitotsuyanagi, aka Cuushe, has begun to perform her ethereal pop songs with unexpected gusto.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sartorial subterfuge: Yoshiko Kawashima poses for a photo beside her adoptive father, Naniwa Kawashima, a Japanese spy based in Manchuria.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kumakichi Shioya's "Yorozuya Town Kasa Hoko Dare, Octopus" (restoration 1848)   YOROSUYADORI-CHOKAI]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Installation view of "Voidoid" at Transmission, Glasgow (1999)   COURTESY OF JIM LAMBIE AND THE MODERN INSTITUTE/TOBY WEBSTER LTD, GLASGOW]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suzanne Valadon's "Nue debout et le chat" (1919)   COLLECTION PARTICULIERE]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Jingi Naki Tatakai" ("Battles Without Honor and Humanity")]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/15/music/3-d-world-nhk-yx-koyxens-abstract-techno/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-15T18:04:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sonic experiment: Kohei Matsunaga, aka NHK yx Koyxen, looks to destabilize the conventions of time and space in the electronic music he creates.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p22 maloney constitution-a 20150517]]></image:title>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p22 cozy marathon-a 20150517]]></image:title>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p22 donoghue runner-a 20150517]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Run for your life: A group of male runners participate in the 2015 Tokyo Marathon. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-16T19:04:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-16T19:06:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-tanaka-inoue-a-20150515.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staging a classic: Maya Inoue will bring her father's play "Chichi to Kuraseba" ("The Face of Jizo"), about survivors of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, to the Kinokuniya Southern Theater in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/13/films/gekixcine-raises-game-amami-goes-battle-man/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-18T16:39:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p11-geki-a-20150514.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under armor: Yuki Amami joins her samurai husband's fight against the aristocratic order in Geki×Cine's latest project, "Ao no Ran."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/07/films/film-reviews/acting-brings-magic-otherwise-flat-script/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-18T16:41:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-luxford-radcliffe-b-20150508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Macabre mystery: Daniel Radcliffe plays Ig Perrish, whose girlfriend (played by Juno Temple) is raped and murdered. Ig is the prime suspect but soon sets out to find the real killer.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-18T18:28:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Head-in-hole photo boards don't always feature humans or animals. This one, photographed in January at a temple in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, is based on a telephone. The face of photo cut-out aficionado Tomoyuki Shioya appears in the hole.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this 2012 file photo, Cindy Lee Garcia (right), one of the actresses in "Innocence of Muslims," and attorney M. Cris Armenta hold a news conference in Los Angeles asking a judge to issue an injunction demanding a 14-minute trailer for the film be pulled from YouTube. A federal appeals court on Monday, overturned an order for YouTube to take down the anti-Muslim film that sparked violence in the Middle East and death threats to actors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/19/arts/experience-mother-wisdom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-19T18:29:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suzanne Valadon's "Germaine Utter in front of her Window" (1926)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/19/arts/openings-in-tokyo/leonardo-da-vinci-battle-anghiari/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-19T18:28:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["The Fight for the Standard in the Battle of Anghiari (Tavola Doria)" (16th century) by an anonymous artist]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/19/arts/openings-in-tokyo/cy-twombly-fifty-years-works-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-19T18:27:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Petals of Fire" (1989)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/19/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/nobuaki-onishi-vacuum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-19T18:26:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/19/arts/seeing-beyond-jiro-takamatsus-shadows/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jiro Takamatsu's "Shadow" (1977)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/20/films/film-reviews/aikawas-brainless-fun-deadman-inferno/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-20T18:06:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/20/films/film-reviews/danish-filmmakers-emotional-queasy-second-chance/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/20/films/film-reviews/blomkamps-sentimental-chappie-comes-alive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-20T18:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/20/films/urban-planning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-21T12:08:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Inside Architecture — Dare mo Shiranai Kenchiku no Hanashi"]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/21/music/virtual-pop-idol-hatsune-miku-performs-first-live-show-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-21T16:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China girl: Animated character Hatsune Miku took part in the Meet in Beijing Arts Festival on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/21/films/short-shorts-film-festival-asia-searches-1-5000-movie/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-21T18:29:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man with a plan: Short Shorts Film Festival &amp; Asia director Seigo Tono says the competition is now offering a Southeast Asian category.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/21/films/must-see-list-long-short-shorts-film-fest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-22T02:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Long story short: "Master Hoa's Requiem" is an emotional story of a Vietnamese man's journey to America. Director Scott Edwards plans to extend the short into a full-length documentary.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-22T17:15:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-22T18:38:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/22/music/mono-guitarist-goto-revisits-past-compositions-classical-punk-echoes-beauty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-22T18:40:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Golden oldies: Takaakira Goto has released an album of tracks written 12 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/22/arts/tokyo-museum-exhibit-sex-art-breaking-shunga-taboo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-23T00:06:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/23/books/book-reviews/richard-brautigan-worships-japanese-women-sombrero-fallout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-23T22:40:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/23/books/book-reviews/tokyo-unsettling-take-foreigner-japan-trope/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-23T22:38:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p22 maloney tokyo-a 20150524]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/13/arts/contemporary-artists-find-career-springboard-london/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-23T18:21:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/22/music/budamunks-corner-makes-play-local-hip-hop-heads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-24T12:28:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Round the corner: Budamunk's "The Corner" features plenty of guest spots by Japanese rappers and the artist's own signature style of stripped down beats.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/23/books/daughters-samurai-changed-face-meiji-era-japan/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/05/26/stage/queens-tale-speaks-now/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Split personalities: Misuzu Kanno (left) and Miki Nakatani fill all five roles in Max Webster's "Mary Stuart."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bowl with pink stripes (c. 1980)]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-07T19:38:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking good: X Japan drummer Yoshiki poses with his wax figure (right) at the opening of Madame Tussaud's in Tokyo in May 2013. The musician announced Saturday that X Japan will release its first album in 20 years on March 11, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-08T18:02:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-08T18:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-08T18:18:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/08/films/mass-murder-sion-sono/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-08T19:22:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fan of Japanese cinema: Dylann Roof is escorted by police in a still image from a dash cam video.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/09/music/rock-group-vamps-go-linkin-park-madonna-babymetal-fantasy-festival-lineup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-09T19:15:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/09/films/japanese-winemaker-reflects-life-disaster-succinct-new-zealand-documentary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-09T20:57:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amber Easby and Henry Oliver raised more than NZ$7,000 to support "Kusuda," their documentary about a Japanese winemaker who runs a vineyard in New Zealand.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/10/entertainment-news/despite-protests-cosbys-walk-fame-star-stay-honors-scrutinized/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-10T07:53:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Earl Ofari Hutchinson (left) and Pedro Baez of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable call on the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to remove Bill Cosby's star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at a news conference in Los Angeles Thursday. They made the request after recently released court documents from a 2005 deposition in which Cosby acknowledged buying quaaludes to drug women he wanted to have sex with. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce released a statement saying it has never removed a star from the walk and will not do so in Cosby's case.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/06/05/tv/analysis-japanese-princess-eternal-struggle-left-handed-cm-week-uniqlo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-10T18:12:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/10/tv/gotham-gives-tv-audiences-glimpse-man-mask/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-10T18:21:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A good man is hard to find: Ben McKenzie plays James Gordon, the last good cop in Gotham City in the U.S. television series “Gotham.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/09/films/akiko-kikuchi-thinks-can-go-home-nostalgic-new-flick/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-10T19:54:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[You can go home again: Akiko Kikuchi plays Mari, a city girl who heads back to her country home in "Umi no Futa."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/10/tv/new-1960s-style-cop-drama-veteran-actors-playing-hard-boiled-detectives-cm-week-kewpie/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-10T23:12:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/11/books/book-reviews/cartographic-traditions-east-asian-maps-explores-uncharted-region-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-11T22:38:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/11/books/book-reviews/modernity-magical-realism-rural-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-11T22:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shape-shifting: This village in Yazu District, Tottori Prefecture, is much like the fictional one in "Red Girls," which suffers from an aging population and changing customs.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/04/books/book-reviews/yasunari-kawabatas-palm-hand-stories-taut-tales-human-heart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-13T13:24:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p24 braadbury palm-a 20150705]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/13/entertainment-news/singer-kyary-pamyu-pamyu-charms-audience-milan-expo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-13T14:43:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (center) performs during the Japan national day at the Expo Milano in Italy on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/14/entertainment-news/arizona-fan-wants-judy-garlands-stolen-ruby-slippers-returned-offers-1-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T06:26:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This 1996 file photo shows one of the four pairs of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" on display during a media tour of the "America's Smithsonian" traveling exhibition in Kansas City, Missouri. An anonymous donor has offered a $1 million reward for credible information leading to a pair of the sequined shoes that were stolen from a museum in her Minnesota hometown, Grand Rapids. The 10-year anniversary of the theft is in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/14/arts/pop-culture-show-may-bit-game/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T19:39:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The game plan: Installation view of "Manga * Anime * Games From Japan" at The National Art Center, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/14/arts/openings-in-tokyo/mot-collection-postwar-art-close/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T19:39:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tadanori Yokoo's "Anya Kouro: Double Darkness" (2001)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/14/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/war-postwar-prism-times/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T19:40:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon, No.7, Nippon Kobo (Cover design: Takashi Kono; cover photograph: Yonosuke Natori, 1936)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/14/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/japanese-painters-world-war-ii-survive-war/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shunsuke Matsumoto's "Standing Figure" (1942)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/14/music/traveling-world-group_inou-back-time-towa-tei/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T19:42:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/14/music/industrial-metal-act-godflesh-teams-daymare-tour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T19:43:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the flesh: Ben "G.C." Green and Justin Broadrick will bring their Godflesh project to Japan from July 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/11/books/book-reviews/lafcadio-hearns-timeless-anthology-ghost-tales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T23:36:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2000/07/07/music/save-the-last-dance-for-yokota/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-15T01:38:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Animated and frustrated: Director Hayao Miyazaki on Monday expressed concern about the current direction that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government is taking the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/15/films/film-reviews/walking-australian-outback-shirt-undies-looks-impossibly-beautiful/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-15T19:29:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/15/films/film-reviews/iranian-kurdish-film-rhino-season-poetic-tale-lust-loss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-15T19:29:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/16/entertainment-news/quizzed-cosby-obama-says-precedent-revoking-medal-calls-rape-intolerable/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-16T05:44:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House Wednesday. The president rejected the idea of revoking Bill Cosby's Presidential Medal of Freedom because of sexual misconduct allegations. Obama said there's no precedent or mechanism to take back the medal. He declined to talk about the specific allegations against Cosby because there are pending legal matters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/16/entertainment-news/conductor-seiji-ozawa-eagles-lucas-king-morena-tyson-honored-kennedy-center/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-16T18:31:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this Oct. 18, 2011, file photo, conductor Seiji Ozawa of Japan speaks at a news conference in Tokyo. A list of six Kennedy Center honorees were announced Wednesday, which includes "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, groundbreaking actresses Rita Moreno and Cicely Tyson, singer Carole King, rock band the Eagles and acclaimed music director Seiji Ozawa.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/16/general/dino-mite-summer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T18:07:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-gordenker-dinosaurs-a-20150717.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Are you sitting down for this?: The newly reopened dinosaur exhibit at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo presents Tyrannosaurus rex in a "sit" position, offering an up-close-and-personal view you won't see anywhere else in the world. The little guy in front is Citipati.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/18/general/project-anime-asks-right-questions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-21T12:34:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p20-kelts-culturesmash-b-20150719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Working together: Leaflets explaining various anime events and collaborations were handed out at the 2015 Project Anime Los Angeles conference, sponsored by the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/15/films/film-reviews/successor-hayao-miyazakis-throne-turns-shibuya-realm-beasts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-21T12:39:38+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/21/stage/new-troilus-cressida-looks-like-making-history/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-21T18:50:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-tanaka-troilus-a-20150722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Setup: Disreputable aristocrat Pandarus (Toru Watanabe, right) gloats after advising Troilus (Kenji Urai, left) how to seduce Cressida (Sonim).]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/07/21/stage/performing-arts-poised-bloom-etat-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-21T20:32:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-10T17:30:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/10/films/film-reviews/grim-universe-horror-manga-litchi-hikari-club/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-10T17:34:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/10/films/film-reviews/carol-shows-women-trapped-moral-confines-1950s-america/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-10T17:34:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/10/films/introducing-complex-refugee-experience-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-10T18:09:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Claudine Vinasithamby and Antonythasan Jesuthasan]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/10/entertainment-news/actor-ken-watanabe-early-stage-stomach-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-10T18:26:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cast member Ken Watanabe smiles at a private screening of "Memories of Tomorrow" in Beverly Hills, California in May 2007. Japanese actor Ken Watanabe, who was lauded in the recent Broadway revival of "The King and I," is fighting stomach cancer and will have to postpone plans to return to Broadway.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/07/music/melt-banana-fin-among-acts-gig-set-old-bathhouse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-11T13:10:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sound and vision: Ella Krivanek and Dorothy Siemens will host art and music event "The Bathhouse Show" this weekend.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/09/arts/drawing-film-highlight-hyperreality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-11T13:31:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masaharu Sato's "Tokyo Trace" (12-channel video, 2015-16)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/09/arts/dutch-painters-cut-canvas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-11T14:02:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Johannes Vermeer's "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher" (ca. 1662).]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/11/films/entering-mind-icon-steve-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-12T12:22:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Best man for the Jobs: Michael Fassbender plays Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in a biopic of the same name. The film is adapted from Walter Isaacson's best-selling biography, which was released after Jobs' death in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/12/tv/mysteries-slow-loris-explaining-u-s-presidential-election-cm-week-mister-donut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-12T19:01:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/11/films/film-reviews/apple-fans-get-fairly-good-origin-story/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-13T14:13:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the mind: Michael Fassbender plays "Steve Jobs" in a new biopic based on a best-selling biography of the late Apple co-founder.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/13/books/book-reviews/after-the-banquet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-13T22:36:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/13/books/book-reviews/monstrous-bodies-rise-uncanny-modern-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-13T22:34:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-13T22:42:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/16/entertainment-news/conductor-seiji-ozawa-wins-grammy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T17:29:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Conductor Seiji Ozawa won the Grammy Award for best opera recording Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/16/arts/zakka-goods-things/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T18:28:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeki Fujishiro's "An Examination of Zakka and Design"]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/16/arts/openings-in-tokyo/face-2016-sompo-japan-nipponkoa-art-award-exhibiton/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T18:27:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grand prize-winner Mika Endo's "Narcissus"]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/16/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/kazari-decoration-faith-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T18:26:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ito Jakuchu's "Birds, Animals, and Flowering Plants in Imaginary Scene" (1716-1800)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/16/arts/know-flowers-grow-english-royal-garden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T22:10:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sebastian Schedel's Lilium Martagon (Martagon Lily) and Centaurea nigra (Common Knapweed) from "Calendarium" (Early 17th century).]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/16/arts/takashi-murakami-collects-just-thoughts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T12:30:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takashi Murakami and his Superflat Collection]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/17/films/film-reviews/wrecking-crew-played-american-soundtrack-1960s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T18:06:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/17/films/tokyo-festival-alternative-visions-loaded-art-films/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T18:04:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shifting landscapes: Fujiko Nakaya, a Japanese “fog sculptor,” will be exhibiting one of her ephemeral works at the Yebisu International Festival for Art &amp; Alternative Visions 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/17/films/unbroken-opens-tokyo-complaints/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T18:02:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/17/films/film-reviews/sherlock-abominable-bride-leaps-off-bbc-cinemas-across-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T18:08:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/17/films/film-reviews/shell-collector-wields-healing-kind-poison/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T18:10:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/17/films/breaking-japanese-show-biz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T19:15:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p09 schilling idol-a 20160218]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[By any means: In Eiji Uchida’s new comedy, “Lowlife Love” (“Gesu no Ai”), Maya Okano’s heroine uses sex to pry open doors and climb to the top of the film industry on her own terms.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/19/arts/calligrapher-souun-takeda-spreads-healing-power-brush/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-19T14:54:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Different strokes: Calligrapher Souun Takeda shows off the tools of his trade in his atelier in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, where he teaches calligraphy to 300 students.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/01/16/books/ink-stained-road-age-adventure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-19T18:48:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tally ho: An unknown Western guest at the Grand Hotel in Yokohama circa 1900.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/12/19/books/ink-stained-road-age-innocence/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journeymen: Edo Era Japan was a dangerous place for foreign visitors, as can be seen from this plate in 'The Illustrated London News' from Oct. 12, 1861 captioned "The outrage on the British Embassy at Jeddo, Japan: Attack on Messrs. Oliphant and Morrison."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/19/music/cd-reviews/crunchs-blue-blue-blue-embraces-melancholy-true-indie-pop-style/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-19T19:17:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/19/music/cd-reviews/thing-gesu-no-kiwami-otome-guilty-padding-ryoseibai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-19T19:19:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/19/music/jesus-mary-chain-set-give-japan-taste-psychocandy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-19T19:23:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Like honey: Brothers William (left) and Jim Reid head back to Japan this week for two rescheduled gigs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/19/tv/beat-takeshi-uncovers-greatness-using-beef-for-bribery-cm-of-the-week-daiwa-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-19T19:37:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/19/stage/osaka-noh-theater-tapping-traditional-art-gain-new-followers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-19T19:45:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Noh news is good news: Men and women attend a noh session at a theater in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/20/books/book-reviews/japan-precarious-future-sobering-summary-looming-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-20T22:34:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/02/20/books/ink-stained-road-age-experience/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-20T22:38:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p22-mansfield-travel-a-20160221.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unique view: In the classic 1971 travelogue  "The Inland Sea," Donald Richie reflected on the island landscape of Japan's Seto Inland Sea and the changing culture of its residents.]]></image:caption>
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