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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Note that the trains on Tetsudonow actually move in accordance with their weekday timetables, so the map doesn’t reflect delays, stoppages or weekend schedules.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-29T19:08:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-29T20:40:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[When there were five: "Backbeat" tells the story of the  early days of The Beatles, when the band was playing in venues in Hamburg, Germany.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yellow fellow: Kengo Hioki, aka Peelander-Yellow, founded the band Peelander-Z in 1998 in the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/01/books/book-reviews/yokai-attack-review-japanese-creatures-go-bump-night/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/01/books/future-asian-crazy-rich-asians-infographics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-01T22:38:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unabashed swagger: In his new book, "The Future is Asian," Parag Khanna paints a picture of the Asian continent's stunning economic ascendency.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/02/general/japan-strikes-right-chord/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-02T15:22:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A life of music: Composer Chad Cannon during a recent visit to Shinjuku in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/05/30/music/rino-sashihara-can-one-idol-beat-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-02T18:09:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lone wolf: Rino Sashihara's departure from the AKB48 empire may see her fare better than the group going forward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/05/29/films/film-reviews/long-goodbye-taking-lighter-look-alzheimers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-04T13:21:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family solidarity: Ryota Nakano's "A Long Goodbye" looks at how one man deals with his worsening dementia and how his family copes with the change.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/04/arts/ryuji-miyamoto-looking-back-go-forward/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-04T17:59:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From "Lo Manthang 1996" (1996)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/04/arts/openings-in-tokyo/art-hayami-gyoshu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-04T17:58:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hayami Gyoshu's "Black Peonies" (1934)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/04/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/picture-books-book-design-theater-capek-brothers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-04T17:57:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Josef Capek (left) and Karel Capek）]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/04/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/who-opens-up-the-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-04T17:56:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Imi Knoebel's "DINI B1-B4" (1994)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/05/28/arts/openings-in-tokyo/plans-tokyo-2019-vol-2-sachiko-kazama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-04T17:36:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sachiko Kazama's "Dyslympics 2680" (2018)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/04/stage/royal-ballet-brings-best-british-ballet-japan-production-don-quixote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-04T18:46:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spanish influence: Ryoichi Hirano (center) plays the part of Espada the matador in "Don Quixote."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/12/17/books/love-obsession-perverted-desires-japans-age-steam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-05T11:18:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Edogawa Rampo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/05/films/japanese-filmmaker-debuts-parkland-school-shooting-documentary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-05T12:39:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Documenting grief: Japanese filmmaker Emily Taguchi (right) and student survivors]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/05/entertainment-news/ron-howard-frames-pavarotti-story-arias-new-documentary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-05T12:39:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti gestures during part of his round-the-world farewell tour concerts in Shanghai in 2005.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/05/books/noted-japanese-author-haruki-murakami-looks-back-40-years-literary-endeavors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-05T18:22:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruki Murakami holds a news conference at Waseda University in Tokyo last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/05/books/darkness-forgiveness-haruki-murakami-reflects-power-violence-world-literature/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-05T18:25:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man reaches out to take Haruki Murakami’s “Killing Commendatore” from a pile of books at a shop in Tokyo’s Kanda district in February 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/05/films/film-reviews/erica-38-rise-fall-true-con-artist/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Master of deceit: In Yuichi Hibi's "Erica 38," Miyoko Asada plays a 60-year-old woman posing as a 38-year-old in a bid to escape her former life as a con artist.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p15-kosaka-americanvillage-b-20190721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Touching base: Author Akemi Johnson spent a year living in Okinawa researching her new book, "Night in the American Village," out this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/04/24/tv/yoshimoto-seeks-laughs-and-profit-beyond-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-22T17:29:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20130424a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking abroad: Yoshimoto Kogyo president Hiroshi Osaki intends to make his company's second century as prosperous as its first.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/06/tv/japans-king-comedy-yoshimoto-kogyos-hiroshi-osaki-expands-realm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-22T17:42:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-hernon-yoshimoto-c-20190607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keep 'em laughing: Hiroshi Osaki, CEO of Yoshimoto Kogyo, says he wants to expand his entertainment business into Asia, Africa and the Middle East in the near future.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2011/11/27/general/yoshimoto-kogyo-new-star-creation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-22T20:23:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20111127x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alumni news: Graduates from NSC's schools in Tokyo and Osaka are prominent on TV variety shows in Japan, including "Gyoretsu no Dekiru Horitsu Sodanjo" ("The Law Office that People Queue Up For"), which airs from 9 p.m. on Sunday on NTV (above). The show stars Hiroyuki Miyasako (right; class of '88), Terumoto Goto (back right; '94) and Junichi Komoto (back, second from left; '94). Below: NSC students get into the rhythm during a recent "dance" class.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/21/tv/eating-king-kobayashi-bites-back-new-documentary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T02:28:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-mckirdy-koyayashi-a-20190722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Competitor eater Takeru Kobayashi is the face of the carrot dog, a new vegetarian hot dog created by Chloe.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/23/arts/art-play-japans-history-fun/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T17:59:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/p10-hammond-play-a-20190724.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-hammond-play-a-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Unsun Playing Cards on Gold Ground" (17th century)]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/23/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/summer-mononoke-specters-ghosts-yokai-edo-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T17:58:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-outside-yokai-a-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Utagawa Kuniyoshi's "Ghost of Executed Asakura Togo Tormenting Lord Orikoshi Masatomo" from the kabuki play "Higashiyama Sakura Soshi" (1851)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/23/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/sandra-binion-distille/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T17:57:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-outside-binion-a-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Spent Sunflower Field"]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/20/arts/embracing-life-death-reborn-art-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T12:59:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[c-smith-reborn-a-20190620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Culture curator: Takeshi Kobayashi founded the Reborn-Art Festival in response to the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/17/films/film-reviews/bed-sleeping-enemy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T17:52:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-hadfield-underyourbedrev-a-20190718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[What lies beneath: Kengo Kora plays against type as a loner who sneaks into the house of an old flame in Mari Asato's creepy "Under Your Bed."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/03/films/film-reviews/strawberry-song-reuniting-sweet-sorrow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T17:52:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-hadfield-strawberrysongrev-a-20190704.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Star-crossed: Kota (Yutaro Furutachi) makes the most of a chance reunion with former crush Chika (Shizuka Ishibashi) in "Strawberry Song."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/24/films/film-reviews/girl-missing-can-run-cant-hide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T20:13:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/p10-schilling-yokogaorev-a-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-schilling-yokogaorev-a-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Behind the mask: Mariko Tsutsui delves into the darkness as Risa and Ichiko in Koji Fukada's "A Girl Missing."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/24/music/tempalay-pledges-put-show-fuji-rock/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-25T14:03:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/p10-stmichel-tempalay-a-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-stmichel-tempalay-a-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Outside the box: Amy Furuhara, Ryoto Ohara and Natsuki Fujimito have embraced new instruments on Tempalay's latest release.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/24/music/prepared-heading-naeba-fuji-rock/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-25T14:36:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/p14-samuels-fujipreview-a-20180727.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p14-samuels-fujipreview-a-20180727.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The great migration: Festivalgoers move between stages at the memorably sunny edition of Fuji Rock Festival in 2016.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/25/stage/bringing-opera-tokyo-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-25T15:17:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/p11-iuchi-opera-b-20190726.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p11-iuchi-opera-b-20190726.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rousing: "Turandot" is visiting locations in Japan ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/25/music/chemical-brothers-formula-success-love-fuji-rock/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-25T16:47:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/p12-curran-chemicalbrothers-a-20190726.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-curran-chemicalbrothers-a-20190726.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chain reaction: Ed Simons (left) and Tom Rowlands started out as 237 Turbo Nutters, before changing their name to The Dust Brothers and finally The Chemical Brothers.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/25/music/fuji-rock-live-stream-festival-acts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-26T12:35:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/c-allen-fujistream-a-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[c-allen-fujistream-a-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking it easy: For those who can't get to Fuji Rock, some of the acts, including some headliners, will have their sets live streamed.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/23/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/courage-in-transience/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-26T12:37:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/p10-outside-air-a-20190724.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-outside-air-a-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gianfranco Foschino's video installation "Fireland #1" (2015)]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/27/music/live-fuji-rock-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-27T14:06:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_4559.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[IMG_4559.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Janelle Morae at the Fuji Rock Festival, taking place at the Naeba ski report in Niigata.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/27/books/book-reviews/pink-samurai-resolving-paradoxes-japans-appetite-sex/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-27T22:36:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-mansfield-pinksamurai-a-20190728.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/27/books/china-japan-facing-off-across-aeons-two-giants-east-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-27T22:38:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/p18-gattig-chinajapan-a-20190728.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-gattig-chinajapan-a-20190728.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mediator: With his new book "China and Japan: Facing History," scholar Ezra Vogel highlights some of the moments of goodwill between two China and Japan, countries he describes as having a "tense, dangerous, deep and complicated" relationship.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/23/stage/capturing-haruki-murakamis-eccentric-atmosphere/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T17:55:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/image2.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p10 tanaka afterthequake-c 20190724]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Multitalented:  Yuki Furukawa stars as Junpei in “After the Quake,” but also takes on narration duties for the performance. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/23/general/miyavi-mission-change-japans-tune-refugees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T12:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/c-kyodo-miyavi-a-20190723.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[c-kyodo-miyavi-a-20190723.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guitar hero: Miyavi balances his music with fatherhood and his work with refugees in different countries around the world.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/30/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/reborn-art-festival-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T17:58:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/p10-outside-reborn-a-20190731.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-outside-reborn-a-20190731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kohei Nawa's "White Deer (Oshika)"]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/30/arts/openings-in-tokyo/tokyo-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T17:57:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/p10-tokyo-toda-a-20190731.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-tokyo-toda-a-20190731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Fujimoto's installation "Genbaku/Phantom Bomb" (2017). "Genbaku" 	here uses the Chinese (not Japanese) characters to mean "Phantom Bomb."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/30/arts/openings-in-tokyo/legendary-kyoto-painting-maruyama-okyo-modern-era/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T17:56:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-tokyo-maruyama-a-20190731.jpg]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/10/entertainment-news/johnny-kitagawa-mogul-defined-controlled-japans-entertainment-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T15:23:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-johnnyinfluence-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-johnnyinfluence-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The front pages of Japan's daily newspapers covering the death of talent manager Johnny Kitagawa on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/31/films/film-reviews/melancholic-cleaning-tub-brings-dirtier-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T19:13:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-schilling-melancholicrev-a-20190801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dirty work: A job in a neighborhood bathhouse soon leads to more unpleasant duties for the socially awkward Kazuhiko (right) in Seiji Tanaka's "Melancholic."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/31/films/spider-verse-director-peter-ramsey-extols-virtues-good-bit-animation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T20:56:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-shoji-ramsey-a-20190801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anime lover: Peter Ramsey says he has taken inspiration from Japanese anime films, and also the complexity and range in the way in which they are crafted.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/30/arts/joan-miro-assassination-painting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T15:39:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-larking-miro-a-20190731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Head and Bird" (1971)]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/30/stage/diving-world-political-performance-aichi-triennale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T15:42:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-aichi-eglinton-a-20190731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lost youth: Some of the Aichi Triennale's productions tackle tough topics such as the murder of young girls in Belgium in the 1990s, as told in "Five Easy Pieces."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/27/books/book-reviews/waste-consuming-postwar-japan-japans-approach-waste-trash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T16:52:32+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/31/music/fuji-rock-festival-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T17:04:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Goth legend: Robert Smith led The Cure for the band's Sunday headline set on the main stage.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/31/music/fuji-rock-international-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T17:04:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-smith-fujirock-sidebar-a-20190801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Khruangbin]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pop diplomacy: K-pop act Stray Kids are facing increasing pressure not to perform in Japan due to an ongoing spat between that country and South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/12/films/naked-director-japan-scores-global-netflix-hit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T20:13:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p11-schilling-nakeddirector-a-20190913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking the lead: Toru Muranishi's top adult video actress, Kaoru Kuroki, is played by Misato Morita in "The Naked Director"]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/12/stage/bringing-japanese-opera-21st-century/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T13:28:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/p12-iuchi-ono-a-20190913.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-iuchi-ono-a-20190913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A life of music: Kazushi Ono first conducted in public at the age of 11.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/14/books/mimei-ogawa-father-modern-japanese-childrens-literature/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-14T22:34:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/p18-kosaka-mimeiogawa-a-20190915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-kosaka-mimeiogawa-a-20190915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mimei Ogawa]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/14/books/world-class-education-looks-like-doesnt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-14T22:57:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-odonoghue-worldclass-a-20190915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Anti-helicopter" parent: In Teru Clavel's new book "World Class," she charts her family's journey around the world in search for the best possible education of her children, comparing the school systems in Japan, China, Hong Kong and the United States.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/17/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/shiga-kinbi-art-spot-project-vol-2-symbiosis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-17T20:20:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-outside-taisanji-a-20190918.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yui Inoue's "Look at the Sea" (2011)]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/17/stage/taking-classic-musical-west-side-story-new-heights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-18T11:57:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-tanaka-westsidestory-a-20190918.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Something's coming: The production of "West Side Story" features a Broadway cast first, before a Japanese cast takes over on Nov. 6.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/17/arts/enlightening-buildup-viennese-modernism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-18T11:58:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/p10-larking-vienna-a-20190918.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-larking-vienna-a-20190918.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gustav Klimt's "Pallas Athene" (1898)]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/17/arts/openings-in-tokyo/shigeo-toya-body-gaze/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-18T12:49:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-tokyo-toya-b-20190918.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Installation view of "Body of the Gaze" (2019)]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/17/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/masterpieces-musee-de-lorangerie-jean-walter-paul-guillaume-collection/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-18T13:48:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/0918-outside-orangerie-a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[0918-outside-orangerie-a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Claude Monet’s “Argenteuil” (1875)]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/18/films/film-reviews/liberty-fields-short-duration-lacking-nothing-emotion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-18T19:36:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-shoji-libertyfieldsrev-a-20190919.png]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/18/films/film-reviews/hello-world-kyoto-youve-never-seen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-18T19:39:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-schley-helloworld-a-20190919.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young love: The beautiful CG and well-written characters, such as Ruri and Naomi, in "Hello World" do much to offset its complicated storyline.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/18/films/scoring-try-gender-barriers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-19T12:44:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-shoji-libertyfields-a-20190919.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stars of the scrum: Liberty Fields was the first women's rugby squad in Japan when it launched in the late 1980s.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/18/films/film-reviews/no-longer-human-biopic-no-decent-biography/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-19T12:46:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-schilling-nolongerhumanrev-a-20190919.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Literary libertine: Japanese author Osamu Dazai is played by Shun Oguri in "No Longer Human," which focuses on the author's sexual trysts.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/20/films/telling-story-japanese-rugbys-miracle-match/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-20T12:08:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[c-schilling-brightonmiracle-a-20190920.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The right direction: Director Max Mannix (right) says Temuera Morrison was perfect for the starring role in "The Brighton Miracle," due in part to his passing resemblance to former Japan rugby coach Eddie Jones.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/19/stage/taking-hip-hop-dancing-japan-continent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-20T17:50:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/p12-tanaka-reina-a-20190920.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-tanaka-reina-a-20190920.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the move: Kaneko regularly travels around Japan and Asia to deliver classes and workshops.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/08/09/tv/terrace-house-tokyo-ep-11-broccoli-pasta-carbonara-style/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-20T18:40:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[c-smith-thrcep11-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dodgy debut: Shohei prepares for an appearance in a soft porn "pink" film.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/13/tv/terrace-house-tokyo-ep-15-a-mans-worth-is-determined-by-his-job/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-20T18:41:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New man in town: Manga illustrator Giuseppe "Peppe" Durato makes his entrance on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/06/tv/terrace-house-tokyo-ep-14-just-moment-please/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-20T18:42:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[c-hanaway-threcap14-a-20190906.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sweet sorrow: Kenny (left) receives a tight hug from roommate Ruka before his departure from "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/08/30/tv/terrace-house-tokyo-ep-13-all-or-nothing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-20T18:42:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One last song: Kenny serenades his love interest at a live gig on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/08/16/tv/terrace-house-tokyo-ep-12-always-chillin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-20T18:43:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sweet surprise: Kaori beams as her housemates throw a birthday party for her on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/20/tv/ep-16-orange-flavor-first-kiss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-20T18:44:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flavor of love: Peppe (right) recounts the memory of his first kiss to Haruka on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/08/02/tv/terrace-house-tokyo-ep-10-the-boy-that-gets-treated/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-20T18:46:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unlikely pairing: Ruka and Kaori put their 8-year age gap to one side and enjoy a dinner date together.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/26/tv/terrace-house-ep-9-girlfight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-20T18:46:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Less than impressed: Haruka's mood boils over after Risako blabs about her feelings for Kenny.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/05/tv/terrace-house-ep-7-woman-to-treat-and-woman-to-split-the-check/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-20T18:47:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Object of affection: Kaori has suddenly found herself in the firing line of cupid's arrows after Ruka had an epiphany.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/05/tv/terrace-house-ep-6-the-grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fun with the top down: Ruka and Haruka take the convertible car out for a date on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/21/tv/terrace-house-ep-5-reiwa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-20T18:48:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speed demon: Haruka gets hearts racing on and off the drag strip on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/07/tv/terrace-house-ep-4-i-want-to-be-a-hero/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-20T18:49:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Poker face: Risako (right) tries to play it cool as she puts herself in Ruka's hands, getting him to pierce her ear on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/04/tv/terrace-house-ep-3-dreamed-of-her/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-20T18:49:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Good egg: Kaori (left) and Shohei get friendly on their date over bowls of "tamagokake-gohan" on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/06/04/tv/terrace-house-ep-2-tempura-incident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-20T18:50:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sweet duet: Kenny (left) and Haruka share a romantic moment on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/21/books/book-reviews/swords-silence-hidden-christians-vengeful-daimyo-miracles-thrown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-21T22:34:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/21/books/paper-houses-loving-one-half-%e2%80%a8country-detesting-the-other/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-22T17:39:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-james-plomer-b-20190922.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Say noh to war: Author William Plomer lived in Japan for 2½ years in the 1920s, during which he developed a complex relationship with the country, loving its theater and cultural achievements but hating the rising tide of nationalism.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/24/stage/kyoto-experiment-marks-end-era/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-24T18:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Counting crows: Bouchra Ouizguen's "Corbeaux" is just one of the many overseas productions to be staged at Kyoto Experiment.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/24/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/okayama-art-summit-2019-snake/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Untitled" (2003) by Fernando Ortega]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-24T17:56:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-tran-reading-a-20191009.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Left to right: An image from Rinko Kawauchi's series "Illuminance" (2009) and Tomoko Yoneda's "Kobo Abe's Glasses-Viewing the Manuscript of 'The Box Man,' From "Between Visible and Invisible" (2013)]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-10-10T18:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-hadfield-skapara-a-20191011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Last gang in town: Opting not to have a leader, all nine members of Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra contribute to the band's songwriting efforts and decision-making.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/08/entertainment-news/film-great-cate-blanchett-decries-heartbreaking-plight-stateless/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-09T11:54:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[UNHCR goodwill ambassador and actress Cate Blanchett and formerly stateless refugee Maha Mamo (left) pose with passports after a news conference during a High-Level Segment on Statelessness, part of the UNHCR's Executive Committee meeting, at the United Nations in Geneva Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-10-09T12:25:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Not all black and white: Pianist Hiromi Uehara says her latest solo album, "Spectrum," is themed around ideas of color.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/09/films/film-reviews/truth-kore-eda-effortlessly-crosses-borders/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family ties: Hirokazu Kore-eda's "The Truth" sees Juliette Binoche and Catherine Deneuve battling it out as a dysfunctional mother and daughter.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/09/films/film-reviews/blue-sky-testing-limits-successful-formula/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-09T17:58:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tried and tested: "Her Blue Sky" marks the third time its creators have set a film in the rustic city of Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/09/music/hothouse-flowers-enjoying-freedom-comes-fame/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-09T19:56:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-brasor-hothouse-a-20191010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Still blooming: Hothouse Flowers' Peter O'Toole, Liam O Maonlai and  Fiachna O Braonain will play a series of live shows in Japan later in October.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/10/films/quality-high-short-shorts-autumn-screening-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-11T00:24:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p11-schilling-shortshorts-a-20191011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Half a world away: Kai Hasson's "Robu" finds an American teen scouring Tokyo for an elusive volume of manga for his father.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/13/general/george-takei-hopes-manga-internment-reaches-u-s-youths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-13T18:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Remembering the past: Actor George Takei, at his home in Los Angeles, talks about his family's experience at internment camps in the U.S. during World War II.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/12/books/family-masahisa-fukase/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-14T14:46:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/14/entertainment-news/martin-scorsese-says-wanted-enrich-past-robert-de-niro-work-irishman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-14T15:03:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Director Martin Scorsese and flanking cast members Al Pacino (left) and Robert De Niro arrive for the screening of "The Irishman" during the 2019 BFI London Film Festival at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-10-15T18:59:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chikako Yamashiro's "Chinbin Western: Representation of the Family" (2019)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/15/arts/openings-in-tokyo/habsburg-dynasty-600-years-imperial-collections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-15T18:58:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ottavio Vannini's "Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well" (c. 1626-27)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/15/arts/openings-in-tokyo/words-place-objects-make-us-fly-off-unknown-places/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-15T18:57:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/15/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/shiro-matsui-far-close/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-15T18:56:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/15/music/boy-no-longer-kid-reid-come-age/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/11/films/hirokazu-kore-eda-talks-politics-japan-flexes-movie-muscle-busan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-16T23:48:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Movie magic: Hirokazu Kore-eda was named Asian filmmaker of the year at the Busan International Film Festival.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/17/music/pianist-nobuyuki-tsujii-sets-bar-high-new-concert-series/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-17T16:08:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A part of him: Nobuyuki Tsuijii describes the piano, which he has played since he was an infant, as being  part of his body.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/17/general/japans-beyonce-makes-mark-nations-influencers-revealed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-17T17:05:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tidy life: Marie Kondo (right) shot to fame by dispensing decluttering advice through her "KonMari" method.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/19/books/naoko-takeuchi-sailor-moons-strong-willed-guardian-girls-manga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-19T22:34:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/16/films/film-reviews/promised-land-zezes-latest-far-heaven-sent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-24T19:57:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/16/films/film-reviews/special-actors-ueda-fumbles-sophomore-feature/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-10-24T20:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-hadfield-specialactorsrev-a-20191017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On with the show: An ensemble of no-name performers does its best to enliven "Special Actors," Shinichiro Ueda's follow-up to "One Cut of the Dead."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/01/15/general/100-years-of-japanese-beauty-in-one-minute/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-02T15:52:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At the end of the Meiji Period, nihongami (traditional bundled hairstyle) was still popular but was mixed with the pompadour look that many women were wearing at the time in Europe. In terms of makeup, ochoboguchi (small lip) style was preferred as women only painted inside their natural lip line.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/08/21/arts/japan-celebrates-the-gifs-that-keep-on-giving/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-02T15:56:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/01/11/films/godzilla-returns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-03T16:31:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Monster on the loose: Godzilla destroyed much of Tokyo during its rampage through the capital in the original 1954 movie.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/12/03/general/japans-top-10-buzzwords-for-2012/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T00:41:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's top 10 buzzwords for 2012]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/16/books/keiko-sena-whimsical-books-hint-horror/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T22:34:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/16/books/forty-seven-samurai-paradoxical-account-bloody-revenge-haiku-poetry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T22:36:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-flanagan-47samurai-a-20191117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A warrior's graveyard: Tokyo's Sengakuji temple is known to be the place of burial for the 47 ronin, whose actions are written about here by author Hiroaki Sato.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/14/entertainment-news/90-artist-yayoi-kusama-plans-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-balloon-new-york-installation/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/15/entertainment-news/robert-de-niro-get-lifetime-achievement-award-actor-union/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cast member Robert De Niro arrives for the screening of "The Irishman" during the 2019 BFI London Film Festival at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/15/tv/queer-eye-takes-peek-japan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spreading the love: Now streaming on Netflix, "Queer Eye: We're in Japan!" sees the Fab Five work with some of Japan's leading influencers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/14/tv/queer-eye-mini-series-shows-individualistic-side-japan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dressed to impress: The five stars of "Queer Eye" took on four "heroes" who were in need of some life guidance during their trip to Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-schilling-hewontkillrev-a-20191114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wrong number: Hinako Sakurai and Shotaro Mamiya play two outsiders with an attraction to the dark side in "He Won't Kill, She Won't Die."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:28:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-hadfield-journalistrev-a-20191114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thwarted: Isoko Mochizuki's attempts to grill Japan's high and mighties make up the backbone of Tatsuya Mori's critique of Japanese news media.   © 2019 "i: Documentary of The Journalist"]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/13/arts/openings-in-tokyo/mina-perhonen-minagawa-akira-tsuzuku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:28:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-larking-okyo-b-20191113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maruyama Okyo's "Sketches Hand Scrolls (Scroll 1)" (1771-72), an Important Cultural Property]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-tokyo-carnival-b-20191113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shintaro Miyake's "Traveling Carnival" (2019)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/13/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/the-covered-finger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rendered detail of a new artwork by Daisuke Ida (2019)]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kicking the 9-to-5: Hiroko Oyamada's "The Factory" is an indictment of contemporary Japanese work culture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man of mystery: Little has been revealed about "Dr. Hoffmann's Sanatorium," other than that it looks at the fictional discovery of a fourth novel by author Franz Kafka.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[To infinity and beyond: Yayoi Kusama's underdog story, which saw her deal with racism and sexism, inspired Heather Lenz's film.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Monthly visitor: As cute as the personification of Aoko's period might look, the visitor proves to be an unwelcome one in "Little Miss Period."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/06/stage/theatre-e9-kyoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Independent art: "Palace of the Senses," directed by Satoshi Ago, is one play to have been staged at E9 through its championing of local theater companies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/06/arts/shiseido-gallery-jay-chung-q-takeki-maeda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/06/arts/openings-in-tokyo/scale-puzzle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masumi Nakaoka's "Still Life Press#1" (2019)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/06/arts/openings-in-tokyo/man-god-nature-ancient-world-masterpieces-al-thani-collection/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/03/general/u-s-anime-market-matures-2019/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Afro Samurai" saw teams from Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. come together to create an animated mini-series.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/31/entertainment-news/attraction-featuring-full-scale-godzilla-replica-launch-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Produce 101 Japan" started with 101 aspiring pop performers trying to prove they deserved a spot in a new 11-member group.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Director Roland Emmerich arrives at the premiere of his film "Independence Day: Resurgence" in Hollywood, California, in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/30/films/film-reviews/first-supper-old-fashioned-look-family-unit/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/29/arts/scrolls-keep-immortal-poets-truly-alive/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Koogimi from The Thirty-Six Immortal Poets, Satake Version" an Important Cultural Property (13th century), attributed to Fujiwara no Nobuzane, inscription attributed to Gokyogoku Yoshitsune. On view Nov. 6-24)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/29/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/aono-fumiaki-mono-sleeping-koejiyama-voice/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/29/arts/openings-in-tokyo/reading-nihonga-color-kaiis-blue-gensos-red/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kaii Higashiyama's "End of the Year" (1968)]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/24/films/ang-lee-filmmaker-decades-ahead-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:29:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Movie magician: Ang Lee (right) is pioneering films of a quality beyond the capacity of most cinemas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/23/films/film-reviews/no-smoking-poking-embers-haruomi-hosonos-career/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:30:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Breaking the habit: The 50-year career of musician Haruomi Hosono (second from right) is documented with little flair in "No Smoking."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:30:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Losing streak: Suzuki Matsuo both directs and stars in his latest feature, playing a bitter man out for revenge.  © 2019 "108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba" Production Committee]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:30:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dancing in the dark: Kuroneko Burlesque mixes comedy and satire, along with dance routines such as pole dancing, into its shows in Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/22/arts/glitz-glamour-liechtensteins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:30:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/22/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/works-architect-shizutaro-urabe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:30:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:30:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-gattig-beginnersjapan-a-20191020.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inside outsider: Despite living in Japan for over three decades, author Pico Iyer nurtures an apartness that he believes enhances his own dialogue with the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-18T11:01:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Issa (front row, third from right), lead singer of Da Pump, speaks Wednesday at a news conference held at NHK in Tokyo, where the public broadcaster announced the lineup for its annual New Year's Eve live music program.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[News about the break-up of popular pop band SMAP at the end of this month is seen on a TV screen at an electronics store in Tokyo's Shinbashi district last January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/15/music/da-pump-arashi-twice-among-lineup-70th-kohaku-uta-gassen-music-show/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/02/books/critics-favorite-japanese-books-decade/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/07/general/japan-mascots-soft-power/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mascot nation: From a bear with an apple on its head to an otter with anger issues, the past decade has seen mascots deployed with fantastic results for the areas and regions struggling with declining populations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/07/general/animals-stripes-spots-found-15-minutes-fame-2010s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T15:35:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zoo nation: After a photo of a dog named Kabosu found its way onto the internet, a meme was born. This past decade saw many other animals gain viral status in Japan, including (from left) a panda at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, hamster backsides and a rather handsome gorilla named Shabani.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/13/films/japan-anime-miyazaki-ghibli-shinkai/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/14/films/japans-decade-closed-country-cinema/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boom and bust: While box-office figures went up in Japan in the 2010s, even the biggest movies seemed to be thinking small.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/15/music/scandal-stellar-sales-akb48-dominated-decade/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heavy rotation: AKB48 was ubiquitous throughout Japan in the 2010s. Whether it was the members' faces plastered across train ads or guest spots in films and on TV, there really was no escaping them.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/20/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/itsukushima-art-hiroshima-hiroshige/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/20/arts/yukinori-yanagi-resurrecting-akitsushima/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo drifter: Alicia Vikander gives a convincing linguistic performance as a translator suspected of murder in Wash Westmoreland's "Earthquake Bird."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/21/films/juliette-binoche-theres-something-present-thats-real/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanophile: Actress Juliette Binoche says the three Japanese directors she has worked with all have very different styles.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Show me the money: Yoshihiro Nakamura's "The 47 Ronin in Debt" tries to humanize a familiar samurai story with period financial figures.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Small Arbitrator" (1956)]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-06T16:32:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/06/tv/marie-kondo-face-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-06T16:33:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Omnipresent: This year saw Marie Kondo catapulted from fame in Japan to becoming a household name overseas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/07/books/childrens-book-author-mitsumasa-anno-pictures-speak-louder-words/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/07/books/japans-infamous-unit-731-testament-worst-human-experimentation/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Witness: Former Unit 731 nurse Akama Masako speaks at an exhibition held on Unit 731 in Osaka in 1994.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-odonoghue-hopkins-a-20191211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the record: Kato David Hopkins uses his Happy Hour to tell stories of some of Japan's lesser-known artists.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/11/entertainment-news/homeless-santa-banksy-reindeer-mural-goes-viral-amid-rough-sleeping-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-11T14:01:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-banksanta-a-20191212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man lies on a bench next to a new mural by Banksy in Birmingham, England, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/12/films/film-reviews/tora-san-wish-film-favorite-lovingly-remembered/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-12T11:59:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-schilling-torasanrev-a-20191212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Homecoming: Hidetaka Yoshioka reprises his role as the nephew of Kiyoshi Atsumi's Tora-san in the 50th anniversary installment of the "Tora-san" series.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/11/arts/mina-perhonen-fashion-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-12T12:48:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-yamada-perhonen-a-20191211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Mina Perhonen / Minagawa Akira: Tsuzuku" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/12/music/free-jazz-veteran-yosuke-yamashita-marks-50-years-trios-reckless-playing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-12T19:07:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-hadfield-yamashita-a-20191212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Musical crossover: Yosuke Yamashita's free jazz trio aimed at an audience beyond the avant-garde scene, and was embraced by rock and folk fans.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/12/entertainment-news/japanese-actor-tatsuo-umemiya-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-12T19:38:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-umemiya-a-20191213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actor and TV personality Tatsuo Umemiya (center), pictured in December 2017 in Tokyo, died Thursday at the age of 81.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/13/music/sending-paprika-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-13T15:32:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p14-stmichel-foorin-a-20191213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Best of friends: (From left) Foorin's Ririko, Takeru, Moeno, Chise and Hyuga, and Foorin team E's Clara, Corban, Len, Jasmine and Evangeline warmed up for this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen" with an appearance at the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union Television Song Festival.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/14/books/book-reviews/zen-japanese-culture-astute-explainer-japans-spiritual-aesthetics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T22:34:31+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/14/books/book-reviews/mature-woman-truth-squares-off-corrupt-japanese-establishments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T22:36:24+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/14/books/big-sister-little-sister-red-sister-three-sisters-bear-witness-chinas-raucous-20th-century/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T22:56:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-gattig-biglittlered-a-20191215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family matters: In "Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister," historian Jung Chang tells the story of three of the most prominent women in 20th-century China.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/02/08/films/the-movie-exposing-the-lies-at-the-heart-of-u-s-capitalism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-16T18:57:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130209z1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fighting for the 99 percent: Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich speaks to Occupy San Francisco demonstrators at Justin Herman Plaza on Oct. 19, 2011. Now teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, Reich blames anti-union legislation and market deregulation for the yawning chasm that has grown between America's wealthy and middle class since the late 1970s.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/17/arts/expression-stifled-safety-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T14:54:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-tran-art-censorship-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sitting in silence:  Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung's "Statue of a Girl of Peace," kicked off the biggest art controversy of 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/19/tv/japanese-television-2019-relied-heavily-tried-tested-formulas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-19T14:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-stmichel-tv2019-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New era: Events relating to the enthronement of Emperor Naruhito dominated the airwaves for much of the year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/20/stage/year-musicals-took-japanese-stages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-20T11:30:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-tanaka-stage2019-a-20191220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mixed year: Away from musicals, the high points of 2019 came from plays such as Hideto Iwai's "Sekai wa Hitori," which tells the story of twists and turns in the lives of three school friends.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/19/films/2019-saw-just-glimmers-hope-otherwise-mediocre-year-film/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-20T11:37:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-schilling-film2019-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lesser-known:  The year's best film offerings came from under-the-radar productions, such as Seiji Tanaka's "Melancholic" and Koji Fukada's "A Girl Missing."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/02/06/tv/life-bachelor-japan-one-got-away/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-20T15:26:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Single-minded: Nanako Oguchi (center) fought off stiff competition to place second on the second series of “The Bachelor Japan.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/21/stage/review-nutcracker-mouse-king-new-national-theatre-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-21T13:40:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Caught in a flurry: The corps de ballet of the New National Theatre, Tokyo, performs a magical snow scene from "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/21/books/book-reviews/real-japanese-izakaya-cookbook-everyday-japanese-favorites-rousing-night/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-21T22:34:30+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/21/books/book-reviews/four-major-plays-chikamatsu-japans-shakespeare-sheds-light-common-man/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-21T22:36:36+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/21/tv/terrace-house-ep-26-internationalization-at-once/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-21T16:26:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arrivederci: Peppe (left) says goodbye to the housemates during his last day on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/21/books/pine-islands-no-ordinary-death-enough-two-misfit-souls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-21T22:53:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-mansfield-pineislands-a-20191222.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pine islands: In Marion Poschmann's new novel, German Gilbert Silvester follows haiku poet Matsuo Basho's route to the rugged coast of Matsushima.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/20/films/takashi-miike-show-softer-side-macao-film-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-22T09:06:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-schilling-macaofilm-a-20191220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Significant departure: In contrast to Takashi Miike's other films, "First Love" focuses on love and relationships.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/23/entertainment-news/rise-skywalker-debuts-374-million-recent-star-wars-films/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T20:02:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Star Wars robots R2-D2 and BB8 and droids C3P0 and D-0 pose as they attend the premiere of "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" in London Dec. 18.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/25/films/2019-japan-anime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T15:06:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-schley-anime2019-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Water world: 2019 saw "Children of the Sea," "Ride Your Wave" and "Weathering With You" cut through any creative dry spell anime may have had in the past two years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/26/music/2019-japan-music-community/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-26T11:20:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-hadfield-altmusic2019-a-20191226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Socially aware: Gezan, led by frontman Mahito The People, was at the forefront of independent community gigs and festivals in 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/24/entertainment-news/netflix-decade-one-company-changed-way-watch-tv/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T20:47:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-netflix-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo of Netflix, the American provider of on-demand internet streaming media, is seen in Paris in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/25/entertainment-news/director-urges-bollywood-stars-break-silence-citizenship-law-violence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T20:48:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bollywood-a-20191226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators shout slogans and hold placards as they arrive at the venue of a protest against a new citizenship law, in Mumbai Dec. 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/26/music/japan-music-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-26T15:31:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/p9-stmichel-music2019-a-20191226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-stmichel-music2019-a-20191226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shifting styles: 2019's pop scene  was dominated by singer-songerwriters such as Aimyon and rock acts like Official Hige Dandism.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/27/tv/pucker-years-kohaku-brace-kiss-remember/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-27T11:25:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-allen-kohaku-a-20191227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supergroup: X Japan's Yoshiki (center) will join (from left) Eric Singer, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley and Tommy Thayer to perform as Yoshikiss.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/27/general/video-games-2019-year-death-stranding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-27T11:30:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/p11-coskrey-videogames2019-a-20191227.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p11-coskrey-videogames2019-a-20191227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[All to play for: 2019 brought gamers new titles in a range of genres, from indie games to established franchises.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/07/24/arts/jomon-art-japans-prehistoric-charm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-26T19:46:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-hammond-jomon-a-20180725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vessel with flame-like ornamentation, a National Treasure (3000-2000 B.C.)]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/02/arts/art-silver-lining-lifes-dark-clouds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-02T11:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p13-larking-wacoal-a-20200101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maki Ohkojima's "Blood of the Sea" (2018)]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/28/arts/openings-in-tokyo/the-colors-and-shapes-of-kyoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T11:46:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p13-tokyo-iwamiya-a-20200101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeji Iwamiya's "Kasa-no-ma (umbrella room), Wachigaiya, Shimabara" (1955-65)]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/28/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/chronicling-architecture-and-society/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T11:46:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[ISTOCK]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:37:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All lit up: Lanterns and candles illuminate Yokohama's Ma Zhu Miao Temple.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/01/30/events/events-outside-tokyo/nagasaki-lights-up-for-the-chinese-new-year/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Modern man: Born in China, Lu Xun found much of his inspiration in Japan when he studied medicine in Sendai in the early 1900s.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/02/15/events/events-outside-tokyo/party-picks-up-in-chinatown-this-weekend/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:38:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Year's fun: Chinese New Year's celebrations feature music and traditional lion dances.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/02/08/events/events-outside-tokyo/lantern-festival-to-put-spotlight-on-nagasakis-chinese-neighborhood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:38:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/12/06/general/counting-year-boar-festivals-foxes-fireworks-welcome-2019-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:50:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Party all night: Festivalgoers enjoy a live performance at last year's Countdown Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/11/09/general/todays-j-blip-otoshidama-kit-kat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:52:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Today's J-blip: Otoshidama Kit Kat]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2009/12/16/general/show-your-stripes-in-the-new-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:52:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Show your stripes in the new year]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/03/12/general/bump-of-chicken-x-hatsune-miku-plus-two-other-must-see-j-pop-music-videos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:57:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2004/01/11/books/discriminating-professor-takes-provincial-view-of-izumo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-31T20:14:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/08/16/arts/izumo-the-myths-and-gods-of-japans-history/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-31T20:23:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pillars of truth: These axis pillars (Kamakura Period, (1192-1333), an Important Cultural Property, were excavated from Izumo Taisha grounds in 2000. Their massive size — three large cedar trunks bound into a base — affirms that the Izumo shrine was indeed colossal, as described in myths.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/02/books/invisible-baseball-curves-japanese-literature/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-flanagan-baseballlit-a-20191229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Home run: Considered one of the most important contributors to modern haiku and tanka poetry, Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) was a baseball enthusiast from a young age and coined much of the Japanese terminology in the sport.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/03/stage/fortune-updates-fausts-devilish-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-03T14:22:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deal with the devil: In "Fortune," Go Morita (left) plays Fortune George, who sells his soul in exchange for success and the love of Maggie (Riho Yoshioka), in an update to the classic tale of Faust.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Natsuo Kirino's "Out"]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NHK's "Kohaku" song festival on New Year's Eve saw its viewer share fall to a record low, a survey by a TV research firm showed Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/04/books/books-get-mood-2020-tokyo-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-04T22:34:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/04/books/books-translations-japan-must-read-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-04T22:59:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/25/tv/netflix-japan-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T11:49:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Full stream ahead: Netflix's original series "Queer Eye" found new fans in Asia in 2019 with its mini-season filmed in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/10/arts/fashion-game-dress-code-crack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T17:33:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Left: Louis Vuitton, Jeff Koons "Mona Lisa" Backpack (2017). Right: Kyoichi Tsuzuki (Ed. ), "Ishoku-hada" (2017) from "Real Fashion Nipponica" (2019)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/07/entertainment-news/harvey-weinstein-charged-sex-crime-los-angeles-trial-separate-charges-starts-new-york/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T12:13:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harvey Weinstein (third from left) leaves court in New York Monday. The disgraced movie mogul faces allegations of rape and sexual assault.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/06/general/alternative-country-meets-anime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T13:52:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haunting imagery: A scene from Koji Morimoto's sequence of the anime "Sturgill Simpson Presents Sound &amp; Fury," which features Simpson's album "Sound &amp; Fury" as its soundtrack.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/08/arts/dumb-type-actions-speak-loudest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T11:25:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/08/arts/openings-in-tokyo/open-possibilities-not-one-neat-way-imagine-futures/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/08/arts/openings-in-tokyo/garden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T13:47:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/08/arts/openings-outside-tokyo/appeal-ko-imari-nabeshima/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/08/stage/yuriko-kotani-comedian-laughing-way-dark-days-uk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T15:51:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deadpan: Yuriko Kotani has built up a following in the U.K., but has yet to do stand-up in Japanese.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/09/films/film-reviews/gaku-sound-indie-anime-seven-years-making-surefire-classic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-09T11:25:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Band of misfits: Director Kenji Iwaisawa's hand-drawn anime, "On-Gaku: Our Sound," taps into the riotous power of music.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/09/music/raving-past-future-waqwaq-kingdom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-09T18:51:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Royal highnesses: Kiki Hitomi (left) and Shigeru Ishihara's second album as WaqWaq Kingdom is a vibrant patchwork of musical styles and spiritual concerns.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/10/films/nhk-raises-dead-kohaku-mixed-reviews/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-10T11:51:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lasting legacy: Hibari Misora, pictured here in her hologram version, last appeared on "Kohaku Uta Gassen" in 1972.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/10/entertainment-news/madame-tussauds-removes-waxworks-prince-harry-meghan-royal-family-display/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The figures (left) of Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, are moved from their original positions next to Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, at Madame Tussauds in London Thursday. Madame Tussauds moved its figures of Prince Harry and Meghan from its Royal Family set to elsewhere in the attraction.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Living the dream: Kei Chikaura's "Complicity" avoids cliches in its realistic portrayal of Japan-China understanding.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boyish style raises questions about gender roles]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guiltless fun: Ben Harper &amp; The Innocent Criminals (from left: Juan Nelson, Oliver Charles, Ben Harper and Leon Mobley) have been playing together since the mid-1990s.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Sagawa's "A Semi-Plane Mass of Trees No.7" (1991)]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Tezuka (left) speaks about the manga "Paidon" in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharpshooter: Miki Nakatani plays a high-powered fashion phographer loosely based on director Mika Ninagawa in the Netflix series "Followers."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A song and dance: Taketeru Kudo often performs with Eiichi Hayashi, a saxophonist who the dancer admits to admiring.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/02/29/books/only-gaijin-in-the-village/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-04T19:18:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/02/26/music/coronavirus-live-concert/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T00:09:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keep on trucking: David Coverdale says although the issue of retirement keeps coming up, he has no plan to stop making music.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Warring factions: A cast of almost 30 Japanese actors is working with English director Will Tuckett to tell the story of Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An escape: The turbulent relationship between Chinatsu (Chizuru Ikewaki) and Tatsuo (Go Ayano) is consummated after a wander along an empty beach near Hakodate, a port town in Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2004/08/22/books/sexual-textual-and-visual-boundaries/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sumiko Iwamuro, 82, spins her beats as DJ Sumirock at a club in Tokyo’s Kabukicho district Saturday. The octogenarian is proof that age doesn’t matter and says there is much more waiting in life ahead.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/06/16/music/dommune-welcomes-british-broadcasting-platform-boiler-room-tokyo/</loc>
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	<url>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jack attack: Simon Whybray brings his club night Jack to Tokyo for a party at Club Mogra on Oct. 25 and a set at the 'Lost in Karaoke' event by Red Bull on Oct. 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/01/23/music/eadonmm/</loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/01/08/music/japans-club-culture-needs-go-2017/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New year goals: Electronic artists should consider working together to create a more unified club culture in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/02/25/music/keep-the-band-young-graduates-but-dont-quit-your-day-jobs/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Club policy: Lawyer Kazuo Nakamura joins panelists from the Kyoto-based group Let's Dance on Sunday to address concerns about Japan's so-called antidancing law.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/06/22/music/one-year-changes-anti-dancing-law-clubbers-hopeful/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Empty no longer: The dancefloor at a new club, Alzar, awaits customers before opening. While nightclubs in Osaka have had their share of legal issues over the past few years, changes in legislation have led some in the music scene there to be more optimistic as to where nightlife is heading.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/05/16/music/thaemlitzs-mix-tackles-antidancing-law/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Party politics: Terre Thaemlitz, who also records as DJ Sprinkles, has made a mix CD that tackles Japan's so-called antidancing law, titled "Where Dancefloors Stand Still." The artist believes that the "right to dance" argument that has framed the debate thus far is effective, but could eclipse other issues concerned with class and poverty in the law.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/08/26/music/nightclub-trial-helped-defense-lawyer-rediscover-love-break-dancing/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man in the mirror: Motonobu Ishigaki practices break dancing at a studio.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/07/25/music/have-your-say-on-no-dancing-law/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/12/03/music/documentary-film-save-the-club-noon-tackles-anti-dancing-law/</loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/11/19/music/japans-juke-scene-gears-up-to-go-foot-to-foot-with-chicago/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-13T21:29:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fancy footwork: Takuya Harashima, who goes by his first name as a dancer, shows off the championship footwork leg belt he won at Battle Train Tokyo. The event was the country's first official footwork dancing competition.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/01/03/music/shape-shifting-landscape-japans-electronic-underground/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Size matters: Smaller clubs, catering to communities with ultra-specific tastes in music, may to be on the rise in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/01/23/music/former-owner-of-club-noon-sees-acquittal-upheld/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_6119.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Give peace a chance: Veteran director Nobuhiko Obayashi was a staunch pacifist who produced several films with anti-war themes throughout his six-decade career. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/04/16/films/save-japanese-independent-cinemas/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Blank screen: As a result of the spread of the new coronavirus, Toho Cinemas has closed all 695 of its screens. Many independent cinemas have taken similar measures.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/03/20/music/gezan-mahito-people/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-17T11:30:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masters of disaster: Gezan has managed to overcome diversity before, having canceled, and then resurrected, a festival when a powerful typhoon hit Japan in 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/04/17/music/naoki-kobayashi/</loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/04/18/books/healing-resistance-review-kazu-haga/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/04/18/books/satoshi-kitamura-children-literature/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/04/09/music/yumiko-morioka-resonance/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of the limelight: While Yumiko Morioka has been involved in writing songs for numerous other artists, she only ever released one album herself.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/04/17/music/lo-fi-hip-hop-beats-to-study-to/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-19T23:22:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Make merry: The roommates gather for a Christmas party to welcome new members and celebrate the holidays on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Welcome to heartbreak: Vivi cries over roommate Ryo's imminent departure on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the defensive: Ryo finds himself dodging flirtatious advances and questions about his true feelings from his roommates on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Left hanging: Vivi (left) waits for Ryo to make move during their movie night on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scent from heaven: Hana (middle) looks on as Vivi (right) gets a good sniff of Ryo on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Somebody to love: Tupas cries while opening up to his roommates about love and life on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/27/tv/terrace-house-ep-27-i-cant-be-here/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boo-ed up: Sparks fly between some of the roommates at a Halloween-themed party on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/12/13/tv/terrace-house-tokyo-ep-25-the-girls-cant-do-it/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Can't touch this: While comforting Emika (left), Ryo's arm lingers on her knee — causing the panelists to speculate on their relationship on "Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Absent audience: On March 8, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra began livestreaming its concerts, but is facing a loss of revenue due to the lack of physical ticket sales.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the beginning: A case of COVID-19 in an attendee at Wanima's early February show at Marine Messe Fukuoka heralded the start of the virus' impact on Japan's music industry.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Exit stage left: Kabuki-za is one of the major theaters in Tokyo to have closed its doors as a result of COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Feeling lucky: American director Clint Eastwood has received many harsh reviews for his latest film, "The 15:17 to Paris." However, Japanese critics have taken to the film, with one saying the director's style fits Japanese tastes.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-05-10T23:10:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-05-10T23:10:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Friends first: Masahiro Umeda (left) and Shinichiro Matsuura find their own family in Yujiro Harumoto's film "Going the Distance."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Songs from a mall: Saxophonist and composer Yasuaki Shimizu eschewed traditional jingles in favor of creating short soundscapes in his commercial work. Those pieces were compiled onto an album titled "Music for Commercials."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roaring good fun: Ho Tzu Nyen's "One or Several Tigers" (2017) uses projected images and puppets instead of human actors.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The next chapter: "Zero" reunites Soda with Dr. Masatomo Yamamoto, the psychiatrist featured in his 2009 film, "Mental."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An 17th/18th-century painting of a sea battle between Japanese pirates and the Chinese.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mind travels: The best travel writing can offer escape and new perspectives on the world.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Making progress: Electronic label Trekkie Trax moved on to hosting events at Club Asia after growing in the ranks of smaller Tokyo clubs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Novelist Haruki Murakami will host a special radio program that will be aired in Japan on May 22, as part of efforts to uplift people's spirits amid the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_14695.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking flight: A two-headed bird is said to have prophesied a cholera outbreak that swept through Japan in the late 19th century.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/05/30/books/must-have-japanese-cookbooks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-30T19:57:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/05/28/films/movie-theaters-coronavirus/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_14287.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Open the doors: Film industry insiders hope audiences will return to movie theaters as Japan lifts social distancing measures and business closure requests in stages.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/05/29/music/live-music-coronavirus-reopening/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13752.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the rocks: While live music will continue, the risks of attending gigs will never be completely eliminated, leaving bands and venues having to think creatively.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/05/29/music/live-house-culture-coronavirus/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Close quarters: With a capacity of just 80 people in its basement room, Namba Bears is typical of Japan's so-called "live houses."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/05/22/films/movie-distributors-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-01T14:31:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13191.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Industry disruption: Cinemas across Japan have been as empty as this one in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/05/21/stage/online-plays-coronavirus/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alternative funding: Some live music venues and clubs in Japan are looking to online campaigns to help keep the cash from drying up during the pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-06-02T17:09:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-06-04T09:55:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dramatic measures: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre has begun experimenting with ways of separating audience members.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fresh approach: Satoshi Miyagi says he is determined to find a way to convey the importance of theater to people, even amid the pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Star turn: Joe Hisaishi began his composing career in the 1970s, and has worked with directors such as Takeshi Kitano and Hayao Miyazaki.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[It’s all in the name: The members of Okamoto’s all adopted the same stage surname as a tribute to avant-garde artist Taro Okamoto. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Umbrella revolution: Protests dominated much of Hong Kong life during the latter part of 2019, though have since been hobbled by the coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fans of K-pop idol boy band BTS shop at a pop-up store selling BTS goods in Seoul last December.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA['Echo on the Bay' is a masterclass in defamiliarization and dislocation, in rendering reality, truly, powerfully bizarre.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fight for justice: Ava DuVernay’s Netflix miniseries “When They See Us” dramatizes the true story of the Central Park Five.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Virtual presence: Suguru Yamamoto sees going online as an opportunity for Japanese theater to break with fixed traditions.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking the midnight train: Oriza Hirata’s “Some Forgotten Dream,” in which three passengers on a night train reminisce over their time together, is one of the many performances set to be staged at the Toyooka Theater Festival.
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		<lastmod>2020-09-03T13:27:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiji Ozawa (center) acknowledges the audience after conducting at a music festival in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, in August 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/04/music/blm-tokyo-harmonic-wavelength/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-04T09:57:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35008.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Come together: Jaylon Carter is one of the organizers and performers for Harmonic Wavelength, a livestream concert that will feature sets from seven artists.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/04/music/aggretsuko-season-3-netflix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-05T15:55:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scream queen: In the third season of “Aggretsuko,” Retsuko joins an underground idol group that wants to capitalize on her penchant for death metal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/05/books/astral-season-beastly-season-tahi-saihate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-06T15:47:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stand alone: In “Astral Season, Beastly Season,” Tahi Saihate explores how, despite an inherent need for genuine connections, people will never be able to fully understand each other.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/05/books/book-reviews/friend-a-novel-from-north-korea-paek-nam-nyong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-07T05:30:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/06/films/mulan-boycott-hong-kong-film/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-07T18:52:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35863.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actress Yifei Liu attends the world premiere of Disney's "Mulan" in Hollywood, California, in March. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/08/general/drive-in-concerts-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-09T14:13:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36370.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joyride: The Drive In Fes in Nagara, Chiba Prefecture, allowed concertgoers to enjoy live music and fireworks from the safety of their vehicles.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/10/films/film-reviews/letranger-de-la-plage-anime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-10T10:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36639.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waves of emotion: In “L'Etranger De La Plage,” Shun (voiced by Taishi Murata) is an aspiring novelist whose romance is complicated by Japanese attitudes toward same-sex relationships.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/10/films/film-reviews/a-beloved-wife-comedy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-10T09:55:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36591.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dearly beloved: Gaku Hamada (center) plays a husband whose love for his wife is undeterred by her verbal lashings]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/11/music/arashi-english-song-bruno-mars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T09:55:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36905.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japantown funk: U.S. musician Bruno Mars has written and produced a track for Japanese pop group Arashi titled "Whenever You Call."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/11/stage/twelve-angry-men-bunkamura-theatre-cocoon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T10:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37043.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Take another look: Director Lindsay Posner seeks to create an immersive experience for his cast and the audience with his staging of “Twelve Angry Men.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/08/21/films/short-shorts-film-festival-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-10T20:32:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32003.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dark humor: "Incoherence," a film shot by Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho in university, features biting social commentary.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/11/films/mulan-1998-asian-american/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T12:33:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Follow her lead: Disney’s live-action adaptation of “Mulan” starring Liu Yifei was preceeded by an animated version that struck a chord with Asian American viewers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/07/29/films/asia-short-film-festival-held-september-3-month-delay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:12:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/14/films/sei-ashina-suspected-suicide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-14T21:21:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37718.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actress Sei Ashina was found dead at her Tokyo apartment by family on Monday morning, following what investigative sources believe was a suicide.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/13/films/kiyoshi-kurosawa-best-director-award-venice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-14T23:40:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37485.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37485.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: Actor Issei Takahashi, actress Yu Aoi and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/15/stage/bunraku-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T17:43:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37117.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kanjuro Kiritake has been giving lessons in bunraku puppetry to elementary school students in Osaka Prefecture for 17 years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/17/films/film-reviews/cenote-mexico/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-17T09:50:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38034.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38034.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Into the blue: For Mayan communities living near cenotes, the natural sinkholes are an essential source of freshwater as well as a mystical link between life and death.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/17/films/film-reviews/the-cornered-mouse-dreams-of-cheese-lgbt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-17T09:55:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37604.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37604.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cat and mouse: Ryo Narita (left) and Tadayoshi Ohkura play former university friends who meet again as adults and become entangled in a complicated romance. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/17/general/sengan-en-drifters-samurai-manga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-17T17:01:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38480.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38480.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heart of a warrior: Sengan-en historian and curator Takuo Iwakawa will co-host the Zoom event, explaining how the artwork of the Shimazu samurai clan is related to the aesthetics of the “Drifters” manga.]]></image:caption>
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