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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prizewinner: Issey Takahashi (right) and Yu Aoi star in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s period drama, “Wife of a Spy.”]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-19T19:52:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[“Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road: Totsuka (Motomachi Detour),” Hoeido edition, by Utagawa Hiroshige I (circa 1833-34). The scenery along the Tokaido road spreads out beyond the eaves of the teahouse. A traveler appears to leap from his horse. Hiroshige’s placement of his figures shows careful thought: two men with faces hidden flanking the horse, two women with faces visible to their right and left, and, farther back to the right, a lone old man approaching from the bridge.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/19/books/nick-bradley-cat-and-the-city/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-19T19:58:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Winding road: Nick Bradley didn’t expect his love for Japan to become such a significant part of his path to publication. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/19/books/polly-barton-japanese-translation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-21T11:52:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Polly Barton]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/11/25/books/ensuring-women-not-lost-translation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-24T07:47:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Left to right: Lucy North, Allison Markin Powell and Ginny Tapley Takemori of Strong Women, Soft Power]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/17/films/midnight-swan-lgbt-movie-smap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-24T12:55:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Express yourself: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi plays a transgender woman who takes in her distant relative (Kisaki Hattori) and becomes a maternal figure to the teenager, who aspires to become a ballet dancer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/21/films/show-love-elders-films-bond/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-24T14:20:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keeping secrets: Awkwafina (left) stars in “The Farewell,” a drama-comedy in which a family decides to keep a cancer diagnosis under wraps from its matriarch.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/24/films/film-reviews/midnight-swan-eiji-uchida-lgbt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-24T18:40:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ready for the stage: Former SMAP member Tsuyoshi Kusanagi stars in “Midnight Swan” as a transgender nightclub worker who becomes a maternal figure to her niece. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/04/03/films/afternoon-breezes-hitoshi-yazakis-pioneer-japanese-lgbtq-cinema-revisited/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-24T18:41:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Whirlwind: When "Afternoon Breezes" was screened abroad, it received a largely positive response.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/24/arts/japanese-pow-art-australasia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-24T18:47:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[While many of the works show scenes of beauty and serenity, conditions in the detention camps were tough for the prisoners or war.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/24/music/online-concerts-live-house-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-24T19:20:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For the record: Kaala founder Matt Ketchum films noise artist Scum for an edition of Korona Nights, an online concert series.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/26/books/reconciliation-naoya-shiga-ted-goossen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-27T11:42:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Test of time: Translator Ted Goossen says that as he aged and went through different life stages, his perspective on Naoya Shiga’s “Reconciliation” changed. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/26/arts/contemporary-ukiyo-e-artist-masumi-ishikawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T07:07:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/26/books/book-reviews/the-hole-hiroko-oyamada/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T12:25:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/30/films/film-reviews/all-the-things-we-never-said/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-30T20:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Let it out: Taiga Nakano stars in Yuya Ishii’s drama as a man who stifles his emotions, even while his marriage falls apart after catching his wife having an affair. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/30/films/film-reviews/kamata-prelude-urara-matsubayashi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-30T20:15:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Real talk: Director Mayu Akiyama’s segment of “Kamata Prelude” highlights the societal pressures on women to choose between their careers and marriage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/18/films/urara-matsubayashi-kamata-prelude/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T15:46:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Real talk: “Kamata Prelude” highlights the commonplace issues experienced by women in today’s Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/01/films/tenet-japanese-box-office/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T20:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Twists and turns: Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi thriller “Tenet” has received a boost to its overall box-office gross and mostly positive reviews in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/01/films/film-reviews/violet-evergarden-the-movie-anime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T20:15:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Final chapter: A cyclist in Tokyo rides by a poster for “Violet Evergarden: The Movie,” a film from Kyoto Animation that delivers a satisfying ending to the titular anime series.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/01/arts/ogata-paris-art/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T22:57:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The art of living: The boutique at Ogata Paris features artisanal goods from tea utensils, glasswares to lacquered paper dishes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/30/music/top-ten-japanese-albums/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-02T14:21:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Go east: Japan's music market is one of the largest in the world and its contribution to global music culture should not be overlooked.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/03/books/haruki-murakami-carson-mccullers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-04T14:06:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Novelist Haruki Murakami, who recently translated the 1940 American classic "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," by Carson McCullers, says her acute power of observation and brilliant writing makes her a true genius.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/03/books/best-tokyo-book-cafes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-04T16:16:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peace and quiet: Route Books is a two-story bookstore and cafe full of lush plants, plenty of books and a select menu of drinks and homemade sweets.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/09/13/general/domo-kun-20-mean-domo-kun-2-0/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T18:37:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A marketable scowl: NHK's Domo-kun mascot became popular overseas after going viral on the internet.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/11/19/entertainment-news/saitama-citys-kaparu-beats-organized-voting-win-grand-prix-title-annual-mascot-contest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T18:39:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At an event in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Sunday, Kaparu (center) won the 2018 Yuru-kyara Grand Prix title while Ja-Bo (right) from Omuta, in Fukuoka Prefecture, came in second. Konyudo-kun (left) from Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, was third.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/07/films/film-reviews/under-the-stars-mana-ashida/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-08T07:26:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Return to form: With “Under the Stars,” Mana Ashida makes a comeback to the big screen after a six-year hiatus. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/07/music/johnny-nash-obituary/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-08T16:26:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eddie Van Halen plays a concert in New Jersey in 2004. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-08T17:54:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buried treasure: Shoichi Kudo’s daughter was stunned when she discovered thousands of black-and-white images he took of his hometown in the 1950s.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/08/entertainment-news/bts-military-service/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of South Korean boy band BTS pose on the red carpet during the annual MAMA Awards at Nagoya Dome in Nagoya, in December 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/08/arts/kyotographie-2020-kyoto/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coming of age: “Touchable Future” by Toshie Kusamoto follows a young boy’s life in Miyagi Prefecture as the region recovers from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/05/23/entertainment-news/power-move-amazon-tv-show-protests-gerogia-abortion-law-leaving-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T19:42:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People asking Amazon.com to not sell face-recognition and other technology to federal government agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, demonstrate outside Amazon.com's annual shareholders meeting Wednesday in Seattle.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/07/13/entertainment-news/transformers-actor-labeouf-apologizes-georgia-arrest-says-hes-seeking-treatment-addiction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T19:44:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actor Shia LeBeouf is pictured in Savannah, Georgia, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/09/general/japanese-celebrities-suicide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-10T11:47:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leading lady: Yuko Takeuchi was a popular actress known for her roles in films such as “Be With You” and “Spring Snow.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/10/books/book-reviews/one-love-chigusa-soji-shimada/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-10T19:52:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/10/books/hiroshima-nagasaki-atomic-bomb-literature/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Always remember: Sadako Sasaki, a national icon who folded 1,000 paper cranes to symbolize hope after surviving an atomic bombing, is the subject of one of the top-selling books on Hiroshima published in English this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/08/22/books/jay-rubin-translator/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T11:06:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jay Rubin]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/04/14/music/digging-gold-record-store-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T10:47:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p12 sunda record store day-c 20160415]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wax ecstatic: The interior of Jet Set Records’ Tokyo branch is filled with fantastic finds.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/14/stage/a-midsummer-nights-dream-tour/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lovers and madmen: Hideki Noda’s radical retelling of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is full of Japanese wordplay and references. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-16T13:14:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44192.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the thick of it: Actors Issey Takahashi (left) and Yu Aoi shine in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s film about a couple who oppose Japan’s militarist regime. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-17T19:58:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44950.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Times of change: Hans Brinckmann's memoir “The Call of Japan” recounts his personal experiences living in Japan, first as a banker and later as a writer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/17/books/motoyuki-shibata-english-japanese-translation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-17T19:53:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Translator Motoyuki Shibata]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/19/music/jazz-trumpeter-toshinori-kondo-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T19:29:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshinori Kondo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/22/books/first-south-korean-comfort-women-novel-english/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T20:18:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ju-Chan and Bruce Fulton described the book's writer, Kim Soom, as the "bravest author so far" on the issue of "comfort women."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/20/music/bts-fans-shares/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-20T13:36:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The K-pop group BTS performs at Citi Field in New York in 2018. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/08/entertainment-news/toho-theaters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-20T19:57:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians pass a Cineworld Group Plc cinema in Leicester Square in London, on Monday. Cineworld said it will temporarily suspend operations at all its American and British movie theaters now that crucial income from winter blockbusters has been pushed into 2021 by the coronavirus pandemic. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-20T21:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges at the premiere for "Only the Brave" in Los Angeles, California, in October 2017]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/21/entertainment-news/movie-memorabilia-auction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T11:15:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stephen Lane, CEO of Prop Store, poses with Obi-Wan Kenobi's Hero Lightsaber from "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith," at a preview of a movie and TV memorabilia auction in Rickmansworth, Britain.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/21/films/film-reviews/ainu-mosir-takeshi-fukunaga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T19:07:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steeped in tradition: Set in a real Ainu village, the storyline of “Ainu Mosir” is deeply rooted in indigenous customs and beliefs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/21/films/film-reviews/true-mothers-naomi-kawase-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T19:11:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family drama: Hiromi Nagasaku (left) and Arata Iura star in “True Mothers” as the parents of an adopted child whose birth mother suddenly reappears in their lives.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/16/films/true-mothers-naomi-kawase/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T19:13:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family ties: An affluent couple face a crisis when they are contacted by the birth mother of their adopted son in Naomi Kawase’s “True Mothers.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/09/15/books/yakuza-tattoo-inside-secretive-world-yakuzas-tattoos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T14:32:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yubitsume: A yakuza explains how he cut off his little finger.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/12/07/books/book-reviews/wabori-traditional-japanese-tattoo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T14:35:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cover art by Horicho II]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/22/stage/festival-tokyo-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T22:19:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Digital stage: Playwright Shu Matsui and South Korean director Kim Jeong’s "Divine Daughter Anemone" will be one of the online offerings at this year’s Festival/Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/24/books/book-reviews/zen-wisdom-for-the-anxious/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-24T19:54:51+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/25/general/musical-instruments-sales-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-25T17:25:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45367.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45367.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sales of electric pianos have increased 1.4 times compared with last year, with more people taking up instruments during the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/21/entertainment-news/demon-slayer-record-opening/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T17:22:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45712.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45712.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take pictures of posters for an animated film "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Infinite Train” in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Friday, the day the movie was released.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/24/books/handmade-in-japan-traditional-artisans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T21:49:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46304.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Go with the flow: "Koinobori" (carp streamers) by the Watanabe Somemono traditional dyeing workshop are washed in the rivers of Gujo-Hachiman in Gifu Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/28/films/film-reviews/dancing-in-her-dreams-hideyuki-tokigawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-28T20:00:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46864.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dance the night away: The inspirations for “Dancing in Her Dreams,” which waxes nostalgic about strip theaters and the people who populated them, are very real. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/28/films/film-reviews/living-in-the-sky-shinji-aoyama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-28T20:05:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47027.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Living the high life: In “Living in the Sky,” Mikako Tabe’s character resides in a luxurious high-rise apartment and has trysts with her movie star neighbor, but finds her life lacking genuine connections.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/28/music/tadataka-unno-jazz-hate-crime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-28T20:10:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47154.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Love of music: Pianist Tadataka Unno moved to New York in 2008 to pursue his love of jazz.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/03/books/book-reviews/earthlings-sayaka-murata/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T17:44:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42022.jpeg]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/31/books/book-reviews/monkey-vol-1-a-monkeys-dozen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-31T19:55:06+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/11/30/films/the-gentleman-in-the-tux-and-what-he-did-for-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-01T00:11:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[ff20121130a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Japan: Sean Connery with Mie Hama. "You Only Live Twice: Digital Remaster Version" is out now on DVD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Japan, priced ¥1,490.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/31/books/poisoning-the-pacific-jon-mitchell/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-01T12:39:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47681.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toxic dump: Journalist Jon Mitchell’s book “Poisoning the Pacific” details the extent of the U.S. government’s contamination of the Asia-Pacific region. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/23/films/demon-slayer-box-office-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-01T21:48:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46394.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Here to slay: Box-office sensation “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie — Mugen Train" is based on a manga series that was so popular, it inspired a minor crime spree this year. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/02/entertainment-news/johnny-depp-libel-courts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-04T19:49:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48341.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[American actor Johnny Depp waves as he leaves after the end of the trial on July 28 at the High Court in London. The U.K. High Court has ruled against Johnny Depp in his libel suit against owner of Sun tabloid over wife-beating allegation, it was reported on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/31/films/sean-connery-james-bond-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-04T19:49:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48025.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scottish actor Sean Connery arrives for the premiere of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" in London in September 2003. Best known for playing fictional spy James Bond in seven films, Connery has died at the age of 90, his family said Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/05/films/film-reviews/georama-boy-panorama-girl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-05T12:55:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48575.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Growing pains: In “Georama Boy, Panorama Girl,” Anna Yamada (left) and Jin Suzuki portray Tokyo teens on the brink of maturity.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/05/general/aomori-totoro-cave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-05T18:27:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48420.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The cave mouth is said to resemble the side profile of the iconic Studio Ghibli character Totoro.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/05/films/film-reviews/ora-ora-be-goin-alone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-05T19:51:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48611.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Got your back: Actress Yuko Tanaka (right) portrays Momoko, a woman who hallucinates a trio of silly men who serve as occasionally undermining confidants.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/05/films/npo-animator-supporters-anime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-05T23:35:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48663.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teamwork makes the dream work: Jun Sugawara's latest crowdfunding campaign aims to pay animators more fairly and give them a chance to collaborate with musicians outside Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/06/films/sumodo-documentary-sumo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T11:56:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48819.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Signs of strength: Director Eiji Sakata sought to portray sumo wrestlers as "supermen" in his documentary, "Sumodo: The Successors of Samurai."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/06/tv/24-japan-remake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T12:04:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49074.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49074.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tense times: Toshiaki Karasawa (left) plays Genba Shido, the Japanese equivalent of Jack Bauer on TV Asahi’s series “24 Japan.” ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/07/books/supernatural-japanese-stories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T11:56:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49350.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49350.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spooky stories: The popularity of Japanese pop culture abroad has contributed to the emergence of books in English on Japan's myths and the supernatural, such as ghosts, monsters and folklore.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/07/books/book-reviews/a-good-true-thai-sunisa-manning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T10:51:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49175.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/11/films/film-reviews/sakura-dog-movie/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-11T20:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49993.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49993.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Puppy love: In Hitoshi Yazaki’s “Sakura,” the Hasegawa siblings go through adolescence with the help of their beloved family pooch.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/11/films/film-reviews/life-untitled/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-11T20:05:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50083.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Odd jobs: In Kana Yamada’s “Life: Untitled,” protagonist Kanou (Sairi Ito) works as a manager of sorts at an escort agency.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/11/music/cds-sales-streaming-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-12T16:12:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50029.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50029.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Don’t stop the music: Tower Records, a Japanese retail music franchise and music store, has suffered a slump in CD sales since the COVID-19 pandemic started. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/03/21/music/tower-records-goes-vinyl-trend-new-store-tower-vinyl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-12T16:12:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/p11-stmichel-soundoff-a-20190322.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p11-stmichel-soundoff-a-20190322.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Towering presence:  Tower Records has taken a giant leap into the world of vinyl.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/14/books/japanese-design-since-1945/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T19:58:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50808.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50808.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scene-stealer: The Miss Blanche chair, inspired by the character Blanche DuBois from Tennessee Williams' play “A Streetcar Named Desire,” was designed by Shiro Kuramata in 1988.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/17/entertainment-news/niziu-babymetal-nhk-kohaku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-17T18:16:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51346.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51346.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of NiziU pose for a photo at an NHK studio in Tokyo on Monday as they secured a spot for the broadcaster's popular New Year's Eve music show.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/18/films/film-reviews/any-crybabies-around/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T20:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51350.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Time to grow up: In “Any Crybabies Around?,” Taiga Nakano (right) plays an immature man who struggles to grow up and win back his family after causing a scene on national TV during a local festival.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/18/films/film-reviews/me-my-brothers-mistress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T20:05:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51349.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51349.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Caught on camera: Nanami Kasamatsu plays a curious teenager who decides to upend her brother’s upcoming nuptials after catching him cheating in “Me &amp; My Brother’s Mistress.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/19/tv/disney-plus-73-million-subs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-19T20:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52192.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52192.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Happiest place on Earth: A visitor wearing a protective face mask takes a selfie at Shanghai Disney Resort. The Shanghai Disneyland theme park reopened on May 11 after a shutdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/19/entertainment-news/tokyo-ueno-station-yu-miri-award/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T12:26:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52020.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52020.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Writer Yu Miri speaks in an online press conference Thursday after winning the prestigious National Book Award for translated literature.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/19/stage/dai-fujikura-dream-of-armageddon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T16:34:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52185-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52185.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nightmare scenario: Australian soprano Jessica Aszodi (right) and American tenor Peter Tantsits perform an aria during a scene where their characters are under attack.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/18/stage/knife-mime-dance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T10:32:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51849.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51849.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Storytelling through movement: Choreographer Shuji Onodera (left) and dancer Juichu Liu will perform together in Onodera’s original production of “Knife,” a mime-dance adaptation of a short story by Guy de Maupassant.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/21/books/kyoto-literary-guide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T19:59:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52388.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52388.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The great outdoors: “Kyoto: A Literary Guide,” an anthology of literature on the city, contains several poems dedicated to the beauty of nature against the fragility of life.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/25/arts/tom-of-finlands-men-shibuya-parco/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-22T22:30:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39924.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39924.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An untitled illustration by Tom of Finland from 1963]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/08/06/arts/reading-between-the-brushstrokes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T12:25:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/p10-tran-tochigi-a-20190807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-tran-tochigi-a-20190807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Sloan's "Fifth Avenue Critic" (1905)]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/05/20/arts/roppongi-art-nights-giant-splash-color/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T12:25:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-tran-artnight-a-20180521.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist's rendering of Teppei Kaneuji's "Tower," which will bring together various collaborators, including  musicians Oorutaichi and Satoko Shibata, dancer Yasutake Shimaji, actor Izumi Aoyagi, playwright Toshiki Okada, and artist collective contact Gonzo. "Tower" will be active in the Roppongi Hills Arena for Roppongi Art from 6 p.m. on May 26 to 6 p.m. May 27, then again from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/04/23/books/book-reviews/hiroshi-sugimoto-black-box-ponders-representations-representations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T12:25:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p22-tran-sugimoto-a-20160424.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/24/entertainment-news/anime-demon-slayer-movie-box-office/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T11:15:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53059.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53059.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An animated movie based on the "Demon Slayer" manga series has become the third-highest grossing film in Japan.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/14/books/michael-emmerich-translation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T17:15:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50841.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50841.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Emmerich
]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/25/films/film-reviews/tezukas-barbara/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T20:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53166.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53166.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gruesome twosome: Fumi Nikaido (left) and Goro Inagaki star in Macoto Tezka’s live-action adaptation of his father’s debaucherous and sexually explicit manga.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/25/films/film-reviews/underdog/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-26T17:57:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53182.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53182.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fight for their lives: Mirai Moriyama (left) and Takumi Kitamura’s characters face off in a brutal boxing match in a quest for redemption.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/01/07/films/film-reviews/100-yen-love-punching-way-old-paper-bag/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-26T17:58:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-schilling-hyakuen-a-20150108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beaten but not down: Sakura Ando masterfully plays the troubled, aspiring boxer Ichiko, in Masaharu Take's "Hyakuen no Koi (100 Yen Love)."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/26/general/yosakoi-sakamoto-ryoma-kochi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-26T22:35:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53530.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53530.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Save the last dance: This year’s Yosakoi Festival was canceled due to concerns related to the spread of COVID-19, but Kochi’s yosakoi dancers were able to perform at local hero Sakamoto Ryoma’s birthday celebrations on Nov. 15.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/25/arts/asia-society-triennial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T14:43:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53311.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53311.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Globally minded: Much like the U.S., Japan holds contemporary art festivals such as Yokohama Triennale 2020.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/29/general/doraemon-comics-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-29T14:02:58+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_54029.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54029.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 50-year-old comic series Doraemon proved to be a smash hit in Japan this year amid the coronavirus pandemic]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/29/arts/luxury-face-masks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-29T18:10:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53416.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53416.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cox Co.'s luxury face mask features diamond, platinum and Swarovski crystals, and sells for ¥1 million.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/28/books/book-reviews/tokyo-before-tokyo-edo-guide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-30T03:48:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53831.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo" by Timon Screech ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/21/books/book-reviews/the-japanese-a-history-in-twenty-lives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-01T10:14:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52280.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/26/books/anime-architecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-01T12:47:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53458.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53458.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreseeing the future: “Akira,” which is based on a graphic novel by Katsuhiro Otomo, predicted that, in 2019, Tokyo would be struck by an apocalyptic event months before hosting the Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/12/02/entertainment-news/netflix-original-asian-content/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-02T17:41:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54555.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Billboards advertising the streaming service Netflix on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. After producing widely watched Asia shows such as the Korean zombie period thriller "Kingdom” and reality series "Indian Matchmaking,” the world’s largest streaming platform is seeking to cement its stronghold in the region.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singer-songwriter Mariya Takeuchi is genuinely interested in hearing about what fans think of her music.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiji Ozawa believes that the string quartet allows budding musicians to learn the fundamentals of classical music.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/06/books/winifred-bird-eating-wild-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T20:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73818.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73818.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Into the wild: Author Winifred Bird lived in the Japanese countryside for nearly a decade, exploring the deep relationship between wild plants and the people who eat them, before writing her book, “Eating Wild Japan.”]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/09/films/boycott-mulan-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:23:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36643.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36643.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Mulan" has become a magnet for anger over the Chinese Communist Party’s policies promoting nationalism and ethnic Han chauvinism.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/10/films/disney-chinese-government-mulan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:23:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43580.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43580.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean protester holds a placard during a lone protest against the release of the Disney movie "Mulan" outside a movie theater in Seoul on Sept. 17.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/12/films/us-lawmakers-disney-mulan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:23:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37422.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37422.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play next to a poster of the Disney movie "Mulan" outside a cinema in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/11/films/film-reviews/youre-not-normal-either/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-11T11:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74685.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74685.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trading places: In "You're Not Normal, Either!,” a cram school math teacher (Ryo Narita, left) learns life lessons about relationships and love from his teenage student (Kaya Kiyohara).]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/11/films/film-reviews/the-sun-stands-still/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-11T11:10:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74691.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74691.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[You’re the bomb: Tatsuya Fujiwara (left) and Ryoma Takeuchi (right) play corporate spies whose employers have implanted explosives in their chests to stop them from going rogue.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/11/entertainment-news/311-lady-gaga-message/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-11T15:14:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75053.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75053.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lady Gaga delivers a video message to the Japanese people on the 10th anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in this still image obtained from a video posted on her Twitter page.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/11/films/film-reviews/evangelion-thrice-upon-a-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-11T20:10:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75064.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Internal conflict: The psychological and emotional issues that Shinji Ikari, protagonist of the “Neon Genesis Evangelion” series and films, grapples with give the anime depth and poignancy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/11/music/tiktok-miki-matsubara/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-12T11:34:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75044.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75044.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Music maker: Songwriter Tetsuji Hayashi says that new technologies are rewriting the rules of how a song becomes a hit, "it could be from another country or another generation."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/12/arts/beeple-nft-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-12T18:20:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75223.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75223.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Everydays: The First 5,000 Days," a digital collage by the American artist Beeple, also known as Mike Winkelmann, a pioneer of the exploding virtual art market, sold for a record $69.3 million, Christie's announced Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/13/entertainment-news/v6-breaking-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-13T12:46:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75408.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75408.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Office of entertainment agency Johnny &amp; Associates Inc., which manages V6, in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/13/books/cathy-hirano-translator/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-13T19:50:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75394-e1615596766842.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75394.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cathy Hirano]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/13/books/laura-kriska-the-business-of-we/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-13T20:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75260.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75260.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/08/11/music/supersonic-2020-postponed-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-16T21:20:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30027.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30027.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[See you later: Supersonic 2020 has been moved to next year due to Japan’s current border restrictions and recent spikes in COVID-19 cases.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/17/films/aya-igashi-no-call-no-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-17T20:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_76115.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76115.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Novel idea: Although “No Call No Life” marks the first time director Aya Igashi has adapted a novel for film rather than writing her own script, she says she still “wanted to bring it closer to the kind of films I’d done on my own.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/17/films/film-reviews/kontora/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-17T20:10:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_76045.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76045.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Back to the past: In “Kontora,” a homeless character (Hidemasa Mase) who walks backward through a rural town helps a young woman (Wan Marui) delve into her grandfather’s wartime past.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/18/films/anshul-chauhan-kontora/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-18T20:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_76402.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76402.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Exceptional find: Director Anshul Chauhan (left) wrote “Kontora” with actress Wan Marui (right) in mind after auditioning her for a different project. The film is Marui’s first lead role.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/19/arts/unconventional-beauty-japanese-art/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:50:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_76008.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76008.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seien Shima, "Untitled," 1918, Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, on display through April 18]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/20/books/book-reviews/klara-and-the-sun-kazuo-ishiguro/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T20:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_76536.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76536.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man or machine?: Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” centers on Klara, a solar-powered humanoid robot whose keen sense of observation leads her to probe into her humanity.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/06/11/films/12-day-tale-of-the-monster-that-died-in-8/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-21T18:44:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_17037-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_17037.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Monster madness: Takumi Saitoh plays himself in the YouTube series “The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8,” in which he must wrangle tiny beasts.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/20/books/book-reviews/immigrant-japan-gracia-liu-farrer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-22T00:25:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76544.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/01/21/books/akutagawa-naoki-literary-awards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-25T09:35:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64467.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64467.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rin Usami (right) and Naka Saijo pose for a photo at a Tokyo hotel on Wednesday, as they are selected to receive Japan's prestigious Akutagawa and Naoki literary awards for their works, respectively.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/25/films/film-reviews/kiba-the-fangs-of-fiction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-25T11:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77517.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77517.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The plot thickens: A hardheaded editor of a culture magazine (Yo Oizumi) comes up with a ruse to snag a lucrative writer from his competitor and save his publication in the process in “Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction.”]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/25/arts/tokyo-art-scene-recent-history/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-25T11:30:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77775.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77775.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[“Tenshochi, Kitakami, Iwate” from the series “A New River”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/27/books/book-reviews/that-we-may-live-chinese-fiction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T20:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78033.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/31/entertainment-news/japanese-stars-no-burning-desire-involved-torch-relay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-31T20:05:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78878.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pushing ahead: Preparations are under way at the J-Village soccer training center in Fukushima Prefecture ahead of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay, which started March 25. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/04/01/films/film-reviews/signal-the-movie-cold-case-investigation-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-01T11:37:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78987.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger that: Detective Kento Saegusa (Kentaro Sakaguchi) communicates with a colleague living in 2009 via a time-jumping walkie-talkie in “Signal The Movie Cold Case Investigation Unit.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/04/01/films/film-reviews/junk-head-stop-motion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-01T11:39:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_78917.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78917.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Into the unknown: In Takahide Hori’s stop-motion animated film, a cyborg explorer finds himself in a subterranean society populated by clones and monsters. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/04/01/films/daihachi-yoshida-kiba-fangs-of-fiction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-02T00:11:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_79187.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79187.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A story with bite: While making “Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction,” Daihachi Yoshida (seated, left) had a clear vision for the film’s charismatic but cutthroat protagonist, played by Yo Oizumi (center).]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/04/23/music/ambient-releases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-02T00:26:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_7971.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7971.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soothing sounds: This year has seen various new releases of ambient, drone and new age music that can make life in quarantine a little less stressful.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/08/07/music/cd-reviews/chanminas-never-grow-delivers-pop-hooks-hip-hop-heartache/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-02T00:27:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-hadfield-chanmina-a-20190808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staying young: Chanmina gets slicker without ditching the swagger on her second album, "Never Grow Up."]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/03/27/music/cd-reviews/suchmos-anymal-aims-high-misses-mark/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-02T00:28:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-hadfield-suchmosrev-a-20190328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wild thing: On third album "The Anymal," Suchmos crafts a 74-minute rock epic without the drama.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/03/13/music/cd-reviews/haruomi-hosono-reworks-modern-classic-hochono-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-02T00:29:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-hadfield-hosonorev-a-20190314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Up in smoke: Haruomi Hosono has crafted an uncanny digital remake of his 1973 debut album.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/02/25/music/cd-reviews/heisei-no-oto-cd/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-02T00:30:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71615.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[“Heisei no Oto: Japanese Left-field Pop from the CD Age (1989-1996)”]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/18/music/cd-reviews/see-through-kumi-takahara/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-02T00:30:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76111.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shine bright: Kumi Takahara uses the violin and her voice on new ambient album, “See-Through.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/08/06/music/cd-reviews/dos-monos-siki-hip-hop/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dynamic duo: Rina Sawayama and Elton John became close friends after singing together on “Chosen Family,” a heartfelt track about the LGBTQ community.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[King Gnu plays the Red Marquee stage at Fuji Rock Festival in 2018. The four-piece made its debut on the Rookie A Go-Go stage a year prior, and this year will headline the event’s main Green Stage, making it the first band at Fuji to go from Rookie A Go-Go to headliner.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A poster for the "Demon Slayer" film is put up in Tokyo on its opening day on Oct. 16, 2020. The film grabbed the top spot in last weekend's U.S. box office revenues.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An exhibit at the "KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature" event at the New York Botanical Garden on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Girl power: The young heroines of Takashi Miike's "Police × Heroine Lovepatrina!"]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/08/arts/photographer-takeshi-yamagishi-tokyo-tohoku/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wrath of nature: A photograph taken in May 2011 shows a building damaged by the March 2011 tsunami in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[And that's the tea: “Tea Time,” the latest work from art collective teamLab, features glasses that interact with their surroundings through pulses of light. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Change is afoot: Creativeman President Naoki Shimizu says the pandemic has showed live music promoters the benefits of livestreaming and domestic acts.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cool heads prevail: Megumi Nishi plays Mari and steals the show in Ken Kawai's "Headless Girl."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Strike a pose: Statues of Ryomen Sukuna in a standing and sitting pose are on display at Senkoji temple.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The three women looking for help in Akio Fujimoto's "Along the Sea" express emotional pain while remaining visibly stoic. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Learning aid: Akio Fujimoto wanted to make a film that families could watch together, and believes that “Along the Sea” should be screened in Japanese classrooms to teach students about experiences other than their own. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/15/music/composer-terry-riley-japan/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_86325.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flight, interrupted: Terry Riley was about to embark on a world tour when the pandemic hit. He has since ended up living in Japan. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Our chaotic times: The "Attack on Titan" manga speaks to a post-Lehman Shock Japanese readership as much as it speaks to Hong Kongers struggling to maintain their democracy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Up for a show: High school buddies reunite at a wedding and wax nostalgic on life and adulthood in "Remain in Twilight."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Demon Slayer — Kimetsu no Yaiba — The Movie: Mugen Train" has become the first Japanese movie to top ¥40 billion in box-office revenue.]]></image:caption>
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]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoko Fukada]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/27/books/eric-carle-obituary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-27T16:19:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_89715.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_89715.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” Eric Carle’s best-known book, has sold more than 55 million copies around the world since it was first published in 1969, its mere 224 words translated into more than 70 languages. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/27/music/ado-japan-vocaloid-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-27T20:41:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_89256.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_89256.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Much Ado about nothing: Singer Ado uses an anime avatar to represent herself in the media, a choice that also hints at the influence Japan’s digital Vocaloid scene had on her growing up.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/30/books/food-nonfiction-books/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-30T09:59:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_89958.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_89958.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nonfiction titles offering immersive writing about Japanese cuisine can make for a delectable reading experience.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/27/books/heaven-mieko-kawakami/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-29T16:01:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_89532-e1622095770290.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_89532.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A better place: Author Mieko Kawakami says she wrote “Heaven” to shed light on the realities of bullying and help “young people to survive harsh times.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/30/music/japanese-pianists-queen-elisabeth-competition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-30T16:45:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_90105.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_90105.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese pianists Keigo Mukawa (right) and Tomoki Sakata won third and fourth prize, respectively, at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, a prestigious contest for international musicians held in Brussels.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/03/stage/jenny-sealey-tempest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-03T10:00:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_90755.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_90755.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Art imitating life: Jenny Sealey’s production of “The Tempest: Swimming for Beginners” incorporates the real-life experiences of its cast members with disabilities, as well as the challenges of living through a pandemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/03/films/film-reviews/brothers-in-brothel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-03T10:10:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_90547.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_90547.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oh, brother: Tetsuo (Takayuki Yamada) is the emotional punching bag for his siblings and the prostitutes they employ in “Brothers in Brothel.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/03/films/film-reviews/hokusai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-03T10:15:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_90727.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_90727.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Raw talent: Min Tanaka delivers a vibrant performance as Hokusai in his later years in Hajime Hashimoto’s sprawling biopic of Japan’s most famous painter.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2001/05/23/music/have-you-never-been-soft-rock/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-03T10:05:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/04/music/decade-game-lisa-continues-slay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-04T10:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_90865.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_90865.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flying high: LiSA’s 10th anniversary album, “Ladybug,'' features collaborations with high-profile musicians such as Grammy Award-winning B’z guitarist Takahiro Matsumoto, Yuzu’s Yujin Kitagawa and Avu-chan from pop-rock band Queen Bee.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/03/general/bomb-museum-sydney/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-03T17:30:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_90224.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_90224.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The site of the exhibition "War and Peace: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney on May 20.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/02/27/stage/rupaul-drag-race-tokyo-lgbt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-04T16:49:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/p10-mckenna-drag-a-20200227.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-mckenna-drag-a-20200227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Club queens: Drag queens Sera Tonin (left) and Vera Strondh give a nod to "RuPaul's Drag Race" in between performances at a recent Dragmania event at Eagle Tokyo Blue in Shinjuku's LGBTQ-friendly Ni-chome district.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/06/books/book-reviews/prelude-to-pearl-harbor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-07T13:25:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_90827.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_90827.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/02/books/crying-in-h-mart-michelle-zauner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-09T08:39:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_82569.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82569.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michelle Zauner, a musician who performs under the name Japanese Breakfast, is making her book debut with "Crying in H Mart."]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/09/books/tom-lin-thousand-crimes-ming-tsu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-09T12:43:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_91995.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_91995.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[“As a kid, sometimes I would think, Gosh, I wish I wasn’t Chinese,” says Tom Lin, who was born in Beijing and grew up in New York. “It wasn’t because I wasn’t proud of my culture. It was simply because I felt that it was the only thing preventing me from becoming an American.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/10/films/film-reviews/takashi-koyama-colorless/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-10T10:00:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_92009.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_92009.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[True colors: Ruka Ishikawa (left) plays an aspiring model/actress whose mysterious ways keep her boyfriend (Kenta Maeno, right) on his toes throughout the years in “Colorless.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/10/films/film-reviews/ayumu-watanabe-fortune-favors-lady-nikuko/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-10T09:59:32+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_92010.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_92010.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Whatever floats your boat: “Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko” centers on a mother-daughter duo who couldn’t be more different as they go about their everyday lives in a charming coastal town.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/11/films/ushiku-documentary-immigration-centers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-11T10:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_92406.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_92406.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bear witness: Director Thomas Ash made “Ushiku” to highlight the plight of detainees inside immigration facilities such as the detention center in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/13/books/the-party-and-the-people/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-13T10:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_92495.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_92495.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Author Bruce J. Dickson]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/12/films/short-shorts-film-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-12T10:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_92536.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_92536.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Stardust Children” by Eiji Uchida is the opening film for this year’s Short Shorts Film Festival &amp; Asia’s online screenings.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/17/films/film-reviews/around-the-table/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-17T10:10:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_93253.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_93253.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Table talk: In Soushi Matsumoto’s “Around the Table,” Yuko (Aino Kuribayashi, center) spends the summer trying to discover her passion and spending time with the residents of her mother’s estranged friend’s home.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/17/films/film-reviews/mari-and-mari/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-17T10:05:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_93268-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_93268.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Double trouble: Norio (Kou Maehara) comes home to find his girlfriend has been replaced by a woman with the same name in Tatsuya Yamanishi’s “Mari and Mari.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/25/films/film-reviews/the-blue-danube/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-17T10:20:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77521-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77521.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Blow them away: A trumpet player (Kou Maehara) who is called away from the front lines to join his garrison’s marching band makes a friend out of a foe through the power of music in “The Blue Danube.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/17/books/three-japanese-buddhist-monks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-17T17:51:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_93279.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_93279.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The quiet life: Meredith McKinney, who provided the translations for “Three Japanese Buddhist Monks,” says, “Reclusion is always somehow hovering there in the background of what Buddhism is — but it's not often in the foreground of what people generally think about Buddhism.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/18/stage/israel-galvan-rite-of-spring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-18T10:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_93768.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_93768.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seasonal change: For his “The Rite of Spring” performances in Yokohama and Nagoya, Israel Galvan will be accompanied by classical pianists Tatsuto Masuda and Shu Katayama]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/20/books/morgan-giles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-20T09:55:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_93861.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_93861.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Translator Morgan Giles]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/20/books/polly-barton-fifty-sounds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-20T10:10:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_93983.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_93983.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Polly Barton’s new book, “Fifty Sounds,” began as a way of processing her memories of Japan and feelings of being “between cultures and languages.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2001/10/14/stage/shaking-a-spear-for-the-bard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-21T14:30:41+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/20/stage/hideki-noda-fakespeare/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-21T15:17:11+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_93964.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_93964.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Issey Takahashi stands out as a dapper salaryman who sets out to solve a mystery in Hideki Noda’s new play, “Fakespeare.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/23/films/saitama-kimchi-diary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-23T20:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_94634-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_94634.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A taste for social justice: A group of mothers whose children attend a cash-strapped ethnic Korean school make and sell kimchi to combat discrimination.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/24/films/film-reviews/the-door-into-summer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-24T10:10:09+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_94550.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_94550.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of bounds: Kento Yamazaki (left) and Kaya Kiyohara (right) play adoptive siblings with a thing for each other in Takahiro Miki’s “The Door into Summer.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/23/films/filipiniana-short-shorts-film-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-23T19:55:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/np_file_94729.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_94729.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The closing ceremony for the Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia in Tokyo was held on June 21. Filipino director Rafael Manuel received the festival’s top award for his short film, "Filipiniana."]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/24/films/film-reviews/ito-ren-komai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-24T10:30:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2626dadb1e2fc7206e3c21225375f0c3.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ito movie still]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/02/arts/hiroshima-panels-restoration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-24T12:40:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_84329-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84329.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supplied photo shows "Ghosts," the first panel in a series of 15 paintings depicting the aftermath of 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima. It is set to be restored for the first time, 71 years after its release.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/13/entertainment-news/kenzo-takeda-auction-art-fashion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-24T12:40:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_86832.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_86832.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An auction of items belonging to late Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada is held by auction operator Artcurial on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/06/24/general/can-japanese-light-novels-remain-publishing-heavyweights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-06-24T23:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p11-kelts-culturesmash-a-20180625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sam Pinansky, founder of light novel publisher J-Novel Club]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sow the seeds: Hikari says she wants to show people outside of Japan things they can only experience being here, such as local plants and flowers, via her digital uploads.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/06/27/books/book-reviews/oishii-the-history-of-sushi/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eric C. Rath’s exploration of all aspects of sushi’s history in “Oishii: The History of Sushi” is exhaustive, but not exhausting.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_95370.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The territorial dispute between Japan and China over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea is an issue Japan's rightist activists rally around online.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With races held multiple times per day year-round, professional keirin riders compete more frequently than athletes in any other individual sport.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/07/07/tv/tokyo-2020-olympic-trailers-far/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-07-07T20:53:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a spot for the BBC, production company Nexus, with direction and VFX from Factory Fifteen and design by Fantasista Utamaro, imagine a neon Tokyo with Olympians thrust into Japanese culture.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/07/08/films/olympics-films/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moments in history: As the 2020 Tokyo Olympics approaches, films such as Kon Ichikawa’s “Tokyo Olympiad” (1965) offer a penetrating look back at not only the games and athletes, but the excitement and pressures surrounding the event as well. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-07-08T16:55:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The high road: Yuya Ishii’s road movie about two families overcoming cultural barriers was shot entirely on location in South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/07/09/books/black-box-shiori-ito/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rise up: Journalist and documentary filmmaker Shiori Ito became the face of Japan’s #MeToo movement after speaking out about an alleged sexual assault that took place in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/07/01/tv/the-naked-director-season-2-review/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/07/11/books/book-reviews/tea-life-tea-mind/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-07-11T10:10:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/07/11/books/book-reviews/lady-joker-volume-one/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/07/11/books/book-reviews/impressions-of-japanese-architecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-07-13T11:59:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_98203.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With “Impressions of Japanese Architecture,” Ralph Adams Cram was the first Westerner to produce a comprehensive title in English on Japan's traditional wooden architecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/30/books/japanese-prints-world-of-go-edo-period/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-07-14T10:30:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/07/15/films/film-reviews/tokyo-kurds-immigration/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/07/15/films/film-reviews/restart-showbiz/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Return to your roots: In “Restart,” the vocalist of folk duo Honebone plays a struggling performer who flees to her hometown on the heels of a scandal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/07/22/films/film-reviews/inubu-the-dog-club/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/07/22/general/olympic-opening-ceremony-that-wasnt/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Full of surprises: Will the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony have moments as meme-worthy as then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s appearance as video game character Mario at the Rio 2016 closing ceremony?]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/07/22/films/mamoru-hosoda-hayao-miyazaki-anime/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Let them talk: Many of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films feature young women as protagonists, including Chihiro, a spoiled girl who enters a land of spirits and learns to fend for herself in “Spirited Away.”]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tennis player Naomi Osaka, competing for Japan, stands with a torch before lighting the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony of the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/07/29/entertainment-news/yuko-oshima-kento-hayashi-marriage/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/04/28/films/film-reviews/daido-moriyama-documentary/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Look to the future: Daido Moriyama, who has been called the “godfather of Japanese street photography,” is more intent on pushing forward than looking back in Gen Iwama’s documentary.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Still image from the documentary 'Tokyo Ritornello']]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/08/13/films/film-reviews/zero-as-you/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Standing proud: Yukio Mishima's legendary verbal dual with members of Japan's student protest movement is brought to the big screen in "Mishima: The Last Debate."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finding the right words: Katie Kitamura's "Intimacies" centers on an interpreter at The Hague who is dealing with loss, an uncertain relationship and an insecure world.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akiko Shinoda and her family were recorded singing the national anthem of Antigua and Barbuda. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-08-20T10:36:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-08-20T23:28:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/1996/06/13/music/hallo-spaceboy-welcome-back-to-earth/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/02/music/musical-pilgrimage-adopted-homeland-dygl/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[“This guy represents our future. It’s part of how we stay relevant.” — Jon Snoddy, a senior Walt Disney Imagineering executive]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Strong bonds: Keito Okamoto (right) says his admiration for his father, Kenichi (left), drew him to the role of Nicolas in Florian Zeller's play, "The Son."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[You know their names.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-08-26T17:59:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_107895.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Write past wrongs: A teenage girl (Moka Kamishiraishi, right) sets out to find her birth father with the help of a calligraphy expert (Kanata Hosoda, left) in Shuichi Okita’s feel-good comedy, “One Summer Story.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/08/27/films/shinichi-sonny-chiba-tribute/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-08-29T08:07:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_108348.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Multifaceted: Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba (right) brought his martial arts skills to movies in a range of genres, from sci-fi to period films such as "Samurai Reincarnation" with co-star Kenji Sawada (left).]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2002/09/22/music/the-mans-on-faaay-ya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-08-30T16:48:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fm20020922a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee "Scratch" Perry shares his gospel with the crowd at the Tokyo club]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2006/10/27/music/on-u-sound-from-way-out/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-08-30T16:50:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fm20061027a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adrian Sherwood]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/08/30/music/namimonogatari2021-aichi-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-08-31T16:08:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_109325.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A spectator's view of the stage at Namimonogatari2021 in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture, on Sunday (blurring added by Kyodo)]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2001/03/02/music/dub-squad-takes-a-journey-into-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-08-31T19:25:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2006/10/27/music/dub-pioneer-lee-perry-talks-god-ganja-and-japanese-gadgets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-08-31T19:45:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fm20061027a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Scratch Perry]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/02/films/film-reviews/cinematic-liars-of-asahi-za/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-09-02T10:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_109563.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Funny business: Mitsuki Takahata (right) plays a young woman with excellent taste in films who takes some liberties with the truth to keep an on-the-ropes theater running in “Cinematic Liars of Asahi-za.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/03/films/film-reviews/moonlight-shadow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-09-03T10:15:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_109123.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Together again: Satsuki (Nana Komatsu, right) is offered an opportunity to reunite with her lover Hitoshi (Hio Miyazawa, left) after his sudden death in a traffic accident. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/03/music/ms-machine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-09-03T13:14:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_109898.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Make a statement: The trio behind Ms. Machine met through their shared interest in street fashion, and went on to create what has been categorized as a “feminist band” by Japanese media.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-09-07T07:53:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_110783.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jean-Paul Belmondo at the Cafe de la Paix in Paris in 2009. One of postwar French cinema's biggest stars, Belmondo died Monday at his home in Paris at age 88.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_110785.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. actor Michael K. Williams outside of his old apartment complex in Brooklyn in June 2017]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/08/books/book-reviews/best-day-walks-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-09-08T11:43:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_110843.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tip-top shape: “Best Day Walks Japan” offers a variety of routes throughout Japan, including day hikes, cave walks, boardwalk strolls and trails that are child-friendly.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-09-09T10:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_110983.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grand plans: 88rising founder Sean Miyashiro's mission for the arts collective is to "provide and celebrate Asian creatives, especially in music, no matter where you’re from.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/09/films/film-reviews/sensei-would-you-sit-beside-me/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-09-09T10:10:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For better or for worse: A popular manga artist (Haru Kuroki, right) bases a new series on her personal life, including her on-the-rocks marriage with her former mentor (Tasuku Emoto, left).]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/08/tv/michael-k-williams-the-wire-omar-little/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-09-08T19:06:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[HBO executives initially asked for the scene introducing Michael K. Williams as Omar Little to be cut. But the scene stayed in, and Williams ended up appearing in all five seasons.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-09-11T10:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s “Corns’ Comic: Corn Swinging the Hair”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/15/entertainment-news/norm-macdonald-obituary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-09-15T12:11:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_112238.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Norm Macdonald in New York in March 2011. Macdonald had a deadpan style honed on the stand-up circuit, first in his native Canada and then in the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/16/films/ghost-in-the-shell-imax/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-09-16T10:10:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_112292.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cyberpunk specter: Mamoru Oshii’s “Ghost in the Shell” is an adaptation of the original manga by Masamune Shirow.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/16/films/film-reviews/a-balance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-09-16T15:29:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_112358.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shades of gray: Kumi Takiuchi stars as a documentary filmmaker whose sense of truth and justice is muddied by her father’s misdeeds in “A Balance.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/17/films/shang-chi-marvel-stereotypes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-09-17T11:38:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” is Marvel’s first and only superhero film starring an Asian lead (Simu Liu), with an Asian American director and writer, and based on a character who was actually Asian in the original comic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/19/books/book-of-form-and-emptiness-ruth-ozeki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-09-19T14:31:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_112566.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Author Ruth Ozeki explores modern society's relationship with material objects in “The Book of Form and Emptiness.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/20/entertainment-news/emmy-awards-the-crown-ted-lasso/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jungkook and Jimin of the South Korean boy band BTS at United Nations Headquarters in New York on Monday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Did the writers at Rockin' On Japan and Quick Japan misinterpret Keigo Oyamada's words on the topic of bullying? The musician believes so. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-09-23T10:10:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_113492.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keisuke Yoshida’s “Intolerance” centers on a grieving father (Arata Furuta, left) who, after suddenly losing his daughter, lashes out at everyone around him because he is unable to accept the circumstances of her death. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kei Tanaka stars in “First Gentleman” as a happy-go-lucky ornithologist who returns from a work trip to discover that his wife has become Japan’s first female premier.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Melvin Van Peebles, in his Manhattan apartment in 2010. Called the godfather of modern Black cinema and a trailblazer in American independent movies, Van Peebles died on Sept. 21, 2021 at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2005/10/13/films/when-revolution-came-to-the-big-screen/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mario and Marvin Peebles in Tokyo to promote the docudrama about the making of "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song"]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: DJs Alan Walker, Zedd and Steve Aoki performed a special back-to-back set to fill in for Kygo’s sudden absence on Supersonic’s Sunday night. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buffalo Daughter found the inspiration to write their new album’s centerpiece track, “Global Warming Kills Us All,” after experiencing the intense summer heat in 2018. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A soul is given a second chance to redeem himself for a past error by “homestaying” in a live body in “Colorful,” Eto Mori’s English-language debut.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor looks at sketches of Katsushika Hokusai at an advance viewing of an exhibit at the British Museum in London on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/30/films/film-reviews/eternally-younger-than-those-idiots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-09-30T10:10:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Horigai (Yui Sakuma, right) bumbles through her university days, but encounters with friends like Inogi (Nao, left) provide valuable life lessons in “Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/30/films/bilal-kawazoe-whole/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-09-30T13:02:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Bilal Kawazoe’s “Whole,” Usman Kawazoe (left) and Kai Sandy (right) play two biracial men who bond over coming to terms with their identity while living in Japan. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/30/films/film-reviews/yellow-dragons-village/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-09-30T16:47:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of eight young adults fights for their lives after encountering murder-driven villagers during what was supposed to be a weekend of frivolous fun in the mountains in “Yellow Dragon's Village.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/09/12/books/japanese-sake-bible/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-01T18:33:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tastemakers: Nishida Shuzo sake brewery in Aomori is known for its Denshu brand. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/03/tv/star-wars-visions/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The character Ronin is voiced by Masaki Terasoma in Japanese and Brian Tee in the English dub in the "Star Wars: Visions" short, "The Duel."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/03/films/bond-box-office/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-03T16:17:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daniel Craig during the world premiere of "No Time To Die" in London on Sept. 28. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/01/arts/kyotographie/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-03T21:26:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_115154.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[“Miroirs” by Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu at Kondaya Genbei Chikuin-no-Ma and Kurogura]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/07/films/film-reviews/in-the-wake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-07T10:10:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_116099.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Takehisa Zeze’s “In the Wake,” Takeru Satoh (left) and Hiroshi Abe play survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami whose fates intersect following a series of murders nearly a decade later.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/07/15/books/taiwan-novelist-wins-akutagawa-prize/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-07T12:11:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan-born novelist Li Kotomi, who won the Akutagawa Prize, speaks to the press at a hotel in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/07/films/film-reviews/onoda-biopic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-07T12:14:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kanji Tsuda plays Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese soldier to surrender after World War II, during his time on the island of Lubang in Arthur Harari’s "Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/08/17/music/mary-fujishima-j-pop-johnnys/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-07T20:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_106623.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mary Fujishima, honorary chairperson of talent agency Johnny &amp; Associates Inc., died of pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo on Aug. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/27/stage/kabuki-actor-kataoka-hidetaro-national-treasure-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-07T20:10:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kataoka Hidetaro]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/19/films/masakazu-tamura-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-07T20:10:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masakazu Tamura]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/08/stage/cameron-mackintosh-oliver/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-08T12:56:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_116636.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The title role in "Oliver!" will be played by four young actors: Hayato Evans, Kentaro Koshinaga, Tasuku Kobayashi and Ryota Takahata]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/08/books/haruki-murakami-elusive-nobel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-09T09:49:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_116694.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruki Murakami]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/02/stage/kyoto-experiment-kex/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-11T14:40:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/np_file_115458.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_115458.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indonesian musician Rully Shabara will present an improvisational performance called “Raung Jagat: Drone of Colours” at Kyoto Experiment.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/08/films/hong-kong-censors-movies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-12T10:55:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/np_file_116664.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_116664.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mok Kwan-ling, an independent film director, was ordered by the censors to make 14 cuts and to change the name of her film, "Far From Home."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/14/films/film-reviews/baragaki-unbroken-samurai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-14T10:40:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/np_file_117365.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_117365.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junichi Okada (front) delivers a simmering performance as Hijikata Toshizo, deputy to Shinsengumi leader Kondo Isami (Ryohei Suzuki, back center), in “Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai.”]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/14/films/cary-joji-fukunaga-james-bond/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-14T13:55:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/np_file_117374.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_117374.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[American director Cary Joji Fukunaga brings the latest and last installment of James Bond to star Daniel Craig as secret agent 007.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/07/films/arthur-harari-onoda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-14T16:31:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/np_file_116430.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_116430.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroo Onoda (Kanji Tsuda, left), with his comrade, Pvt. Kinshichi Kozuka (Tetsuya Chiba), ran a ragtag guerilla campaign on the Philippine island of Lubang for decades after World War II.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/15/films/sion-sono-prisoners-of-the-ghostland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-15T10:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_117643.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: Director Sion Sono, Nicolas Cage and Sofia Boutella on the set of “Prisoners of the Ghostland”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/17/books/book-reviews/mooncakes-milk-bread/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-17T10:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/np_file_118065.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_118065.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clockwise from top: Miso corn buns, hot dog flower buns and red bean swirl buns ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/06/17/films/extraordinary-untold-japan-story-live-twice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-19T18:13:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[CONNERY]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: Connery enjoys a cocktail in Tokyo during filming of “You Only Live Twice” in July 1966; “James Bond” author Ian Fleming; Sean Connery on the set of “You Only Live Twice” in 1967]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/21/films/film-reviews/pretenders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-21T10:10:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/np_file_118784.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_118784.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Karin Ono (left) and Ai Mikami (right) play a pair of teenagers who get caught up in pulling stunts to compel people to perform good deeds. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/21/films/film-reviews/skeleton-flowers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-21T10:15:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/np_file_118851.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_118851.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sara Shida (right) plays a teen whose life shifts after her single-parent father (Arata Iura, left) brings home a new partner and she comes face-to-face with her estranged mother. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/21/arts/art-asian-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-21T10:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_118837.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[There has been a rising interest over the past five years among Asian buyers in purchasing Western artists. In Hong Kong, “Untitled (Red Warrior)” by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for about $21 million at Sotheby’s autumn sale featuring rare artworks, jewellery and ceramics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/24/books/book-reviews/north-korea-in-a-nutshell/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-24T10:13:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_119270.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang is a common gathering place for North Korea's massive military parades.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/21/films/top-10-j-horror-movies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-25T09:53:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45879.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chills and thrills: The J-horror genre is full of vengeful female ghosts who are hell-bent on terrorizing their victims.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/07/02/music/takashi-kokubo-digital-soundology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-26T11:59:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21239.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In his element: Takashi Kokubo’s 1985 album, “Digital Soundology #1 Volk von Bauhaus,” is getting a rerelease this year, as have other Japanese ambient music albums.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/28/films/film-reviews/she-is-alone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-28T10:10:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_120032.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akari Fukunaga plays a high school student who is haunted by an illicit student-teacher affair that hit too close to home in “She is Alone.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/28/films/film-reviews/unlock-your-heart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-28T10:15:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ai (Anna Yamada) manipulates her way into the lives of her crush and his secret girlfriend in “Unlock Your Heart.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/28/music/skye-debut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-28T11:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: Skye guitarist Shigeru Suzuki, bassist Ray Ohara, drummer Tatsuo Hayashi and keyboardist Masataka Matsutoya]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/30/films/hans-zimmer-dune-score/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-30T10:15:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_120728.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Timothee Chalamet (left) and Rebecca Ferguson (right) star in the latest film version of "Dune," directed by Denis Villeneuve.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/30/stage/opera-yuzuru-toshiki-okada/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-10-30T10:00:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_120795.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The cast of Toshiki Okada’s “Yuzuru” rehearse scenes from the opera, which draws upon a Japanese folk story about a poor farmer whose greed causes him to lose his wife's love.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/23/films/minamata-film-pollution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-11-01T04:16:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_113718.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Johnny Depp (right), alongside Minami (left), plays Eugene Smith, a photojournalist who documented the accounts of patients living with a disease caused by industrial pollution, in the film "Minamata."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/31/general/ai-haruna-paralympics/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ai Haruna (center) performs in the Tokyo Paralympics opening ceremony at the National Stadium in August.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Shion Miura’s “The Easy Life in Kamusari,” a young man from Yokohama finds it difficult to fit in with a rural mountain community, but he soon discovers there’s more to life than the trappings of city living.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuko (Mei Nagano, right) and her step-father (Kei Tanaka) have an almost sibling-like relationship in Tetsu Maeda’s “And So the Baton Is Passed.”]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lowly City Hall employee (Naoto Kataoka, left) and a teenager who has the ability to see dead people (Aina Yamada, right) pair up to get rid of a spirit haunting an old dance hall. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ahead of city pop group Omega Tribe’s 40th anniversary in 2023, music label VAP is releasing remastered versions of the band’s albums, starting with their 1983 debut “Aqua City” this past September.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The new animated series “Blade Runner: Black Lotus” centers on a replicant named Elle, who is subject to discrimination and assault in a dystopian neo-noir Los Angeles.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Sun-kyun stars in “Dr. Brain" as a brain scientist who searches for the son he thought he buried but who may be alive.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/06/films/film-reviews/eternals/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_122228.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie stars in "Eternals," Marvel's latest superhero flick, as Thena, an immortal hero dedicated to protecting humanity from enemies called Deviants.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/07/entertainment-news/ayumi-hamasaki-hospital/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mirai Moriyama (left) plays a jaded man who reflects on his life and past relationships, particularly with the one who got away (Sairi Ito, right), in “We Couldn't Become Adults.”]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nana Komatsu (left) and Kento Hayashi (right) play two young people who fall for each other as they grapple with similar afflictions in “Parasite in Love.” ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/11/stage/the-doctor-shinobu-otake/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For "The Doctor," playwright Robert Icke adapted the 1912 play “Professor Bernhardi,” changing the setting to the modern age with a female protagonist.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/16/books/book-reviews/historical-biography-captures-the-spirit-of-early-feminist-japan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defying boundaries: The former Harumi Setouchi, who wrote "Beauty in Disarray" and is known by the Buddhist name Jakucho after taking vows in 1973, visits a school in Kyoto in April.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/14/books/book-reviews/the-cat-who-saved-books/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-11-14T10:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_123536.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shy teenager is drawn into multiple quests in a parallel universe by a talking cat in Sosuke Natsukawa’s “The Cat Who Saved Books.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/29/general/takao-saito-obituary/</loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/04/03/general/kunie-tanaka-dies/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese actor Kunie Tanaka stars as an awkward but loving father in a scene from the long-running TV drama "Kita no kuni kara" (From the Northern Country) in 1983. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/17/entertainment-news/netflix-top-10/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-11-17T20:15:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_124457.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cast members Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds attend the premiere of "Red Notice" in Los Angeles, California, earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/18/films/film-reviews/come-and-go/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-11-18T11:30:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nang Tracy plays a Myanmar woman who has to fend off advances from her boss while working at a convenience store to fund her education in Lim Kar Wai’s “Come and Go.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/18/films/gensan-punch/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actor Shogen (center) stars in "Gensan Punch," a film inspired by the real story of retired amputee Japanese boxer Naozumi Tsuchiyama.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/18/films/lim-kah-wai-osaka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-11-18T14:48:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_124428.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Malaysian director Lim Kah Wai’s “Come and Go” is the final installment of his Osaka trilogy, which includes “New World” (2011) and “Fly Me to Minami” (2013).]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/20/tv/asian-american-sesame-street/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-11-20T10:10:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_124710.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Sesame Street" with introduce a new muppet named Ji-Young, a guitar-playing Korean American character who will bring rock music and conversations about racism to the children's program.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/19/music/kyary-pamyu-pamyu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-11-22T14:05:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_124560.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The video for the track “Gentenkaihi” from Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s new album “Candy Racer” shows the performer running away from a big red bow, which serves as a representation of her past self. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/21/films/emi-wada-obituary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-11-22T19:20:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese costume designer and winner of an Oscar and an Emmy, Emi Wada.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/1999/03/16/music/xtc-colors-songs-with-earthy-palette/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-11-24T14:54:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-11-25T10:15:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Cho plays a planet-hopping gunslinger who goes by the alias “Spike Spiegel” in “Cowboy Bebop.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/25/films/film-reviews/spaghetti-code-love/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-11-25T10:20:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_125607.jpeg]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/25/books/house-of-slay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-11-25T10:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: Phillip Lim, Laura Kim, Ezra J. William, Prabal Gurung and Tina Leung get ready to make their entrance at the House of Slay party at Chinese Tuxedo in Chinatown in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/27/stage/stephen-sondheim-obituary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-11-27T10:59:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to theater composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim at the White House in Washington in November 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/27/tv/cowboy-bebop-squid-game/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-11-27T12:09:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Netflix’s live-action “Cowboy Bebop” was the streaming service’s attempt to take an existing intellectual property and transform it into mainstream fare.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/26/books/godzilla-behind-the-kaiju-curtain/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Norman England’s book “Behind the Kaiju Curtain” focuses on a time when the film industry was transitioning from traditional practical effects, such as man-in-a-suit monsters, to green screens and computer graphics. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_124820.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Netflix’s “Cowboy Bebop,” John Cho embodies the bounty hunter Spike Spiegel.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/02/films/film-reviews/ruined/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A struggling fashion designer’s (Minori Hagiwara) anger over her sister’s engagement to a man she hates compels her to return home after eight years away in “Ruined.” ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/02/films/film-reviews/minamata-mandala/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[While Kazuo Hara’s “Minamata Mandala” documents the legal battles of the victims of Minamata disease and their supporters, it also endearingly explores the personal lives of the survivors.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kabuki actor Nakamura Kichiemon was designated as a living national treasure in July 2011.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A withdrawn actor (Hidetoshi Nishijima, left) and his similarly reticent driver (Toko Miura, right) become confidants in Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Drive My Car," adapted from Haruki Murakami's work.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese artist Setsuko Klossowska de Rola — artistically better known by her first name — created a collection of dining ware depicting the hands of Josephine de Beauharnais, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/03/music/jo1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-03T18:21:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The members of JO1 posed for some original photos for The Japan Times. In the front row are: Takumi Kawanishi, Ren Kawashiri, Ruki Shiroiwa, Shosei Ohira and Issei Mamehara. In the back are: Keigo Sato, Sho Yonashiro, Syoya Kimata, Junki Kono and Shion Tsurubo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_125991.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alex Kerr has witnessed a number of major societal changes in Japan over the past 25 years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/09/films/film-reviews/wheel-of-fortune-and-fantasy/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meiko (Kotone Furukawa, left) faces her ex (Ayumu Nakajima, right) after a betrayal that kept them apart for two years in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/09/films/amarachi-nwosu-diversity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-10T06:31:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_128147.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filmmaker Amarachi Nwosu’s mission to promote diversity and inclusion was borne of frustration over gaps in representation in creative spaces.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/10/films/ryusuke-hamaguchi-keisuke-yoshida/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-11T10:04:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_128451.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car,” an adaptation of a Haruki Murakami short story, has been raking in accolades abroad, including winning the best screenplay prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/12/books/book-reviews/the-shut-ins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-12T10:10:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_128630.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katherine Brabon’s “The Shut Ins” offers a firsthand account of hikikomori, people who experience acute social withdrawal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/12/films/yoko-ono-the-beatles/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon in a scene from Peter Jackson's documentary, "The Beatles: Get Back." ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/13/films/godzilla-67th-anniversary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-13T07:59:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model of Godzilla greets visitors at the premiere of the 4K restoration of the 1954 film "Godzilla" at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Los Angeles on Nov. 3.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Right: Members of the Chindon Tsukishima Sendensha troupe perform in Asakusa, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/09/25/arts/hokusai-examining-enduring-allure-japanese-icon/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/16/stage/saitama-gold-theater/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-16T11:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_129379.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saitama Gold Theater was launched in 2006 with a cast of 48 actors aged 55 and over. This month, the remaining members will perform their final show. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/16/films/film-reviews/shrieking-in-the-rain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-16T10:15:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marika Matsumoto (center) plays a first-time director in the 1980s struggling to wrangle her crew and keep the filming of her erotic melodrama on track in Eiji Uchida’s “Shrieking in the Rain.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/16/entertainment-news/bruce-springsteen-catalog-sony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-16T17:37:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singer Bruce Springsteen performs during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York City.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/18/entertainment-news/naomi-watanabe-coronavirus-infected/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-19T18:04:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naomi Watanabe]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/16/films/film-reviews/struggling-man/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-20T13:23:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/np_file_129205.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_129205.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshio Lee’s comedy about a company man who genuinely cares about those around him while harboring insecurities about his work and home life mostly deals in broad humor and cliches.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/23/films/film-reviews/underdogs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-23T11:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_130804.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsuyoshi Kumeta’s “Underdogs” focuses on four Japanese men who have ended up living in the slums of Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/23/tv/shioli-kutsuna-invasion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-23T19:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/np_file_130858-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_130858.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shioli Kutsuna stars in "Invasion” as a Japanese aerospace technician who becomes desperate to find answers when her lover’s space shuttle is destroyed en route to the International Space Station.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/25/tv/future-diary-bachelor-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-25T10:15:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_131310.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Netflix’s “The Future Diary” brings together two strangers who are given instructions and prompts to act out a love story. The kicker? They have to part ways at the end, no matter their feelings for each other.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/26/music/local-idol-groups-return/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-26T10:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_131474.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Idol-pop outfits such as OSU are trying to reconnect with fans in person, which is vital to their popularity.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/25/tv/johnnys-pop-stars-sasuke/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-26T20:09:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 2021 edition of “Sasuke” will feature four Johnny’s performers: (clockwise from top left) Rinne Sugeta, Hideki Ajima, Ryoichi Tsukada and Hikaru Iwamoto.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/17/films/streaming-anime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-12-29T10:58:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_129374.jpeg]]></image:title>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shingo Katori]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-12-30T10:15:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Sion Sono’s “Red Post on Escher Street,” Mala Morgan plays the dead but very alive-looking girlfriend of an indie film director whose methods for producing a movie reflect those of Sono himself.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-12-30T10:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two students compete in the Hakone ekiden road relay.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/30/general/mizuhiki-knot-tying/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mizuhiki piece created by Kyoko Omoda at an exhibit in Tokyo on Dec. 5]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2022-01-02T10:10:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/01/06/films/film-reviews/haruhara-sans-recorder/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoshi Sugita’s “Haruhara-san’s Recorder” is based on a tanka, a form of 31-syllable lyric poetry, by Naoko Higashi.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/01/07/films/peter-bogdanovich-dies/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, in Santa Monica, California, in 2007. Bogdanovich was nothing short of a cinematic prodigy. "I was born,” he liked to say. "And then I liked movies.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/01/08/tv/aggretsuko-season-four/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Season four of Netflix’s “Aggretsuko” explores the harsh realities of the modern workplace and toxic corporate culture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2022-02-05T22:47:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_138931.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chris Glenn, author of “The Battle of Sekigahara,” was appointed as Sekigahara’s tourism ambassador after the publication of his first book on the historic battle in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/04/films/china-fight-club-cut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-09T10:27:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/np_file_138943.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_138943.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A streaming service in China recently released an altered version of "Fight Club," the 1999 film starring Brad Pitt (center) and Edward Norton. The censored cut features a different, less violent ending.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/03/26/stage/a-torturer-speaks-about-the-pain-and-pleasures-of-pinter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-09T14:37:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-sp-nt-a-20140327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Set pieces: Timothy Harris (standing right) with the Black Stripe actors he directs in the company’s Harold Pinter double bill, “Ashes to Ashes” and “One for the Road.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/03/19/stage/tohoku-schools-plays-tell-how-it-is/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-09T14:38:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ad libbing: Drama-class students at Iwaki Integrated High School in Fukushima Prefecture prepare for an exam in which they had to deliver a monologue about themselves.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/02/19/stage/abt-brings-magical-moments-to-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-09T14:39:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ft20140220a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ft20140220a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Life's a stage: American Ballet Theater's corps de ballet in "The Nutcracker"]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/02/19/stage/young-k-ballet-school-dancers-get-set-for-the-big-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-09T14:39:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ft20140220a3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ft20140220a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Like so: ABT instructor Harriet Clark works with K-Ballet School pupils in rehearsals for "The Nutcracker."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/01/29/stage/twice-as-nice-the-full-monty-and-peeping-tom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-09T14:40:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ft20140130a3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ft20140130a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[No hiding place: A flier shows the principal cast members of "The Full Monty" who will shortly start baring all before Tokyo audiences in a Japanese version of the American musical version of 1997's hit British comedy movie "The Full Monty." The story follows six jobless workers who decide to organize and perform in a one-off strip show to lift their spirits and possibly make a bit of money.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/01/22/stage/workshops-for-theater-and-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-09T14:40:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ft20140123a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ft20140123a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Human drama: Kumiko Ogasawara (third left) leads a recent Yamanote Jijosha theater workshop for workers in the buildup to their showcase performance.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/12/18/stage/miuras-sex-whirlpool-wows-a-bashful-paris/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-09T14:41:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[ft20131219a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waiting game: What to talk about before the orgy begins in "Ai no Uzu"?]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/10/films/film-reviews/what-to-do-with-the-dead-kaiju/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-10T10:20:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/np_file_138940.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_138940.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryosuke Yamada (left) and Tao Tsuchiya (right) play former lovers who find themselves in a race against time to protect their fellow citizens from the noxious remains of a giant reptilian monster in “What to Do with the Dead Kaiju?”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/10/films/film-reviews/just-remembering/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-10T10:10:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/np_file_139498.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_139498.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daigo Matsui’s “Just Remembering” goes backward in time to explore a romantic relationship between a taxi driver (Sairi Ito, left) and a former dancer (Sosuke Ikematsu).]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/13/books/book-reviews/of-arcs-and-circles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-13T10:20:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_139726.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Landscape artist Marc Peter Keane has lived in Kyoto for more than 20 years, and his collection of essays, “Of Arcs and Circles,” are deeply influenced by Japanese aesthetics. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/01/20/films/digital-push-anime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-11T10:19:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/np_file_135864-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_135864.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Major foreign media companies are making aggressive moves into the anime realm by taking an active role in creating original projects, such as “Star Wars: Visions” on Disney+.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/11/music/tokyo-ageha-studio-coast-closes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-11T12:07:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_139734.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[AgeHa's size and party atmosphere made the nightclub a popular spot for Tokyo's youth to gather. It also offered a space for a diverse set of local sounds and performers to grow, including LGBTQ+ events such as the long-running Shangri-La night.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/12/24/music/escapist-bops-and-deep-pop-music-was-a-mood-in-2021-j-pop-k-pop-bts-niziu-ado/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-11T19:59:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_131114.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unlike previous years in which Zozo Marine Stadium would see packed crowds, this year's Supersonic festival scaled back and kept fans socially distant. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/06/music/lata-mangeshkar-dies-92/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-11T20:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/np_file_139405.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_139405.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singer Lata Mangeshkar at an event in June 2010 in Mumbai. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/07/music/koichi-sugiyama-japanese-composer-dragon-quest-dies-90/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-11T20:03:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_116704.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koichi Sugiyama (right) is recognized by Guinness World Records in September 2016 as the oldest person to compose music for a video game.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/08/25/music/rolling-stones-drummer-charlie-watts-dies-80/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-11T20:04:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/np_file_108198.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_108198.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Love is strong: Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones performs during a concert of their "No Filter" European tour in France in October 2017.  ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/11/films/oscars-ryusuke-hamaguchi-drive-my-car-japanese-film-awards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-12T08:59:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/np_file_140493.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_140493.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi receives applause after a screening for his film, "Drive My Car," at the Cannes Film Festival in July.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/15/music/super-bowl-halftime-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-15T00:54:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/np_file_140998.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_140998.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. Dre and Kendrick Lamar perform during Sunday's Super Bowl LVI halftime show at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/14/entertainment-news/ivan-reitman-obituary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-15T12:49:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Producer-director Ivan Reitman at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2008]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/17/films/film-reviews/ribbon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-17T10:10:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/np_file_141364.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_141364.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A young art student struggles to find motivation after her school closes and her job offer is canceled due to the pandemic in “Ribbon.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/17/films/film-reviews/the-takatsu-river/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-17T10:20:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_141356.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahiro Komoto (left) and Naho Toda (right) play former classmates fretting about the future of their rural community in Yoshinari Nishikori’s elegiac “The Takatsu River.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/17/books/yuko-tsushima-geraldine-harcourt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-17T10:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/np_file_141299.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_141299.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[“Woman Running in the Mountains” author Yuko Tsushima wrote more than 35 novels, as well as numerous essays and short stories. Her early work often focused on women striving for independence.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/20/stage/theater-commons-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-20T10:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/np_file_141936.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_141936.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[“The Question of Faeries,” written and directed by Satoko Ichihara, examines the mechanisms of discrimination that go overlooked in Japanese society. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/21/music/sky-hi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-21T12:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/np_file_141557.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_141557.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsuhiro Hidaka, better known by his artist name Sky-Hi, launched BMSG (Be My Self Group) in September 2020 to help new artists pursue their musical careers in line with a modern, international mindset.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/19/arts/tsukioka-kogyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-21T17:41:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_141828.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsukioka Kogyo's passion for noh, Japan's oldest form of live theater, is apparent in his ukiyo-e pieces, including "Sumiyoshi Mode."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/24/films/film-reviews/chronicle-in-the-ruins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-24T10:20:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/np_file_142515.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_142515.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[“Chronicle in the Ruins” follows director Masato Hara and his wife, Maori, rebuilding their lives with their three children after a fire destroyed their home.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/24/films/hotel-iris-hiroshi-okuhara/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-24T10:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/np_file_142874-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_142874.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatoshi Nagase plays a never-named translator who engages in a sadomasochistic relationship with a young hotel desk clerk in "Hotel Iris."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/24/films/film-reviews/love-nonetheless/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-24T11:39:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_142870.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An introverted bookstore owner (Koji Seto, right) rebuffs the romantic advances of a much younger regular customer (Yumi Kawai) in Hideo Jojo's “Love Nonetheless.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/25/arts/teshikaga-extreme-cold-art-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-25T12:30:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_143107.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visual artist Lua Rivera’s “Onibi,” which is on display now at the Teshikaga Extreme Cold Art Festival, features red ribbons suspended between trees above the snow.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/27/books/vou-visual-poetry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-27T10:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/np_file_143434.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_143434.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Bird," a visual poem by Shohachiro Takahashi]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/02/27/books/scattered-all-over-the-earth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-27T10:10:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/np_file_143631.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_143631.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoko Tawada's "Scattered All Over the Earth" follows a climate refugee who is cast adrift in northern Europe after Japan has succumbed to an unspecified environmental disaster.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2005/04/20/music/s-wonderful/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-28T14:09:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/fm20050420a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fm20050420a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singer Caetano Veloso will arrive in May for his first performance in Japan in eight years, an occasion being celebrated with the release of the CD compilations (below left) "Caetano Lovers" and "Caeatano Sings."]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2006/09/24/books/book-reviews/tracing-the-genealogy-of-gekiga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-28T14:11:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2005/01/26/music/know-your-shins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-02-28T14:12:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Shins are (from left) Dave Hernandez, Marty Crandall, James Mercer and Jesse Sandoval.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/01/tv/thailand-brings-boys-love-back-japan-homegrown-dramas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-01T11:06:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_144149.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_144149.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A promotional poster for the Thai "boys' love" series "2gether."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/03/films/film-reviews/intimate-stranger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-03T10:05:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_144216.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_144216.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mother (Asuka Kurosawa, left) plays a cat-and-mouse game with a young scammer (Fuju Kamio) who claims to know her missing teenage son in “Intimate Stranger.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/03/films/film-reviews/the-last-10-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-03T10:10:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_144131.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_144131.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nana Komatsu (right) plays a woman with an incurable lung disorder who develops feelings for a former classmate (Kentaro Sakaguchi, left) in Michihito Fujii’s “The Last 10 Years.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/04/music/eurobeat-dj-boss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-04T10:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_144663.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Yokota, better known as DJ Boss, is the man behind the decks at such popular clubs as Maharaja and Velfarre. He has also been a devoted supporter of Eurobeat and a core player in Avex’s “Super Eurobeat” compilation series since 2000.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/07/books/book-reviews/ogata-korin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-04T16:57:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/np_file_122219.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_122219.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ogata Korin’s “Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight-Plank Bridge)” (after 1709).]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/06/books/book-reviews/eleven-winters-of-discontent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-06T10:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese prisoners of war during a study session at a Soviet transit camp in the port city of Nakhodka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/10/films/film-reviews/tamaran-hill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-10T10:20:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_145972.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_145972.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newcomer Hinako Watanabe (center) plays a bookworm on a literary tour of Tokyo’s forgotten past in Tadasuke Kotani’s “Tamaran Hill.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/10/films/turning-red-disney-pixar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-10T10:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_146027.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_146027.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Disney and Pixar’s all-new original feature film “Turning Red,” 13-year-old Meilin Lee begins to “poof” into a giant red panda at decidedly inconvenient times.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/10/films/film-reviews/wedding-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-10T10:10:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_145976.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_145976.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akiko Ohku’s “Wedding High” stars Ryoko Shinohara as a wedding planner whose dedicated team strives to make their clients’ big day go off without a hitch, no matter the obstacles.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/11/films/intimate-stranger-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-11T10:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_146265.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_146265.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Director Mayu Nakamura began writing the script for “Intimate Stranger” around 2006, but later decided to update the setting to incorporate the COVID-19 pandemic into the storyline.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/13/books/isabella-bird/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-13T10:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_146494.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_146494.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In his two books, “Isabella Bird and Japan: A Reassessment” and “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Revisiting Isabella Bird,” Kiyonori Kanasaka provides invaluable commentary on the works of travel writer Isabella Bird.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/13/entertainment-news/ghiblis-suzuki-honored/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-14T11:21:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_146666.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_146666.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The international animated film society ASIFA-Hollywood presented Toshio Suzuki with this year's Winsor McCay Award alongside animator Ruben A. Aquino and artist Lillian Schwartz for their lifetime achievements.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/12/books/photography-junkerman-hayama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-14T15:39:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/84.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[84.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Junkerman’s father, Charles, took hundreds of photos of Hayama’s citizens with his Nikon camera and Kodachrome color slide film, both of which were novelties in postwar Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/17/films/film-reviews/straying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-17T10:10:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_147193-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_147193.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The relationship between a couple on the verge of divorce and their respective lovers is further complicated by a missing cat in Rikiya Imaizumi’s “Straying.”]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/17/films/film-reviews/kappei/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-17T10:20:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_147096.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_147096.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideaki Ito (far right) plays a buff warrior who has spent his whole life training for a post-apocalyptic future that never came in “Kappei.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/17/stage/yuriko-kikuchi-modern-dance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-17T13:09:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_147185.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_147185.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students of the Martha Graham School perform "Panorama," which Yuriko Kikuchi reconstructed from a long-lost Graham social protest piece from 1935, at the Joyce Theater in 1999.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/20/books/book-reviews/a-fictional-commons-natsume-soseki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-20T10:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_147674.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_147674.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Novelist Natsume Soseki]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/08/general/tokyo-national-museum-150/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-18T17:59:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_145568.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The main building of the Tokyo National Museum]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/19/films/ramayana/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-19T10:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_147717.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_147717.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The newlyweds Rama and Sita in the remastered anime "Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2008/08/08/music/grandmaster-flash-fuji-rock/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-21T11:46:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fm20080808a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fm20080808a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grandmaster Flash gives our writer the eye.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/18/music/eiko-ishibashi-drive-my-car/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-21T16:32:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_147460-e1647845713430.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_147460.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eiko Ishibashi’s soundtrack for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” complements the film’s restrained visuals to draw in the audience.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/24/stage/blood-brothers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-24T10:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_148750.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_148750.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: Eiji Wentz, Haruka Kinami and Hayato Kakizawa bonded over meals and shopping in Paris years before starring together in an all-Japanese production of Willy Russell's “Blood Brothers.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/24/films/film-reviews/to-be-killed-by-a-high-school-girl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-24T19:10:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_148681.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_148681.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kei Tanaka plays a high school teacher who is intent on orchestrating his murder in Hideo Jojo's “To Be Killed by a High School Girl.”]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/12/28/films/demon-slayer-japan-top-box-office-hit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-24T13:10:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_60133.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_60133.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sign of a fighter: Pedestrians walk past a cinema showing a billboard for “Demon Slayer” in Tokyo on Oct. 16, the film’s opening day. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/24/music/eves-hourlong-music-video-sums-j-pop-2022/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-24T13:52:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_148760.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_148760.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Adam by Eve" enhances the work of Japanese musician Eve with trippy animated sequences.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/26/tv/pachinko-k-drama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-26T10:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_149186-scaled-e1648196484679.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_149186.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Minha Kim (left) and Lee Minho (right) play Sunja and Hansu in the Apple TV+ series “Pachinko,” which has a more contemporary sensibility than the novel on which it is based.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/26/films/mlabri-in-the-woods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-26T09:50:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_149136.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_149136.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yu Kaneko’s documentary “Mlabri in the Woods” centers on the Mlabri, an indigenous group living in the hills of Laos and northern Thailand. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/27/books/book-reviews/dont-worry-zen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-27T10:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_149146.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_149146.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zen Buddhist priest Shunmyo Masuno provides relateable advice based on Zen teachings to encourage readers to take a break from their busy corporate lives in “Don’t Worry.”  ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/25/films/academy-awards-history/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-26T14:43:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_148978.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_148978.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” is nominated in four categories at the 94th Academy Awards, which take place this weekend. That includes the award for best picture, a first for a Japanese film. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/29/entertainment-news/will-smith-oscars-apology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-30T10:57:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_149866.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_149866.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Will Smith slaps Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/30/entertainment-news/jada-pinkett-smith-says-season-healing-oscars-incident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-30T16:18:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_150088.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_150088.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jada Pinkett Smith arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party on March 27.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/31/films/film-reviews/two-outs-bases-loaded/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-31T10:10:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_150038.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_150038.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mizuki Itagaki (left) and Alan Abe (right) play two longtime friends whose drug-related hijinks get them into trouble in “Two Outs Bases Loaded.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/31/films/film-reviews/one-day-you-will-reach-the-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-31T10:20:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_150019.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_150019.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mana (Yukino Kishii, right) retraces her best friend Sumire’s (Minami Hamabe, left) final days before the Great East Japan Earthquake in “One Day, You Will Reach the Sea.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/01/arts/smithsonian-zen-buddhism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-04-01T10:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_150270.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_150270.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of two panels from “The Four Accomplishments” by Kano Eitoku or Kaiho Yusho, late-16th century]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/31/films/hiroshima-drive-my-car/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-03-31T22:56:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomoko Nishizaki (second from right) celebrates the Oscar win of "Drive My Car" in Hiroshima, where much of the film was shot.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. actor Bruce Willis poses on arrival for the European premiere of Glass in central London in 2019. Willis will step away from his decades-long movie career in the wake of a recent aphasia diagnosis. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/03/books/book-reviews/chesil-zainichi/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_150546.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["The Color of the Sky Is the Shape of the Heart," Chesil's novel about a young Zainichi woman coming to terms with her trauma and identity, won the Oda Sakunosuke literary prize in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/01/music/fuji-rock-lineup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-04-01T20:51:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Festival-goers gather at the main Green Stage of the Fuji Rock Festival at Naeba Ski Resort in Niigata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/04/films/moonlight-shadow-edmund-yeo/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the films that captured Edmund Yeo's heart as a child was Studio Ghibli's "Laputa: Castle in the Sky." He spent three days watching it over and over again. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/07/films/film-reviews/kingdom-of-the-apes/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A journalist and two colleagues desperately search for ways to escape after getting locked into an editing room in “Kingdom of the Apes.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/07/films/film-reviews/odd-taxi-woods-tokyo-joyride-runs-steam/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A middle-aged cab driver, who is also a walrus, gets caught up in the disappearance of a young woman in “Odd Taxi: In the Woods.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/07/films/hollywood-bias/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Studios such as Paramount Pictures have been hiring consulting firms like Culture House and CAPE.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/01/31/tv/1970s-japanese-tv-series-monkey-magic-never-matched/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Left to right: Emilie Cocquerel,  Chai Hansen, Luciane Buchanan  and Josh Thomson play Sandy, Monkey, Tripitaka and Pigsy, respectively, in "The New Legends of Monkey."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/07/entertainment-news/fujiko-a-fujio-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-04-07T17:14:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fujiko A. Fujio]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/08/28/films/still-pushing-boundaries-40-years-film/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-04-07T20:13:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kissing cousins: Naoko (left) and Kenji embark on a five-day fling in Haruhiko Arai's "It Feels So Good," throwing taboo and caution to the wind.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The wheel deal: Russell Mael (top) and his older brother Ron are on the road as Sparks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/08/tv/tokyo-vice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-04-11T19:43:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ken Watanabe (right) plays a police detective who mentors journalist Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort, left) as he navigates Japan’s criminal underbelly in the HBO Max series “Tokyo Vice.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/14/films/film-reviews/phoenix-goes-on/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-04-14T10:10:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arata Iura (left) and Ryo Narita play two best friends on the road trip of their lives in Kanata Wolf’s “Phoenix Goes On.”]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2022-04-14T10:20:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira (played as an adult by Takumi Kitamura) grows up in Hiroshima raised by his single father, Yasu (Hiroshi Abe), in Takahisa Zeze’s “Tombi: Father and Son.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arthur Huang’s drawings are made up of abstract designs that he believes tap into his unconscious memory.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/03/12/books/book-reviews/recurring-views-tokyos-utopian-dream/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-04-15T11:46:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Going in circles: Artist Noritaka Minami captures the empty interiors of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower in his photobook “1972.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/15/arts/japan-uk-royal-exhibit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-04-15T17:44:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_152156.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gallery employees pose with a set of Japanese samurai armor, the first ever diplomatic gift from Japan to Britain, now on display at an exhibition in London.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/15/arts/echigo-tsumari-setouchi-triennials/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/14/books/motoo-abiko-manga/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manga artist Motoo Abiko earned admiration during his decades-long career as the creative force behind well-known manga such as “Kaibutsu-kun” and “The Laughing Salesman.” ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/12/tv/old-enough-netflix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-04-15T23:22:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_152301.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In “Old Enough!,” young children are sent out to run an errand alone with a disguised camera crew filming their journey. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/16/books/kawabata-50-anniversary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-04-16T14:01:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/21/films/film-reviews/xxxholic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-04-21T10:10:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A high school boy (Ryunosuke Kamiki, left) with the power to see spirits makes a trade with an alluring witch (Ko Shibasaki) for a shot at a normal life in ‘xxxHolic.’]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Magic: The Gathering has spawned countless imitators, tributes and spinoffs in its 29 years as the gold standard of the collectable card game genre.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/21/music/yoshiki-charity-ukraine/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_153940.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[X Japan leader Yoshiki launched his nonprofit public benefit corporation Yoshiki Foundation America in 2010 to support humanitarian causes around the globe, most recently the Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Emergency Relief Fund launched by Rakuten chairman Hiroshi Mikitani.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anna Takeuchi rejects the melancholy of the COVID years and instead embraces aggressive optimism and humor on her delightfully buoyant second full-length album, "Tickets."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/21/films/film-reviews/tsuyukusa/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A middle-aged woman (Satomi Kobayashi, left) bonds with a fellow lonely heart (Yutaka Matsushige) in “Tsuyukusa.”]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2022-04-24T10:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[he unnamed narrator of Jessica Au’s “Cold Enough for Snow” travels to Japan with her mother, hoping to better understand her reticent parent as they navigate rainy city streets. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Louisa Lim, who worked as a correspondent for the BBC and NPR, explores the history of Hong Kong alongside her experience living there since she was a child in "Indelible City."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyotographie’s flagship showcase, “10/10 Celebrating Contemporary Japan Women Photographers,” includes the work of Noriko Hayashi, who recounts the lives of Japanese women who married Zainichi (ethnic Korean residents of Japan) men.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/27/films/honoka-challenges-assumptions-lives-severe-disabilities/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_155483.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Honoka" explores the lives of the Nishimura family, focusing on both their struggles and triumphs. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2022-04-28T10:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Orphaned Tokyoite Hibiki (voiced by Jun Shison, right) befriends a bubble-turned-human (TikTok star Riria) and names her "Uta" in Tetsuro Araki’s “Bubble.”]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The main graphic image of a stage play based on the animation film "My Neighbor Totoro," to be staged in the U.K. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/26/music/japan-orchestra-ceo/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pianist Kyohei Sorita at his training studio in Nara.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of college students investigating an abandoned public-housing complex find themselves in the midst of a death cult in “Bldg. N.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/29/music/haru-nemuri/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-04-29T10:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/np_file_155607.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_155607.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haru Nemuri is the project of Haruna Kimishima, who cites a spectrum of artists as inspiration, including Fujifabric, Bjork, Seiko Oomori and Rage Against the Machine.  ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/04/30/films/ai-bot-boy-sprouted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-04-30T16:46:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/np_file_155778.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_155778.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In "Boy Sprouted," a child with a particular dislike of tomatoes starts growing plants from his back, unbeknownst to his mother. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/26/general/athletes-ballet-workout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-03T04:42:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/np_file_119251.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_119251.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miya Nishizono (right) teaches Teikyo University swimmers how stretching through ballet will increase their athletic prowess and protect them from injury, in December 2018, in Hachioji, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/05/films/film-reviews/lesson-in-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-05T10:10:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_156287.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_156287.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A law student (Kenshi Okada, left) investiagtes a murder that the serial killer (Sadawo Abe) convicted of the crime says he did not commit in “Lesson in Murder.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/05/books/book-reviews/zazen-meditation-handbook/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-05T10:20:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_156290.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_156290.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[“Master Dogen’s Zazen Meditation Handbook” contains a translation of “Bendowa” by Eihei Dogen, who stressed the importance of seated meditation as a way of achieving englightenment.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/06/films/emma-kawawada/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-06T10:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_155119-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_155119.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lina Arashi prepared for her role as Sarya in “My Small Land” by spending time with a Kurdish high schooler and learning some of the language.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/08/books/book-reviews/how-do-you-live/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-08T10:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_157195.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_157195.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Genzaburo Yoshino’s coming-of-age story “How Do You Live?” centers on a curious 15-year-old boy nicknamed “Copper,” after the Renaissance mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus, who muses on science, ethics and philosophy with his uncle.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/10/arts/warhol-marilyn-195-million-artwork/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-10T13:04:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_157631-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_157631.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andy Warhol’s "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" painting of Marilyn Monroe was sold at Christie’s for a record $195 million. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/12/films/film-reviews/my-small-land/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-12T10:10:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_157567.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_157567.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Kurdish teenager (Lina Arashi, second from left) who has lived most of her life in Japan is abruptly faced with weighty responsibilities after her family’s refugee status is put in jeopardy in “My Small Life.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/12/films/film-reviews/drive-into-night/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-12T14:48:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_157564.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_157564.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[After a night out that goes too far, a middle-aged salesman (Tomomitsu Adachi, left) and his co-worker (Reo Tamaoki, right) are left dealing with a body and a lot of questions in “Drive Into Night.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/15/books/book-reviews/this-monk-wears-heels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-15T10:10:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_158332.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_158332.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kodo Nishimura’s memoir, “This Monk Wears Heels,” is a welcome antidote to old-fashioned ideas of gender identity.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/15/books/book-reviews/beautiful-star/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-15T10:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_158341.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_158341.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Mishima’s "Beautiful Star,” which has been translated to English by Stephen Dodd, centers on a family of four who come to realize that they are extraterrestrials from different planets in the solar system.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/12/books/all-the-lovers-in-the-night/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-13T21:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_158219.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_158219.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[While writing “All the Lovers in the Night,” in which love is imagined as light, author Mieko Kawakami extensively studied the  properties of light by interviewing experts, visiting research facilities and taking classes on string theory and quantum mechanics.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/19/films/film-reviews/wandering-questionable-subject-matter-handled-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-19T10:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_159232.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_159232.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suzu Hirose (left) plays a woman who harbors feelings for a man (Tori Matsuzaka, right) with whom she had an age-inapropriate bond as a child in “Wandering.”]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/19/films/film-reviews/shin-ultraman-no-deeper-messages-just-lot-fun/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-19T10:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_159250.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_159250.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ultraman, an alien determined to protect humanity, fends off extraterrestrials with plans to attack Earth in “Shin Ultraman.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/03/entertainment-news/netflix-studio-colorido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-18T16:27:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_156682.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_156682.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Netflix is co-producing three feature films with Studio Colorido including "Drifting Home," which premieres in September.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/21/books/stories-of-japanese-tea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-21T18:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_159536.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_159536.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[While matcha has soared in popularity overseas due to its health benefits, there is a whole world of Japanese tea many have yet to explore.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/20/music/vicke-blanka-opens-shifting-musical-influences-life-supervillan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-21T23:17:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_158319.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_158319.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vicke Blanka's recent compilation, "Supervillain," is made up of tracks chosen by his fans. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/19/books/li-kotomis-solo-dance-flows-across-prose-borders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-22T14:57:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_159399.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_159399.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan-born novelist Li Kotomi won the Taiwan-born novelist Li Kotomi won the Akutagawa Prize in 2021. She is only the second author without Japanese as her native language to win the prestigious award.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2003/07/09/films/film-reviews/try-keeping-head/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-23T07:13:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ff20030709a4a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ff20030709a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teenage warriors get ready for war in Kinji Fukasaku's "Battle Royale II"]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/26/films/film-reviews/anime-supremacy-informative-look-business-anime-stops-short-getting-real/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-26T12:03:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_159902.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_159902.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Animator Hitomi (Riho Yoshioka) hits the grind in Kohei Yoshino’s “Anime Supremacy!”]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/26/films/film-reviews/inu-oh-rock-musical-wont-headlining-anytime-soon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-26T12:04:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_159912.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_159912.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masaaki Yuasa’s “Inu-Oh” sounds great on paper but its move to the big screen comes off more like a lukewarm gig.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/28/books/book-reviews/trips-kamusari-bring-diminishing-returns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-28T10:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_160880.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_160880.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For her “Kamusari” series, author Shion Miura has built a world that is rich, vivid and written with clear enthusiasm.    ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/12/05/books/book-reviews/ametora-japan-saved-american-style/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-27T22:08:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/p22-hornyak-ametora-a-20151206.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p22-hornyak-ametora-a-20151206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dressed to thrill: Stylish miyuki-zoku members cruise Miyuki Street in Tokyo's fashionable Ginza district in August 1966.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/29/tv/musical-match-made-heaven-harajuku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-29T20:03:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_160912.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_160912.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fiddling Leona and John Paul “JP” Mathes II came together over a mutual love of music and Americana. They’re now a part of the Netflix reality show “Swap Shop,” where they show just how lucrative selling second-hand American goods to Japan can be.  ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/03/05/arts/japanese-crafts-collect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-30T07:48:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/np_file_144961.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_144961.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Annual craft design fair Collect housed over 30 gallery showcases at its in-person event at Somerset House in London. Many, including Flow Gallery (pictured above), presented artworks by Japanese artisans.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/27/music/lyricist-takashi-matsumoto-happy-end-writing-pop-helping-change-course-japanese-music-history/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-05-30T14:18:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_161295.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_161295.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takashi Matsumoto was the drummer for Happy End before he switched lanes and began focusing on writing lyrics. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/06/02/books/book-reviews/longing-and-other-stories-junichiro-tanizaki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-06-02T09:55:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_161207.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/06/02/films/film-reviews/gensan-punch-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-06-02T10:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/np_file_161447.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_161447.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Veteran character actor Shogen takes on his first starring role in Brillante Mendoza's "Gensan Punch."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/31/entertainment-news/kabuki-ichikawa-ebizo-danjuro/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-06-01T20:43:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/np_file_162092.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_162092.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo performs on top of Tokyo Skytree on the 10th anniversary of its opening, on May 22.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/06/02/music/japans-music-festivals-prepping-summer-comeback/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-06-02T10:25:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/np_file_162191.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_162191.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Music fans enjoy a set at Fuji Rock Festival before COVID-19 even existed.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/06/03/films/seven-see-years-short-shorts-film-festival-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-06-03T14:30:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/np_file_162553.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_162553.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuko Watanabe's "Boy Sprouted" opens the online portion of Short Shorts Film Festival &amp; Asia this year.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/06/02/arts/kazuto-ishimaru-salon-de-suigeikan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-06-03T18:14:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/np_file_161152-e1654161770656.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_161152.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The majority of Kazuto Ishimaru’s work consists of clay sculptures and masks, primarily containing gothic, fantasy or mythological themes.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/06/04/books/book-reviews/toshio-watanabe-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-06-04T10:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/np_file_162666.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_162666.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshio Watanabe's book looks at the bureaucrats who helped develop Taiwan, but leaves out the perspective of the Taiwanese themselves. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/06/04/films/film-reviews/tokyo-side-a-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-06-05T22:47:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/np_file_162671-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/np_file_167556.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_167556.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In “Belle,” a teenager expresses grief, pain and anger even as her alter ego is the reigning pop star of the cyberworld.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/06/30/films/film-reviews/love-is-light/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-06-30T11:10:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/np_file_167542.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_167542.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A university student (Fuju Kamio, left) fixated on the definition of love has a secret only his childhood friend (Nanase Nishino, right) knows: He can gauge feelings of love in the women around him by the tiny balls of light they emit. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/06/30/films/film-reviews/kami-wa-mikaeri-o-motomeru/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-06-30T11:15:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/np_file_167386.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_167386.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A middle-aged event worker (Tsuyoshi Muro) helps a young YouTuber (Yukino Kishii, left) with her video content until she rejects his request for money in Keisuke Yoshida’s “Kami wa Mikaeri o Motomeru.”]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/31/general/cool-japan-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-01T08:28:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_88809.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_88809.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo's Akihabara neighborhood has long been at the forefront of domestic efforts to promote Japanese culture abroad.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/02/films/thailand-boys-love-tourism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-02T10:10:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_168061.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_168061.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fans take photographs of advertising boards for Thai "boys' love" dramas at a booth at the Mini Thai Festival in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/07/films/film-reviews/believers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-07T10:20:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_168799.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_168799.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Hideo Jojo’s “Believers,” a trio of cult members (from left: Yui Kitamura, Hayato Isomura and Shohei Uno) live together on a remote island while trying to rid themselves of earthly desires, with limited success.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/07/films/film-reviews/broken-commandment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-07T10:10:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_169015.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_169015.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A young man (Shotaro Mamiya, right) grapples with revealing his identity as a member of the "burakumin" minority group in the face of hostile discrimination in Kazuo Maeda’s “Broken Commandment.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/07/music/hazy-sour-cherry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-07T13:34:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_169047.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_169047.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hazy Sour Cherry members (from left: bassist Masanori Chiba, vocalist Tsuzumi Obana, guitarist Jun Ichioka and drummer Karin Takai) broadened their sound on "Strange World" with the help of family and friends.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/08/films/taika-waititi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-08T10:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_169347.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_169347.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Although Taika Waititi was not the most obvious candidate to join the Marvel roster, the director’s “Thor: Ragnarok” (2017) was wildly successful and reinvigorated audience support for the “Thor” series.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/10/books/book-reviews/life-ceremony-sayaka-murata/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-10T10:10:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_169392.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_169392.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[“Life Ceremony,” Sayaka Murata’s collection of 12 short stories, features a macabre yet entertaining story in which the characters earnestly discuss how to prepare a deceased colleague’s flesh for dinner.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/15/films/film-reviews/amiko/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-15T11:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_170403-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_170403.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newcomer Kana Osawa (third from right) plays a socially awkward preteen who marches to the beat of her own drum in Yusuke Morii’s first feature, “Amiko.” ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/15/music/kamasami-kong-city-pop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-15T16:30:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_170763.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_170763.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kamasami Kong developed a cult following for his broadcast style as a radio DJ in Hawaii in the 1970s. His vocal stylings later became a key feature on well-known city pop albums from artists such as Tatsuro Yamashita and Toshiki Kadomatsu.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/17/books/book-reviews/fish-swimming-in-dappled-sunlight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-17T10:10:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_170952.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_170952.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riku Onda's novel, "Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight," centers on a couple piecing together what really happened during a mountain trek that resulted in the death of their guide a year prior.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/21/films/film-reviews/dawning-on-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-21T10:15:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_171781.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_171781.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two marriages suffer the consequences of sharing one home in Kenji Yamauchi’s “Dawning on Us.”]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/21/films/film-reviews/cat-and-salt-or-sugar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-21T10:10:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_171819.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_171819.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro (Kentaro Tamura, center) shares a home with his soon-to-be divorced parents, his mother’s new flame and his future step-sister in Takashi Komatsu’s “Cat and Salt, or Sugar.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/21/books/storybook-nd/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-21T10:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_171893.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_171893.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osamu Dazai’s collection of semi-autobiographical short stories,“Early Light,” contains one story in which an author suffering from writer’s block finds Mount Fuji’s beauty and the creative output it inspires to be stifling.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/22/films/fire-of-love-volcanoes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-22T10:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_172127.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_172127.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French scientists Maurice and Katia Krafft traveled the world in search of active volcanoes, writing some 20 books and making five feature films, plus countless television programs and lectures.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/06/03/arts/yayoi-kusama-jakarta-shell-mirror/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-25T10:38:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/p9-kusama-a-20180604.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-kusama-a-20180604.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors view Yayoi Kusama's "The Spirit of The Pumpkins Descended into the Heavens" (2015) at Museum MACAN in Jakarta.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/01/28/films/japanese-films-to-look-out-for/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-26T06:01:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/np_file_137471.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_137471.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daigo Matsui’s “Just Remembering,” which was inspired by Jim Jarmusch’s “Night on Earth,” depicts the romance between a taxi driver (Sairi Ito) and a dancer (Sosuke Ikematsu). ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/08/entertainment-news/gackt-voice-dysphonia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-26T06:01:33+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/np_file_111103.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_111103.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gackt]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/03/04/films/films-march-11/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-26T06:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73260.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73260.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heroes at work: One segment of Kaizo Hayashi’s three-part film, 'Bolt,' highlights the bravery of the workers at the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant who prevented a larger catastrophe after the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/01/07/films/japanese-films-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-26T06:02:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_61676.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_61676.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New beginnings: Koji Yakusho (right) stars as an ex-con trying to restart his life in Miwa Nishikawa’s drama, “Under the Open Sky.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/05/22/films/torel-indie-movies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-26T06:02:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_13222.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13222.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Survival skills: Third Window Films has made its catalog, including “Love and Other Cults,” available online in a bid to drum up earnings.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/04/18/films/japan-film-ratings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-27T17:05:59+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_81293.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81293.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The "Demon Slayer" movie, titled “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train,” was rated PG12 in Japan, but received an R rating in the U.S.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/04/18/films/demon-slayer-ratings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-27T17:06:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_81296.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81296.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The tale of an adolescent swordsman who fights demons in his endeavor to save his younger sister who has been transformed into a demon, the "Demon Slayer" anime and comic series has morphed into a national sensation.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/04/21/films/film-reviews/rurouni-kenshin-the-final/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-27T17:06:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_82387.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82387.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bring it on: In the closing installment of the “Rurouni Kenshin” storyline, the sword-wielding protagonist (Takeru Satoh, center) fights off adversaries old and new, as well as an unrelenting swarm of cutthroats.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/04/16/films/tao-tsuchiya-rurouni-kenshin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-27T17:06:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_81623.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81623.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Versatile performer: Tao Tsuchiya, who is set to appear as an intrepid ninja in the final installments of the “Rurouni Kenshin” film series, also made a name for herself dancing in a music video for Japan’s release of Sia’s hit track “Alive.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/28/music/sg5-anime-jpop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-28T10:30:32+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_172295.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_172295.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SG5, short for Sailor Guardians 5, draws inspiration from beloved anime series “Sailor Moon,” and is the first outfit of its kind to officially use the intellectual property.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/01/17/arts/new-testament-david-bowie-star-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-28T11:35:59+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/p7-thompson-bowie-a-20170118.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-thompson-bowie-a-20170118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Space invader: An iconic costume designed by Kansai Yamamoto for David Bowie's 1972-73 Ziggy Stardust tour is lit by concert footage.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/01/05/arts/difficulty-frank-gehry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-28T11:46:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/p7-thompson-gehry-a-20160106.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-thompson-gehry-a-20160106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The new old school: Frank Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris, 2014).]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/28/films/film-reviews/yokaipedia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-28T16:52:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_172890.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_172890.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of friends is transported to an alternate reality full of supernatural creatures via a magical book in “Yokaipedia.” ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/28/films/film-reviews/lovely-little-ai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-28T16:53:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_172887-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_172887.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A teenage girl (Akane Sakanoue) blossoms from a lonely wallflower to a confident fashionista with the help of a friend and confidante in "Lovely Little Ai."]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/29/films/peace-to-you-all/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-29T10:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_173392.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_173392.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 2016 documentary “Peace to You All” is a mix of stark black-and-white photographs and live footage from the conflict in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, with Juraj Mravec Jr. acting as the interviewer and photographer and his father, Juraj Mravec Sr., serving as the cameraman. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/10/books/kyoto-stories-steve-alpert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-07-28T18:32:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_169381.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_169381.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Author Steve Alpert brings new life to the "foreigner in Japan" genre by setting his novel "Kyoto Stories" in 1970s Kyoto. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/07/02/music/softly-tatsuro-yamashita/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Although Joe Hisaishi’s concerts include clips from films like “My Neighbor Totoro,” they go well beyond compilations of classic scenes.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2022-08-27T11:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Netizens criticized Japanese metal band Maximum The Hormone for supposedly making fun of overseas acts, specifically Rina Sawayama and The Linda Lindas, during their set at Summer Sonic last weekend.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[As a video game, Ghost of Tsushima was developed with both English and Japanese in mind. As a movie, it might choose one over the other.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/08/27/music/summer-sonic-2022/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Houston rapper and noted anime fan Megan Thee Stallion cosplayed as Sailor Moon during her Sunday set at the Marine Stage.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2022-09-01T10:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Charles Solomon's “The Man Who Leapt Through Film: The Art of Mamoru Hosoda” includes rough drawings, storyboards and layouts from Mamoru Hosoda's films, including his 2009 "Summer Wars." ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/01/films/film-reviews/a-hundred-flowers/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A young man (Masaki Suda, right) gains some clarity on a past trauma after discovering the diary of his estranged mother (Mieko Harada) in Genki Kawamura’s “A Hundred Flowers.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/02/films/film-reviews/green-bullet/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Six aspiring hitwomen fight for their lives when their training camp is attacked by masked men in Yugo Sakamoto’s “Green Bullet.” ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/04/films/foreign-films-translation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-09-04T10:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The English title for director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy” used an extension of the original Japanese title, roughly translated as “Coincidence and Imagination.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/02/music/rina-sawayama-hold-the-girl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-09-03T11:38:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/05/07/books/manga-unwomanly-face-of-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-09-05T08:15:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sales for the manga adaptation of Svetlana Alexievich's 1985 nonfiction book "The Unwomanly Face of War" have increased with Russia's invasion of Ukraine.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2022-09-09T10:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2022-09-09T17:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gavin Blair's “An Illustrated Guide to Samurai History and Culture” contains over 250 color images alongside thoughtful commentary on the influence of the samurai on modern culture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/08/04/films/film-reviews/let-me-hear-it-barefoot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-09-09T23:47:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two men become more than friends as they collaborate on creating recordings of fictitious adventures abroad in "Let Me Hear It Barefoot."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/16/books/superman-comes-out-dc-comics/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Life imitates art: Rihito Itagaki says he felt a natural affinity toward the gender-fluid character of Meguru in “Colorful Love: My Androgynous Boyfriend,” which is based on a popular manga series by artist Tamekou. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/08/24/books/book-reviews/sushi-master-nothing-fishy-masterful-account/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/03/arts/kimono-style/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-09-13T17:04:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A summer robe ("hito-e") from the Edo Period (1615–1868) depicting a court carriage and waterside scene]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/13/arts/photoprapher-william-klein-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-09-14T18:45:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Photographer William Klein prepares to take a photograph of a poster advertising an exhibition of his work at The Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in 2002.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/09/19/general/diversity-japans-video-game-industry-show-tokyo/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/15/films/film-reviews/hell-dogs/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An ex-cop (Junichi Okada, left) infiltrates a powerful yakuza gang by becoming a gang enforcer partnered with a boyish killer (Kentaro Sakaguchi) in "Hell Dogs."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/15/films/film-reviews/drifting-home/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sixth graders Natsume (voiced by Asami Seto, left) and Kosuke (Mutsumi Tamura) find themselves cast adrift on top of an old apartment building in “Drifting Home.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/11/films/film-reviews/the-fish-tale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-09-21T10:50:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Non plays a strange but lovable fish aficionado in Shuichi Okita’s “The Fish Tale.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/22/books/jenny-xie-poetry-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-09-22T10:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Images of China's Cultural Revolution taken by photojournalist Li Zhensheng influenced Jenny Xie's new collection of poetry, “The Rupture Tense.” Xie's poems examine China's history and its lingering effects on her family.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/21/arts/theaster-gates-afro-mingei/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[American artist Theaster Gates]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/17/films/david-bowie-moonage-daydream/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-09-22T08:31:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brett Morgen’s opus about David Bowie, “Moonage Daydream,” is billed not as a traditional documentary but as an immersive experience.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/22/films/film-reviews/i-am-makimoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-09-22T10:20:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_183259.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A local government functionary (Sadawo Abe) travels to Yamagata Prefecture to locate his deceased neighbor’s next of kin in “I Am Makimoto.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/22/films/film-reviews/riverside-mukolitta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-09-22T20:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man (Kenichi Matsuyama, fourth from right) struggling to make ends meet learns life lessons from his neighbors in “Riverside Mukolitta.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/23/music/tenka-hydration-nature/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_183731.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Creating the album “Hydration” served as a form of therapy for musician Daisuke Fujita, who was going through a difficult period in his life two years ago. The album is deeply influenced by Fujita’s love of nature.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/21/arts/aichi-triennale-four-textures/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rita Ponce de Leon’s “The Spirit Is Dreaming” at Aichi Triennale 2022]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/25/films/genki-kawamura-wins-best-director/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Genki Kawamura wins the best director award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival on Saturday in San Sebastian, Spain.
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/29/films/film-reviews/my-broken-mariko/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A young woman (Mei Nagano) looks back on her relationship with a troubled childhood friend in “My Broken Mariko.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/29/stage/kyoto-experiment-walking-tekuteku/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Azade Shahmiri’s “Voicelessness” questions narratives that are based on undocumented events.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2010/11/22/general/theyve-got-a-twitter-bot-for-that/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[They've got a Twitter bot for that]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/02/books/constance-wu-making-a-scene/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_185507.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The actor Constance Wu’s memoir, “Making a Scene,” gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at being an Asian American woman in the entertainment industry.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/26/general/japan-china-entertainment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-03T07:05:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eclectic Japanese rock band Chai has made some inroads into China's lucrative entertainment industry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/09/29/films/film-reviews/tatami-time-machine-blues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-03T11:32:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of slackers in Kyoto discover a time machine and decide to recover a lost remote control in “Tatami Time Machine Blues.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/06/films/film-reviews/to-the-supreme/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-06T10:10:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A blonde part-timer (Marika Ito) and her self-centered boyfriend (Reiji Okamoto) encounter a few bumps in their path to domestic bliss in “To the Supreme!”]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2022-10-06T10:20:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wan Marui (center) plays an office worker who discovers she and her colleagues are trapped in a time loop in Ryo Takebayashi’s “Mondays: See You ‘This’ Week!”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/06/music/yuming-anniversary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-06T10:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/06/books/nobel-prize-literature-2/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French author Annie Ernaux, known for her deceptively simple novels, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/08/arts/halvor-digernes-ceramic-art/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The timing of Digernes' rebirth as a ceramic artist coincided with the deaths of his father and stepfather, and the birth of his first child.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/11/music/can-music-festivals-go-green/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-11T19:22:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees at Deep Tropics at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park in Nashville, Tenn., on Aug. 27. The lights and sounds will be offset by the planting of trees. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/13/music/les-rallizes-denudes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-13T10:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_187652.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[After decades of intrigue, rock band Les Rallizes Denudes and its members (from left: Mikio Nagata, Takashi Mizutani, Shunichiro Shoda and Takeshi Nakamura) are finally getting the archival treatment.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/07/arts/go-for-kogei-hokuriku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-13T11:08:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_186622.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michiko Sago’s “Harmony” installation of porcelain egg-shaped balls sprawls across Natadera Temple’s gardens, with some pieces purposely broken open to reveal fungi-like forms inside.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/13/films/film-reviews/break-of-dawn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-13T16:58:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hana Sugisaki voices a young boy whose robot is hacked by an alien that needs help getting back to its home planet in “Break of Dawn.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/06/28/books/book-reviews/ring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-13T17:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/05/28/films/godfather-j-horror-escapes-genres-grip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-13T17:01:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Master at work: Director Hideo Nakata on the set of "Monsterz," his new psychological thriller.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/07/11/entertainment-news/viral-momo-challenge-hoax-based-sculpture-japanese-artist-turned-hollywood-horror-film/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-13T17:02:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Momo, the silicone sculpture by artist Keisuke Aiso that inspired an online hoax, will get a Hollywood movie.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/16/books/book-reviews/the-shining-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-16T10:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_188053.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In his psychological thriller "The Shining Sea," author Koji Suzuki uses the ocean as a metaphor to examine destiny and individual freedom.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/15/books/kaoru-takamura-lady-joker-volume-two/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-15T15:21:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_188061.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kaoru Takamura's "Lady Joker" tells the story of marginalized workers who take revenge on corporate Japan through kidnapping and extortion, but the book is also an incisive exploration of the intricacies of Japanese society.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/20/films/film-reviews/journey-beyond-the-night/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-20T10:10:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A frustrated manga artist (Yoshinari Takahashi, right) takes a perilous trip down memory lane with his old college crush (Yumiko Nakamura) in Takayuki Kayano’s “Journey Beyond the Night.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/20/films/film-reviews/the-three-sisters-of-tenmasou/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-20T11:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_188915.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman named Tamae (Non, right) arrives at an inn that is located in a world between life and death in “The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/20/films/the-ring-j-horror/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-20T13:40:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_188948.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gore Verbinski’s “The Ring” is based on Hideo Nakata’s 1998 horror film, “Ringu,” in which a vengeful spirit with long black hair and deep roots in Japanese folklore terrorizes viewers of a cursed videotape. After the release of “Ringu,” folklore demons somehow connected with modern technology became a J-horror staple.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/22/arts/sumida-mukojima-expo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-22T10:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_189418.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ken Kitano’s “The Room of Time,” on display at the Sumida Mukojima Expo in Kyojima, Sumida Ward, features portraits of local residents and expo participants printed on glass panes recovered from dilapidated houses.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/20/entertainment-news/koji-nakamoto-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-22T07:01:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Nakamoto poses in Fukuoka in February. The comedian died Wednesday after being hit by a car on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/18/films/wrongful-imprisonment-film/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-22T07:02:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a scene from the documentary film "My Anniversaries," Shoji Sakurai (center) speaks to his supporters after winning a damages suit against the Japanese government and Ibaraki Prefecture in August 2021.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/27/films/film-reviews/goodbye-bad-magazines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-27T10:10:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wholesome university grad (Kyoka, center) gets hired by a publisher of pornography in “Goodbye, Bad Magazines.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/27/films/film-reviews/whisper-of-the-heart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-27T10:20:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Childhood sweethearts Shizuku (Nana Seino, left) and Seiji (Tori Matsuzaka) keep in touch by writing each other letters in "Whisper of the Heart."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/27/music/seiji-ozawa-nagano-festival/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_190205.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maestro Seiji Ozawa (center) received a standing ovation after a performance of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” conducted by Ozawa’s long-time friend Charles Dutoit. The performance was part of the month-long Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival in Nagano Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/28/arts/notes-setouchi-autumnal-spectacle-light-shadow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-10-28T22:43:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Remains in the mind's eye" by Nozomi Murata, Takamijima (2022). The Setouchi Triennale runs till Nov. 6.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kabuki actor Matsumoto Hakuo is among the six recipients of this year's Order of Culture award.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/29/arts/basho-buson-jakuchu/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A section from Matsuo Basho’s “Nozarashi Kiko” ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/28/tv/oni-thunder-god/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The four-episode limited series “Oni: Thunder God’s Tale” centers on a quiet yet loveable thunder god and his boisterous daughter, who struggles with controlling her powers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/11/01/entertainment-news/ichikawa-ebizo-danjuro-renae-official/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_191417.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo, who assumed his family's stage name of Danjuro on Monday, poses with his son Kangen Horikoshi and Ichikawa Botan in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, on Oct. 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/11/01/entertainment-news/hideaki-takizawa-johnny-resign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-02T09:11:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Johnny &amp; Associates' office in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/11/03/films/everything-everywhere-awards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-03T10:00:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_190722.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michelle Yeoh says the reason she has trouble articulating what “Everything Everywhere All at Once” means to her “is because when you really talk about it, suddenly it comes crashing in that you have waited for so many years for something like this.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/11/03/films/film-reviews/the-zen-diary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-03T10:20:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_191535.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenji Sawada (left), seen here with Takako Matsu, plays an aging author who devotes himself to living off the land in Yuji Nakae’s “The Zen Diary.” ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/11/03/films/film-reviews/your-lovely-smile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-03T10:10:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/np_file_191653-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_191653.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In his first lead role in a film by someone else, director Hirobumi Watanabe plays a version of himself in Kah Wai Lim’s drama “Your Lovely Smile.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/13/films/film-reviews/sadako-dx/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-04T18:24:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_187634.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman with an IQ of 200 (Fuka Koshiba) searches for a solution to a deadly curse that’s threatening to spread across the internet in “Sadako DX.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/11/06/books/book-reviews/kokoro-lafcadio-hearn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T11:15:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/np_file_185482.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_185482.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lafcadio Hearn explores topics as varied as karma, art, architecture, race memory and Japan’s acceptance of impermanence in the 15 essays and stories that make up "Kokoro."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/11/05/films/tiff-35th-edition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:13:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bekir Bulbul’s touching road movie "Cloves &amp; Carnations" had its world premiere at this year's Tokyo International Film Festival. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/13/films/tiff-tokyo-filmex/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:13:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panah Panahi’s heartfelt and funny “Hit the Road” was one of the highlights of this year’s Tokyo Filmex lineup.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/11/12/films/keisuke-yoshida/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:13:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_123370.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Three of Keisuke Yoshida’s films, “Himeanole,” “Blue” and “Intolerance,” were screened at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, where he was honored as Director in Focus.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/29/films/hirokazu-koreeda-tiff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:13:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hirokazu Kore-eda helps curate the Conversation Series at Asia Lounge, a program of discussions between directors and actors from around Asia, held during the Tokyo International Film Festival. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/23/films/tiff-anime-lineup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:13:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[“Goodbye, DonGlees,” which centers on a trio of high schoolers who go on a life-defining adventure, is the debut feature from Atsuko Ishizuka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/10/22/films/tiff-ambassador-ai-hashimoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:13:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ai Hashimoto is this year's Tokyo International Film Festival ambassador.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/04/03/films/midnight-swan-tiff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:13:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Top prize: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi (left) was named best actor at this year’s Japan Academy Prizes for his role as a transgender woman that takes in her relative (Kisaki Hattori, right) and becomes a maternal figure to the teenager, who aspires to become a ballerina.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/12/16/films/film-reviews/hold-me-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:14:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57395.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57395.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inner voice: In “Hold Me Back,” Non (left) plays a lonely and insecure woman who talks to an advisor in her head that she calls "A" about her love life, including her crush on her neighbor (Kento Hayashi). ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/11/films/hold-me-back-tokyo-international-film-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:14:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50086.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50086.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Healthy headspace: Akiko Ohku's film, "Hold Me Back," explores the inner struggles of working women in modern-day Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/30/films/eiji-han-shimizu-true-north-animation-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:14:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47547-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47547.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fight to survive: Filmmaker Eiji Han Shimizu says the reason he chose the title “True North” was twofold: This is a true story of what happens in North Korea, and the phrase “true north” relates to the idea that you have found some purpose in your life, which Shimizu says he did with this film.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/10/22/films/koji-yakusho-tokyo-international-film-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:14:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45934.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45934.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Long history: Koji Yakusho, a regular at the Tokyo International Film Festival and this year's festival ambassador, was the subject of a retrospective at the event in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/05/28/films/tiff-we-are-one-movie-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:15:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_14270.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Party time: Tokyo International Film Festival’s program for the We Are One online event includes Masaaki Yuasa’s animated short, “Genius Party: Happy Machine.”]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/11/08/films/2019-tokyo-film-festival-anime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:15:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p15-schley-tiffanime-a-20191108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anime aces: Kazuki Nagashima and Hiroyuki Imaishi]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/31/films/life-spent-working-among-japans-movie-greats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:15:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/p12-schilling-obayashi-a-20191101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-schilling-obayashi-a-20191101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Movie veteran: Nobuhiko Obayashi had close relationships with some of Japan's film legends, including Akira Kurosawa.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/30/films/shin-adachis-mission-bust-myth-marital-bliss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:15:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-hadfield-shinadachi-a-20191031.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Storyteller: Shin Adachi says a good deal of "A Beloved Wife" is based on personal experience.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/23/films/yoji-yamada-tora-san-resurrection-japanese-film-institution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:15:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-schilling-yojiyamada-a-20191024.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[National treasure: Yoji Yamada brought the "Tora-san" series back to life after a 22-year absence.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/03/films/tokyo-international-film-festival-celebrate-homegrown-talent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:16:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/p11-smith-tiff-a-20191004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p11-smith-tiff-a-20191004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[City under seige: The creative sets and unusual monsters of "Ultraman" series will be featured at TIFF this year.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/04/24/films/film-reviews/lust-karaoke-box-celebrating-joys-student-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:16:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/p12-schilling-karaokeboxrev-a-20190425.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-schilling-karaokeboxrev-a-20190425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sing it loud: The students depicted in Shinya Tamada's "Lust in a Karaoke Box" are carefree and curious, but are soon brought back down to Earth.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/11/02/films/french-film-amanda-takes-top-prize-tokyo-international-film-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:16:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tiff-a-20181103.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/10/25/films/asian-presence-dominates-tokyo-international-film-festival-red-carpet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:16:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/p1-TIFF-a-20181025.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-TIFF-a-20181025.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: Producer Gabrielle Tana and actors Ralph Fiennes and Mayu Matsuoka attend the opening of the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/10/25/films/masaaki-yuasa-anime-discerning-fan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:16:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-hadfield-masaakiyuasa-a-20181026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Getting animated: The works of Masaaki Yuasa will be celebrated at this year's Tokyo International Film Festival.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/11/08/films/wondrous-cinematography-relevant-issues-semih-kaplanoglus-grain-won-tokyo-international-film-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:16:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/p16-shoji-tiffwrap-a-20171109.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-shoji-tiffwrap-a-20171109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[That's a wrap: Grand Prix winner Semih Kaplanoglu (third from left) stands with (from left to right) Seiko Holdings Corp. Director Hiromi Kanagawa, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and actor Tommy Lee Jones as he accepts the Tokyo International Film Festival's Grand Prix for his film "Grain," as well as the world's first GPS solar watch as a prize from Seiko.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/11/08/films/go-film-festival-can-roll-dice-pray-gold/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:17:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/p16-hadfield-tiffreview-a-20171109.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hadfield-tiffreview-a-20171109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finding a gem: "Of Love &amp; Law" by Hikaru Toda should be a downer according to its description but winds up being warmly optimistic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/11/03/films/tokyo-international-film-festival-social-issues-spotlight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:17:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-tiff-a-20171104.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tiff-a-20171104.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu (third from left), winner of the Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival, poses with Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and Tommy Lee Jones, who is the head of the Competition jury, in Roppongi on Friday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/10/27/stage/kabuki-actor-ebizo-urges-foreign-fans-savor-beauty-japanese-art-form-not-worry-language-barrier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:17:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-kabuki-a-20171028.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kabuki-a-20171028.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo and U.S. actor and director Tommy Lee Jones wave during a news  conference at a Kabuki event at Kabukiza Theatre as part of the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/10/26/films/getting-close-ryuichi-sakamoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:18:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/p13-shoji-coda-a-20171027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p13-shoji-coda-a-20171027.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/10/25/films/tokyo-international-film-festival-opens-rainy-red-carpet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2022-11-06T13:19:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-tiff-a-boximg-20171026_v0.2.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tiff-a-boximg-20171026_v0.2.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actors (from left) Sakura Ando, Yu Aoi, Hikari Mitsushima and Aoi Miyazaki — dubbed four “muses” of this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival — appear on the red carpet at its opening Wednesday in Tokyo’s Roppongi district. The festival runs through Nov. 3.]]></image:caption>
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