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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kotomi Inayama, 24, prepares for her first day of fishing with cormorants Saturday along the Kiso River in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture. Traditionally, only men have used the diving bird to fish but a handful of women have taken up the practice in recent years. Inayama is the sixth in the nation and the first in the Tokai region to do so.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/03/news/thin-green-line/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-03T00:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women wearing the traditional clothing of "saotome" (rice-planting women) place seedlings in the terraced paddy fields of Shimoakasaka in the village of Chihayaakasaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/03/news/down-and-dirty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-03T00:02:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young men and women jump in a muddy rice field before planting starts in Hioki, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Sunday. During the 400-year-old "Seppetobe" annual event to wish for a good harvest, some 80 people jumped around in the paddy for 40 minutes after drinking "shochu"distilled spirits.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/05/30/news/smoke-signals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-03T18:21:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People's Liberation Army soldiers carry out a drill in the ethnically restless and strife-torn Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in northwestern China on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/02/news/in-for-the-long-haul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-03T18:26:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ordinary citizens join Kenyan athletes Daniel Njenga (center), the 2007  Tokyo Marathon champion, and former marathon world record holder Eric  Wainaina at the start of a charity race Saturday at Nissan Stadium in  Yokohama. Teams of up to 20 runners competed to see who could go the farthest in four hours, seven minutes and 16 seconds — double the marathon world record time. The event, "Run for Africa 2013," was held on the sidelines of the TICAD V African aid conference.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/05/24/news/kan-yasuda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-03T18:27:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p7-mb-bibai-d-20130526.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7 mb bibai-d 20130526]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[“Tenpi (Secret of the Sky)” by Kan Yasuda]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/04/news/lines-of-least-resistance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-04T00:57:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[bx20130604a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The media get their first glimpse Monday of a prototype L0 series magnetically levitated train at the Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) test facility in Yamanashi Prefecture. JR Tokai hopes to begin service using the new maglev in 2027, connecting Tokyo and Nagoya in 40 minutes with speeds reaching 500 kph.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/05/news/tumult-in-turkey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-05T00:51:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters stand on a barricade during a demonstration in Istanbul on Monday. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday dismissed the four-day protests as the work of the country's opposition. Story: Page 5]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/05/news/quake-survivable/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-05T00:52:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers take samples from a wall at the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima on Tuesday as part of the city's checks on the structure's resistance to earthquakes. Survey work on the dome, designated as a World Heritage site, will continue until later next month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/06/news/going-down-a-treat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-06T00:22:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 4-meter-tall statue of the head of a Titan — giant humanoid creatures that appear in Hajime Isayama's blockbuster manga "Shingeki no Kyojin" ("Attack on Titan") — is on display Tuesday at the Tokyo headquarters of publisher Kodansha Ltd. In the story, the Titans prey on humans.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/08/news/laver-of-love/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-08T10:22:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese fisherman and a girl dry the first kelp catch of the season pulled from waters near Kaigara Island, part of the Russia-held Habomai islets, on Friday. About 260 Japanese fishing boats, after paying fees to Russia, fish near the island.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/08/news/urban-jungle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-08T10:25:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Marubiru, a landmark of the city's Kita Ward, is covered with vegetation Friday. The project to add nature-friendliness to the urban environment was initiated by renowned architect Tadao Ando. The foliage is expected to keep growing over the years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/09/news/good-health-charms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-09T00:41:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young girls take part in the traditional Chagu Chagu Umakko festival in the village of Takizawa, Iwate Prefecture, on Saturday. The event is said to have originated during the Edo Period, when farmers decorated working horses to wish for good health.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/10/news/yosakoi-soran-2013-in-sapporo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-10T15:21:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women dance in the finale of the annual Soran Yosakoi, a dance competition that attracted 270 teams, which were whittled down to 11 finalists.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/11/video-2/video-japans-nigerians-see-symbol-of-change-in-masquerade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-11T01:53:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Screen Shot 2013-06-11 at 1.50.36 AM]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/13/news/treasure-box/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-13T00:02:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wooden box from the Edo Period said to have been purchased in 1658 by second Chief Minister of the French Monarch Jules Mazarin and recently discovered in a small town in central France is auctioned Sunday, fetching some €7.3 million (¥955 million).]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/13/news/taking-cover/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-13T00:50:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bx20130613a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children at Sendai's Katahiracho Elementary School wear protective outfits during a disaster drill staged  Wednesday to mark the 35th anniversary of a 7.4-magnitude earthquake off Miyagi Prefecture that caused major damage to the city.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/15/news/you-oita-be-in-pictures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-15T00:01:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[AKB48 member Rino Sashihara, who won the all-female idol group's popularity contest June 8, poses with elementary school students Friday in her hometown of Oita, where she serves as the tourism ambassador.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/15/news/for-sakes-sake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-15T00:02:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bx20130615a4a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Poland native Hanna Takemoto (right) and her friend, Risa Kamishima, drink sake at a tasting event in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district Friday. About 400 kinds of rice wine were served during the one-day event.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/15/news/video-international-tokyo-toy-show-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-15T01:43:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Screen Shot 2013-06-15 at 1.27.15 AM]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/16/news/new-beginning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-16T00:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bx20130616a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Around 300 people welcome a new trawler, the Seyamaru, gifted by a Yokohama citizens' group Saturday to fishermen in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, who lost their boats in the 2011 tsunami. The vessel will be used for salmon fishing from September.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/21/news/video-nuclear-regulation-authority-emergency-response-center/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-21T11:04:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/NRA.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[NRA]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/24/news/tripping-the-light-fan-tastic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-24T00:17:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bx20130624a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dancers (from left) Gong Bing Bing from China, Meital Rotshvalb from Israel, Kalina Ivanova Konova from Bulgaria and Liu Shih-Wen from Taiwan take the stage Sunday during the eighth Nihonbuyo (Japanese traditional dance) competition for foreign and Japanese students. The event in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, drew 34 students from 10 countries, including Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/24/news/looking-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-24T00:17:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bx20130624a2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children let fly 223 balloons Sunday in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, a day after Mount Fuji was inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list, to celebrate the announcement.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/25/news/programmed-to-pop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-25T00:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bx20130625a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Z-Machines robots, Mach on guitar and Cosmo on keyboard, accompany the pop duo Amoyamo during a Monday press review at the Liquidroom in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo. The interactive robots are programmed to perform based on actions taken by their audience as well as people who access the Z-Machines website. Their debut performance was sponsored by alcoholic beverage maker Zima.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/25/video-2/live-debut-of-z-machines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-25T18:10:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Live-debut-of-Z-Machines.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Live debut of Z-Machines]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/26/news/shock-and-awe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-26T00:58:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bx20130626a2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meitetsu Department Store Co.'s 6-meter Nana-chan mannequin in front of Nagoya Station wears an expression of jaw-dropping surprise Tuesday, the kickoff of the store's summer sales campaign. Meitetsu boasted that the giant mannequin's expression represents the reaction shoppers will have when they see how much prices have been cut.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/06/28/news/zoo-bound-limited/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-06-28T00:42:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bx20130628a5a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[JR Hokkaido's renovated Asahiyama Zoo Train is shown off to the media Thursday. The limited express connects Sapporo with Asahikawa, where the popular zoo is based. Picture book author Hiroshi Abe, who used to be a keeper at the zoo, illustrated the animals on the five-car train, which will resume service on July 13.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/02/news/rolling-them-out/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-02T00:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers screen 250 "shikaku suika" (square watermelons) before shipment in Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, on Monday. Many stores use the melons, which measure 18 cm across and cost about ¥10,000, as decorations.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/03/news/back-in-the-limelight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-03T00:10:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bx20130703a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Giant panda Shin Shin is back in the public view Tuesday at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo after being sequestered last month for what turned out to be a false pregnancy. She is now able to move freely around the public enclosure, birthing room and sleeping area as she likes, the zoo said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/03/news/tree-of-life-lights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-03T23:36:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bx20130704a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children from  Yonesaki nursery school in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, sing  Wednesday during a ceremony to celebrate the successful preservation of the "miracle pine" that initially survived the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.  The tree will be illuminated at night for a year to comfort the souls of those who died in the disaster.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/06/news/glory-days/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-06T23:14:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bx20130707a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers view asagao (morning glories) at the annual Iriya Asagao Ichi flower market that opened Saturday in Taito Ward, Tokyo. Some 150,000 pots of the flower are expected to be sold before the summer event concludes Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/07/news/record-breaking-run/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-07T23:52:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bx20130708a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A line of 60 interlinked rafts float down the Tokachigawa River in Hokkaido Sunday in an attempt to top the Guinness World Record of 56 set there in 2002. Some 240 people paddled the snaking line of rafts, which was about 133 meters long.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/08/news/slideshow-row-row-row-your-tub/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-08T19:44:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/IMG_0371.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[IMG_0371]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Who says cats are afraid of water?]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/09/video-2/video-58th-matsukawa-washtub-boat-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-09T11:15:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[スクリーンショット 2013-07-09 0.46.46]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/09/news/perennial-glow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-10T00:26:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women look at "hozuki" Chinese-lantern plants Tuesday as the annual "hozuki ichi" market began at Sensoji Temple in the Asakusa district of Tokyo. Around 120 stalls selling hozuki and "furin" wind-bells will be open until Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/09/news/another-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-10T00:26:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[bx20130710a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Three-year-old Yusaku Sobue and a reporter try out rides based on the popular comic "One Piece" Tuesday during a media preview of J-World Tokyo, a new amusement park to open Thursday in the Ikebukuro district. The park is operated by the Bandai-Namco entertainment group.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/10/news/tapping-the-unusual/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-11T00:21:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women splash about  Tuesday by a fountain outside Krasnoyarsk in Siberia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/10/news/hope-trumps-heat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-11T00:22:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People swarm to buy Summer Jumbo lottery tickets Wednesday at the popular booth in Tokyo's Ginza district. The top prize — ¥300 million — will be announced Aug. 13.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/11/video-2/thunderbirds-expo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-11T20:08:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%83%E3%83%88-2013-07-11-17.39.43.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[image_Thunderbird Expo]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/12/news/from-roof-to-mouth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-12T00:52:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[bx20130712a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buddhist monks at seventh century Yakushiji Temple in the city of Nara show off special cookies baked in the shape of "onigawara" (roof ornaments) found in traditional Japanese architecture. The temple will teach children how to make the cookies using nearly the same techniques used to make the ornaments, later this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/12/news/faster-than-lightning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-12T00:52:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[bx20130712a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A dolphin breaches off Suma Beach in Kobe on Thursday. Two dolphins from Suma Aqualife Park have been brought to the beach and kept in a separated area in order to mark its official opening for summer.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/12/news/insecurity-baggage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-12T00:52:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Narita airport staff round up checked luggage Thursday after computer glitches disrupted the airport's explosives detection system and another system at immigration control. The glitches created a line about 600 people long in the departures lobby.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/12/news/end-of-an-era/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-12T20:21:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[bx20130713a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Osaka Securities Exchange conducts its last day of cash stock trading Friday. Its listed shares will be transferred Tuesday to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The two bourses, both now under the umbrella of Japan Exchange Group Inc., will integrate their derivatives operations on March 24]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/12/news/lost-in-translation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-12T20:22:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[bx20130713a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The German tabloid Bild erroneously reported Thursday that comedian Sugi-chan won ¥500 million in a lottery when in fact he was only promoting an event to mark the kickoff of the annual summer lottery ticket sales period Wednesday. An official at Bild admitted the error.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/12/culture-3/slideshow-carp-pooling-it-art-aquarium-in-nihonbashi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-12T20:58:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/aquarium1331.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[aquarium1331]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For the summer event, Nihonbashi Mitsui Hall has been transformed into fish-filled wonderland.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/13/video-2/video-art-aquarium-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-13T12:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Screen Shot 2013-07-13 at 12.00.57 PM]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/14/news/all-singing-all-dancing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-14T00:06:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Popular "enka" singer Hiroshi Itsuki (left) dons a happi coat and boards a float to take part in the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka on Saturday. Several colorfully decorated, 1-ton floats raced through the streets of Hakata the same day for the annual summer event, which runs through Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/16/news/go-man-go/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-16T00:10:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bx20130716a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[bx20130716a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men carry a festival float through the grounds of Kushida Shrine in the city of Fukuoka early Monday on the last day of the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival. Seven teams, each carrying a float that weighed 1 ton, competed along the 5-km course in the Hakata area to see who was the fastest.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/16/news/on-the-waterfront/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-16T23:36:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[bx20130717a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Computer-generated images are projected on the wall of a former dockyard in Yokohama on Monday for a press preview of "Yokohama Odyssey," a depiction of the city's history. The event, which runs till Sept. 1, celebrates the 20th anniversary of the redevelopment of the waterfront area.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/17/video-2/video-ofudamaki-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-17T01:07:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/thumbnail-Ofudamaki-Festival.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[thumbnail Ofudamaki Festival]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/16/culture-3/festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-17T01:07:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Festival-d-box-20130717.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Festival-d box 20130717]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pre-festival jitters.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/16/video-2/video-yokohama-odyssey-dockyard-projection-mapping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-17T11:16:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/thumbnail-of-Yokohama-Odyssey.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[thumbnail of Yokohama Odyssey]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/17/news/kyoto-carnival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-17T23:50:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The highlight of the Gion Festival, "Yamahoko" floats are paraded through the streets of Kyoto on Wednesday. The annual monthlong festival runs through July 31.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/18/video-2/video-ntt-docomo-presents-live-shows-by-hatsune-miku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T00:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/thumbnail-for-MikuAR.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[thumbnail for MikuAR]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/18/news/well-balanced-bot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T23:37:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bx20130719a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[bx20130719a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Murata Manufacturing Co.'s Murata Seisaku-kun robot shows off his biking skills before an audience at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Koto Ward, Tokyo, on Thursday. The robot rode the bike for 6 meters along a 2-cm-wide bar while maintaining its balance.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/19/news/plant-by-numbers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T12:15:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bx20130719a6a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Animal characters are seen in a rice field in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on Thursday. Earlier this year, local elementary school students planted rice species with different colors based on a design blueprint. Visitors can view the "rice paddy art" through early August.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/24/news/whoa-baby/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-24T23:07:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bx20130725a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor poses for a picture with wax figures of Britain's Prince William and wife, Kate, at Madame Tussauds in Tokyo on Tuesday as balloons are displayed in celebration of the birth of the royal couple's first child.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/27/news/nagasaki-five-o/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-27T22:33:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[bx20130728a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People row "peiron" Saturday during the Nagasaki Peiron Race at Nagasaki port. Boats with about 30 rowers each took turns in the 1.15-km race, which has its roots in Chinese dragon boat racing. The event will see 51 teams from Nagasaki, Hyogo and Kumamoto prefectures compete through Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/28/news/rolling-along/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-28T23:42:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bx20130729a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[bx20130729a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[East Japan Railway Co. officials greet nearly 400 people gathered at platform 13, where a commemorative train sits, to celebrate the 130th anniversary of JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on Sunday morning. The station opened in 1883 with service between Ueno and Kumagaya stations. It served as the terminal for lines going to the Tohoku region and Joshinetsu area. Below: Ueno Station is shown in 1885. kyodo, East japan Railway Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/29/news/but-can-they-throw-salt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-29T23:41:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Runners dressed in inflatable sumo wrestler costumes prepare to take part in a  5-km charity run at Battersea Park in London on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/29/news/gasping-for-air/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-29T23:42:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants taking part in the annual Bali Kite Festival carry a shark-shaped creation on the island on Friday. The seasonal gathering is intended to send a message to the gods to provide an abundant harvest. Approximately 1,120 traditional kites were launched into the sky during the three-day event.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/31/news/kyoto-protocol/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-31T00:15:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bx20130731a3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[bx20130731a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoto University professor and Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka (right) is made an honorary citizen of Kyoto by Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa during a ceremony at the Kyoto International Conference Center on Tuesday. The stem cell expert who won the Nobel last year joked that he has always wanted to be a Kyoto citizen even though he lives in the city of Osaka. Yamanaka has worked at Kyoto University since 2004.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/31/news/remembering-the-fallen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-31T00:16:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bx20130731a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[bx20130731a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buddhist monks from Kyoto hold a memorial service Sunday in Vladimir, Russia, for Imperial Japanese Army Maj. Gen. Shun Akikusa, who died in the closing days of the war after being captured by Soviet forces and sent to a forced labor camp. The monks have made annual visits to the graves of fallen Japanese soldiers in Russia since 2002, but the sites are becoming harder to find.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/01/news/brain-food/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-01T23:34:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actor and musician Takeshi Tsuruno lifts the crowd with his "Dino-A-Live" performance at the opening ceremony of the 2013 Giant Dinosaur Exhibition at the Marunouchi Building in Tokyo on Thursday. The exhibition, featuring items from the Fukui Dinosaur Museum, is being held to mark the museum's 25th anniversary, at the Marunouchi, Shin-Marunouchi and OaZO buildings until Aug. 18.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/01/news/special-delivery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-01T23:34:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bx20130802a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Hakodate Taxi Ltd. cabby shows off a special seat for pregnant women nearing labor Thursday in Hakodate, Hokkaido, as part of the carrier's new "jintsu" (labor-pain) taxi service, which expectant mothers can reserve.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/02/news/never-loses-its-luster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-02T23:16:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bx20130803a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee of jeweler Ginza Tanaka shows off a model of Mount Fuji made of 3,776 grams of solid gold Friday at its Nagoya outlet to commemorate the 3,776-meter-high volcano's UNESCO World Heritage site listing. The replica will go on sale Saturday for ¥29.25 million.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/04/culture-3/edogawaku-firework-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-04T13:39:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ss20130804edogawafireworks-m.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Edogawaku Hanabi]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Over 14,000 fireworks were set off Aug. 3 near Ichikawa Station, Chiba, for the annual Edogawaku Fireworks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/07/news/customary-touch-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-07T22:28:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Monks at Todaiji Temple dust and wipe clean the 15-meter Great Buddha statue in the city of Nara on Wednesday. It took about 150 monks to clean up the statue.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/07/news/late-to-the-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-07T22:28:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crowds attend the opening day of the Tanabata star festival in Tokyo's Asagaya district on  Wednesday. Around 1 million people are expected to visit the five-day event, which is usually held in July but in Asagaya is based on the lunar calendar.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/07/news/rock-and-roller-coaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-07T22:34:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to the Asakusa Hanayashiki amusement park, the nation's oldest, ride a roller coaster Wednesday. The park, located in Tokyo's Taito Ward, celebrated its 160th anniversary. The roller coaster itself also marked its 60th year in operation. Visitors to the theme park, which was initially a botanical garden, were treated to free rides for the day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/08/news/baptism-of-heaven/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-08T21:17:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A diver holds up a sign Thursday showing the newly chosen name of a whale shark that was brought to Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan in June. Named after Mount Tenpo in the city of Osaka, where the aquarium is located, Ten-chan measures about 4.3 meters long and is thought to be 4 or 5 years old.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/08/news/higher-horizons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-08T21:18:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Breitling Jet Team from France performs aerobatics Wednesday over the city of Fukushima to encourage reconstruction from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/12/life/fireworks-over-miajima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-12T00:57:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[web mm miejima 20130812]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fireworks light up the sky above Itsukushima Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/13/news/water-hazard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-13T22:37:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A huge column of water rises after a wartime mine dropped by a U.S. bomber was detonated Tuesday by a Maritime Self-Defense Force bomb squad near the Kammon Strait, between Yamaguchi and Fukuoka prefectures. MSDF experts blew up the 2.1-meter-diameter, 900-kg mine after moving it away from shipping routes that pass through the strait.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/13/news/casting-a-long-security-shadow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-13T22:38:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cochin Shipyard employees admire the INS Vikrant, India's first domestically built aircraft carrier, in the southwestern city of Kochi on Monday. The price tag for the 40,000-ton, 262-meter-long vessel, designed by the Indian Navy and constructed at the shipyard, is estimated at $5 billion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/14/video-2/the-2013-great-dinosaur-expo-in-marunouchi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-17T11:30:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/01/video-2/2013-shinjuku-eisa-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-17T11:31:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/07/31/video-2/the-18th-shinbashi-koichi-matsuri/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-17T11:32:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/17/news/piece-by-piece/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-18T00:09:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local residents place fist-sized white stones in the compound of Ise Shrine in Mie Prefecture on Saturday as part of renovation work currently being carried out at the renowned Shinto site.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/18/news/limited-engagement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-18T23:33:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors take a peak at the stone chamber of the Kitora burial mound in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, on Sunday. The mound, which dates to the late seventh to early eighth centuries, is decorated with a colorful mural discovered 30 years ago. It is the first — and last — time the Agency for Cultural Affairs is opening the stone chamber to the public before parts of its entrance are sealed up. A total of 3,600 visitors who won the chance to see the stone chamber will visit until Aug. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/18/news/kyushu-cloudburst/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-18T23:34:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ash plumes from Mount Sakurajima soar 5,000 meters above the city of Kagoshima after the volcano had a strong eruption at 4:31 p.m. Sunday, logging its 500th of the year. It was first eruption since October 2000 to send plumes so high. Ash darkened the skies above the city and rained down on the tracks of the JR Nippo Line, interrupting service for about 500 passengers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/18/video-2/video-image-flip-for-male-rhythmic-gymnasts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-19T11:03:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/thumbnail-for-Otake_AomoriUniv.png</image:loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/22/video-2/video-gamers-gather-for-final-night-at-old-school-shibuya-arcade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-22T00:01:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/thumbnail-for-Kobayashi_gamearcade.png</image:loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/22/news/hey-hey-were-the-monks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-23T00:07:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women chat with Buddhist monks from Kongobuji Temple in Wakayama Prefecture at the Koyasan Cafe near JR Tokyo Station during a special campaign running through Sept. 8. Kongobuji is the main temple of the Koyasan Shingon sect, and talking with the monks has become a fad with women curious about their disciplined lifestyles.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/23/news/castle-canvas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-23T19:51:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bx20130824a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Osaka Convention and  Tourism Bureau image shows 3-D computer graphic images of butterflies, greenery and waterfalls being projected onto Osaka Castle via projection mapping.  The image will be shown as part of the city's annual winter illumination event, which starts in November.  The 3-D visual effects at the castle begin Dec. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/25/news/just-be-cos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T01:13:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bx20130825a2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People dressed as characters from animated cartoons and manga pose Friday during a "cosplay" event at the Japan Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California. The showcase of popular Japanese culture is making its U.S. debut.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/26/culture-3/super-yosakoi-2013-in-omotesando/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-26T07:51:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/8258189.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Super Yosakoi 2013]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Super Yosakoi 2013]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/26/news/video-tokyo-sky-tree-lighten-up-for-2020-tokyo-olympic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-26T20:56:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/thumbnail-for-Miura_SkyTreeOlympic.png</image:loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/26/news/from-kanto-with-love/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-26T23:56:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bx20130827a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A container filled with soil and sand from Yokohama is loaded onto a ship in Kanazawa Ward on Monday. The material will be used to rebuild roads in the tsunami-affected towns of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, and Shinchi, Fukushima Prefecture. Yokohama plans to send 150,000 cu. meters of soil and sand to the two Tohoku municipalities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/27/news/show-of-confidence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-27T23:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba eats a cucumber during a Tuesday promotion in Tokyo of Fukushima-grown produce. Fukushima farmers, hit by the March 11, 2011, quake-tsunami disaster and subsequent Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant calamity, are desperately trying to regain consumer confidence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/27/news/slurp-prize/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-27T23:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bx20130828a4a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman and two girls Sunday eat "udon" noodles made in Okayama Prefecture, which won the recent U-1 Grand Prix noodle contest held in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo. Okayama's "bukkake udon" was the best-seller on the menu at the weekend event.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/08/29/news/european-tour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-29T00:32:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children learn the basics of European Union member states during a workshop, Children's International Festa 2013, on Wednesday at Europa House, the Tokyo home of the EU delegation. The event featured various lessons about the EU.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/02/video-2/video-the-32nd-asakusa-samba-carnival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-02T21:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/03/news/fish-out-of-water/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-03T16:25:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fishermen in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, haul in their first catch from fixed-net fishing since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami on Monday using two new boats purchased with donations from Yokohama residents.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/04/news/hoping-for-a-fair-wind/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-04T23:49:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students at a Japanese school in Buenos Aires look at a bulletin board  Tuesday full of material on  Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympics. The International Olympic Committee will meet in Buenos Aires this weekend to choose the host city.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/04/news/too-claws-for-comfort/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-04T23:52:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boy watches a giant blue king crab that was caught last month off Nemuro, Hokkaido, and was brought to the prefecture's Noboribetsu Marine Park Nixe on Sunday.  The crustacean weighs in at 5.7 kg — about five times the normal size.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/04/news/get-real/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-05T12:17:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Imitation brand bags are on display along with the authentic items Wednesday the RAGTAG secondhand store in Harajuku, in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo. Since the shop, which buys and sells more than 600,000 brand goods annually, found many fakes among them, it is exhibiting them until Tuesday to raise customer awareness of counterfeit goods.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/07/video-2/video-hayao-miyazaki-announces-his-retirement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-07T00:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/0906-Miyazki-9.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Hayao Miyazaki , Director, movie, at press conference,  at Kichijoji Daiichi Hotel on Sept. 6, 2013. Hodo-bu Osaki reports. Yoshiaki Miura photo.]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/06/news/video-candle-night-we-believe-tokyo-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-08T07:21:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/thumbnail-for-Miura_ZojojiOlympic.png</image:loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/08/news/video-a-night-to-remember-the-announcing-of-the-olympics-next-host-city/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-08T18:47:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/thumbnail-for-Kameda_IOCfor2020.png</image:loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/10/news/steam-cleaning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-10T23:23:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bx20130911a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers disassemble a Type C57 steam locomotive at the Umekoji train yard in the city of Kyoto on Tuesday ahead of an overhaul. Work on the engine, which is still used to transport tourists and train buffs on special occasions in Yamaguchi Prefecture, is expected to be finished by next June.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/09/news/the-first-time-tokyo-was-tapped-as-a-olympic-games-host/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-11T13:45:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/16/sports/going-going-gone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-16T22:13:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Yakult Swallows slugger Wladimir Balentien celebrates hitting his 56th home run of the year to set a new NPB single-season record on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/18/news/breezy-entertainment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-18T22:56:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[East Japan Railway Co. offers a preview Wednesday of the GranRoof commercial complex outside the Yaesu Exit at JR Tokyo Station. The three-story complex featuring 15 restaurants and shops will open Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/18/news/wheel-big/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-18T22:57:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker checks the tire of a mammoth dump truck Wednesday at a land redevelopment site in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, devastated by the March 11, 2011, tsunami. Because they're too big for the town's narrow public roads, such huge machines must be disassembled for transport to the construction sites.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/19/news/moonwalk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-20T10:18:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors take in the Geo-Cosmos display Thursday at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Koto Ward, Tokyo. Its organic LED panels usually project an image of the Earth, but in recognition of Thursday's harvest moon, it showed the celestial body based on data gathered by the satellite SELENE (Selenological and Engineering Explorer), which has been nicknamed Kaguya.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/20/life/we-mean-no-harm-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-20T16:09:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Blue-haired girls dressed as virtual pop star Hatsune Miku show off a limited version of Sony's Experia smartphone based on the hugely popular "vocaloid" voice-synthesizing app Thursday at the annual Tokyo Game Show at the Makuhari Messe convention hall in Chiba. The event opens to the public this weekend.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/21/video-2/video-tokyo-game-show-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-21T12:02:25+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/22/news/passing-the-message/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-22T19:08:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cancer survivors, caregivers and supporters walk through Yamashita Park in Yokohama on Saturday as part of the Relay For Life, a charity event being held to raise public awareness about the disease. The participants will walk around the park for 24 hours straight until noon Sunday while holding a banner bearing handprints and messages from cancer survivors.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/22/news/so-saury/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-22T19:10:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ninety-five tons of saury, the first catch of the season, are unloaded at Onahama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Saturday morning. The fish, caught overnight off Nemuro, Hokkaido, were shipped to and marketed in Iwaki after clearing radiation checks.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/23/news/catching-a-wave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-24T07:51:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/yb20130924v3a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take pictures of massive waves caused by Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, on Sunday. The storm killed at least 25 people after crashing ashore in southern China and throwing the region's transport systems into chaos on Monday. "Usagi" is the Japanese word for rabbit.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/25/news/welcome-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-25T22:59:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/yv20130926w3a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers on a China Southern Airlines flight from Dalian receive a warm welcome upon arriving at Toyama Airport on Wednesday. The budget carrier resumed the Toyama-Dalian leg of its Toyama-Beijing route, which was halted last October amid the escalating territorial row over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/25/news/spiritual-renewal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-26T00:11:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The newly built Outer Ise Shrine (left) stands near the current version Wednesday. Next month, the shrine will hold the Shikinen Sengu ceremony, as it does every 20 years, to transfer enshrined objects to new Inner and Outer shrine buildings.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/27/news/diving-in/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-27T00:40:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers choose fish at a supermarket in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Thursday, the day after the local fisheries cooperative resumed trial operations that had been suspended over the July disclosure of radioactive water leaks into the sea from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/29/news/preparing-for-the-worst/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-30T00:29:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ys20130930x1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters spray water into the Kamo River during a disaster drill Sunday in the city of Kyoto. Some 400 firefighters took part in practicing for a major earthquake that would level houses and cause fires in the ancient capital.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/09/30/news/horsing-around/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-30T22:26:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker at Mother Farm in Futtsu, Chiba Prefecture, measures how "horse-faced" he is using a special gauge. The farm will hold a humorous event each weekend until Nov. 24 for tourists who want to see how they measure up to the animals. The person whose face is longest will win a certificate and a carrot.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/02/news/every-dog-has-its-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-02T23:52:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A dog wipes out while competing in the Surf City surf dog competition in Huntington Beach, California, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/03/news/video-ceatec-japan-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-03T22:30:02+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/03/news/take-a-shrine-to/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-03T23:53:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/yj20131004x1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors walk toward the Inner Ise Shrine in Mie Prefecture on Thursday morning to pray at the new shrine building after its deity was transferred from the old building Wednesday evening in the Shikinen Sengu ceremony. The inner and outer shrines are built anew every 20 years, and enshrined objects are relocated to the new buildings.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/04/news/kyoto-calling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-04T22:49:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/yu20131005w1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Five "maiko" apprentice geisha from Kyoto pitch tours Friday on a promotion blitz near Tokyo Station during an event headed by Daisaku Kadokawa, the ancient capital's mayor. Last month, Typhoon Man-yi ravaged some tourism spots in the city, inundating the famed Arashiyama district.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/05/news/hairy-return/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-06T00:16:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/xu20131006x1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monkey named Benz (left) is groomed by a fellow primate at Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden in Oita on Saturday. After going missing last month, Benz was recaptured Tuesday and returned to his former troop. Zoo officials said Benz appears to be firmly back in charge, as the troop's second in command was seen grooming him.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/09/news/coming-in-peace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-09T23:44:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/xq20131010w1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travelers aboard a ship run by the Peace Boat NGO display a huge flag created by well-wishers from around the world as the vessel arrives Wednesday at quake- and tsunami-hit Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. About 150 people welcomed the ship, which called at the port after three months at sea on a trip across the globe.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/11/news/video-dragon-quest-phone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T17:02:46+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/11/news/in-the-mood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:03:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two workers at Hiroshima Botanical Garden view a display of 300 blue roses arranged in the shape of a heart Wednesday at the facility in Saeki Ward. Park officials hope couples and families seeing the display, which lasts till Monday, will experience a feeling of love.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/13/news/janitorial-rafting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T23:31:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ya20131014x1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shizune Nakanishi, 7, picks up garbage floating on the Dotonbori River in Osaka on Sunday. Riding in a rubber boat, she joined a two-day event to help clean up the river. A total of 150 people plan to participate through Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/13/news/iron-horse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T23:34:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ya20131014x2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of two sculptures called the Kelpies stands at the Forth and Clyde canal's eastern entrance in Falkirk, Scotland. Sculptor Andy Scott designed the 30-meter heads, part of the Helix development project, as a monument to the horse-powered past.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/15/news/banksy-bargains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-15T22:02:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/yh20131016v1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Original signed works by secretive British graffiti artist Banksy are sold at a stall in New  York's Central Park on Saturday. According to the artist's website, eight people over the course of the day were seen buying the works for just $60 apiece. The works of Banksy, who refuses to give his real name, typically sell for thousands of dollars. banksy.co.uk]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/16/news/power-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-16T20:47:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/yn20131017u1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hilda Knutsen oil shuttle tanker, operated by a firm in which Nippon Yusen K.K. has a 50 percent share, plies the seas recently. From oil to nuclear power, Asia's growth is now driving the global energy industry. Story: Page 5]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/17/news/video-scentee-scent-attachment-for-smartphones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-17T00:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/thumbnail-for-Nagata_SmartphoneScent.png</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/21/news/brake-job/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-21T21:13:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/zg20131022u3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[zg20131022u3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) worker checks an upgraded N700-series shinkansen at the train yard in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Monday. The latest upgrade will equip hundreds of the old N700 series cars with the advanced braking systems installed in the new N700A series, JR Tokai said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/21/news/hammering-it-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-21T21:14:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/zg20131022u1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[zg20131022u1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children pose Sunday in front of the silhouette of a boy swinging a sledgehammer toward a fire hydrant, painted by British graffiti artist Banksy. The mysterious street artist is 20 days into his monthlong project in New York.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/21/news/urban-farming/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-22T08:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/zg20131022u2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[zg20131022u2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boy from a kindergarten in Osaka's Kita Ward shows off a sweet potato he dug up Monday in a field next to the Shin-Umeda City shopping and office complex on the north side of Osaka Station. The nature area was created in 2006 by a group of businesses, including contractor Sekisui House Ltd., to let residents enjoy nature right in the center of the city. The children dug up the sweet potatoes, which they planted in May, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/22/news/steps-into-the-past/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-23T00:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/za20131023v3a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People in historical costumes parade from Heian Shrine toward the Kyoto Imperial Palace on Tuesday to mark the annual Jidai Matsuri (Festival of Eras), one of the three biggest festivals in the ancient capital.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/23/news/weighty-affair/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-23T21:12:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/xk20131024u1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yokozuna Harumafuji (center) performs a sumo ritual at Izumo Taisha Shrine in Shimane Prefecture on Wednesday to celebrate this year's "sengu" renovation, which takes place roughly every 60 years. Wrestlers also visited and worshiped at Nominosukune Shrine, which enshrines the founder of sumo. It was built Oct. 17 in the precinct of Izumo Taisha.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/23/news/inextinguishable-tradition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-23T22:30:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/xk20131024w1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men carry torches during the Kurama Fire Festival on Tuesday evening in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto. Some 500 torches, the largest measuring 3.5 meters in length and weighing 100 kg, lit up the sky during the annual event, which dates to 940.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/24/news/good-as-gold/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-24T23:03:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Takashimaya department store in Shinjuku, Tokyo, unveils on  Thursday an Ultraman statuette made of pure gold to celebrate the 50th anniversary of  Tsuburaya Productions Co., which created the "Ultraman"  TV series.  The figurine, priced at ¥10.5 million, is part of a special event featuring gold products that ends Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/24/news/growing-light/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-24T23:03:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The garden of Kodaiji Temple in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto, is lit up Wednesday evening, two days ahead of the start of a special illumination event that runs through Dec. 10. Painter Senrin Yamagishi designed the arrangement for the variously colored light-emitting diodes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/25/news/hospitality-blitz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-25T21:26:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women promote travel to Fukushima Prefecture on Friday in Tokyo, while tourism mascots representing Chiba and Shiga prefectures stand behind them.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/26/news/halloween-spirit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-27T00:06:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children and their parents take part in a Halloween parade Saturday in Kawasaki. Around 800 participants gathered for the event, which was held for the 17th year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/27/news/storm-survivors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-27T22:12:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukiko Hirakawa greets her two children at Okada Port on Oshima Island on Sunday morning as they returned from Yokohama, where they took shelter from Typhoon Francisco on Wednesday. The evacuation order has since been lifted for all residents.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/28/sports/prestigious-honor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-28T22:28:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles pitcher Masahiro Tanaka, who has not lost a single game all season, was Monday named as the winner of the Sawamura Award for best pitcher.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/30/news/where-east-meets-west/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-30T22:54:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito is shown items related to philosopher Kitaro Nishida (1870-1945) at the Nishida Kitaro Museum of Philosophy in Kahoku, Ishikawa Prefecture. Nishida is one of Japan's few prominent philosophers in the post-modernization era.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/30/news/almost-ready-to-roll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-30T22:55:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lead car of the new E7 series of bullet trains arrives at Shiogama port in Sendai on Wednesday before being transported to East Japan Railway Co.'s maintenance depot in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture, for checks and tests. The E7s are scheduled to start running between Tokyo and Nagano next year, and from Nagano to Kanazawa in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/30/news/suit-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-30T22:56:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People engage in the Suit Demo anti-nuclear power protest Wednesday evening in and around the Shinbashi district in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. At least about 200 people participated in the afterwork event, which took them around the business district, including Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s headquarters. Organizers, who all work in Tokyo, said they wanted to raise awareness that there are many salaried workers who are part of the anti-nuclear movement and sought to create a sense of unity among participants wearing suits.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/10/31/news/or-treat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-31T21:24:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A blue-faced honeyeater snags a waxworm from a pumpkin at Brookfield Zoo, near Chicago, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/05/news/new-heights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-05T23:48:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tadao Ando explains his latest work, a monument of living plants named "Kibo no Kabe" ("Wall of Hope"), at its public unveiling in the city of Osaka on Tuesday. The renowned architect is leading a project to plant more greenery in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/06/news/the-first-crack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-06T22:16:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fishermen process the season's first catch of snow crabs Wednesday morning in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture. According to the local fisheries cooperative, 115 males and 3,100 females were taken from the Sea of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/06/news/cross-continental-lie/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-06T22:20:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tiger Woods tees off Tuesday on Istanbul's 1,560-meter Bosphorous Bridge linking Asia and Europe, making history by hitting the first golf shots from West to East.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/08/news/any-way-you-slice-it/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T01:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers at pickle-maker Daiyasu slice pickled daikon Thursday at a factory in the city of Kyoto. Production of "senmaizuke" pickles is at its peak.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/08/news/video-international-robot-exhibition-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T20:29:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/08/news/taro-yamamoto-speaks-on-imperial-protocol-breach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T21:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Screenshot 2013-11-08 00.24.19]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/10/video-2/video-good-design-exhibition-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-10T00:05:38+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/09/news/spring-fever/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-10T08:15:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rare cherry blossoms are in full bloom at Jomine Park, Saitama Prefecture, on Friday. While the nation enjoys "hanami" viewing in spring, this variety blooms in late October to early December. satoko Kawasaki]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/11/news/checking-the-books/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-11T21:44:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elementary school children visiting KidZania Tokyo, an entertainment center in Koto Ward where kids can role-play various jobs, interview the manager of a fast food eatery Monday while acting as tax officials. Before visiting different booths to check if ledgers at the stores and the paperwork submitted to the tax office were accurate, the children were instructed by real-life tax officials about levies and how they are used.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/11/news/for-tohokus-sake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-11T22:48:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some 80 ambassadors and diplomats from about 20 countries join 1,500 runners Sunday near Tokyo's Odaiba Marine Park for the third International Friendly Run, a fundraising and social event aiding victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Part of the proceeds will go to groups helping people affected by the March 11, 2011, disasters.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/12/news/video-a-visit-to-fujitsu-laboratories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-12T20:50:28+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/12/news/light-fantastic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-12T22:33:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bishamondo Temple in the city of Kyoto is illuminated Monday night ahead of its special nighttime viewing beginning Saturday. The eighth-century temple is known for the autumn leaves in its compound.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/13/news/back-in-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T22:29:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians look up at 4  World Trade Center under construction in New York in September. The first new skyscraper at the  World Trade Center site was set to open  Wednesday, kicking off two days of ceremonies.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/14/news/video-nail-art-by-a-robotic-arm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-14T00:02:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/15/news/spiritual-lift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-15T22:21:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama welcome him following his arrival Friday at Narita International Airport. During his stay in Japan through Nov. 26, the Dalai Lama is scheduled to attend talk events and give lectures in Tokyo and other cities.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/15/news/autumn-glory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-15T22:22:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With fall colors at their peak, Kiyomizu Temple, a famous tourist attraction in the city of Kyoto, is set aglow Thursday night. The illuminations will run through Dec. 8.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/22/news/video-43rd-tokyo-motor-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T20:07:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/22/news/trigonometric-tunnel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T20:38:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People tour an illuminated tunnel built as a lattice of triangular panels at the Tokyo Dome City amusement complex on Wednesday. The 80-meter-long artwork, set aglow by light-emitting diodes in various colors, is part of the site's annual illumination event, which will run until Feb. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/22/news/golden-harvest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T20:39:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer and his wife in Kunimi, Fukushima Prefecture, on Thursday hang rows of peeled persimmons to make "anpokaki," or dried persimmons. The local delicacy was put on hold for three years because farmers feared radioactive fallout from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. The soil has since been decontaminated.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/22/news/ice-cool/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T20:39:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo from a global group of scientists, including from Chiba University, shows a research facility on an ice sheet at the South Pole that is being used to observe neutrinos. The group said Friday that it detected 28 of them at the observatory between 2010 and 2012.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/22/news/for-medicinal-purposes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T20:49:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Drug company mascots parade Friday during the Shinno-sai festival put on by Sukunahikona Shrine, which is dedicated to the gods of both Japanese and Chinese medicine, in the Doshomachi district of the city of Osaka. The area hosts many pharmaceutical wholesalers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/24/news/mystery-masquerade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-24T23:29:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ya20131125x1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People dressed as detective Kosuke Kindaichi, an imaginary character in a mystery novel series by late author Seishi Yokomizo, take part in a weekend "cosplay" event in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture. The costume party was held in memory of Yokomizo, who became famous writing the detective series, which was set in the early Showa Era. He died in 1981.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/25/news/43rd-tokyo-motor-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T18:59:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/20131120-motor-show-46.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[TMS slideshow A]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitusbishi’s Concept XR-PHEV, a plug-in hybrid SUV.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/25/news/star-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T23:25:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wooden signs bearing the names of kabuki actors are installed outside Kyoto's Minamiza Theater on Monday to advertise the upcoming yearend performances.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/27/news/selfie-satisfaction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T17:21:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With a smartphone, a couple take a "selfie" photo against a background of golden ginkgo leaves at Meiji Jingu Gaien in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/27/news/new-arrival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T22:44:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A newborn polar bear cub sleeps in an incubator Friday at the Shirahama Adventure World safari park in Wakayama Prefecture. The cub, which measures only 27 cm long and weighs less than 1 kg, will be shown to the public Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/28/news/moments-in-miniature/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-28T23:34:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model poses Thursday with a pair of Hina dolls with Mount Fuji, which was named a World Heritage site in June, in the background. Traditional doll-maker Mataro Doll also released other dolls celebrating important events of the year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/28/news/star-turn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-28T23:34:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The association of Kansai newspaper photographers awarded its top prize Wednesday to this shot of the Milky Way taken from the Tonomine Kogen plateau in Hyogo Prefecture. The image was shot by the Kobe Shimbun 's Taiji Nakanishi in the summer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/11/29/news/50-years-and-counting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-29T20:38:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wakato Ohashi Bridge in Kitakyushu is lit up with red LEDs on Thursday night to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city's founding. The special illumination will last until the end of next March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/01/news/one-down/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-01T00:46:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ya20131201a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cask with 22 spent fuel assemblies extracted from the pool of reactor 4 is seen Friday at the Fukushima No. 1 plant before its relocation to a shared pool in a separate building. It was the first time since the March 2011 meltdowns that spent fuel has been moved outside one of the plant's shattered reactor buildings. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/01/news/slideshow-at-a-glance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-01T22:33:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spend, spend, spend: Tourists, both from around Japan and from overseas, crowd Takeshita-dori, where multitudes of shops are filled with fashion items for young people.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/01/news/ancient-game-modern-venue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-01T22:39:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cultural preservation group demonstrates the traditional kick-ball game of "kemari" at Hibiya Park in Tokyo on Sunday. Dating to the seventh century, the game was popular with court nobles and later spread to other classes.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/02/news/worth-waiting-for/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-02T20:59:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hula dancers of Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, show "anpokaki" dried persimmons after sales restarted Monday in Date. Making the local delicacy was halted for three years as farmers feared radioactive fallout from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant had tainted their fruit. The product has been confirmed safe.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/03/news/video-tokyo-skytree-town-projection-mapping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-03T00:01:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/thumbnail-for-Kobayashi_SkyTreeXmas13.png</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/04/news/flashpoints/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-04T23:05:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fireworks add to the festive mood Tuesday evening at the annual "Chichibu Yomatsuri" in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture. Festival floats adorned with lanterns were carried through the town.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/04/news/high-profile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-04T23:11:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to the Kobe Luminarie are silhouetted Tuesday evening during a special showing for guests with physical disabilities. The annual light show to remember the city's 1995 quake officially begins Thursday and runs through Dec. 16.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/06/news/in-the-game/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-06T00:19:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker shows off doll-maker Kyugetsu's "hagoita" ornamental paddles with newsmakers of 2013, including ex-IOC President Jacques Rogge and Britain's baby Prince George, in Taito Ward, Tokyo, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/06/news/a-thousand-points-of-light/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-06T20:40:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A total of 1,000 candles are lit Thursday in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, to mark the 1,000th day since the 2011 quake and tsunami struck the Tohoku region.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/10/news/video-ultra-compacts-ready-to-roll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-10T00:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/thumbnail-for-Nagata_SmartMobility.png</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/11/news/refusing-to-give-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-11T23:53:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/za20131212x1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers and volunteers search Wednesday for the remains of missing people on the beach in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. A total of 45 people joined the effort in the city, where 236 residents are still missing from the March 11, 2011, tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/13/news/shopping-on-thin-ice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-13T21:18:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People skate on the first rooftop ice rink in the nation built on top of a department store after its opening Friday at Matsuya Ginza in Tokyo. The rink will close on March 2.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/13/news/clean-sweep-of-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-13T21:18:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/xp20131214v1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Priests and workers at Naritasan Shinshoji Temple in Chiba Prefecture carry out an annual cleaning ritual for year's end at dawn Friday using approximately 10-meter-long bamboo brooms.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/13/news/national-character/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-14T10:42:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/zh20131213a2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seihan Mori writes the Kanji of the Year, "wa" (ring), Thursday at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, where he is chief monk. Chosen by the public as the character best summing up the year, it symbolizes the "teamwork'' in bringing the 2020 Olympics to Tokyo and getting Mount Fuji on the World Heritage list, according to the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/15/news/video-christmas-illumination-night-2013-at-keio-plaza-hotel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-15T00:03:27+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/16/news/the-little-engine-that-could/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-16T21:52:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/yx20131217v1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yx20131217v1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pupils at Takinogawa No. 7 Elementary School in Tokyo celebrate Sunday at an event hosted by Panasonic Corp. after their attempt to run a toy train, powered by a single Panasonic Evolta AA battery, broke a Guiness world record by traveling 5.6 km along a multilevel track before running out of power. The previous record was 4 km.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/17/news/perpetual-paddles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-17T23:41:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/xh20131218w1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rows of traditional "hagoita" battledores are displayed Tuesday at Sensoji Temple in Taito Ward, Tokyo. The hagoita bear various designs, ranging from kimono-clad women, kabuki actors to the year's noted figures. The annual end-of-the-year hagoita market at the temple runs through Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/18/news/in-full-view/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-18T21:27:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/xx20131219v2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chamonix Skywalk, a five-sided glass room on the top tier of the 3,842-meter Aiguille du Midi peak in the French Alps, is unveiled to the press Tuesday. The new attraction will be opened to the public on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/22/news/artistic-rejuvenation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-22T23:31:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/yc20131223x3a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artwork by Yayoi Kusama brightens up a special guest room at the Takaraso Hotel at the Dogo Onsen hot spring resort in Ehime Prefecture in Shikoku. Kusama and four other Japanese artists redesigned five rooms at five hotels and "ryokan" (traditional inns) as part of a project to commemorate next year's 120th anniversary of the establishment of the onsen.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/22/news/if-horses-could-fly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-22T23:32:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/yc20131223x1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsuo Tanaka, who represents a group of kite fliers, dips a brush into a pot of yellow paint before coloring in a drawing of a horse's face on a kite in Sapporo on Wednesday. Tanaka has already made 100 of the kites and plans to fly a 100-meter chain of them to mark the new year. Under the Chinese zodiac, the next year will be the year of the horse.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/26/news/just-go-like-this/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-26T23:11:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/xb20131227x1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Penguins are paraded through Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan in the city of Osaka on Thursday ahead of their first public appearance of the winter. The procession on the 95-meter mat will take place twice a day from Thursday to Jan. 7 and from Jan. 11 to Jan. 13.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/26/news/monstrous-feat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-26T23:11:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/xb20131227x2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees of a marine products shop in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, put a decorative 8-meter New Year's rope around the neck of a 7.7-meter statue of manga character Gegege no Kitaro. The popular monster was created in 1959 by Sakaiminato native Shigeru Mizuki.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/27/news/video-light-up-tokyo-13/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-27T10:51:11+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/27/news/on-the-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-27T21:09:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monitor shows the dollar trading at just below ¥105 on Friday at Gaitame.com Co., a financial futures transaction firm. The U.S. currency briefly touched ¥105 in the morning for the first time in five years and two months.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/27/news/for-a-healthy-successful-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-27T21:09:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/xg20131228v1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nine huge "ema" wooden plaques requesting good health and success in business during 2014 hang as New Year decorations in the atrium at the Tokyo Midtown office and shopping complex in Roppongi, Tokyo, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/29/news/burn-baby-burn-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-29T00:02:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/zc20131229x1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Priests throw Buddhist talismans into a fire Saturday at Naritasan Shinshoji Temple in Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/29/news/powdered-pavilion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-29T21:54:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Snow covers the golden roof of Kinkakuji Temple in Kita Ward, Kyoto, Sunday morning. About 300 visitors lined up before the 9 a.m. opening to see the contrast of gold and white.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/30/news/saddle-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-30T22:17:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pony is introduced to a Burmese python at Tsutenkaku observation tower in Naniwa Ward, Osaka, on Friday at an event to mark the incoming Year of the Horse.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2013/12/31/news/video-a-look-back-at-the-videos-of-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-12-31T00:32:49+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/02/news/hope-on-the-horizon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-02T23:47:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/yc20140103x2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yc20140103x2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents of tsunami-hit Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, watch the first sunrise of the year. More than two years and nine months have passed since the offshore quake, tsunami and nuclear disasters disrupted their lives in March 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/02/news/ringing-in-the-new-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-02T23:51:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Balloons are released near Tokyo Tower after a countdown to Jan. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/04/news/in-the-line-of-fire-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-04T20:53:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Edo Firemanship Preservation Association in traditional fireman's garb performs atop a bamboo ladder Saturday during a New Year's event at Tokyo Skytree in Sumida Ward. SATOKO KAWASAKI]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/05/news/just-so/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-05T21:47:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young women practice the art of flower arrangement at the Ikenobo school in Kyoto on Sunday. Some 1,500 students took part in the annual mass ikebana event at the school's studios throughout the nation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/06/news/pole-position/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-06T23:28:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Edo Firemanship Preservation Association wearing traditional uniforms show off their balancing skills atop bamboo ladders during the fire brigade's New Year's parade in Tokyo's Odaiba district on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/06/news/off-to-a-fashionable-start/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-06T23:30:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brokerage employees in kimono pose in front of the quotation board at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, the first trading day of the year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/07/news/dressed-for-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-07T21:33:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Maiko" apprentice geisha exchange New Year's greetings Tuesday in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto. Wearing formal kimono and long ornamental hairpins, they gathered for a ceremony marking the first business day of the year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/08/news/fish-wish/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-08T21:08:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People place coins on a frozen tuna dedicated to Nishinomiya Shrine in Hyogo Prefecture on Wednesday in a good-luck ritual that started in the 1970s.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/08/news/without-equal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-08T21:09:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to the Adachi Museum of Art in Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture, in 2012 admire its 16.5-hectare garden, chosen recently as the best Japanese garden in the world by the U.S. magazine Journal of Japanese Gardening for the 11th year in a row.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/10/news/praying-for-prosperity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-10T13:16:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Monks hold a religious ceremony Thursday in Bangkok at the opening of a representative office of Sapporo-based North Pacific Bank. The regional bank launched the office to support firms from Hokkaido wishing to enter Thailand and other countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/10/news/new-hero/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-10T13:16:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[AC Milan fans hold up a picture of Keisuke Honda and a No. 10 shirt bearing his name after the Italian club officially introduced its new signing on Wednesday. Story: Page 12]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/10/news/fleet-of-feet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-10T20:55:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiki Kyoda (center), a 19-year-old student at Doshisha University, poses Friday at Nishinomiya Shrine in Hyogo Prefecture after winning the annual "Lucky Men" foot race. The shrine deemed him "fuku-otoko" (year's luckiest man). About 5,000 runners took part in Friday's race.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/10/news/new-grown-ups-special-guest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-10T20:56:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young tour guides for Hato Bus Co. mark Coming of Age Day ahead of time Friday with Kumamon, the official mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture, along Tokyo Bay in the Hinode Sanbashi district. The carrier held the fete early because it's too busy Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/11/news/bucketfuls-of-purity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-11T21:35:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A young man douses himself with cold water during a purification ritual at Kanda Myojin Shrine in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Saturday.  AP]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/12/news/times-arrow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-12T19:55:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young women take aim during a traditional archery contest in Sanjusangendo Hall in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto, on Sunday, held to celebrate their coming of age.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/13/news/video-a-visit-to-pioneers-showroom-and-headquarters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-13T16:05:13+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/13/news/turning-point/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-13T23:50:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kimono-clad women who will turn 20 this year chat after attending the Coming-of-Age Day ceremony at Asakusa Public Hall in Taito Ward, Tokyo, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/14/news/castle-cleanup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-14T21:07:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Self-Defense Forces personnel scrub the 20-meter-high stone walls surrounding Osaka Castle Park on Tuesday. The area is being spruced up for a series of events to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Osaka Fuyu no Jin (the Winter Siege of Osaka), a pivotal battle between the Tokugawa shogunate and the Toyotomi clan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/15/news/big-bowl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-15T22:14:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women participate in the traditional first tea ceremony of the year at Saidaiji Temple in the city of Nara on Wednesday. The temple traditionally serves tea from a large bowl after a high-ranking monk named Eison began doling out tea to the public in January 1239 in an era when drinking the brew was a luxury.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/17/news/my-little-kumquats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-17T21:17:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The season's first boxes of kumquats are prepared for shipment Friday in the city of Miyazaki. The prefecture accounts for about 70 percent of the nation's kumquat production.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/20/video-2/video-hanayashiki-pro-wrestling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-20T21:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/21/news/earning-his-stripes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-21T21:38:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mulan Jamilah, a 6-year-old Bengal tiger, and Abdullah Sholeh, 33, play in the garden beside their home in Malang, Indonesia, on Monday. Although Bengal tigers are usually revered as fearsome predators, Mulan is completely tame, and Sholeh regularly sleeps, plays and fights with the animal.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/22/news/calamari-unlimited/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-26T15:43:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 3.4-meter-long giant squid is unloaded Tuesday in Ajiro, Tottori Prefecture, after being caught alive Monday in a flounder net some 30 km offshore.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/26/news/country-dance-city-stage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-26T22:22:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People from the village of Fudai, Iwate Prefecture, perform the traditional Unotorikagura dance at the National Theater in Tokyo on Saturday to showcase arts from the disaster-hit Tohoku region, including Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/28/news/back-on-the-menu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-28T22:24:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pupils and a teacher at Nakagori Elementary School in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, eat lunch Tuesday. The lunch service in the city's public schools resumed after being halted Jan. 20 because nearly 1,000 pupils became sick during a massive outbreak of food poisoning likely caused by norovirus.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/28/news/not-to-be-sniffed-at/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-28T22:25:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees of Weathernews admire pollen-counting robots at the firm's headquarters in Chiba on Tuesday. A thousand of the pod-shaped "Pollen-robots" will be shipped nationwide to monitor pollen levels ahead of the coming hay fever season.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/29/news/lighting-the-way-3/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-29T22:39:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Work continues Tuesday to repair the path heading to Shioyazaki Lighthouse in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, after it was damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011. The glass covering the light and the motor to rotate the lens were also destroyed in the quake. The lighthouse is scheduled to reopen to the public Feb. 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/29/news/bulk-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-29T22:40:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High school students gather around a display of Black Thunder chocolates at a temporary Yuraku Confectionery Co. shop at Tokyo Station on Wednesday. The chocolate is a popular "giri" (obligatory) gift given by many women on St. Valentine's Day to men as a courtesy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/30/news/test-ready/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-30T21:19:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Octopus charms are manufactured at a factory in tsunami-hit Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 16. The charms have become popular during the ongoing entrance examination season, as the English word "octopus," pronounced in Japanese as  "oku to pasu," forms a pun roughly meaning "when the object is placed on, you will pass." About 2,500 of the 5-cm charms, each costing ¥1,200, were sold in January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/30/news/feline-cash-combo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-30T21:19:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model for K. Mikimoto &amp; Co. sporting a tiara adorned with some ¥100 million in jewelry hugs a Hello Kitty mascot during a media event Thursday in Tokyo to mark the launch of a joint product line with Sanrio Co., which holds the copyright for the popular character.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/31/news/back-in-business-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-31T20:12:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hoshinoya Kyoto, a traditional "ryokan" inn located in the Arashiyama tourism area in Kyoto damaged by Typhoon Man-yi in September, is previewed for the media Friday ahead of its reopening Saturday. The inn is the last in the area to recover from the storm damage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/31/news/look-ma-no-feet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-31T20:12:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People lead bicycles through the Tenjinbashisuji shopping arcade Friday in Kita Ward, Osaka, to promote its cycling ban. Touted as Japan's longest shopping arcade, local shops pushed for the ban following several cycling accidents along the 2.6-km stretch of stores. About 35,000 people visit the arcade on its busiest days.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/01/31/news/banzai-comrades/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-31T20:13:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mogul skiers (from left) Junko Hoshino, Aiko Uemura, Miki Ito and Arisa Murata pose as the Japanese Olympic team departs for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from Narita airport on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/02/news/masterpiece-in-shikoku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-02T22:15:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor looks at the famed painting "Sower" by Jean-Francois Millet at a show about the French painter that began Saturday at the Museum of Art, Kochi in Kochi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/04/sports/one-of-many-spectators/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-04T21:49:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/yw20140205v1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Snowboarder Yuki Kadono jumps near an outsized Russian matryoshka doll during a practice run ahead of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, on Monday. The competitions begin Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/05/news/hospitable-climate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-05T21:39:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[ym20140206v1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to the Sapporo Snow Festival mimic a snow sculpture of TV celebrity Christel Takigawa, who helped Tokyo win its 2020 Olympic bid last year with her "omotenashi" (the spirit of selfless hospitality) gesture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/05/news/cold-snap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-05T21:40:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fountain in Tokyo's Hibiya Park is covered in ice Wednesday morning. The coldest morning of the year was also technically the first day of spring.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/06/news/dough-nuts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-06T21:56:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yr20140207v4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children line up to meet beloved comic and anime character Anpanman, created by the late Takashi Yanase, at an event in Tokyo Thursday held to commemorate his work.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/06/news/naked-lie/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-06T21:59:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yr20140207v3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A statue of a man sleepwalking in his underpants is surrounded by snow on the campus of Wellesley College, Massachusetts, on Wednesday. The statue, part of an exhibit by sculptor Tony Matelli, has stirred controversy, with some students at the all-women's school saying it triggers "thoughts regarding sexual assault."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/07/news/cool-japan-feat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-07T22:03:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/xa20140208w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xa20140208w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese footwear is displayed Thursday at a temporary Nipponista "pop up" store that opened the same day to promote Japanese fashion, art and food in New York City's Soho district. The store was set up by Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. for eight days during a New York Fashion Week event under the trade ministry's Cool Japan promotion program.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/10/news/video-future-bright-for-oled-lights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-10T00:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[thumbnail-for-Nagata_OLED]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/11/news/not-forgotten/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-11T22:21:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yi20140212v2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kesennuma police officers on Tuesday search the banks of the Okawa River in Miyagi Prefecture for people still missing from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. On the 11th of every month, police and volunteers search for the 234 residents of the city who remain unaccounted for.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/12/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-womens-normal-hill-ski-jumping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T15:25:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014sochi-skijumping06.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[2014sochi-skijumping06]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Sara Takanashi competes in the women's normal hill ski jumping event at the RusSki Gorki Jumping Center on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/12/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-mens-snowboard-halfpipe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T15:41:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014sochi-halfpipe10.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Ayumu Hirano competes in the men's snowboard halfpipe final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park during the Sochi Winter Olympics on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/12/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-mens-moguls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T15:52:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014sochi-mensmoguls12.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[2014sochi-mensmoguls12]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Sho Endo competes in the men's freestyle skiing moguls qualifying at the Sochi Winter Olympics on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/12/sports/hometown-hero/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T22:49:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yx20140213w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With their eyes fixed on the TV early Wednesday, supporters in his hometown of Murakami, Niigata Prefecture, cheer on 15-year-old snowboarder Ayumu Hirano, winner of the silver medal in the half-pipe at the Sochi Olympics in Russia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/13/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-nordic-combined-normal-hill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T11:12:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014sochi-combined11.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Akito Watabe (right) and Germany's Eric Frenzel compete in the cross country portion of the nordic combined event at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/14/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-mens-short-program-figure-skating/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T18:05:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014sochi-figuremensp19.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu competes in the men's short program figure skating competition at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, Russia, during the 2014 Winter Olympics on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/14/news/extreme-close-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T18:58:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor to the CP+ Camera and Photo Imaging Show in Yokohama inspects a Nikon Corp. D3300 digital single lens reflex camera Thursday. The show runs through Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/16/news/one-hip-cat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-16T20:42:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yq20140217u1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Doraemon mascot is welcomed by hula dancers in Honolulu on Saturday, the opening day for an exhibition of drawings of the popular manga character at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. The exhibition runs through April 20.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/17/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-pairs-figure-skating/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T10:31:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014sochi-figurepairsp26.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[2014sochi-figurepairsp26]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany perform their short program in the pairs skating event at the Sochi Games on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/17/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-individual-ski-jumping-large-hill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T11:54:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014sochi-largehill17.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[2014sochi-largehill17]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Noriaki Kasai displays his silver medal during the award ceremony for the men's Individual ski jumping large hill event at the Sochi Winter Olympics on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/17/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-ice-dancing-short-dance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T13:07:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014sochi-figuredanceshort07.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Sochi Olympics Figure Skating]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Danielle O'Brien and Gregory Merriman of Australia perform their ice dancing short dance at the Sochi Winter Olympics on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/14/news/just-peachy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T16:33:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/zb20140215s4a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[zb20140215s4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The earliest peach flower festival of the year gets under way in Fuefuki, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Friday. The festival, which allows visitors to view the pink and white blossoms in greenhouses, runs through March 5.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/17/news/seasonal-steps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T22:15:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/xl20140218w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xl20140218w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dancers dedicate a traditional number to the shrine Monday on the first day of the Hachinohe Enburi festival in the city of Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture. The festival runs until Thursday, welcoming the spring and wishing for a good harvest.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/18/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-mens-aerials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-18T10:33:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014sochi-aerialsmen06.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Men]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canada's Travis Gerrits competes in the men's freestyle skiing aerials final at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/18/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-mens-figure-skating-final/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-18T11:03:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014sochi-figuremenfree19.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Sochi Olympics Medals Ceremony Figure Skating Men]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men's figure skating gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan reacts during the awards ceremony at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/18/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-womens-12-5-km-mass-start-biathlon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-18T13:11:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014sochi-biathlonw15_06.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Czech Republic's Gabriela Soukalova competes in the Women's 12.5 km mass start biathlon event at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/18/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-ice-dancing-free-dance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-18T15:59:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014sochi-figuredancefree13.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[2014sochi-figuredancefree13]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[France's Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat perform their free dance at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/18/news/warm-inside/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-18T22:36:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yj20140219v1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A couple are seen through the heart-shaped entrance to a snow hut during the Kamakura Festival in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/19/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-mens-biathlon-15-km-mass-start/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-19T10:39:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014sochi-biathlon15kmass13.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[France's Martin Fourcade competes in the men's biathlon 15-km mass start event at the Sochi Winter Olympics on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/19/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-mens-curling-team-norway/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-19T14:30:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi2014-curlingnorway15.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Thomas Ulsrud]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Norway skip Thomas Ulsrud slides across the ice as he watches his throw during a men's curling round-robin match against Germany at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/19/news/sub-gold-standard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-19T20:31:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/yf20140220u1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yf20140220u1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South African miners march to protest the discharge of injured co-workers into police custody at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg on Sept. 11. Elsewhere in the troubled industry, the police Tuesday vowed to hunt down illegal mining kingpins after workers became trapped in a supposedly abandoned shaft east of Johannesburg. AP]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/21/news/ukraine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-21T21:35:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/p4-kiev-f-20140222.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Interior Ministry members are on fire, caused by molotov cocktails hurled by anti-government protesters, as they stand guard during clashes in Kiev]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Molotov cocktails are hurled at riot police by demonstrators.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/24/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-closing-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-24T18:37:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Sochi-Olympics.JPEG-0964f.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Sochi Olympics]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man watches fireworks from a balcony during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/28/video-2/video-interview-with-the-stars-of-the-walking-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-28T00:05:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/thumbnail-of-Fazio_WalkingDead.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[thumbnail of Fazio_WalkingDead]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/27/video-2/historic-cage-match-between-fully-armored-knights-and-samurai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-28T13:57:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/thumbnail-for-hongo_STEEL3.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[thumbnail for hongo_STEEL3]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/02/news/purifying-flames/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-02T22:22:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/xs20140303w2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xs20140303w2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Torches light up Nigatsu-do, an important building at Todaiji Temple in the city of Nara, on Saturday. Ascetic monks carry torches in the annual Omizutori ritual heralding spring.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/06/news/rogues-gallery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-06T22:06:26+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/xa20140305w2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xa20140305w2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy talks with David Gremmels, owner and cheese-maker of Rogue Creamery from Oregon, at the Foodex Japan exhibition at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture on Tuesday. Asia's largest food trade show, featuring 2,808 companies from 78 countries and regions, will run through Friday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/06/news/visions-of-hanami/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-06T22:07:04+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/xa20140307w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xa20140307w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two models admire an art installation projecting cherry blossoms onto 1,000 glass cherry petals and pieces of cloth hanging from threads at the Coredo Muromachi shopping complex in Tokyo. The installation is part of Edo Sakura Renaissance, an exhibition based on the theme of "hanami" (cherry blossom viewing) by artist Hidetomo Kimura, whose work combines traditional Japanese culture with modern art forms.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/10/news/video-hondas-robotics-technology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-10T00:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[thumbnail for Nagata_Honda]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/15/news/romanian-rarities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-15T00:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p5-negative-a-boximg-20140315.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Photo enthusiast Cezar Popescu looks at a glass plate negative from the "Costica Acsinte picture archive" before scanning at Ialomita county museum in Slobozia]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A glass plate negative shot by Romanian photographer Costica Acsinte is checked before digitization at Ialomita County Museum, Romania, on Feb. 21. Acsinte, who died in 1984, documented more than half a century of life in his native country. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/16/news/irish-air/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-16T22:49:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women take part in a St. Patrick's Day parade Sunday in the Omotesando neighborhood of Tokyo. A number of Irish festivals are scheduled for this month across the country.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/18/news/floral-family/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-19T22:50:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hirofumi Uno takes a photo of himself, his wife Saki and daughter Aoi among yellow rapeseed blossoms blooming at Hamarikyu Gardens in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, on Monday. Visitors will be able to enjoy the colorful scenery until early next month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/19/news/ticket-to-ride/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-19T22:52:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/yr20140320w2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yr20140320w2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A railway employee poses for a photo with a young boy who was the millionth passenger on the Arashiyama Trolley, during a celebration Wednesday at Torokko Sagano Station in the city of Kyoto. The retro trolley began service in 1991 on a 7.3-km stretch of track between the station and the city of Kameoka in an area that has become a major tourist spots.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/20/news/last-class/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-20T23:01:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/yz20140321w2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yz20140321w2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students at Mano Elementary School in disaster-hit Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, cry as they say their goodbyes after their graduation ceremony Thursday. Only 10 students graduated this year from the school, which will merge with another next month due to declining enrollment.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/21/news/man-of-the-people/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-21T22:24:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xu20140322w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the run-up to Afghanistan's closely watched elections scheduled for April 5, supporters hold up posters of presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah during a rally organized in the northern province of Parwan on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/21/news/step-motion-photography/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-21T22:26:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/xu20140322w2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xu20140322w2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dancers Vladimir Malakhov (right), Elisa Carrillio Cabrera (top) and Mikhail Kaniskin (left) rehearse "Clear," a 2001 work by Australian choreographer Stanton Welch, to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach before a performance at the Schiller Theater in Berlin on Thursday, Malakhov's last appearance with the Berlin State Ballet.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/22/news/spelling-bee-smile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-22T21:51:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/yh20140323v1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yh20140323v1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michaella Bostrom, a 14-year-old student at Kakegawa International Christian School in Shizuoka Prefecture, poses with her trophy after winning the 5th Japan Times Spelling Bee in Tokyo on Saturday. Bostrom won by correctly spelling "frippery" — a showy or unnecessary ornament in architecture, dress or language. YOSHIAKI MIURA]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/23/video-2/video-tokyo-gundam-project-2014-industrial-revolution-to-the-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-23T00:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Thumbnail-for-Kobayashi_Gundam.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Thumbnail for Kobayashi_Gundam]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/23/news/end-of-the-line/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-24T00:39:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/yh20140324w2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yh20140324w2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fans flock to see the cars of the 101 train series during the model's last run Sunday between Chichibu and Kumagaya stations in Saitama Prefecture. The same model has been used for decades across the Tokyo Metropolitan area since its 1957 introduction by Japanese National Railways, predecessor to the JR Group.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/26/news/watercolors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-26T22:19:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Computer-scanned children's drawings of fish are projected onto a big screen with special motion effects at Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan this week. The service runs through Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/26/news/rocket-science/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-26T22:20:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/xp20140327w3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xp20140327w3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This long-exposure photograph courtesy of NASA shows the flight path of the Soyuz TMA-12M rocket as it launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Wednesday. The rocket, carrying Russians Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev and American Steve Swanson, blasted off successfully early Wednesday, but an engine snag was expected to delay the arrival of the Russian spacecraft at the International Space Station until Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/26/news/family-affair/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-27T13:14:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kakuryu receives kisses from his parents Wednesday after being formally promoted to sumo's highest rank of yokozuna. Story: Page 14.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/27/news/snow-lined-avenue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-27T23:56:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yp20140328x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers walk on the snow-cleared Hakkoda Towada Goldline highway in Aomori Prefecture during a ceremony Thursday to commemorate the completion of snow-removal work. Cars will be allowed to resume travel on the scenic road on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/29/news/athenian-graffiti/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-29T01:44:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p4-art-a-boximg-20140329.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Greece Graffiti]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local and foreign street artists have been drawn to Athens due to the availability of commissioned work in an economy shattered by recession and amid practically nonexistent anti-graffiti laws. In this image, a motorcyclist passes “Access Control” by Greek street artist iNO on Pireos Street in Athens on Feb. 20.　]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/29/news/eye-of-the-needle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-29T13:52:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p5-top-a-boximg-20140329.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p5 top-a-boximg 20140329]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rappelling lines are installed at the top of the Washington Monument ahead of the start of inspections. The National Park Service says the landmark will reopen to visitors May 12 after being closed for nearly three years due to damage from a 2011 earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/31/news/blossoming-moat-ivation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-31T22:24:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/xw20140401w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xw20140401w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People view the splendor of cherry blossoms in full bloom near Chidorigafuchi Moat in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Monday. Drawing thousands of spectators in the space of just a few days for a stroll beneath the trees, the area is known as one of the capital's most popular viewing spots as it boasts some 260 trees along a 700-meter stretch. The trees, which will be floodlit from sunset until 10 p.m., are expected to be at their best until this weekend.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/15/news/video-opening-of-kaiju-sakaba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-06T22:41:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Thumbnail-of-Miura_KaijuSakaba.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Thumbnail of Miura_KaijuSakaba]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/06/news/on-a-roll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-06T22:43:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/yn20140407w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yn20140407w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsuneko Sasamoto, considered Japan's first female photojournalist, attends an exhibition of her work at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama on Saturday. Commemorating her 100th birthday this year, the exhibition features about 130 of her photographs drawn from more than 75 years behind the lens. The show runs through June 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/08/news/video-new-omnibots-from-takaratomy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-08T00:03:40+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/08/news/above-and-beyond/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-08T01:15:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xi20140408b1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[West Japan Railway Co. unveils on Monday a new W7 series car for the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line — an extension of the Nagano Shinkansen Line. The extension will start carrying passengers between the cities of Nagano and Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, in spring 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/08/news/wheelin-and-dealin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-08T01:15:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/xi20140408b2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xi20140408b2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Takara Tomy employee demonstrates its new robot toy, Hello! Mip, at a press preview in Tokyo on Monday. The robot, which moves and balances on two wheels, can react to hand gestures, stay balanced while holding objects of its own weight, and dance to music playing on its own speaker, among other tricks. It will go on sale in July.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/08/news/lucky-stars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-08T22:26:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/xw20140409w3a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists from abroad depart JR Hakata Station in Fukuoka Tuesday on a four-day Kyushu swing aboard Seven Stars — a luxury express train run by JR Kyushu since October. JTB Kyushu Corp. chartered the train exclusively for foreign tourists, and 28 travelers, from Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Netherlands, took part in the tour.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/09/news/kyoto-cruising/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-09T22:51:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/yv20140410w1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists enjoy the spring air and cherry blossoms on the grounds of the Kyoto Imperial Palace on Wednesday. In an annual event that kicked off the same day and runs through Sunday, the palace — which usually gives staff-led tours only to visitors with prior reservations — opened to the public a nearly 1-km section of the grounds.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/10/news/griduation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-10T22:37:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly sworn-in French police officers stand at attention during a ceremony in Paris on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/10/news/ready-for-battle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-10T22:37:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Gogatsu ningyo" samurai warrior dolls modeled on New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka and Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe are shown to the media Thursday at maker Kyugetsu Co.'s showroom in Taito Ward, Tokyo, ahead of Children's Day on May 5.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/10/news/catch-and-release/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-10T22:38:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/yi20140411w3a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Pfeffer's flamboyant cuttlefish is released into a tank for a $3.5 million exhibition at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. The show, opening Saturday, will be the first time certain species have been exhibited anywhere in the world.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/12/news/video-attack-on-titan-projection-mapping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-12T00:05:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/thumbnail-for-Miura_AttackonTitan.png</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/15/news/replenishing-stocks-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-15T22:24:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/xu20140416w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xu20140416w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For the first time since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami destroyed fishing facilities in the Tohoku region, members of the Kidogawa fishing cooperative release salmon fry into the Kidogawa River in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, on Tuesday. Local fishermen are trying to boost salmon fishing in the river, which is major spawning ground for the fish.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/15/news/the-straight-and-narrow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-15T22:24:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/xu20140416w3a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A penitent holds the hood of another as the two make their way to a church before taking part in the procession of the San Gonzalo brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, in southern Spain, on Monday. Holy Week is celebrated in many Christian traditions during the week before Easter.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/15/news/video-a-visit-to-kddi-rd-laboratories-inc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-16T16:35:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/thumbnail-for-Nagata_KDDI.jpg</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/16/news/rolling-in/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-16T22:46:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/yn20140417w3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yn20140417w3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 188-ton pleasure boat Mashu Maru plows its way through the ice Wednesday on Lake Akan in eastern Hokkaido. The boat is preparing for the opening later this month of the sightseeing route on the lake, known for its "marimo" ("ball seaweed").]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/25/news/sweet-peek/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-25T01:09:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xg20140425b2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees Chihirro Harashima (left) and Arisa Yokozuka pitch panda-themed sweets from their shops during a media preview Thursday of the new Ueno no Mori Sakura Terrace, an eatery complex in Tokyo's Ueno district, before its official opening Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/25/news/la-la-land/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-25T20:46:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Funassyi, the unofficial yet hugely popular "yurukyara" (mascot) of Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, greets fans Friday at the opening event for Funassyi Land at Lalaport Tokyo Bay. The special amusement spot in the city, open until Tuesday, offers games that visitors can play and sells over 20 goods, including T-shirts and stuffed toys, that feature the costumed character, known for his high-pitched voice and wild, spasmodic movements.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/25/news/tragedy-remembered/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-25T20:47:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A girl presents flowers at a ceremony held Friday to mark the ninth anniversary of the JR West Fukuchiyama Line train derailment in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, in 2005 that claimed 107 lives.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/25/news/monumental-sacrifice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-25T20:48:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian and New Zealand soldiers gather Thursday at the Canakkale Martyrs Memorial in western Turkey for a service marking the 99th anniversary of the ANZAC Gallipoli Campaign, which claimed over 100,000 lives, during World War I.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/27/news/power-play/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-27T23:07:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boy takes part in an anti-nuclear sit-in outside the presidential office in Taipei on Saturday. Hundreds of activists attended the event to demand the government halt construction of a controversial new nuclear power plant.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/27/news/rainbow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-27T23:08:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants at Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2014, held to support LGBT rights, celebrate Sunday in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/28/news/back-in-shape/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-28T21:45:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ski jumper and Sochi Olympics silver medalist Noriaki Kasai exercises with students Monday at Funakoshi Elementary School in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture. Kasai and other top athletes visited the recently reopened school to show their support for the town's reconstruction efforts following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/29/video-2/video-jazz-auditoria2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-29T01:41:00+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/04/30/news/bound-mothers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-04-30T22:44:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A florist packages up carnations in a warehouse close to Narita airport on Wednesday. The flowers were imported from South America ahead of Mother's Day on May 11.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/01/news/nay-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-01T21:45:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of groups affiliated with the National Confederation of Trade Unions (Zenroren) gather at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo Thursday for their annual May Day rally. This year, participants blasted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policies and his bureaucratic bids to reinterpret the Constitution to legalize Japan's right to engage in collective self-defense.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/01/news/amazing-azaleas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-01T21:46:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors view azaleas at Nezu Shrine in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, on Thursday. During the Golden Week holidays, about 600,000 people are expected to visit the area, where about 3,000 red, white and pink azaleas are in full bloom.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/01/news/lunar-drift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-01T21:47:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A solar eclipse is captured in this multiple exposure shot from the Australian Antarctic Division's Casey Station at Vincennes Bay on Tuesday. An annular eclipse was visible from Antarctica and some areas in the southern Indian Ocean, with just a partial eclipse visible in Australia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/02/news/tea-for-three/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-02T20:14:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/xh20140503u2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xh20140503u2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women in traditional tea-picker kimono harvest the season's first crop of tea on a plantation in Nishio, Aichi Prefecture, on Friday. The period from May 14 to 23 is the peak tea-picking season in Nishio, a major production area for fine-quality "tencha" leaves that are made into powdered green tea and used in traditional tea ceremonies.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/02/news/before-your-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-02T21:23:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/xu20140503v1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A toddler stands on the track at National Stadium in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on Friday. More than 10,000 people have taken a final look at the venue for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, which was opened for public viewing the same day ahead of its scheduled demolition in July. The 56-year-old stadium will make way for a new stadium that will host the main ceremonies for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. More public viewings are scheduled for May 4, 7 and 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/02/news/gardening-extravaganza/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-03T09:10:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/xh20140503u1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Ambassador Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa (far left) discusses the Indian garden with landscape designer Nobuo Shirasuna (second from left) and Princess Takamado during the 14th Annual World Gardening Fair, which kicked off at the Hotel Okura Tokyo on Friday. The event runs through May 6.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/04/news/preparing-big-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-04T22:18:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Risako Ota (center), who will serve as the main "saio-dai" character in a parade at the Aoi Matsuri (Hollyhock Festival) in Kyoto on May 15, cleans her hands during a preparatory ceremony held at Kamigamo Shrine in the ancient capital on Sunday. The festival, which features parades of people dressed in ancient aristocratic clothes, is widely considered one of the three largest festivals of Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/04/news/tower-fish/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-05T11:08:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A family views "koinobori" (carp streamers) at Tokyo Tower on Sunday ahead of Children's Day on May 5. The event has drawn about 20,000 visitors a day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/08/news/video-national-stadium-tour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-08T00:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/thumbnail-for-Kawasaki_NationalStadium.png</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/10/news/tears-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-10T20:52:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/yx20140511u1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yx20140511u1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman cries in front of a stone memorial inscribed with the names of people claimed by the March 2011 tsunami in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Saturday. The memorial, erected in a park made from rubble left by the waves, was unveiled the same day. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/12/news/video-wearable-devices-smartband/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-12T00:02:22+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/12/news/video-wearable-devices-moff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-12T00:04:36+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/12/news/video-wearable-devices-hitoe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-12T10:58:56+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/13/news/air-force-un/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-13T22:29:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/yc20140514w1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un salutes as he and his wife, Ri Sol Ju, walk past an honor guard upon arriving for the 2014 Combat Flight Contest among commanding officers of the Korean People's Air Force in this undated photo. Behind them is what appears to be Kim's own version of the U.S. president's private plane, Air Force One.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/14/video-2/video-world-cup-2014-views-tokyo-croatia-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-14T20:44:04+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/13/video-2/video-world-cup-2014-views-tokyo-germany-england/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-14T20:47:16+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/14/news/medical-models/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-14T22:30:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/xt20140515w2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xt20140515w2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoto University Hospital surgeon Hiroshi Date (right) and an unidentified co-worker show off human organ models made by 3-D printers Wednesday in the city of Kyoto. Date's medical team used the models to assist in a successful partial transplant of a lung between a married couple in their 40s in March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/15/news/food-fight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-15T22:32:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/yd20140616w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yd20140616w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fast-food workers and activists rally in Tokyo's Shibuya district Thursday as part of global campaign for higher pay at fast-food restaurants. Currently earning around ¥800 per hour, employees at McDonald's and other chains are seeking nearly twice as much at ¥1,500 per hour.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/16/news/video-lunar-dream-capsule-project-press-conference/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-16T13:32:22+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/16/video-2/video-fuerza-bruta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-16T18:15:13+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/16/news/hands-on-learning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-16T20:04:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/zh20140517t3a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students from Jindaiji Elementary School in Chofu, western Tokyo, plant rice seedlings in a paddy in a hands-on educational program organized by the Jindai Botanical Gardens.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/16/news/shot-down/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-16T20:04:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Armatix smart gun is demonstrated at the company's Munich headquarters Wednesday. The gun cannot fire without an ID device worn by the user. Following a ferocious backlash, a Maryland gun store has dropped plans to become the first in the U.S. to sell the gun.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/16/news/revival-of-the-golden-age/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-16T20:04:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/zh20140517t2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The work of Eiji Mitooka, who helped design the luxury Seven Stars train, is displayed at Takeo City Library on May 8 in Saga Prefecture. The Seven Stars train is operated by Kyushu Railway Co., which bills it as re-creating the golden age of travel. The train stops at spas and artisan centers in Kyushu. The exhibition runs through June 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/19/video-2/video-world-cup-2014-views-ishikawa-usa-australia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-20T00:04:33+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/20/news/combined-effort/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-20T22:02:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/yi20140521v1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hakodate Mayor Toshiki Kudo and Henry Winthrop, his counterpart from Newport, Rhode Island, carry a wreath of flowers during a ceremony on Tuesday to mark the 160th anniversary of the arrival at the port in southwest Hokkaido of a U.S. naval fleet led by Commodore Matthew Perry, who was a native of Newport.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/20/news/rare-ray/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-20T22:02:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/yi20140521v2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers at a Kochi Prefecture research center affiliated with the Kaiyukan Aquarium in the city of Osaka move a Chilean devil ray on Monday, before transporting the rare fish for a planned exhibition at the aquarium. The ray died on Tuesday morning at the aquarium, after the 8½-hour trip to the venue.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/20/news/waxing-eloquent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-20T22:22:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A life-size wax figure of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, created by sculptors at Madame Tussauds, is seen on the campus of Tokyo's Seikei University, Abe's alma mater, earlier this month. The sculpture was put on display at the Decks Tokyo Beach amusement complex in Odaiba last Saturday. The figure has drawn a mixed reaction, amid Abe's drive to reinterpret the Constitution to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense. Following Shigeru Yoshida and Junichiro Koizumi, Abe is the third Japanese prime minister to be immortalized in wax by Madame Tussauds.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nursery school children plant oak seedlings in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on Thursday. The seedlings were grown from acorns picked up by children in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures following the March 2011 quake and tsunami in the hope of rebuilding the Tohoku region.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Thai soldier stands guard as Buddhist monks beg for alms at a temple near Government House in Bangkok on Friday, a day after the army seized power in a coup. The military tightened its grip Sunday as it moved to douse smouldering protests fueled by social media and to rally commercial agencies and business to revitalize a battered economy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nadeshiko Japan players celebrate with the Women's Asian Cup trophy after beating Australia 1-0 on Sunday night in Ho Chi Minh City to win the competition for the first time. Story: Page 14.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man jumps from Ebisu Bridge into the Dotonbori Canal in central Osaka on Wednesday morning after Japan's national team washed out of the World Cup soccer tournament.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:11:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British-based artist Emma Allen's World Cup selfie has gone viral, receiving over 500,000 hits in less than 24 hours on Twitter. It can be viewed at @imakefings.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A performer with China's Thunderbolt Craziness rock band balances a soccer ball on his head as electricity discharges from Tesla coils below him. He is wearing a metal suit to protect him from the one million volt charge. The stunt, performed at a concert Thursday in China's Fujian province, marked the kickoff of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:11:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chile fans smile prior to the start of a Group B match against Australia at the Pantanal Arena in Cuiaba on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:11:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:11:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. and Canadian paratroopers take part in Exercise Saber Strike in Adazi, Latvia, on Thursday. The drill involves 4,700 soldiers from 10 countries and is taking place also in Lithuania and Estonia. The three Baltic states border Russia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/13/video-2/video-international-tokyo-toy-show-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:11:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/27/news/force/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:17:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soldiers from China's People's Liberation Army conduct shooting drills in Hami, Xinjiang region, on Friday. Beijing has responded to recent terrorist attacks in the western region with displays of military force, but doubts remain over its strategy for protecting a population that militants appear able to strike at will. Related stories: Page 4]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/28/news/blood-shed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:17:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bloodstained icon of Jesus lies among shattered glass near Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, after government forces clashed with rebel separatists, inflicting heavy losses in a ferocious firefight. Putin put in peril: Page 4]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/27/news/bearing-witness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:17:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a support group for families of victims of "karoshi" (death from overwork) watch as a bill passes the Lower House on Tuesday that would require the government to reduce instances of deadly workplace exhaustion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/12/news/video-toranomon-hills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:18:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/10/video-2/video-world-cup-video-views-tokyo-cote-divoire-greece-algeria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:18:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/09/news/new-addition-skyline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:18:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The mascot of Toranomon Hills is seen in the atrium of the new Mori Building skyscraper in Tokyo's Toranomon business district on Monday. The 52-story building, standing 247 meters high, will open to the public Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/06/news/the-next-generation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:21:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kojun Otani, 36, the new chief priest of Nishi Honganji Temple in Kyoto, attends a ceremony Friday to succeed his 68-year-old father, Koshin. An estimated 8,000 priests and followers attended the service, the first held since 1977.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/09/news/leaving-wonderful-memories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:21:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuko Oshima, 25, one of the most popular members of the all-girl idol group AKB48, waves to about 70,000 fans who came to see her perform in her last concert as an AKB member at Ajinomoto Stadium, in Chofu, western Tokyo, on Sunday. On Saturday, at the same stadium, hundreds of thousands of fans voted in an annual event to choose their favorite member. This year, Mayu Watanabe, 20, won the accolade for the first time with 159,854 votes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/06/news/available-in-samurai-blue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:21:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Audi Japan KK on Friday unveiled 11 limited-edition World Cup cars at a showroom in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, ahead of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, which kicks off next week. The cars, sporting blue motifs borrowed from the Japan national team's uniform, are priced between ¥6.71 million and ¥13.84 million.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/05/news/clean-greens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:21:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mirai Co. employee takes care of lettuce grown at a new factory in Kashiwanoha Smart City in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Thursday. The factory, equipped with artificial lights, multiple racks and heat insulators, can generate a harvest of 10,000 vegetables per day and is the largest of its kind in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/06/news/video-softbanks-pepper-emotion-reading-robot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:21:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:21:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/04/news/taste-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:21:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers at a supermarket in Shanghai try food samples during a campaign that's taking place this week, as part of efforts by Shikoku food companies to promote their local delicacies to a wider audience in Asia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/03/video-2/video-world-cup-2014-views-tokyo-portugal-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:22:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/02/news/trunk-attention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:22:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sixth-graders from Kurogane Elementary School in Aoba Ward, Yokohama, pose with Randy the elephant, who cued the camera, at Zou-no-Hana Terrace in Naka Ward on Monday. The elephant was invited from Ichihara Elephant Kingdom, a zoo in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, to help spice up the fifth anniversary of Zou-no-Hana, which doubles as a rest stop and art exhibition space. "Zou" means elephant in Japanese.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/02/video-2/video-world-cup-2014-views-tokyo-yokohama-belgium-chile-argentina/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:22:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/01/news/dip-spanish-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:22:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young students dip pieces of bread into olive oil from Spain on International Children's Day on Sunday at the Spanish Embassy in Minato Ward, Tokyo. A total of 80 kids took part in the event, which included art workshops.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/31/culture-3/slideshow-essential-summer-festivals-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:22:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Raw power: A member of Kodo performs during Earth Celebration on Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/28/news/50-counting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:22:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Products by luxury furnishings company Simmons Co. are featured Wednesday in a special display at the Takashimaya department store in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district. The display, which runs through Tuesday, marks the bedding maker's 50th year of business in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/05/29/video-2/video-world-cup-2014-views-tokyo-uruguay-colombia-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-26T18:22:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/27/news/whos-happy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-27T21:48:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children from Otomo Elementary School in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, enjoy their school swimming pool, which reopened Friday after being rebuilt. It fell into disuse after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, but now has a new adjacent locker room so children can quickly grab their clothes should they need to evacuate.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-28T21:34:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters take part in an anti-nuclear demonstration in Tokyo on Saturday. The decorative message on the main banner reads "Sayonara genpatsu," or "Goodbye, reactors."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/01/news/video-protestors-collectively-raise-voices-defense-article-9/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-01T00:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/09/news/mattress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T21:33:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This pot filled with 40,000 coins from the 15th century was found beneath a parking lot in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto. Believed to have been buried in the Muromachi Period, the coins would be worth about ¥4 million in today's currency, said research firm Ibisoku Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/09/news/seasonal-color/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T21:40:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vendor sells cuttings of the Chinese-lantern plant "hozuki" during the annual Hozuki Ichi market at Sensoji Temple, in Tokyo's Asakusa district, on Wednesday. Around 120 stalls are selling the stems until Thursday. The fruit inside the papery lanterns is edible and is believed to bring health benefits.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/12/news/video-live-entertainment-event-expo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-12T15:51:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/13/news/new-wave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-13T21:17:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nancy Barta, Samantha Langsdale and Fernando Barta (from left) play mock musical instruments at the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, at Looe Key Reef, on Saturday. Almost 500 divers and snorkelers tuned in to a local radio station's four-hour broadcast from beneath the sea via underwater speakers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/03/08/video-2/video-edo-zakura-renaissance-yozakura-utage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-14T17:40:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/15/video-2/video-art-aquarium-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-15T00:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-16T14:42:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/18/video-2/video-winglet-challenge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-18T00:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/19/news/video-midtown-meets-godzilla/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T00:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/23/video-2/video-mtg-x-cristiano-ronaldo-athletic-beauty-project-press-conference/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-23T00:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/23/news/slice-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-23T21:15:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A young boy points at a stack of giant watermelons for sale in the town of Nyuzen, Toyama Prefecture, on Wednesday. Each fruit weighs about 20 kg and costs ¥4,000 or more.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/25/news/music-in-the-air/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-25T20:26:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of music fans arrive at the gates of this year's Fuji Rock Festival in Naeba, Niigata Prefecture, on Friday. The yearly festival is well-known overseas and features musicians from a variety of genres. This year's lineup of bands includes Arcade Fire, Denki Groove and the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/26/news/video-vagina-artist-rokudenashi-ko-speaks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-26T21:44:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/29/news/beating-summer-heat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-29T22:16:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee at Funaya, an eel restaurant in Ikuno Ward, Osaka, grills the traditional delicacy over a charcoal brazier Tuesday. This year's "doyo no ushi no hi," or the Midsummer Day of the Ox, which is derived from the ancient Chinese calendar, was on Tuesday, and in line with custom, people flocked to specialty restaurants serving eel, as it is considered a "stamina" dish that helps people cope with the hottest days of the summer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/29/news/race-rebuild-tohoku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-29T22:17:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Runners pass the skeleton of a tsunami-hit municipal building in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Tuesday while taking part in a 1,000-km relay race to show their support for reconstruction in the Tohoku region. The race started in Aomori last Thursday and is scheduled to wrap up in Tokyo on Aug. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/30/news/up-and-away/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-30T21:02:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated photo shows a balloon used by Yudai Fujita, who became the first Japanese to win the world hot air balloon contest earlier this month in Brazil.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/30/sports/uplifting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-30T21:10:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Goeido celebrates his promotion to sumo's second-highest rank of ozeki after his induction ceremony in Aichi Prefecture on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/01/video-2/video-neymar-signs-japanese-bedding-manufacturer-nishikawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-01T00:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Neymar da Silva Santos Junior, Brazilian pro football player, Press Conference, Tokyo Nishikawa, a leading bedding manufacturer, sings a ''support'' contract with the world's top soccer player, Neymar. at the Rits Carlton on July 31, 2014. Sports Andr]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/01/news/fountain-of-happiness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-01T22:13:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children cavort in a fountain during a sunny summer's day on Thursday in Nice, southeastern France, as the mercury reached a high of 26 degrees Celsius during the late afternoon along the French Riviera.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/01/news/cheap-sleep/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-01T22:13:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee on Thursday makes a bed inside a capsule at the nine hours Narita Airport capsule hotel, in Chiba Prefecture, which offers "rooms" for as little as ¥3,900 per night. Japan aims to more than double the number of overseas visitors by 2020 to boost the economy, according to the Japan Tourism Agency.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/08/news/pilgrims-on-wheels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-08T21:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cyclists participating in a nine-day relay race along the famous Shikoku Henro pilgrimage route covering 88 temples on the island kick off the race Friday at Zentsuji Temple in Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture. The temples are commemorating the 1,200th anniversary of their founding this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/13/news/yazidi-exodus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-13T20:18:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iraqis from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from the Islamic State, walk toward the Syrian border on Monday. The militants have executed at least 500 Yazidis, prompting tens of thousands to flee for their lives.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/13/news/bon-voyage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-13T20:19:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traffic is backed up for kilometers Wednesday morning on the Chugoku Expressway near the Takarazuka interchange in Hyogo Prefecture. Congestion of roads, train stations and airports peaked Wednesday as people headed for their hometowns and other destinations during the mid-August Bon holiday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/15/video-2/video-hakovisions-gundam-hatsune-miku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-15T12:46:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-08-15T22:10:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pure gold statuette of Godzilla is shown to the media Thursday at Kintetsu Department Store's flagship outlet in the Abeno Harukas skyscraper in Osaka. The 24-cm-tall figure of the cinematic icon is being sold for ¥150 million.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/17/news/parking-mooring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-17T22:18:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A driver wades through knee-deep water after getting out of his stranded car on a flooded road in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, at around noon on Sunday. In a 24-hour period that ended at 5:50 a.m. on Sunday, rainfall in the city surpassed 300 mm, submerging many roads and flooding many houses and businesses.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/19/video-2/video-tokyo-gundam-project-2014-g-party35-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-19T00:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/18/news/flower-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-18T23:39:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A couple walk past sunflowers in a field during the Zama Sunflower Festival in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Friday. The festival, which will close on Tuesday, showcases approximately 500,000 sunflowers in full bloom.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/18/news/taste-winter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-18T23:39:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children eat shaved ice made from naturally frozen ice at a shop in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture. Following a traditional method that has lasted more than a century, blocks of ice gathered during the winter are stored until summer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/24/news/flying-colors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-24T21:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants covered in multicolored dyes at Sydney's Color Run are hoisted into the air Sunday. Inspired by the Hindu Holi festival, participants take part in a 5-km run dotted with locations where colored powders are thrown in a carnival atmosphere.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/25/news/breach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-25T20:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Water floods an apartment building in Minoh, Osaka Prefecture, on Sunday night after heavy rain prompted 2,700 people to evacuate earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/26/news/carrying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-26T20:50:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents remove debris in mudslide-hit Asaminami Ward, Hiroshima, on Tuesday. The death toll from the disaster has risen to 60, while rescuers continue the search for 26 people still missing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/26/news/fighting-grime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-26T20:51:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An unidentified man, who calls himself Mangetsu-man (Mr. Full Moon), pauses with a volunteer during a litter cleanup event at Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo, on Monday. While most superheroes fight crime, for Mangetsu-man the enemy is garbage and his "super weapons" are a broom, a dust pan and an army of volunteers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/26/video-2/video-street-dancing-super-yosakoi-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-26T23:21:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[super_yosakoi20140827g]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Super Yosakoi 2014]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/08/26/culture-3/slideshow-harajuku-omotesando-genki-matsuri-yosakoi-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-08-26T23:32:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[super_yosakoi20140827k]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Super Yosakoi 2014]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/05/news/marking-milestone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-05T11:14:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women in kimono and foreign tourists celebrate the 20th anniversary of the opening of Kansai International Airport during an event Thursday in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture. Since opening in 1994, the airport has seen growth in tourists from Asia and is refurbishing the No. 1 terminal building to live up to its goal of becoming a major hub.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/07/news/cleopatras-footsteps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-07T19:34:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arabic dance instructors teach Egyptian gymnastics to children on stage at the Children's International Festa 2014 held Sunday in Tokyo's Ebisu district. Among the official supporters of the event were the Foreign Ministry and The Japan Times.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/11/news/video-mitsubishi-auto-gallery-showcase/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-11T00:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/10/news/laugh-die/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-10T22:38:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yj20140911w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man dressed as a horror clown poses before a casting session for the Filmpark Babelsberg theme park, which is looking for cast members for an upcoming horror show, on Tuesday in Potsdam, Germany.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/10/news/testing-waters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-10T22:38:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/yj20140911w2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tractor evacuating Kashmiri flood victims to higher ground churns through a street in Srinagar, northern India, on Tuesday. After weeks of army clashes in the disputed Himalayan region, India and Pakistan have offered to help each other in efforts to alleviate the flood havoc, lowering tensions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/08/news/video-drones-set-fly-high-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-11T11:36:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/12/news/feat-of-clay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-12T20:23:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The refurbished roof of Higashi-Honganji Temple's Amidado Hall is open to the media Friday in Kyoto after 100,000 tiles were replaced. The restoration will be fully completed in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/14/news/wheels-progress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-14T21:28:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/n-cyclists-a-boximg-20140915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n cyclists-a-boximg 20140915]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cyclists taking part in the Tour de Tohoku 2014 on Sunday ride through a coastal area of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, that was damaged by the March 2011 quake and tsunami. The event was aimed at helping rebuild the disaster-hit region. Some 2,800 cyclists, including U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, participated.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/14/news/color-coordinated/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-14T21:47:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/f-scot-a-boximg-20140915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[A loyalist marches past a Union flag during a pro-Union rally in Edinburgh, Scotland]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of about 12,000 loyalists taking part in an emotional show of support to keep Scotland within the United Kingdom rallies in front of a huge Union Jack in the center of the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, on Saturday. A referendum on whether to end Scotland's 307-year-old union with the rest of the U.K. will take place Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/19/news/generals-in-formation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-19T21:12:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/xf20140920v1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Twelve Divine Generals, carved from cypress in the 11th century, are shown in a new configuration Wednesday at Kofukuji Temple's National Treasure Museum in Nara.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/20/video-2/video-tokyo-game-show-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-20T00:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Thumbnail-for-Kobayashi_GameShow2014.png</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/21/news/video-iphone-6-japan-launch-events/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-21T00:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Thumbnail-for-Edan_iPhone6launch.jpg</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/21/news/reclining-encouraged/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-21T22:07:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/za20140922v2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[za20140922v2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Parents and children attempt to tow a Boeing 777 on Sunday at Narita International Airport. The event was held in connection with "Airplane Day" on Saturday, which originates from Japan's first success with powered flight in 1910.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/21/news/hallucination/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-21T22:08:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/za20140922v1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[za20140922v1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Tsukiyotake" fungi glow on a dead beech tree on Mount Kitaizumi in Miyagi Prefecture. Related to the jack-o'-lantern mushrooms of Europe and North America, the poisonous fungi glow from the gills using an enzyme called luciferase.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/21/news/video-pepper-tech-festival-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-22T15:34:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Thumbnail-for-Nagata_peppertech2.png</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/22/news/need-for-speed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-22T21:46:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/yt20140923v1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yt20140923v1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monitor in a maglev train displays a speed of 502 kph during a test run for the media in Tsuru, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Monday. Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) is offering a total of eight days of preview rides on the magnetically levitated train and taking applications from the public on its website until the end of the month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/23/news/energized/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-23T20:17:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/xl20140924u1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators march through a park in Koto Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday in opposition to the planned restart of the Sendai nuclear plant in Kagoshima Prefecture. Participants included Nobel Prize-winning author Kenzaburo Oe (at front, center).]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/24/news/fur-collars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-24T21:16:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/xo20140925v1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xo20140925v1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Confiscated leopard pelts, which are banned from trade, are displayed at Koganei Police Station in western Tokyo on Wednesday. President Shoji Takahashi and three executives of a dealership in secondhand goods in Nakano Ward were arrested on suspicion of selling two furs for ¥110,000 in February.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/26/news/video-murata-cheerleaders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-26T00:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/25/news/catching-rays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-25T22:14:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/yr20140926v1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Solar panels float on a pond in Ono, Hyogo Prefecture, on Wednesday. Osaka Gas Co. says the system is due to begin operating Saturday. The gas company aims to grow its floating solar panel business to cope with the dearth of land for housing solar farms.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/28/video-2/video-indie-game-developers-tokyo-game-show-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-28T00:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Thumbnail-for-Jason_TGS2014indies.png</image:loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/09/30/video-2/video-world-robot-olympiad-japan-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-30T00:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/03/news/video-tokyo-station-midnight-tour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-03T00:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/08/news/video-ceatec-japan-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-08T00:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/12/news/guts-pose/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-12T21:20:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/xo20141013v1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman snaps a shot of "Super Space Titan Kitty," by Colin Christian, at the Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty exhibit for the character's 40th anniversary, at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/16/news/video-tokyo-motor-fes-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T00:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/15/news/thrash-metal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-15T23:16:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/xh20151016x3a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A far-right nationalist protester clashes with law enforcement members on the Day of Ukrainian Cossacks, which honors the Cossacks' role in the creation of a democratic Ukraine without sharp class divisions, during a rally near the parliament building in Kiev on Tuesday. The protesters demanded the release of political prisoners in Ukraine.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/15/news/tunnel-vision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-15T23:16:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A riot police officer reacts as pro-democracy protesters storm into a tunnel to block a road to the financial Central district in Hong Kong on Tuesday, when police reportedly fired pepper spray during clashes with a large number of protesters near the government's headquarters.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/17/news/video-japan-robot-week-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T00:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/thumbnail-for-Nagata_RobotWeek14.png</image:loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/16/news/frosted-fuji/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T10:47:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Fuji sports its first snow cap of the winter on Thursday morning, 16 days later than average but three days earlier than last year, according to the meteorological observatory in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/17/news/autumn-leaves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T20:58:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ze20141018u1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ze20141018u1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Snowboarders make the most of the last days of autumn at the foot of Mount Fuji on Friday. The volcano saw its first snow of the winter dust its upper slopes on Thursday morning.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/19/sports/leaping-japan-series/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-19T21:13:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xc20141020v1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Hanshin Tigers fan jumps from the Ebisubashi Bridge into the Dotonbori River in Osaka's Minami district on Saturday night after the baseball team defeated the Yomiuri Giants to win the Central League Climax Series Final Stage and advance to the Japan Series, setting off wild celebrations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/22/news/marine-transfer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T20:08:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Female-rights activists protest on Tuesday outside the Hall of Justice in Olongapo City, the Philippines, where a preliminary hearing took place in the murder of transgender Jennifer Laude. On Wednesday the U.S. military flew the suspect, Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton, to a detention facility within a Philippine military base, where he remains under U.S. guard. The move is seen as easing pressure on Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/25/news/video-digital-content-expo-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-25T07:52:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/26/news/head-start-halloween/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-26T02:13:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two young women pose during the Ikebukuro Halloween Cosplay Festival in Tokyo on Saturday. The costume-based event ends at 6 p.m. Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/26/news/salute/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-26T22:27:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds his top hat as he reviews members of the Air Self-Defense Force during Sunday's air review, held to celebrate 60 years since the service's founding, at Hyakuri Air Base in Omitama, Ibaraki Prefecture. Over 700 personnel and 82 military planes took part in the ceremony.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/29/news/kimdergarten/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-29T20:40:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives field guidance during his visit to the completed Pyongyang Baby Home and Orphanage in this undated photo released by the official Korean Central News Agency on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/29/news/funeral-soldier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-29T20:42:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soldiers carry the casket of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo from a church following his funeral Tuesday in Hamilton, Ontario. He was one of two soldiers killed in a pair of attacks that police said were carried out independently by converts to Islam at a time when Canada is stepping up its involvement in airstrikes against Islamic State militants in the Middle East.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/30/news/video-motor-sport-japan-2014-festival-odaiba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-01T12:54:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/10/31/news/kitty-turns-40/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-02T17:14:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fans dressed as Hello Kitty sit on huge Kitty-themed slippers at a special event in Los Angeles on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/02/sports/time-shine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-02T20:14:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takahito Mura gestures to the crowd after his free skate at Skate Canada on Saturday in Kelowna, British Columbia. Mura landed two quadruple jumps to capture the title after being in second place following Friday's short program.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/04/news/back-track/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-04T01:24:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kunio Hirai dries strings of persimmons to make "anpo-gaki," a local specialty, in Kori, Fukushima Prefecture, on Saturday. The fruits are smoked and then left to dry for a month. Farmers in the area, about 60 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, resumed producing dried persimmons last year for the first time since the 2011 nuclear crisis started.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/04/news/gate-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-04T01:24:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The slogan "Arbeit macht frei," or "Work sets you free," is seen on the main gate of the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, near Munich, in January. German police said Sunday that the part of the gate that bears the slogan has been stolen.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/06/news/video-good-design-exhibition-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-06T00:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/05/news/ad-asteroid-per-aspera/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-05T20:15:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Procyon, an asteroid fly-by probe jointly developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the University of Tokyo, is shown to the media Wednesday. The device, weighing 65 kg and costing ¥500 million, is to be launched into space Nov. 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/06/news/getting-leg/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-06T22:38:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fishermen tag their first catch of snow crabs of the season Thursday in the Sea of Japan off Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, as the winter hunt officially got underway. Catches along this part of the coast are mainly shipped to the Kinki region centered on Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/08/news/video-omotesando-hills-christmas-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-08T00:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/09/video-2/video-catch-flow-kendama-world-championship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-09T00:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/11/news/a-new-afterlife-awaits-as-end-of-life-preparations-take-off-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-11T22:33:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/n-afterlife-a-boximg-20141112.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Woman prays at the "Ruriden", a cemetery that uses high-powered LED lights to illuminate over 2,000 Buddha statues carved in crystals, in downtown Tokyo]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman prays at Ruriden, a cemetery in downtown Tokyo that uses high-powered LED lights to illuminate over 2,000 Buddha statues carved in crystal.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/07/18/news/midtown-meets-godzilla/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-12T20:03:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/GODZILLA-7.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[GODZILLA '' MIDTOWN meets GODZILLA ''@event , Hollywood Movie ''GODZILLA'' coraboration, July 17-Aug. 31, 2014., at Roppongi, Midtown, on July 17, 2014.  YOSHIAKI MIURA PHOTO.]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Night time is the right time to experience the wrath of Godzilla. And you'll be able to do that every night until Aug. 31.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/24/news/ready-to-serve/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-12T20:03:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zia-ul-Haq Amarkhil]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/18/news/world-cup-header/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-12T20:04:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yang Jiechi]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/13/sports/2014-world-cup-opening-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-12T20:04:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[A performer participates in the opening ceremony of the 2014 World Cup at the Corinthians arena in Sao Paulo]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A dancer dressed as a flower]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/11/news/looking-lost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-12T20:04:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miyagi Prefectural Police conduct an intensive search for victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami on a beach in the city of Ishinomaki on Wednesday. A total of 2,611 people remain unaccounted for in Miyagi, Fukushima and Iwate prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/10/news/knuckle-sandwich/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-12T20:04:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[University of Utah scholars say the shape of the human face may have evolved as a way to limit the impact of punches during fistfights between males. Story: Page 5]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/04/news/a-shot-across-the-bow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-12T20:05:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (second from right) is led to a military helicopter at the Afghan border in a screen grab from a video shot by the Taliban and released Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/06/03/news/human-helper-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-12T20:05:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee of ActiveLink Co. conducts a demonstration with the ARM01 Raku Vest, a robotic exoskeleton jointly developed with Kubota Corp. to help farmers and construction workers, in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/02/08/sports/2014-sochi-olympics-opening-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-12T20:06:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the olympic games open Friday during the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics at the Fisht Olympic Stadium.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/12/news/missing-links/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-12T20:23:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A banner with portraits of 43 Mexican students missing since their abduction by corrupt police in September, and a slogan reading "We want them (back) alive," hangs outside their Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College in Tixtla, in the state of Guerrero, on Monday. Mexico's government said Friday it appeared likely the students had been killed and incinerated by gang hit men collaborating with the police, but it stopped short of confirming their deaths, citing a lack of definitive evidence.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/12/news/time-passages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-12T20:24:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Todaiji Engi hanging scroll, depicting Todaiji Temple's Daibutsuden Hall in the Muromachi Period (1392-1573), is exhibited at Osaka Prefectural Sayamaike Museum in Osakasayama. The special exhibit runs through Nov. 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/13/news/pulling-weight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-13T23:09:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children from Nishimachi International School in Tokyo show reindeer ornaments they made from recycled corks at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo in Minato Ward on Thursday as part of the hotel's Circle of Love charity program to support children in the disaster-hit Tohoku region, as General Manager Steve Dewire (third from left) looks on.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/13/news/chosen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-13T23:10:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xf20141114x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People chosen from among 118,000 applicants nationwide ride the L0 series maglev train during a trial run on Thursday at the test facility operated by Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) in Yamanashi Prefecture. The 100 lucky winners burst into applause when the train reached 500 kph.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/15/news/video-sharps-new-emopa-voice-assistant-service-smartphones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-15T00:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/15/news/video-midtown-christmas-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-15T00:02:03+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/14/news/inspire-the-brits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-14T23:39:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New train cars developed by Hitachi Ltd. for a high-speed railway serving locations including London and Edinburgh are unveiled at the company's plant in Kudamatsu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Thursday. The train, which is scheduled to begin service in 2017 after test runs, can operate at a maximum speed of 200 kph and is capable of running along segments of track without electric power by using its own diesel-engine generator.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/14/sports/new-milestone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-14T23:40:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kei Nishikori hits a return to Spain's David Ferrer during the ATP Finals in London on Thursday. Nishikori defeated Ferrer 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 in his final round-robin match and advanced to the semifinals of the prestigious event.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/14/news/having-a-cold-one/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-14T23:40:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thick snow falls on the Susukino entertainment district of Sapporo on Thursday night. The temperature fell significantly Friday morning in many locations nationwide, signaling winter's full-fledged arrival.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/17/news/something-trumpet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-17T20:31:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of four young elephants gifted by Laos to Kyoto City Zoo enters its new enclosure in Sakyo Ward on Monday. The jumbo-size gift is part of celebrations marking the 60th year since Japan and Laos established diplomatic ties.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/17/news/killer-drill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-19T06:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Health workers in protective suits wheel an actor portraying a suspected Ebola patient on a stretcher during a drill Monday in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture. The exercise was held in the event that a flight carrying passengers suspected of being infected with the deadly virus arrives at nearby Kansai International Airport.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/20/news/video-white-kitte/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-20T00:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/19/news/yellow-leaf-road/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-19T22:51:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors stroll on ginkgo leaves Wednesday at Showa Kinen Park in Tachikawa, western Tokyo. The park has 106 ginkgo trees along a 200-meter "tree canal." Ginkgoes first appeared 250 million years ago; only one species remains.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/19/news/speed-light/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-19T22:52:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A solar-powered car developed by a team from Tokai University in Tokyo takes part in an endurance competition Sunday in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The organizer announced Tuesday the Tokai vehicle won the race that ran from last Thursday through Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/26/news/video-visiting-washi-sato-village-japanese-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-26T00:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/26/news/last-stand-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-26T20:26:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy demonstrators wearing protective gear stare at police officers in the Mong Kok shopping district of Hong Kong before dawn on Wednesday, after protesters' barricades were dismantled in the area the previous day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/26/news/anywhere-doraemon-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-26T20:27:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take photos of a Christmas tree decorated with the manga character Doraemon at a shopping mall in Singapore's central business district on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/26/news/muslim-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-26T20:27:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pakistani Ambassador to Japan Farukh Amil receives halal-certified "yuzu" (citrus) paste at Japan Halal Expo 2014 at Makuhari Messe in the city of Chiba on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/28/news/hokkaidos-wanted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-28T12:51:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 1.5-ton Steller's sea lion blocks traffic in Shari, Hokkaido, on Monday, prompting police to dispatch patrol cars. It took an hour and more than a dozen people to wrangle the animal onto a truck and get it back to the ocean.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/28/news/stand-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-28T12:52:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An aerial photo taken Wednesday shows steam and ash billowing from Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture, although a local observatory said it had detected no sign of intensifying vigor at the nation's largest active volcano.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/28/news/finnish-your-dessert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-28T20:12:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An officially registered Finnish Santa Claus who arrived in Japan on Friday hands a piece of chocolate to a mother and her baby at Narita International Airport. He is expected to travel to various parts of the country until Christmas Eve.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/28/news/a-piece-of-history/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-28T20:13:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/xk20141129u3a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The YS-11, Japan's only home-grown civilian passenger plane, is shown in an undated file photo. The transport ministry is selling a mothballed YS-11 stored at Haneda Airport but will scrap it if no one steps forward with an offer by Tuesday. A previous auction in 2010 attracted no bids. Although some YS-11s are still in service with the Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces, none are used in civil aviation.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/28/news/ride-of-the-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-28T20:13:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp.'s Future Mobility concept vehicle is unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Nov. 20. Other models unveiled included an upgraded compact sedan from Honda Motor Co. that is set for release next year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/11/30/news/worthy-cause/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-11-30T20:15:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/xm20141201u1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 11,000 volunteers in Santa Claus costumes pack Osaka Castle Park in Osaka's Chuo Ward on Sunday. Using some of the money collected in the form of participation fees, Akaruku Love, a local event organizer, will buy and donate gifts to about 800 hospitalized children suffering from intractable diseases.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/04/video-2/video-teamlab-shake-art-exhibition-learn-play-teamlab-future-park/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-04T00:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/thumbnail-for-Kobayashi_teamLabExhibition.png</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/03/news/autumn-beauty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-03T19:47:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ys20121204t1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk under autumn leaves Wednesday along Inui-dori, a lane inside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. The area is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through Sunday as part of the commemorations for Emperor Akihito turning 80 last December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/04/news/turning-tide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-04T20:54:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/yz20141205u1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kurdish peshmerga fighters survey the scene south of Irbil, capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region, on Aug. 18 after forcing Islamic State fighters to withdraw. Analysts say the Islamic State's "caliphate" is reaching its limit, with the jihadis losing ground in Iraq, though they continue to hold positions in Syria. Story: Page 5]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/06/video-2/video-bilingirl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T00:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/thumbnail-for-Ito_Bilingirl.jpg</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/05/news/no-more-horsing-around/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T22:49:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/yu20141206w1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ayame the sheep and Kojiro the pony greet people in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district Friday. The event was organized to celebrate the transition from the year of the horse to the year of the sheep in 2015 under the Chinese lunar calendar.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/07/news/video-sheep-pony-central-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-07T00:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/07/news/souping-new-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-07T20:58:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/zc20141208u1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women boil slices of "daikon" (radish) together with pieces of deep-fried tofu in a huge pot at Kyoto's Daihoon-ji Temple during an annual event that started Sunday. Visitors eat the contents while simultaneously praying for good health in the coming year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/07/news/storm-salvage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-07T21:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/zc20141208u3a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filipino children carry food and other items on Sunday in Tacloban, the heart of the region devastated by Typhoon Haiyan a year ago, after homes collapsed due to Typhoon Hagupit. The storm knocked out power across entire coastal provinces, mowed down trees and sent more than 650,000 people into shelters before it weakened Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/10/news/double-personality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-10T22:09:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/xf20141211w1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Advertising agency Dentsu Inc.'s robot entertainer Matsukoroid (left) is modeled on the popular plus-sized and cross-dressing TV personality Matsuko Deluxe (right), a talk show host and commentator on culture and social issues. Dentsu's animated machine will soon start appearing in TV programs, commercials and public events.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/13/news/video-tokyo-sky-tree-town-projection-mapping-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-13T00:00:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/thumbnail-for-Kobayashi_Xmas14-SkyTree.png</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/12/news/taxing-times/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-12T21:58:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/zc20141213v2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief priest Seihan Mori of Kyoto's Kiyomizu Temple writes the character "zei" (tax) on Friday, after it was chosen as kanji of the year by the Kyoto-based Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/15/news/march-toward-revenge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-15T00:02:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/zh20141215x1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[zh20141215x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actor Ken Matsudaira marches the streets of Ako, Hyogo Prefecture, clad in the costume of Oishi Kuranosuke, who led Lord Ako's famous 47 samurai during the Edo Period. The group of loyal retainers became heroes after murdering Lord Kira, the man who had ordered their lord to commit seppuku (ritualistic suicide), in a revenge attack on Dec. 14, 1702.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/17/news/piece-by-piece-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-17T19:43:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/yo20141218t2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers begin to remove tsunami debris that has lain largely untouched since March 11, 2011, in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/18/news/video-international-robot-sumo-tournament-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-18T00:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/thumbnail-for-Nagata_RobotSumo.jpg</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/18/news/video-water-tank-projection-mapping-sumida-aquarium/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-18T00:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/thumbnail-for-Kobayashi_Xmas14-SumidaAquarium.png</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/22/news/endurance-runner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-22T20:38:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/yh20141223u2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yh20141223u2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osamu Suzuki, chairman of the eponymous automaker, unveils the new Alto in Tokyo on Monday. The tiny car has outsize efficiency figures, traveling a purported 37 km on a liter of gasoline. The company says it is the most fuel-efficient vehicle of its kind.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/22/news/doggy-toddle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-22T22:09:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/yh20141223u4a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A dog known as Xiaoniu walks across a street with its owner (not pictured) in Shanghai on Friday. According to local media, Xiaoniu accompanies its owner to the market everyday and is able to walk on its hind legs for up to about an hour.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/23/news/birthday-cheer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-23T21:49:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/xo20141224v1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xo20141224v1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Well-wishers wave Hinomaru flags at the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo on Tuesday as they celebrate Emperor Akihito's 81st birthday. The Emperor called for peace and good relations with the nation's neighbors.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/26/news/video-light-tokyo-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-26T00:00:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/thumbnail-for-LightUpTokyo20141.jpg</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/25/news/pa-n-da/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T22:59:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ze20141226w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ze20141226w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adventure World in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, is soliciting names from the public for the twin panda cubs that were born at the zoo on Dec. 2. Proposals for the names of the female cubs will be accepted through Jan. 31 by mail or on the zoo's website, pandababy-aws.com.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/24/news/arctic-express/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-26T14:23:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Station is illuminated Wednesday. The building marked its centenary last weekend, when rail fans overwhelmed a promotional sale of commemorative Suica cards. The lighting can be viewed through Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/26/news/animal-magic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-27T16:33:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Animal handlers hold a pony and a sheep in place for photographers in front of the Tsutenkaku observation tower in Osaka on Friday. Whereas the year of the horse is drawing to a close, 2015 will be the year of the sheep according to the Chinese calendar.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/28/news/prayers-fire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-28T21:08:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Priests throw strips of wood bearing written prayers onto a fire during the annual "otakiage," or fire ceremony, Sunday at Naritasan Shinshoji Temple in Narita, Chiba Prefecture. The event was held to thank the gods for the past year. Priests burned about 50,000 strips while visitors watched.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/31/news/video-look-back-videos-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-31T00:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grand champion Hakuho pounds hot rice in a wooden mortar with a wooden pestle to make "mochi" rice cake in the ceremonial final event of the year at the Miyagino sumo stable in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2014/12/30/news/video-top-interviews-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-31T14:23:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-31T19:17:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Neighbors share a group chortle Wednesday after performing a traditional year-end comedy poking fun at government officials and the frustrations of the past 12 months. Local residents gather at Senyoji Temple in the city of Chiba on the final day of every year to indulge in laughter, the best medicine.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/02/news/scenes-new-years-japan-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-02T14:59:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Disney characters Mickey Minnie Mouse, dressed in traditional Japanese kimonos, greet guests from a float during the theme park's annual New Year's Day parade at Tokyo Disneyland on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/02/news/plunging-into-the-new-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-02T20:19:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men ride a "mikoshi," or portable shrine, as residents carry it into the sea during a festival to wish for calm ocean waters and good fortune in the new year in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/04/news/profitable-start/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-04T21:20:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank employees count New Year's donations at Fushimi Inari Shrine in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto, on Sunday. It will take about five days to count the offerings made by visitors during the first three days of the year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/06/news/deep-freeze/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People slide down an ice sculpture illuminated by colored lights on Monday, the opening day of the 31st Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Heilongjiang province, China. The annual event is taking place in one of China's coldest cities: On Tuesday afternoon, it was reported to be minus 15 Celsius there, and forecast to fall to minus 22 overnight.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/06/news/steady-goes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-06T20:49:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Calligraphers concentrate on their "kakizome" (New Year's writing) during an annual contest at the Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo on Monday. Each peer group writes the same phrase, with their efforts judged on such factors as neatness. A total of 3,150 competitors from across the nation who won preliminary rounds took part in Monday's event. The winning works will be exhibited at the hall on Feb. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/06/news/primary-colors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-06T20:49:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students of the Ikenobo school of ikebana attend a New Year's lesson at the organization's headquarters in Kyoto on Monday. The event saw some 1,500 students, aged between 8 and 96 from all over Japan, take part.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/09/news/video-gunghos-new-3ds-game-featuring-puzzle-dragons-super-mario-bros/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-09T11:10:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/13/news/pretty-picture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-13T13:22:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman in a kimono takes a selfie with friends during Coming-of-Age Day celebrations at a Tokyo amusement park Monday. According to the government, more than 1.2 million men and women born in 1994 marked the holiday honoring new adults this year, an increase of approximately 50,000 from last year and the first rise since 1995.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/13/sports/best-foot-forward/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-13T17:36:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan forward Keisuke Honda competes with Palestine's Mahmoud Dhadha in their first game at the Asian Cup on Monday. Japan won 4-0.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/14/news/video-press-announcement-kagura-new-way-making-music/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-14T10:48:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/12/news/video-neurocommunicator/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-14T10:48:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/14/news/keeping-tabs-tabby/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-14T22:27:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cat wears a "Tsunagaru Col" gadget at the Wearable Device Technology Expo in Tokyo on Wednesday. The device allows pet owners to track information about their pets, including their location and other animals they may be interacting with, using a smartphone.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/14/news/time-hands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-14T22:33:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officer Masashi Onishi pauses for a photo on Tuesday next to a snow-car he made outside a police box in Horonobe, Hokkaido. The life-sized vehicle has set Twitter afire, with users commenting on his realistic depiction of a patrol car.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/17/news/video-wearable-expo-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-17T00:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/22/news/video-talking-robots-commu-sota/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-22T00:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/22/news/video-100-robi-dance-celebration-featuring-100-robots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-22T00:02:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/21/news/playin-alive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-21T21:22:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Humanoid robots named Robi are readied for a dance performance in Tokyo during a promotional event called 100 Robi, for the Weekly Robi Magazine, on Tuesday. The 34-cm-tall robot is able to speak, walk and dance.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/25/news/fastest-almond/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-25T21:26:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A drone hovers during the Japan Drone Championship held in Tokyo's Akihabara district Sunday. The winner was Toru Takahashi, who beat 17 rivals in a time trial race around an oval course.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/27/news/video-japan-drone-championship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-27T00:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/27/news/golden-opportunity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-27T20:24:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Work on refurbishing the interior of Higashi-Honganji Temple's Amidado Hall begins Tuesday. About 300,000 gold foil squares, each 10 sq. cm in size, will be used at the site in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto. The work is scheduled to be finished by the end of this year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/01/30/news/snow-falling-sightseers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-30T23:23:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students take pictures in front of the Diet building Friday as snow fell in Tokyo and other areas in the Kanto region.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/01/news/im-happy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-01T22:18:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Holding up a sign saying "I'm not Abe," a member of a citizens' group takes part in a rally in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Sunday to raise public awareness of the risks of Japan being drawn into the fight against terrorism. Participants also blasted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's drive to give the Self-Defense Forces a bigger role overseas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/04/news/chilly-blossoms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-04T22:28:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Frost resembling flower blossoms adorns a frozen river in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, early Wednesday. The day was "Risshun," the start of spring under the traditional calendar, which divides the year into 24 solar terms.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/04/news/eyewitness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-04T22:28:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xy20150205w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image from a motorist's dashboard camera posted on Twitter shows a Taiwanese TransAsia Airways plane stalling over a highway close to Taipei's downtown airport on Wednesday, moments before it crashed into a shallow river. At least 15 of the 58 people aboard were killed, but several survived by clambering onto the submerged wreckage.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/06/news/looking-glass/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T00:18:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ivan Timofeenko, co-founder of the Newton Park interactive museum of science, demonstrates the Mirror Box, which produces reflections that create geometric figures, Wednesday at the Museum Center in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. A group of engineers and scientists founded the interactive museum to popularize science among children.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/06/news/winter-wonderland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T00:20:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/xm20150206a2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crowds of visitors take pictures during the opening ceremony for the seven-day Sapporo Snow Festival on Thursday in front of a sculpture of a gate at Kasuga Taisha Shrine, and one of figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu. The annual event at Odori Park in Sapporo attracts more than 2 million tourists each year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/07/news/video-tokyo-international-gift-show-spring-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-07T00:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/12/news/wakayamas-cold-spot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T00:18:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ice covers most of the pool at the bottom of the 133-meter Nachi Falls in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, on Tuesday morning after the temperature dropped to half a degree below freezing. The frozen surface was a rare sight at the popular tourist spot, which is situated in an area normally quite warm during the winter months.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/12/news/video-celebrating-dragon-ball-shooting-virtual-kamehameha/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T18:03:42+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/15/news/venus-shines-stage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-15T23:07:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yb20150216w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman wearing a prosthetic leg participates in a public photo session presented at the Hasselblad and Profoto booth during the CP+ camera and imaging equipment trade fair in Yokohama on Saturday. Prosthetist Fumio Usui inspired the event after collaborating with photographer Takao Ochi for the book project "Amputee Venus," which features photographs of 11 Japanese women who use artificial legs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/18/news/aomori-roots-brazilian-rites/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T19:54:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[za20150219t1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A float from Goshogawara, Aomori Prefecture, is paraded at the Sao Paulo Carnival on Saturday. The team, which traveled to Brazil to promote the post-disaster revival of the Tohoku region, won fourth prize among the 14 teams participating in the parade.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/20/news/fresh-fair/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-20T00:31:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Maiko" apprentice geisha take part in a photo session Thursday in Kyoto's Kamigyo Ward ahead of their annual "Kitano Odori" dances. The performances run from March 25 through April 7 and traditionally mark the arrival of spring.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/22/news/one-big-family/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T22:47:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/yr20150223w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yr20150223w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors admire a pyramid-shaped display of some 30,000 "hina" dolls in Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture, on Sunday, ahead of Hinamatsuri (Girl's Day Festival) on March 3. A local nonprofit group put on the event after receiving dolls from families across the country that no longer have any use for them. A total of 60,000 dolls have been donated so far.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/24/news/video-sharps-new-phones-protect-owner-scammers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T14:39:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/01/news/tunnel-vision-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-01T20:43:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/yj20150302u2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yj20150302u2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians stroll through the newly completed Yamate tunnel during a preview event in Tokyo on Sunday. The tunnel is part of the Central Circular Route, a project that is expected to halve to about 20 minutes the time it takes to reach Shinjuku from Haneda Airport. The tunnel officially opens on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/04/news/born-1898/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-05T13:09:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yy20150305u2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Misao Okawa, the world's oldest person, is wished a happy birthday by Takehiro Ogura, the chief of Higashisumiyoshi Ward, Osaka. Okawa turns 117 on Thursday. Guinness World Records recognized her in 2013 as the world's oldest woman.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/05/news/olympic-transformation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-05T22:47:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yp20150306w4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The media on Thursday were shown the progress that has been made in demolishing National Stadium in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. The centerpiece of the 1964 Olympic Games will have disappeared by September, and construction of a new 80,000-seat stadium for the 2020 Olympics is to begin in October.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/05/news/special-delivery-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-05T22:48:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yp20150306w3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crocs Japan GK's custom-built drone lifts a pair of the company's new Norlin sneakers from a display rack before delivering them to a staff member during a preview Thursday for its temporary "store in the air" in Tokyo Midtown.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/05/news/blossoms-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-05T23:19:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/yp20150306w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yp20150306w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourist guides in kimono look at thousands of LEDs arranged as cherry blossoms in full bloom during a media preview Thursday of the Hanami Butai (Cherry-viewing Stage), an illumination event at the Coredo Muromachi commercial complex in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district. The show debuts on Friday and will run through April 12.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/05/news/newsmaker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-06T12:33:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/yp20150306w2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yp20150306w2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Funassyi, the popular unofficial mascot of Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, greets reporters at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Thursday. Known for its bizarre squeaks and jumps, the mascot said it would be making more appearances overseas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/08/news/still-waiting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-08T20:52:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/xz20150309u1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xz20150309u1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new bronze statue of Hachiko, the dog that waited 10 years at Tokyo's Shibuya Station for his deceased owner to return, is unveiled to the public at the University of Tokyo on Sunday, the 80th anniversary of the dog's death. The statue was paid for through over ¥10 million in donations raised through a fundraising campaign in honor of Hidesaburo Ueno, Hachiko's owner, who is also considered the father of Japan's agricultural engineering studies.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/08/sports/numero-uno/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-08T21:31:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/xz20150309u2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xz20150309u2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoma Uno competes in the free skate at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn on Saturday. Seventeen-year-old Uno won the gold medal.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/10/news/video-unveiling-statue-depicting-hachi-owner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-10T00:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/thumbnail-for-Kobayashi_HachiStatue.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[thumbnail for Kobayashi_HachiStatue]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/10/news/safety-first/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-10T21:38:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/xa20150311v1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xa20150311v1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two wet suits unveiled Monday by Yamamoto Corp. use patterns that can reduce shark attacks, the Osaka chemicals-maker claims. The blue one (left) makes divers difficult for sharks to find, while the striped one is designed to make surfers look like sea snakes, which sharks are said to avoid. The company said 10,000 of the suits were sold in Australia during a test run from December 2012 to September 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/11/news/life-lessons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T21:45:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/yp20150312v1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yp20150312v1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[American Kelly Wetherille, who works in the Roppongi Hills complex in central Tokyo, is taught resuscitation techniques on Wednesday during a disaster preparedness drill organized by Mori Building Co. The event, which drew around 900 residents and workers, was timed to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disasters.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/09/news/video-mixed-reality-technology-future-tourism-may-virtual-past/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T22:48:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/thumbnail-for-Nagata_AsukaLab.jpg</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/13/news/heading-sunset/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-13T00:54:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ys20150313a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ys20150313a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Railroad buffs gather at JR Osaka Station on Thursday to take photos of the luxury Twilight Express sleeper train before its final run. About 3,500 people saw off the train that carried passengers the 1,500 km between Osaka and Sapporo for 25 years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/13/news/young-recruits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-13T23:08:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/xc20150314x1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xc20150314x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nursery school children paint airplane-shaped playground equipment with the colors and logo of Peach Aviation on Friday in the city of Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, which hosts Kansai International Airport. The budget carrier held the event to teach the pupils about the jobs of pilots and flight attendants and to whet their appetite for the airline industry.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/13/news/digital-dragon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-13T23:08:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/xc20150314x2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xc20150314x2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A digitally produced replica of Soga Shohaku's 1763 painting, "Unryu-zu," is shown to the media Friday at Tenryuji Temple in Kyoto. With the original housed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, it took about a year for Canon Inc. to produce the replica.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/14/news/un-world-conference-disaster-risk-reduction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-14T12:27:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/p8-disaster-back-k-20150314.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8 disaster back-k 20150314]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 2,000 candles are lit at a park in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, with a Japanese phrase meaning "Iwaki-flame of hope," Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/15/news/taste-traditional/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-15T20:34:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/yf20150316u1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yf20150316u1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A geisha passes out boxes of sake in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Saturday, as tourists descended on the scenic city, known for its traditional homes and Kenrokuen Garden, one of the country's "three great gardens," after a new shinkansen line linking Kanazawa with Tokyo opened earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/15/news/painting-town-green/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-15T20:34:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/yf20150316u2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yf20150316u2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Revelers decked out in green participate in a St. Patrick's Day Parade on Sunday in Tokyo's trendy Omotesando district. About 1,500 people, including Irish Ambassador to Japan Anne Barrington, took part in the festivities.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/17/news/rite-spring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T17:12:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/xg20150317r1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xg20150317r1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Models show off creations by Thai atelier Sretsis on Monday, the opening day of Tokyo Collection 2015 at the Shibuya Hikarie commercial complex in Tokyo. More than 50 domestic and foreign fashion designers will unveil their latest collections at the annual event, which runs through Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/17/news/hes-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-18T00:57:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/yh20150318x1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yh20150318x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kyrgyz leader Almazbek Atambayev meet in St. Petersburg on Monday. Putin laughed off rumors over his 10-day absence, saying life would be "boring without gossip."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/22/culture-3/anime-japan-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-22T00:30:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/xx20150322a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xx20150322a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People dressed as characters from the anime series "Fate/stay night" engage in mock combat Saturday at Anime Japan 2015, a cosplay (costume play) event ending Sunday at Tokyo Big Sight in Koto Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/22/news/noes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-22T22:46:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/yr20150323w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yr20150323w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters shout slogans and hold placards reading "No to the Abe administration" at a rally against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government in central Tokyo on Sunday. Organizers said more than 10,000 people participated in the event.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/23/news/sakura-season/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-23T23:39:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ym20150324x1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ym20150324x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cherry trees begin to blossom at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Monday, two days earlier than last year and three days earlier than usual. The Meteorological Agency said they are likely to be in full bloom in seven to 10 days.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/27/news/air-ages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T00:14:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/xm20150327a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xm20150327a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An ASDF aerobatics team soars over Himeji Castle in Hyogo Prefecture at a ceremony for the end of restoration work Thursday. The castle reopens to the public Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/27/news/space-cadet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T21:03:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/zh20150328u3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[zh20150328u3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kirobo, the robot that went to the International Space Station, celebrates its two Guinness World Records: the first companion robot in space, and the robot to have held a conversation at the highest altitude. Seen on Friday in Tokyo are Fuminori Kataoka of the Product Planning Group of Toyota Motor Corp. (center), Dentsu Inc.'s Yorichika Nishijima (left) and University of Tokyo robotics scientist Tomotaka Takahashi.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/27/news/mountain-respect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T21:03:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/zh20150328u1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[zh20150328u1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mourners pray silently Friday in the village of Otaki, Nagano Prefecture, six months after the surprise eruption of Mount Ontake killed at least 57 hikers and left six others missing in Japan's deadliest volcanic disaster in postwar memory.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/27/news/feudal-flashback/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T21:04:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/zh20150328u2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[zh20150328u2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pose in feudal period costumes Friday at Himeji Castle in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, as the castle's renovated donjon, seen behind, was opened to the public after more than five years of repair work.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/29/news/man-machine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-29T20:36:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Inaba, a professional player of shogi, or Japanese chess, drops his head in defeat after losing to a computer program called Yaneura-o (Attic King) in Hakodate, Hokkaido, on Saturday. So far, human players have won two games and lost one in a five-match series against computers. The fourth match will be held next Saturday in Nara.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/03/news/doll-crowd/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-03T22:32:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some 500 palm-size character dolls are displayed Thursday, the first day of a doll exhibition at Kurayoshi Museum in Kurayoshi, Tottori Prefecture. The exhibition will run through May 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/07/news/chopper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T16:37:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force personnel examine the wreck of an OH-6D helicopter that made a crash landing in a rice paddy in Sendai on Monday. No one was hurt, but all 46 choppers of the same model have been grounded until the cause of the accident is determined.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/08/news/honoring-fallen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T00:07:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maritime Self-Defense Force cadets take part in a ceremony Tuesday at a cenotaph in the Old Imperial Navy Cemetery in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture. About 300 relatives and others mourned the more than 3,000 crew who died in the sinking of the Japanese Imperial Navy battleship Yamato by U.S. forces in the East China Sea 70 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/11/news/video-tokyos-ueno-park-blossoms-tourist-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-11T00:00:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Ueno park - 9]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/15/news/video-gallery-toto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-15T00:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/21/video-2/video-art-fair-tokyo-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T11:18:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/01/news/joy-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T11:21:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to Ueno Park in Tokyo enjoy cherry blossoms on Monday night. The park is offering special illuminations through April 12, but an expected rainstorm later this week could foreshorten nature's dazzling welcome to spring.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/28/news/video-kirobo-returns-earth-18-month-journey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T11:21:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/26/video-2/video-animejapan-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T11:21:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/13/news/video-tokyo-tower-burger-debuts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T11:22:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/02/news/video-teamlabs-crystal-fireworks-cherry-blossoms-roppongi-hills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T11:22:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/13/news/video-vaio-phone-unveiled-japan-communications-inc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T11:26:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/31/news/video-42nd-tokyo-motorcycle-show-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T12:27:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/12/news/video-nihonbashi-sakura-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T12:27:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/03/02/news/video-innovation-great-u-k-themed-projection-mapping-tsutaya-books/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T12:27:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/26/news/video-pepper-app-challenge-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T12:27:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/15/video-2/video-18th-japan-media-arts-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T12:28:06+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/02/13/culture-3/18th-japan-media-arts-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T12:28:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Sensing Streams - Invisible, Inaudible by Ryuchi Sakamoto / Daito Manabe]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sensing Streams - Invisible, Inaudible by Ryuchi Sakamoto / Daito Manabe]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/16/news/hothead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T12:52:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Boeoegg snowman, a symbol of winter made of wadding and filled with firecrackers, burns atop a bonfire at the climax of Zurich's annual spring festivities in Sechselaeuten Square on Monday. The faster its head catches fire and explodes, the warmer and more beautiful the summer will be.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/16/news/new-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T12:53:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiyomi Igari, 50, who heads a salmon breeders' cooperative in the evacuated town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, releases salmon fry Friday in the Tomioka River for the first time since the 2011 nuclear disaster.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/16/news/old-timer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-16T23:29:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miku, the nation's oldest koala bear, was found dead at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on Thursday. Keepers said the 23-year-old male koala had lost his appetite over the past four weeks and had eaten nothing since Sunday. The zoo said his relatives usually live for about 15 years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/17/news/shadow-shogun/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-17T23:12:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsunenari Tokugawa (left), a descendant of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), climbs steps at Shizuoka's Kunozan Toshogu Shrine, where the Edo Period shogun is entombed. He was taking part Friday in a ceremony marking 400 years since Ieyasu's death. About a dozen descendants, as well as some 300 people with other connections, took part.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/21/news/video-sony-unveils-xperia-z4/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-21T00:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/20/news/now-youre-speaking-language/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-20T23:36:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tourist from Taiwan drinks green tea at the "foreign customers' salon" that opened Monday at Kintetsu Department Store's flagship outlet in Abeno Harukasu, the tallest building in Japan, in the city of Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/23/news/clicking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T10:58:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children build Lego vehicles Tuesday under the guidance of a staffer at a Legoland theme park in Osaka scheduled to open on Thursday. About 100 nursery school kids were invited to attend the media preview.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/24/news/hunt-needed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-24T20:59:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eye-catching artworks greet visitors Thursday to the new Oita Prefectural Art Museum, which opened to the public Friday in the city of Oita. The building is designed by architect Shigeru Ban, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/25/video-2/video-roppongi-art-night-2015-press-preview/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-25T00:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/26/news/video-launch-destination-star-wars-toys-r-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-26T00:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/28/news/video-rainbow-parade-celebrates-lgbt-equality-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-28T00:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/thumbnail-for-TokyoRainbowPride15.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2015, at Yoyogi park-Shibuya, Parade on April 26, 2015. Hodo-bu Osaki reports. YOSHIAKI MIURA PHOTO]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/28/news/running-course/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-28T14:16:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sprinter Nobuharu Asahara, who won a bronze medal in the men's 4x100-meter relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, runs with children on the rooftop track of Morinomiya Q's Mall Base, a new commercial complex in Osaka, during a preview event on Thursday. The facility opened on Monday and has 49 tenants who offer sports facilities such as a fitness gym, a futsal court and sport gear shops, as well as general merchandise shops. Visitors can jog around the 300-meter rooftop track free of charge before or after shopping.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/28/news/shouting-peace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-28T23:35:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Author Yotaro Konaka (second from right) and sympathizers of Beheiren (Citizen's League for Peace in Vietnam) shout "America, Get out of Okinawa" under the slogan "Korosuna (Don't Kill)," written in kanji and hiragana, in Shiba Park in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Sunday to commemorate the group's 50th anniversary. The slogan, which was drawn by the late Taro Okamoto, Japan's leading avant-garde artist, appeared in Beheiren's opinion advertisement titled "Stop the Killing! Stop the Vietnam War" published in the April 3, 1967, issue of The Washington Post. Thursday marks the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, present-day Ho Chi Minh City.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/29/news/hooked/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-29T20:35:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carp streamers fly in Higashishirohige Park, in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, on Wednesday. Koinobori streamers are strung up ahead of Boy's Day on May 5 and reflect parents' wishes that their children will grow up to be as strong as carp. The 45 streamers will be on display through May 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/01/news/video-star-wars-visions-exhibition-starts-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-01T00:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/30/news/times-past/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-30T23:59:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taku Mitani and his wife, Momoko, hold copies of old front pages of The Japan Times, at Hakuhinkan Toy Park in Tokyo's Ginza district. The machine beside them produces front-page copies of any issue of the newspaper published between 1897 and 2014. For added nostalgia, it also offers the TV listings, radio page or back page of the issue.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/02/news/video-lets-play-future-toshiba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-02T00:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/01/news/dear-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-01T22:53:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Krishna Kumari Khadka, 24, is rescued Thursday after she survived for five days buried in rubble following the earthquake in Nepal. The personnel were from Norway, France and Israel.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/01/news/station-dunes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-01T22:53:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shinkansen and a steam locomotive are portrayed by a sand sculpture at Sand Festa on Friday in Fukiagehama, near Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima Prefecture. The annual event, which opened the same day, runs till the end of the month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/02/news/little-italy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-02T19:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Takamado and Rita Mannella Giorgi, wife of the Italian ambassador, enjoy the Italian garden at the 15th Annual World Gardening Fair in Hotel Okura on Saturday. The fair, which features gardens by female ambassadors and ambassadors' wives from 10 countries in Japan, runs through May 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/03/news/video-15th-annual-world-gardening-fair-hotel-okura/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-03T00:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/04/culture-3/force-strong-one/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T18:06:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chihiro Nakayama (center), 5, from Tokyo, wears a Darth Vader costume as he stands Monday with other "Star Wars" fans in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills complex, which is holding an exhibition on the science-fiction franchise. May 4 is the unofficial "Star Wars Day," when fans worldwide celebrate the movie series and its iconic phrase, "May the Force be with you" ("May the Fourth be with you"). The exhibition runs through June 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/04/news/spiritual-refresh/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T23:41:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yusa Shirakawa, 26, washes her hands at Kyoto's Shimogamo Shrine using water from the Mitarashigawa River during a Shinto purification ritual for the Aoi Festival on Monday morning. The Kyoto-born flight attendant for Skymark Airlines, wearing a traditional junihitoe (12-layer robe) kimono, played a Heian Period (794-1185) princess in this year's festival.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/09/video-2/video-star-wars-day-japan-may-4-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-09T00:00:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/08/news/next-station-iss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T23:38:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[American Kjell Lindgren (left), Russian Oleg Kononenko (center) and Japanese Kimiya Yui pose at a training session in Star City, near Moscow, on Thursday. They are scheduled to blast off for the International Space Station at the end of May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/08/news/double-trouble/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T23:39:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tohin (left) and Ohin, twin female panda cubs, are shown to the public for the first time Friday morning in an outdoor area at Adventure World amusement park in Wakayama Prefecture. The twins now weigh about 9 kg each, which is nearly 50 times their initial weight five months ago. Their diet consists of their mother Rauhin's milk as well as artificial milk, according to zoo officials.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/11/news/video-3d-printed-robotic-arm-handiii/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-11T10:54:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/12/video-2/video-preparations-underway-japans-first-red-bull-air-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-12T00:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/13/news/video-pet-expo-2015-makuhari-messe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-13T00:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/11/news/aomori-ambassador/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-11T23:54:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A float from the Aomori Nebuta Festival is prepared in the city of Aomori on Monday for shipment to Italy. It will feature in a "Japan Day" parade at Expo Milano 2015 in July, to give viewers a flavor of the renowned festival and to symbolize the Tohoku region's recovery from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/12/news/masking-anger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-12T23:49:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester wears a mask during a demonstration against President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term, in Bujumbura, Burundi, on Monday. East African leaders were to hold a summit in Tanzania on Wednesday aimed at breaking the political deadlock in Burundi and ensuring peaceful elections there, Tanzania's presidency said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/16/news/video-mast-asia-2015-japans-first-international-defense-trade-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-16T00:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/15/news/grain-train/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-15T21:37:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A parade passes through Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto on Friday during the Aoi Festival, one of the city's three major festivals. It began around 1,400 years ago, when people prayed for a healthy grain harvest after repeated crop failures.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/21/news/happy-family/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-21T23:46:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/yt20150522x1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yt20150522x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Twin giant panda cubs Touhin (center) and Ouhin (right) play with their mother, Rauhin, at Adventure World zoo in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, on Thursday. It's the first time the public has been able to view the whole family since the cubs' birth at the zoo in December. The young pandas are said to be perky and doing well.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/22/news/kyushu-smoke-signal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-22T23:06:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A satellite image shows smoke billowing from Mount Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture on Thursday. The volcanic plume reached an altitude of 4,300 meters, the sixth-highest on record, as authorities issued ash and falling rock alerts in the surrounding areas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/22/news/head-heights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-22T23:06:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists snap pictures of window washers in a gondola outside Tokyo Skytree's upper observation deck on Monday ahead of the third anniversary of the 634-meter tower's opening on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/24/news/video-international-drone-expo-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-24T00:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/26/news/honoring-fallen-heros/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-26T10:18:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men wearing costumes worn by traditional firefighters perform acrobatic stunts atop bamboo ladders following a memorial service for firefighters at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area on Monday. Hundreds of firefighters wearing traditional garb gathered for the service to remember their comrades killed in the line of duty over the last 300 years. The temple's five-story pagoda can be seen behind the firefighters.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/27/news/moving-ahead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-27T13:55:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toymaker Takara Tomy's new "LinearLiner" maglev train toy is shown to media in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district Tuesday. The toy, which uses electromagnets to move along its tracks, will go on sale in September at a price of ¥35,000.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/27/news/fugu-foray/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-27T20:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman tries out sushi with fugu on Sunday at the Japan Pavilion of Expo Milano 2015. Japanese exports of the potentially toxic fish became available for the first time in the European Union after special permission was granted for the expo. Imports of fugu are strictly prohibited in the EU.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/27/sports/heavy-lifting-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-27T20:04:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Terunofuji is held aloft by members of his stable after being promoted to sumo's second-highest rank of ozeki on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/28/news/video-docomo-enables-iris-scan-authorization-online-payments-using-new-smartphone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-28T00:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/29/news/777083/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-29T00:03:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emoji, a Japanese contraction for emoticons, are rendered on yellow balls. The word is among over 1,700 new entries added to the Merriam-Webster unabridged dictionary.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/30/news/video-automated-driving-demonstration-zmp-inc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-30T00:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/01/news/quick-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-01T22:55:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fishing boats bring back evacuated residents to Yakushima Island after they made a brief return to Kuchinoerabu Island on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/03/news/video-mount-fuji-bathhouse-mural-live-painting-event-keio-plaza-hotel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-03T00:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/03/news/rescue-amid-tragedy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-03T00:03:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Divers help a passenger to safety after a cruise ship sank in heavy wind and rain on the Yangtze River in Jianli, China, late Monday. With around 450 people missing Tuesday and part of the hull still above water, rescuers believed others could still be alive inside after knocking was heard, reports said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/03/news/slow-steady/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-03T00:03:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bomb squad from the Metropolitan Police Department takes part in a counterterrorism drill Tuesday at the Toranomon Hills complex in Minato Ward, Tokyo — the first such drill carried out at the complex.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/06/news/video-ohanas-talking-robot-tomy-ntt-docomo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-06T00:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/08/news/video-necs-fingerprint-things-technology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-08T11:22:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/09/news/video-slide-city-aomi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-09T00:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/01/news/next-stop-nagoya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-08T19:12:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Solar Impulse 2, seen in this photo posted to the Solar Impulse Twitter account @solarimpulse, was to land in Nagoya, organizers said Monday, after bad weather delayed a landmark attempt by the solar-powered plane to cross the Pacific Ocean without a drop of fuel.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/05/news/maritime-memories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-09T12:39:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Turkish frigate TCG Gediz makes a port call Friday at Tokyo's Harumi Pier as part of events marking the 125th anniversary of the 1890 rescue off Wakayama Prefecture of crew members from the Turkish warship Ertugrul, which had gone down in a typhoon. The Gediz will stay in Tokyo until Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/10/sports/promising-start/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-10T07:10:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defending champion Japan opened its Women's World Cup campaign Monday with a 1-0 victory over Switzerland in Vancouver, British Columbia. Captain Aya Miyama scored the lone goal on a penalty kick in the 29th minute.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/12/news/fuji-flap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-12T08:04:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourism workers and emergency personnel carry out an evacuation drill on the slopes of Mount Fuji on Thursday, practicing how to take tourists to safety if the iconic volcano erupts. The Yamanashi Prefectural Government has for the first time drawn up an evacuation map for hikers, which outlines different routes depending on which vents blow.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/12/news/theres-smoke/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-12T20:20:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumes spew from Mount Asama on Thursday, the same day its volcanic alert level was raised to 2, imposing a 2-km no-go zone around the crater. The volcano on the border of Nagano and Gunma prefectures looms over Karuizawa, a popular resort, and erupted intermittently in 2008 and 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/14/news/video-exciting-visual-academy-private-showcase-virtual-reality-firm-solidray/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-14T00:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/15/news/kindling-flame/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-15T23:54:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, leader of the Olympic organizing committee, greets flight attendants from All Nippon Airways Co. (left) and Japan Airlines Co. at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games Official Partner ceremony in Tokyo on Monday. ANA and JAL are the first two entities listed as Tokyo 2020 Official Partners, the second domestic tier in the lucrative Tokyo 2020 Sponsorship Program.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/15/news/hip-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-15T23:54:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A hippopotamus is steered through the streets of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on Sunday after flooding destroyed enclosures at the city's zoo. Tigers and lions were among animals said to have escaped. At least 12 people died in the floods, and rescuers were searching Monday for at least two dozen others plus an undetermined number of potentially dangerous animals.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/15/news/shake-leg/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-15T23:54:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A dance team performs in Sapporo on Sunday, the last day of the Yosakoi Soran Festival. A total of 27,000 people participated in the five-day dance event, which attracted an estimated 2 million visitors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/16/sports/meet-last/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-16T22:43:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Miami Marlins' Ichiro Suzuki watches New York Yankees starter Masahiro Tanaka as he takes his lead off first base following a single in the third inning on Monday at Marlins Park in Miami. Ichiro and Tanaka were squaring off for the first time in their professional careers, and Ichiro had two singles in Miami's 2-1 victory.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/16/news/setting-stage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-16T22:44:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maiko (apprentice geisha) practice in Kyoto on Tuesday ahead of a special performance in the city. Twenty maiko will take part in the Miyako no Nigiwai dance on June 27 and 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/17/news/flavor-country/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-17T19:05:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plates of curry rice crafted to represent some of Japan's top tourist spots — including Mount Fuji and Itsukushima Shrine in Miyajima, Hiroshima Prefecture — are displayed Wednesday at an event in Tokyo hosted by Rakuten Inc. to promote curry products featuring local produce that are available via the Internet giant's online shopping mall.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/18/video-2/video-shorts-shorts-film-festival-asia-2015-awards-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-18T00:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/18/news/sky-cam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-18T21:01:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A CCP Co. employee shows off the Nano Falcon DigiCam, a remote-controlled copter that can shoot photos or videos from the air, at International Tokyo Toy Show 2015 at Tokyo Big Sight in Koto Ward on Thursday. The 20-gram drone can also be folded up and snapped into the cavity in the control unit to form a hand-held digital camera.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/18/news/name-seal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-18T21:02:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A baby spotted seal sniffs for food last Friday at Oga Aquarium GAO in Akita Prefecture. The aquarium is asking the public to come up with a name for the seal, which was born in April.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/20/news/video-humanoid-robot-pepper-sale-june-20/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-20T00:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/21/news/video-international-tokyo-toy-show-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-21T00:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/18/news/fired/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T18:17:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers place the 2.6-ton cauldron used in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics at a sports park in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Thursday. The cauldron is being lent to the city, which was nearly wiped out in the March 2011 disasters, while a new National Stadium, the main venue for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, is being built in the capital.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/24/news/shroom-boom-7/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-24T10:02:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bunji Suenaga, 83, on Friday shows a crop of giant shimeji mushrooms grown on his land in Kawaminami, Miyazaki Prefecture. The largest one is 120 cm wide and 60 cm tall.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/24/news/inked-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-25T11:57:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nikko Mayor Fumio Saito and calligrapher Fuka Ryo, the city's tourism ambassador, inaugurate the city's new public relations office in central Tokyo on Wednesday. Nikko in Tochigi Prefecture is home to the famed Toshogu Shrine, dedicated to feudal lord Tokugawa Ieyasu. It aims to draw more foreign tourists ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/27/video-2/video-japan-genki-project-2015-super-energy-produced-kansai-yamamoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T00:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/26/news/zushi-roll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-26T22:41:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play in the sea Friday after participating in a ceremony to kick off the summer at Zushi Beach in Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/02/news/video-linear-liner-maglev-toy-train-tomy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-02T00:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/01/news/sea-legs-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-01T21:30:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors gaze into a giant tank on Wednesday at the newly opened Umi no Mori aquarium in Sendai, a symbol of the Tohoku region's recovery. The aquarium houses fish, otters and other aquatic creatures from the prefecture's Marinepia Matsushima Aquarium, which closed in May, and employs the old aquarium's staff.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/01/news/top-heavy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-01T21:31:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A traditional float more than 10 meters high is shown to visitors on Wednesday at 774-year-old Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka Prefecture. The float is decorated with a doll dancing with a large cup and spear, modeled after a renowned local samurai.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/03/news/video-envisioning-future-airports-robots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-03T00:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/03/news/larger-light/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-03T10:43:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reporters take photos on Thursday of huge lanterns from the Aomori Nebuta Festival during a media preview at the Meguro Gajoen banquet hall complex in Tokyo's Meguro Ward. The exhibit of small and large lanterns used at various traditional festivals runs from Friday to Aug. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/04/news/video-burger-king-japans-limited-edition-red-burgers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-04T00:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/03/news/carriage-check/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-03T21:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer talks to a Sanyo shinkansen passenger on Friday. Police nationwide have reinforced patrols on trains and in stations after a man burned himself to death on a speeding bullet train on Tuesday and caused the death of an unrelated female passenger.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/03/news/seeing-red/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-03T21:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer who ordered one of Burger King Japan's red Aka Samurai Beef or Aka Samurai Chicken sandwiches, which hit stores on Friday, poses with models wearing samurai costumes at a Shinjuku outlet in Tokyo as part of the burger chain's promotional campaign. In addition to red sandwiches, the fast-food company will release black burgers in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/06/news/targeting-terror/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-06T13:08:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/xf20150706n1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Armed police officers restrain a fellow officer playing the role of a terrorist during a drill at the Diet on Sunday. The counterterrorism drill was the first staged at the government building since it was completed in 1936.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/06/news/floral-tribute/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-06T23:46:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman holds a potted morning glory creeper of a variety dubbed Nadeshiko Japan on Monday, the first day of a three-day market. Every year, about 90 shops sell some 120,000 pots of morning glories in the colors of red, blue, purple and white on the streets near Shingenji Temple in Taito Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/08/news/wishing-upon-two-stars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-08T11:11:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Twin female panda cubs Ohin (left) and Tohin, born at the Adventure World amusement park in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, in December, are bottle-fed during an event celebrating the Tanabata Matsuri (Star Festival) on Tuesday. Visitors decorated bamboo with small cards bearing messages such as "please have many babies when you grow up."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/10/news/video-yamaha-motor-yamaha-corp-team-ah-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-10T00:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/10/news/goldfish-bowl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-10T10:25:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women in kimono view an elaborate display of goldfish during Art Aquarium 2015 on Thursday at the Coredo Muromachi shopping complex in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district. The bowl is shaped like a lotus flower.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/10/news/praise-red-lantern/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-10T10:34:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Taito Ward admire hozuki, or Chinese lantern plants, as an annual fair featuring the plant opened on Thursday. The two-day event is expected to draw more than half a million people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/10/news/slog-log/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-10T21:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trekkers ascend Mount Fuji's Fujinomiya trail on Friday, the day all three routes starting in Shizuoka Prefecture opened for the summer. Hikers who can't bear to be away from email will now find free Wi-Fi at the summit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/10/news/skys-limit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-10T21:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Shiretoko Skybus double-decker drives through the town of Shari on the Shiretoko Peninsula, on the eastern tip of Hokkaido, on Friday. The bus began operating Friday ahead of the 10th anniversary of Shiretoko's registration as a World Natural Heritage site and will operate through July 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/10/images/times-gallery/july-11-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-11T08:38:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[El Salvador Ambassador Martha Lidia Zelayandia (third from left) poses with students during a lesson on traditional Salvadorian cuisine at Hattori Nutrition College on July 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/04/images/times-gallery/july-4-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-11T08:38:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ethiopian Ambassador Markos Tekle Rike (center) and his wife, Hiwot Tuffa Doycha (right) welcome Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Kazuyuki Nakane during a reception to celebrate the country's National Day at the Hotel New Otani in Tokyo on June 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/27/images/times-gallery/june-27-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-11T08:38:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xo20150627u2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Djibouti Ambassador Ahmed Araita Ali (center) poses with (from left) Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Takashi Uto; former Ambassador of Japan to Djibouti Atsushi Nishioka; Senior Vice-Minister of Defense Akira Sato; Chairman of the Djibouti Ports and Free Zones Authority Aboubaker Omar Hadi; the former and the first Ambassador of Djibouti to Japan Rachad Farah; former Justice minister Midori Matsushima; and (back row) President and CEO of Memo's Co.  Domenico Cantatore during a reception to celebrate Djibouti Day and the 37th Anniversary of cooperation and Friendship between Japan and Djibouti at the ANA InterContinental Hotel Tokyo on June 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/20/images/times-gallery/june-20-2015-8/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-11T08:38:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Slovenia Ambassador Helena Drnovsek Zorko (left) presents a certificate to Slovenian rakugo comic storyteller Katsura Sunshine naming him friendship ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia at LOUNGE by Francfranc in Tokyo on June 2.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/13/images/times-gallery/june-13-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-11T08:38:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xz20150613t3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lithuania's Minister of Economy Evaldas Gustas (center), Vice-Minister of Science and Education Svetlana Kauzoniene (left); Vice-Minister of Economy Rasa Noreikiene (right); and Lithuanian Ambassador Egidijus Meilunas (third from left) pose with Representatives of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; the Japan Bioindustry Association; the Japan Science and Technology Agency; and MEXT during a welcome reception at the Embassy in Tokyo on May 29.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/06/06/images/times-gallery/june-6-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-11T08:39:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/yr20150606s5a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yr20150606s5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Azerbaijan Ambassador Gursel Ismayilzada (left) welcomes, Akira Amari, chairman of the Japan-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Friendship League, minister in charge of economic revitalization and state minister for economic and fiscal policy, during a reception to celebrate the country's Republic Day at the Okura Hotel on May 27.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/14/news/lighting-way/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T00:09:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xg20150714a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo clamber up a frame Sunday to hang paper lanterns bearing the names of donors ahead of the annual Mitama Festival. More than 30,000 lanterns will light up the premises of the controversial shrine, where more than 2.4 million Japanese war dead are enshrined. The festival will run until Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/14/news/falling-like/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T00:09:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/xg20150714a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xg20150714a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[During an event in the city of Gifu on Sunday to set a Guinness World Record, 10,148 books forming a line 1 km long are toppled like dominoes. A total of 9,862 of the books fell down, breaking the previous record of 5,318 books set during a similar event in Britain.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/16/images/times-gallery/16-may-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T12:20:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/EU-Day.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[tg20150516a1a]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ambassador of the European Union Viorel Isticioaia-Budura (left), shares a toast with Kenji Kosaka, chairman of Japan-EU Parliamentary League of Friendship, and member of the House of Councillors during a reception to celebrate ‘‘Europe Day’’ at the Delegation of the European Union Europa House in Tokyo on May 12.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/09/images/times-gallery/may-9-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T12:31:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Speech-Contest-1.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[tg20150509a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Contestants from 12 embassies took part in the 18th annual Japanese Speech Contest for Foreign Embassy Officials in Tokyo on April 25. Essam Bukhary (Saudi Arabia) receives the Foreign Minister’s Award from Mari Takada, director of cultural affairs and overseas public relations at the Foreign Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/30/images/times-gallery/may-30-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T12:32:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/AU-day-all.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[tg20150530a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dean of the African Development Corporation and Eritrea Ambassador Estifanos Afeworki (front row, seventh from right); State Minister for Foreign Affairs Minoru Kiuchi (seventh from left); Secretary-General, Japan-African Union parliamentary Friendship League Asahiko Mihara (sixth from left); President of the National Assembly of Djibouti Mohamed Ali Houmed, (sixth from right); Director-General, Affrican Affairs Depaartment, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Norio Maruyama, (fifth from right); and Lesotho Ambassador and Chair of the Africa Day Reception 2015 Richard Ramoeletsi (fourth from right) pose with other ambassadors, and Diet members during a reception to celebrate Africa Day at the Angolan Embassy in Tokyo on May 26.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/23/images/times-gallery/may-23-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T12:32:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Arab-Caribbiean-Ambassador-dinner-2.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[tg20150523a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ten Arab ambassadors and representatives, (Dean and Palestine Representative in Japan Waleed Siam, back row, fifth from right) and 11 Latin American and Caribbean Ambassadors (Dean and Honduras Ambassador Marlene Villela Talbott, front row, center) at a “Friendly Dinner of Partnership” for strengthening relationships at the Oman Embassy in Tokyo on May 12.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/11/images/times-gallery/april-11-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T12:49:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Arab-2.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[tg20150411a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks while the representative of the Permanent General Mission of Palestine and dean of the Arab diplomatic corps, Waleed Siam, looks on during an Arab Week reception and in celebration of Arab-Japan friendship at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Tokyo on April 6.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/18/images/times-gallery/april-18-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T12:50:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SWAAJ-Charity-Bazaar-1.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[tg20150418a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 17th Arab Charity bazaar, organized by the Society of Wives of Arab Ambassadors and Heads of Missions in Japan (SWAAJ), was held at the Izumi Garden Gallery in Tokyo on April 12. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s wife Akie (sixth from left), SWAAJ President Jamila Al-Suwaidi (sixth from right) of Qatar and Vice President Samira Ali Abdelaziz (fifth from left) of Sudan, and other SWAAJ members pose after the ribbon-cutting.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/05/02/images/times-gallery/may-2-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T12:50:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Ethiopian-Airlines.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[tg20150502a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam (center) poses with Area Manager of Japan Mesay Shiferaw (left) and Ethiopian Tourism Organization CEO Solomon Tadesse during a press conference announcing direct flights between Narita and Addis Ababa at the Tokyo Marriott Hotel on April 23.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/04/03/images/times-gallery/april-3-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-14T12:55:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Japan-Spanish-Society.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[tg20150403a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spain’s Cultural Counsellor Santiago Herrero Amigo (right), presents the Spanish Ambassador’s Award, to Tomonori Namiki of the Nippon.com Foundation at Casa de Espana in Shiba on March 24 for his achievements on a Spanish language exam organized by the Sociedad Hispanica del Japon and sponsored by the ministry of education and science.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/15/news/heave-ho/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-15T21:47:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yj20150716u1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Revelers carry a festival float through the compound of Kushida Shrine in Hakata Ward, Fukuoka, early on Wednesday. It was the final day of Hakata Gion Yamagasa Festival, which began July 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/16/news/storm-force/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-16T20:19:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/xm20150717u1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The coastline near the city of Kochi is battered as Typhoon Nangka approached on Thursday packing winds of up to 144 kph.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/16/news/still-searching/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-16T20:20:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/xm20150717u2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xm20150717u2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Hiroshima official on Thursday posts the names of 815 A-bomb victims who haven't been claimed by their next of kin. The city has sent 2,663 copies of the list to other local governments nationwide and on its website in hopes that relatives will come forward and claim the remains.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/15/news/video-sonys-smart-bluetooth-speaker-can-talk-dance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-16T22:58:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/17/images/times-gallery/july-18-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T19:27:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/xu20150718t3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xu20150718t3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French Ambassador Thierry Dana (right) and his wife Florence Godfernaux (third from right) prepare for a toast with (from left) former Vice President of the House of Councilors Akiko Santo, Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Hakubun Shimomura, Vahid Halilhodzic, head coach of the Japanese national soccer team, and former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, during a reception celebrating the country's National Day at the ambassador's residence in Tokyo on July 14.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/17/sports/historic-duel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T19:43:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuki Ota (left) lunges at Alexander Massialas of the United States in the men's foil final at the World Fencing Championships on Thursday in Moscow. Ota, a native of Shiga Prefecture, defeated Massialas 15-10 to capture the gold medal, giving Japan its first-ever title at the sport's world championships.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/18/news/video-pepper-hackathon-nescafe-harajuku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T00:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/thumbnail-for-Pepper-Nescafe.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[thumbnail for Pepper Nescafe]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/19/news/video-henn-na-hotel-huis-ten-bosch-hotel-robots-service/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-19T00:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[thumbnail for Kobayashi_HennnaHotel2]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/22/news/money-talk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-22T00:41:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/yn20150722a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yn20150722a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dollar bills flutter around FIFA President Sepp Blatter after a British comedian tossed a wad of cash at him, interrupting a Monday news conference in Zurich as the scandal-tainted official was about to speak.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/23/news/loop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-23T23:52:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/yw20150724x1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yw20150724x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A residential building is seen encircled by a new road in Guangzhou, China, last month. The building was planned to be demolished, but some residents refused to move out because they had failed to reach a compensation agreement with authorities, local media reported.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/23/news/force-grows-strong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-23T23:52:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/yw20150724x2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yw20150724x2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rice paddy art in Inakadate, Aomori Prefecture, features "Star Wars" characters C-3PO and R2-D2. The tourist attraction was planted by schoolchildren using 11 rice varieties in seven different colors.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/24/news/eye-strongest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-24T22:18:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/xe20150725w4a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xe20150725w4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arisa Asai, 9, and her brother, Toni, 7, stare at their forefingers while their grandmother, Motoko, watches as they take part in a test to determine which of their eyes is the dominant one. The residents of Tokyo's Ota Ward were among 25 children and their adult relatives who participated in drugmaker Bayer Yakuhin Ltd.'s "Science of Eyes" seminar, which is aimed at providing children with material for their school summer projects, in the Roppongi district on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/24/news/countdown-begins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-24T22:35:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/xe20150725w2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xe20150725w2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children pump the air at an event in Tokyo on Friday marking five years until the 2020 Olympic Games. Separately, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for unity among Cabinet ministers in making the games a success.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/27/news/spitting-image/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-27T23:10:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/xh20150728x2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xh20150728x2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Charlie Boice (center) is congratulated by previous victors after winning the 2015 "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe's Bar — a noted hangout of author Ernest Hemingway — in Key West, Florida, on Saturday. Boice won the annual contest on his 15th try, beating out 121 other entrants. The competition is a facet of the island's annual Hemingway Days festival.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/27/news/color-coordinated-3/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-27T23:10:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xh20150728x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men dressed in white urge a white horse toward Soma Odaka Shrine in Fukushima Prefecture on Monday during the climax of the three-day Soma-Nomaoi Festival, in which the horse is dedicated to the god of the shrine. The event can be traced back for well over 1,000 years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/29/news/defying-gravity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-29T20:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[zd20150730t3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui jogs while tethered to a treadmill by a spring-loaded harness in the weightlessness of orbit, in a photo he tweeted from the International Space Station on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/30/news/hoping-comeback/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-30T23:20:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/xs20150731x1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xs20150731x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman cooks sea urchins caught off the coast of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Thursday. Harvesting of sea urchins, a local specialty, has resumed on a trial basis for the first time since the March 2011 nuclear disaster.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/31/news/video-japan-theme-park-expo-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-31T10:55:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[thumbnail for Kobayashi_ThemeParkExpo15]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/31/news/stairway-peace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-31T23:29:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xr20150801x4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In his first visit to the city of Hiroshima since 1971, legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page walks through Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/24/images/times-gallery/july-25-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-31T23:36:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-tg-a-20150725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The managing director of Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) Inc., Takeshi Ashida (left), and Director of the U.S. Agricultural Trade Office of the Embassy of the United States, Rachel Nelson, pose at a preview of the movie "Chef." Along with the preview, a tasting of American gourmet food truck cuisine was held at Sony Pictures Entertainment's offices in Toranomon Towers in Tokyo on July 16.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/07/31/images/times-gallery/august-1-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-31T23:37:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xr20150801x2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peruvian Ambassador Elard Escala (second from right) and his wife, Cristina (center), welcome (from left) Toru Shiraishi, House of Representatives member, Kazuyuki Hamada, House of Councilors member, and Peruvian singer Fabiola de la Cuba, during a reception celebrating the 194th Anniversary of Peruvian Independence Day at a "Pisco of Honor" and "Oishii Peru" Food Festival at the embassy in Tokyo on July 28.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/03/news/force-strong-float/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-04T20:09:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nebuta float featuring "Star Wars" characters is displayed Saturday prior to the start Sunday of the Aomori Nebuta Matsuri, which is running through Friday in the city of Aomori. Organizers are expecting 2.5 million people to attend the six-day festival.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/04/news/ominous-bend/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-04T20:09:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/xf20150805u3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xf20150805u3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Tokyo Electric Power Co. photo shows that one of three handles (the third one from the right) is bent out of alignment atop a fuel container submerged in the spent fuel pool for reactor 3 at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. Tepco believes the bend, which it says doesn't mean the fuel itself is seriously damaged, occurred when machinery fell on it in the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/04/news/clean-cut-crew/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-04T20:10:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children from across the country, many with shaved heads, line up for a photo at Kyoto's famed Higashi-Honganji Temple on Tuesday. The 136 boys and girls were participating in a rite to enter the Buddhist priesthood called tokudoshiki, which is open to kids age 9 and older and held monthly from February to November. The symbolic event commemorates Shinran, a legendary monk and founder of the Jodo Shinshu sect believed to have entered the priesthood when he was 9 years old.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/04/news/entertainment-central/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-04T20:10:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xf20150805u1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsui Fudosan Co. President Masanobu Komoda (center) and other company officials show off a scale model of the Expocity commercial complex during a media event in Tokyo on Monday. Scheduled to open in November in the city of Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Expocity will feature eight entertainment facilities, including a large aquarium and a 120-meter-tall Ferris wheel that will be the tallest in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/07/news/let-games-begin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-07T00:31:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xu20150807a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The legendary Sadaharu Oh throws out the first pitch for the National High School Baseball Championship opening game Thursday at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. The tournament began 100 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/07/images/times-gallery/august-8-2015-4/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-07T21:31:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xv20150808v4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left, Pakistan Ambassador Farukh Amil, Chief Patron of the Calligraphic Society of Pakistan Humayun Khan Bangash and Princess Takamado pose at the Calligraphy Exhibition 2015 at the Embassy of Pakistan in Tokyo on Aug. 4.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/07/news/devastation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-07T21:36:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Burned property is seen near Clearlake, California, on Wednesday. The so-called Rocky Fire has burned across some 68,300 acres, destroying more than 50 buildings and displacing thousands of residents since flaring into life last week about 110 miles (177 km) north of San Francisco.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/07/sports/golden-wings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-07T21:37:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/xw20150808v3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xw20150808v3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Natsumi Hoshi holds her gold medal after winning the 200-meter butterfly final in 2 minutes, 5.56 seconds at the FINA World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia, on Thursday. Hoshi won a bronze in the same event at the 2012 London Olympics.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/07/news/slippery-surprise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-08T19:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman watches a denizen of Tokyo Snake Center cafe on Friday in Tokyo’s Jingumae neighborhood. The cafe, which opened Saturday, has 35 snakes on display.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/11/news/video-visiting-tokyos-first-permanent-snake-cafe-tokyo-snake-center/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-11T00:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/11/sports/bigger-come/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-11T11:06:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/xb20150811l2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xb20150811l2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kei Nishikori holds the Citi Open winner's trophy alongside runnerup John Isner after beating the American in Sunday's final in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/11/news/hidden-view/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-11T11:06:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/xb20150811l1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xb20150811l1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wartime shelter in the Defense Ministry's underground compound in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, including a tunnel reportedly used as an office for the Imperial Army minister during the Pacific War, was shown to reporters Monday. The 1,200-sq.-meter shelter was built in 1942 at the now-defunct Imperial Army Ministry's headquarters.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/11/news/picking-steam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-11T23:54:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/zb20150812x1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[zb20150812x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steam locomotive C11 207, owned by Hokkaido Railway Co., will be lent to Tobu Railway Co. as part of plans by the Kanto-based railway to run the locomotive on its Kinugawa Line in fiscal 2017, Tobu announced Monday. Part of a tourism push, it will be the first time in 50 years that Tobu will operate a steam locomotive.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/12/sports/belle-ball/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-12T19:52:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/yg20150813t1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nadeshiko Japan soccer star Homare Sawa (far right) signs messages of congratulations for fans in Kobe on Wednesday, a day after she announced her marriage.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/14/news/war-machine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-14T23:05:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/xb20150815x2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xb20150815x2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A subterranean munitions plant, which went under the code name "Tachiso" and which was built by the Imperial Japanese Army at the end of World War II, is seen in October 1945 in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/14/news/images-history/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-14T23:06:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/xb20150815x1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xb20150815x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man looks at photographs taken around the time of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during an exhibition in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Friday. The exhibition, in which some 60 images taken in the months after the bombings are on display, will run until Aug. 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/14/images/times-gallery/august-15-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-15T10:33:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/p3-tg-a-20150815.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-tg-a-20150815.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sponsored by Brideal, The Summer Magokoro Wedding took place in front of a Magokoro (goddess of sincerity) statue, which symbolizes the basic philosophy of Mitsukoshi. The couple chosen for the event, Kazuya Fukushima &amp; Rie (Oka), were married in front of about 50 friends and relatives and about 450 members of the public at Mitsukoshi’s Nihombashi Flagship Store, on Aug. 8.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/15/news/high-alert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-15T20:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/zf20150816t1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[zf20150816t1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Sakurajima, across the bay from the city of Kagoshima in Kagoshima Prefecture, is seen Saturday. The same day, the Meteorological Agency raised the alert level to 4 and urged nearby residents to be prepared to evacuate, as the volcano is showing signs of increased activity.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/19/news/brewing-peace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-19T20:21:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/xp20150820u2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xp20150820u2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen Genshitsu, a grand tea master of the Urasenke school of tea, performs a tea ceremony to wish for Japan-U.S. friendship and world peace at the Japanese embassy in Washington on Tuesday. The ceremony was held to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/19/news/poisoned-futenma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-19T20:22:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/xp20150820u1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xp20150820u1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture supplied by Kris Roberts, former maintenance chief at the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in Okinawa, shows the work site where he says he unearthed 100 barrels — some of which contained Agent Orange — in 1981. He has now won compensation from the U.S. for dioxin exposure at Futenma.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/21/news/remembering-one-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T17:07:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/xd20150821r3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xd20150821r3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gathered at a memorial service in Hiroshima's Asaminami Ward observe a moment of silence on Thursday for the 75 people who were killed in mudslides that struck the area on Aug. 20 of last year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/21/news/video-new-gundam-tofu-with-dom-shape-and-chocolate-taste/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T21:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/thumbnail-for-Nagata_GundamTofu.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[thumbnail for Nagata_GundamTofu]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/22/news/video-city-light-fantasia-by-naked-a-projection-mapping-that-shows-the-future-of-shibuya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-22T00:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/thumbnail-for-Kobayashi_Hikarie.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[thumbnail for Kobayashi_Hikarie]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/21/culture-3/traveling-in-style/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T21:20:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/n-hanayome-a-boximg-20150822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n hanayome-a-boximg 20150822]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An attendant shows off a seat inside the Hanayome Noren (Bride Curtain), West Japan Railway Co.’s tourist train decorated inside and out with motifs representing local traditional crafts such as Wajima lacquerware and Kaga kimono dyeing techniques after it was unveiled in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/21/sports/moment-lifetime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-22T18:44:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/xd20150821r2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xd20150821r2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokaidai Sagami players celebrate the team's triumph in the final of the National High School Championship on Thursday afternoon at Koshien Stadium. The Kanagawa Prefecture school defeated Sendai Ikuei 10-6.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/21/images/times-gallery/august-22-2015-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-24T10:08:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pakistan Ambassador Farukh Amil speaks at an Independence Day event at the embassy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/25/news/video-presentation-of-8k-resolution-display-one-of-the-highest-in-the-world-at-nhk-studio-park-shibuya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-25T09:02:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/25/news/local-commotion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-25T10:39:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Black smoke and flames can be seen at Nippon Steel &amp; Sumikin Pipe Co.'s idled plant in Kawasaki at around noon on Monday. The fire, which was subsequently put out, spread to chemical-maker Kao Corp.'s adjacent factory and caused a section of a nearby expressway to be temporarily closed to traffic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/26/news/shake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-26T20:12:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People attempt to shake a new, 400-meter-long suspension bridge for pedestrians during a safety test on Wednesday in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture. The event was the first in which pedestrians were allowed on the bridge, the longest of its kind in the country. It is scheduled to open to the public in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/26/news/big-entrance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-26T20:12:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yokozuna Harumafuji performs a dohyo-iri ring entering ceremony on Wednesday at Yahiko Shrine in the village of Yahiko, Niigata Prefecture. The performance is part of events to mark 100 years since the shrine was rebuilt after a fire.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/26/news/video-formula-e-makes-its-first-run-in-roppongi-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-26T22:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/28/news/video-hakkiyoi-kitte-sumo-inspired-event-at-marunouchi-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-28T00:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/27/news/tragic-ending/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-27T22:34:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An investigator walks past a car on Thursday that crashed into a bridge in the village of Asuka, Nara Prefecture. Five students, all aged 19, died in the accident. The victims were found lying on the road, apparently after being thrown from the car.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/28/sports/simply-best/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-28T21:18:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates after winning the men's 200-meter final in 19.55 seconds at the IAAF World Championships on Thursday in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/28/news/now-see/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-28T21:20:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tape across the fish tank (top) at Tokyo Sea Life Park in Edogawa Ward was completely removed Friday (bottom), allowing visitors a clearer view of the 67 tuna added in June. All of the tuna except one died between last December and March due to an unknown cause. The tape was added to prevent fish from dying by colliding with the glass.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/28/images/times-gallery/august-29-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-28T21:30:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Frederik Walther, executive chef at the British Embassy in Tokyo, created a five-course menu celebrating Scottish seafood at the ambassador's residence on Aug. 18. Pairing high-quality Scottish produce with seasonal Japanese ingredients, Walther took some 60 guests on an extraordinary culinary journey, with dishes such as a smoked scallop and haddock appetizer and a sugared salmon and citrus sherbet dessert.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/29/news/looking-bargains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-29T20:13:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sumo wrestlers wearing kesho mawashi ceremonial aprons take part in a pre-tournament ritual during an event held at a shopping complex in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/08/30/news/video-roppongi-hills-bon-odori-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-30T01:47:03+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/03/news/video-closing-of-hotel-okuras-main-building-aug-31-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T14:25:47+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/04/images/times-gallery/september-5-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T21:44:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yi20150905v3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Minister of Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida (right) presents a Foreign Minister's Commendation to Tsukasa Umekita, president of the nonprofit Foreign Embassies Friendship Association (sponsor of the Japanese Speech Contest for foreign Embassy Officials in Tokyo). Commendations were awarded to 116 individuals and 39 groups for FY 2015 and the ceremony was followed by a reception at the Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo on Aug. 27.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/05/video-2/video-female-exercisers-in-tokyo-get-fit-by-taking-a-swing-at-katana-swordplay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-05T11:24:51+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/05/news/landmark-performance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-05T21:39:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/xl20150906u1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xl20150906u1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[German pianist Stefan Aaron, known for playing at unusual outdoor venues, performs on the helipad of the 296-meter-tall Yokohama Landmark Tower on Friday. The 41-year-old played his signature orange piano on Japan's second-tallest building during the fifth stop of his Orange Piano Tour.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/07/news/after-the-storm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T23:42:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ym20150908x4a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ym20150908x4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Damaged homes in Chuo Ward, Chiba, are seen Monday after what the Meteorological Agency believes was a tornado hit Chiba Prefecture the day before. A total of 74 homes suffered roof damage and shattered windows in the cities of Chiba, Narita and Kamagaya.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/07/news/popular-event-unpopular-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T23:42:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thousands of people take part in a protest march in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on Sunday against the government's security bills that would allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/07/news/seasonal-delight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T23:42:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boxes of red snow crabs are displayed for the first time this season in Tottori Prefecture's Sakai port. The fishing season for the autumn specialty kicked off on Sept. 1 and will wrap up on June 30 next year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/08/video-2/video-visiting-hotel-okuras-main-building-for-the-last-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-08T08:58:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/thumbnail-for-Cameron_HotelOkura-detail.jpg</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/11/news/video-flood-waters-at-kinugawa-river-ibaraki-pref-sept-10-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-11T18:17:41+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/11/images/times-gallery/september-12-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-12T20:42:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/p3-tg-a-20150912.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnam Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Cuong (third from left) prepares to toast with, from left, Chairman of the General Council of the LDP and the Japan-Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Alliance Nikai Toshihiro, Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Yasuhide Nakayama during a reception to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Vietnam's national day at the New Otani Hotel, Tokyo on Sept. 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/15/news/video-sonys-diy-kit-mesh/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T00:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/thumbnail-for-Nagata_MESH.jpg</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/16/news/fighting-fire-fire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T10:40:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/zd20150916j2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flames from a backfire rise above a firefighter battling the Valley Fire in Lower Lake, California, on Sunday. The wildfire ranks as the most destructive to hit the drought-stricken U.S. West so far this year, and it has killed one person and destroyed some 400 homes, fire officials said Monday. By Monday evening, the blaze had razed 62,000 acres (24,690 hectares) of tinder-dry forests, brush and grasslands, and was only about 10 percent contained.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/16/sports/sitting-out-the-action/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T10:42:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho withdrew from the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Tuesday. He pulled out of a major tournament for the first time since 2006 due to an injured left knee.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/17/news/video-introducing-the-solo-theater/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-17T00:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/18/news/chile-catastrophe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-18T22:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsunami debris lies along the coast in Coquimbo, Chile, on Thursday as residents tried to recover what they could from destroyed homes. The waves were triggered by Wednesday's magnitude-8.3 earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/19/news/video-joso-flood-as-witnessed-by-a-local/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-19T00:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/19/video-2/video-tokyo-game-show-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-19T00:02:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/thumbnail-for-Kobayashi_TGS2015.jpg</image:loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/18/images/times-gallery/september-19-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-19T15:01:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/yi20150919v3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yi20150919v3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazilian Ambassador Andre Aranha Correa do Lago (center) raises a glass with Secretary-General of the Japan-Brazil Parliamentary Friendship League Takeo Kawamura (left), and Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Brazil in Japan Marcos Turini, during a reception to celebrate the country's Independence Day and of 120 years of diplomatic relations between Brazil and Japan at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo on Sept. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/19/news/brakes-optional/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-19T20:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/zd20150920t1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of men pull a huge wooden float at high speed through the streets in the city of Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture, during the Kishiwada Danjiri Festival on Saturday. A total of 34 floats, each weighing 4 tons, were paraded through the streets for the annual two-day spectacle, which began the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/21/news/fashion-statement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-21T23:40:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/xz20150922x1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors on Monday look at examples of traditional Japanese aprons called maekake at an exhibition in Itochu Aoyama Art Square in Tokyo. Worn by craftsmen and merchants in the 1960s and '70s, maekake have recently become popular again. The exhibition runs through Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/21/news/monumental-move/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-23T11:37:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/yi20150921l2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pull a rope attached to iron frames shoring up Hirosaki Castle in Aomori Prefecture on Sunday at an event to let visitors experience the technique of moving a building for renovation without having to dismantle it. The project began earlier this month in order to renovate the castle's stone walls.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/23/news/we-have-liftoff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-23T11:38:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/yi20150923l1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yi20150923l1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants spin their batons in a gymnasium in Osaka on Monday to break the Guinness world record for the most people twirling batons at the same time. A total of 2,002 people took part in the event to break the former record of 1,012 set in the Netherlands in 2004.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-25T00:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/26/news/video-introducing-the-one-person-studio-danbocchi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-26T00:00:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/25/images/times-gallery/september-26-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-25T21:42:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left, Nicaragua Ambassador Saul Arana; Charge d'Affaires a.i. of Honduras Calros Mendoza; Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives Shinako Tsuchiya; El Salvador Ambassador Martha Zelayandia; Costa Rica Ambassador Laura Esquivel; and Charge d'Affaires a.i. of Guatemala Cristobal Dubon prepare to toast during a reception celebrating of 194th Anniversary of the Independence of Central America at Happo-en in Tokyo on Sept. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/25/sports/shower-of-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-25T21:51:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton kicks up a cloud of spray during Friday's first Japanese Grand Prix practice session in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture. On a day when rain battered the circuit, 10 riders skipped the first practice session. Hamilton, the 2015 driver standings leader, sat in third place for the second practice session ahead of Sunday's Formula One race.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/25/news/strong-to-the-end/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-25T21:55:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actress Naomi Kawashima (right), and her husband, patissier Toshihiko Yoroizuka, raise a glass with former French Ambassador Christian Masset in March 2013. She died of cancer Thursday, only days after abandoning rehearsals for a musical.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/28/news/rising-from-the-ashes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-28T10:55:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volcanic ash still covers the summit of Mount Ontake days ahead of Sunday's first anniversary of a sudden eruption that killed 58 people and left five missing. Family members and disaster officials gathered Sunday to offer a silent prayer at the foot of the volcano in the village of Otaki, Nagano Prefecture, at 11:52 a.m., the time of the eruption.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/28/news/old-habits-new-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-28T23:49:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People who have recently returned home after over four years away because of the 2011 nuclear crisis do their shopping at a temporary grocery store in the Odaka district of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, after it opened Monday. Authorities aim to lift all restrictions in April, and efforts to allow all former residents to return home to the no-go zone are now underway.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/29/news/not-minute-wasted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-30T00:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Application forms mailed to the National Center for University Entrance Examinations sit on a desk at the center in Meguro Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday. The application window to apply for the annual unified test for university admissions, scheduled for Jan. 16 and 17, opened Tuesday and will run through Oct. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/09/29/news/aqua-vitae/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-30T10:16:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[These dark, narrow, 100-meter-long streaks on Mars are believed to be evidence that water flows on the icy planet, at least during its summer. Scientists reported the finding Monday, significantly boosting the odds of life on the red planet.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/02/news/bath-room-view/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-02T13:49:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dogo Onsen Honkan, a renowned hot spring bathhouse in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, is illuminated Wednesday evening with works by photographer Mika Ninagawa printed on traditional shoji screens. The display began Thursday and runs through the end of February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/03/video-2/video-neither-here-nor-there-the-families-torn-between-nigeria-and-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-03T00:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/02/news/storm-damage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-02T21:49:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gales lashed Japan on Thursday and Friday, toppling scaffolding at this construction site in Kawasaki. Forecasters warned of gusts of up to 108 kph in Hokkaido, where around 100 residents were evacuated from their homes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/02/news/a-guiding-light/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-02T21:49:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[World Heritage-listed Himeji Castle in Hyogo Prefecture was lit up in pink Thursday night to promote the launch of a monthlong campaign through October urging women to be checked for breast cancer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/05/sports/alive-and-kicking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-05T17:32:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kensuke Hatakeyama (center) celebrates as Akihito Yamada scores a try during Japan's 26-5 win over Samoa at the Rugby World Cup on Saturday. Japan next plays its final first-round game against the United States on Oct. 11 with a place in the quarterfinals still up for grabs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/05/news/temple-tour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-05T17:34:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and French Prime Minister Manuel Valls (center) pose with Ginkakuji chief priest Raitei Arima during a visit to Ginkakuji Temple, commonly referred to as the "Silver Pavilion", in Kyoto on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/06/news/video-robot-taxi-announces-plans-for-experiments-using-driverless-cars-on-public-roads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-06T00:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/08/news/badge-of-honor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-08T23:57:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force Col. Masashi Yamamoto awards a Japanese paratrooper's badge to U.S. veteran William LaRou on Wednesday at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia. LaRou, 82, trained Japanese paratroopers in what is now the GSDF after the force's establishment in 1954. Then with the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team, he received a badge in the past but later lost it. His daughter asked the Japanese Embassy in Washington if it could be replaced.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/08/news/passing-the-torch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-08T23:57:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hakubun Shimomura signs a document handing the portfolio of education and sports minister to newly appointed Hiroshi Hase at the ministry building in Tokyo on Thursday. Shimomura offered to resign following the new stadium debacle.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/02/images/times-gallery/october-3-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-09T10:23:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cote d'Ivoire Ambassador Jerome Kloh Weya (third from left) is joined in a cake-cutting ceremony by (from left) Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Parliamentary Secretary Hidemichi Sato; House of Representatives member Asahiko Mihara; Japan-AU Parliamentary Friendship Association Chairman Ichiro Aisawa; State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Daishiro Yamagiwa; and Former Japanese Ambassador to Cote d'lvoire and Chairman of the Preparatory Committee of Founding the Japan-Cote d'lvoire Friendship Association Yuji Kurokawa during a reception to celebrate the 55th Cote d'lvoire Independence Anniversary (Aug. 7) at the Palace Hotel Tokyo on Sept. 17.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/10/news/video-ceatec-japan-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-10T00:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/09/images/times-gallery/october-10-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-09T22:15:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sake promotion group members, including Representative and former Director-General of the National Museum of Ethnology, Naomichi Ishige (center), raise their masuzake (square, wooden sake cups) before toasting to celebrate Oct. 1 as "Sake Day'' at Meiji Kinenkan in Tokyo. Nearly 50,000 people from across Japan, Australia, India, Korea, Malaysia and Vietnam joined in via video conference.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/09/news/tribute-to-tatooine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-09T22:35:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors admire a large sand sculpture featuring characters from the "Star Wars" movies in the parking lot at Tottori sand dunes in Tottori Prefecture on Thursday. The 3.4-meter-high by 7.4-meter-wide sculpture, unveiled the same day, will be on display until the end of December, when the latest film in the space fantasy saga is set to be released.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/09/news/fatal-flames/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-09T22:35:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bystanders snap photos of a fire that destroyed two buildings Thursday night in Hiroshima's Naka Ward. A female worker at a maid cafe and two men, thought to be customers, died.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/11/news/video-a-demonstration-of-laundroid-the-worlds-first-automated-laundry-folding-robot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-11T00:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/14/news/loco-commotion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-14T00:02:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/zh20151014x1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees of Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) see off the luxury Seven Stars train at JR Hakata Station in Fukuoka Prefecture's Hakata district on Tuesday morning. The high-end sleeper train, which takes tourists on two- and four-day tours of the region, began service two years ago this week. The operator promises an enthusiastic welcome by staff at every station it calls at until Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/17/news/video-mcdonalds-japan-unveils-new-%c2%a5200-burgers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-17T00:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/16/images/times-gallery/october-17-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-16T20:34:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The winners pose with Jury Special Mention award winners, jury members, sponsors and Princess Takamado. A Total of 67 members of the diplomatic corps from 42 countries took part in this event.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/14/news/dharma-bums/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-16T20:59:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some of the "12 divine generals" are seen from back at Kyoto's Toji Temple as the Important Cultural Properties are shown to the press Tuesday. The popular tourist destination will for the first time display all of the Buddhist statues in a way that makes it possible for visitors to view them from behind from Oct. 30 to Nov. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/16/news/top-dog/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-16T22:45:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Cpl. Conner Scott drops from a CH-53E helicopter with Bobo, his military working dog, above Camp Hansen, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 8. It was the first rappel for the dog, one of around 30 assigned to the U.S. Marine Corps on Okinawa. The dogs are trained for roles such as bomb detection and subduing assailants.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/17/news/crab-capital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-17T19:12:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/za20151018s1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Tottori Prefecture fisheries representative hands out soup garnished with expensive beni-zuwaigai crab meat in Osaka on Saturday. About 600 bowls were served up to promote Tottori, which is known for its crabs.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/20/news/fukushima-fallout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-21T16:26:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/xb20151020a1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on a visit Monday to Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, listens to local officials describe their hopes for reconstruction. The town co-hosts the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/23/images/times-gallery/october-24-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-23T21:37:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vincents restaurant chef Martins Ritins (right) from Latvia joins Latvian Ambassador Normans Penke, at a press conference and tasting of Latvian traditional foods promoting his events in Japan next month at the embassy in Tokyo on Oct. 14.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/23/news/one-for-the-ages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-23T21:42:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A parade leaves the Kyoto Imperial Palace during the Jidai Matsuri (Festival of the Ages) on Thursday. Participants in the annual festival, which began in 1895, are dressed in costumes representing the various ages of the nation's former capital. This year marks the 1,100th anniversary of Kyoto's elevation to that role, which ended in 1869.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/24/news/video-introducing-chihirajunko-toshibas-multilingual-android-in-odaiba/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/24/news/hot-wheels/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda holds a torch from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics as he poses with the Prince Gloria DX Official 1964 Tokyo Olympic Car after a parade held Saturday to promote this week's Tokyo Motor Show.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/25/news/native-and-natty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-25T22:55:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 420 people strike a pose Sunday in the Nihonbashi district during an event held for Tokyo Kimono Week 2015. The series of activities, held to promote wearing of the traditional attire, will end on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/25/news/freak-show-on-parade-at-the-kawasaki-halloween-parade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-26T19:14:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People decked out in a variety of costumes participate in a parade in Kawasaki on Sunday during Kawasaki Halloween 2015. The annual event, now in its 19th year, brought together some 2,500 people and stretched for about 1.5 km.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/27/life/halloween-comes-early-for-tomy-employees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-27T20:19:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese toy company Tomy president Harold Meij (dressed as a musketeer) and employees clad in costumes pose as they gather for the company's Halloween Day event at the Tomy headquarters. The Japanese toymaker's employees were allowed to wear their favorite costumes in observance of the holiday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/28/news/opening-day-of-the-44th-tokyo-motor-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-28T19:17:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Tokyo Motor Show - 2]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With its show-stealing RX-Vision, Mazda is aiming to revive its development of cars powered by rotary engines.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The party may be over, but the Lip’s members stay on to make sure the theater is spotless before they leave.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/29/news/video-launching-ceremony-of-a-new-japan-maritime-self-defense-force-minesweeper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-29T00:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/29/news/video-digital-content-expo-2015/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/31/news/video-tokyo-motor-show-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-10-31T00:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/30/images/times-gallery/october-31-2015/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hungarian Ambassador Istvan Szerdahelyi (center) and his wife, Reiko, welcome Seishiro Eto, chairman of the Japan-Hungary Parliamentary Friendship League, during a reception celebrating the country's National Day at the embassy in Tokyo on Oct. 22.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students of Kobe University and China University of Geosciences display their school flags after becoming the first to conquer 6,330-meter-high Mount Tali, in Tibet, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/10/31/news/halloween-takes-over-the-streets-of-shibuya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-01T04:37:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The stuff of nightmares: Halloween revelry peaked Saturday night in Japan and the area around Shibuya Station, in particular, saw a massive convergence of people decked out in a variety of costumes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/01/news/video-roppongi-hills-halloween-parade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-02T17:54:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/03/news/video-smart-illumination-yokohama-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-03T00:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/01/sports/paint-it-black/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-04T12:32:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Zealand captain Richie McCaw lifts the Webb Ellis trophy after the All Blacks beat Australia 34-17 to win the Rugby World Cup in London on Saturday. New Zealand became the first team to retain the trophy, and also the first to win it three times.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/02/news/prayer-intentions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-04T12:33:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filipinos visit the illuminated graves of deceased relatives at a public cemetery on a hill in Marikina City, in eastern Manila, on Sunday. Filipinos flock to cemeteries for family picnics and revelries on the Catholic holidays of All Saints and All Souls days, which fall every year on Nov. 1 and 2, respectively.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/03/news/game-of-thrones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-04T12:34:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local residents dressed as aristocrats play kemari at Tanzan Shrine in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, during a festival Tuesday. The annual event celebrates the noncompetitive game, which was once played by nobles.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/03/news/strangers-in-the-night/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-04T12:37:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The eastern portion of the United States is seen from the International Space Station early Sept. 17 in a photo taken by NASA astronaut Cmdr. Scott Kelly. The orbiting complex marked 15 years of human occupancy on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/04/news/culture-vultures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-04T20:09:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some Tibetans and Mongolians in China practice "sky burials," in which the bodies of relatives are offered to vultures as an extreme form of Buddhist self-sacrifice almsgiving. Top: An ethnic Tibetan woman looks at fake human skulls in a room at a site for sky burials near the Larung Valley in China's Sichuan province on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/06/news/video-good-design-exhibition-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-06T00:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/06/images/times-gallery/november-7-2015/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Terumi Fujisaki (second from right) won the Prime Minister's Cup, while Sari Ichise (second from left) was awarded the U.S. Ambassador's Plaque, at the 39th annual Japan-U.S. Fulbright Charity Golf Tournament at the Totsuka Country Club in Kanagawa Prefecture on Oct. 26. Also pictured are the U.S. Embassy's Minister Counselor for Public Affairs Margot Carrington (left) and Fulbright Alumni Association of Japan President Chitoo Bunno.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/06/news/seasonal-delicacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-06T21:35:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fisherman shows off snow crabs caught early Friday in the Sea of Japan off Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, following the start of the four-month season to fish for the winter delicacy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/07/news/video-hebocon-at-tokyo-design-week-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-07T04:45:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/08/news/video-tokyo-motor-show-2015-projection-mapping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-08T04:23:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/10/news/video-starry-sky-illumination-at-tokyo-sky-view/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-11T17:41:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/11/news/nice-weather-penguins/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Penguins appear to pose for photos Wednesday at Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, after a snowfall. Four species of penguin are on display, the zoo's website says, including the king penguin and the rockhopper penguin. It says the latter does not enjoy the cold.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/13/news/ana-sends-star-wars-fans-into-hyperdrive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-13T15:19:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lightsabers are not only handy for fighting Stormtroopers but also for directing passengers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/13/images/times-gallery/november-14-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-13T18:03:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Algerian Ambassador Mohamed El Amine Bencherif (left) welcomes Yoshihiro Shigehisa, chairman emeritus of the JGC group, during a reception to celebrate the country's 61st National Day at the Residence of Algeria in Tokyo on Nov. 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/14/news/video-omotesando-hills-christmas-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-14T00:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/13/news/dont-sneeze/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-13T20:11:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee of Osaka municipal subway's Nishi-Umeda Station has spent 300 hours using tweezers to create mosaic-like artwork from the tiny pieces of paper punched out of train tickets.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/15/news/video-skating-rink-opens-for-limited-time-in-tokyos-marunouchi-district/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-15T04:23:28+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/16/news/dressed-for-success-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-16T20:42:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in central Tokyo work in kimono on Monday, the day after "Kimono Day," which was established by the kimono industry to help promote the traditional garment.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/18/news/angels-gifts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-18T20:11:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children from Nishimachi International School in Tokyo show off angel ornaments they made from recycled cork to Grand Hyatt Tokyo General Manager Steve Dewire (center) on Wednesday. The hotel, in Minato Ward, celebrated the opening of a "Gifts from Angels" Christmas charity area set up as part of a program to support children in the disaster-hit Tohoku region.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/19/news/tokyo-opens-the-doors-to-the-state-guest-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-19T20:11:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo's State Guest House was originally built in 1909 as the Crown Prince’s palace.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/21/news/video-haiers-refrigerator-with-lcd-screens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-21T00:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/20/images/times-gallery/november-21-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-20T21:29:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Embassy of the Philippines held a launch party for the book "History and Heritage of The Kudan: The Official Residence of the Philippine Ambassador to Japan" on Nov. 10. Yoko Ono (center), who lived in the home as a child, accepts a copy of the book from Philippine Ambassador Manuel M. Lopez (left).]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/20/news/off-like-rocket/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-20T21:38:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 1.7-meter-long winged rocket developed by Kyushu Institute of Technology lifts off Friday from Kitakyushu during a test launch. The institute wants the rocket to be reusable for round trips to space. Compared with rockets that use detachable fuel tanks, those driven by on-board fuel are said to be cheaper to operate.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/20/news/on-the-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-20T21:39:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Security Police officers, or SPs, hold down a suspect in a drill at the State Guest House in the Moto-Akasaka district in Tokyo on Friday ahead of next year's Group of Seven summit in Ise-Shima, Mie Prefecture. This year marks the 40th anniversary since SPs were first organized after Prime Minister Takeo Miki was attacked by a right-wing extremist in 1975.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/24/news/near-and-far/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-24T23:49:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Fuji fills the horizon behind skyscrapers in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, partially hidden by fog Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/24/news/sapporo-shivers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-24T23:49:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A snowplow tram makes its first appearance of the season in Sapporo on Tuesday. Four such trams will operate in the city through mid-March. They are known as sasara trams, a moniker derived from the name of a traditional scrubbing brush.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/26/news/video-burger-king-japan-announces-new-big-king-sandwiches/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-26T00:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/25/news/name-on-the-marquee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-25T23:33:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers put up wooden nameplates of kabuki actors at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater on Wednesday ahead of the year-end performances, which kick off Nov. 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/25/news/finger-food/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-25T23:33:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sushi chefs William Santos (right) from Portugal and Kasper Krajewski (center) from Poland prepare food in the final stage of the Global Sushi Challenge 2015 competition on Wednesday at the Tokyo Marriott Hotel in the capital's Shinagawa district. Jun Jibiki from Japan was named the winner, beating 13 rivals at the finals. "Washoku" certification: Page 6]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/27/sports/catch-rising-star/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-27T19:41:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sixteen-year-old Japanese sprinter Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (left), seen competing at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in August in Beijing, on Thursday won a prestigious IAAF Rising Star Award for 2015. Only two sportsmen won the honor.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/27/images/times-gallery/november-28-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-27T23:12:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Forty children from Nishimachi International School in Tokyo take part in the opening ceremony of the Grand Hyatt Tokyo's "Gifts from Angels" charity program, which supports children in the disaster-hit Tohoku region, along with General Manager Steve Dewire (back row, second from right), Kids Earth Fund Founder Harumi Torii (back row, right), Marie Seino, chief director of Re Kikou (back row, third from right), and teachers from Nishimachi International School at the Hotel on Nov. 18.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/27/news/pleasin-for-the-season/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-27T23:14:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Kongo, which straddles the prefectures of Osaka and Nara, receives its first dusting of snow on Friday, five days earlier than last year. Observers in the nearby village of Chihaya Akasaka reported 1 cm of snow near the summit. They said plunging temperatures reflect the onset of winter atmospheric pressures.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/28/news/shake-rattle-roll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-28T21:29:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dozens of monks shake their bodies as they pray in a special ritual called bandobushi at Higashi Honganji Temple in Kyoto on Saturday. The ritual is dedicated to Shinran (1173-1263), founder of the Jodo Shinshu Buddhism sect.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/30/news/video-star-wars-lands-at-the-sogo-yokohama-shopping-complex/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-30T00:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/11/30/sports/strike-a-pose/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-11-30T23:42:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yo20151201x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rugby World Cup hero Ayumu Goromaru sits next to a bronze statue depicting him during an unveiling ceremony Monday for Lighting Bench Art, part of a project to light up the Tokyo Station area for Christmas. It features 11 benches next to sculptures of other famous Japanese, including figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/02/news/at-first-light/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-02T20:00:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kobe Luminarie is lit up in a test run on Tuesday evening. The annual illuminations were inaugurated in December 1995, 11 months after the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck the city. They can be seen from Friday until Dec. 13.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/02/life/monkeying-around-in-yamanouchi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-02T20:21:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/monkeys-a-20151202.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[monkeys-a-20151202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese macaque (or so-called Snow Monkey) takes a rest on rocks near a hot spring at a valley in Yamanouchi, Nagano Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/03/news/bat-beat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-03T21:41:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/yl20151204v2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yl20151204v2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staffer Yukari Suga of doll-maker Kyugetsu shows off hagoita ornamental paddles bearing images of some of the year's newsmakers. The display, seen Thursday at the firm's office in Tokyo, includes rugby star Ayumu Goromaru (with Hinomaru), singer Masaharu Fukuyama (left), actress Kazue Fukiishi (on the same paddle), and Princess Kako (center).]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/03/news/never-misses-step/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-03T21:41:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/yl20151204v1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yl20151204v1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Robitis OP2, a miniature robot developed by Robotis Co., dances during a demonstration at the International Robot Exhibition 2015 in Tokyo. The theme for this year's show, which ends Saturday, is "making a future with robots."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/03/news/party-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-03T21:41:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/yl20151204v3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yl20151204v3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Twin female pandas Tohin (left) and Ohin celebrate their first birthday with a cake made of ice at Adventure World amusement park in Wakayama Prefecture on Thursday. The twins weighed about 180 grams each when they were born on Dec. 2 last year at the zoo, but they have now grown to about 30 kg.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/04/images/times-gallery/december-5-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-04T21:29:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/xm20151205v1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xm20151205v1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[France-based paper installation artist Marianne Guely (second from left), who unites Japanese craft traditions in an original design with the Andaz Tokyo Christmas tree in the Andaz Salon, poses with, (from left), Takeshi Nishimura, Yuzen-engraving artisan, Shigeru Takeo, president of TAKEO Co. and Arnaud de Saint-Exupery, general manager of the Andaz Tokyo on Nov. 27.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/04/news/carving-it-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-04T21:49:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/yv20151205v1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Snowboarders hit the slopes at Gokase Highland, Japan's southernmost ski resort, in Gokase, Miyazaki Prefecture, on the first day of the season on Friday. Workers had been busy topping up the slopes with artificial snow, according to staffers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/09/news/that-sinking-feeling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-09T00:03:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction workers check a sidewalk sinkhole in Nagoya on Monday night after a stretch of brick near a construction site about 300 meters from Meitetsu Nagoya Station caved in by about 5 meters. There were no injuries.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/09/news/burying-the-hatchet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-09T00:04:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. B-25 pilot Jack DeTour (left), Dr. Hiroya Sugano (center) and former Japanese fighter pilot Shiro Wakita pour bourbon into the "Remembrance Well" at the USS Arizona Memorial during the "Blackened Canteen" ceremony in Honolulu on Sunday during commemorations for the 74th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Story: Page 2]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/09/news/video-demonstration-of-humanoid-robots-for-disaster-rescue-missions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-09T17:40:17+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/09/news/reflections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-09T20:13:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A light installation on the Saone River in Lyon, France, pays tribute to the Paris attack victims on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/09/news/all-dolled-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-09T20:13:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dolls known as hina, featuring people who made headlines this year, are displayed Wednesday at Saitama-based doll-maker Togyoku. On the right is a representation of rugby star Ayumu Goromaru in his trademark concentration pose.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/11/news/video-tokyo-skytree-town-projection-mapping-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-11T00:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/11/news/young-dogs-new-tricks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-11T08:58:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ya20151211i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ya20151211i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The world's first "test-tube puppies" are held by lead researcher Jennifer Nagashima (left), of the Cornell-Smithsonian Joint Graduate Training Program, and co-author Nucharin Songsasen.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/12/news/video-international-robot-exhibition-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-12T00:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Thumbnail-for-Kobayashi_RobotExpo15.jpg</image:loc>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/12/images/times-gallery/december-12-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-12T00:26:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Romanian Ambassador Radu Serban (center) and his wife Maria share a toast with Honorary Consul of Romania in Shizuoka and former Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Hakuo Yanagisawa during a reception to celebrate the country's National Day at the Hotel Okura Tokyo on Dec. 1.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/12/sports/history-made-again/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-12T00:30:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/yc20151212a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yc20151212a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Olympic champion figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu broke his own world record, set two weeks ago at the NHK Trophy in Nagano, in Thursday's short program with 110.95 points at the Grand Prix Final in Barcelona, Spain.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/15/news/video-gundam-projection-mapping-winter-version/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-15T00:00:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Thumbnail-for-Kobayashi_Xmas15-GUNDAM.jpg</image:loc>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/16/news/st-nicholas-enforcers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-16T16:40:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men dressed as Krampus prepare to walk around the Christmas market in Munich on Sunday. Young single men clothed in animal skins and masks parade about the city ringing large cow-bells and making scary noises. They supposedly follow St. Nicholas from house to house every December to bring luck to the good and punish the idle.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/09/news/soul-cause/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-16T16:40:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christian and Buddhist priests pray for the victims of the March 2011 tsunami in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, during a one-day pilgrimage last March. The photo was taken by Kahoku Shimpo Publishing Co., a local daily. It was one of two selected as the best of the year by a news photographers' association in Tohoku last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/16/news/training-for-the-unthinkable/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-16T20:08:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Coast Guard vessel is dwarfed by the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan at the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Thursday. Officers were taking part in a drill simulating a minor radioactive leak from the nuclear-powered giant, which has been based out of Japan since October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/18/news/video-white-tree-letter-at-kitte/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/17/news/monkey-see-monkey-bloom/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dracula gigas, an orchid that resembles a monkey's face, starts to bloom Wednesday at a botanical garden in Kyoto Prefecture. "It's blooming with good timing, because the Chinese zodiac sign for next year is the monkey," a garden staffer said. The flower, which is also called the "monkey orchid," will be in bloom until around Dec. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/18/images/times-gallery/december-19-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-18T21:53:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazakhstan Ambassador Akylbek Kamaldinov (second from right) and his wife, Olga (second from left) raise their glasses with Aiko Shimajiri, state minister for Okinawa and Northern Territories affairs, minister in charge of science and technology, space policy and territorial issues (left) and Michihiko Ota, co-chairman of the Japan-Kazakhstan Economic Committee and vice chairman of Marubeni Corp., during a reception celebrating the country's Independence Day at the Hotel Okura Tokyo on Dec. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-19T18:54:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/19/news/praying-sunny-weather-forever/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-19T19:53:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students at Takase Middle School in the town of Ikeda, Nagano Prefecture, are seen next to teruterubozu dolls hanging on a line in the school playground in October. On Friday, the school announced that Guinness World Records has recognized it after students hung more than 10,000 dolls on a single line. The simple handmade cotton dolls are traditionally hung under house eaves to pray for good weather the following day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/21/news/beat-my-dust-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-21T00:54:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers beat tatami with bamboo sticks during the annual year-end cleaning session at Higashi-Honganji Temple in Kyoto's Shimogyo Ward on Sunday. The tradition, which goes back about 500 years, is meant to celebrate the peaceful passing of another year. About 180 people helped clean 927 mats at the temple.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/22/news/video-star-wars-fans-gather-at-kanda-flux-a-sci-fi-movie-themed-bar-in-tokyo/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/21/sports/top-of-the-pool/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese men's water polo team celebrates qualifying for next summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro by winning the Asian Championships on Sunday in Foshan, China. It is Japan's first Olympic berth in men's water polo in 32 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/21/news/charitable-donation/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeya Yamasaki (second from left), executive director of the tea ceremony school Chanoyu International, hands The Japan Times President Takeharu Tsutsumi a ¥342,000 contribution for The Japan Times Readers' Fund on Monday in Tokyo. The money will be shared among charitable causes overseas, including NPOs that help poor Cambodians and Filipinos secure better access to education.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/21/news/philippine-queen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T11:15:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miss Philippines, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach (center), is surrounded by other contestants after winning the 2015 Miss Universe Pageant in Las Vegas on Sunday. Miss Colombia was left open-mouthed after the announcer named her by mistake.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/24/news/seasons-cleaning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-25T00:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suspended by ropes 31 meters above ground, window washers dressed as Santa Claus and his reindeer clean the Decks Tokyo Beach complex in the Odaiba waterfront area in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/24/news/stroke-of-luck/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-25T00:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children stroke Love, the new feline "station master" of Ashinomaki Onsen Station in the town of Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Thursday. Love succeeds Bus, the cat that first took on the role in 2008 and retired due to old age the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/26/news/video-light-up-tokyo-2015-holiday-season-illumination-in-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-26T00:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/25/images/times-gallery/december-26-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-26T00:03:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Belgian Ambassador Gunther Sleeuwagen (center) joins State Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoji Muto (left) and Secretary-General of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dirk Achten at a reception celebrating 150 years of friendship between Belgium and Japan at the embassy in Tokyo on Dec. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/26/news/birds-eye-view/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-26T00:10:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young women on Friday take pictures from an observation deck that recently opened at the top of Tsutenkaku Tower in the city of Osaka. The 300-meter-tall Abeno Harukas skyscraper, the country's tallest building, is seen on the left.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/29/news/home-for-the-holidays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-29T23:51:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People board a bullet train at JR Tokyo Station on Tuesday on their way to spend the New Year's holidays in their hometowns. Many domestic flights and long-distance trains are fully booked as the holiday period goes into full swing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/29/news/food-fest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-29T23:51:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer buys octopus Tuesday at the Ameyoko shopping district in Taito Ward, Tokyo, as part of the annual rush for groceries for New Year's meals.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/31/news/video-the-maid-the-stormtrooper-and-the-painter-best-interviews-of-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-31T00:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/31/news/video-a-look-back-at-the-videos-of-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-31T23:00:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2015/12/31/news/year-of-the-monkey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-01T00:01:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mother and her daughter view a floral display containing a statue of a monkey at Narita International Airport near Tokyo on Thursday. The New Year's decoration is on view until Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/05/news/video-hatsuhinode-2016-at-tokyo-skytree/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-05T00:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-05T00:25:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Farmers in Tendo, Yamagata Prefecture, pack Sato-nishiki, a high-grade variety of cherry, into boxes for the year's first shipment Monday. A 300-gram box of the popular fruit can go for tens of thousands of yen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/04/sports/mission-accomplished/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-05T12:15:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aoyama Gakuin's Toshinori Watanabe crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi district on Sunday as his school defended its Hakone Ekiden title.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/05/news/the-writings-in-the-hall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-05T23:43:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Shoyama writes traditional calligraphy during an annual New Year's calligraphy contest in Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo on Tuesday. Some 3,115 participants, from preschool age to 92, took part.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/06/news/hanging-in-the-balance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-06T19:57:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Edo Firemanship Preservation Association display daredevil balancing skills atop bamboo ladders during a New Year's demonstration in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/07/news/range-rover/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-07T23:47:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tractive GPS Pet Tracker is displayed during the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday. CES is expected to bring a range of announcements from major names in technology, showcasing new developments in virtual reality, self-driving cars, drones, wearables, and what is increasingly called the Internet of Things.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/09/news/video-pop-up-ice-rink-at-tokyo-midtown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-09T00:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/08/news/video-flashing-cotton-candy-at-coredo-muromachi/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/10/news/video-flowers-by-naked-a-digital-art-showcase-by-the-projection-mapping-firm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-10T01:33:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/15/news/check-this-out/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-15T00:20:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff at a Daiei supermarket take cover in an earthquake drill in Kobe on Thursday. A total of 290,000 people took part in a city-wide drill ahead of Sunday's 21st anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/16/news/video-wearable-expo-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-16T00:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/15/images/times-gallery/january-16-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-15T20:29:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koichi Saura (right), president of Saura Co. and chairman of the sake sales promotion committee of the Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association, along with representatives of the sake industry and committee members, share a toast to kick off an event featuring sake tasting, cooking and education for about 100 twenty-year-olds celebrating Coming-of-Age Day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/15/culture-3/in-the-wake-of-the-starmans-sudden-departure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-16T12:47:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman with a Ziggy Stardust tattoo gets emotional as she visits the same mural.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/16/news/arm-wrestle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-16T16:43:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[First Lt. Melissa Cooling demonstrates the effectiveness of an arm bar move to Ground Self-Defense Force troops on Camp Kinser, Okinawa, on Friday. Three hundred and sixty GSDF officer candidates participated in the joint exercise.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/18/news/letting-fly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-19T10:40:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Female kyudo archers wearing kimono and hakama pants who turned 20 during the past year draw their bows Sunday at Sanjusangen-do Temple in Kyoto. About 2,000 people took part in the contest, which began as a traditional archery event at the temple.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/19/news/winter-wonderland-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-19T23:59:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kindergartners enjoy a sleigh ride in the city of Yamagata on Tuesday after the area was hit by the season's first heavy snowfall. Hokkaido, the Tohoku region and areas along the Sea of Japan were expected to see heavy snow and high tides through Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/20/news/in-plain-view/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-20T20:02:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dog-walkers pass Tower Tokyo in the capital's Minato Ward on Wednesday. The ward plans to introduce new building regulations to preserve the few remaining full views of the much-loved tower.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/21/news/planet-nine-outer-space/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-21T23:56:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The solar system may host a ninth planet that is 10 times bigger than Earth and orbits far beyond Neptune, according to research that found evidence of something pulling on objects in the distant Kuiper Belt and was published Wednesday by researchers at the California Institute of Technology. This illustration looks from "Planet Nine" back toward the sun. The gas giant may take 10,000 to 20,000 years to orbit the sun. R.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/22/images/times-gallery/january-23-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-22T23:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French Ambassador Thierry Dana (center) is joined by, from left, President of Club de la Galette des Rois Susumu Shimada; House of Representatives member Yuriko Koike; House of Councilors member Akiko Santo; TV presenter and author Eriko Kusuta; Japan National Rugby Team member and Galette des Rois Ambassador Hitoshi Ono; Philippe Bigot, Honorary member of Club de la Galette des Rois in cutting a huge galette des rois (king cake) during an event to celebrate the new year and Epiphany at the ambassador's residence in Tokyo on Jan. 14.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/26/news/philippine-queen-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-26T00:11:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[xi20160126a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miss Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach speaks Sunday in Quezon City, the Philippines. Wurtzbach, who has a German father and a Filipina mother, returned home for the first time since her win and on Monday was to be greeted by crowds in Manila.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/26/news/where-theres-smoke/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-26T22:25:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police and firefighters respond to smoke coming from a ceiling duct in Tokyo's Ginza Station on Tuesday morning. Tokyo Metro Co. said the smoke was coming from refuse burning in the ventilation system. No injuries were reported. Operations were temporarily suspended on the entire Hibiya Line, affecting about 68,000 commuters.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/26/news/rainbow-warriors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-26T22:25:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters hold a drill Tuesday at Horyuji Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture. Monks also took part in the event.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/30/news/video-pepper-world-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-30T00:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/29/images/times-gallery/january-30-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-29T21:35:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ye20160130v1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ye20160130v1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar Ambassador Thurain Thant Zin (center) is joined by, from left, Chairman of the Japan-Myanmar Parliamentary Friendship League Ichiro Aisawa; Foreign Minister of Myanmar Wunna Maung Lwin and his wife Lynn Lynn Tin; Japanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoji Muto; House of Representatives member Kozo Yamamoto; and the ambassador's wife, Khin Soe Naung, for a toast at a celebration for the 68th Anniversary of the Independence Day of Myanmar, as well as the opening of a new embassy building, at the embassy in Tokyo on Jan. 25.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/01/news/character-filled-farewell/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-01T12:57:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo of late manga artist Shigeru Mizuki anchors an altar decorated with flowers and an illustration of his popular character Gegege no Kitaro during a farewell ceremony at a funeral hall in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Sunday. Mizuki died at the age of 93 in November.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/01/news/plan-comes-together/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-01T23:47:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ym20160202x1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives for the opening of the new parliament in Naypyitaw on Monday. After decades of struggle, hundreds of lawmakers from Suu Kyi's camp began a historic session Monday that will install the country's first democratically elected government in more than 50 years. Story: Page 4]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/03/news/no-shadow-doubt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-03T20:27:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/xw20160204u1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xw20160204u1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Co-handler Ron Ploucha holds up a weather-forecasting groundhog on Tuesday, the 130th Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. The animal, Punxsutawney Phil, emerged from his burrow and wasn't scared back inside by his shadow, thus predicting an early spring. The mock-solemn ceremony is an annual entertainment for Americans shivering through the winter.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/05/news/video-vaio-phone-biz-unveiled/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-05T12:19:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Thumbnail-for-Nagata_VaioPhoneBiz.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Thumbnail for Nagata_VaioPhoneBiz]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/05/images/times-gallery/february-6-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-05T22:17:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/xk20160206w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xk20160206w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pakistan Ambassador Farukh Amil (fifth from right) welcomes Akie Abe (sixth from right), the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as the chief guest to a "Peace and Interfaith" event, along with (from right) Buddhist Priest Yoshida Nikko, Catholic Priest Mukengeshayi Matata, Shinto Priest Haruki Shinya, Imam Muhammad Rasit Alas, Fushimi Hiroaki, Antonio Inoki, Makototo Oniki, members of the public and students from Aoyama Gakuin and the International School of the Sacred Heart.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/06/life/craft-sake-week-roppongi-hills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-06T15:36:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/sake-h-20160206.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[sake-h-20160206]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeo Matsumoto from Nagurayama.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/07/news/video-19th-japan-media-arts-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-07T00:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/10/news/street-dance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-10T18:16:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/n-newyear-a-boxcap-20160210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yg20160210a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A reveler performs a lion dance outside a restaurant during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Chinatown in Yokohama on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/10/news/beef-ambassadors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-10T19:59:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/zd20160211t1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[zd20160211t1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A washoku chef slices premium beef from Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture, during a promotional event on Tuesday at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Producers of Matsusaka beef hope the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal will boost exports to markets such as gourmet circles in the U.S.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/11/news/video-tokyo-international-gift-show-spring-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-11T15:29:07+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/12/images/times-gallery/february-13-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-12T23:29:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/xy20160213x1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sri Lanka Ambassador Dammika Ganganath Disanayake lights a traditional oil lamp during an event celebrating the 68th anniversary of the independence of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, at Kotani Hall, Reiyukai in Tokyo on Feb. 4.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/11/news/breaking-the-ice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-12T23:29:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/xr20160212w1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An unusual ice formation is seen in Lake Nukahira in the town of Kamishihoro, Hokkaido, on Wednesday. Local residents say the ice formations on stumps resemble mushrooms. They appear when a dam releases water and the level falls.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/12/news/food-thought-fukuoka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-12T23:30:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ya20160213x1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wholesalers conduct their first auction at a new fruit and vegetables wholesale market in the city of Fukuoka on Friday. The market, which opened earlier in the day, aims to become an export base for Asia in addition to a hub for the domestic market.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/12/news/lamps-unto-themselves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-12T23:30:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ya20160213x2a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hirosaki Castle Snow Lantern Festival kicked off Thursday at Hirosaki Park in Hirosaki, Aomori, Prefecture. The festival runs until Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/01/02/news/do-you-feel-lucky/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-12T23:32:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/xg20160103t1a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers snap up "lucky bags" filled with mysterious discount merchandise and other New Year's holiday bargains at Mitsukoshi department store's Nihonbashi outlet on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/14/news/video-disney-expo-japan-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-14T00:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/17/news/on-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T09:04:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/zb20160217a4a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Conductor Seiji Ozawa's performance of Ravel's "L'Enfant et Les Sortileges" won a Grammy Award on Monday for best opera recording.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/17/news/twist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T19:58:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/za20160218t4a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A robot helps a dealer at a mock casino at the Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Tuesday. "No more bets!" was among the phrases the robot uttered. The ruling coalition is expected to shelve a bill that would allow resort facilities to run casinos until after the Upper House election in the summer.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/multimedia/2016/02/19/news/different-stripes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-19T00:28:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/xz20160219a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[xz20160219a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artist Shigeki Matsuyama, who goes by the name of SIGE, presents his installation "Dazzle Room" at the Rooms32 fashion and design trade show. The event at Yoyogi National Stadium features more than 500 overseas and domestic brands, including clothing, accessories, interior goods and art. It runs until Friday.]]></image:caption>
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