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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People stage a protest Wednesday in Midtown Manhattan over the Staten Island death of Eric Garner during an arrest in July. A New York City grand jury decision not to charge white police officer Daniel Pantaleo. who killed the unarmed black man Garner with a chokehold, sparked outrage and protests that continued into Thursday morning, leading to scores of arrests. The U.S. Justice Department said it would investigate the incident.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/world/nasa-scrubs-orion-test-flight-launch-reset-friday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T12:04:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two U.S. military helicopters make their way past the launchpad of the Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Orion spacecraft waiting for liftoff from the Cape Canveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday, when the launch of NASA's deep-space capsule on a test flight around Earth was delayed at the last-minute after a technical problem was found with its rocket.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/04/national/politics-diplomacy/former-ghosn-spokeswoman-becomes-ambassador-to-uruguay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T12:10:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiko Tanaka, Japan's new ambassador to Uruguay, smiles during an interview in Tokyo in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/04/national/kindergarten-pay-%c2%a560-million-tsunami-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T12:12:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasushi Saijo holds a photo of his late daughter at a news conference in Sendai on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-05T13:13:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-05T16:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-05T16:18:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-05T16:20:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/world/offbeat-world/massive-white-truffle-sold-new-york-auction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T16:21:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/national/hokutosei-ueno-sapporo-overnight-express-train-retire-march/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T16:21:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hokutosei sleeper train, seen in this undated photo, is expected to retire next March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/national/japanese-american-filmmakers-provide-different-take-2011-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T16:52:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Film director Dianne Fukami (left) and co-executive producer Debra Nakatomi pose in Tokyo on Nov. 20. Their documentary, "Stories from Tohoku," looks at how the events of March 2011 affected people in the Tohoku region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/business/corporate-business/toyota-lessons-lost-takata-resists-u-s-recall-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T17:28:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security guard stands next to children's car seats, manufactured and displayed by Takata Corp., at a Toyota showroom in Tokyo on Nov. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/business/corporate-business/toyota-says-automakers-agree-to-hire-outside-air-bag-tester/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T18:21:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/world/science-health-world/shocking-news-electric-eels-exert-remote-control-prey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T18:30:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Electric eels can beat any fish in a game of hide and seek.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/world/science-health-world/with-1450-sq-km-last-year-peru-says-amazon-deforestation-on-the-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T19:42:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/business/corporate-business/itochu-cp-group-reportedly-in-talks-to-invest-in-citic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T19:59:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians pass in front of a CITIC bank branch in Beijing in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/national/crime-legal/cyanide-trace-found-in-pot-thrown-out-by-suspected-serial-husband-killer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T20:14:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/business/tepco-unlikely-to-raise-prices-again-in-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T20:15:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/business/corporate-business/softbank-to-invest-in-airborne-wind-turbine-developer-altaeros/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T20:36:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/business/economy-business/bankruptcies-caused-by-weak-yen-broke-record-in-november/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T20:36:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/national/ikea-to-stop-selling-sea-of-japan-map-next-year-after-drawing-fire-in-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T21:05:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-house-clears-funds-for-marine-transfer-to-guam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T21:41:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/national/politics-diplomacy/okinawa-gov-nakaima-gives-base-relocation-plan-one-last-shove/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T23:04:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/national/japans-fiscal-13-greenhouse-gas-emissions-worst-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-05T23:24:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wind turbine is shown in front of a thermal power station in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/national/tokyo-retains-world-gourmet-crown-with-eight-michelin-starred-eateries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T09:48:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Michelin Guide Tokyo 2015 is displayed during its launch in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/national/imperial-household-agency-loosens-up-on-access-to-osaka-burial-mound/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T10:27:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ancient Tannowa Nisanzai Kofun burial mound is seen in the town of Misaki, Osaka Prefecture, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/national/nagoya-ywca-offers-language-classes-with-day-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T10:27:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign mothers and children fold origami during a language lesson at Nagoya's YWCA. Tutors place emphasis on useful phrases when raising a young family in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/national/chinese-public-appetite-senkakus-fight-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T10:28:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activists declaring Chinese sovereignty over the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands set sail from Hong Kong on Sept. 15, on what they called a fishing trip to the waters around them. The Japan Coast Guard closely monitors the uninhabited islets.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/business/financial-markets/yen-reaches-120-to-dollar-for-first-time-since-july-2007/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T12:07:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/06/world/science-health-world/e-cigarettes-prime-brain-harder-drugs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T22:30:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opening the floodgates?: A selection of e-cigarettes sit on display during a conference in London on Nov. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/06/world/science-health-world/animals-extinction-risk-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T22:32:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Near extinction: A male polar bear walks across ice in the Beaufort Sea, Alaska. Scientists say the number of animals in the wild has halved in the past 40 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/06/national/history/opening-wwi-naval-operations-ended-u-s-architect-plans-manchuria-housing-tokyo-smog-poisonous-ebola-monkeys-spur-warning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T22:36:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/06/world/typhoon-hagupit-triggers-massive-evacuation-in-philippines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T13:40:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/06/world/crime-legal-world/bill-cosbys-walk-of-fame-star-vandalized-with-word-rapist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T13:40:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Graffiti is shown scrawled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of actor-comedian Bill Cosby in Los Angeles.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/06/world/nasas-new-unmanned-spaceship-blasts-off-for-trial-run/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T14:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with NASA's Orion spacecraft lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37 at 7:05 a.m. Friday in Florida. The launch is the first in more than 40 years of a U.S. spacecraft intended to carry humans beyond the Moon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/06/world/politics-diplomacy-world/obama-nominates-ashton-carter-for-pentagon-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T14:04:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ashton Carter, former deputy secretary of defense and U.S. President Barack Obama's nominee to be secretary of defense, talks to Obama during a nomination announcement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/national/new-asahi-shimbun-chief-promises-to-restore-public-trust-in-daily/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T20:13:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masataka Watanabe, the new president of the daily Asahi Shimbun, leaves a news conference Friday evening in the city of Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/06/national/media-national/poverty-takes-new-look-todays-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T22:52:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anyone's at risk: A businessman walks through the Tokyo International Forum. While it was recently announced that the number of jobs has increased in Japan, factors affecting poverty include societal problems such as crushing household debt and caring for one's elderly parents.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/06/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-russia-to-hold-high-level-talks-aimed-at-putin-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T23:26:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/06/national/media-national/cultural-differences-shade-reactions-robots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T23:48:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[OriHime by Ory Laboratory]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/06/national/heavy-snow-blankets-parts-of-chubu-kansai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T23:52:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/05/national/fresh-suit-filed-in-fukui-over-plan-to-restart-kepco-reactors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T23:52:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/06/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-dominates-list-of-top-20-fundraisers-in-diet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T23:53:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/06/national/science-health/woman-gives-birth-via-egg-frozen-12-years-ago/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-06T23:53:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[As men continue to dominate Japan's political landscape, experts are calling for a gender quota in future elections to boost the ranks of female lawmakers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 1963 car is the earliest known licensed copy of Batman's famed vehicle.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture, pray for a safe season at the village's ski slopes this winter as efforts to recover from the magnitude-6.7 quake on Nov. 22 continue.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the New York City Council stage a spontaneous protest Monday in response to police violence. Protesters in New York and other cities staged a sixth day of rallies on Monday, denouncing use of deadly force by police against minorities. This week's wave of angry but largely peaceful protests began when a New York grand jury declined to bring charges against white police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, a black 43-year-old father of six.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, after releasing a report on the CIA’s brutal interrogation techniques at secret overseas facilities following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Feinstein branded the findings a “stain on the nation’s history.” ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sven Saaler, an associate professor of modern Japanese history at Sophia University in Tokyo, speaks during a Dec. 3 telephone interview from Heidelberg, Germany, where he is on sabbatical leave.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaks to reporters on the upcoming budget battle on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters hold signs reading, from right, "Stop secrets protection law" and "Oppose war" during a rally in Tokyo on Saturday. The law took effect on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gives a stump speech in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, on Saturday ahead of Tuesday's official start of campaigning for next month's Lower House election.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[LDP candidate Yuko Obuchi bows to potential voters in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, on Dec. 2, the first day of official campaigning for the Lower House electino. In October, Obuchi resigned as trade minister over fundraising irregularities.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kazuo Hirai speaks at an expo in Makuhari, Chiba Prefecture, in 2007.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/15/national/politics-diplomacy/kan-humbled-manages-get-last-seat-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-15T11:07:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mementos for 20 students and six educators, killed in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, hang from a tree Sunday in Newtown, Connecticut. Parents of almost half the young children killed by a gunman at the Newtown school two years ago on Sunday have taken initial steps toward filing lawsuits tied to one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. For a second straight year the leafy suburb has planned no public events to commemorate the massacre, which inflamed the U.S. debate over gun control.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshimi Watanabe, former leader of Your Party, concedes defeat in the Lower House election on Sunday night in Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teruaki Masumoto, whose sister was abducted by North Korean agents in 1978, concedes defeat in Sunday's Lower House election in Sendai.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeo Hiranuma, head of Jisedai no To (Party for Future Generations), watches grimly at a Tokyo hotel as the results of the snap general election trickled in Sunday night. Hiranuma secured a seat in the House of Representatives but most Jisedai no To members were booted from the chamber.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/15/national/politics-diplomacy/resurgent-jcp-has-night-to-remember/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Shii, head of the Japanese Communist Party, makes his final campaign speech in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Saturday night. The JCP made big gains in Sunday's election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/15/business/business-leaders-call-for-third-arrow-reforms-after-ldp-komeito-election-win/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuchika Hasegawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/15/national/politics-diplomacy/undecided-voters-swing-abes-way-again/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Voters cast ballots for the Lower House election at a polling station in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp.'s new Mirai vehicle is displayed at the Miraikan museum in Tokyo on Monday. Toyota has become the world's first automaker to market a hydrogen-powered car.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Matsui, secretary-general of Ishin no To (Japan Innovation Party), meets the press in the city of Osaka on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A property manager shows off a vacant traditional house in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 15. Japan has rapidly growing tourism, a cheap currency and 8 million vacant homes.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives Monday for an executive meeting at Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a news conference on Monday at Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo following his election triumph.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This April 18, 2011, file image shows Man Haron Monis, believed to have been the gunman inside the Lindt Cafe in Martin Place in Sydney.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks past a McDonald's restaurant in Tokyo in July. From Wednesday, McDonald's Co. (Japan) will sell french fries only in small size.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The first recovered Atari cartridge and packaging recovered from the old Alamogordo landfill are shown in Alamogordo, New Mexico, in this file photo taken April 26. A copy of a vintage ET Atari videogame extracted from the landfill, where hundreds of the cartridges were dumped after the game flopped in the 1980s, made its way Tuesday to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Government data released Tuesday shows that seven of the nation's utilities lack the capacity to accept all of the solar power energy that suppliers plan to generate.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp Corp.'s bendable liquid crystal display allows for a wide variety of applications.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumika Kono supervises a construction site in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, on Oct. 17. The labor shortage has become a critical issue in the construction industry.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cranes transfer containers between a ship and trucks at Tokyo port Wednesday. Japan's trade deficit in November shrank by nearly a third from a year ago, helped by higher exports and falling oil bills, although the volume of shipments to foreign markets remained weak.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sankyo Yanagiya teaches rakugo to foreign students of Japanese.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[DPJ presidential hopeful Goshi Hosono on Wednesday passes an election poster featuring party chief Banri Kaieda, who has said he will resign following Sunday's Lower House poll.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/18/national/science-health/obokata-fails-to-replicate-stap-cells-at-riken/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koei Tsuge, president of Central Japan Railway Co., poses Wednesday as construction begins on a maglev station at JR Nagoya Station. Work began simultaneously on a maglev terminus at Tokyo's Shinagawa Station.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kurdish peshmerga fighters check in Zummar, northern Iraq on Thursday as they continue to battle Islamic State group fighters near the border with Syria.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-19T09:29:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Growing problem: South Africa ranks third in a list of the world's most obese nations behind the United States and Mexico.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-19T11:57:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Pictures Entertainment, based in Culver City, California, has told theaters they can cancel showings of "The Interview" following threats of violence.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian sailors look through portholes of the Russian Navy frigate Smolny as they leave the STX Les Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard site in Saint-Nazaire, western France, on Thursday. A ship carrying the Russian sailors, who have been training for months on a French-built Mistral helicopter carrier, left the French port of Saint-Nazaire on Thursday, but it still unclear whether Paris will finally deliver the ship to Moscow due to the Ukraine crisis.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-19T18:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-19T18:05:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-19T18:26:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The HMAS Collins, a domestically developed submarine, is launched in Port Adelaide in August 1993. The boat experienced problems in trials and entered service more than a year behind schedule. Australia says it has received expressions of interest from several countries to build its next submarine fleet.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/19/national/taiwan-says-311-ban-on-japanese-food-exports-to-remain-in-place/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-19T19:13:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-19T19:13:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/19/national/rice-agronomist-honored-for-work-in-africa/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Agronomist Tatsushi Tsuboi receives the Niigata International Food Award in the city on Oct. 29.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masato Watanabe (right), president of Carl's Jr. Japan Inc., speaks to reporters in Tokyo as Mitsuuroko Group Holdings Co. CEO Kohei Tajima and Michael Murphy, president of CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc., look on.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-19T20:24:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-19T22:05:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Kawai of Ota Ward, Tokyo, prays in front of the grave of his daughter, Shiori, who died in 2009 at age 11 after being admitted to Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital and undergoing heart surgery.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-19T22:30:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The top speed of the Nozomi bullet train will be raised to 285 kph next March from 270 kph on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, thanks to new brakes, Central Japan Railway Co. said Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/19/national/tokyo-beijing-agree-boost-steps-chinese-coral-poaching-japans-waters/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boats operated by Chinese coral poachers dot the ocean near the Ogasawara Islands, south of Tokyo, on Oct. 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/20/national/science-health/love-robots-may-pave-way-better-treatment-animals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-20T22:46:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wrongfully imprisoned?: A court in New York state was asked to decide if Tommy could be recognized as a person so that his owner, Patrick Lavery, would have to justify why he kept the chimp.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riken President Ryoji Noyori is surrounded by reporters at the science ministry in Tokyo on Friday afternoon after the institute announced it has given up all efforts to verify the existence of pluripotent stem cells produced by a new method that Riken researcher Haruko Obokata claimed to have discovered.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activist and Surugadai University lecturer Masayuki Hatta, speaking at Waseda University in Tokyo on Friday, explains about an anonymous whistle-blower website he has worked on and which is nearing completion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/20/national/japan-deports-sri-lankan-vietnamese-asylum-seekers/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshimi Watanabe, former head of the now-defunct Your Party, exchanges greetings with a supporter at a gathering in Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, on Dec. 9, ahead of last Sunday's Lower House snap election in which he lost his Diet seat.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[It's who you know: Takajin Yashiki is honored at a remembrance ceremony in Osaka earlier this year. The weekly press criticized the star's widow, Sakura, until an influential writer took on the job of being her biographer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/20/national/politics-diplomacy/china-awaits-abes-stance-70th-anniverary-wwii/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yohei Kono (left), a former senior member of the governing Liberal Democratic Party who as chief Cabinet secretary in 1993 delivered a landmark apology to women forced to work in wartime brothels for the Japanese military, meets with Yu Zhengsheng, the fourth-ranking member of China's Communist Party, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/20/national/politics-diplomacy/hard-drive-seized-obuchi-probe-sabotaged-raid-prosecutors/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuko Obuchi, former minister of economy, trade and industry, attends a news conference in Tokyo in October.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Changing of the Guard: Hiromasa Yonekura (left), the new chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), shares a moment with departing Chairman Fujio Mitarai during a general meeting in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/20/business/economy-business/japan-to-miss-2020-budget-surplus-goal-regardless-of-sales-tax-hikes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/17/business/economy-business/abe-seen-needing-2-growth-this-quarter-to-hike-sales-tax-again/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/08/business/economy-business/boj-stays-policy-course-aware-of-sales-tax-hike-hit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/01/business/shoppers-start-coping-with-higher-sales-tax/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-tax-c-20140402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Consumer affairs minister Masako Mori visits an Ito-Yokado supermarket in Koto Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday morning to size up the situation on Day 1 of the consumption tax hike.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/31/business/supplier-of-%c2%a51-coins-ends-four-year-hiatus-for-abes-sales-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[¥1 coins are arranged for a photograph in Tokyo on March 24.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/business/economy-business/abe-aide-urges-more-boj-easing-as-sales-tax-increase-threatens-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:17+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/08/business/sales-tax-hike-wont-up-muji-prices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:18+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/01/national/history/fat-men-frolic-jews-to-be-treated-equally-u-s-ambassador-stabbed-new-sales-tax-a-headache/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/fl20140302eca.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20140302eca]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/13/business/jr-firms-apply-for-fare-increases-for-april-sales-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p6-jr-a-20131214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pay as you go: People pass through ticket gates at a Tokyo train station on Nov. 13.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/01/national/politics-diplomacy/april-to-see-sales-tax-hike-abe-confirms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:21+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nn20131002a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20131002a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As expected: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announces his decision Tuesday to go ahead with the planned sales tax hike next April.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/06/business/abe-should-consult-father-of-economics-for-sage-advice-on-sales-tax/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/14/national/japan-post-plans-first-price-hikes-in-20-years-to-offset-sales-tax-increase/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/12/business/economy-business/abe-will-raise-sales-tax-to-8-in-april-as-scheduled-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/05/business/economy-business/failure-to-raise-sales-tax-could-hurt-bond-prices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/nb20130906a8a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20130906a8a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Setting policy: Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks during a news conference at BOJ headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 8.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/20/business/economy-business/april-sales-tax-hike-a-given-amari/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:25+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/31/business/economy-business/deficit-cut-mulled-as-sales-tax-debate-intensifies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:25+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/28/business/abe-to-decide-on-sales-tax-hike-in-fall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:18:26+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/02/national/politics-diplomacy/snap-election-caught-maker-luminous-poll-posters-guard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:25:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-posters-a-20141203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Samples of "luminous" posters of an election candidate show the name of the candidate glaring in the dark.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/26/national/politics-diplomacy/ruling-opposition-party-leaders-visit-disaster-hit-areas-ahead-snap-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:25:08+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/25/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-to-promise-sales-tax-break-on-daily-necessities-by-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:25:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/25/national/abe-laughing-online-stunt-pokes-fun-snap-election-call/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:25:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kaisan-a-20141126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe criticized a student activist for pretending to be a young boy online and questioning the government's actions.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/25/national/municipal-staffing-annual-events-suddenly-conflict-snap-election-needs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:25:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-staffshortage-a-20141126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actor Ken Matsudaira, dressed as Oishi Kuranosuke, the legendary leader of the 47 Ronin, takes part in a parade last Dec. 14 during the annual Ako Gishi Festival in the city of Ako, Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/20/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-snap-election-puts-beijing-on-edge-although-some-believe-it-may-empower-him-to-ease-tension/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:25:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/20/national/politics-diplomacy/ex-minister-makiko-tanaka-wont-run-in-snap-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:25:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/18/national/politics-diplomacy/local-officials-scramble-prepare-snap-election-amid-staff-shortages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:25:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/n-hustle-a-20141119.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hustle-a-20141119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff from the Kanazawa Municipal Government in Ishikawa Prefecture prepare Tuesday for the upcoming general election.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/15/national/politics-diplomacy/two-opposition-parties-consider-merging-ahead-expected-snap-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:25:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/n-oppmerge-a-20141116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-oppmerge-a-20141116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Banri Kaeda]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/11/national/politics-diplomacy/despite-denial-dont-surprised-abe-calls-snap-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:25:18+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/30/national/politics-diplomacy/funding-scandals-prompt-veiled-ldp-threat-call-snap-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:25:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/17/national/politics-diplomacy/55-do-not-support-abes-security-policies-poll-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:26:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/17/national/politics-diplomacy/low-voter-turnout-mars-abes-claim-election-triumph/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:26:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/n-mandate-a-20141218.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mandate-a-20141218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe high-fives supporters in Kyoto on Dec. 10 while campaigning for the Lower House election.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/24/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-vows-stay-course-third-term-prime-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:26:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/n-abepress-a-20141225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abepress-a-20141225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a news conference at his office in Tokyo on Wednesday evening after he was re-elected by the Diet to the nation's top political post.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/24/national/obokata-injured-fleeing-pack-nhk-reporters-lawyer-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:30:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/n-obokata-a-20140725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-obokata-a-20140725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Assisted by lawyer Hideo Miki, Riken cytologist Haruko Obokata attends a news conference in April at a hotel in the city of Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/02/national/embattled-researcher-obokata-arrives-at-riken-to-prove-stap-cells/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:30:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/n-riken-a-20140703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-riken-a-20140703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riken researcher Haruko Obokata enters the Riken building in Kobe Wednesday morning to participate in experiments to verify the findings of her research.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/27/national/riken-exec-urges-strict-surveillance-of-obokata-verification-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/w3-riken-a-20140628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-riken-a-20140628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatoshi Takeichi, director of Riken's Center for Developmental Biology, speaks to reporters Thursday in Kobe.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/16/national/science-health/stap-paper-co-author-recants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:30:41+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/p1-stap-a-20140617.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-stap-a-20140617.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruko Obokata]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/28/national/science-health/embattled-stap-cell-scientist-obokata-retract-research-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:30:42+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/25/national/stap-probe-head-quits-breach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:30:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/p1-stap-a-20140426.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-stap-a-20140426.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shunsuke Ishii kyodo]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/14/national/stap-replication-not-conclusive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:30:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/09/national/obokata-says-stap-cell-discovery-not-fabrication-claims-riken-dissuaded-her-from-giving-her-side-of-story-earlier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:30:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/p1-w2-obokata-a-20140410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-w2-obokata-a-20140410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riken institute researcher Haruko Obokata prepares to defend her discovery of STAP cells in Osaka on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/02/national/hasty-riken-stap-report-draws-fire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:30:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/21/national/science-health/protocol-of-stap-cell-generation-posted-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:30:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/30/national/u-s-team-conducts-study-using-new-cell-technique-in-monkeys/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:30:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/30/national/science-health/stap-may-advance-cancer-fight-medicine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:30:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/19/business/economy-business/cubans-imagine-new-prosperous-life-without-old-foe-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T15:46:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/b-cuba-a-20141220.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cuba-a-20141220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists buy cigars at a store in Havana, on Thursday.   Celebrations broke out on the streets of Havana as people savored the prospect of an end to the five-decade-old U.S. trade embargo and perhaps a brighter future.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/14/national/state-secrets-bill-shows-abes-tin-ear-for-local-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/07/national/politics-diplomacy/passage-of-contentious-secrets-law-ends-extra-diet-session/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:06+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/p2-diet-a-20131208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-diet-a-20131208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Against all odds: Protesters voice their opposition against the state secrets bill outside the Diet on Friday night.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/06/national/politics-diplomacy/secrets-bill-poised-for-passage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/06/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-ruling-bloc-set-to-force-state-secrets-bill-to-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/06/national/protests-over-secrets-bill-fiery-at-11th-hour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/p2-protest-a-20131207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-protest-a-20131207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Too little, too late?: Protesters rally against the state secrets bill outside the Diet building Friday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/05/national/politics-diplomacy/secrets-bill-clears-panel-by-force/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:09+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/p1-secret-a-20131206.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-secret-a-20131206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nay: Protesters rally against the state secrets bill Thursday outside the Diet.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/05/national/protesters-voice-alarm-over-state-secrets-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-protest-a-20131206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family affair: A mother holds her sleeping daughter with a sign reading "anti-secrets" during a rally against the state secrecy bill in front of the Diet on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/04/national/opposition-takes-final-swipe-at-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/p1-diet-a-20131205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-diet-a-20131205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hush now: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tells opposition lawmakers to be quiet at a session of the Upper House committee on national security Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/03/national/politics-diplomacy/fast-tracked-secrecy-bill-riles-opposition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/02/national/politics-diplomacy/ishiba-softens-criticism-of-bill-protesters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p1 ishiba-z 20131203]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shades of a dark chapter?: A woman takes part in a public rally against the state secrets bill Monday in the city of Osaka, holding up a placard reading: “Prewar era?” ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/03/national/public-protests-continue-against-state-secrets-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/30/business/the-secret-of-keeping-official-secrets-secret/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/30/national/japan-the-new-uzbekistan-of-press-freedom-in-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p2-adelstein-secrets-a-20131201.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-adelstein-secrets-a-20131201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paper trail: Guards at the Diet building restrain a man who opposes the ruling coalition's moves to force its contentious state secrets bill through the Lower House on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/30/national/politics-diplomacy/skepticism-engulfs-secrecy-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-state-secrets-a-20131201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Outcry: A demonstrator holds a poster of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that reads "Don't see, don't listen, don't speak" while protesting against the state secrecy bill in front of the Diet in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/14/national/politics-diplomacy/ruling-bloc-may-yield-on-state-secrets-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:18+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/08/national/overseas-work-study-seen-negative-point-anyone-handling-state-secrets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/n-secrecy-law-a-20141208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-secrecy-law-a-20141208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opponents of the state secrecy bill rally near the Diet building in November 2013. Satoko Kawasaki]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/06/national/protesters-vow-continue-fight-secrecy-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/n-secretsprotest-a-20141207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-secretsprotest-a-20141207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People opposing the state secrets law march in the streets of Tokyo's Ginza district during a demonstration Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/01/national/politics-diplomacy/vast-majority-of-ruling-bloc-candidates-favor-rebooting-reactors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/n-candidatespoll-a-20141202.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-candidatespoll-a-20141202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters stage an anti-nuclear demonstration outside the Diet in Tokyo in March. Participants at the demonstration said they would never forget the March 11, 2011, nuclear disaster, the worst since Chernobyl. The placard, center, reads: "No to restarting nuclear reactors!"]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/16/national/prosecutors-tapped-secrecy-panel-hopes-mollifying-laws-opponents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:52+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/28/national/musical-points-sinister-nuclear-implications/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Musical Guild Q theater troupe performs "The Secret Garden" in Tokyo last Friday. The musical seeks to inform the public about the dangers of the state secrecy law scheduled to take effect on Dec. 10.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/28/national/young-protesters-rap-state-secrets-law-movement-gains-rhythm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/n-studentdemo-a-20141029.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-studentdemo-a-20141029.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The student-led march on Saturday winds its way past the front of the Shibuya 109 building, a central Tokyo landmark.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/26/national/politics-diplomacy/distrust-less-cooperation-feared-law-pits-local-patriarchs-tokyo-secrecy-fetishists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/n-kansaiside-a-20141027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kansaiside-a-20141027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. military officers take part in a December 2013 anti-terrorism training exercise at Camp Hansen in Okinawa Prefecture. The state secrets law, set to take effect Dec. 10, will allow the government to classify information on measures to prevent terrorist activity.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/26/national/politics-diplomacy/kansais-fears-of-new-law-no-state-secret/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/n-kansaimain-a-20141027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kansaimain-a-20141027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Up to 5,000 people stage a rally against the state secrets law in the city of Osaka in July.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/22/national/secrecy-law-creates-ruckus-over-guidelines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/n-secrecylaw-b-20130923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n secrecylaw-b 20130923]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[cap 1rob phil A baby brought by a protester to a rally against the state secrets bill last year is seen outside the Diet on Dec. 6 with a flier criticizing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/10/national/government-revises-guidelines-on-state-secrets-amid-flurry-of-criticism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:58+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/23/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-expert-urges-appeals-process-abe-secrecy-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:42:59+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/26/national/politics-diplomacy/over-half-oppose-japan-engaging-in-collective-self-defense-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:43:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/30/national/bureaucrats-can-be-punished-if-state-secrets-leak-during-cyberattacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:43:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/28/national/crime-legal/protester-charged-over-diet-shoe-toss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:43:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/25/national/a-look-back-at-2013-top-10-japan-news-stories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:43:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/p9-top-ten-news-i-20131225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-top-ten-news-i-20131225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[No secrets: Some 15,000 people gather in Hibiya, Tokyo, to protest the state secrets bill Dec. 6, the day the Diet passed it.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/14/national/media-national/tpp-offers-early-test-of-how-far-secrets-law-will-cow-japans-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:43:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20131215pba.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wooing the skeptics: At a public meeting on Dec. 3 in  Tokyo about the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks, Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba (left) wears a headband with a slogan calling for a parliamentary vote on any deal reached in the negotiations. The government's new state secrets bill could have a chilling effect on journalists reporting on the talks.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/14/national/media-national/society-struggles-to-adapt-to-post-privacy-age/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:43:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/fd20131215bja.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20131215bja.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[What's secret is secret: Thousands rally against the state secrets bill in Tokyo's Hibiya Park on Dec. 6.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/12/national/politics-diplomacy/government-to-promulgate-new-secrets-law-quickly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:43:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:43:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-25T16:43:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-ishiba-z-20131212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[What I meant: Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba corrects his earlier comments made Wednesday at the Japan National Press Club. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/24/world/u-s-to-pay-3-2-million-to-contractor-freed-from-cuba-prison/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-12-25T17:29:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-12-25T17:29:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cuban President Fidel Castro (right) and his brother, Raul, attend the 20th anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution at Revolution Square in Havana on Feb. 1, 1979.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee organizes cigar boxes at a store in Havana on Thursday. A series of measures that U.S. President Barack Obama has announced could boost economic exchanges as Washington and Cuba are moving to restore diplomatic relations and bury one of the last vestiges of the Cold War after more than 50 years of hostility.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A maritime probe conducted by the government in 2013 shows concentrations of methane hydrate (brighter portions) in the seabed off Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/25/national/ubiquitous-randoseru-packs-now-making-rounds-overseas-fashion-accessory/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists examine "randoseru" (school backpacks) at a bag store in Tokyo's Ginza district at the end of November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/25/national/prosecutors-unlikely-charge-former-party-chief-yoshimi-watanabe/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshimi Watanabe]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Islamic State militant poses on a street in Raqqa, Syria, shortly after the group seized control of a city that has become the de facto capital of their so-called caliphate.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A board displaying the Ten Commandments stands in front of the remains of Jack Morris Gas Co. in Columbia, Mississippi, on Wednesday after a tornado barreled through the town.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters yell at police protecting the perimeter of a scene where a teenager was fatally shot by a police officer earlier at a Mobil gas station on North Hanley Road in Berkeley, Missouri, on Wednesday. The 18-year old black man was shot and killed by police late Tuesday in the St. Louis suburb near where unarmed teen Michael Brown was killed by a white officer in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/25/national/meti-may-seek-to-replace-aging-reactors-despite-abe-pledge/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/30/national/politics-diplomacy/komeito-backtracks-osaka-merger-referendum/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/30/national/bomb-survivor-90-intent-attending-npt-confab/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech at a New Year's party in Tokyo on Tuesday. Listening to him are (seated, left to right) Keidanren Chairman Sadayuki Sakakibara, Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives) Chairman Yasuchika Hasegawa and Japan Chambers of Commerce Chairman Akio Mimura. The three business groups hosted the annual party.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Texas delegates wear cowboy hats at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, in August 2012.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiichi Kitamoto takes to the waves on Osaka's Yodo River in December.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keisuke Kuwata]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An online version of this anti-yakuza manga booklet has received at least 285,000 views.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-07T22:30:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-08T11:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama meets Wednesday at the White House with Vice President Joe Biden (center) and Secretary of State John Kerry. Obama condemned the "horrific shooting" at the office of French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, saying, "the French people have stood up for the universal values that generations of our people have defended."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsuya Okada (left), Goshi Hosono (center) and Akira Nagatsuma declare their candidacies for leadership of the Democratic Party of Japan in Tokyo on Wednesday. The winner will be decided in a Jan. 18 vote.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A victim is taken away on a stretcher on Wednesday after armed gunmen stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, leaving at least 11 people dead.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-medicine-a-20150106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rintaro Mori, a pediatrician at the National Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo, is leading a program to promote "evidence-based medicine" in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-08T13:34:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trillions of dollars worth of known and extractable coal, oil and gas reserves should not be exploited if the global temperature rise is to be kept under the 2 degree Celsius safety limit, a new report says.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pray Monday — the first business day of 2015 — at Tokyo's Kanda Shrine, a traditional practice for businesspeople and entrepreneurs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/08/national/social-issues/activists-to-establish-a-special-grave-for-tokyos-homeless/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazunori Yui (left) of Sanyukai and Gakugen Yoshimizu, a Buddhist priest, point out the planned site of a grave for homeless people and day laborers at Hoshoin temple.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family members see off crew and researchers aboard the Yushin Maru at Shimonoseki port. The ship will conduct only nonlethal monitoring. Tokyo wants to maintain accurate population data to get the current moratorium on commercial whaling lifted as soon as possible.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["No jokey material about politicians," popular comedy duo Bakusho Mondai (above) were reportedly told by NHK while organizing the public broadcaster's 2015 New Year's show.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Motorcycle policemen arrive at the Charleville-Mezieres police station in northeastern France on Thursday where the youngest of three men being sought in connection with the deadly attack on the Paris offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, turned himself in and was taken into custody late the night before.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Olympic stadium intended to replace the 1964 National Stadium in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, inspired by a cycling helmet and designed by the London-based Iraq-born Zaha Hadid, is seen in this image provided by the Japan Sports Council.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French agriculture minister and government spokesman Stephane Le Foll speaks to the press Thursday as Socialist Mayor of Le Mans Jean-Claude Boulard (left) and imam of the Sablons mosque of Le Mans Mohamed Maachi look on after at least one shot was fired and three blank grenades were thrown at the mosque in the western France city shortly after midnight. Muslim places of worship in two French towns were fired upon overnight, leaving no casualties, prosecutors said Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soldiers walk through the remote northeast Nigeria town of Baga in Borno State in April 2013. Boko Haram launched renewed attacks around Baga this week, razing at least 16 towns and villages, a local government and a union official told AFP on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Military guards stand in a room with a portrait of  revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara outside prison cells at the Combinado del Este prison during a media tour in Havana in April 2013. Three Cuban political prisoners were freed Wednesday and a leading human rights advocate said he believed their liberation was part of a U.S.-Cuban deal to release 53 dissidents.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the French Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) a special police force, get to work at the scene of a shooting in the street of Montrouge near Paris on Thursday as the manhunt widened for two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at a satirical magazine in an apparent Islamist militant strike. Police sources could not immediately confirm a link with the killings at Charlie Hebdo weekly newspaper, which marked the worst attack on French soil for decades and which national leaders and allied states described as an assault on democracy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The P-1 has a characteristic tail prong that acts as a metal detector for submarines.]]></image:caption>
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