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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the French GIPN intervention police forces secure a neighbourhood in Corcy, northeast of Paris on Thursday. French anti-terrorism police converged on the area after two brothers suspected of being behind an attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were spotted at a gas station in Villers-Cotterets in the region.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Asahi Shimbun reporter Takashi Uemura meets the press Friday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-10T10:40:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pregnant woman wrote this letter describing her dismay at having to give birth while chained. Her partner lobbied against it, and policy is now changing as a result.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left, Nolan McCarty, chair of the Department of Politics at Princeton University, answers a question as Madeline Zavodny, a professor at Georgia's Agnes Scott College, and Sarah Kreps, an assistant professor of government at Cornell University, listen at a symposium, "Where is the U.S. going? — Pictures of the U.S. in 2025," organized by the Keizai Koho Center in Tokyo on Nov. 21.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dumb luck: A young woman walks to her Coming-of-Age Day celebration amid snow and wind last year. Judging by others' experiences, a broken umbrella may be the least of her problems.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-10T17:06:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying crew for the International Space Station blasts off from Kazakhstan in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-10T18:47:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Part of the tail of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 is lifted to the surface as Indonesian Navy divers conduct search operations for the black box flight recorders and the remains of passengers and crew in the Java Sea on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-10T18:55:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image, provided by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, shows then-ISAF commander Gen. David Petraeus with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, in Afghanistan in July 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-10T22:21:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A couple walk in front of the Rainbow Bridge at dusk last August in Tokyo's Odaiba waterfront district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/10/business/financial-markets/tses-ascent-continue-2015-bankers-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-10T23:57:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stocks are expected to continue their upward trend on the back of improving corporate results.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/10/business/brainstorming-to-begin-on-new-fiscal-reform-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-11T00:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-11T00:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-11T00:45:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/10/national/social-issues/murakami-joins-u-n-sponsored-event-school-asian-children/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-11T01:21:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Contemporary artist Takashi Murakami poses with his "Miss ko2" sculpture at a gallery in Tokyo in July 2007.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/10/world/least-one-hostage-taken-manhunt-north-paris/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-11T01:40:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[An explosion lights the front of a kosher supermarket as French police special forces launch their assault, where several people were taken hostage in eastern Paris]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A still image form video shows an explosion Friday as French police special forces launch their assault on kosher supermarket where several people were taken hostage near the Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/10/national/media-national/dull-authentic-beats-polished-tv/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-11T01:44:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-11T11:03:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/11/world/u-s-border-drone-program-understates-cost-efficiency-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-11T13:55:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/camerons-conservatives-vow-tough-new-u-k-strike-laws/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-11T13:56:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/11/world/from-t-shirts-to-aprons-je-suis-charlie-sells-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-11T13:57:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/11/national/science-health/aist-brings-mind-reading-technology-closer-reality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-11T20:27:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryohei Hasegawa, who leads a neurotechnology group at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, poses with the Neurocommunicator on Dec. 4 in Ibaraki Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/11/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/scrutinized-chinese-officials-frozen-headlights-xis-anti-graft-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-11T20:30:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping walks in front of senior officials during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Dec. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/10/business/hold-the-chicken-mcnuggets-piece-of-rubber-found-in-mcdonalds-serving-in-okayama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-11T20:54:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/11/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/fear-retribution-rule-amid-xis-crackdown-corruption-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-11T23:32:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Decorative plaques featuring Chinese leaders of past and present, including current President Xi Jinping (front), are seen at a souvenir stall in Beijing in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/netanyahu-tells-french-jews-welcome-awaits-israel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-11T23:45:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/world/gun-paris-deli-siege-linked-jogger-shooting-two-days-earlier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T06:27:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/world/brothers-behind-paris-attack-weapons-training-yemen-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T08:09:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S.-Yemeni radical Anwar al-Awlaki speaks during a 2010 video lecture at an unknown location. The younger brother of Said Kouachi, one of the suspects in the attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7, said Kouachi made a trip to Yemen in 2011 that was financed by al-Awlaki. It is believed siblings Cherif and Said Kouachi trained in Yemen in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/world/crime-legal-world/decision-on-petraeus-leak-allegations-not-yet-final-holder-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T09:10:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/world/offbeat-world/move-over-nessie-scotland-gets-new-prehistoric-marine-reptile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T12:32:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/world/oil-glut-spurs-rush-for-supertankers-to-store-excess-at-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T13:38:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/home-h-k-media-tycoon-lai-firebombed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T14:52:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/world/airline-pilots-need-better-training-in-recovery-from-a-stall-some-experts-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T15:28:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers on Saturday recovered the tail section of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 and placed it aboard the Crest Onyx, a vessel involved in the search. One possible reason for the crash is that the plane may have slowed to a stall and its pilots were unable to regain lift, information that its black boxes may contain.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-12T15:58:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Park Geun-hye speaks during a news conference at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-12T17:12:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-12T17:17:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/national/politics-diplomacy/park-open-to-meaningful-summit-with-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T20:45:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/asia-pacific/china-slams-philippines-for-criticizing-island-project-in-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T21:26:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-china-resume-talks-on-maritime-crisis-management-mechanism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T21:48:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/world/veteran-algerian-militant-hails-paris-killings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T21:48:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/world/cuba-has-reportedly-freed-all-53-prisoners-as-agreed-in-u-s-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T22:23:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/national/mourners-mark-wwii-sakhalin-post-office-suicides/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T22:24:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former phone operator Chieko Kuriyama recalls her nine dead colleagues at a memorial service in Wakkanai, Hokkaido, last August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/business/economy-business/lower-oil-prices-spell-good-news-japanese-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T23:37:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The plunge in oil prices has breathed new life into the Japanese economy, helping cut gasoline and electricity prices while boosting corporate earnings, economists say.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/business/economy-business/economy-will-grow-1-5-in-2015-as-oil-prices-dive-amari/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T23:37:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/world/solar-nuclear-climate-progress-possible-obama-india-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T23:40:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/national/hyogo-celebrates-new-adults-20-years-devastating-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T23:44:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young people in Kobe get ready to sing a song at a Coming-of-Age Day ceremony Monday. The song was written following the Great Hanshin Earthquake 20 years ago to encourage reconstruction in the region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/national/new-pact-fewer-s-korean-fishing-boats-operate-japan-eez/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-12T23:46:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy lawmakers hold yellow umbrellas — the symbol of the Occupy Central movement — as Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying (center) delivers his annual policy address at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/14/national/state-secrets-law-could-constrain-researchers-some-say-although-impact-remains-unclear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-14T21:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators rally outside the prime minister's office on Dec. 10 to protest the state secrets law, which took effect the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/14/business/economy-business/budget-was-no-easy-feat-amid-%c2%a51-5-trillion-tax-revenue-shortfall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-14T21:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-14T21:54:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honor guards carrying wreaths march on Dec. 13 during the first national observance ceremony to commemorate the 1937 Nanking Massacre at the memorial hall for victims killed by the wartime Japanese military, in Nanjing, China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/14/business/economy-business/cabinet-oks-record-budget-for-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-14T21:56:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/house-votes-undo-obama-immigration-moves-spending-bill/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks from the House chamber on Capitol Hill Wednesday as lawmakers vote to fund the Department of Homeland Security and curb President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker ant collects sweet nectar from the trap of an insect-eating Nepenthes pitcher plant in this undated handout picture courtesy of Dr. Ulrike Bauer, University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Researchers have found that, by "switching off" its traps for part of the day, the plant ensures "scout" ants survive and are able to lead large numbers of followers to the trap. When the trap gets wet, it suddenly becomes super-slippery and captures all visitors in one sweep.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku describes a hydrogen future at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshinori Yamaguchi]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-15T18:38:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-15T18:53:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-15T19:14:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tatsuya Kato arrives for trial at a court in Seoul on Dec. 15. Authorities on Thursday extended a ban on his leaving the country by another three months.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-15T20:27:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-15T21:23:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Army personnel prepare to transport mustard gas shells out of Okinawa Prefecture in July 1971.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/15/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-lobbied-taiwan-keep-u-n-seat-1971-declassified-documents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-15T21:23:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese delegation attends a U.N. General Assembly session in October 1971, when member states discussed whether to remove Taiwan and give China a seat at the international body.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-15T23:11:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-15T23:30:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Multiple fires rage in central Kobe on Jan. 17, 1995, after the Hanshin region was heavily damaged by a magnitude-7.3 earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-15T23:33:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsuya Okada (left), seeking the top post in the Democratic Party of Japan, speaks as his two opponents, Goshi Hosono (center) and Akira Nagatsuma, look on at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-15T23:35:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Eisaku Sato arrives at Naha airport in August 1965 and is met by Lt. Gen. Albert Watson, the islands' U.S. administrator.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-15T23:35:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda holds a news conference at the central bank in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/15/business/economy-business/machinery-orders-logged-weak-1-3-gain-november/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers toil next to a crane in Tokyo Wednesday. Core machinery orders rose a smaller-than-expected 1.3 percent in November, suggesting capital spending by manufacturers could weaken.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-15T23:48:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Shin Kori No. 1 reactor (right) and No. 2 reactor of state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp. are seen in Ulsan, South Korea, on Sept. 3, 2013. The hacking of South Korea's nuclear operator means its second-oldest reactor may be shut permanently due to safety concerns, said several nuclear watchdog commissioners, raising the risk that other aging reactors may also be closed.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalists and residents stand near police vehicles as police set a large security perimeter in the city center of Verviers, Belgium, on Thursday during a "jihadist-related" anti-terrorism operation. Public broadcaster RTBF reported three deaths and said explosions were heard at the scene, but there was no immediate confirmation.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No-entry street signs have been appearing in altered states around Osaka and Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers on Friday climb on the tugboat's upturned hull. There was no word why the vessel sank.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soldiers belonging to the South Korean Army's Special Warfare Command take part in a winter exercise in Pyeongchang on Jan. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/18/business/north-korea-pushes-myanmar-to-seize-pirated-dvds-of-sonys-the-interview/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-18T21:21:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sonyinterviewmyanmar-a-20150119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pin worn by a North Korean tourism envoy depicting former leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il is seen in Bern on Thursday. The North is thought to have pressured Myanmar to crack down on illegal sales of bootlegged DVDs of Sony's movie "The Interview" in Yangon, Myanmar's commercial epicenter.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/18/world/social-issues-world/paris-killings-leave-france-troubled-30-years-failure-immigrants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-18T21:21:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/f-fratroubles-b-201501181.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[APTOPIX France Attacks]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A French soldier patrols at the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy, north of Paris, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/18/national/all-2014-fukushima-rice-cleared-radiation-tests-thanks-to-fertilizer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-18T21:24:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukushimafile-a-20150119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In 2014, all bags of Fukushima rice cleared mandatory radiation tests for the first time since the nuclear crisis there devastated farmers in March 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-india-agree-to-beef-up-trilateral-alliance-with-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-18T21:46:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj greet each other before the start of a meeting n New Delhi on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-put-on-notice-about-war-anniversary-in-u-s-congressional-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-18T22:14:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-usreport-a-20150119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a trilateral meeting at the Group of 20 summit in Brisbane last November. Many nations will be watching closely how Abe handles events linked to the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/okada-defeats-hosono-win-dpj-leadership-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-18T22:17:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dpj-a-20150119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsuya Okada speaks during Sunday's Democratic Party of Japan meeting at a Tokyo hotel before he was elected party president.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-to-play-more-active-security-role-kishida-tells-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-18T22:47:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kishidaaddress-b-20150119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida shakes hands with Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj ahead of their meeting in New Delhi on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/egypt-is-offered-%c2%a543-billion-loans-during-abe-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-18T22:50:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-loans-a-20150119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi pose for a photograph prior to their meeting in Cairo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-meets-jordanian-king-agrees-help-counter-islamic-state-threats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-18T22:57:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, are greeted by an honor guard at Queen Alia International Airport in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Saturday after flying from Cairo. Abe is on a six-day Middle East trip.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/world/suspected-boko-haram-fighters-kidnap-around-80-cameroon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T05:32:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take part in a rally in N'Djamena on Saturday to show their support of the authorities' decision to send troops to fight Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists. Cameroon, Chad and Niger have launched a regional bid to combat Boko Haram, which carried out an attack in Cameroon on Sunday and kidnapped scores of women and children.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/world/suicide-car-bombing-nigeria-bus-station-kills-four-wounds-35/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T08:49:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-19T08:50:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-19T10:28:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/world/charlie-hebdo-editor-cartoon-blockers-blur-democracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T10:28:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-19T10:28:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-19T13:32:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is seen during a visit to the Kangdong Precision Machine Plant in this undated photo provided by the Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/national/japanese-firms-turn-to-asia-in-the-hunt-for-good-graduates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T16:15:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-grads-a-20150120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Saudi Arabian man studying at a Japanese university speaks with a recruiter at a job fair in Tokyo last March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/12/reference/residences-left-empty-posing-problems-across-nation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T16:35:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20150113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A file photo from December 2013 shows a derelict apartment building in Ota Ward, Tokyo, which was demolished by the local authorities after standing unoccupied for about a decade.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/national/560000-applicants-sit-annual-two-day-unified-college-entrance-exam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T16:41:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students take the unified college entrance examinations at the University of Tokyo's Hongo campus Saturday. Across Japan, about 560,000 applicants and a record 849 public and private institutions took part.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/national/politics-diplomacy/new-dpj-head-okada-to-retain-edano-as-secretary-general/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T18:13:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/national/tokyos-k-9-cops-featured-on-doggy-calling-cards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T19:10:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/n-policedog-a-20150120.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-policedog-a-20150120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer distributes canine calling cards to children in Tokyo in December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/asia-pacific/s-korea-seeks-to-lay-railroad-through-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T19:10:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/national/avalanches-claim-four-slopes-nagano-niigata-trio-may-missing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T19:30:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-snowslide-a-20150120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue workers arrive Sunday at the site of the avalanche on Mount Awadachi in Myoko, Niigata Prefecture. One of two snowboarders found there was confirmed dead.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/18/national/crime-legal/youtube-food-tampering-suspect-bagged-shiga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T20:21:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A youth who allegedly challenged police by uploading videos of him tampering with grocery store snacks and shoplifting at convenience stores, is escorted off a bullet train platform at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo Sunday afternoon after being arrested in Shiga Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/world/iran-newspaper-shut-george-clooney-charlie-headline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T21:02:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Copies of the headline of Iranian reformist newspaper Mardom-e Emrouz (People of Today) are shown in Tehran on Friday as well as it's Jan. 13 front page edition with a picture of Hollywood star George Clooney with the headline of his quote "I am Charlie." Iran has banned the Mardom-e Emrouz reformist newspaper for publishing the quote from Clooney, who told the audience "Je suis Charlie" at the Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 12 as he received an award for his film career.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/national/hundreds-of-tsunami-caused-fires-could-accompany-nankai-trough-quake-expert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T21:36:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/national/politics-diplomacy/france-japan-confirm-need-scrutiny-terror-financing-sapin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T22:50:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French Finance Minister Michel Sapin speaks to the press at the French ambassador's residence in Tokyo on Monday. Sapin is in Japan on the last leg of an Asian tour.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/business/corporate-business/subaru-puts-china-production-plans-on-hold-as-car-demand-wanes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T23:26:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-subaru-a-20150120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., based at these headquarters in Tokyo, reports declining demand for its Subaru cars in China, the world's largest auto market.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/business/economy-business/japans-liquidity-trap-holds-warning-for-ecb-japan-credit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T23:26:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda closes his eyes during a news conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/business/economy-business/december-consumer-confidence-first-time-five-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T23:26:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians are reflected in a store window as they walk in Tokyo's trendy Harajuku district. The government said Monday that consumer confidence improved in December for the first time in five months.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/business/corporate-business/fujitsu-nominates-executive-tatsuya-tanaka-as-next-president/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-19T23:27:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-19T23:28:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-19T23:31:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-19T23:50:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-19T23:50:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-20T06:23:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-20T08:44:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-20T08:44:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/16/national/crime-legal/body-found-bound-weighted-kanagawa-river-14-leads-estranged-boyfriends-arrest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-20T08:53:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-20T08:55:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/13/national/crime-legal/coming-age-day-rowdiness-results-arrests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-20T09:11:18+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/national/crime-legal/teen-denies-food-tampering-says-faked-youtube-videos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-20T09:34:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A suspect in recent shoplifting and food-tampering incidents is escorted by police at JR Shinagawa Station on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/20/world/social-issues-world/tributes-protests-mark-u-s-martin-luther-king-jr-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-20T12:46:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. Mohammad Bhuiyan (fourth from left) joins hands with actor David Oyelowo (center). who portrays the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the movie "Selma," Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed (second from right) and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, during the singing of "We Shall Overcome" at a service honoring King at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King preached, on Monday in Atlanta.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-22T21:25:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Researcher Masayuki Hatta discusses his effort to encourage whistle-blowers, on Jan. 13 in Nerima Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-22T21:39:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-22T22:31:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Freelance journalist Kenji Goto, believed to have been taken hostage by the Islamic State group, speaks with local children in Aleppo, northern Syria, in an undated file photo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, disembark from a plane at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Syrian man shows a video Kenji Goto recorded in October. The man’s identity is not being revealed, but he has described at length the last contact he had with Goto, who is now an Islamic State hostage. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-22T22:41:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-22T22:41:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People look at a large TV screen near Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Jan. 20, showing news reports about two Japanese men who have been kidnapped by the Islamic State group.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this screen grab from an online video released by the Islamic State group's media arm on Tuesday, hostages Kenji Goto (left) and Haruna Yukawa are seen kneeling beside a knife-wielding militant. The group has threatened to kill the two Japanese unless a $200 million ransom is paid within 72 hours.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman stands next to Toyota's new Mirai fuel cell vehicle at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Jan. 13.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In his final video message from Turkey, pictured here, Kenji Goto said he alone would bear responsibility for whatever happened to him after entering Syria.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T00:15:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official stands in front of  relief materials at a camp for displaced people in Maiduguri in Nigeria's Borno State on Tuesday. More than 1 million people may have been forced to leave their homes in northern Nigeria by the five-year-old insurgency of Islamist sect Boko Haram, a United Nations agency said. Now African nations are seeking a U.N. mandate to collectively combat the jihadis.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Top officials from 21 countries in the anti-Islamic State coalition meet at Lancaster House in London on Thursday to kick off talks on pushing back Islamic State group militants in Iraq and Syria and tackling the growing threat of homegrown extremists in Europe.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Euros and dollar bills are arranged for a photo in Lille, France, on Saturday as the euro fell against the dollar on growing speculation the European Central Bank will act to jump-start the ailing eurozone economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/23/business/economy-business/draghi-commits-to-e1-1-trillion-qe-plan-in-deflation-fight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-23T00:42:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Central Bank President Mario Draghi addresses an ECB news conference in Frankfurt on Thursday. The ECB agreed to embark on a quantitative easing (Q.E.) program that will see it print money to buy up €60 billion worth of sovereign bonds from March until the end of September next year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T05:56:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T13:32:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T13:33:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T14:29:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T14:29:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon shakes hands with British Premier David Cameron in her office at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with his Cabinet, which includes Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak (from left), Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T15:35:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T16:14:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T16:14:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T16:15:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T17:30:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shariah law expert Ko Nakata on Thursday offers to go to the Mideast and negotiate with the Islamic State group over the Japanese hostages.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/23/national/tepco-suspends-fukushima-no-1-cleanup-to-probe-fatal-accidents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-23T17:46:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T18:02:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayuki Nukii (right) and other scholars working jointly with South Korea examine a scroll at Ichinomiya Bisai Museum of History and Folklore in Aichi Prefecture. The scroll depicts a makeshift bridge built on the Kiso River so a diplomatic mission from Korea could cross.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T18:02:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T18:02:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T18:34:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activist Mameta Endo shows off a poster on Dec. 22 for Amnesty Film Festival, which will include a screening of "Call Me Kuchu," a documentary that depicts the plight of the LGBT community in Uganda.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-23T19:21:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalist Kenji Goto talks about his experiences in the Middle East during a May 2012 lecture at Tamagawa Seigakuin school in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/22/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-forced-to-walk-a-fine-line-in-oil-rich-middle-east/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the tomb of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the Palestinian Authority's headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/23/business/chinese-buy-overseas-real-estate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-23T19:33:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York was bought by China's Anbang Insurance Group Co. in October for $1.95 billion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/23/business/corporate-business/toyota-to-quadruple-production-of-mirai-fuel-cell-vehicles-by-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-23T19:49:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A hydrogen-dispensing pump for the 2016 Toyota Mirai is displayed during the Washington Auto Show in the U.S. capital Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/23/national/social-issues/ex-convict-helps-inmates-return-to-society/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-23T19:55:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former inmate Hiroshi Igarashi (center) shares a lighthearted moment with Rev. Hideo Kato (left) and friar Hernandez at a church in Tokyo. Igarashi spent 20 years in jail, and now runs an NPO that helps newly released prisoners.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/23/national/hostages-mother-pleads-release-islamic-state-ransom-deadline-looms/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junko Ishido, the mother of Islamic State hostage Kenji Goto, appeals for his release on Friday in a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/23/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-briefing-paper-rules-out-strike-on-islamic-state/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Veteran journalist Kenji Goto talks about his war-zone experiences on May 14, 2014 when he was a guest lecturer at Komazawa University. Goto is currently one of two Japanese being held hostage by the Islamic State group.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese tourists stuff their luggage with goods bought in the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo in January 2014.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberian residents are quarantined in Omega town, a suburb of Monrovia, after one of their relatives died from Ebola on Wednesday. The World Health Organization said in its latest update that 8,688 people had died, among a cumulative total of 21,759 cases. Liberian health officials said Friday that there are only five Ebola cases remaining in the stricken country.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p20 warming-a 20150125]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Black day: Scientists say 80 percent of the coal should remain in the ground and unused before 2050 to limit temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/24/world/first-u-s-troops-head-middle-east-train-syrian-opposition/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Better days: Mika Mifune and George Takahashi accept the award for "Partners of the Year" in 2011. Mifune left Takahashi last week and plans to sue for divorce.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soldiers conduct a dress rehearsal in New Delhi on Friday for India's Republic Day parade. The capital will turn into a virtual fortress for U.S. President Barack Obama's visit this weekend, with heightened security measures in place.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/24/national/crime-legal/source-syria-says-two-japanese-hostages-captured-islamic-state-still-alive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-25T01:24:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-25T01:42:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians in Tokyo on Friday pass a monitor showing a news report on the two Japanese hostages held by the Islamic State group.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/23/national/history/u-s-weighed-giving-japan-nuclear-weapons-in-1950s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-25T04:41:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Kurosaki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/24/national/media-national/amid-french-crisis-japan-frets-virgins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-25T04:47:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[I'm not Charlie: A man in Pakistan holds a sign during a protest against satirical French weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/potential-republican-presidential-candidates-compete-support-iowa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-25T13:33:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-25T13:35:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-25T14:05:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker closes the door to a Delta Airlines airplane sitting on the tarmac at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta on Saturday. Police searched the Delta airplane and a Southwest airplane at Atlanta's main airport after authorities received what they described as "credible" bomb threats.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-25T15:49:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[YEMEN-POLITICS-UNREST-DEMO]]></image:title>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-25T16:30:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Bradley Cooper]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bradley Cooper appears in a scene from "American Sniper," the Clint Eastwood film nominated for best picture in this year's Academy Awards.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-25T16:28:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Handout photo of a frame with six windows that contain Carte-de-Visites and autographs of Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth and Boston Corbett]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/25/national/science-health/project-to-fight-rare-lung-cancer-gains-steam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-25T23:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-25T23:47:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoichi Yukawa, the father of Haruna Yukawa, speaks to the media Sunday at his home in the city of Chiba.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/25/business/corporate-business/firms-use-internships-entice-top-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-25T23:48:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An instructor (left) checks students' work during a job internship program organized by Shochiku Co. in Tokyo in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/25/national/yukawas-dad-stunned-but-holds-onto-hope/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-25T23:59:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoichi Yukawa, father of hostage Haruna Yukawa, speaks to reporters at his home in Chiba Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/25/national/kansai-spearheads-campaign-against-hate-speech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-26T00:02:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents protesting street activities by the right-wing, anti-Korean group Zaitokukai hold a rally in front of JR Tsuruhashi Station in Osaka in March 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/25/national/friend-wages-kenji-campaign-free-held-journalist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-26T00:32:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-iamkenji-a-20150125.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taku Nishimae, a friend of hostage Kenji Goto, shows his solidarity with the abducted journalist as part of a Facebook campaign. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/modi-obama-announce-nuclear-breakthrough-after-new-delhi-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-26T01:01:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[U.S. President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Modi arrive for a photo opportunity ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrive for a photo session ahead of their meeting Sunday at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. Signaling his determination to take relations with the United States to a higher level, Modi broke with protocol to meet and bear-hug Obama as he landed in New Delhi on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/netanyahu-defends-planned-congress-speech-anti-iran-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-26T05:13:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly Cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on Sunday. His decision to accept an invitation to address the U.S. Congress just days before Israel's parliamentary election offers him invaluable pre-vote publicity, but may also have shaken the balance of U.S.-Israeli ties.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks past a bicycle covered in snow during a winter snowstorm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Saturday. Heavy snow has been forecast across the U.S. Northeast with accumulations of up to 2 feet.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves a TV studio Sunday morning after commenting on the veracity purportedly released by the Islamic State.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Afghan Air Force crew stand next to a helicopter at the military airport in Kabul on Dec. 18. With new planes capable of engaging Taliban insurgents delayed by over two years, and NATO air missions backing up troops on the ground now at a minimum, the fledgling Afghan Air Force is scrambling to provide even basic support.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-26T10:46:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[A Jordanian police stands guard as vehicles, part of a convoy carrying Japanese envoy Nakayama, leave the Japanese Embassy in Amman]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Jordanian police stands guard as vehicles, part of a convoy carrying Japanese envoy, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Yasuhide Nakayama, leave the Japanese Embassy in Amman Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hy Abrams, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, has his portrait taken in Brooklyn, New York, on Jan. 15. He holds a book, one he carries with him every day, documenting his experiences in each of the concentration camps he was held in during the course of World War II.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators wave flags during a rally organized by the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) in Dresden, Germany, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Screenshot from a video uploaded Saturday night in which it is claimed that Haruna Yukawa has been executed. The video is comprised a still image of hostage Kenji Goto holding a photo of the alleged killing  and the voiceover of a man who claims to be Goto.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and Japan Business Federation Chairman Sadayuki Sakakibara toast at a New Year party hosted by the federation, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives and the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in Tokyo on Jan. 6.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian policewomen take part in a rehearsal for the Republic Day parade in Srinagar on Saturday. India celebrated its annual Republic Day on Monday. In talks with U.S. President Barack Obama a day earlier, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi signaled a shift in his government's thinking on climate change.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investment banks in Switzerland, the global hub of wealth management, are leading the way in targeting private firms that manage the financial affairs of the richest families.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A villager transplants rice seedlings in the village of Basha in Congjiang county, Guizhou province, China, in May 2013. According to Japan's National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations, Chinese consumers' dwindling confidence in the safety of the country's own agricultural produce is boosting Japanese rice imports.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image provided by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan shows what the world's biggest telescope will look like when it is completed in 2022.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[William Koch is interviewed last March in New York. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio seems to be moving toward a bid for the Republicans' presidential nomination, and late Sunday he joined Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky for an audience with the conservative billionaire Koch brothers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian refugees gather at the Zaatari refugee camp, in Mafraq, Jordan, in June 2013. Japan-based nongovernmental organizations offering aid to displaced Syrians there say they hope the ongoing Japanese hostage crisis will not turn the public against the region or their international aid work.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This moon rover was developed by a team led by Kazuya Yoshida, a professor at Tohoku University.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-27T17:23:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourist Chikashi Noguchi tries cooking some "jigokumushi" cuisine in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-27T17:25:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a still taken from director Masako Sakata's latest film, "Journey without End," she is seen filming the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan in July 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-27T22:06:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wreckage from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 is lifted into a ship south of Borneo Island on Jan. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-27T22:09:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-27T22:09:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-27T22:09:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/27/business/economy-business/nomura-says-abenomics-likely-derail-amid-doubt-tax-pledge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-27T22:35:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-abenomics-a-20150128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/27/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-frets-hostages-china-frets-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-28T02:08:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T03:12:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Japan Islamic State]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man holds up a sign urging Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to try to save the life of Kenji Goto, a journalist being held hostage by the Islamic State group in Syria, during a rally outside Abe's office in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T03:23:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-skchild-a-20150128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family and Gender Equality Minister Kim Hee-jung says more women are working, but retaining them is difficult.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T03:34:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iraqi Transport Minister Bayan Jabor speaks to the media during a news conference Tuesday at Baghdad International airport. Airlines from at least three countries suspended flights to Baghdad on Tuesday after bullets hit an airplane operated by budget carrier Dubai Aviation Corp., known as flydubai, as it was landing at Baghdad airport.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T08:47:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves the Diet on Tuesday after answering questions about the Islamic State hostage crisis.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This illustration based on the oldest-known snake fossils shows Portugalophis lignites in a ginkgo tree, Diablophis gilmorei hiding in a ceratosaur skull and Parviraptor estesi swimming in a lake.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pancakes topped with chocolate brownies and marshmallows are displayed at the Taipei branch of Kyushu Pancake Cafe on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T14:32:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T14:33:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T14:53:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alexis Tsipras]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T16:12:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T16:31:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T16:32:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/28/business/corporate-business/aeon-announces-tie-up-with-major-vietnamese-retailers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-28T16:42:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T17:06:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waleed Siam, the Palestinian representative in Japan and the leader of the Council of Arab Ambassadors, speaks about the Islamic State hostage crisis during a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/28/national/crime-legal/court-approves-use-of-gps-data-in-burglary-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-28T17:13:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T17:44:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T17:44:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T17:48:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Ministers (from left) Gen Nakatani and Michael Fallon, and Foreign Ministers Philip Hammond and Fumio Kishida meet in London last Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T17:57:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Female Hiroshima Carp fans from Kanto cheer their idols at Hiroshima's Mazda Stadium in May. They feel they have lifted the fortunes of the team and its handsome players.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/28/business/corporate-business/sony-teaming-aeon-share-budget-smartphone-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-28T18:15:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T18:58:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigate the apartment of a 19-year-old female college student Tuesday in Showa Ward, Nagoya, after the body of an elderly woman was found there.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-28T19:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Henn na Hotel at the Huis Ten Bosch theme parl, shown here in an architect's illustration, will have robot staff and a novel auction process for reservations in peak seasons.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/27/national/science-health/obokata-may-face-criminal-charges-former-colleague-alleges-stole-stem-cells/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-28T19:32:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-29T09:53:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Mideast Jordan Islamic State Japan]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People from the al-Kaseasbeh tribe and other tribes take part in a demonstration outside of Jordan's cabinet in Amman Tuesday calling for the release of Jordanian pilot Lt. Mu'ath al-Kaseasbeh.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activists in Amman on Monday hold up pictures of pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh, a captive of the Islamic State group, whose plane went down in Syria last month. Jordan's King Abdullah is quoted as saying the pilot's life is a national priority.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/28/national/prisoner-swap-without-pilot-wouldnt-work-jordanians-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-01-29T09:57:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-29T11:12:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-29T15:35:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-29T18:03:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-29T18:06:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-01-29T18:29:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past a display of Fendi SpA products outside a department store in Tokyo. Government data released on Thursday show retail sales unexpectedly fell in December, underscoring challenges to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policies.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chongryon group is expected to continue using this building in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, that has served as North Korea's de facto embassy in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/29/national/asean-ministers-condemn-islamic-state-actions-hostage-crisis/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Lee Myung-bak visits Takeshima in August 2012.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledges to provide Middle East nations with assistance worth $200 million in Cairo on Jan. 17.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Child seats manufactured by Takata Corp. are displayed at a Toyota Motor Corp. showroom in Tokyo in November. Lawyers suing Takata have asked a U.S. judge to order the company to preserve recalled air bag components for independent testing.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-01T22:37:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bad behavior: A juvenile offender dubbed the Toothpick Man has been accused of tampering with products in convenience stores. He then bragged about his crimes online, a trait he shares with other modern-day offenders.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra gives a traditional greeting as she leaves a National Legislative Assembly meeting in Bangkok on Jan. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-02T16:58:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Farmers call on the central government to ditch plans to join the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, during a rally in Tokyo in October 2011.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot of a video uploaded in mid October 2014 of journalist Kenji Goto reporting from the Syrian town of Kobani.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Osprey transport aircraft takes off from U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, in October 2012.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A flight attendant on Virgin Atlantic Airways' last flight between Narita and Heathrow airports waves a Union Jack from the cockpit as it leaves Japan on Sunday. The British airline has halted Narita-London flights as it revises its international routes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/01/national/islamic-state-group-purportedly-releases-goto-execution-video/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Freelance journalist Kenji Goto, who was taken hostage by the Islamic State group in October, speaks with local children in Aleppo, northern Syria, in an undated file photo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign banks are retreating from Japan's lending market, as highlighted by the departures of Tokyo-based loan executives from Citigroup Inc. and General Electric Capital Corp.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the newly created Ukrainian Interior Ministry battalion "St. Mary" take part in a ceremony before heading to military training, in front of Kiev's St. Sophia Cathedral on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/04/business/economy-business/inflation-outpaces-rise-in-earnings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-04T21:27:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wages-a-20150205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters wait for a train in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, in December. Real wages fell 1.4 percent that month, according to data from the labor ministry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/04/business/corporate-business/toyota-raises-profit-forecast-as-weak-yen-lifts-earnings-on-suvs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-04T21:28:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors look at cars at a Toyota showroom in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/04/business/economy-business/japan-u-s-fail-to-resolve-tpp-differences-but-may-meet-again-soon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-04T21:28:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/04/business/corporate-business/nissan-overtook-honda-in-u-s-sales-in-january/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-04T21:28:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. exhibits its Infinity Q60 concept vehicle at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/04/national/crime-legal/dentist-group-may-given-%c2%a595-million-ldp-lawmaker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-04T21:29:51+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/03/national/politics-diplomacy/hostage-crisis-influence-japans-mideast-priorities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-04T21:44:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a news conference in Jerusalem on Jan. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-04T22:32:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This still image made from video released by Islamic State group militants and posted on the website of the SITE Intelligence Group on Tuesday purportedly shows Jordanian pilot Lt. Mu'ath al-Kaseasbeh standing in a cage just before being burned to death by his captors. The death of the 26-year-old pilot, who fell into the hands of the militants in December when his Jordanian F-16 crashed near Raqqa, Syria, followed a weeklong drama over a possible prisoner exchange.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/04/national/two-idled-kepco-reactors-set-get-safety-ok-next-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-04T22:54:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Takahama No. 3 and No. 4 reactors, in the background of this image, are expected to be cleared for restart next week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/world/science-health-world/france-says-results-trials-guinea-anti-ebola-drug-encouraging/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T06:55:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/04/asia-pacific/taiwanese-plane-with-53-passengers-crashes-in-taipei-river/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T10:45:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue personnel work to free passengers from a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane that crash-landed into a river outside Taiwan's capital Taipei in New Taipei City on Wednesday. The passenger plane with 58 people on board was on a domestic flight when it plunged into the river, with at least 10 people rescued and dozens trapped inside, according to television reports.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/world/two-cuban-baseball-players-defect-puerto-rico/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T11:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cubans-a-20150206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cuban National baseball team shortstop Dainer Moreira forces out Dominican National baseball team outfielder Leury Garcia at second base Tuesday as the teams play in the Serie Del Caribe, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The shortstop and another Cuban player competing in Puerto Rico have disappeared in an apparent defection, U.S. media reported Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/04/business/corporate-business/japan-tobacco-quit-drinks-business-26-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T11:02:01+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/04/national/crime-legal/hacker-framed-computer-users-cyberthreats-jailed-8-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T11:03:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-katayama-a-20150205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yusuke Katayama]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/04/national/crime-legal/malware-targets-users-seeking-info-islamic-state-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T12:37:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/national/traditional-knife-maker-jikko-takes-big-slice-export-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T13:58:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Jikko Co. employee shows how to correctly sharpen a traditional knife at the company's factory in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, last Dec. 11.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/world/vermont-gas-station-attendant-bequeaths-millions-to-library-hospital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T14:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ronald Read]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/national/heavy-snow-forecast-for-eastern-western-japan-through-friday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T14:02:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/world/russia-said-leading-u-n-effort-curb-islamic-states-cash-flow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T14:03:31+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/04/national/award-winning-photographer-vows-to-continue-work-with-colombias-drug-gangs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T14:27:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-photographer-a-20150205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-photographer-a-20150205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kosuke Okahara, who won the 2014 Pierre &amp; Alexandra Boulat Association Award in France, says photographs are direct reflections of the photographer's feelings and subjective point of view.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/world/former-russian-rebel-leader-makes-putin-look-cautious/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T14:37:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/asia-pacific/india-bets-on-u-s-aircraft-carrier-technology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T14:41:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-indiaircraft-a-20150206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[India reportedly plans to equip an aircraft carrier that would be a successor to current ships such as the INS Vikramaditya (pictured) with top-of-the-line U.S. technology to boost their range and potency, a move widely perceived as a bid to counter China's military influence in the region.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/04/national/keidanren-mission-meets-thai-junta-leader-urges-return-civilian-rule/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T17:44:09+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/national/crime-legal/supreme-court-nullifies-two-death-sentences-handed-lay-judge-trials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T18:28:53+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/national/idol-group-girl-12-still-unconscious-inhaling-helium/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T21:12:31+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/national/private-sector-group-calls-investment-future-generations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T22:59:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-nexgeninvest-a-20150206.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nexgeninvest-a-20150206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Akademeia, a private-sector group consisting of academics, business leaders and labor union leaders, holds a meeting in Tokyo on Thursday to announce a report on ways to resolve long-term issues facing Japan. Japan needs to stop relying on its past legacy of high economic growth and start investing in future generations, the report said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/national/politics-diplomacy/hostage-crisis-renews-focus-on-abes-dream-of-revising-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T23:39:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/business/tech/netflix-bring-video-streaming-service-japan-fall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T23:43:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/b-netflix-b-20150206.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[TAKING STOCK]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On Wednesday, Netflix Inc. announced it will enter the Japanese market this fall and offer "a strong selection" of Japanese TV programs and movies along with its original content.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/business/economy-business/abe-boosts-kuroda-reflation-effort-with-boj-board-nomination/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T23:43:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/business/corporate-business/takata-widens-annual-loss-forecast-as-air-bag-recall-costs-mount/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T23:43:54+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/business/kansai-business-leaders-push-for-economic-recovery-ahead-of-rising-power-prices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T23:44:25+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/business/corporate-business/mcdonalds-japan-posts-%c2%a522-billion-loss-food-woes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-05T23:45:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mcdonaldsloss-a-20150206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan) President and Chief Executive Officer Sarah Casanova (left) bows in apology during a news conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday as McDonald's Corp.'s Japanese affiliate reported its first full-year loss in 11 years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/national/brother-slain-japanese-hostage-calls-end-cycle-killing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T00:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/05/national/crime-legal/death-penalty-activists-aim-convince-public-weeklong-series-talks-movies-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T00:02:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-death-a-20150206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iwao Hakamada]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/06/world/u-s-official-coincidence-islamic-state-victims-videotaped-guantanamo-like-jumpsuits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T06:20:53+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/06/world/offbeat-world/im-technology-disaster-pope-confesses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T06:57:42+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/06/world/politics-diplomacy-world/republicans-fail-third-challenge-obama-immigration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T07:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/06/world/u-s-moves-rescue-assets-iraq-fight-islamic-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T07:40:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/06/world/crime-legal-world/jury-selection-starts-american-sniper-texas-murder-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T09:30:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sniper-a-20150207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated photo released by the Routh family on Feb. 26, 2013, shows Eddie Ray Routh and his mother, Jodi. The Iraq war veteran, who was battling post-traumatic stress disorder and other personal issues, is scheduled to stand trial in Stephenville, Texas, for the Feb. 2, 2013, killings of two men who were trying to help him, former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, portrayed in the movie "American Sniper," and Chad Littlefield.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/06/world/merkel-hollande-head-to-moscow-for-deal-to-pull-ukraine-back-from-brink/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T10:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-Russian rebel guards a captured former Ukrainian Army checkpoint outside Vuhlehirsk in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/06/business/tech/u-s-states-probe-massive-data-breach-at-health-insurer-anthem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T17:15:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/06/national/immigration-detention-centers-like-prisons-u-k-inspectors-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T18:17:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-immigration-a-20150207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hindpal Singh Bhui (left) and Colin Carroll of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons are interviewed in Tokyo about efforts to improve conditions for detainees in Britain.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/06/national/magnitude-5-quake-jolts-shikoku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T18:24:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/06/national/twin-panda-newborns-named-ohin-tohin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T20:41:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/06/business/japan-to-retain-deputy-chief-post-at-imf-as-furusawa-named/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T21:01:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/b-imfdeputy-a-20150207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-imfdeputy-a-20150207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsuhiro Furusawa]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/06/business/corporate-business/skymark-wins-integrals-support-after-bankruptcy-filing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T21:02:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/06/business/corporate-business/nippon-life-in-talks-to-raise-stake-in-resona-banking-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-06T21:02:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/b-nissayresona-a-20150207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissayresona-a-20150207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An envisaged deal with Nippon Life Insurance Co., in addition to an existing alliance with Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co., is expected to help Resona Holdings Inc. sell more products from the top two insurers in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australia's first Collins-class submarine is lowered into the water at Port Adelaide in August 1993.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junko Ishido, the mother of Kenji Goto, bursts into tears on Sunday morning as she reacts to news of her son's apparent beheading by the Islamic State group, at her home in Koganei, western Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-11T06:23:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-11T09:45:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-11T09:47:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks Tuesday at the Keeping the Promise: A Florida Education Summit, sponsored by Bush's Foundation for Florida's Future, at the Florida State University Alumni Center in Tallahassee.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/11/world/aid-agencies-see-many-migrant-deaths-mediterranean-amid-curtailed-patrols/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T10:28:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants disembark Tuesday from a boat from the Italian coast guars after a rescue operation off the coast of Lampedusa Monday. Twenty-nine African migrants intercepted by Italian authorities while trying to reach Europe by boat in rough and icy conditions  have died of hypothermia, most after being rescued, sources told AFP. Coast guard speedboats picked up 105 migrants in the Mediterranean overnight, seven of whom were already dead, from a converted fishing boat battered by high winds and waves that hit 8 meters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/11/world/cybercaliphate-hacks-newsweek-twitter-account-threatens-obama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T10:28:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-11T10:28:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local residents look at the remains of a rocket shell on a street in the town of Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, on Tuesday. Seven civilians have been killed and 26 wounded in rocket strikes on the town, the government-controlled regional administration said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/10/business/japan-to-lower-trademark-patent-registration-fees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T10:28:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-11T10:28:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/10/business/softbank-delay-commercial-release-pepper-humanoid-robot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T10:29:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son shows of the Pepper robot during a news conference in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture last June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/11/world/obama-family-confirm-death-islamic-state-hostage-kayla-mueller/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T10:34:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turi Whiting of Minneapolis leaves a bouquet of flowers Monday at a "Pray for Kayla" sign in downtown Prescott, Arizona. Mueller, a 26-year-old American woman held by Islamic State militants, has been confirmed dead, her parents and the Obama administration said Tuesday. The White House said that Mueller's family received a private message from her captors over the weekend and the information contained in that communication was authenticated by the U.S. intelligence community. It was not immediately clear how and when Mueller died.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/09/business/ja-zenchu-may-support-most-proposed-farm-cooperative-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T11:06:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Banzai (center), president of the Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives (JA-Zenchu), walks through the Liberal Democratic Party's headquarters in Tokyo after accepting a major reform plan Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/16/business/ldp-primes-farm-sector-for-ventures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T11:57:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/01/26/business/no-exceptions-to-tpp-tariff-cut-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T11:59:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/02/national/tpp-bandwagons-play-tunes-not-all-find-pleasing-to-the-ear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T12:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ax to grind: People from Iwate Prefecture rally against the Trans-Pacific Partnership outside the Foreign Ministry on Oct. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/obama-urges-xi-to-help-end-conflicts-over-cybersecurity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T13:38:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping speak during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, in February 2012. The U.S. president has called on China to help soothe a lingering conflict over cybersecurity amid mutual accusations of hacking and data theft.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/11/world/mueller-was-among-hostages-sought-in-failed-rescue-says-obama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T13:38:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman leaves a bouquet of flowers Monday in Prescott, Arizona, the hometown of 26-year-old Kayla Jean Mueller. The death of Mueller was confirmed by her parents and the Obama administration Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/11/world/u-s-navy-may-base-ships-australia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T15:07:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo released by the Australian National University, U.S. Navy Adm. Jonathan Greenert speaks during a lecture at the ANU in Canberra on Tuesday. Greenert, who as chief of naval operations sets the navy's future strategy, said Tuesday lasers that shoot down drones with precision and electromagnetic cannons that fire more than 100 miles are part of the future of naval warfare, promising to be cheaper to use than conventional weapons.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/11/national/new-cybersecurity-strategy-to-be-approved-around-june-government-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T17:08:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/11/world/peruvian-ice-cap-harbors-pollutants-tracing-conquistadors-silver-slave-mines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T18:46:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The north dome of the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru is seen in this handout photo from Ohio State University taken in 2003.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/11/business/japanese-manufacturers-face-stiff-competition-from-china-in-u-s-rail-car-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T20:54:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The operator of the Washington subway system unveils a new train in Greenbelt, Maryland, in January 2014. The train was supplied by Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. Japanese manufacturers of railway vehicles face growing competition in the United States from their Chinese rivals as they prepare for the opening of a bid expected in 2015 for cars that will serve the planned California high-speed rail link.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/11/business/worlds-largest-solar-farm-opens-in-california/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T23:24:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/11/business/japan-mongolia-sign-economic-partnership/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T23:24:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Mongolian Prime Minister shake hands Tuesday at the prime minister's office in Tokyo following a news conference in which they announced the signing of a bilateral economic partnership.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/11/national/politics-diplomacy/with-focus-on-wartime-past-japans-global-pr-message-could-misfire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T23:25:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stands behind a rising sun flag during a review of Self-Defense Force troops at an annual ceremony in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, in October 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/11/world/science-health-world/spacex-dragon-capsule-returns-international-space-station/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-11T23:34:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image from NASA TV shows the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship undocking from the International Space Station on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/12/world/science-health-world/west-africa-sees-spike-ebola-cases-decline-stalls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T07:33:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/11/national/u-s-ambassador-traces-woman-who-mailed-hina-dolls-to-president-kennedy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T10:34:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The "hina" dolls, seen in this U.S. Embassy handout image, are on display at the ambassador's residence in Tokyo ahead of Girls' Day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/12/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-u-s-may-revise-defense-cooperation-guidelines-diet-debates-security-bills-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T10:47:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/12/national/japan-asean-start-dialogue-transnational-crime-terrorism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T10:47:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-12T13:08:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Yazidi sect peer into a mass grave in the northwestern Sinjar area of Iraq containing the remains of people slaughtered by Islamic State militants, as they search for clues that might lead them to missing relatives.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/12/world/offbeat-world/powerball-jackpot-hits-500-million-wednesday-drawing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T14:33:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Powerball lottery forms are shown at the Time Saver Food Mart Wednesday in Tampa, Florida. The Powerball jackpot has climbed to $500 million, making Wednesday night's drawing the fifth-largest prize in U.S. history.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/12/world/crime-legal-world/costa-concordia-skipper-schettino-awaits-verdict/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T14:34:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Francesco Schettino attends his trial Wednesday before the Grosseto court in Italy. Later in the day he was sentenced to 16 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/12/world/crime-legal-world/australia-seeks-last-ditch-deal-to-save-pair-from-execution-in-indonesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T15:12:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/12/business/economy-business/japan-to-miss-2020-fiscal-reform-goal-cabinet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T17:28:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/12/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/in-china-legal-fight-to-save-forest-tests-toughened-anti-pollution-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T17:43:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese laborers drain sewage water from a leaking septic tank at a copper mine in Shanghang, Fujian province, in July 2010. Local environmentalists hope a case filed against four Chinese mining executives accused of destroying a stretch of forest will prompt a wave of legal action across the country, where discontent is rising over a growth-at-all-costs economic model that has spoiled much of China's water, skies and soil.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/12/world/obama-asks-congress-to-authorize-war-on-islamic-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T18:41:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/12/world/widow-paris-gunman-reportedly-islamic-state-territory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T18:42:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo provided by the Paris police on Jan. 9 shows Hayat Boumeddiene.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-12T19:05:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/12/world/ceasefire-agreed-eastern-ukraine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T19:45:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian-backed separatists cover their ears as they fire a mortar toward Ukrainian troops outside the village of Sanzharivka, northeast of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/12/national/okinawa-base-activists-report-coral-damage-henoko/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T20:04:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A block of concrete appears to rest on coral in this photo taken Saturday off Henoko, where it anchors floats.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/12/national/models-strut-washi-garments-celebrate-unesco-listing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-12T21:16:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model wears an outfit made of "hosokawa-shi," a traditional handmade paper, during a fashion show in Ogawa, Saitama Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumitaka Ono, a manager in Kagome's product development department, speaks to a reporter at the firm's headquarters last month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Aso]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated photo shows the Twilight Express sleeper train, which runs between Osaka and Sapporo but is scheduled to retire on March 12.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiyuki Uchima]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-13T16:03:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroyasu Kato believes his father built and decorated this tiled air raid shelter after receiving his draft papers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Models show off Sony's new Smart B-Trainer SSE-BTR1, a wearable gadget for runners, at a press conference in Tokyo on Thursday. The device combines a music player with six sensors that monitor metrics like heart rate and running pace.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Farmers harvest Angelica acutiloba in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, in December. The native plant was widely used in herbal remedies in the past and is now cultivated across East Asia.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[University of Chicago image of skeletal and life style reconstructions of Agilodocodon scansorius]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Skeletal and life style reconstructions of Agilodocodon scansorius are shown in this illustration courtesy of University of Chicago.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ayako Sono]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peter Maurer]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Freelance photographer Yuichi Sugimoto speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[ANA Holdings Senior Executive Vice President Shinya Katanozaka, who has been chosen to become new president and chief executive of the holding company for All Nippon Airways Co., speaks at a news conference Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin reacts after peace talks on resolving the Ukrainian crisis in Minsk]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin betrays a slight smile Thursday after peace talks on resolving the Ukrainian crisis in Minsk.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takashi Mizuuchi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[APTOPIX Denmark Shots]]></image:title>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yosei Ninomiya of the Tokyu Hands store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward says ear picks are becoming increasingly popular with foreign tourists as souvenirs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media in Minsk on Thursday following peace talks about the Ukraine conflict.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Between a rock: Robert Eldridge, deputy assistant chief of staff of government and external affairs for the U.S. Marine Corps at Camp Butler, Okinawa, works in his office Nov. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/16/national/crime-legal/suspect-admitted-killing-wakayama-boy-ridiculed-lawyer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-16T21:04:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/16/national/losing-to-haneda-narita-airport-charts-a-low-cost-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-16T21:05:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-narita-a-20150217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pilots for Jetstar Japan brief the cabin staff before departing from Narita International Airport on Jan. 22. LCCs are facing an acute pilot shortage that is crimping their expansion plans.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/16/national/artwork-kenji-goto-display-tokyo-gallery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-16T21:05:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gotoart-a-20150217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Broken boy," created by slain journalist Kenji Goto in collaboration with graphic designer Nakaba Kozu in 2010, is shown alongside illustrations by children suffering from cancer in warn-torn Iraq, at the "Flowers of Lives" exhibition that runs through Wednesday at Gallery Hibiya in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/16/national/sdf-holds-simulated-quake-evacuation-drill-japanese-nationals-thailand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-16T21:05:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[THAILAND-US-JAPAN-POLITICS-DEFENCE]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese soldiers escort people Sunday during a Non-Combatant Evacuation/Transportation of Japanese Nationals Overseas exercise as part of the annual combined military exercises coined Cobra Gold 2015 at a military base in Sattahip.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/16/national/u-s-first-lady-michelle-obama-to-make-first-visit-to-japan-in-march/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-16T21:05:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/16/national/crime-legal/kiken-drugs-can-obtained-half-tokyo-area-students-say-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-16T21:05:59+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/16/national/oldest-tiger-japan-dies-22-years-old/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-16T21:55:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tiger-a-20150217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meru, Japan's oldest tiger, is seen at Akiyoshidai Safari Land in Mine, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in June 2008. The tiger died last Friday at the age of 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/16/reference/japanese-deaths-stir-debate-hostage-rescue-capabilities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-16T23:13:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20150217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Ground Self-Defense Force stands with a shovel in the GSDF camp in Juba in February 2012. The SDF have been supporting infrastructure building in South Sudan under a United Nations peacekeeping mission, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes to expand the troops' global activities further.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/16/business/tepco-mull-rate-increase-hike-cant-restart-niigata-nuclear-complex/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-16T23:16:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/2015-02-15_JAPAN-TEPCO.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Tokyo Electric Power Co's President Hirose speaks during a round table interview at the company's headquarters in Tokyo]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose speaks Saturday during a round table interview at the company's headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/16/business/takata-shares-tumble-after-honda-denies-financial-help/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-16T23:16:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/16/world/ukraine-rebels-say-cease-fire-doesnt-apply-to-encircled-town/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-16T23:19:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-uktruce-a-20150217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Ukraine's armed forces stand next to their tank on a road not far from Debaltseve, in the east of the country, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/turkey-closes-yemen-embassy-telling-citizens-leave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T03:53:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-turkyem-a-20150218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police trooper walks outside the Turkish Embassy in Sanaa on Sunday. The United States, Western European countries, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey have closed their missions in Sanaa and withdrawn staff, citing security concerns.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/science-health-world/liberia-reopens-dozens-schools-ebola-wanes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T05:09:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-libola-a-20150218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children file into classrooms in Monrovia on Monday. Thousands of Liberian children in pristine uniforms flocked back to school on Monday as classrooms opened their doors for the first time after a six-month hiatus designed to stem the spread of the worst Ebola outbreak in history.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/forces-loyal-ex-president-take-part-aden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T05:10:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-aden-a-20150218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), pro-army tribesmen who maintain security in their region, stand guard outside the state broadcaster complex after they seized it from police allegedly controlled by Shiite Huthi militiamen in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Monday. Four people were killed when the PRC attacked special police guarding the complex, sparking fighting that lasted until dawn, PRC chief Hussain al-Wuhayshi said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/business/asian-supply-lines-hit-u-s-west-coast-ports-dispute/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T06:58:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-dockrow-a-20150218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ships gather off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, on Feb. 6. A partial shutdown of 29 U.S. West Coast ports stretched into its third straight day Monday, on the eve of  U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perezs arrival in San Francisco seeking to broker a settlement ending months of disruptions on the cargo-clogged docks.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/crime-legal-world/grand-jury-indicts-north-carolina-man-killings-three-muslims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T08:27:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hicks-a-20150218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Outreach Manager for the Council on American Islamic Relations Zainab Chaudry speaks Monday at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, reacting to the Chapel Hill shootings and to urge a rejection of Islamaphobia. Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Mohammad, 21, and her sister, Razan, 19, were shot dead on February  in the peaceful North Carolina university town of Chapel Hill. Neighbor Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, has been charged with three counts of murder over the killings, which sparked outrage amongst Muslims worldwide. Police said they are investigating what may have been a parking dispute gone wrong, but have not ruled out a hate-based crime.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/russia-carries-snap-check-paratroopers-western-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T08:30:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/russian-researchers-expose-breakthrough-u-s-spying-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T08:40:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/16/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-affirms-bid-revise-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T09:34:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[KYODO_2031_150216_0167_0237]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speaking to the Lower House on Monday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said, "I want to deepen public discussion about the way the Constitution should be, to match a new era. And based on such deepening of discussion, I will firmly and steadily work to revise the Constitution."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/business/crude-oil-trades-near-two-month-high-as-drilling-slows-in-u-s-libya-pipeline-fire-slows-flow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T10:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/16/business/japan-has-more-car-chargers-than-gas-stations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T11:26:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ecarchargers-a-20150217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A quick charger is pictured outside a FamilyMart convenience store in Tokyo last April. Nissan Motor Co. says there are now more car charging points in Japan than gas stations.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/danish-jews-affection-country-runs-deep/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T12:26:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/copenhagen-gunmans-neighborhood-no-stranger-to-strife/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T12:33:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/csx-oil-train-derails-west-virginia-least-two-cars-fire-towns-evacuated/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T13:15:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fire burns Monday after an oil train derailment near Charleston, Wst Virginia. Nearby residents were told to evacuate as state emergency response and environmental officials headed to the scene.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/pope-decries-beheading-egyptian-christians-libya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T13:17:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Italian police car patrols in front of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome on Monday. Pope Francis expressed deep sadness for the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya, departing from the script of an address on Monday to emphasise the unity of all Christians regardless of the sect they follow.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/national/osakas-snack-park-underground-eatery-warren-set-close-hanshin-renovation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T13:17:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/thousands-march-copenhagen-city-mourns-terror-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T13:18:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) demonstrators carry torches and banners during a march in Copenhagen on Monday. Danish police said on Monday they had charged two people with aiding the man suspected of shooting dead two people in attacks on a synagogue and an event promoting free speech in Copenhagen over the weekend. The shootings, which Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt called acts of terrorism, sent shockwaves through Denmark.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/asia-pacific/chinas-defense-budget-expected-to-defy-economic-lilt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T14:27:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A female guard has lipstick applied during preparations for an official welcoming ceremony for Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in June 2014. President Xi Jinping is expected to authorize robust defense spending for 2015 despite China's slowing economy, and seems determined to strengthen the country's armed capabilities amid growing unease in Beijing over Washington's renewed focus on Asia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/crime-legal-world/prostitutes-in-strauss-kahn-sex-trial-withdraw-damages-claim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T15:28:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/britains-gchq-spy-agency-deploys-armed-guards-for-first-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T15:41:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/business/corporate-business/ykk-may-become-first-company-get-tax-breaks-relocating-tokyo-hq/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T16:30:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/iran-denies-report-khamenei-replied-obama-letter-islamic-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T16:32:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/former-senior-provincial-official-in-china-to-be-punished-in-graft-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T16:57:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/national/high-ranking-official-to-attend-takeshima-day-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T18:01:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/national/comedian-recounts-the-heavy-toll-of-online-slander/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T18:29:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/syrian-army-moves-step-closer-to-surrounding-key-rebel-city-of-aleppo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T19:18:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/thai-students-feel-they-are-the-only-group-still-protesting-military-coup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T19:18:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thai student activists Than Rittiphan (left) and Songtham Kaewpanpruek pose for photographs after an interview in Bangkok on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/national/politics-diplomacy/how-two-small-rocks-stop-japan-and-south-korea-from-getting-along/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T19:18:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-takeshima-a-20150218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean naval vessel fires a missile during a military exercise near the islets Seoul administers and calls Dokdo. Japan knows them as Takeshima.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/national/politics-diplomacy/komeito-urges-abe-retain-remorse-aggression-wwii-statement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T20:19:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tetsuo Saito]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/world/eu-hangs-tough-waiting-greece-bend-euro-wilts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T21:50:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Greeks gather Monday in front of the parliament during a pro-government demonstration in Athens.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/national/science-health/final-nuclear-waste-dump-may-be-reversible/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T23:43:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/national/bad-manners-are-rising-as-more-people-admit-posting-nasty-comments-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T23:44:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/national/lawmakers-get-ready-to-lower-voting-age-to-18-next-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-17T23:47:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-17T23:50:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A traveler uses a Skymark Airlines Inc. automated check-in machine at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Jan. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/world/british-warship-monitors-russian-naval-vessel-channel/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sudanese men look at newspapers displayed at a kiosk in Khartoum on Monday. Sudanese security officers seized the print runs of 13 newspapers in one of the most sweeping crackdowns on the press in recent years, Journalists for Human Rights said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/world/offbeat-world/brazilians-compete-kissing-crown-rios-carnival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T07:25:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Revellers kiss each other during the annual block party known as "Carmelitas" in Rio de Janeiro on Friday. Contrary to a common stereotype, Brazil is a socially conservative nation, its culture rooted in Catholic tradition. Many view the five-day Carnival as the one chance to enjoy a bit of hedonism before the solemn period of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. Some locals measure that freedom in kisses, competing with their friends to see who can smooch 10, 20, even 30 different people in a single outing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/world/oil-train-fireball-seen-adding-pressure-u-s-safety-decision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T07:33:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The charred remains of a house and a vehicle are shown below a derailed CSX Corp. train in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, Tuesday. The CSX train hauling North Dakota crude derailed in West Virginia on Monday, setting a number of cars ablaze, destroying a house and forcing the evacuation of two towns in the second significant oil-train incident in three days.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/national/embassy-beijing-issues-safety-alert-japanese-media-report-getting-terrorist-attack-info/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T07:57:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A young woman holds a baby as they wait to enter a Beijing railway station Tuesday. Hundreds of millions of Chinese are returning to their hometowns to celebrate the Lunar New Year with families in what is the world's largest annual migration.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/business/u-s-west-coast-ports-reopen-as-labor-secretary-arrives-for-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T09:20:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Freighters ride at anchor Tuesday in the San Pedro section of Los Angeles near the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Seaports in the U.S. West Coast that were all but shut over the weekend because of a contract dispute are reopening as the nation's top labor official tries to solve a stalemate between dockworkers and their employers that already has disrupted billions of dollars in U.S. international trade.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/world/morocco-suspends-libya-flights-closes-airspace-libyan-planes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T09:22:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-18T11:31:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Tripod" (left) and other selected ceramic works by Pablo Picasso are on public display at the Embassy of Spain in Tokyo through March 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/asia-pacific/u-s-littoral-combat-ship-to-debut-in-drills-off-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T11:55:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) sits docked at Sembawang Wharves during a port of call in Singapore on Tuesday. The ship is expected to take part in drills off South Korea next month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/business/financial-markets/bonds-forward-yield-surging-as-market-assesses-risk-of-boj-ending-stimulus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T12:20:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda holds a news conference at the central bank last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/business/corporate-business/u-s-burger-chain-shake-shack-coming-to-japan-next-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T12:45:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers eat at the Shake Shack in New York's Theater District.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/17/national/crime-legal/cyberattacks-detected-in-japan-doubled-to-25-7-billion-in-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T13:03:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/world/substantial-bomb-found-on-northern-ireland-estate-police-believed-targeted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T13:09:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/world/u-s-establishes-rules-exporting-drones-strict-limits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T13:09:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System drone, designed for carrier-based operations, makes its first carrier landing aboard the USS George H.W. Bush in the Atlantic Ocean off Norfolk, Virginia, on July 10, 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/world/earthquake-early-warning-system-begins-testing-pacific-northwest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T13:17:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pnwwarning-a-20150219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Vidale,  director of Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, shows the earthquake early warning system at the University of Washington on Feb. 9 in Seattle. Companies including Boeing, Alaska Airlines and Intel will be able to work with the system and figure out how to make use of warning times. Tests of the system started Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/world/science-health-world/strongest-biological-material-limpet-teeth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T13:28:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Limpets in northwestern Galicia, Spain]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/world/crime-legal-world/strauss-kahn-pimp-says-prosecutor-urging-sex-case-acquittal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T13:31:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-dsk-a-20150219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A court sketch shows (from left) defendants French businessman Fabrice Paszkowski, former French IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and ex-director of the BTP Eiffage construction group subsidiary David Roquet during their trial in the "Carlton Case" at the courthouse of Lille, northern France, on Tuesday. A French prosecutor called for Strauss-Kahn to be acquitted of pimping charges in the trial.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/world/commie-loving-mainlanders-targeted-in-election-at-hong-kongs-top-university/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T13:42:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors at the University of Hong Kong pose Tuesday in front of the "Pillar of Shame" sculpture mourning those who died during the June 4, 1989, military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/business/financial-markets/number-of-ipos-in-japan-projected-to-hit-17-year-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T13:54:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ipo-a-20150219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Line Corp. CEO Akira Morikawa is working with Nomura Holdings Inc. and Morgan Stanley on preparations for an initial public offering that could see the mobile messaging service operator valued at more than ¥1 trillion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/putin-finds-warm-welcome-in-hungary-despite-european-chill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T14:56:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) listens to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a signing ceremony at the parliament building in Budapest on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/world/turkey-to-help-u-s-train-and-equip-syrian-opposition-fighters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T15:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/national/conservationists-aim-to-nurture-population-of-endangered-albatross-on-torishima-island/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T15:47:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Environment Ministry ranger Koji Nitta speaks about efforts to boost the population of albatrosses nesting on Torishima Island south of Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/national/custom-shoe-shops-put-customers-in-charge-of-footwear-design/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T15:54:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Kibera Ginza Core salesperson takes a measurement from a customer's foot.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/national/kanto-told-brace-blizzard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T15:55:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/national/politics-diplomacy/farm-minister-admits-getting-%c2%a51-million-donation-after-sugar-industry-group-received-state-subsidy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T16:07:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koya Nishikawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/15/national/lgbt-students-may-be-ready-to-come-out-but-are-japans-schools-ready-to-accept-them/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T17:41:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osamu Inoue, a student at Tokyo Gakugei University who came out as gay during high school, speaks to The Japan Times on Jan. 15 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/national/iaea-team-has-guarded-praise-for-fukushima-no-1-cleanup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T17:48:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-18T18:17:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/business/britain-approves-worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T18:17:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/national/science-health/alcohol-free-drinks-get-health-stamp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T19:20:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/national/crime-legal/fingerprint-linked-1995-tokyo-triple-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T19:38:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/national/discount-chain-don-quijote-to-accept-payment-in-foreign-currencies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T19:43:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/national/crime-legal/black-widow-indicates-involvement-in-additional-deaths-police-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T20:12:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/business/corporate-business/sony-ceo-hirai-says-selling-tv-business-now-option/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T20:18:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Hirai speaks during its corporate strategy meeting at the company's headquarters in Tokyo]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp. CEO Kazuo Hirai speaks during the company's corporate strategy meeting at corporation headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/national/golf-course-boys-drowned-hole-fence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T20:24:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police conduct an investigation Wednesday at a pond in the Nagoya Hills Golf Club in Kani, Gifu Prefecture, where two 8-year-old boys drowned the previous evening.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/national/politics-diplomacy/break-from-co-op-may-boost-products-and-profit-says-fukui-farmer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T20:30:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A combine harvester plucks rice and straw in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, in August 2013. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's drive to reform the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives group is seen as a first step in overhauling the sector.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/business/japan-saw-record-1-22-million-foreign-visitors-january/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T20:30:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/national/63-of-senior-high-school-students-spend-at-least-two-hours-a-day-on-a-smartphone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T21:07:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-smartphone-a-20150219.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[hand with smartphone]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A government survey showed that 63.3 percent of Japan's high school students spend two hours or more online, while 11.4 percent lose at least five hours a day glued to their phones.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/jeb-bush-to-deliver-speech-laying-out-case-for-stronger-u-s-role-in-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-18T21:21:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-18T23:12:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A park bench statue of former Boston Mayor James Michael Curley is covered in almost 6 feet of snow in Boston on Tuesday. Nearly 8 feet of snowfall this winter has paralyzed greater Boston's transit system, infuriating commuters on and off the rails who may not see a return to normal for at least a month. The Boston Red Sox are offering free baseball game tickets to residents who help dig out the city's fire hydrants.]]></image:caption>
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