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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mask-wearing man walks down a street in smog-choked Beijing in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/22/world/modi-bets-on-gm-crops-to-feed-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T16:05:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-modigm-a-20150223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer picks up saplings for planting in a rice paddy on the outskirts of Gauhati, in the state of Assam, northeast India.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/22/asia-pacific/singapores-first-prime-minister-hospitalised-with-pneumonia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T16:05:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/f-BRI-singapm-a-20150223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-singapm-a-20150223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Kuan Yew]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/22/world/nigerian-military-announces-recapture-of-baga-from-boko-haram-militants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T17:06:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/f-bokoretake-a-20150223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bokoretake-a-20150223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Boko Haram's latest video, leader Abubakar Shekau vowed to disrupt Nigeria's general election with fresh attacks.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/22/world/despite-modernization-drive-indian-air-force-faces-humiliation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T17:23:50+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/21/national/science-health/japans-adherence-nuclear-power-critical-home-overseas-mit-luminary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T17:36:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-mitnuke-a-20150222.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mitnuke-a-20150222.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Professor Richard Lester, who heads the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, speaks to reporters Saturday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/22/national/history/okinawa-reversion-was-moved-forward-to-pave-way-for-satos-successor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T17:52:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-okinawareversion-a-20150223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawareversion-a-20150223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Eisaku Sato (right) and Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda enjoy a tipple during a party at the prime minister's office in Tokyo in June 1976. Japan and the United States negotiated the date of Okinawa's reversion to encourage a smooth transition of power from Sato to Fukuda.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/22/national/qatar-tried-to-help-free-japanese-hostages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T17:53:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-qatar-hostages-a-20150223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-qatar-hostages-a-20150223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah presides over a Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in Riyadh on Feb. 14.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/22/national/kyotos-tourism-boom-spells-war-luxury-hotel-chains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T19:15:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-kansaiside-a-20150223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kansaiside-a-20150223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoto Tower is illuminated in downtown Kyoto. A record-breaking tourism boom in the city has triggered a "hotel war" among luxury inn chains.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/22/national/kin-of-japanese-victims-attend-christchurch-quake-anniversary-in-new-zealand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T19:59:50+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/20/national/accidents-involving-unregulated-mini-boats-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T21:15:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-chubu-a-20150221.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20150221.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Small watercraft don't require a license to pilot in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/20/national/haiyan-victims-still-suffering-as-christmas-nears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T21:16:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/p3-chubu-a-20131221.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-chubu-a-20131221.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Total devastation: Along the beach in Dulag, all the houses and trees were destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan when it hit Leyte Island last month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/22/national/ramen-dividends-holders-of-some-firms-shares-fancy-yutai-gifts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T22:18:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-yutai-a-20150223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yutai-a-20150223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroto Kiritani browses goods at a Matsumotokiyoshi Co. drugstore in a Tokyo shopping arcade Feb. 3. Kiritani, 65, is a big-time player in an obscure corner of the Japanese investment world of "yutai," gifts that a growing number of Japanese companies send to stockholders as a courtesy for owning their shares.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/22/world/defeat-narrows-options-for-ukraines-poroshenko/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T22:20:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/f-ukoptions-a-20150223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ukoptions-a-20150223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-Russian separatists from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic stand on top of their tanks at a checkpoint on the road to the town of Debaltseve on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/22/national/wheres-the-beef-kyoto-looks-to-carve-out-global-niche/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T23:07:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-kansaimain-d-20150223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kansaimain-d-20150223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Where's the beef? Apparently, it is in Singapore, where the first exports of "Kyoto Beef" were served to local diners earlier this month. Kyoto Prefecture, which was behind the event, hopes to make the produce as well-known overseas as Kobe beef.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/22/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-government-envoy-attends-takeshima-day-ceremony-in-shimane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-22T23:14:28+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/world/kiev-points-finger-russia-blast-kills-two-rally-four-suspects-arrested/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T04:35:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/f-ukblast-a-20150224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ukblast-a-20150224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two bodies covered with the Ukrainian flag lie on the ground following an explosion during the Dignity March marking the one-year anniversary of the overthrow of the country's former pro-Kremlin president, in northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, on Sunda. A bomb killed the two, as Kiev's army and rebels wrangled over a truce requiring them to pull back heavy weapons.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/world/homeland-security-chief-worried-al-shabaab-threat-u-s-malls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T04:39:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/f-mall-a-20150224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mall-a-20150224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors pose for a family photograph in front of an entrance to the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, in  July 2013. U.S. homeland security chief Jeh Johnson said Sunday he takes seriously a threat made by Somali-based Islamist militants against shopping malls, including the Mall of America.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/national/former-nissan-executive-known-father-z-sports-car-dies-105/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T09:34:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-zobit-a-20150224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-zobit-a-20150224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yutaka Katayama, the "father of the Z," waves to the media after introducing Nissan's new Z car concept during a news conference in Dearborn, Michigan in 1998. Katayama, who built the Z sports car into a powerful global brand in the 1970s, died Thursday, his son said. He was 105.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/homeland-security-shutdown-can-avoided-friday-senators/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T15:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Governors.JPEG-0bae0.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Jeh Johnson]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson speaks about the agency's budget and cybersecurity at the Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee session during the National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/national/barrier-free-tours-on-the-rise-ahead-of-2020-tokyo-paralympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T15:32:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-barrierfree-a-20150224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese tour guide poses with a wheelchair-bound tourist from Thailand at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto on Dec. 30. The Buddhist temple is one of many tourist sites undergoing access modifications to help visitors with limited mobility.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/national/artificial-intelligence-apps-guiding-users-clothing-choices-culinary-tastes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T16:28:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-ai-a-20150224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ai-a-20150224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dishes recommended by the Chef Watson app are served up at a tasting event at a French restaurant in Minato Ward, Tokyo. The app offers 100 original recipes that the user can filter by ingredients.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/world/japans-yakuza-woes-return-to-the-silver-screen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T16:34:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/national/japan-set-consular-office-northern-iraq/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T16:46:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/iraqi-defense-minister-chides-u-s-for-declaring-mosul-assault-timing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T16:49:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/business/corporate-business/meet-man-helped-sony-climb-back-top-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T17:56:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/b-sonygames-a-20150224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sonygames-a-20150224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s Worldwide Studios, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Feb. 9.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/national/politics-diplomacy/s-korea-summons-japanese-diplomat-protest-takeshima-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T18:11:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-skorea-a-20150224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-skorea-a-20150224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenji Kanasugi, a minister at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, is summoned to South Korea's Foreign Ministry on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/national/aging-hiroshima-a-bomb-survivors-group-to-disband/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T18:19:26+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/22/national/nonprofits-manga-raises-awareness-teen-sexual-exploitation-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T19:18:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-sexcrime-a-20150223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sexcrime-a-20150223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo-based NPO Lighthouse on Monday will start handing out manga booklets such as these, which it hopes will raise awareness of the modern realities of the sexual exploitation of Japanese teenagers.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/national/crime-legal/foreign-trainee-slain-colleague-wounded-rural-ibaraki-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T19:46:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/reference/japan-looks-to-boost-defense-attaches-after-hostage-crisis-reveals-major-weakness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T19:48:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-fyi-a-20150224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20150224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese defense attaches meet with officials of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon in Washington in December. The government is considering increasing the number of defense attaches at embassies around the world to strengthen intelligence capabilities.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/national/quake-victims-giant-blanket-gains-guinness-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T20:31:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-blanket-a-20150224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-blanket-a-20150224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents and outside volunteers stitch together donated cloth squares to make a huge quilt in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, last September. Guinness World Records has declared it the world's largest blanket.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/national/politics-diplomacy/eu-ambassador-urges-japan-look-europes-example-heal-rifts-neighbors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T20:32:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/world/french-aircraft-carrier-begins-iraq-operations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T21:00:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/f-carrier-a-20150224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-carrier-a-20150224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French aircraft sit on the flight deck of the French Navy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle operating in the Persian Gulf on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/world/kiev-says-cant-withdraw-heavy-weapons-attacks-persist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T21:18:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/f-weps-a-20150224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-weps-a-20150224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fighter with the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic army looks for ammunition in a destroyed Ukrainian army compound in the town of Debaltseve on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/national/mosques-japan-harassed-wake-hostage-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T23:17:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-muslimabuse-a-20150224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-muslimabuse-a-20150224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Muslims from various places in Japan gather Feb. 1 at Otsuka Mosque in Toshima Ward, Tokyo, to pray for hostage Kenji Goto.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/national/okinawa-anti-base-activists-arrested-camp-schwab/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T23:19:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-henoko-a-20150224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-henoko-a-20150224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather in front of Nago Police Station in Okinawa Prefecture on Sunday to call for the release of two protesters arrested for allegedly trespassing at the gate of Camp Schwab.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/business/financial-markets/blackstone-draws-tokyo-junk-investors-amid-warnings-of-froth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T23:26:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/business/corporate-business/ana-holdings-to-help-skymark-recover-from-bankruptcy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T23:26:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/business/economy-business/some-boj-policymakers-skeptical-of-timeline-for-2-inflation-goal-minutes-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T23:26:52+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/business/corporate-business/bain-capital-to-begin-takeover-bid-for-japanese-mushroom-producer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-23T23:26:57+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/business/economy-business/abenomics-divides-japans-stocks-as-small-shares-left-behind/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T00:03:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is counting on monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and reforms to put the economy on a solid footing, the measures are so far exacerbating a divide between Japan's big exporters and the smaller firms getting no support from a weaker yen or state-financed share purchases.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/world/erdogan-says-relocation-tomb-troops-syria-retreat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T04:36:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish armored vehicles that took part in an operation inside Syria are sit near the Mursitpinar border crossing in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, Monday. A Turkish military operation to rescue 38 soldiers guarding a tomb in Syria surrounded by Islamic State militants was launched to counter a possible attack on them, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Monday. The action, which involved tanks, drones and reconnaissance planes as well as several hundred ground troops, was the first of its kind by Turkish troops into Syria since the start of the civil war there nearly four years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/world/science-health-world/child-dies-measles-berlin-germany-vows-boost-vaccinations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T07:25:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man is given a given a measles vaccination in Berlin on Monday. A toddler has died of measles in the German capital, health authorities said, amid the country's worst outbreak in years and an intense debate about steps to boost vaccinations. The resurgence of the preventable disease in Germany, as well as in parts of the United States, coincides with a movement among some parents to refuse to vaccinate their children.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/world/reuters-journalist-maria-golovnina-dies-pakistan-aged-34/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T08:04:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reuters journalist Maria Golovnina rests with her colleagues at a checkpoint manned by anti-Gadhafi forces north of the besieged city of Bani Walid, Libya, in September 2011. Golovnina, Reuters bureau chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan who was widely loved and admired for her courage, compassion and professionalism, died in Islamabad on Monday. She was found collapsed and unconscious in the bureau and was rushed to a hospital, but medical teams were unable to save her.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/national/crime-legal/footage-captures-teens-near-scene-kawasaki-boys-slaying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T08:51:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flowers are placed Sunday along Tama River in Kawasaki in memory of a slain 13-year-old boy who was found naked with stab wounds.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/national/crown-prince-turns-55-calls-accounts-history-passed-correctly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T10:50:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito, who turned 55 on Monday, spends some time with Crown Princess Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, at their residence, the Togu Palace in Tokyo, in a handout photo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/national/tokyo-marathon-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T12:22:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[IMG_1125]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A collection of characters make their way through the streets of Ginza during the 2015 Tokyo Marathon on Feb. 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/business/u-s-supreme-court-hands-victory-cuban-cigar-company/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T12:32:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/national/filipino-indonesian-trainee-nurses-to-get-more-time-to-pass-japan-exams/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T12:57:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/world/peacekeepers-make-greater-use-drone-imagery-says-u-n-panel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T13:30:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-undrones-a-20150225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An airplane flies over a hobby-style drone in the Brooklyn, New York, on Jan. 1. A United Nations panel Monday recommended dramatically expanding the use of unmanned surveillance aircraft in U.N. military operations.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/world/science-health-world/worlds-diet-worsening-with-globalization-study-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T14:11:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/world/soldiers-rescue-turkey-plays-warring-sides-syria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T14:26:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/f-turksyria-a-20150225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-turksyria-a-20150225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Syrian Kurdish militia member of YPG patrols near a Turkish Army tank, as Turks work to build a new Ottoman tomb in the background in Aleppo province, Syria, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/world/u-s-iran-positive-after-nuclear-talks-but-say-much-left-to-do/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T15:46:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/national/social-issues/tokyos-elderly-turned-away-amid-labor-crunch-funding-cuts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T16:09:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seniors sit on benches in the Sugamo Jizo-dori shopping area, known as "old people's Harajuku," in Toshima Ward, Tokyo, on Jan. 13.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/indonesian-president-says-no-delay-to-executions-despite-mercy-pleas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T16:09:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/f-indoexec-a-20150225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-indoexec-a-20150225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Convicted drug traffickers Myuran Sukumaran (left) and Andrew Chan, both Australians, are among several foreigners facing execution in Indonesia despite international appeals for clemency.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/national/history/wartime-naval-cadet-recalls-twisted-history-english-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T16:26:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-english-a-20150225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-english-a-20150225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Takabayashi, who was a cadet at a branch of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in Nagasaki Prefecture from spring to summer 1945, stands in front of the Hikawa Maru cruise liner in Yokohama with the only remaining copy of the academy's English textbook and his diary of that time.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/national/okinawa-anti-base-activists-freed-after-arrests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T17:20:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/business/corporate-business/hitachi-nears-%c2%a5250-billion-purchase-of-italys-finmeccanica-rail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T18:01:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/2015-02-24-HITACHI.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[rome]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The headquarters of Italian defense and aerospace company Finmeccanica is seen in in this May 2012 file photo. Hitachi Ltd. has agreed to buy Italian conglomerate Finmeccanica's rail and signal assets, sources close to the matter said Tuesday, a deal expected to top $2 billion and give the Japanese firm a stronger foothold in Europe to compete with bigger rivals.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/national/tsunami-hit-city-library-compiles-victims-memoirs-english/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T18:06:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tsunami-a-20150225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masafumi Kamenoi (right), a priest at Shirahige Shrine in the city of Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, recounts surviving the monster tsunami that hit the city in March 2011 for officials of the municipal library on Feb. 12.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/national/crime-legal/police-suspect-multiple-weapons-were-used-in-boys-stabbing-death-in-kawasaki-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T18:42:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-kawasakideath-a-20150225.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A basketball bearing messages for slain Ryota Uemura, 13, lies with flowers Tuesday on a bank of the Tama River in Kawasaki. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/national/sunflowers-sew-grass-roots-exchanges-with-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T19:01:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-sunflowers-a-20150224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sunflowers-a-20150224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Girl scouts in Chiba Prefecture pose last July with sunflowers grown with seeds from Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/national/science-health/kyoto-university-hospital-open-ips-cell-therapy-center-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T19:13:43+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/world/crime-legal-world/saudi-court-orders-death-man-renounced-islam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T19:21:39+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/business/japan-inc-shops-abroad-duck-bleak-domestic-prospects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T19:33:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/b-buyout-a-20150225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-buyout-a-20150225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Post employee rides a motorcycle in Tokyo on Feb. 18. With shrinking prospects at home and the threat of further yen weakness, Japanese companies are rushing to buy overseas and seem willing to pay top dollar, as shown by Japan Post's $5 billion bid for Australia's Toll Holdings.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/national/bomb-manga-barefoot-gen-published-arabic-egypt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T22:51:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-barefootgen-a-20150225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-barefootgen-a-20150225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maher El-Sherbini, a professor of Japanese literature at Cairo University, holds a copy of "Hadashi no Gen" ("Barefoot Gen") at a signing event in Cairo on Monday. He has translated into Arabic the first of 10 volumes of the celebrated manga.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/national/politics-diplomacy/opposition-weighs-abe-nishikawa-resignation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T22:53:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-diet-b-20150225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-diet-b-20150225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the wake of the surprise resignation of farm minister Koya Nishikawa on Monday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is trying to minimize the amount of damage to his administration.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/business/economy-business/sales-osaka-department-stores-chinese-new-year-holidays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-24T23:46:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-turns-veteran-tpp-talks-new-farm-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T00:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-hayashi-a-20150225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hayashi-a-20150225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshimasa Hayashi]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/business/panel-proposes-cutting-solar-tariff-much-16/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T00:10:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-solar-a-20150225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker secures a solar panel array at a Sharp Corp. factory in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/national/facing-shortage-pilots-japan-plans-raise-age-limit-67/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T00:11:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/world/u-s-missionary-kidnapped-central-nigeria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T03:54:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/world/suicide-bombers-kill-least-26-two-north-nigeria-bus-stations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T03:55:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man inspects a bus following an explosion  on the street in Potiskum, Nigeria. Tuesday.  A man forced his way onto the bus at a crowded bus station and detonated explosives that killed 12 people and injured 20 in northeast Nigeria, according to the bus driver and hospital records. The attack in Potiskum comes two days after a girl who looked about 10 years old detonated explosives that killed herself and four others at a market in the same town.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/world/gunmen-kidnap-frenchwoman-yemeni-driver-sanaa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T04:56:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-yemenabduct-a-20150226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Houthi militiaman inspects a car at a checkpoint in Sanaa on Tuesday. Gunmen kidnapped a Frenchwoman and her Yemeni driver in Yemen's capital in the morning as she was on her way to work, Yemeni security sources and French authorities said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/world/worried-russia-lithuania-plans-military-conscription/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T05:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/f-lithuania-a-20150226.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Estonia's soldiers attend a military parade celebrating Estonia's Independence Day near its border crossing with Russia in Narva on Tuesday. The parade also included soldiers from Spain, the United States, United Kingdom, Latvia, the Netherlands and Lithuania, which plans to reinstate conscription because of its perceived Russian threat.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/world/wave-bombings-baghdad-kills-37-people/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T09:14:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/f-bagbombs-a-20150226.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Iraqi man stands in the the village of Fadhiliyah, which pro-government forces retook from Islamic State militants the previous month, on the road leading to Fallujah, in Iraq's flashpoint Anbar province, southwest of Baghdad, on Tuesday. The government forces lost control of parts of Anbar's provincial capital Ramadi and all of Fallujah at the beginning of 2015 to anti-government fighters. Baghdad on Tuesday suffered a wave a deadly bomb attacks.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-k-support-staying-eu-hits-record-high-yougov-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T09:51:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/world/toronto-mystery-tunnel-rosary-nailed-wall-police-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T09:52:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/f-torontotunnel-a-20150226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-torontotunnel-a-20150226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This handout image obtained Tuesday from the Toronto police shows the inside of a tunnel found near York University. Toronto's deputy police chief asked for the public's help Tuesday in determining who built a mysterious tunnel near a major sporting venue and a university in Toronto, and why.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/world/science-health-world/depressed-people-are-three-times-more-likely-to-commit-violent-crime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T13:09:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/world/twin-suicide-blasts-kill-26-in-northern-nigeria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T14:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chadian soldiers ride a pickup truck during Flintlock 2015, an American-led military exercise, in the city of Mao on Monday. Chad said Tuesday that its soldiers had killed 207 Boko Haram fighters in clashes near the Nigerian town of Garambu.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/business/tech/demand-rising-for-smartphones-that-can-take-all-of-lifes-knocks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T15:08:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyocera Corp.'s Katsuhiro Okamoto with Torque G01.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/business/sony-taps-tom-rothman-titanic-fame-head-movie-studio/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T15:18:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thomas Rothman arrives in November 2013 at the AFI Fest premiere of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" in Los Angeles. Rothman has been named co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, replacing the recently departed Amy Pascal. Sony Pictures co-chairman and chief executive Michael Lynton announced Rothman's promotion Tuesday. Since 2013, Rothman has been running TriStar Productions at Sony.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/world/islamic-state-using-bitcoin-officials-suspect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T15:35:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/24/national/high-levels-of-yellow-sand-pm-2-5-heading-in-from-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T16:32:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With Seoul's skyline behind them, a young couple are reflected in the glass of a barrier as they walk across a bridge over the Han River when the capital was shrouded by high levels of Chinese sand and PM 2.5-laden smog Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/national/politics-diplomacy/kishida-kerry-to-meet-in-tokyo-in-mid-march-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T16:38:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/national/tsukuba-astronomer-hopes-to-build-antarctic-base-to-observe-galaxies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T16:38:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-astronomer-a-20150226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naomasa Nakai, a professor and leading expert on black holes at Tsukuba University, is calling for astronomical observations in Antarctica to learn about galaxies.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/business/tse-to-push-listed-firms-into-getting-at-least-two-outside-directors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T16:53:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/national/crime-legal/fraud-suspect-turns-minor-police-delete-online-images/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T17:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/national/crime-legal/kagawa-man-allegedly-begged-online-faces-prosecutors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T18:27:10+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/national/japan-veering-away-from-global-human-rights-standards-says-amnesty-international/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T20:31:38+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/national/20-of-working-women-in-japan-have-experienced-maternity-harassment-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T20:32:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/national/media-national/japanese-media-self-censorship-seen-growing-abes-reign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T20:37:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, points to a reporter during a news conference following a victory in the Lower House election by his ruling coalition, at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 15. Worries are growing in Japan about a trend of media self-censorship as journalists and experts say news organizations are toning down criticism of Abe's government for fear of sparking ire and losing access to sources.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-02-25T20:48:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Masahiko Komura speaks to reporters at the party’s headquarters in Tokyo earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/business/corporate-business/hitachi-trains-push-into-europe-to-challenge-siemens-alstom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T20:50:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maurizio Manfellotto, chief executive officer of AnsaldoBreda SpA, poses for a photograph with a Frecciarossa 1000 high-speed train at an assembly plant in Pistoia, Italy, in July 2013. Hitachi will buy Finmecannica's stake in Ansaldo STS SpA.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/obama-vetoes-republican-attempt-force-keystone-pipeline-approval/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T21:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators hold signs last month against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico in front of the White House. President Barack Obama issued the most significant veto of his six-year presidency Tuesday, blocking legislation allowing the pipeline to be built between Canada and the United States. In defying the Republican-controlled Congress, Obama made good on a long-standing veto promise and set the stage for a battle in the 2016 presidential election. The 1,179-mile TransCanada-built pipeline would transport crude from energy-rich Alberta to a network of pipelines that reach across the United States to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/national/crime-legal/case-woman-traffic-sign-street-art-case-sent-prosecutors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T22:30:59+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-gives-advisory-panel-topics-discuss-wwii-anniversary-statement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-25T22:47:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/world/crime-legal-world/fisherman-let-hook-u-s-supreme-court-white-collar-crime-ruling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T06:12:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/world/syrian-kurds-cut-islamic-state-supply-line-near-iraq-fears-christians-mount/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T06:24:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this image posted on a militant social media account by the Al-Baraka division of the Islamic State group on Tuesday, Islamic State militants ride in a Kurdish popular protection unit (YPG) vehicle captured during fighting in Tal Tamr, Hassakeh province, Syria. Fierce fighting between Kurdish and Christian militiamen and Islamic State militants raged on Wednesday, with the jihadis reportedly losing ground.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-house-leader-boehner-points-senate-security-funding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T07:38:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ushouse-a-20150227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. border patrol officer sits in his vehicle along the border with Mexico near San Ysidro, California on Wednesday. U.S. Senate leaders took a tentative step on Tuesday that could avert a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, but it was unclear if House Speaker John Boehner and restive conservatives would support a new concession to Democrats.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/world/europol-disrupts-cybercrime-ring-infected-millions-pcs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T08:59:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past the European police agency Europol in The Hague, Netherlands, last month. The head of European Union police organizationsaid at a meeting on Monday that intelligence and law enforcement agencies across the continent have to co-operate better to fight against the threat of terrorism. Europol also just managed to bust a massive cybercrime ring.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/pot-d-c-going-legal-despite-congressional-opposition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T10:07:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks Jan. 2 after taking the oath of office at the District of Columbia Mayoral Inauguration ceremony at the Convention Center. Possession of marijuana will become legal in the nation's capital, Bowser reiterated Wednesday, defying a threat from Congress that she and other city leaders could face prison time for implementing a voter-approved initiative. Bowser, a Democrat, said the city's plans haven't changed despite a letter from two leading House Republicans warning of repercussions if the city moves forward with legalization, which was set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/world/crime-legal-world/three-brooklyn-residents-charged-supporting-islamic-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T10:14:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this courtroom sketch, defendants Akhror Saidakhmetov (third from left) and Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev (fourth from right) stand in Federal Court at their arraignment Wednesday in Brooklyn, New York. They are charged along with a third man of plotting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group and wage war against the U.S., and federal officials said one of them spoke of shooting President Barack Obama or planting a bomb on Coney Island.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/25/national/kumamoto-school-criticized-for-showing-program-detailing-islamic-state-executions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T10:17:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/asia-pacific/sanctioned-north-korea-shipping-firm-still-active-renamed-ships-u-n-panel-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T12:03:24+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/world/crime-legal-world/abbott-strikes-conciliatory-note-widodo-indonesia-executions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T12:04:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Indonesian student holds a placard during a Wednesday protest targeting Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott in front of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop appealed to Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday to show mercy for two Australian drug traffickers due to executed in Indonesia, expressing disappointment that their latest legal appeal had been rejected.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/asia-pacific/beijing-drops-u-s-tech-brands-from-state-procurement-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T12:12:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers prepare for the opening of an Apple store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on Jan. 23. China has dropped some of the world's leading technology brands from its approved state purchase list, replacing them with locally made products.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/business/corporate-business/sony-chief-denies-spinoffs-mean-immediate-withdrawal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T12:12:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/national/rwandan-genocide-survivor-living-in-fukushima-bonds-with-evacuees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T12:13:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marie Louise Towari poses for a photo alongside Yoshiko Amano, an evacuee from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, on Feb. 18 during a "Rwanda Cafe" gathering in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/china-convicts-81-year-old-writer-who-criticized-propaganda-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T13:44:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/world/science-health-world/nasa-investigating-helmet-water-leak-spacewalk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T14:13:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NASA astronaut Terry Virts, flight engineer of Expedition 42, is seen during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, in this handout photo taken Wednesday provided by NASA. Station commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore, 52, and flight engineer Virts, 47, completed everything on their to-do list and several tasks planned for another spacewalk on Sunday. They returned to the station's airlock to discover that water had leaked into Virts' helmet.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/chinas-top-court-rails-against-western-model-of-judicial-independence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T14:50:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/world/iran-smuggles-1-billion-in-cash-through-dubai-turkey-to-dodge-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T15:02:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/18/reference/whos-table-abes-reshuffle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T17:52:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-b-20140819.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuko Obuchi, a Lower House representative from the Liberal Democratic Party, stumps for an LDP by-election candidate in Kagoshima on April 23.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/business/corporate-business/toyota-likely-to-agree-to-bigger-wage-hike-than-last-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T18:30:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp.'s Nagoya maintenance facility for the Mirai fuel cell vehicle is shown to the media on Wednesday. Toyota's management will likely agree to a base-wage hike, though not as large as its unions are demanding.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/national/mount-ontake-ski-resort-belatedly-reopens-2014-eruption/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T18:44:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Snowboarders hit the slopes at the Ontake 2240 ski resort in Nagano Prefecture on Thursday. The resort opened two months late after officials shrank the exclusion zone set up around the volcano's vents following a surprise eruption last year.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/world/syrian-kurds-cut-islamic-state-supply-line-as-fears-mount-for-abducted-christians/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-02-26T18:53:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fighters from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) stand near a pickup truck mounted with an anti-aircraft weapon in front of a church in the Assyrian village of Tel Jumaa, north of Tel Tamr town, on Feb. 25, 2015. Kurdish militia launched an offensive against the Islamic State group in northeast Syria on Wednesday, cutting one of its supply lines from Iraq, as fears mounted for dozens of Christians abducted by the jihadi group.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/26/world/science-health-world/astronomers-find-giant-black-hole-in-early-universe/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s delay in announcing the latest leak of radioactive water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant into the sea drew a strong protest from fishermen. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hot water: Columnist Ayako Sono suggested in a recent edition of the Sankei Shimbun that immigrants to Japan be segregated by race. There’s nothing to indicate that stirring controversy is stemming publications’ sales decline.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20131027a7a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Incoming: A user checks a Twitter feed on the screen of an Apple iPhone 5 in London on Oct. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-02T10:27:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-02T10:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov's companion, Anna Duritskaya, who was with him on a bridge near the Kremlin when he was murdered, speaks during a Skype interview to online news channel Dozhd in this still image from a TV Rain video on Monda. Boris Nemtsov's girlfriend has broken her public silence on the murder, saying she did not see the killer who gunned him down as they strolled across a bridge near the Kremlin.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/world/science-health-world/study-finds-gorilla-origins-half-human-aids-virus-lineages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T06:22:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gorillas are pictured in their enclosure at the zoo in Los Angeles in January. Revealing new details about the origins of AIDS, scientists said Monday half the lineages of the main type of human immunodeficiency virus, HIV-1, originated in gorillas in Cameroon before infecting people, probably via bushmeat hunting.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T06:24:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T06:25:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T06:27:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/business/apple-car-rumors-fuel-geneva-debate-car-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T09:18:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T09:42:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/world/social-issues-world/u-s-judge-rules-nebraska-sex-marriage-ban-unconstitutional/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T09:42:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Susan Waters (left) and Sally Waters pose for a photo in Kearney, Nebraska, on Feb. 24. The pair, one of seven same-sex couples who had sued to block Nebraska's ban on gay marriage, are touring Nebraska to discuss their pending case and legislative efforts regarding equal rights for gay and transgender people in Nebraska. A U.S. judge ruled Monday that the state's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T09:42:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T09:42:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin is greeted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the start of their talks in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/business/tech/samsung-unveils-sleek-new-galaxy-phones-battle-apple/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T09:44:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man looks at a Samsung S6 during the opening day of the 2015 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday. Phone makers will seek to seduce new buyers with even smarter Internet-connected watches and other wireless gadgets as they wrestle for dominance at the world's biggest mobile fair.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/world/bomb-near-top-cairo-courthouse-kills-two-other-blasts-hit-capital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T10:09:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Egyptian policemen stand guard at the site of an explosion outside the Egyptian supreme court in downtown Cairo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/business/tech/mobile-industry-tiptoes-toward-5g/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T12:31:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ericsson Chief Executive Hans Vestberg speaks during a presentation event at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday. Ninety thousand executives, marketers and reporters gather in Barcelona this week for the telecom operators Mobile World Congress, the largest annual trade show for the global wireless industry, and many eyes are looking toward 5G mobile potential.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T14:10:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda Attends Line Off Event For The Mirai Fuel Cell Vehicle]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corp., stands in front of the company's Mirai fuel-cell vehicle during the a ceremony at the Motomachi plant in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on Feb. 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/obama-says-iran-must-halt-key-nuclear-work-least-decade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T14:32:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T15:15:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T15:59:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T16:03:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T16:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong is seen before an August 2014 talk in Hanoi.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/business/economy-business/cabinet-approves-bill-to-achieve-final-stage-of-power-sector-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T16:31:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/business/taiwan-japan-to-discuss-fishing-arrangements-near-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T16:45:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T16:49:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T17:25:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hisashi Tezuka, a former kamikaze pilot, holds a 1/100-scale plastic model he built of the Type-52 Zero fighter, during an interview at his home in Yokohama on Feb. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T18:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp. SmartWatch 3 wearable devices sit on display during the Wearable Expo in Tokyo on Jan. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/world/boko-haram-posts-video-showing-execution-two-men-spying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T18:24:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[20150303bokoharam]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A video screenshot shows Boko Haram militants forcing a man accused of spying to confess.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/business/economy-business/abe-property-boom-spurs-reits-to-favor-stock-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T18:27:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/asia-pacific/in-likely-jab-at-japan-china-to-hold-parade-to-mark-end-of-wwii/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T18:27:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/national/world-heritage-shrine-kyoto-host-condos-finance-rebuilding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T18:47:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kyoto-a-20150304.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto is planning to lease some of its land to condominiums, seen here superimposed on where they will be situated.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/02/national/islamic-state-propaganda-may-be-drawing-western-coalition-into-holy-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T19:17:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester outside Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office on Feb. 1 holds a sign reading "We do not need armed forces," after Islamic State extremists executed journalist Kenji Goto.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/02/national/crime-legal/key-suspect-boys-slaying-kawasaki-said-starting-come-clean/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T20:33:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T20:33:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-03T20:39:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/world/iraqi-forces-try-seal-islamic-state-around-tikrit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T21:22:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iraqi government forces and allied militias fire a rocket from a position in the northern part of Diyala province, bordering Salaheddin province, as they take part in an assault to retake the city of Tikrit from the Islamic State group Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/business/chinese-budget-carrier-spring-airlines-expand-services-kansai-international/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T22:04:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spring Airlines Chief Executive Officer Zhang Xiuzhi (second from left) shakes hands with Keiichi Ando, CEO of New Kansai International Airport Co., during a news conference Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/business/economy-business/japan-to-make-laos-silver-coin-to-mark-60th-anniversary-of-diplomatic-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T22:57:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The silver coin to commemorate 60 years of Japan-Laos diplomatic ties bears an image of Pha That Luang, a Buddhist stupa in the capital of Vientiane.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/national/crime-legal/animal-abuse-videos-spark-push-stronger-laws/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-03T23:06:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gathering in Tokyo organized by the nonprofit group Nekoken distributes abandoned cats to new owners.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/business/corporate-business/sharp-facing-%c2%a5200-billion-loss-may-close-plants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-04T03:22:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past a Sharp Corp. logo at a train station in Tokyo. The struggling electronics-maker is reportedly mulling the closure of several plants and ending solar panel production.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/national/politics-diplomacy/prime-minister-abes-local-chapter-received-donations-subsidized-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-04T03:22:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abedonations-a-20150304.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bites his lips during a meeting with a panel of experts at his official residence in Tokyo on Feb. 25. Behind Abe is Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/04/asia-pacific/north-korea-warns-u-s-pre-emptive-strike-necessary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-04T05:49:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ri Su Yong, North Korea's foreign minister, walks to the podium to address his statement, during the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/04/world/colombia-detains-china-flagged-ship-illegal-arms-transport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-04T08:22:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/04/asia-pacific/japanese-geologist-warns-of-coming-tsunami-to-hit-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-04T10:57:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/04/world/german-pensioner-needs-drill-to-dig-for-nazi-looted-amber-room/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-04T12:15:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/04/world/crime-legal-world/ex-cia-chief-petraeus-plead-guilty-admits-giving-mistress-secrets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-04T13:23:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[CIA Director nominee Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in June 2011 before the Senate Intelligence Committee during a hearing on his nomination. The Justice Department said Tuesday that the former top Army general has agreed to plead guilty to mishandling classified materials. A statement from the agency says a plea agreement has been filed in U.S. District Court in Charlotte, North Carolina, the hometown of Paula Broadwell, the general's biographer and former mistress.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boulder-covered berm around Cancun, Mexico, may be the remnants of a giant tsunami more than 1,000 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lion statue stands guard outside the Nomura Holdings Inc. building in Tokyo. Security firms are hiring more university graduates this year as the stock market rally brightens their prospects.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-06T18:20:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Multiple images of a single distant supernova within a cluster of galaxies called MACS J1149.6+2223, located more than 5 billion light-years away, are seen in an image from NASA taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released March 5. In the enlarged inset view of the galaxy, the arrows point to the multiple copies of the exploding star, dubbed Supernova Refsdal, located 9.3 billion light-years from Earth. The images are arranged around the galaxy in a cross-shaped pattern called an Einstein Cross. The blue streaks wrapping around the galaxy are the stretched images of the supernova's host spiral galaxy, which has been distorted by the warping of space.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-06T21:21:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-06T21:57:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-06T23:27:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Brennan]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manuela Schwesig (right), Germany's minister of family affairs, senior citizens, women and youth, speaks with Chancellor Angela Merkel in the lower house of parliament on Thursday in Berlin.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov's mother, Dina Eidman, (center), relatives and friends stand at his coffin during a burial ceremony at the Troekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Show of force: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe inspects a mockup F-35A fighter jet on an air base in Omitama, Ibaraki Prefecture, last October.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the field: Wounded U.S. Marine Corps adviser Maj. William Leftwich Jr. shelters during a fire fight in Vietnam’s Binh Dinh province in 1965.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking for release: Protesters demonstrate outside the police station in Nago after the arrest of anti-base campaign organizer Hiroji Yamashiro.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Attends Party Convention]]></image:title>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tour in the Indian Ocean has been widely perceived as a bid to wrest back some of the influence China has gained by spending billions of dollars in the region over the last decade.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/business/more-than-60-want-to-change-home-electric-supplier-after-liberalization-survey-suggests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-10T18:16:00+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/business/suntory-sues-asahi-nonalcoholic-beer-patent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-10T18:16:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-suntoryasahi-a-20150311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In 2014, Suntory Holdings Ltd. sold 7.2 million cases of All-Free, a beer-flavored beverage that contains no alcohol, calories and carbohydrates. The company claims Asahi Breweries Ltd. infringed on a patent with its nonalcoholic beer-flavored drinks.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/national/russian-held-islands-shrink-by-33-sq-km/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-10T18:43:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/business/economy-business/red-purge-during-macarthur-era-hurt-unions-now-pushing-on-wages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-10T18:53:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Labor union members raise their hands during an event held by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation in Tokyo on Feb. 5.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/business/cabinet-oks-proposals-to-amend-information-laws-but-privacy-fears-linger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-10T20:14:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/national/asylum-seekers-in-japan-soared-to-record-level-in-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-10T20:14:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/national/fukushima-residents-torn-nuclear-waste-storage-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-10T20:26:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monument and a stone statue of Jizo for victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami are seen near big black plastic bags containing radioactive soil, leaves and debris from the decontamination operation at a temporary storage site in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, near Tokyo Electric Power Co's tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Feb. 22. Many residents of Okuma, a village near the plant, are angry about government plans to dump some 30 million tons of radioactive debris raked up from th disaster in a sprawling waste complex on their doorstep. Few believe Tokyo's assurances that the site will be cleaned up and shut down after 30 years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/world/atlanta-area-police-officer-kills-unarmed-naked-black-man/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-10T21:33:26+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/national/bill-aims-to-toughen-dementia-checks-on-elderly-drivers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-10T21:35:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/national/leader-anti-atomic-seminars-unsilenced-four-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-10T21:36:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-workshop-a-20150311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Writer Keiko Ochiai and British-born broadcaster Peter Barakan talk at a workshop against nuclear power in Tokyo on Feb. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/national/science-health/tepco-claims-it-will-be-more-forthcoming-with-data-from-fukushima-no-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-10T21:36:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/national/crime-legal/man-held-awaji-slayings-five-neighbors-trouble-past-investigators/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-10T22:41:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/world/crime-legal-world/nsa-sued-wikimedia-rights-groups-mass-surveillance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T05:17:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f-nsa-a-20150312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nsa-a-20150312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The National Security Administration campus in Fort Meade, Maryland, is seen in 2013.  The American Civil Liberties Union, Wikimedia and other groups are suing the NSA over its surveillance practices. The lawsuit says the agency violates the free speech and privacy rights of Americans by tapping into the U.S. internet backbone to monitor online communications.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/business/uber-pledges-enlist-1-million-female-drivers-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T07:44:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/world/crime-legal-world/frenchman-gets-three-years-helping-girl-14-go-syria-marry-islamic-state-fighter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T07:49:43+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/world/crime-legal-world/jury-boston-marathon-bomb-trial-sees-bloodstained-note/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T08:59:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-marathon-a-20150312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bloodstained message that prosecutors say Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote on the inside of a boat is seen with bullet holes in an undated evidence picture shown to jurors in Boston on Tuesday. Tsarnaev, 21, is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, as well as fatally shooting a police officer three days later as he and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, tried to flee the city.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/world/graphic-torture-photos-syria-display-united-nations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T10:56:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-torture-a-20150312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum visitor Marianne Kast, from Fresno, California, watches a slide show presentation last October of images of emaciated and mangled bodies from recent history in Syria in an exhibit titled "Genocide: The Threat Continues," at the museum in Washington. Almost helpless in the U.N. Security Council to take strong action on Syria, the United States and other states are hoping to shame its government by sponsoring a graphic photo exhibit of detainees who've died in President Bashar Assad's prisons since the country's conflict began. Fifteen countries will join the opposition Syrian National Coalition on Tuesday at United Nations headquarters to launch the exhibit of portraits showing signs of torture and starvation and to call for an end to the crisis that enters its fifth year this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/world/crime-legal-world/washington-state-kidnapper-caught-video-running-toddler/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T11:56:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f-kidnap-a-20150312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kidnap-a-20150312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A still image from surveillance video released by the Lincoln County Sheriffs Office shows a man who had allegedly grabbed a 22-month-old child from a stroller and ran froim a park in Sprague, Washington, Tuesday. The baby boy was saved thanks to his two young siblings screaming and giving chase, authorities said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/09/national/history/items-taken-persecuted-christians-return-nagaski-rare-exhibition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T12:30:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-christnagasaki-b-20150310.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-christnagasaki-b-20150310.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture in the city of Nagasaki displays a statue of Jesus on Feb. 19 that was confiscated from Christians of the village of Urakami in what is now Nagasaki Prefecture, during Japan's persecution of Christians in the 1600s to 1800s. The statue is now in the possession of the Tokyo National Museum, which agreed to loan some 200 items to the Nagasaki museum to exhibit.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/national/history/panel-chief-wants-abe-acknowledge-japan-waged-war-invasion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T13:13:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-invasion-a-20150311.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-invasion-a-20150311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinichi Kitaoka]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/national/art-therapy-tours-enliven-dementia-patients-and-their-caregivers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T13:18:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/business/corporate-business/sharp-eyes-lcd-shift-to-business-products/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T14:28:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/national/photo-exhibit-showcases-major-events-of-last-70-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T14:55:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-postwarexhibit-a-20150312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-postwarexhibit-a-20150312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors take in the exhibit "70 Years After World War II — A News Agency as an Eyewitness" last Friday at the Tokyo International Forum in Yurakucho.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/clinton-admits-better-second-email-address/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T15:26:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f-hillary-a-20150312.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a news conference at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday. Clinton said she did not email any classified material to anyone while at the State Department.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/business/corporate-business/familymart-likely-to-absorb-uny-in-forming-second-biggest-convenience-store-chain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T15:42:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-familymart-a-20150312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[FamilyMart President Isamu Nakayama (right) and Uny Group Holdings Co. President Norio Sako announce the details of their merger talks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/national/japanese-forces-may-gather-intelligence-foreign-forces-logistics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T15:52:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/world/islamic-state-alternative-to-facebook-already-offline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T16:01:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/national/politics-diplomacy/health-defense-ministers-attend-joint-u-s-japan-war-memorial-service-iwo-jima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T16:36:05+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/world/crime-legal-world/mugging-of-reporter-is-caught-on-camera-in-south-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T17:41:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/world/iraqi-troops-militia-retake-strategic-town-north-tikrit-islamic-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T18:17:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Shiite fighter gestures in front of a billboard on a street in the town of al-Alam on Monday. Just north of Tikrit, home city of executed Sunni former President Saddam Hussein, Iraqi security forces and Shiite militia fighters began an offensive against Islamic State to regain control over the town of al-Alam.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/world/cia-allegedly-sought-to-hack-apple-iphones-from-earliest-days/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T18:17:17+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/asia-pacific/hong-kong-lawyers-edit-criticism-china-electoral-reform-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T19:07:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f-hk-a-20150311.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hk-a-20150311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-democracy demonstrator gestures after police fired tear gas toward protesters near the Hong Kong government headquarters on Sept. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/national/history/japan-sincerely-tackling-comfort-women-issue-official-tells-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T19:08:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/national/nra-chief-warns-of-ongoing-risks-at-wrecked-fukushima-no-1-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T19:17:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/national/victims-of-311-remembered-four-years-on/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T19:17:26+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/national/questions-remain-over-future-plan-for-japans-aging-nuclear-plants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T21:15:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/national/new-five-year-plan-tohoku-crafted-summer-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T21:16:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-abequake-a-20150311.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abequake-a-20150311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a news conference at his office Tuesday on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the March 11, 2011 disasters.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/asia-pacific/new-zealand-spies-china-asian-nations-snowden-papers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T21:21:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/national/sendai-conference-aims-to-muster-political-weight-to-reduce-disaster-risks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T23:02:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/national/survivors-mark-4-years-since-311-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-11T23:28:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-311-anniversary-a-20150312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man prays for victims of the March 11, 2011, quake-tsunami disaster at a memorial site in the city of Sendai on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/world/child-executioner-islamic-state-video-may-linked-french-gunman-police-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T05:59:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f-ischild-a-20150313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ischild-a-20150313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image grab taken Tuesday from a video reportedly released by the Islamic State group through Al-Furqan Media, one of the Jihadist platforms used by the militant organization on the Web, shows a youth identifying himself as 19-year-old Mohammed Said Ismail Musallam, from Jerusalem, wearing an orange jumpsuit as he addresses the camera in Arabic at an undisclosed location. Islamic State released the video purportedly showing Musallam being executed by a young boy after he allegedly infiltrated group in Syria to spy for the Jewish state.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/national/crime-legal/japan-shipping-firm-official-jailed-u-s-cartel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T07:55:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/world/offbeat-world/florida-golfers-undeterred-large-alligator-putting-green/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T09:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f-gator-a-20150313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-gator-a-20150313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An American alligator estimated to be 12-13 feet long walks onto the edge of the putting green on the seventh hole of Myakka Pines Golf Club in Englewood, Florida, in this handout photo courtesy of Bill Susie. Golfers at the course  Wednesday were careful to putt around a large alligator, days after the beast was photographed lounging on the edge of the green in an image that went viral on Facebook.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/asia-pacific/china-military-aircraft-see-tech-breakthroughs-year-xinhua/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T09:02:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/world/u-s-probing-report-secret-service-agents-drove-car-white-house-barrier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T10:20:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f-secretservice-a-20150313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-secretservice-a-20150313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secret Service officers search the south grounds of the White House on Jan. 26 after an unmanned aerial drone was found on the White House grounds during the middle of the night. The Secret Service is investigating two senior agents after a car crash at the White House complex. Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback says recently appointed Director Joseph Clancy has been briefed on the March 4 incident.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/national/japanese-man-held-released-by-kurds-in-northern-iraq/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T10:28:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/11/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korea-police-boost-security-for-japanese-envoy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T10:29:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/world/science-health-world/gigantic-ancient-arthropod-really-peaceful-guy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T10:39:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This artist's rendering provided by Marianne Collins shows the filter-feeding anomalocaridid Aegirocassis benmoulae from the Early Ordovician (480 million years ago) off Morocco feeding on a plankton cloud. Aegirocassis reached a length in excess of 2 meters, making it one of the biggest arthropods to have ever lived, and foreshadows the appearance much later of giant filter-feeding sharks and whales.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-12T10:40:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-12T10:41:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A staff member adjusts Panasonic Corp.'s logo during a company news conference in Tokyo last September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/national/yokohama-teacher-used-pc-show-documentary-got-porn-instead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T13:31:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ferguson, Missouri, Police Chief Thomas Jackson on Aug. 15 releases the name of the the officer accused of fatally shooting Michael Brown. Jackson reportedly plans to resign Wednesday in connection with a government report that criticizes his department for years of racial profiling.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/business/economy-business/nisa-investments-swell-but-still-not-on-pace-to-reach-target/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-12T15:08:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese navy vessel (foreground) is seen in the South China Sea in January 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/business/corporate-business/panasonic-to-sell-sanyo-electronics-unit-to-investment-fund/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T15:27:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-12T16:20:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee checks underneath the 2013 Toyota Motor Corp. RAV4 crossover vehicle during the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles in November 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/world/science-health-world/oceans-yield-1500-new-creatures-many-others-lurk-unknown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T16:35:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[105471_mysidopsis-zsilaveczi]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stargazing shrimp, otherwise known as Mysidopsis zsilaveczi, might appear to be permanently gazing upward but their compound eyes allow them to look in several directions at once.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/business/seven-bank-unveils-mobile-atm-use-after-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T17:20:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-12T17:20:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-12T17:20:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Screenshot 2015-03-12 13.45.28]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot shows an arial view in a video by Google View that documents the making of Street View images of the disaster-struck areas of Tohoku.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/asia-pacific/china-to-refresh-policy-on-visitors-to-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T19:18:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-12T21:11:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/business/corporate-business/vaio-phone-offer-sim-free-option-wide-open-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T22:30:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-vaio-a-20150313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The SIM-free Vaio Phone is unveiled by Japan Communications Inc. on Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/national/crime-legal/npa-receives-record-370000-reports-of-dubious-financial-deals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T22:34:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/national/south-korea-honors-ex-nagasaki-mayor-over-support-for-a-bomb-survivors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T22:39:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/national/politics-diplomacy/ex-prime-minister-hatoyama-defends-referendum-crimea-constitutional/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T22:44:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama attends a news conference in the Crimean capital Simferopol on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/national/government-resumes-drilling-survey-futenma-replacement-base-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T23:34:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Defense Bureau workers resume a boring survey needed for construction of the U.S. replacement airfield for Futenma, in waters off Henoko in Okinawa Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/business/corporate-business/hitachi-scores-first-eu-commuter-train-deal-as-express-arrivals-begin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T23:35:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/12/world/politics-intrude-as-cybersecurity-firms-hunt-for-spies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-12T23:37:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cyberfirms-a-20150313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The multibillion-dollar cybersecurity industry is fragmenting along geopolitical lines as firms chase after government contracts and share information with spy agencies such as the U.S. National Security Agency.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/13/world/british-girls-helped-syria-captured-spy-u-s-led-coalition-turkey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-13T05:18:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This video image eleased March 1 by Turkish TV  reportedly shows three missing British teenage girls at an Istanbul bus terminal before they boarded a bus to a city near Turkey's border with Syria. Turkey is now saying a spy working for the U.S.-led coalition got the trio into Syria, where it is believed they hooded up with the Islamic State group. The alleged spy has been nabbed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/13/world/chad-troops-fighting-boko-haram-redeploy-cameroon-signaling-possible-new-push/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soldiers arrive at the scene of blast where a suspected female suicide bomber blew herself up at the crowded Monday Market in Maiduguri on Tuesday, days after Boko Haram bombings killed 58 people, as the government said the group's allegiance to the Islamic State showed the militants were weakening. Chadian forces are redeploying apparently to hit Boko Haram positions farther south, leaving Nigerian forces to hold retaken parts of northern Nigeria, including Maiduguri.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-13T08:42:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-13T08:44:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The bourse soared Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-13T08:45:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-13T09:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-13T10:09:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-13T10:30:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-13T10:31:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-carjack-a-20150314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this courtroom sketch, Dun Meng (far right) testifies with a translator at his side during the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Boston on Thursday. Meng described his harrowing ride at gunpoint with the Boston Marathon bombers and the moment he made "the most difficult decision" of his life to bolt from the car.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/13/national/social-issues/government-to-support-matchmaking-mens-child-rearing-to-raise-birthrate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-13T10:33:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-13T10:34:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/13/national/stronger-ties-asean-vital-japans-security-oda-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-13T10:42:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-13T11:57:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The planet Jupiter is shown with one of its moons, Ganymede (bottom), in this NASA handout taken April 9, 2007 and obtained by Reuters on Thursday. Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed that Ganymede has an ocean beneath its icy surface, raising the prospects for life, NASA said on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/13/world/islamic-state-leader-accepts-allegiance-nigerias-boko-haram/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-13T13:23:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-13T14:50:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[honda-20150312]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign at a Honda dealership in Miami Lakes, Fla. Honda announced on Thursday that it is launching an unprecedented U.S. ad campaign urging owners to get vehicles repaired if they have been recalled to fix defective air bags.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/13/world/science-health-world/measles-cases-seen-almost-doubling-ebola-epidemic-countries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-13T14:53:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[liberia-ebola-20150313]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents of the St. Paul Bridge neighborhood wearing personal protective equipment take a man suspected of carrying the Ebola virus to the Island Clinic in Monrovia, Liberia, on Sept. 28, 2014. Scientists said on Thursday that measles cases could almost double in countries hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/13/national/9-girl-may-youngest-spot-supernova/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-13T15:39:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koto Tomita (left) and her sister, Rino, who discovered a supernova, pose at Ichinomiya High School, where they conduct astronomical research.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/13/world/police-swarm-home-st-louis-suburb-ambush-two-ferguson-cops/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-13T15:40:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ferguson-a-20150314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police tactical team prepares to enter a home in the 100 block of Dade Ave. in Ferguson, Missouri, on Thursday as they search for a suspect they believe to be in the attic as they continue investigating the shooting of two police officers during protests. Two officers were shot in front of the Ferguson Police Department early Thursday while demonstrators were gathered across the street, an attack the county police chief described as "an ambush" that could easily have killed both men.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/13/business/corporate-business/fanuc-mulls-boosting-investor-returns-as-loeb-calls-for-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-13T16:02:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/13/business/ships-beached-scrap-returns-reach-record-low/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-13T17:46:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ship-a-20150314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A young boy looks out at a tanker being scrapped at a Bangladeshi shipbreaking yard on April 29, 2005, near Chittagong.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/13/world/putins-military-draws-u-s-concern-vietnam-americas/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mos Burger's Tokyo Tower Burger went on sale on Friday exclusively at its store inside the 333-meter-high landmark tower.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supercomputers have discovered up to 13 trillion digits of pi, a math constant that refers to a circle's circumference to its diameter.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seismic isolation systems are placed underneath structures to cushion earthquake ground motion with rubber, oil or other substances.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the third U.N. Disaster Risk Reduction conference Saturday in Sendai, the first day of the five-day event.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stuck in time: A man walks past a row of temporary houses in Fukushima Prefecture on March 10.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bristol Palin]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyer Kenji Utsunomiya (middle) speaks during a symposium on the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-15T22:50:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The National People's Congress, China's rubber-stamp parliament, holds its closing ceremony in Beijing on Sunday. At a news conference later in the day, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang urged Japan to squarely face its wartime deeds.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mock funeral plate depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin as Adolf Hitler is being used as part of a "Funeral of Putin" performance in a front of the Russian Embassy in Kiev  on Sunda. A wave of savage mockery broke over Putin across the Internet on Friday, sparked by days of absence from public view, despite official insistence it was business as usual in the Kremlin. The inscription on the plate reads  "D#head V.V.,  7.10.1952 12.03.2015, Vova, don't fail us. PTN FOF."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image of Jeffrey Williams is shown on the screen of a kiosk at the St. Louis County Justice Center, in Clayton, Missouri, Sunday. Williams, a 20-year-old suspect in the shooting last week of two police officers during a protest rally in Ferguson, Missouri, has been arrested and charged with first-degree assault and gun violations, prosecutors said on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The new SecuTablet from BlackBerry Ltd., based on Samsung Electronics Co.'s Tab S 10.5, is on display at the CeBit tech show in Hanover, Germany, on Sunday. BlackBerry Ltd. introduced the tablet computer aimed at government and corporate customers that it says can let users access consumer applications such as YouTube and WhatsApp while keeping confidential work-related information away from spies and crooks.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[It's not us, Grandpa: Children at a school festival pass out flyers warning of the dangers of the "It's me" scam. Perpetrators of the fraud call up elderly people and claim to be a child or grandchild in need of money, which the concerned grandparent then sends to them. Police report that over 80 percent of telephone fraud victims are aged 65 and above.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local residents stand by a bridge near Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, on Sunday. Parts of the Pacific island nation were extensively damaged by Cyclone Pam at the end of last week.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A refugee from a Ukrainian city in the hands of pro-Russia separatists sits with children on a bunk bed Thursday in Slovyansk, a city controlled by Ukrainian forces.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-16T14:59:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-police protester (left) and civil rights demonstrator yell at each other outside the Ferguson Police Department on Sunday in the strife-hit Missouri city.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese golden eagle is spotted in Toyama Prefecture in 2010. The population has fallen to around 500 birds nationwide.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivers a speech during a symposium on the 70th anniversary of the United Nations at U.N. University in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-16T22:43:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/16/national/history/imperial-banquet-menus-show-tastes-times-past/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-16T22:43:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some of over 1,000 menus from banquets at the Imperial Palace between 1874 and 1964, collected by former Imperial head chef Tokuzo Akiyama, are shown to the media last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/16/business/chinese-seeking-u-s-homes-spawn-250000-tours-private-jet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-16T23:43:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians pass apartment buildings on the Upper East Side of New York in 2007. Wealthy Chinese have been stocking up on overseas real estate in recent years, including condos in New York and Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/16/business/tpp-clock-ticks-congress-dallies-trade-authority/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-16T23:43:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester holds a placard at a rally against the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in Tokyo in April 2014. Negotiators from 12 countries ended a week of talks in Hawaii on Sunday without a major breakthrough toward sealing the free trade pact.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/16/business/financial-markets/beware-the-300-billion-shift-into-treasuries-coming-from-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-16T23:43:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-16T23:49:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks Friday at a meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt in Sharm el-Sheikh. In an interview with CBS News, Kerry said the U.S. is pushing for Syrian President Bashar Assad to seriously discuss a transition strategy to quell the Arab country's four-year civil war.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/world/fighting-rages-near-donetsk-airport-despite-ukraine-cease-fire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T05:23:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-Russian rebel crouches in front of a destroyed Ukranian army tank in the village of Spartak, on the outskirts of Donetsk, Ukraine, on Monday, as fighting reportedly continues despite a cease-fire.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/world/kurds-report-chlorine-attacks-iraq-pauses-tikrit-offensive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T07:18:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yazan al-Jabouri, a member of one of Iraq's most prominent tribes, points as he speaks with his colleagues at the front line during a battle against Islamic State militants in Tikrit, Iraq, Monday. For months, al-Jabouri was living in fear of crossing paths with a fighter from the Islamic State group. He had refused to pledge loyalty to the extremist group, and letters had been left on his doorstep threatening to cut his head off. His wife and children also were threatened.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/world/aid-agencies-begin-helicopter-flights-cyclone-stricken-vanuatu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T12:19:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Australian RAAF C-17 Globemaster is loaded with supplies, aid workers and journalists while en route to Vanuatu Monday. Vanuatu's president said Monday that the cyclone that hammered the tiny South Pacific archipelago over the weekend was a "monster" that has destroyed or damaged 90 percent of the buildings in the capital and has forced the nation to start anew.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-17T13:21:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/world/crime-legal-world/bathroom-confession-critical-durst-case-legal-experts-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T13:34:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Durst]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/world/thai-women-warned-against-taking-underboob-selfies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T13:56:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-17T14:15:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-17T14:32:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-17T14:53:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/national/tokhoku-kids-to-help-stitch-giant-baseball-glove-for-great-buddha-in-nara/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T15:20:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Priests dust the Great Buddha at Todaiji Temple, Nara Prefecture, in August. A giant baseball glove is in the making for the Buddha, as part of efforts to cheer up children in Tohoku, which was devastated by the March 2011 disasters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/petrochina-vice-chairman-investigation-amid-graft-crackdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T15:48:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-17T15:49:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer beats a student protester in Letpadan, 140 km north of Yangon on March 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/asia-pacific/u-n-expert-demands-international-action-200000-alleged-north-korea-abductions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T15:49:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-17T17:12:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/business/economy-business/boj-maintains-stimulus-but-sees-inflation-weakening-to-around-zero-percent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T18:16:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/national/chiba-native-helping-fight-ebola-epidemic-west-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T18:29:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukiko Sakurai, a specialist with UNICEF, speaks in Tokyo on Dec. 2 about her work to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone by relaying to local people the importance of hygiene.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/asia-pacific/singapore-founding-father-lee-kuan-yews-condition-worsens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T19:09:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Kuan Yew]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/national/toyo-tire-told-to-speed-up-checks-of-substandard-quake-absorbing-materials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T20:42:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/national/three-aging-nuclear-reactors-in-fukui-prefecture-to-be-scrapped/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T20:42:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/national/crime-legal/syrian-asylum-seekers-sue-refugee-status/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T21:29:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian Joude Youssef (left) pleads for refugee status in Tokyo on Tuesday. He is one of four asylum seekers who arrived in 2012 and are now suing the government over their rejected applications.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/business/cabinet-members-to-advise-foreign-firms-investing-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T21:31:37+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/world/monitor-says-syrian-army-killed-six-toxic-gas-attack-military-denies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T21:32:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A young man breathes with an oxygen mask Tuesday at a clinic in the village of Sarmin, southeast of Idlib, the capital of Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, following reports of suffocation cases related to an alleged regime gas attack in the area.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/national/crime-legal/otsu-settles-family-boy-bullied-suicide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T21:32:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The father of a 13-year-old boy who killed himself in 2011 after being bullied at school wipes away tears during a news conference Tuesday with Otsu Mayor Naomi Koshi.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/business/camping-gear-maker-coleman-japan-inspected-over-pricing-practice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T23:06:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/national/politics-diplomacy/foreign-ministrys-1969-china-map-identifies-senkaku-islands-by-japanese-name/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T23:20:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot of a PDF uploaded to the Foreign Ministry site highlights the difference between two maps of the Senkaku Islands .]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/national/politics-diplomacy/multiparty-group-to-examine-lgbt-discrimination/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T23:24:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/national/inspired-by-new-bullet-train-line-kanazawa-invests-in-tourist-resources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T23:25:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/national/michelle-obama-arriving-in-tokyo-on-wednesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T23:26:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-obama-a-20150318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/business/economy-business/boj-must-adopt-pay-goal-as-deflation-looms-price-professor-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-17T23:27:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/18/world/lawyer-pakistan-doctor-helped-cia-find-bin-laden-shot-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-18T06:56:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives move the body of Samiullah Afridi, who was killed by unidentified gunmen, at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday. According to local media, unidentified gunmen opened fire on a vehicle killing Afridi, a defense lawyer who was pursuing the case of Shakil Afridi, who had been jailed after helping the CIA find al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden by running a fake vaccination campaign.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/illinois-republican-rep-aaron-schock-will-resign-amid-questions-spending/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-18T07:58:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f-schock-a-20150319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-schock-a-20150319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalists gather outside the office of Rep. Aaron Schock on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Schock is resigning from Congress, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said on Tuesday. Schock's resignation follows news reports that raised questions about his use of taxpayer dollars.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/18/world/u-s-air-force-veteran-accused-trying-assist-islamic-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-18T08:36:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/18/world/food-concerns-mount-vanuatu-monster-cyclone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-18T09:57:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-vanuatu-a-20150319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A girl picks fruit Tuesday from a tree in Lenakel town in Tanna, days after Cyclone Pam hit the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. International aid agencies began emergency flights on Tuesday to some of the remote outer islands of Vanuatu, which they fear have been devastated by the monster cyclone that tore through the nation. Disaster management officials and relief workers are still battling to get rescue teams on many of the islands that bore the brunt of Cyclone Pam.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korea-japan-and-china-to-meet-in-bid-to-restore-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-18T10:32:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/national/high-school-students-struggle-with-speaking-writing-english/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-18T10:32:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/18/world/u-s-loses-drone-syria-claims-brought/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-18T10:55:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usdrone-a-20150319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile  sits on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport in Afghanistan in 2010. The U.S. military lost communication with a an MG-1 Predator drone over Syria on Tuesday and is looking into claims by state media in Damascus that the robotic aircraft was shot down, officials said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/18/world/california-tightens-water-regulations-amid-long-drought/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-18T10:58:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/18/business/economy-business/exports-rise-more-than-forecast-supporting-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-18T12:11:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trade-a-20150319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shipping container is loaded from a truck onto a container ship at a shipping terminal in Tokyo last August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/19/national/crime-legal/asahara-daughter-speaks-95-sarin-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-19T19:35:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The fourth daughter of Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult founder Shoko Asahara places her hands on her lap during an interview in March. She spoke on condition of anonymity and asked that her face not be shown.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-veterans-urge-abe-to-admit-war-responsibility-at-congress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-19T21:35:40+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/2015/03/19/national/kyushu-electric-aims-to-restart-sendai-plant-reactor-in-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-19T22:05:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/19/national/crime-legal/three-teens-sent-to-family-court-over-killing-of-kawasaki-boy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-19T22:05:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/19/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-china-hold-first-security-talks-four-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-19T23:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jianchao takes part in bilateral security talks on Thursday in Tokyo, the first meeting of its kind in four years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/19/national/politics-diplomacy/michelle-obama-akie-abe-pledge-bilateral-effort-girls-education/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-19T23:03:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. first lady Michelle Obama speaks with female students after holding a discussion on girls' education in the developing world, at the Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/19/national/police-reportedly-investigating-threats-against-caroline-kennedy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-19T23:26:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Japan-US-Kennedy.JPEG-073a9.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Caroline Kennedy]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy waves to the audience before she delivers opening remarks during JFK International Symposium at Waseda University in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/19/national/crime-legal/stalking-cases-japan-hit-record-high-third-year-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-19T23:27:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/19/national/crime-legal/vote-disparity-in-2014-lower-house-election-is-constitutional-tokyo-high-court-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-19T23:28:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/18/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/altercation-death-threats-indian-school-aging-nun-raped/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-19T23:47:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Hindu nun holds a poster during a protest rally Tuesday to show solidarity with the nun who was raped during an armed assault on a convent school, in Kolkata.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/19/asia-pacific/indonesia-using-u-s-pacific-fleet-as-blueprint-for-naval-buildup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-19T23:57:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ships of Indonesia's navy maneuver in this undated photo supplied by the nation's armed forces.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/19/business/fed-drops-patient-stance-opening-door-june-rate-increase/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T00:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Janet Yellen, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks at a press conference following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/national/rakugo-classic-comic-storyteller-beicho-dies-89/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T09:29:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsura Beicho]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/business/lufthansa-pilot-strike-grounds-over-half-long-haul-flights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T10:02:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lufthansa planes park at the airport in Munich Thursday. Thousands of international travelers were stranded Thursday as a strike by Lufthansa pilots was extended to long-haul flights, and Germany's largest airline said it was preparing for even more cancellations on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/19/world/gunmen-dressed-as-soldiers-storm-tunisian-museum-at-least-19-dead-including-three-japanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T11:41:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers and a journalist run outside the parliament in Tunis on Wednesday, when gunmen in military uniforms stormed Tunisia's national museum, killing 17 foreign tourists and two Tunisians.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/asia-pacific/quest-improve-pla-xi-evokes-japans-victory-navy-1894/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T11:55:24+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/business/economy-business/japans-factories-jobs-arent-coming-back-despite-weak-yen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T13:14:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vacant lot and commercial building owned by auto-parts maker Murata Spring Co. stands in an industrial park on the old site of a Panasonic Corp. factory in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, on Feb. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/national/crime-legal/japanese-make-arrest-threats-u-s-ambassador-state-department/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T13:33:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/world/body-found-new-jersey-river-missing-wsj-reporter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T13:38:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/business/financial-markets/boj-policymakers-say-reaching-2-inflation-may-take-longer-than-planned-minutes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T16:13:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/national/pottery-makers-may-embrace-3-d-printing-hone-designs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T16:25:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prototypes of Toshiro, the mascot for the city of Seto in Aichi Prefecture, that were made using a 3-D printer are arranged for display. The character is modeled after the 13th-century potter Toshiro.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/sydney-siege-cafe-reopens-plaques-honoring-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T16:42:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-aus-siege-a-20150321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Lindt Cafe was closed for three months.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/business/economy-business/government-to-upgrade-view-on-economy-in-march-for-first-time-in-eight-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T17:01:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/business/corporate-business/nippon-life-turns-to-overseas-eyes-%c2%a51-5-trillion-in-mergers-and-acquisitions-by-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T19:11:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks near the logo for Nippon Life Insurance Co. in Tokyo in September 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/business/abe-administration-to-compile-stopgap-budget-covering-11-days/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T19:11:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/business/chinese-flee-h-k-shop-japan-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T19:12:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mainland Chinese visitors rest outside a shop at a shopping district in Hong Kong at the end of February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/national/cabinet-seeks-to-raise-percentage-of-men-taking-paternity-leave-to-80-by-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T19:13:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/world/eu-agrees-keeping-russia-sanctions-ukraine-peace-terms-met/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T19:25:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-20T19:33:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This provided photo shows Haruka Miyazaki, one of the victims of the Tunisia musuem attack, when she was in junior high school.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/national/crime-legal/nagoya-high-court-says-2014-snap-election-results-in-state-of-unconstitutionality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T20:15:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-20T20:16:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-20T20:16:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-20T20:36:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/business/mitsui-fudosan-mitsubishi-estate-among-foreign-developers-grabbing-major-n-y-deals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T20:39:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan Co. displays an artist's image of a 51-story building it plans to erect in New York, on Jan. 26 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/national/crime-legal/japans-tax-agency-hong-kong-join-fbi-scrutinizing-universal-casino-payments-linked-philippine-regulator/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T20:46:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada (center) smiles Thursday before the Mississippi Gaming Commission in Biloxi, Mississippi. The regulator renewed the license of gaming magnate Okada to operate in the state, saying it based the decision on its own investigation and not on press reports about allegations of bribery in the Philippines.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/national/science-health/riken-to-ask-obokata-for-%c2%a5600000-in-publishing-fees-for-debunked-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T22:45:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryoji Noyori]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/national/social-issues/aichi-set-to-ban-jk-businesses-to-protect-young-female-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-20T23:26:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/national/tokyo-marks-20th-anniversary-of-aums-deadly-sarin-attack-on-subway-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-21T00:14:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-sarin-a-20150321.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sarin-a-20150321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Metro Co. staff observe a moment of silence Friday at Kasumigaseki Station to mark the 20th anniversary of the deadly sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system by doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/national/politics-diplomacy/coalition-takes-major-step-toward-loosening-sdf-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-21T00:17:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/national/visa-overstaying-cases-show-first-uptick-since-93/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-21T00:18:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-21T11:33:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-21T16:59:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/21/national/media-national/media-caught-festive-pr-atmosphere-new-hokuriku-bullet-train/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-21T22:46:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-mm-hokuriku-a-20150322.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Putting out the welcome mat: Media coverage of the Hokuriku Shinkansen has been selectively focused on the new bullet train's speed and cutting-edge comforts.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/21/national/history/japan-u-s-honor-perished-battle-iwojima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-21T20:48:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-iwojima-a-20150322.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[World War II veterans, relatives of the dead and senior government officials attend a Japan-U.S. memorial service Saturday on Iwoto Island to honor the 29,000 people who died in the Battle of Iwojima.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/21/national/calligrapher-with-down-syndrome-takes-message-of-hope-to-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-21T20:48:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoko Kanazawa, a Japanese calligrapher with Down syndrome, speaks at United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday. The U.N. designates every March 21 as World Down Syndrome Day.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (right) talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se as Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida looks on Saturday during their trilateral meeting in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis speaks at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on March 13.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches military drills at an airfield in North Korea in this picture distributed by the Korean Central News Agency on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Happy family: A same-sex couple in Tokyo look at a picture of themselves from their wedding day in San Francisco in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A convoy of soldiers from Niger and Chad drive down a looted street in the recently retaken town of Damasak, Nigeria, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker answers questions at a training workshop for the state Republican Party in Concord, New Hampshire, on March 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-22T15:29:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-22T16:18:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-22T19:07:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fighters from the Saraya al-Salam (Peace Brigades), a group formed by Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, wave their weapons as they leave the holy city of Najaf on Friday. They were traveling with government forces to the northern city of Tikrit, where the offensive against Islamic State group jihadis continues.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. soldiers participate in a military exercise to help train Iraqi security forces in Taji, Iraq, on Saturday. The Islamic State group has posted online what it says are the names, U.S. addresses and photos of 100 American military service members, and called upon its "brothers residing in America" to kill them.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-22T19:14:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-22T19:14:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-22T20:52:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-22T20:53:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, head of the political group Osaka Ishin no Kai (One Osaka), gives a speech on street corner in Osaka on March 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-22T20:54:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda covers his face as he answers questions during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Friday. Kuroda spoke to reporters nearly two years after he was sworn in as the central bank chief, with the bank's two-year time-frame for its 2 percent inflation target approaching.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-22T20:58:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/22/national/politics-diplomacy/indonesia-leader-starts-japan-tour-with-defense-infrastructure-on-agenda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-22T22:11:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joko "Jokowi" Widodo]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers wearing protective gear stand guard during a protest against the Group of Eight summit in Sapporo in July 2008.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-22T22:24:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-22T23:59:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The design of a proposed Sons of Confederate Veterans license plate features the Confederate flag. The Supreme Court on Monday will weigh a free-speech challenge to Texas' decision to refuse to issue a license plate bearing the battle flag.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An elderly woman sits on the ground in the recently retaken town of Damasak, Nigeria, on Friday. Soldiers from Niger and Chad who liberated the Nigerian town of Damasak from Boko Haram militants have discovered the bodies of at least 70 people, many with their throats slit, scattered under a bridge.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Permanent Representative of the Mission to Yemen Khaled Hussein Al Yemany speaks with a colleague at the end of a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-23T13:31:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian Iskander missiles make their way through Red Square during a rehearsal for the May 2013 Victory Day military parade in Moscow. Russia has threatened to aim nuclear missiles at Danish warships if Denmark joins NATO's missile defense system.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-23T17:04:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-23T17:04:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New York-based clinical psychologist Judy Kuriansky, who helps children traumatized by disasters in Japan and other countries, speaks at an event during the U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai on March 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-23T17:23:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/22/world/eu-to-launch-propaganda-war-amid-russian-disinformation-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-23T19:39:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping (center) poses for a group photo after a signing ceremony for establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, in Beijing on Oct. 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/national/crime-legal/osaka-court-says-2014-vote-gap-state-unconstitutionality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-23T20:03:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of lawyers heads for the Osaka High Court on Monday before it was to rule on the constitutionality of vote disparities in December's snap Lower House election.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/asia-pacific/lee-kuan-yew-founder-modern-singapore-dies-91/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-23T20:11:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew waves to supporters in 2011 as he arrives at an elections nomination center. Lee, the founder of modern Singapore who helped transform the sleepy port into one of the world's richest nations, died Monday. He was 91.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/world/crashed-syrian-army-helicopter-crew-captured-rebels-one-executed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-23T20:12:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nusra Front fighters inspect a helicopter that belongs to forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad after it crashed in Jabal al-Zawiya in the southern countryside of Idlib on Sunday. The Syrian military helicopter crashed in northwestern Syria on Sunday and at least four of its crew were captured by rebels, according to a monitoring group. Video footage on social media showed a helicopter crashing in the distance. Photographs posted showed one of the crew apparently executed on the spot and an injured pilot taken by rebels from the wreckage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/national/politics-diplomacy/komeito-may-opt-against-right-to-good-environment-amendment-in-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-23T20:20:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-23T20:33:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chika Akimoto, the only sixth-grader at Kawauchi Elementary School in the village of Kawauchi, Fukushima Prefecture, receives her graduation certificate during a ceremony Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/national/%c2%a5189-billion-in-public-money-spent-on-fukushima-cleanup-so-far/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-23T20:42:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-23T20:49:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon TV was the first major broadcaster to offer a free minogashi haishin (missed-program netcast) service on its website (above), allowing viewers who missed programs on aired on TV to watch them later online via computer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/national/crime-legal/chinese-skipper-gets-suspended-sentence-for-poaching-coral-off-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-23T20:54:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/national/nankai-trough-quake-plan-enlist-137000-nationwide-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-23T21:03:59+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/national/key-japanese-firms-surprise-show-australian-submarine-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-23T21:05:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-23T22:20:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-spain-a-20150324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Susana Diaz (center) of the Socialist Party celebrates winning after polls closed in an election in Seville, Spain, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/national/politics-diplomacy/chinese-official-says-ties-japan-heading-good-direction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-23T23:05:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/national/politics-diplomacy/okinawa-governor-threatens-pulling-plug-landfill-work-futenma-replacement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-23T23:10:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-henoko-a-20150324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks during a news conference Monday in Naha.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/business/economy-business/government-raises-eyebrows-with-optimistic-economic-report-for-march/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-23T23:15:49+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/business/economy-business/bank-of-japan-research-casts-doubt-on-kurodas-comfort-on-bonds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-23T23:15:56+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/business/corporate-business/norway-sovereign-wealth-fund-eyeing-real-estate-in-tokyo-singapore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-23T23:16:01+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/business/panasonic-open-patents-speed-development-internet-things/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T07:16:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/world/offbeat-world/seattle-approves-34-million-expand-historic-pike-place-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T09:23:36+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-broadband-trade-group-sues-fcc-net-neutrality-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T09:24:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-jokowi-agree-stronger-security-economic-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T10:05:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-indojap-a-20150324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold a joint news conference in Tokyo on Monday. During their talks, the leaders agreed to boost cooperation in the security and economic spheres.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/white-house-chief-demands-end-50-years-israeli-occupation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T11:08:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f-occupation-a-20150325.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-occupation-a-20150325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Denis McDonough, White House chief of staff,  walks up a stairwell while speaking to members of the media at the Capitol Visitors Center after attending a House Democratic caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 11. He called Monday for the next government in Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/world/pullout-wont-stop-strikes-extremists-yemen-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T11:15:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/world/chicago-artist-marks-armenian-genocide-work-size-guernica/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T11:23:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-armenians-a-20150325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artist Jackie Kazarian poses for a portrait in front of her painting for "Project 1915," a commemorative piece marking the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, in Chicago on Monday. The 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman troops left up to an estimated 1.5 million people dead and forced the exile of millions more, threatening a 3,000-year-old culture rich in architecture, literature, music and dance. It is widely seen as the 20th century's first genocide.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/national/history/nagasaki-bomb-survivor-pacifist-mission/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T14:30:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagasaki A-bomb survivor Hiroko Tsutsumi, who now lives in Saga Prefecture, looks at letters sent from her father, who died in the war, in a photo taken in November. Decades after the bombing, she has broken her silence about the ordeal.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/world/irans-empire-grows-ahead-nuclear-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T15:06:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-iranempire-a-20150325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Qassem Soleimani]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/national/500-days-go-rio-2016-games-tokyos-olympic-yardstick/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T15:34:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-olympics-a-20150325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Ueno]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/national/revamp-planned-for-ultra-rigorous-tour-guide-exam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T16:25:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/national/history/panel-war-anniversary-statement-heated-debate-word-aggression/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T16:48:46+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/world/tunisias-tourist-heartland-anxious-wait-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T17:33:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists are seen in a coffee shop in Sidi Bou Said, a tourist destination, on the outskirts of the capital Tunis on Sunday. Tunisian authorities have tightened security at hotels and tourist spots following last week's militant attack on the Bardo national museum in which 20 foreign visitors were killed.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/business/corporate-business/pachinko-parlor-operator-niraku-to-go-public-in-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T18:57:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers try their luck at a Pachinko parlor in Tokyo in June 2007.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/business/corporate-business/seven-bank-to-offer-12-languages-at-atms-for-overseas-issued-cards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T19:07:41+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/business/lawmakers-to-submit-casinos-bill-this-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T19:10:59+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/indonesia-to-withdraw-local-language-plan-for-foreign-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T19:11:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/world/u-s-exits-yemen-foes-square-amid-saudi-iran-rivalry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T19:17:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-yemen-a-20150325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yemeni special forces loyal to Gen. Abdel Hafedh al-Sakkaf demand wages at their unit's command headquarters in the southern city of Aden on Monday. They were also urging a merger with security and military units in the city as Houthi Shiite rebels sent reinforcements southward and Yemen was said to be on the brink of civil war.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/national/resignation-rikens-nobelist-chief-noyori-made-official-tuesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T20:18:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Matsumoto]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/national/shipwreck-find-sparks-new-interest-battleship-musashi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T20:23:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor prays at the grave of Toshihira Inoguchi, the last captain of the battleship Musashi, at Tozenji Temple in the city of Tottori on Saturday. The recent discovery of the sunken vessel has sparked new public interest in wartime history.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/world/islamic-state-has-recruited-400-kids-since-january-syria-monitor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T21:17:09+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/national/politics-diplomacy/government-continues-henoko-base-work-ignoring-demand-okinawa-governor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T21:18:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-henoko-a-20150325.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Japan US Military]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers stand guard during a protest outside Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Monday. The banner reads: “Henoko, block reclamation.” The central government is carrying out preparatory work in Henoko ahead of land reclamation to build a replacement for the U.S. Futenma air base.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/business/cabinet-oks-tax-breaks-for-firms-to-move-headquarters-from-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T21:18:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/b-corp-hq-a-20150325.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-corp-hq-a-20150325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures as he delivers a speech at an international symposium held in Tokyo on March 18.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/national/crime-legal/two-more-high-courts-question-validity-of-2014-lower-house-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T21:19:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-vote-a-20150325.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-vote-a-20150325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs in a voting disparity lawsuit pose outside the Hiroshima High Court on Tuesday. Their sign declares that the court found the December Lower House election to be "in a state of unconstitutionality" in 11 districts in Hiroshima and Yamaguchi prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/world/iraq-request-for-u-s-led-tikrit-airstrikes-imminent-diplomat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T21:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f-tikrit-a-20150325.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-tikrit-a-20150325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iraqi Badr Shiite fighters from the Popular Mobilization units head toward the city of Tikrit on Sunday, as seen from the entrance of Al-Alam, a flash-point town north of Tikrit along the Tigris River, which has been fully under the control of pro-Iraqi government fighters and local Sunni tribesmen opposed to jihadis of the Islamic State group. The head of a powerful Shiite militia criticized "weaklings" in the Iraqi army who want US-led airstrikes to support the massive operation to retake Tikrit.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/national/politics-diplomacy/in-gaffe-abe-refers-to-sdf-as-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T22:25:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-gaffe-a-20150325.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gaffe-a-20150325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-new-zealands-key-vow-tpp-progress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-24T23:01:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Zealand Prime Minister John Key delivers a statement following his meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/business/india-warns-uber-ola-resuming-taxi-services/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T05:20:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/world/u-s-pursue-storage-nuclear-waste-defense-programs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T05:27:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/world/tunisias-bardo-museum-symbolic-reopening-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T07:59:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants at the World Social Forum being held in Tunis march down a boulevard near the Bardo museum during a ceremonial reopening of the museum Tuesday. The museum held the ceremonial reopening a week after gunmen claiming alliance with Islamic State killed 20 foreign tourists in an attack aimed at wrecking the country's vital tourism industry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/world/boko-haram-kidnapped-hundreds-northern-nigeria-town-residents-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T09:11:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nigerien soldiers distribute blankets and food items Tuesday to residents in Damasak, where Boko Haram militants kidnapped more than 400 women and children. Thenorthern Nigerian town had been liberated this month by troops from Niger and Chad, residents said on Tuesday. Nigerian, Chadian and Niger forces have driven militants out of a string of towns in simultaneous offensives over the past month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/world/faa-streamlines-approval-commercial-drone-use/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T09:13:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/business/amazon-blasts-u-s-agency-slowness-drone-regulation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T09:15:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/world/science-health-world/cancer-experts-laud-angelina-jolies-decision-remove-ovaries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T10:11:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. director and actress A.ngelina Jolie is on the red carpet Nov. 25 for the U.K premiere of the film "Unbroken" at Leicester Square in London. Jolie announced Tuesday that she has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed over fears of a hereditary form of cancer, following her double mastectomy two years ago. The actress, who ost her mother, grandmother and aunt to the disease, said she had the procedure last week after results from a blood test raised fears that she may be in the early stages of cancer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/world/science-health-world/worlds-oldest-breast-cancer-identified-ancient-egyptian-skeleton/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T12:57:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/indian-doctors-find-success-tackling-hidden-burden-tb/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T13:11:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An elderly Kashmiri tuberculosis patient receives treatment at a hospital in Srinagar, India, on Tuesday. India has the highest incidence of TB in the world, with as many as 2.4 million cases. Multidrug-resistant strains have been spreading.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/national/sdfs-first-nato-attache-female/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T14:02:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chizu Kurita]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/world/airbus-a320-aviation-workhorse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T14:38:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers prepare to depart from their headquarters Tuesday in the southeastern French town of Seyne after the crash of a Germanwings Airbus A320 bound for Duesseldorf, Germany.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/national/tourism-agency-tout-historic-venues-foreign-conferences/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T14:45:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagoya Castle is seen in March 2014. The government plans to make public a list of historic buildings that can be used as conference venues to increase the number of inbound tourists.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/business/japan-new-zealand-tpp-talks-making-slow-progress-amari/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T16:00:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser and trade minister Akira Amari shake hands in Tokyo on Wednesday before talks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/national/social-issues/single-mother-with-with-disability-vying-for-seat-in-tokyos-kita-ward/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T16:26:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rie Saito, a deaf single mother and former top hostess in Tokyo's Ginza district who is running in the April 26 election in the city's Kita Ward, says she wants to create a society where people with disabilities can be more active.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/business/jordan-signs-10-billion-nuclear-power-plant-deal-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T17:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-25T17:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/national/battle-iwojima-forgotten-except-toll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T18:33:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshitaka Shindo, a conservative ruling party lawmaker and grandson of Tadamichi Kuribayashi, commander of the Japanese troops who fought in the Battle of Iwojiima, shows a picture of his grandfather during an interview in Tokyo on March 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/national/politics-diplomacy/a-stable-afghanistan-crucial-to-region-pakistan-diplomat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T18:38:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pakistani Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry is interviewed Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/business/corporate-business/sumitomo-expands-write-downs-sees-first-annual-loss-since-1999/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T18:49:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/national/taiwan-recalls-food-products-thought-to-have-come-from-five-blacklisted-prefectures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T18:53:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/national/crime-legal/fukuoka-high-court-slams-vote-disparity-in-2014-lower-house-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T19:05:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-vote-a-20150326.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs in a voting disparity lawsuit march outside the Fukuoka High Court on Wednesday. Their signs show the weight of each vote in four electoral districts in Kyushu.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/business/corporate-business/otsuka-kagu-familial-feud-nears-climax/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T19:51:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/national/saitama-city-blocks-one-sided-exhibit-on-comfort-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T20:23:09+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/national/crime-legal/son-42-quizzed-fatal-stabbing-parents-small-takarazuka-factory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T20:29:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-stabbings-a-20150326.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police conduct an investigation outside a small family-run factory in Takaraduka, Hyogo Prefecture, Tuesday evening after the owner of the factory and his wife were found fatally stabbed.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/national/beau-pops-question-spelling-worlds-largest-gps-drawing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-25T22:06:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-gps-a-20150325.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gps-a-20150325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasushi Takahashi holds one of his GPS drawings in Saitama Prefecture, in a recent photo. The 37-year-old artist uses a GPS tracker to create images like the "Marry me" message he used to propose to his girlfriend in 2008.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/world/cockpit-voice-tape-hoped-unravel-germanwings-airbus-crash-riddle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T05:40:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The black box voice recorder from the Airbus operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings  A320 crash is seen Wednesday in this photo released by the BEA, France's Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses (Air Accident Investigator).]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/world/u-s-led-coalition-said-planning-carry-tikrit-airstrikes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T05:46:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iraqi President Fouad Massoum speaks during an interview Wednesday at the presidential palace in Baghdad. He said on Wednesday that the U.S.-led coalition is expected to carry out airstrikes soon against Islamic State in the Sunni city of Tikrit, after starting aerial reconnaissance flights this week.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/asia-pacific/sunken-warship-spurs-korea-tensions-five-years-crew-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T07:19:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f-sinking-a-20150327.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Survivor, Jeon Joon-young (right) and Ham Eun-hyuck, of the sunken South Korean naval ship Cheonan close their eyes during a rally on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the sinking of the ship in Seoul Wednesday. An explosion ripped apart the 1,200-ton warship, killing 46 South Korean sailors near the maritime border with North Korea in 2010.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/science-health/two-japanese-professors-awarded-esteemed-medical-research-prize/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T07:46:07+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/world/science-health-world/new-ebola-infections-continue-drop-guinea-still-concern/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T07:48:28+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/house-adopts-plan-boost-u-s-war-funds-cutting-medicare/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T09:22:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/national/noodle-maker-revolutionizes-ramen-culture-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T11:33:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sun Noodle's Honolulu factory produces fresh ramen in the mid-1980s.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/world/crash-experts-face-mystery-eight-minute-drop-without-mayday-black-box-found/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T12:25:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen grab taken from an AFP TV video on Tuesday shows debris of the Germanwings Airbus A320 at the crash site in the French Alps above the southeastern town of Seyne. The plane, which had taken off from Barcelona in Spain and was headed for Dusseldorf in Germany, crashed earlier in the day with 150 people onboard. French air traffic controllers helplessly watched the plane drop for eight minutes on radar, reportedly clearing other aircraft below it from its fatal path.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/politics-diplomacy/indonesian-president-takes-bullet-train-ride-as-japan-looks-to-sell-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T14:16:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and his wife, Iriana, ride a bullet train from Tokyo to Nagoya on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-advocate-u-s-japan-leading-role-pursuing-regional-peace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T14:43:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hold talks on Wednesday at Abe's office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/business/corporate-business/rakuten-buy-japan-unit-u-s-currency-trader-fxcm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T16:13:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/novelist-mishimas-1964-olympics-reporter-notebook-goes-display/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T17:07:57+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/politics-diplomacy/osaka-court-rules-vote-gap-2014-poll-constitutional/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T17:35:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/world/science-health-world/nasa-picks-asteroid-rock-pave-road-mars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T17:41:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This 2005 photo provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency shows an asteroid named Itokawa photographed by the Hayabusa probe. On Wednesday, NASA announced it is aiming to launch a rocket to an asteroid in five years and grab a boulder off of it — a stepping stone and training mission for an eventual trip sending humans to Mars. Itokawa, 2008 EV5 and Bennu are the candidates for the mission.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/activists-seek-public-hearings-in-shiga-on-takahama-reactor-restarts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T19:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/business/corporate-business/apple-to-build-rd-facility-in-yokohama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T19:51:25+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/family-friends-of-suspected-japanese-plane-crash-victims-hold-on-to-hope/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T20:04:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/students-think-outside-bowl-designs-emergency-toilets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T20:36:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High school students Hikari Abe (left) and Keina Nijo of Tokushima show off their cardboard toilet on March 15.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/himeji-castle-reopen-lengthy-renovation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T20:40:37+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/asaharas-3-daughter-writes-life-cult/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T20:44:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rika Matsumoto, the third daughter of Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, poses with her newly published memoir in Tokyo on March 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/national/foreigners-urged-to-swap-alien-certificates-for-new-cards-by-july-deadline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T21:03:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-residentcard-a-20150326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Non-Japanese nationals residing in the country with permission for a stay of more than three months are urged to obtain the new Residence Card, which replaces the Alien Registration Certificate card.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/nippon-ham-ordered-to-pay-%c2%a541-9-million-for-failing-to-shield-spectator-from-foul-ball/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T21:27:25+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/social-issues/number-reported-child-abductions-drastically-year-hague-convention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T22:10:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/crime-legal/record-28923-children-suspected-abused-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T22:11:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/politics-diplomacy/high-courts-continue-to-issue-mixed-rulings-on-2014-vote-disparity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T22:41:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/world/cockpit-voice-tape-studied-airbus-crash-nyt-says-pilot-locked/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T22:54:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lockout-a-20150327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lufthansa Chief Executive Carsten Spohr reacts during a news conference at Barcelona's El Prat airport Wednesday. Investigators have extracted cockpit voice recordings from one of the black boxes of the Germanwings Airbus plane that smashed into the Alps and expect to have a read-out of their content within days, an official said on Wednesday. The New York Times meanwhile reported that there are sound indications that one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit, desperately trying to get back in, when the jet went down.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/politics-diplomacy/official-campaigning-nationwide-local-level-polls-kicks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T23:37:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Voters cheer for their candidate in the city of Nara on Thursday as campaigning starts for next month's local elections.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/asia-pacific/offbeat-asia-pacific/north-koreas-well-feast-french-baguettes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T23:40:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives field guidance at a fish meal fodder factory, newly built by the Korean People's Army (KPA), in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on Tuesday. Reports linked to a North Korean group in Japan say the North's wealthy are dining on French cuisine.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/business/corporate-business/domestic-auto-output-fell-5-8-on-year-in-february/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T23:47:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/business/economy-business/reflationist-economist-harada-appointed-boj-policy-board/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T23:47:52+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/business/corporate-business/mizuho-seeks-build-1-ma-rank-hiring-bankers-abroad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-26T23:48:04+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/world/german-police-search-house-co-pilot-flew-a320-mountain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T05:43:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German police carry bags out of a house believed to belong to the parents of crashed Germanwings Flight 9524 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz in Montabaur on Thursday. The young German co-pilot locked himself in the cockpit of the Airbus and flew it into a mountain, killing all 150 people on board, prosecutors said on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-invited-address-u-s-congress-april-29/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T05:45:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech Sunday during the graduation ceremony of the National Defense Academy in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. The leader of the U.S. Congress has invited Abe to make a landmark address to American lawmakers on April 29. "Prime Minister Abe will become the first Japanese leader to address a joint meeting of the United States Congress, and we are proud to host this historic event," House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/world/crime-legal-world/illinois-national-guardsman-cousin-accused-trying-aid-islamic-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T05:48:27+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/world/social-issues-world/pope-francis-meets-homeless-private-visit-sistine-chapel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T07:34:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roberto, an homeless man who lives around the Vatican, walks toward Swiss guards Thursday before entering the Vatican. Pope Francis made a surprise personal visit to 150 homeless people on a special tour of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, in the latest nod to his vision of creating a church for the poor.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/world/building-collapses-engulfed-flames-new-yorks-east-village/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T09:22:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-fdny-a-20150328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fire shoots from the roof of a building after it collapsed and burst into flames in New York City's East Village as seen in this picture taken by Scott Westerfeld on Thursday. Rescuers from the Fire Department of New York were headed to the location, which was on Second Avenue and East 7th Street in Manhattan, an FDNY spokeswoman said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/world/pakistan-mulling-saudi-request-send-troops-yemen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T11:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/world/syrias-assad-says-hes-open-dialogue-u-s-cbs-interview/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T11:05:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/world/saudi-bombs-prop-failing-ally-yemen-shiite-rebel-gains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T11:06:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yemenis hold a poster of the King of Saudi Arabia Salman as they chant slogans during a rally to show support for Saudi-led airstrikes against Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, in Taiz, Yemen, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/business/oil-leaps-5-month-saudi-led-airstrikes-yemen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T12:12:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-oilspike-a-20150328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People help firefighters try to contain a fire Thursday at a gas station in Lagos, Nigeria. Witnesses said no one was injured in the fire that consumed a number of trucks and cars at the site. Authorities continue to investigate what caused the blaze. Oil prices spiked Thursday amid the conflict raging in Yemen, prompting fears of supply disruptions amid the warfare raging in the area, including in Nigeria.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/japan-launches-replacement-intelligence-satellite/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T12:22:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-satellites-a-20150327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An H-IIA rocket lifts off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Thursday morning carrying a replacement optical imaging satellite.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/business/corporate-business/toyota-adopts-new-business-model-cost-saving-platform-shift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T12:29:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer is shown the underside of a Rav 4 SUV at a dealership in Moscow. Toyota Motor Corp. has decided to use fewer platforms and more shared parts across its models, a strategy rival Volkswagen AG adopted in 2012.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/asia-pacific/grape-n-z-vintners-pioneer-low-alcohol-techniques/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T13:30:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/business/economy-business/some-tpp-nations-seek-exemption-from-investor-state-lawsuit-rule-wikileaks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T15:27:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/business/corporate-business/south-korea-fines-japans-denso-ngk-spark-plug-for-price-rigging/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T15:39:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-drug-agents-sex-parties-funded-drug-cartels-watchdog/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T17:08:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-administration-approves-%c2%a55-76-trillion-stopgap-budget-fiscal-year-draws-close/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T17:32:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/business/corporate-business/citigroup-reportedly-close-sale-japan-credit-card-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T17:41:38+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/national/science-health/experimental-ebola-vaccine-effective-monkeys-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T18:34:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/world/wrong-kitty-litter-led-to-radiation-leak-at-new-mexico-nuke-waste-dump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T19:19:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/world/german-co-pilot-said-to-have-suffered-from-depression-anxiety/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T20:09:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f-sadlubitz-a-20150328.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sadlubitz-a-20150328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andreas Lubitz runs the Airportrace half marathon in Hamburg on Sept. 13, 2009. The co-pilot who appears to have deliberately crashed a Germanwings plane carrying 149 passengers in the French Alps received psychiatric treatment for a "serious depressive episode" six years ago, the German tabloid Bild reported on March 27.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/world/no-sure-way-to-prevent-pilot-suicides-psychologists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T20:11:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/national/debris-poses-risk-spent-fuel-pool-gate-fukushima-1s-reactor-3-tepco/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T20:18:43+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/asia-pacific/50-media-player-making-waves-changing-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T20:20:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f-nknotel-a-20150328.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nknotel-a-20150328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese-made portable media player, which North Koreans call "notel," is seen in Seoul on Wednesday. The devices provide many North Koreans a window to the outside world.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/business/economy-business/kurodas-inflation-optimism-challenged-by-cash-register-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T20:23:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/b-inflation-a-20150328.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-inflation-a-20150328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks past a window display for a luxury brand in Tokyo on Thursday. Consumer prices are not rising at the rate that the Abe administration wants, according to data released this week.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/business/corporate-business/otsuka-kagu-president-fends-fathers-attempt-oust/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T21:30:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/b-otsuka-a-20150328.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-otsuka-a-20150328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Otsuka Kagu President Kumiko Otsuka answers questions during a news conference after the company's annual shareholders' meeting wrapped up on Friday in Tokyo. A bitter family feud at the major furniture retailer culminated with shareholders rejecting a bid by the company's hard-driving founder, Katsuhisa Otsuka, to oust his own daughter as president.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/national/civil-servants-offered-earlier-summertime-shifts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T21:31:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-leaders-pay-tribute-singapores-lee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-27T22:43:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-leejapan-a-20150324.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-leejapan-a-20150324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Kuan Yew, who passed away on Monday at age 91, was Singapore's first prime minister and the architect of the city-state's rapid rise from a British tropical outpost to a global trade and financial center.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/business/abe-vows-concede-ground-tpp-talks-ahead-u-s-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T00:22:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/b-tppabe-a-20150328.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tppabe-a-20150328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of JA-Zenchu, the nation's influential agricultural body, renew their resolve at a gathering in Tokyo last week to pressure the government to take a protectionist approach toward the Trans-Pacific Partnership.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/national/aichi-police-aim-put-brakes-speeders-special-traffic-lights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T00:23:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-chubu-a-20150328.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20150328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The green signal from this special traffic light is hard to see from a distance, forcing drivers to slow down before reaching the intersection.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-portugals-passos-coelho-agree-bolster-business-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T00:23:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after their summit at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/national/crime-legal/government-studies-examine-stalking-spousal-abuse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T00:32:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/28/world/science-health-world/primordial-sea-predator-with-spiky-claws-unearthed-in-canada/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T12:37:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A freshly excavated fossil of Yawunik kootenayi is seen in this undated handout picture courtesy of Pomona College professor Robert Gaines. The marine creature had two pairs of eyes and prominent grasping appendages and lived as much as 508 million years ago — more than 250 million years before the first dinosaur.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/28/world/crime-legal-world/jury-clears-venture-capital-firm-in-silicon-valley-gender-bias-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T12:37:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ellen Pao (center) walks with attorneys Alan Exelrod (left) and Therese Lawless outside Civic Center Courthouse in San Francisco on Friday. A jury decided Friday that a prestigious venture capital firm did not discriminate or retaliate against Pao in a case that shined a light on gender imbalance and working conditions for women in Silicon Valley.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/28/world/elite-iranian-guards-training-yemens-houthis-u-s-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T12:43:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tribal gunman loyal to the Shiite Houthi movement chews qat, a mild drug used daily by most Yemenis, during a protest in Sanaa against the Saudi-led intervention on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/28/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/chinas-xi-preaches-peace-in-key-note-address/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T14:03:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/reid-to-retire-wants-schumer-to-replace-him-as-senate-democratic-leader/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T14:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (right) and Sen. Chuck Schumer talk to the media in Washington in February. Reid has endorsed Schumer to succeed him in the leadership role.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/28/world/social-issues-world/arkansas-senate-passes-religion-bill-seen-as-targeting-gays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T14:45:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/business/akihabara-outfit-aims-become-hub-hardware-startups/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T15:34:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[DMM.make AKIBA's Studio in Tokyo's Akihabara district, seen on March 4, boasts a variety of manufacturing machines and tools.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/28/world/riyadhs-yemen-gamble-may-define-future-regional-role/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T15:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/28/world/science-health-world/fungi-glow-attract-creatures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T22:30:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Night lights: A big, yellow mushroom called "flor de coco" glows in Gilbues, Brazil.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/28/world/science-health-world/ancient-croc-ruled-north-america-dinosaurs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T22:32:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p20-croc-a-20150329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Terrestrial predator: The Carnufex carolensis lived about 231 million years ago and walked on its hind legs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/28/national/media-national/political-obstacles-stymie-energy-autonomy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T22:54:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inconvenient truth?: The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry appears to believe that renewables are too inconvenient, since facilities for transmitting electricity produced by renewable power structures would have to be built.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/upset-by-warrens-calls-for-break-ups-u-s-banks-debate-halting-some-senate-campaign-donations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T19:40:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at the Credit Union National Association Governmental Affairs Conference in Washington on March 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/28/national/politics-diplomacy/gloves-come-off-over-futenma-base-move/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T21:13:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A seabed survey continues to be carried out Tuesday off the coast of Henoko in Okinawa Prefecture as part of work to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/28/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-india-talks-set-us-2-joint-venture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T21:13:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/28/national/crime-legal/high-court-upholds-acquittals-of-ex-jr-west-chiefs-over-05-amagasaki-derailment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T23:27:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/national/politics-diplomacy/fukuoka-high-court-rules-doubts-constitutionality-of-2014-snap-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-28T23:35:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/29/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-considers-informal-six-way-talks-on-north-korean-denuclearization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-29T14:09:13+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/29/national/thai-trio-accept-hokkaido-towns-invite-train-winter-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-29T20:20:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ski-a-20150330.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young Thais practice cross-country skiing in Higashikawa, Hokkaido, on March 5. The town is sponsoring a training program for overseas skiers to improve its name recognition abroad.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/29/world/diplomats-u-n-staffers-flee-yemen-as-houthis-target-aden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-29T21:41:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buildings at the Jabal al-Hadid military camp burn as smoke rises in Aden on Saturday. Yemeni military officials said an explosion at the camp, which houses a weapons depot and had been taken by security forces loyal to ousted leader Ali Abdullah Saleh, killed several people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/29/national/palau-president-lauds-imperial-couples-upcoming-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-29T22:00:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tommy Remengesau]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/29/national/japans-largest-war-bereaved-association-of-palau-battle-to-disband/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-29T22:02:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a Japanese government investigation team search for the remains of Imperial army soldiers Wednesday on the island of Peleliu in Palau.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/29/national/7-of-children-view-quasi-legal-drugs-as-matter-of-choice-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-29T22:07:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/29/national/54-6-want-abe-say-sorry-war-speech-half-oppose-sdf-bills-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-29T22:27:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/29/business/corporate-business/software-update-puts-mitsubishi-tvs-blink/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-29T23:14:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/29/national/70-of-foreign-students-shun-offers-from-university-of-tokyo-degree-programs-in-english/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-29T23:25:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students wait for their entrance examination to start at the University of Tokyo's Hongo campus on Feb. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/30/asia-pacific/singaporeans-bid-final-farewell-founding-father-lee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-30T06:36:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singaporeans line the streets to watch the carriage carrying the coffin of Lee Kuan Yew pass during the funeral procession, Sunday at City Hall in Singapore. Tens of thousands of Singaporeans undeterred by heavy rains lined a 15 km route through the Southeast Asian city-state to witness an elaborate funeral procession Sunday for longtime leader Lee, who died March 23 at 91.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/30/world/pakistan-evacuates-hundreds-pause-yemen-airstrikes-saudi-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-30T06:44:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People shout slogans condemning Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen, during a rally Friday in Karachi, Pakistan. Hundreds of Pakistanis were evacuated by sea from strife-torn Yemen during a lull in the airstrikes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/30/world/tunisian-forces-kill-nine-militants-including-suspected-museum-attack-plotter-world-leaders-attend-bardo-march/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-30T10:36:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Francois Hollande (center) and President of Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba (center right) take part in and anti-extremism march Sunday in Tunis. Tens of thousands of Tunisians attended the march in Tunis to denounce extremist violence following the attack on the National Bardo Museum.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/30/world/syrias-assad-says-islamic-state-expanded-since-start-u-s-airstrikes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-30T11:14:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-assad-a-20150331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A damaged picture of Syrian President Bashar Assad is seen on a wall in Idlib city, after rebel fighters took control of the area Saturday. The text on the poster reads in Arabic "With Bashar." Assad said Sunday on CBS "60 Minutes" that the Islamic State group has expanded since the start of U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria and Iraq.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/30/world/enemy-fire-booby-traps-shiite-troop-boycott-delay-iraqi-forces-advance-tikrit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-30T11:17:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of Iraq's Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT), center, cleans his weapon as his colleagues gather near the front line in Tikrit on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/sarkozy-wins-french-local-elections-far-right-makes-limited-gains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-30T11:20:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy, conservative UMP political party leader and former French president, attends a news conference after the close of polls in France's second round Departmental elections of local councillors at their party's headquarters in Paris on Sunday. Sarkozy's conservative UMP party and its allies will take over 66-70 "departements," up from 41, while the ruling Socialists will hold only 27-31 of the 61 they previously held, the poll by CSA for BFMTV said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/30/business/economy-business/russia-australia-netherlands-join-chinas-development-bank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-30T12:05:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/30/business/flush-cash-pilgrims-indonesias-islamic-banks-expect-lending-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-30T14:07:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/former-hp-ceo-fiorina-puts-chances-presidential-bid-higher-90/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-30T14:32:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carly Fiorina]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/29/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/thais-keep-smiling-despite-chinese-tourists-bad-habits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-30T14:47:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese tourist imitates the pose of a statue during a visit to the Grand Palace in Bangkok on March 23.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/republicans-see-obama-imminent-threat-u-s-putin-assad-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-30T15:03:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-obamathreat-a-20150331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama walks with Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner ahead of a luncheon in Washington on March 17. According to a recent survey, a third of U.S. Republicans say Obama poses a more imminent threat to the country than Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian strongman Bashar Assad.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/30/national/politics-diplomacy/ex-prime-minister-fukuda-urges-japan-actively-gather-info-aiib/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-30T15:48:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/30/business/meet-26-year-old-design-prodigy-behind-hondas-subcompact-roadster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-30T19:53:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryo Mukumoto, project leader for Honda's new S660 roadster, poses with the finished product during an unveiling event at the company's Tokyo headquarters on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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