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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters opposed to the relocation of the Futenma air station to the Henoko district in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, ride in kayaks at the proposed base site as Japan Coast Guard officers look on.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (right) meets with Indonesian workers at a Toyota Motor Corp. plant in Aichi Prefecture on Wednesday, before leaving for China at the end of a four-day visit to Japan. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[George Soros]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-31T14:48:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-31T14:50:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shibuya Ward Mayor Toshitake Kuwahara speaks during an interview at his office in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-31T15:18:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spotify, seen here in a screenshot, arrived on the PlayStation 3 and 4 on Monday. Sony ditched its with a new Spotify app adapted for large television screens.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-31T15:20:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/national/social-issues/npo-aims-to-bring-traditional-japanese-medicine-marketing-to-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-31T15:32:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eri Machii, leader of AfriMedico, speaks of the nonprofit group's campaign to distribute medicine kits to homes in Africa in an interview in Tokyo on Jan. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-plan-aims-double-number-doctors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-31T16:10:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/national/history/yoshino-ex-diplomat-testified-court-secret-okinawa-reversion-pact-dies-96/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-31T16:57:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bunroku Yoshino]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-31T16:59:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-31T17:04:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-31T20:16:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A salesperson at Takano Co., a fruit retailer in Tokyo's Shinjuku district, displays a ¥500-a-piece Skyberry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/national/fake-ergobaby-carriers-sold-online-japan-consumer-watchdog/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-31T20:46:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Ergobaby baby sling is shown (left) along with a fake product.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-03-31T20:46:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-extends-sanctions-n-korea-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-31T20:47:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/national/parents-special-needs-child-move-osaka-improve-admissions-guidelines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-31T20:52:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steve and Junko Sasaki-Samuels hold a news conference at Osaka City Hall on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/%news_category%/anti-censorship-group-china-behind-cyberattacks-on-u-s-sites/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-31T21:15:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/national/politics-diplomacy/aso-rules-japan-joining-china-led-investment-bank-founding-member/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-31T21:19:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/national/crime-legal/life-in-prison-sought-for-aum-member-takahashi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-31T21:25:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/national/tokyo-governor-to-undergo-hip-surgery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-31T21:37:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/national/former-u-s-nuclear-chief-says-tritium-water-at-fukushima-no-1-can-safely-be-dumped-in-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-31T22:57:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/business/corporate-business/sharp-forecasts-return-profit-solar-business-next-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-31T23:20:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kozo Takahashi, president of Sharp Corp., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/business/economy-business/biden-calls-japan-u-s-tpp-deal-abes-trip-washington/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-31T23:21:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/business/corporate-business/auto-output-japan-falls-eighth-straight-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-31T23:21:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/business/economy-business/oil-imports-slide-7-5-february/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-03-31T23:21:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/world/easyjet-ceo-says-two-cockpit-rule-best-option-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T07:47:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carolyn McCall, chief executive officer of EasyJet PLC, reacts as she arrives at Schiphol Airport, operated by the Schiphol Group, in Amsterdam on Tuesday. The continent's No. 2 discount carrier will base three Airbus A320 jets in the Dutch capital; a push it predicts will add 600,000 passengers, an increase of 16 percent. McCall said her carrier believes the two-in-cockpit rule is best, in the wake of last week's Germanwings crash.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/world/crime-legal-world/uber-driver-dropped-woman-denver-airport-accused-later-trying-burglarize-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T09:46:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gerald Montgomery is seen in an undated picture released Tuesday by the Denver Police Department. Police arrested Montgomery, a driver for the Uber car service, on March 25 and charged him with trying to burglarize a Denver woman's home after he dropped her off at the city's airport, authorities said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/world/houthis-rebels-seize-yemen-base-near-key-shipping-lane-saudis-target-advance-aden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T09:50:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/national/toddling-polar-bear-wins-fans-hokkaido-zoo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T10:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A polar bear named Milk, a popular draw at Kushiro City Zoo, plays with a gas pipe on her head.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/world/lufthansa-flight-school-knew-lubitzs-depression/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T10:38:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Germanwings chief operating officer and member of the board Oliver Wagner (right) and Lufthansa media relations officer Boris Ogursky hold a press conference Monday in Marseille, southern France, about the creation of an assistance center for the relatives and friends of victims of the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 aboard. French prosecutors believe that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked his captain out of the cockpit and deliberately flew Flight 9525 into a mountainside near Seyne-les-Alpes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/national/narita-airport-open-passport-control-counters-busy-times/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T11:14:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/national/delay-halt-base-development-henoko-defense-chief-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T11:57:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/national/retired-japanese-bolshoi-soloist-coaches-budding-siberian-ballet-troupe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T13:32:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Morihiro Iwata, a former Japanese soloist of the Bolshoi Ballet troupe, discusses a fund he has set up to support artistic activities in eastern Siberia, during a recent interview in Vladivostok, Russia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/national/translation-firm-leaked-classified-nra-document-onto-internet-secretariat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T17:31:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/china-investigates-diplomat-suspected-taking-bribes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T17:50:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/national/japan-mulls-requiring-two-crew-in-cockpit-at-all-times/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T17:50:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/world/social-issues-world/wal-mart-leads-outcry-arkansas-comes-anti-gay-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T17:50:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/business/economy-business/japanese-banks-oppose-stricter-capital-rules-interest-rate-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T17:50:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuhiro Sato, the new chief of the nation's banking lobby, gives a recent interview in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/world/video-shows-cabin-chaos-seconds-alps-crash-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T17:53:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/national/u-s-returns-housing-area-to-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T17:54:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/national/social-issues/career-track-wives-working-away-families/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T17:58:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokiko Nakayama chats with her children over the Internet at her home away from home in Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/jonathans-good-luck-streak-ends-nigeria-ex-coup-leader-buhari-wins-historic-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-01T18:05:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari celebrate an anticipated win for their candidate, in Kano, Nigeria Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[File photo of Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders attending a memorial ceremony at the Nanjing Massacre Museum]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping (center) and other leaders attend a memorial ceremony at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing on Dec. 13. China's central government is trying hard to get world leaders to attend events marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II that will be held in Beijing this year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this June 2013 photo released by the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology, a blackpoll warbler sits on a limb in New Hampshire. A study to be published Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters found that the tiny songbird that summers in the forests of northern North America has been tracked on a 1,700-mile, over-the-ocean journey from the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada to the islands of the Caribbean.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Sanriku Railway Co. employees Taiga Kanamori (left) and Ryusei Numazaki pose in front of a railroad coach in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, after attending a welcome ceremony on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-01T21:48:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Three employees of Kea Homu Himawari (Care Home Sunflower), a nursing home in Nagoya seen in this photo taken Tuesday, were arrested for allegedly physically abusing a female resident.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-02T02:21:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b tankan graphic 20150402]]></image:title>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b yenmove-a 20150402]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bundles of ¥10,000 notes are arranged for a photo taken with a fish-eye lens at the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated photo provided by the Israel Ministry of Defense shows a test launch of a David's Sling missile system. Israeli officials said a joint U.S.-Israeli missile defense system has successfully passed a new test this and is expected to be operational next year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif talks to members of the media while walking through a courtyard at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel during an extended round of talks Wednesday in Lausanne, Switzerland. Zarif said on Wednesday that the nuclear talks with the major powers could succeed if they have political will to resolve Iran's 12-year old nuclear standoff.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-02T10:43:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Deerwood Academy Assistant Principal Tabeeka Jordan is led to a holding cell after a jury found her guilty in the Atlanta Public Schools test-cheating trial Wednesday in Atlanta. Jordan and 10 other former Atlanta Public Schools educators accused of participating in a test cheating conspiracy that drew nationwide attention were convicted Wednesday of racketeering charges.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-02T14:12:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-02T15:08:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-02T15:27:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-02T16:03:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-02T16:06:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Robert Menendez listens to testimony during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Oct. 10, 2013.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gelau Ronguu, 88, one of the residents in a small community in Babelthuap, northern Palau, is interviewed on March 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-02T18:45:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda (left) attends a Lower House committee session at the Diet in Tokyo in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-02T18:55:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/02/national/child-abductions-year-since-hague-pact-happy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-02T18:55:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cenotaph to console the souls of the war dead sits on a cliff on Peleliu Island on March 24.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An aerial photo taken Wednesday of Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground (top) and Jingu Stadium (second from top), which will be rebuilt by 2025.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-02T18:57:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gertrude Weaver]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-02T19:33:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[suicide 20150331]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiro Uragami talks about his wartime experiences as he stands beside ukiyo-e prints he donated for the foundation in 1996 of the Hagi Uragami Museum in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Girl in the morning]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The National Policy Agency said Thursday it had learned of 68 revenge porn cases involving those who are or used to be in a relationship. The second highest category had to do with people who only knew each other online, which accounted for 14 cases.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-02T20:42:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-02T22:48:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-02T22:48:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-03T00:28:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lufthansa Chief Executive Carsten Spohr (right) and Germanwings Managing Director Thomas Winkelmann hold a news conference near the memorial for the victims of the air disaster in the village of Le Vernet, near the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 in the French Alps, on Wednesday, but apparently sidestepped questions about why co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who deliberately crashed the jet, was allowed to fly, despite being grounded by his condition.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The new Lincoln Continental Concept car is introduced during the first press preview day at the 2015 New York Auto Show April 1, 2015 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/03/world/co-pilot-lubitz-researched-suicide-cockpit-door-locks-net-second-black-box-found/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-03T05:36:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soldiers leave after a briefing and before heading to the Germanwings crash site Thursday in Seyne-les-Alpes, France. Investigators believe co-pilot Andreas Lubitz intentionally crashed the A320 into a mountainside, killing 150 people. Special mountain troops searching the area for personal belongings also found the second black box flight recorder.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/03/world/crime-legal-world/american-trio-charged-n-y-terrorism-related-crimes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-03T07:09:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Muhanad Mahmoud al Farekh (seccond, right) appears in court in New York, along with court-appointed lawyer Sean Maher and Asistant U.S. Attorney Zainab Ahmad (left) in this Thursday court sketch. Al Farekh, a U.S. citizen accused of training with al-Qaida in Pakistan and conspiring to kill Americans, appeared in federal court in New York to face terrorism charges.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-07T15:46:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee, center, assists customers browsing cosmetics at an Amorepacific Corp. Etude House store in the Myeongdong shopping district of Seoul in February. AmorePacific Corp., South Korea's largest cosmetics maker is among companies benefiting from the rising popularity of Korean entertainment and culture, especially in China.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/national/politics-diplomacy/poll-finds-overwhelming-opposition-in-okinawa-to-futenma-relocation-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T16:53:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/business/tpp-deal-important-new-aircraft-carrier-pentagon-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T16:56:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter waits to speak, Monday at the the McCain Institute at Arizona State University in Tempe. The Obama administration is opening a new phase of its strategic "rebalance" toward Asia and the Pacific by investing in high-end weapons such as a new long-range stealth bomber, refreshing its defense alliance with Japan and expanding trade partnerships, Carter said Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/national/crime-legal/chinese-fishing-captain-gets-suspended-sentence-for-poaching-coral/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T17:25:41+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/10/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-adopts-new-aid-policy-may-aid-foreign-militaries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T19:08:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/n-aid-a-20150211.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aid-a-20150211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/business/corporate-business/sony-boosts-spending-on-camera-sensor-chips/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T19:28:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/business/boj-starts-two-day-meeting-likely-to-maintain-current-easing-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T19:28:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/business/financial-markets/weak-job-data-ease-rate-hike-jitters-lift-wall-st/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T20:33:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/b-stocks-a-20150408.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-stocks-a-20150408.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, when shares rose amid eased concerns over a possible Fed rate hike.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/national/politics-diplomacy/government-collates-archival-records-bolstering-case-senkakus-takeshima-japanese-territory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T20:36:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/n-senkaku-a-20150408.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-senkaku-a-20150408.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This file photo from September 2012 shows the uninhabited Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/world/mass-graves-islamic-state-victims-iraqs-camp-speicher-exhumed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T20:49:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-massgraves-a-20150408.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A hand is seen as forensic teams recover dead bodies from 12 suspected Islamic State mass graves in Tikrit, Iraq, on Monday. The city was retaken from the extremists, who may have massacred as many as 1,700 soldiers during the group's push through Iraqi territory last summer.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/business/japan-must-shut-short-term-investors-says-orix-founder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T21:06:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/b-miyauchi-a-20150408.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihiko Miyauchi, senior chairman of Orix Corp., poses for a photograph in Tokyo in March. He argues for a system in which short-term shareholders cannot influence corporate decisions.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/national/crime-legal/gunma-police-probe-suspected-sulfuric-acid-attacks-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T21:06:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-acid-a-20150408.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Surveillance camera images released by the Gunma Prefectural Police investigating a string of sulfuric acid attacks in Gunma Prefecture since last week show a man carrying a black bag.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/national/four-situations-laid-new-u-s-japan-defense-guidelines-including-collective-action/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T21:07:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/business/corporate-business/lawson-sg-holdings-to-offer-new-delivery-service/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T21:07:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/business/economy-business/ldp-proposes-future-energy-policy-heavy-on-nuclear-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T21:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/malaysia-reinstates-detention-without-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-07T23:40:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/f-malaysia-trials-a-20150408.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-malaysia-trials-a-20150408.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Thai police officer inspects the site of one of four bomb blasts which hit the restive province of Pattani on Thursday. Rebel groups have mounted an 11-year insurgency demanding autonomy for mainly Muslim regions in Thailand's south, bordering Malaysia.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/08/world/power-outage-hits-washington-including-even-white-house-plant-blast-alleged/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T05:45:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Secret Service stand on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House Tuesday. The White House, State Department and Capitol were all affected by widespread power outages across Washington and its suburbs Tuesday afternoon.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/08/asia-pacific/indonesian-man-21-undergoes-treatment-two-hour-flight-jets-wheel-well/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T07:52:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/08/world/20-stone-throwing-sandalwood-smugglers-reported-killed-police-south-india-rights-activists-outraged/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T08:36:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/f-sandalwood-a-20150409.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sandalwood-a-20150409.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bodies of people, whom Indian police claim are suspected sandalwood smugglers killed during an operation by Indian security personnel, lie in the forest area of Chitoor district in the southern Indian city of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. Indian police shot dead 20 stone-throwing sandalwood smugglers on Tuesday during the biggest operation for years to stamp out trafficking of the rare commodity, law-enforcement authorities said. Opposition politicians and human rights activists challenged the report, maintaining that those killed in the incident were only unarmed laborers and calling for an investigation.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/08/world/classified-info-said-compromised-russian-hacing-white-house-data-cnn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T11:10:58+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/business/economy-business/abenomics-fails-get-households-spending/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T13:58:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/b-abenomics3-a-20150408.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-abenomics3-a-20150408.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Is the Bank of Japan's unprecedented monetary easing boosting the nation's standard of living?]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/business/economy-business/abenomics-rich-thrive-middle-class-precipice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T13:59:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/b-abenomics4-a-20150408.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-abenomics4-a-20150408.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The gap in incomes between the nation's rich and poor is still not narrowing, even after two years of the government's vaunted "Abenomics" policies, experts say.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/06/business/economy-business/bojs-easing-said-unsustainable/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T14:01:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/b-abenomics2-b-20150407.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda']]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/03/business/economy-business/inflation-eludes-stock-rise-helps-yens-fall-hurts-many/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T14:10:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/b-abenomics1-c-20150404.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-abenomics1-c-20150404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman uses her cellphone outside a clothing store in Tokyo's Harajuku district on March 23. The Bank of Japan kicked off radical monetary easing two years ago, but its target of 2 percent inflation has yet to be achieved.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/08/world/science-health-world/brontosaurus-gets-back-name-standing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T14:13:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/f-bronto-a-20150409.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bronto-a-20150409.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist's rendering shows a Brontosaurus as researchers see it today, with a Diplodocus-like head, as seen in this undated handout courtesy of Davide Bonadonna in Milan, Italy. Paleontologists are restoring the good name of Brontosaurus more than a century after it was deemed scientifically invalid and the famous dinosaur was reclassified as another genus called Apatosaurus. They unveiled Tuesday an exhaustive analysis of Brontosaurus remains, first unearthed in the 1870s, and those of closely related dinosaurs, determining that the immense, long-necked plant-eater was not an Apatosaurus and deserved its old name back.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/national/commitment-peace-deep-remorse-war-spelled-foreign-policy-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T14:41:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/08/world/crime-legal-world/murder-charges-leveled-white-u-s-cop-shot-fleeing-african-american-back-traffic-stop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T15:32:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/f-copcharge-b-20150409.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-copcharge-b-20150409.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officer Michael Slager (right) is seen allegedly shooting 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back as he runs away in this still from a video filmed Saturday in North Charleston, South Carolina.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/08/world/german-official-slams-greek-demands-for-wwii-reparations-as-stupid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T16:12:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/inward-looking-election-campaign-reflects-britains-global-retreat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T17:59:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/08/business/budget-airline-terminal-opens-narita/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T20:14:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers fill the new terminal at Narita International Airport on Wednesday following its opening. It is intended to become a hub for low-cost carriers.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/08/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/chinese-police-seen-stiffening-charges-detained-feminist-activists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T20:20:37+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/08/national/big-japan-u-s-opinion-gap-over-a-bombings-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-08T21:03:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/09/world/iran-naval-presence-yemen-established/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-09T07:17:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/f-irandeploy-a-20150410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-irandeploy-a-20150410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Saudi border guard watches Wednesday from a boat off the coast of the Red Sea on Saudi Arabia's maritime border with Yemen, near Jizan. Iran sent two warships to the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, state media reported, establishing a military presence off the coast of Yemen where Saudi Arabia is leading a bombing campaign to oust the Iran-allied Houthi movement.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/09/world/egypt-pakistan-may-get-key-u-s-arms-supplies-for-counterinsurgency-ops/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-09T11:14:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/09/world/crime-legal-world/judge-in-texas-nixes-obama-bid-to-lift-delay-on-immigration-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-09T11:22:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/f-usjudge-a-20150410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usjudge-a-20150410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama announces executive actions on U.S. immigration policy during a televised address from the White House in Washington on Nov 20. A federal judge in Texas has refused to lift a temporary block on the White House immigration plan that would have shielded millions of illegal immigrants from deportation, court documents showed Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/09/asia-pacific/north-korea-slams-mexico-ship-seizure-threatens-action/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-09T13:06:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/f-nkship-a-20150410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkship-a-20150410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, An Myong Hun, waits to speak to reporters at North Korea's U.N. mission in New York, Wednesday. Hun said Mexico has "forcibly detained" one of its ships months after it ran aground off Mexico's Gulf coast and that his country will take unspecified "necessary measures to make the ship leave immediately." An Myong Hun said the ship, the Mu Du Bong, was not carrying anything prohibited by U.N. sanctions and that more than 50 crew remain on board.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/09/asia-pacific/japanese-banks-outmuscle-chinese-overseas-expansion-imf-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-09T16:50:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/09/national/media-national/report-calls-for-further-investigation-of-fake-nhk-documentary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-09T18:07:25+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/09/world/crime-legal-world/turkish-journalists-face-jail-for-charlie-hebdo-cartoon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-09T18:30:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/09/business/switzerland-expands-negative-yield-universe-at-bond-auction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-09T18:51:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/09/asia-pacific/live-fire-drills-near-korea-border-set-stage-carter-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-09T19:42:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/f-korea-drill-a-20150410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-korea-drill-a-20150410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. amphibious assault vehicles launch into the ocean off South Korea from the amphibious assault ship USS Ashland on March 30. The ship is part of a flotilla carrying Marines and others conducting exercises with South Korean forces.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/09/business/corporate-business/apple-faces-local-battles-as-its-prepares-global-payments-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-09T19:47:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/b-applepay-a-20150410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-applepay-a-20150410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., unveils Apple Pay during a product announcement at Flint Center in Cupertino, California, in September 2014.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/09/business/ja-chief-resigns-after-farm-reform-battle-with-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-09T19:48:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/09/business/corporate-business/ikea-adds-veggie-balls-to-lure-vegan-shoppers-to-popular-restaurants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-09T19:48:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-09T19:49:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Otoko Wada of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, sits beside a tunnel where she took shelter from the U.S. naval bombardments during World War II and speaks about her experiences and the future of the tsunami-hit town.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Buddhist monk points to stains made on one of the treasured gates at Okadera Temple in the city of Nara.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-10T09:12:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are briefed Thursday at Orange Beach on Peleliu Island, Palau, where American forces landed in 1944 and engaged in fierce battle with Imperial Japanese troops.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Victor Rosenhoj]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/10/asia-pacific/china-cementing-reach-south-china-sea-building-civilian-infrastructure-analysts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-10T17:29:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-10T17:30:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[captionMasahiko Komura (holding microphone), vice president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, holds a meeting with Ji Bingxuan (fourth from right), vice chairman of the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress, on Thursday at a hotel in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoji Kurata (left), a former soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army, and Kiyokazu Tsuchida, an ex-sailor who fought in the Battle of Peleliu, await the arrival of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko on Peleliu Island, Palau, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A salesman poses with two Apple Watch look-alikes in the city of Shenzhen on Wednesday. The Chinese manufacturer says the device makes calls and costs $41-70.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Line Corp. CEO Takeshi Idezawa is interviewed at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-10T19:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This screen shot shows an app from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government that gives directions to filming locations used in a morning TV drama.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The articulated robot, seen in this photo, entered the reactor containment vessel through a 10 cm pipe. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stuart Loakes, 34, and Emma Mulcahy, 29, receive a wedding certificate from Kyoto Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa on Friday after holding their wedding ceremony at Kamigamo Shrine in Kita Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-11T00:26:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[caption 1 chris 2 The father of the boy who kicked a soccer ball out of the school sports ground points to the place where a motorcycle accident occurred in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, in March 2004. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toru Hashimoto]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-11T16:41:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hatsumi Ishimaru (right), who heads a group of plaintiffs in a lawsuit to stop the Genkai nuclear plant's reactors from burning MOX "pluthermal" fuel, speaks to reporters after the suit was tossed out March 20. The plaintiffs are planning an appeal.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Goldfish swim in the shallows of Teller Lake #5 outside of Boulder, Colorado, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a ceremony marking National Nuclear Technology Day in Tehran on Thursday. Rouhani warned that Tehran will not sign a final nuclear deal with world powers unless it is predicated on the lifting of economic sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/11/business/corporate-business/toyota-build-new-plant-chinas-tianjin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-11T19:34:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-11T19:38:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker arrives for a European Union leaders' summit in Brussels in February. The annual summit expected in May in Tokyo will be the first since Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk took office.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/10/national/dozen-fukushima-residents-attend-npt-review-conference-n-y/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-11T19:38:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-11T22:31:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-11T22:44:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Snow lines a path in California's South Lake Tahoe El Dorado Recreation Area on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/10/business/toyota-start-tokyo-trial-road-vehicle-green-mobility-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-11T22:50:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. i-Road chief engineer Akihiro Yanaka poses behind one of the electric vehicles to be used in a planned car-sharing trial in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/11/national/media-national/overseas-observers-spot-something-strange/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-11T22:56:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Strange days: Japan-watchers from overseas recently gave their assessments of the country to Shukan Gendai, which debated whether Japan's reputation for strangeness is a good thing or not.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past a display board showing the Nikkei stock average outside a brokerage in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-12T20:31:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-12T20:58:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The decommissioning of five old nuclear reactors will eliminate output equivalent to 65 percent of the power produced by all the solar panels currently installed in Japan, the second-biggest solar market in the world.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/12/asia-pacific/in-southern-china-hundreds-protest-over-polluting-power-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-12T21:21:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-12T21:42:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kampei Shimoide, mayor of Minamikyushu, Kagoshima Prefecture (second from left), prays for a Kamikaze pilot who died in the war, during a visit to the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Hawaii on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (right), gives a rifle to a Sunni volunteer at a camp in Habaniyah, 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Baghdad on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-12T22:04:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives of the victims of the Sewol disaster and others rally in Seoul on Saturday. The relatives want the government to salvage the sunken ferry and are demanding that the government's enforcement ordinance for the special law on the Sewol be discarded. The placards read: "Discard the enforcement ordinance and salvage the Sewol ferry."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers pick asparagus at the Empresas Del Bosque Inc. farm in Firebaugh, California, on April 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-12T22:05:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-12T22:44:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-12T23:13:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Voters cast ballots for local elections in Osaka on Sunday. Governors, mayors and local assembly members across Japan will be chosen by voters in the first of two rounds of unified quadrennial local elections.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-13T09:27:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young Nigerian refugees draw on April 6 during a therapy program managed by UNICEF in a refugee camp near Baga Sola. Bloody faces, headless bodies, burned houses -- just some of the stark and haunting images drawn by children who have fled deadly Boko Haram violence in neighboring Nigeria for the relative safety of a refugee camp in western Chad. UNICEF says 800,000 children have fled the insurgency in the past year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-13T12:34:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-13T18:05:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-13T18:29:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-13T19:36:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A railway worker checks tracks near JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on Monday after fallen poles forced East Japan Railway Co. to suspend train runs Sunday on much of the busy Yamanote and Keihin Tohoku lines.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/13/national/politics-diplomacy/list-winners-sundays-gubernatorial-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-13T20:10:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-13T20:15:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lock icon, signifying an encrypted Internet connection, is seen on an Internet Explorer browser in a file photo illustration. Hackers, most likely from China, have been spying on governments and businesses in Southeast Asia and India uninterrupted for a decade, researchers at Internet security company FireEye Inc said in a report released Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/13/business/economy-business/wholesale-prices-minus-tax-hike-effect-fall-2-1-percent-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-13T20:17:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-13T20:26:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/13/business/iaea-chief-stresses-nuclear-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-13T20:27:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Yukiya Amano addresses the 48th Japan Atomic Industrial Forum in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/13/national/social-issues/leprosy-patients-execution-questioned-50-years-later/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This illustration shows how Panasonic Corp. hopes to use artificial photosynthesis devices in conjunction with its factories to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture taken on Monday shows damage outside the Moroccan Embassy after a bomb exploded in front it, in Tripoli. The bombing came hours after gunmen opened fire on the South Korean Embassy compound from a passing car a day earlier, killing two Libyan guards and wounding a third person.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman rides an electric scooter in a Beijing business district on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man lifts up his 6-year-old son so that he can rub the nose on a bust of President Abraham Lincoln outside his tomb in Springfield, Illinois, on April 8. Local legend has it that rubbing the nose brings good luck.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Girls, wearing the full-length hijab and praying in an undisclosed rural location, are seen in a video taken last May by Boko Haram militants who abducted them.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past a Shake Shack restaurant in New York's Theater District last September. The chain, which grew out of a roadside burger stand in New York, plans to set up shop in Tokyo in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-14T15:16:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideki Baba, leader of nonprofit organization Babbonatale, listens as Tomi Tokuda recounts her wartime experiences, in Nagoya on March 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-14T19:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-14T19:54:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-14T19:56:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuji Onuma, who was evacuated after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis unfolded, stands in front of a sign promoting nuclear energy in the deserted town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, in the exclusion zone on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The crater of Mount Zao, which straddles Yamagata and Miyagi prefectures, is seen Monday after the Meteorological Agency warned of a possible eruption. Seismic activity has been growing on the peak since April 7.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Inoue, president and chief executive officer of Orix Corp., speaks during an interview in Tokyo on April 7. Orix is in early talks to purchase a U.S. fund manager.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thai tourists take photos in front of the Kaminarimon Gate at Sensoji Temple on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yohei Kono (left), head of the Japanese Association for the Promotion of International Trade, listens to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescued migrants wait to disembark from an Italian Coast Guard ship in Palermo, Sicily, on Tuesday. Some 150 rescued survivors from a shipwreck off Libya said 400 of their fellow migrants drowned.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tracy Otterson puts avian influenza samples in the centrifuge to clean them up before moving to extraction April 8, 2015 at the University of Minnesota's Veterinary Diagnostics Laboratory in St. Paul. Federal authorities said Tuesday more poultry flocks in the U.S. are experiencing bird flu.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This November National Park Service photo shows the Griffith Park mountain lion known as P-22. The cougar had holed up in a crawl space under a Los Angeles home until it was coaxed out Tuesday to roam the local hills again.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-15T23:20:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members attend a plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday. They later backed the position that the estimated 1.5 million Armenians who were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I constituted genocide.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-16T07:30:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie takes questions during a town hall meeting with area residents in Londonderry, New Hampshire, Wednesday. Christie introduced himself to New Hampshire voters in a format he knows well — a town hall meeting.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kobe International Frontier Medical Center will temporarily halt operations following the suspicious deaths of four liver transplant recipients since the facility opened in Chuo Ward, Kobe, last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-19T20:50:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yemeni members of the southern separatist movement, loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, sit atop to a tank on Sunday in Aden. Eleven Houthis and five pro-Hadi fighters were killed in clashes on Saturday night and Sunday morning, military sources said.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arata Totsuka, 86, said he remembers train passengers looking down on him during his trip home, after he was demobilized following Japan's surrender in August 1945.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-20T16:29:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-20T17:22:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves as he arrives for a meeting with the heads of the Iranian judiciary system in Tehran on June 28, 2006. Khamenei was quoted saying he saw "no use" in negotiating with the United States and again signaled that Tehran was unwilling to halt its nuclear program.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new bullet train makes a trial run against the backdrop of the snow-covered Tateyama mountain range in Toyama Prefecture on Jan. 14 ahead of the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line on March 14.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kintetsu Department Store in Abeno Harukasu, the tallest building in Japan, opened a salon Monday in Osaka that caters exclusively to foreign tourists.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/20/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-vows-to-reflect-south-koreas-stance-in-defense-updates-with-u-s/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Mobile Communications Inc. announces its new flagship Xperia Z4 model smartphone, which will debut in Japan this summer.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-21T18:50:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-21T18:59:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-21T20:42:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-21T23:52:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-21T23:52:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-21T23:52:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jesper Koll, who has managed JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co.'s equity-research team in Tokyo for more than five years, is leaving the firm.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:title>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyo Tire &amp; Rubber Co. executive Tetsuya Kuze (center) and other company executives bow in apology at a news conference on Tuesday in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/22/national/history/korean-war-criminal-seeks-redress-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-22T18:49:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many Koreans, including Lee Hak-rae, were sent to Thailand during World War II to guard prisoners of war working to build the Thai-Burma Railway, and some were indicted after the war for abusing the POWs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/22/business/economy-business/trade-balance-swings-first-surplus-since-2012/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-22T19:50:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Port workers converse at a container terminal in Tokyo. Exports exceeded imports in March for the first time in almost three years.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-22T19:52:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying (second from right) stands beside Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Raymond Tam (left), Chief Secretary Carrie Lam (second from left) and Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen, ahead of a Legislative Council meeting in the city on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/22/business/economy-business/ex-currency-chief-fears-boj-exit-nightmare-debt-pile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-22T20:25:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Utsumi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/22/business/economy-business/maglevs-economics-dizzying-speed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-22T20:25:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasukazu Endo, who heads the Central Japan Railway Co. maglev trials facility in Yamanashi Prefecture, addresses reporters Tuesday after the train broke the world speed record, achieving 603 kph.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/22/business/corporate-business/skymark-president-chairman-step/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-22T21:09:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-22T23:09:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks Wednesday at the Asia-Africa Summit in Jakarta, where he expressed "heartfelt gratitude" to "friends" who aided Japan's postwar reintegration.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/22/business/corporate-business/sony-beats-estimates-as-hirai-revamp-fuels-earnings-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-22T23:15:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-22T23:16:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-22T23:20:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[A drone is seen as a tarpaulin held by police, is blown by wind, on the roof of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence in Tokyo]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A drone, which carried a small camera and a small plastic bottle, is seen on the roof of the prime minister’s office in Tokyo on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/world/government-forces-invade-nigerias-sambisa-forest-last-known-stronghold-boko-haram/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T07:29:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-23T10:55:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fire fighters tackle a blaze at the home of Mie Hirai on Tuesday in the town of Yugawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, in this image captured by a local resident.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/world/skywest-cabin-pressure-emergency-spurs-faa-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T11:06:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emergency vehicles surround a SkyWest Airlines plane, operating as United Express, that made an emergency landing at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Wednesday in Cheektowaga, New York. A SkyWest spokeswoman said one passenger aboard Flight 5622, lost consciousness and the pilots rapidly descended "out of an abundance of caution."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-23T14:36:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-23T14:37:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-23T16:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles wait at a traffic light in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, in March. The new Notteco service aims to reduce traffic jams by making long-distance car-pooling possible online.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/national/new-security-law-may-drag-sdf-conflicts-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T16:34:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C patrol aircraft launches flares during a naval fleet review in Sagami Bay, off Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in October 2012. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plans to expand Japan's noncombat role in armed conflicts beyond "areas around Japan" could see Tokyo becoming dragged into action in the South China Sea in support of U.S. forces.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/world/science-health-world/ocean-output-rivals-big-nations-gdp-resources-eroding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T16:56:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Filipino fisherman watches a sunset in the South China Sea on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/business/corporate-business/hondajet-makes-maiden-flight-sendai-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T17:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda Aircraft's HondaJet executive jet approaches Tokyo's Haneda airport on Thursday. The HondaJet will embark on a 13-nation sales promotion tour.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/business/corporate-business/mhi-shut-two-yokohama-plants-move-production-offshore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T17:45:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-23T17:46:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-ties-iran-grow-final-nuclear-deal-abe-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T17:56:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Asian Africa Conference in Jakarta on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/national/crime-legal/police-expand-recording-entire-interrogations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T18:02:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/national/discovery-drone-roof-prime-ministers-office-highlights-legal-shortcomings-expert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T18:58:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-droneside-a-20150424.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cheap but versatile drones are only a click away thanks to online shopping sites, a situation that has led to calls for greater regulation of the devices.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/business/daiwa-reboot-asian-expansion-via-stakes-brokerages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T19:09:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/national/crime-legal/tour-bus-tree-kumamoto-20-south-koreans-injured/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T19:46:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A passenger bus that was carrying South Korean tourists is seen after it struck a tree along Route 212 in Kumamoto Prefecture on Wednesday afternoon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/national/foreign-visitors-top-1-5-million-break-march-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T20:26:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese tourists take a photo under cherry trees in Tokyo's Ueno Park on April 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/national/science-health/3-4-kobe-hospital-liver-transplant-recipients-died-saved-report-suspected-malpractice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T20:27:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/national/science-health/japanese-american-french-researchers-receive-2015-japan-prize/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T22:35:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Theodore Friedmann of the United States and his wife are congratulated by the audience after being awarded the Japan Prize in Tokyo on Thursday. Alain Fischer (left) of France and Yutaka Takahashi (right) of Japan were also awarded the annual prize, which is given to people who have contributed to the development of science and technology.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/national/politics-diplomacy/cabinet-minister-visits-yasukuni-shrine-shortly-abe-xi-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T23:24:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eriko Yamatani]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-meets-xi-in-sign-differences-over-history-wont-derail-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T23:34:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of talks on Wednesday in Jakarta.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/business/delayed-flash-crash-arrest-throws-spotlight-regulators/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T23:35:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/business/corporate-business/nobel-laureate-nakamuras-lighting-company-opens-office-in-yokohama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-23T23:35:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/24/world/january-drone-strike-pakistan-al-qaida-site-killed-u-s-italian-aid-worker-hostages-obama-apologizes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-24T05:53:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Giovanni Lo Porto's brother looks on from his apartment in Palermo on Thursday. A U.S. drone strike in January targeting an al-Qaida compound in Pakistan inadvertently killed Lo Porto and an American who had been held hostage for years by the group, U.S. officials said on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/24/national/russia-carries-military-drills-disputed-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-24T06:13:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/24/national/politics-diplomacy/asia-africa-leaders-call-u-n-security-council-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-24T08:10:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/24/world/chile-volcanos-ash-cloud-leads-flight-cancellations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-24T08:11:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An ash cloud approaches Bariloche, a province of Argentina's Rio Negro, from the Calbuco volcano in neighbouring Chile on Thursday. Spectacular bursts of volcanic lightning and lava lit up the night sky in southern Chile as the Calbuco volcano erupted twice after laying dormant for half a century, forcing some 5,000 people to evacuate.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/24/world/newly-found-chamber-yellowstone-enough-magma-fill-grand-canyon-11-times-scientists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-24T10:13:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yellowstone National Park's Grand Prismatic hot springs is pictured in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on Thursday. The hot springs are among the park's hydrothermal features created by the fact that Yellowstone is a supervolcano – the largest type of volcano on Earth. A new University of Utah study reports discovery of a huge magma reservoir beneath Yellowstone's previously known magma chamber.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/national/politics-diplomacy/right-wing-candidates-nude-campaign-poster-skirts-election-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-24T11:11:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nude poster of Teruki Goto, a candidate for the Chiyoda Ward Assembly, stands out on a campaign board in the Hibiya area of Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/24/world/fracking-seen-turning-tornado-alley-oklahoma-deemed-quake-country-usgs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-24T11:34:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A toppled chimney went through the roof at the home  in Sparks, Oklahoma, in 2011. A government report released Thursday found that a dozen areas in the United States have been shaken in recent years by small earthquakes triggered by oil and gas drilling,  The man-made quakes jolted once stable regions in eight states, including parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas, according to researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Brown's family lawyer, Anthony Gray, and his mother, Lesley McSpadden (left), announce the Brown family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Ferguson in front of the St. Louis County Circuit Court in Clayton, Missouri, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo found at a library in Massachusetts shows a man who could be Nakahama Manjiro (left) and a man who could be William Whitfield, the skipper of a 19th century whaling vessel that rescued Manjiro, who adopted the name John and is believed to have been the first Japanese to live in the U.S.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-24T16:39:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the remaining copies of "The American School in Japan: A History of Our First Century" shows teacher Jack Moyer with the girls' basketball team he coached in 1971. Copies of the book were destroyed after Janet Simmons, a former ASIJ student who was abused by Moyer in the early 1970s, confronted staff about the book, which praises Moyer.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customer Yoichiro Masui shows off his newly purchased Apple Watch. He was the first customer to secure one at SoftBank's Omotesando store in Tokyo on Friday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-24T18:33:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-24T18:34:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Embassy staffer Ryan Parkins (left) and diplomat Tim Johnson (center), crack open a cask of sake during their wedding at the British Embassy in Tokyo on Friday, with help from Ambassador Tim Hitchens.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-24T20:27:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-24T20:28:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man is seen sitting on the steps of an abandoned home in Camden, New Jersey, last June. Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., the maker of the Subaru vehicles, plans to relocate its U.S. headquarters to Camden, which is rated as the most crime-prone city in the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-24T23:15:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-24T23:38:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former sex slave Kim Bok-dong (right) addresses the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/24/national/government-names-18-japan-heritage-sites-tourism-drive/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kodokan in Ibaraki Prefecture, the school that Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867), attended, is one of 18 cultural assets dubbed "Japan Heritage" sites by the Cultural Affairs Agency.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-25T01:19:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshio Tamura, ex-assembly chairman of Kanna, Gunma Prefecture, campaigns Tuesday in the town's mayoral election. He assumed the post without a vote, as he was the only candidate.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-25T13:15:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ash Carter]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Olympic athlete and reality TV star Bruce Jenner arrives for a charity event in New York in September 2013.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People lay flowers at a memorial to Armenians killed by the Ottoman Turks, as they mark the centenary of the mass killings, in Yerevan on Friday. Armenians on Friday marked the centenary of what historians estimate to be the slaughter of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks, an event widely viewed by scholars as genocide. Turkey, however, denies the deaths constituted genocide and says the death toll has been inflated.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/24/national/fukui-man-takes-responsibility-for-landing-drone-on-abes-official-residence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-25T14:50:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-25T16:04:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This illustration shows a tunnel that was discovered underneath the Pyramid of the Plumed Serpent in the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan and may lead to a royal tomb]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/25/world/science-health-world/water-insecurity-costing-global-economy-billions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-25T22:30:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flood risk: A railway line is badly damaged after a flood struck the Chilean town of El Salado on April 9. Chile's Atacama region suffered the most flood damage in 80 years in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/25/national/media-national/u-s-towns-pulled-japanese-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-25T22:52:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Show of emotion: A woman takes part in a protest about "comfort women" outside of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul in 2012. A similar statue to the one above now sits in a park in Glendale, California.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/25/business/economy-business/cash-shortfall-among-elderly-push-japan-edge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-25T19:30:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Money’s too tight to mention: A customer counts her cash after making a withdrawal at a Japan Post Co. branch in Hachioji, Tokyo. If Japanese retirees all dip into their savings at the same time to supplement their pensions, it could spell disaster for Japan’s bond-driven economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/25/business/japanese-consortium-to-propose-kawasaki-heavy-bullet-trains-for-high-speed-line-in-california/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-25T20:08:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Al-Qaida's American spokesman, Adam Gadahn, delivers a video message in October 2010. Gadahn, the al-Qaida spokesman believed killed in a U.S. strike, was a teenage rock music fan who grew up on a Californian goat farm before he was drawn into radical Islam. The White House announced Thursday that U.S. intelligence believes Gadahn died in January in a counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/25/world/science-health-world/arctic-nations-vow-to-fight-climate-changing-emissions-of-black-carbon-methane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-25T20:11:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry responds to a question during a news conference at the Arctic Council Ministerial meeting Friday in Iqaluit, Nunavut.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/25/national/media-national/fighting-recover-oceans-wrath/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-25T22:50:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The new fight: Akahama Reconstruction Committee chairman Hiromi Kawaguchi is one of the two subjects of Haruko Konishi's documentary "Akahama Rock'n Roll," which focuses on an area in the town of Otsuchi that was devastated by the tsunami that followed the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/25/national/decade-after-amagasaki-crash-victims-cant-let-go/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-25T21:06:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers traveling on JR West's Fukuchiyama Line on Saturday mourn the deaths of over 100 passengers killed in the April 25, 2005, derailment in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/25/national/taiji-dolphin-culls-dealt-setback/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-25T21:07:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fishermen corner dolphins in a bay near the town of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/25/national/nuclear-abolition-resolve-weakens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-25T22:42:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/25/national/politics-diplomacy/at-abe-obama-summit-all-roads-lead-to-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-25T23:37:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with U.S. President Barack Obama at their joint news conference following their summit meeting at the State Guest House in Tokyo's Asakasa district in April 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/25/national/fukui-man-arrested-landing-drone-prime-ministers-office-says-protesting-nuclear-power-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-25T23:37:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo from a blog posting believed uploaded by Yasuo Yamamoto of Obama, Fukui Prefecture, shows a drone similar to the one he allegedly landed on the prime minister's office.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/26/world/nepal-struggles-devastating-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-26T11:18:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers remove debris at the historic Dharahara Tower in Kathmandu on Saturday after an earthquake caused extensive damage to the Nepalese capital and surrounding areas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/25/business/corporate-business/star-wars-goods-hit-shelves-in-tokyo-kobe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-26T14:24:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Darth Vader made of Lego blocks stands Saturday at a Toys "R" Us outlet in Tokyo's Odaiba waterfront district. The special corner dedicated to "Star Wars" paraphernalia opened as part of new sales drive ahead of December's release of the space fantasy's seventh installation, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/26/world/germany-says-will-deny-entry-to-some-russian-night-wolves-bikers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-26T16:04:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/26/world/the-worlds-strongest-earthquakes-since-1900/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-26T17:20:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/26/national/history/dont-shun-history-sports-japans-former-soccer-coach-okano-warns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-26T21:34:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shunichiro Okano, former Japan soccer team player, points at Yokohama's Nissan Stadium, where the finals of the 2002 World Cup co-hosted with South Korea were held.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/26/national/cycling-kyoto-maze-get-easier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-26T22:38:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cyclist pushes his bicycle up Ninenzaka, a famous street in Kyoto, on Oct. 7. While Japan's ancient capital is a perennial draw for foreign tourists, the city remains difficult to explore by mass transport, making bicycles a popular option for getting around.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/26/national/politics-diplomacy/unlike-elections-referendums-pr-free/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-26T22:56:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto explains his plan to consolidate the city of Osaka into five semi-autonomous wards at a town meeting with residents in Osaka on April 14, ahead of the May 17 referendum on the issue.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/26/national/rainbow-parade-celebrates-lgbt-equality-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-26T23:13:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants in Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2015 parade through Shibuya on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/26/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-jets-to-u-s-for-high-profile-summit-with-obama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-26T23:18:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-26T23:25:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/26/world/tally-of-foreigners-in-nepal-at-time-of-deadly-earthquake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-26T23:43:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-27T10:55:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-27T10:58:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake speaks as Democratic U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings looks on during a Sunday news conference on the demonstrations for Freddie Gray, who died following an arrest by the Baltimore police department.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-27T11:03:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People break the concrete wreckage of a house destroyed by an air raid in Sanaa on Sunday. Air raids, naval shelling and ground fighting shook Yemen on Sunday in some of the most widespread combat since a Saudi-led alliance intervened last month against Iranian-allied Houthi militia who have seized wide areas of the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/business/mideast-supply-disruption-threat-sends-oil-trading-near-four-month-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T11:34:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/world/drone-mistake-underscores-difficulty-tracking-hostages-held/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T17:05:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. airmen prepare an MQ-9 Reaper drone for flight in May 2014 at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. The Reaper can carry bombs and missiles.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/national/crime-legal/suspect-chiba-teens-death-admits-digging-hole-body-found/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T19:32:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Floral tributes and beverage offerings are seen at a farm in the town of Shibayama, Chiba Prefecture, on Sunday where the body of Manae Noguchi, 18, was discovered last Friday. Four people have been arrested on suspicion of abducting and confining her.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/national/politics-diplomacy/osaka-merger-referendum-gets-underway/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T19:33:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Campaigners distribute leaflets calling on residents to vote in the May 17 referendum on reorganizing the city of Osaka after campaigning kicked off Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/business/corporate-business/writedowns-put-japans-trading-houses-tough-spot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T19:34:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/business/corporate-business/mizuho-agrees-buy-additional-loans-rbs-500-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T19:35:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/national/politics-diplomacy/ex-meti-chief-obuchi-grilled-fund-discrepancies-led-ouster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T23:10:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuko Obuchi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-pair-dpj-duo-victorious-4-5-key-mayoral-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T23:10:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pollresults-a-20150428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ken Hasebe, who ran in Sunday's mayoral race for Shibuya Ward with no party support, renews his resolve Sunday evening as he cruises toward victory.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/national/thousands-rally-abolition-nukes-hibakusha-ranks-thin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T23:26:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atomic bomb survivors and peace campaigners take part in a march through New York on Sunday ahead of the U.N. conference to promote nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation that was to start Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/national/manga-artist-draws-troubles-truancy-inspiration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T23:27:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manga writer Shoichi Tanazono works on a comic book in Nagoya that depicts his troubles with attending school as a child.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/business/financial-markets/japanese-companies-using-weak-yen-beat-profit-targets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T23:27:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee walks near a gas-fired turbine manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric Corp. at Tepco's combined cycle thermal power station in Kawasaki last August. The firm's conservative currency assumption will likely help it beat forecasts when it reports earnings Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/business/abe-adviser-fears-boj-den-conspirators-opposing-reflation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T23:28:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/business/kuroda-stimulus-debate-heats-toyota-veteran-set-board-seat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T23:28:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/business/corporate-business/inpex-acquire-interest-crude-oil-field-abu-dhabi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T23:28:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Energy developer Inpex Corp. aims to acquire a 40-year interest in a crude oil field in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, for $1.1 billion, sources close to the matter said Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/business/corporate-business/dropping-finance-social-media-wantedly-ceo-eyes-ipo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T23:30:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akiko Naka, chief executive officer of Wantedly Inc., poses for a photo during an interview in Tokyo on April 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/reference/new-rules-pushing-japanese-corporations-tap-outside-directors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-27T23:37:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Otsuka Kagu President Kumiko Otsuka speaks during a news conference in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Feb. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/27/national/drone-flyer-surveilled-american-embassy-housing-facility-buzzed-sendai-nuclear-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-28T01:02:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-28T01:38:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/28/business/democrat-republican-factions-globalization-threaten-growth-obama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-28T07:03:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/28/national/wary-china-japan-urges-nuclear-weapons-info-transparency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-28T08:49:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/28/world/executions-imminent-indonesia-informs-australia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-28T09:58:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker arranges coffins Sunday that will be delivered to the prison island of Nusakambangan onto a truck ahead of the imminent executions of drug convicts on death row, at a church compound in Cilacap, Central Java, Indonesia. Australia wants corruption allegations against Indonesian judges investigated before their death sentences against two Australian drug traffickers, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, are carried out, the foreign minister said Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/28/national/wagyu-beef-mochi-dessert-u-s-japan-banquet-menu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-28T11:39:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/28/national/japans-food-diversity-key-theme-milan-expo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-28T13:04:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendants at the Japan Pavilion of Expo Milano 2015 take part in hospitality training ahead of the event's opening in Milan, Italy, on May 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/28/national/japan-send-110-troops-nepal-join-quake-relief-operations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-28T13:28:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a Japanese rescue team transit at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport en route to Kathmandu on Tuesday. Further personnel were to be dispatched from Japan later in the day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/28/national/sento-bathing-tips-now-offered-three-languages-tourism-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-28T13:37:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sento-a-20150429.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Sento Association's website offers tips on manners when bathing at sento public baths in English, Chinese and Korean.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/28/national/hakodate-guidebook-offers-glimpse-past/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-28T14:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/28/national/politics-diplomacy/anger-sex-slave-issue-clouds-obama-asia-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-28T14:32:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former "comfort woman" Yong Soo Lee, 88, of South Korea, protests outside Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government during Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 27.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Shinzo visit the Lincoln Memorial on Monday in Washington DC.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters rally outside the U.S. Marines' Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Tuesday, the 63rd anniversary of the reinstatement of Japan's sovereignty.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-28T21:48:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers questions at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daniel Loeb]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This artist rendering shows Washington attorney Douglas Hallward-Driemeier arguing that states must recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, Tuesday  during the Supreme Court hearing on same-sex marriage, attended by Justices (from left) Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito Jr. and Elena Kagan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-29T19:59:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visa overstayers and their supporters march through Tokyo’s Ginza district on Wednesday. Many have worked for years and raised children in Japan, and consider the country their home.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-29T20:21:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuhiro Tsuga, the president of electronics giant Panasonic (right), answers questions beside executive director Hideaki Kawai during a press conference at the company's head office in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[World War II veterans from across the former Soviet Union wait to meet Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday at a memorial complex in Moscow dedicated to the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. Given the scale of Soviet losses, many people believe Moscow alone won WWII.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/29/national/akie-abe-meets-u-s-students-learning-japanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-29T21:52:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A railway worker checks a broken overhead line of a bullet train at Koriyama Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Wednesday. The services on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line in eastern and northeastern Japan were suspended for about 4½ hours, affecting thousands of people traveling on Golden Week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/29/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-considering-joint-u-s-air-patrols-in-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-04-29T23:05:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-04-30T23:27:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks before a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday on Capitol Hill as Vice President Joe Biden (left) and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio listen.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[(From left) Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue, Atomic Heritage Foundation President Cynthia Kelly and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui chat during a meeting in New York on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/02/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-seeks-war-anniversary-statement-showing-future-of-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-02T23:31:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-02T23:31:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-03T14:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A "snowblower" hydrothermal vent spews hot water and white bits of bacterial mat at the "Axial Seamount" off the coast of Oregon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/28/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-aims-to-revise-pacifist-constitution-by-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-03T20:13:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-03T20:30:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Italian Pavilion takes on an appearance of an urban forest of branches.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/03/national/showcasing-innovation-food-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-03T20:30:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The two-story Japan Pavilion welcomes visitors to the Expo Milano 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/03/world/expo-milano-2015-open-global-community/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-03T20:31:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lake Arena, a pond situated around an open space of 28,000 sq. meters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/03/world/chiba-university-successfully-producing-vegetables-factories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-03T20:31:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chiba University's plant factory in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, produces lettuce and other vegetables.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/03/national/mori-trust-heir-shows-how-women-can-shine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-03T21:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/03/national/science-health/time-needed-japanese-insects-tackle-britains-knotweed-problem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T01:12:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scientists Suzy Wood (left) and Kate Constantine release psyllids onto knotweed at a test site in Britain in August 2012. The insects are being used to try and reduce the spread of Japanese knotweed, which has gotten out of control in parts of Britain.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/03/world/science-health-world/cosmic-rays-may-damage-the-brains-of-astronauts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T01:15:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This computer-generated view shows an area including Gale Crater, which NASA's Curiosity rover is exploring, beginning to catch the morning light on Mars.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/03/world/science-health-world/limiting-global-warming-to-2-degrees-c-inadequate-scientists-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T01:17:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-04T05:43:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants wait to disembark from the French military ship Commandant Birot after being rescued as part of the Frontex-coordinated Operation Triton off the coast of the port of Crotone, southern Italy, on Sunday. The Italian Coast Guard said it had coordinated the rescue of more than 2,150 migrants as they sailed across the Mediterranean on rickety boats, bringing the number of people rescued this weekend to 5,800.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/04/world/im-old-ailing-pope-tells-elderly-sick/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T06:56:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis takes a cap from a girl scout during his visit to Regina Pacis parish church in Ostia in the outskirts of Rome, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/04/world/bangladesh-al-qaida-branch-claims-february-hacking-death-u-s-citizen-blogger-site-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T08:34:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-04T08:48:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., strikes a table tennis pose with Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft Corp. and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. director, during a shareholder event on the sidelines of the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/04/asia-pacific/pair-arrested-march-north-korea-say-spied-south-cnn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T08:55:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-04T10:07:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An activist holds up anti-war messages Sunday at Yokohama's Rinko Park, where 30,000 people gathered for a Constitution Day rally to protest moves to revise the supreme law.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-04T10:53:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Potential Republican 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks to the media at the Arthur Outlaw Mobile Convention Center in Mobile, Alabama, on April 30. Carson is a retired neurosurgeon turned conservative star told a Florida TV station Sunday he will seek the Republican nomination for president.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/04/world/air-arabia-jetliner-diverted-uae-airbase-blast-warning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T11:02:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/04/asia-pacific/ashes-ballerina-plisetskaya-spread-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T14:48:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/04/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-obama-exchange-thank-you-tweets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T17:59:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/04/national/history/memories-man-inspired-giovannis-island/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T20:33:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Tokuno looks over the area of sea off Cape Nosappu in Nemuro, Hokkaido, on a boat in April. He says the former Soviet Union's occupation of his home island of Shikotan meant he could endure almost any hardship in life.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/04/national/politics-diplomacy/asean-plus-three-pledge-further-structural-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T20:56:45+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/04/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-missed-chance-in-u-s-to-mend-ties-south-koreas-park-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T21:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/04/national/politics-diplomacy/park-signals-two-track-foreign-policy-toward-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T23:12:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Park Geun-hye listens during an interview in Seoul in January. Park signaled Monday that her country will pursue a two-track diplomacy toward Japan, separating state-to-state relations from historical issues stemming from Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/04/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-lawmakers-visit-beijing-in-bid-to-improve-bilateral-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T23:12:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahiko Komura speaks to reporters in April 2013. A group of senior Diet members led by Komura, including ruling and opposition party lawmakers, arrived in the Chinese capital on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/04/world/marines-arrive-nepal-trio-rescued-eight-days-rubble/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T23:34:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two U.S .Osprey aircraft come in for a landing at Kathmandu's international airport on Sunday as part of a new phase by the US goverment in helping the distribution of aid to remote parts of the Himalayan nation.  A massive earthquake on April 25 killed over 7,200 people and devastated vast swaths of one of Asia's poorest countries.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/04/national/demand-growing-class-reunion-services/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T23:39:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former junior high school friends in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, chat over drinks at a reunion arranged by Dousoukai Net Co. in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-04T23:41:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jon Mitchell speaks about his research on military defoliants in Okinawa at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in October 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/04/reference/18-looms-new-age-majority/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-04T23:46:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[University students attend a job fair hosted by Mynavi Corp. in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2012. A bill to lower the minimum voting age to 18 from 20 is widely expected to clear the Diet.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/world/crime-legal-world/gunman-texas-attack-muhammad-cartoon-event-fbi-radar-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-05T06:47:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police head into a building at the Autumn Ridge apartment complex that had been searched by investigators in Phoenix, Arizona, on Monday. Texas police shot dead two gunmen who opened fire on Sunday outside an exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that was organized by a group described as anti-Islamic and billed as a free-speech event. Citing a senior FBI official, ABC News identified one of the gunmen as Elton Simpson, an Arizona man who was the target of a terror investigation.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-05T09:11:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NYPD officers salute as an ambulance carrying the body of officer Brian Moore leaves Jamaica Hospital in New York Monday. Moore, 25, was shot in the head on Saturday evening as he tried to question a local man sought on gun charges. He died on Monday of his wounds.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/world/politics-diplomacy-world/lawyer-says-clinton-willing-testify-benghazi-panel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-05T09:18:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-05T10:07:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Marine  Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. testifies in March 2014 on Capitol Hill. President Barack Obama will nominate Dunford as next Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/asia-pacific/philippine-rebels-kill-most-wanted-islamist-militant-in-south/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-05T10:18:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-05T11:58:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (center) provides field guidance at the newly built National Space Development General Satellite Control and Command Center in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on Sunday. The country's ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong Nam, will attend the Moscow observance of the fall of Nazi Germany next weekend, it was announced.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/world/science-health-world/lunge-feeding-fin-whales-oral-cavity-nerves-elastic-scientists-find/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-05T12:31:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rorqual whales open their mouths and lunge to eat while their tongues invert and their mouths fill like giant water balloons full of floating prey as seen in this undated illustration courtesy of the University of British Columbia (UBC).  UBC researchers have discovered a unique nerve structure in the mouth and tongue of rorqual whales that can double in length and then recoil like a bungee cord.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/national/crime-legal/government-eyes-private-body-identify-drone-operators/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-05T12:31:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-05T13:59:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/asia-pacific/climate-change-sparks-tension-in-indias-tea-gardens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-05T15:46:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[A tea garden worker plucks tea leaves inside Aideobarie Tea Estate in Jorhat in Assam, India]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tea garden worker plucks tea leaves last month inside Aideobarie Tea Estate in Jorhat in Assam, India. Scientists say climate change is to blame for uneven rainfall that is cutting yields and lifting costs for tea firms.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/world/u-s-nuclear-dilemma-reactors-aging-decommissioning-cash-billions-short-permanent-waste-site-eludes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-05T16:33:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fish lamps are silhouetted against the sunset at a fishing port in Oma, Aomori Prefecture, in this file image from June, 2011. The town has received significant subsidies as a nuclear plant is built nearby by Electric Power Development Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/slum-shadows-seouls-glitzy-gangnam-district-will-likely-soon-demolished/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-05T16:45:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A resident looks out of his shack in Guryong, Seoul, on Saturday. Low-cost housing is promised for those ousted.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/asia-pacific/north-korea-parades-detainees-for-tv-cameras-south-pleads-for-their-freedom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-05T16:45:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters peer from the rear window of a trolley bus in the North Korean capital on Sunday. South Korea has called on the North to release four of its citizens being held.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/asia-pacific/chinas-military-says-army-has-yet-to-fully-embrace-the-rule-of-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-05T16:50:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/national/japan-will-be-last-g-7-country-to-make-solar-power-economically-viable/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-05T19:58:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[iStock_solar]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is now one of the world's four largest markets for solar panels and a large number of power plants are coming onstream, including two giant arrays over water in the city of Kato, Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-spends-golden-week-playing-golf-at-retreat-near-fuji/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-05T22:36:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-05T22:56:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/national/toshima-ward-office-residents-share-new-high-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-05T22:58:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The new Toshima Ward Office in Tokyo is located in a 49-story skyscraper that also houses more than 400 apartment units. It's the first time in Japan that a municipal office and condos have shared the same building.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/business/economy-business/south-korea-fires-warning-shot-at-japan-over-won-yen-rate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-05T23:01:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/national/politics-diplomacy/chinas-no-3-leader-says-ties-with-japan-improving/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-05T23:59:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahiko Komura (left), vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party, faces reporters Tuesday in Beijing after meeting with high-ranking Chinese officials.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/01/national/japans-greenhouse-gas-proposal-draws-fire-base-year-swap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T03:49:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-green-analysis-a-20150502.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scientist head to Chile's Bernard O'Higgins station in Antarctica on Jan. 22. Japan's targets for greenhouse gas reductions compare poorly with the pledges of some other nations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/business/u-s-ups-emergency-fund-330-million-cover-claims-bird-flu-outbreak-poultry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T05:18:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkeys are seen inside a shed in West Liberty, Iowa,  in this file photo taken July 7, 2011. The largest-ever U.S. outbreak of avian influenza, which has devastated Midwestern poultry and egg producers in recent weeks, could be felt at Thanksgiving tables across the nation come November, farmers and some trade groups say. The U.S. government is spending millions to cover industry loss claims.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-06T05:22:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee waves to supporters with his grandson, Chanlder Huckabee, 3, in his arms after announcing his intentions to run for the Republican presidential nomination during an event at Hempstead Hall in his hometown of Hope, Arkansas, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/national/asiana-pilot-may-attempted-climb-time-hiroshima-mishap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T06:58:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-06T06:59:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-google-a-20150507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this Dec. 10, 2013, file photo, a reporter uses his smartphone during a presentation for the new Google cultural institute in Paris. More Google search requests are now being made on mobile devices than personal computers in the U.S. and many other parts of the world. The milestone was announced at a digital advertising conference on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/national/history/tokyo-seoul-discuss-japans-contentious-world-heritage-listing-issue-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T09:07:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/world/security-bolstered-charlie-hebdo-honored-new-york/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T12:04:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hebdo-a-20150507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gerard Biard (left), recently appointed editor-in-chief of the Paris-based satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, critic Jean-Baptiste Thoret (center) and author Salman Rushdie attend the annual PEN American Center Literary Gala on Tuesday at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where the freedom of expression award is being given to the Charlie Hebdo magazine.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/world/social-issues-world/led-presidents-daughter-cubans-plan-mass-symbolic-gay-transgender-wedding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T12:15:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cubagay-a-20150507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mariela Castro (center), director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education, National Assembly member and daughter of Cuba's President Raul Castro, walks down the stairs after a press conference in Havana on Tuesday. Cuban gay rights activists led by her plan a symbolic, massive wedding on Saturday to promote acceptance of homosexual and transgender Cubans in a country once notoriously hostile toward them.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/02/national/media-national/progress-slow-comes-societal-views-adoption/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T15:22:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p19 brasor media mix-a 20150503]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot from the 2014 prize-winning documentary "Mothers," made by NTV and Chukyo TV]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/business/corporate-business/tesla-open-seven-new-service-centers-japan-end-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T18:18:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tesla-a-20150507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prepare to take a ride in the carmaker's electric vehicle at the company's headquarters in California during Abe's recent tour of the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/world/politics-diplomacy-world/leader-of-australian-opposition-greens-party-resigns-unexpectedly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T19:23:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/world/politics-diplomacy-world/almost-40000-flee-burundi-amid-political-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T21:48:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women flee Bujumbura in fear of clashes between riot policemen and protesters against the ruling CNDD-FDD party's decision to allow President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a third five-year term in office.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/national/traditional-japanese-shop-to-showcase-flying-fish-paste-at-food-expo-in-milan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T21:53:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-expo-a-20150507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mikiko Aoyama grills flying-fish paste at her shop in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture. The shop will serve the local delicacy at the international culinary fair Expo Milano 2015 in Italy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/national/returning-travelers-flood-planes-trains-on-golden-week-finale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T21:53:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-holidaymakers-a-20150507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bullet-train passengers jam JR Shin-Osaka Station on Wednesday as the Golden Week holidays wound up.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/world/angola-allegedly-killed-1000-civilians-raid-anti-government-sect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T22:10:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sect leader Jose Kalupeteka is escorted by police in Huambo, Angola, on Tuesday. Kalupeteka is a popular preacher against authority who says the world will end on Dec. 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/business/tech/chinas-cybersecurity-push-sparks-a-gold-rush-in-tech-products/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T22:35:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sipu Enterprises Group Chief Executive Zhang Long poses at his office in Kunming, China, on Feb. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/world/texas-gunman-had-happy-childhood-in-pakistan-but-struggled-in-the-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T22:48:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-soofi-a-20150507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This April 2003 photo provided by the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office shows Nadir Soofi, identified as one of two attackers in a shooting at a Texas cartoon contest featuring images of the Prophet Muhammad. He was a former University of Utah student. Utah court records show Soofi had several brushes with police during his time in the state.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/world/science-health-world/drought-forces-california-into-first-mandatory-rules-to-save-water/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-06T22:52:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/f-california-a-20150507.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-california-a-20150507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A house is reflected in water from an irrigated front yard in San Diego on July 9, 2014. Californians conserved little water in March, and local officials were not aggressive in cracking down on waste, state regulators reported Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/07/world/failed-russian-iss-resupply-spacecraft-expected-burn-re-entry-friday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-07T07:04:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/f-progress-a-20150508.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-progress-a-20150508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this Feb. 5 photo provided by NASA, an ISS Progress resupply vehicle approaches the International Space Station. On April 29, NASA and the Russian Space Agency declared a total loss on an unmanned Progress capsule, carrying 3 tons of goods to the station. The spacecraft began tumbling when it reached orbit.It is expected to burn up on re-entry Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/07/world/emergency-escape-system-succeeds-spacex-puts-dragon-passenger-spaceship-test-run/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-07T07:11:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Wednesday still photo from NASA TV shows the SpaceX Dragon spaceship as it separates from the engine just moments after launch during the first test of the Dragon's flight abortion sytem at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The entire flight test was over in less than two minutes, with the spacecraft hitting an altitude of 5,000 feet (1,500 meters), then jettisoning its trunk before falling into the Atlantic Ocean about 1.4 miles away from the launchpad.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/07/world/nigerians-recount-deaths-lack-food-water-fleeing-lake-chad-niger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-07T09:12:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People evacuated from the Nigerien islands of Lake Chad arrive in N'Guigmi on Tuesday. Around 25,000 Niger nationals who fled the islands over fears of attack from the Boko Haram jihadi group are living in "dramatic" conditions on the mainland, a U.N. source said Wednesday, when thousands of Nigerian refugees also fled the area, some dying of thirst in the process.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/03/national/ministries-work-hand-hand-shine-spotlight-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-07T10:46:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[z2-sp-expomilano3-a-20150501.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoichi Miyazawa, Mnister of Economy, Trade and Industry]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/07/business/japans-monetary-base-rose-35-6-another-record-april/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-07T10:56:05+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/05/national/get-high-see-past-shaped-present-day-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-07T12:21:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ataglance-a-20150506.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The observation deck at St. Luke's Garden is close to the restaurant on the 47th floor and is the perfect place for a romantic date.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/01/business/tech/sign-language-robot-chihira-aico-shows-singing-voice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-07T13:49:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b robot-a 20150502]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp.’s humanoid robot Chihira Aico sings with soprano singer Shoko Iwata and clarinetist Sachiko Inoue at Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi district Friday. The robot will have a singing show through Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/07/world/ruble-conquering-east-ukraine/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bonsai artist Kunio Kobayashi prunes a ¥100 million bonsai tree at the Shunkaen Bonsai Museum in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward on March 20. The museum accepts many visitors and even resident apprentices from other countries.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/07/national/crime-legal/ex-aum-shinrikyo-cultist-appeals-life-sentence-1995-sarin-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-07T18:53:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-07T18:53:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former comfort woman Kil Un-ock, who was forced to serve as a prosititue for the Japanese troops during the war, attends a rally against a visit by Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe to the United States, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on April 29. Seoul said Wednesday it will build a monument dedicated to the wartime "comfort women." The letters on the card read "Oppose the alliance between U.S. and Japan."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/07/national/ceremony-marks-return-peace-bell-japanese-garden-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-07T18:54:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shikataro Nakagawa and Seiko Takase, children of peace activist Chiyoji Nakagawa who donated the Peace Bell, ring the bell on Wednesday at the U.N. headquarters in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/07/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-seeks-party-talks-revising-pacifist-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-07T19:40:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hajime Funada]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/07/business/japans-convenience-stores-catering-elderly-demographics-shift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-07T20:08:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer exits a 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo in 2010. Convenience stores are undergoing a quiet shift to a higher target demographic, departing from their long-established image as a place for young shoppers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/07/national/politics-diplomacy/187-scholars-urge-abe-address-japans-wartime-history/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-07T20:47:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-07T21:26:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers walk under the logo of Nintendo and Super Mario characters at an electronics store in Tokyo. Nintendo Co. reported its first operating profit in four years on Thursday, helped by robust sales of its Wii U home game console and software abroad.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-07T21:54:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A baby Japanese monkey named Charlotte hangs on to her mother at Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden in the city of Oita on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-07T22:14:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-07T23:17:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An aerial photo taken from Kyodo News helicoptor shows steam rising the ground in Hakone-machi, Kanagawa Prefecture. The Japan Meterological Agency said the number of volcanic earthquakes in Hakone on Tuesday reached 116, the highest ever recorded in one day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/07/business/keidanren-pressures-big-companies-share-weak-yen-benefits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-07T23:21:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-07T23:24:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-07T23:25:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Microorganisms called Lokiarchaeota, which connect simple cells to the complex ones that evolved later, were found near this hydrothermal vent field, called Loki's Castle, along the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/07/world/airport-evacuated-twisters-hit-near-oklahoma-city-severe-storms-roll-across-great-plains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-07T23:27:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tornado passes near Halstead, Kansas, Wednesday. A swath of the Great Plains is under a tornado watch, including parts of North Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-senate-passes-bill-allow-review-iran-nuclear-deal-house-next/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T06:49:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. walks in Capitol Hill in March. The Senate muscled its way into President Barack Obama's talks to curb Iran's nuclear program, overwhelmingly backing legislation Thursday that would let Congress review and possibly reject any final deal with Tehran. The vote was 98-1 for the bipartisan bill that would give Congress a say on what could be a historic accord that the United States and five other nations are trying to finalize with Iran, which would get relief from crippling economy penalties. The lone no vote came from Cotton, who wants the administration to submit any agreement to the Senate as a treaty.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/world/u-s-military-jordan-training-first-batch-syrians-combat-islamic-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T07:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter holds a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington Thursday. The U.S. military would need to provide support to Syrian fighters they are training to battle Islamic State militants in Syria, but Washington has not yet decided the exact nature of that support, Carter said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-china-agree-boost-exchanges-first-consular-talks-three-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T09:25:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-08T11:16:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/business/chinese-conglomerate-treats-6400-workers-holiday-france/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T11:19:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/national/new-japan-funded-bridge-mekong-river-magnet-tourists-cambodia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T15:41:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists take photographs on the Tsubasa Bridge in Neak Loeung, southeast of Phnom Penh, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/national/japanese-astronaut-yui-takes-final-exam-trip-space/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T16:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Astronauts (from left) American Kjell Lindgren, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui pose for pictures as they attend a preflight training session at the Gagarin Cosmonauts' Training Centre in Star City, outside Moscow, on Thursday. The crew is scheduled to blast off to the ISS from Baikonur at the end of May.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wan Azizah, the wife of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, celebrates after winning a by-election in Permatang Pauh in the northern state of Penang on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-08T16:12:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Omar Khadr speaks to the media outside his lawyer's home in Edmonton, Alberta, on Thursday. The former Guantanamo Bay prisoner had his first taste of freedom in almost 13 years after an Alberta judge rejected a last-ditch attempt by the federal government to block his release.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A student rests outside the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in Singapore.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-08T17:27:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/world/science-health-world/mercurys-magnetic-field-switched-billions-years-ago-nasa-craft-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T17:32:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this illustration, NASA's Messenger spacecraft is seen orbiting Mercury. The sunshade shields the spacecraft's instruments from heat and solar radiation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/asia-pacific/helicopter-crash-pakistan-kills-envoys-philippines-norway/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T19:04:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-08T19:32:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/business/corporate-business/toyota-posts-record-profit-sells-fewer-vehicles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T19:40:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/national/fund-set-fight-futenma-plan-adds-director-miyazaki-leadership/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T19:40:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hayao Miyazaki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/business/corporate-business/expansion-brewing-blue-bottle-coffee-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T19:55:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Blue Bottle Coffee, which currently has shops in Kiyosumishirakawa (above) and Omotesando, is planning to lengthen its list of shops in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/national/keep-scaring-tourists-hakone-issues-big-map-show-small-eruption-alert-zone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T19:56:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A motorcyclist stops in front of police manning a roadblock halting access to part of the popular hot springs resort in Hakone, Kanagawa prefecture, on Wednesday, a day after the Meteorological Agency  issued a warning to limit access to areas near a volcano that became active and began belching steaming gas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/national/beauty-salon-bully-yuri-takano-steps-president/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T20:01:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuri Takano]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/scottish-nationalists-crush-opponents-setting-stage-new-independence-bid/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon celebrates the results for her Scottish National Party in Glasgow on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/national/science-health/transplant-group-drafting-guidelines-recipients-want-conceive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T21:02:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-08T23:43:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) Chairman Sadayuki Sakakibara takes questions at a hotel in Seoul on Dec. 1, 2014, after holding talks with South Korean President Park Geun-hye. He will meet Park again in Seoul next week, the Japan-Korea Economic Association said Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/national/russian-launch-of-new-iss-crew-members-delayed-until-july-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T23:45:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/business/japanese-governments-debt-swells-to-%c2%a51-053-quadrillion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-08T23:45:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors walk between Toyota Motor Corp. Corolla Fielder vehicles on display at the company's showroom in Tokyo on May 5.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People's Liberation Army cadets take part in bayonet drills at the PLA's Armored Forces Engineering Academy Base on the outskirts of Beijing last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-09T16:56:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Not loving it: McDonald's Japan has seen a drop in profits and interest recently, a trend that some see as coinciding with a drop in American influence in general.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Call of duty: A member of Japan's Self-Defense Forces helps out with earthquake victims in Kathmandu. When many Japanese sign up for the SDF, they don't expect to take part in combat. That could change in the future, which could lead to a mass exodus from the force.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Decisions, decisions: While McDonald's is planning to close and remodel stores and revamp menus to bring back customers, convenience stories are focusing on singles and seniors — two demographics that are booming in Japan right now.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping exchange documents at a signing ceremony in the Kremlin on Friday. Russian and Chinese leaders signed a plethora of deals in Moscow, giving Russia billions in infrastructure loans.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-09T21:26:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (left) and Yu Zhengsheng, China's fourth highest-ranking leader, hold talks in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Friday. Yu said that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe needs to more readily admit Tokyo's wartime mistakes.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New York State Police stand at the main entrance of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, New York, on Saturday after a transformer failed at the plant's Unit 3 reactor. An explosion caused a fire to break out, but it was soon extinguished.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Milos Zeman]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-10T23:20:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks during the South Carolina Freedom Summit hosted by Citizens United and Rep. Jeff Duncan in Greenville, South Carolina, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-11T05:53:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Snow covers the ground off Interstate 90 east of Sturgis, South Dakota, in this view from a highway camera taken Sunday.  Hail, snow, a tornado and a tropical storm made it a "severe weather" Mother's Day in much of the center of the United States and on the Carolina coast on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-11T05:58:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-Houthi fighters of the Southern Popular Resistance stand on a tank in Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Sunday. The Houthis have agreed to a Saudi-proposed truce starting Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-11T07:51:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks to reporters near the main entrance of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, New York, on Saturday,  after an Entergy company representative said a transformer failed and caused a fire at the Unit 3 nuclear power plant. The fire was extinguished and the unit shut down automatically, according to the company, but Cuomo said Sunday oil had leaked from the facility into the nearby Hunson River.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bouquet of Mother's Day roses and two silk flowers are placed along the sidewalk Sunday near the site where two Hattiesburg, Mississippi, police officers were fatally shot during a traffic stop the night before. Three suspects were in custody, including two who are charged with capital murder.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-11T08:03:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ukrainian soldiers stand in front of the Motherland Monument in Kiev on Saturday during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII. Tanks and rocket systems rolled through the rebel bastion of Donetsk in east Ukraine the same day as pro-Russian insurgents feted 70 years since victory over Nazi Germany in WWII. Imitating a vast military parade being held simultaneously in Moscow, some 1,500 separatist fighters marched through the rebel-held city clutching red Soviet flags and several portraits of Stalin. In the port of Mariupol, however, people were bracing for an attack by separatist forces.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/11/asia-pacific/nepal-earthquake-disaster-climbers-eye-chinese-route-top-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-11T12:29:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo taken on April 26, injured Sherpa guides sit inside a bus in Kathmandu after being evacuated from Mount Everest base camp.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/11/world/powerful-typhoon-brings-needed-rain-northeast-philippines-two-people-reported-killed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-11T13:10:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Storm-whipped waves strike the shore near Manila as a man retrieves rubber slippers on Sunday. About 2,500 residents in two provinces huddled in shelters following evacuation warnings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/11/world/social-issues-world/singer-prince-takes-stage-baltimore-rally-4-peace-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-11T13:12:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/04/national/volunteer-guides-polar-bear-outfit-hit-nagoya-zoo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-11T13:30:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daigo Takahashi sports his homemade polar bear outfit at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An English-language brochure about "antenna shops" in Tokyo provides information on outlets where specialties from outside the capital can be bought. The purpose of the shops is to lure foreign travelers to explore regions off the beaten path.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese troops march in Moscow's Red Square during a Victory Day military parade Saturday celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Soviet role in the defeat of Nazi Germany.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo taken through a  window of a military plane shows China's alleged ongoing reclamation of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea on Monday. Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang, the Philippines' military chief, has flown to Pagasa Island, a Filipino-occupied island in the South China Sea, amid territorial disputes in the area with China, vowing to defend the islet and help the mayor develop tourism and marine resources there.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks to reporters Monday at his office in Naha about his visit to Washington over U.S. military issues.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flying colors: The national flags of the 27 current members of the European Union European union]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Connecting with Japan: EU Ambassador to Japan Hans Dietmar Schweisgut speaks to The Japan Times in his office at Europa House in Tokyo on April 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T12:33:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T12:33:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[z4-eu-special-food-a-20140509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many food and beverage professionals from Japan and around the world visited the EU pavilion at Foodex Japan, looking to secure deals with European producers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/09/world/european-unions-quality-logos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-12T12:34:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[z4-eu-special-logo-scheme-a-20140509.jpg]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/09/world/seeing-eu-film/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-12T12:34:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/12/world/union-advocates-peace-strives-maintain-solidarity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-12T12:34:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Council President Donald Tusk (right) and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker have been at the helm of the European Union since late 2014.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Federica Mogherini, high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy, vice-president of the European Commission]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T12:35:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Viorel Isticioaia-Budura, ambassador of the European Union to Japan]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ambassador of the European Union to Japan Viorel Isticioaia-Budura addresses the audience at the beginning of the symposium "Climate Change Policy in Europe: Opportunity or Threat for Business?" in Tokyo on April 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T12:35:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Danny Risberg, chairman of the European Business Council in Japan (EBC)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/12/world/encouraging-studying-abroad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-12T12:36:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prospective students visit booths to gather information on attending university in the EU at the 2014 European Higher Education Fair.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/12/world/eu-film-days-offers-new-insights-europe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-12T12:36:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The animated film "Rocks in My Pockets" created by Latvian-born Signe Baumane tells five stories of art, romance, marriage, nature, business and Eastern European upheaval based on the courageous women in her family and their battles with a genetic illness.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T14:55:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiba dog Chibi has made a difference in the life of her master, Chikara Sakurada (center), who has been in a wheelchair. Sakurada, his wife, Miyoko (right) and their daughter, Yoshie, were nearly killed by the March 2011 tsunami that hit his hometown of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, but the whimpering of Chibi in the crisis let a relative know the family had been trapped inside their home.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miyuki Yashiro (left) and Yasuko, whom she adopted as a daughter after having gender reassignment surgery in 2004, pose in front of a music school where Miyuki studied before being drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T16:32:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T16:32:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sonya Baumstein stands in her 23-foot (7.01 meter) carbon and kevlar solo rowboat in this handout picture courtesy of Andrew Cull in Port Townsend, Washington, on April 12. Baumstein will attempt a 6,000-mile (9,600 km) crossing of the Pacific Ocean — a feat no woman has ever accomplished solo, departing this month from Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T17:29:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T19:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T20:16:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T20:16:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masamichi Kyo, the son of Chongryon chief Ho Jong Man, is escorted from his condo in Adachi Ward, Tokyo, following his arrest Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/12/asia-pacific/new-naval-base-philippines-west-coast-militarys-top-priority/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-12T20:20:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/12/national/crime-legal/supreme-court-rejects-plea-for-retrial-of-aum-founder-asahara/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-05-12T21:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T21:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opposition activist Ilya Yashin speaks to the media during a presentation Tuesday in Moscow of a report about Russian military presence in Ukraine that murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was working on shortly before his death.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T21:06:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son announces the company's financial results in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T21:22:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T21:26:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman stands outside a Nomura Securities Co. branch in Tokyo on April 27. The company is a unit of Nomura Holdings Inc.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-05-12T23:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke rises Tuesday after airstrikes hit military sites controlled by the Houthi group in Yemen's capital Sanaa.]]></image:caption>
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