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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chicken or egg?: Researchers have identified a gene in medaka (Japanese rice fish) that controls whether the reproductive precursor cells known as germ cells eventually become sperm or eggs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Momochi (left) of Nihon University and Osamu Nishi of Komazawa University address reporters Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto (right) greets Ishin no To leader Yorihisa Matstuno in Osaka on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Building Japan: A construction worker surveys a demolished building at a site in Tokyo last week. Many older construction workers, however, are at the mercy of low-paying jobs with no pensions.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On guard: A mask-wearing visitor in Seoul asks a local for directions. Japan's tabloid media have been inundated with coverage of MERS, or Middle East respiratory syndrome.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A CCP Co. employee shows off the Nano Falcon DigiCam, a remote-controlled copter that can shoot photos or videos from the air, at International Tokyo Toy Show 2015 at Tokyo Big Sight in Koto Ward on Thursday. The 20-gram drone can also be folded up and snapped into the open cavity in the control unit to form a hand-held digital camera.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Confederate flag flies outside the South Carolina State House in Columbia in January 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-21T14:26:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators brandish anti-war signs Saturday outside the Diet building in Tokyo, in protest at the government's security bills that would expand the scope of overseas operations by the Self-Defense Forces.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-21T15:49:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-21T16:52:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-21T19:40:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-21T19:50:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former South Korean "comfort women" who were forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels during World War II rally with their supporters in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's historic speech before the U.S. Congress in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-21T20:00:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-21T20:03:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-21T20:24:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-21T23:49:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-21T23:54:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/national/politics-diplomacy/support-abe-security-bills-slumps-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T06:26:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/18/business/corporate-business/softbanks-pepper-robot-now-emotions-son-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T07:32:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Pepper robot shows off a photo journal entry it "wrote" during a demonstration Thursday, when SoftBank Corp. announced that the humanoid robots will go on sale to the general public this weekend.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-22T09:48:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man dressed as Jesus Christ waits for the arrival of the pope outside Cottolengo Hospital in Turin, Italy, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/world/social-issues-world/show-unity-renzi-hollande-dismiss-claims-tensions-migrant-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T11:21:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Francois Hollande looks on as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi gestures during a joint press conference during a visit at the Universal Exhibition 2015 (Expo Milano 2015 or World Exposition 2015) in Milan, Italy, Sunday. The two leaders dismissed claims that tensions are rising between France and Italy over the growing migrant crisis.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/asia-pacific/china-claims-protest-group-paid-regular-people-to-demonstrate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T13:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-22T13:42:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/20/national/history/jomon-life-remained-pretty-much-unchanged/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T14:34:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-22T15:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-22T15:05:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/world/crime-legal-world/banks-little-police-fifa-transactions-says-global-body/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T15:08:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/pentagon-chief-planning-for-longer-term-rift-with-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T15:26:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ash Carter]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/business/economy-business/kurodas-inflation-optimism-winning-consumers-bond-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T16:58:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/world/social-issues-world/pope-venerates-shroud-turin-city-migrant-forbears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T18:37:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis leads a meeting with young people during his two-day pastoral visit in Turin, Italy, Sunday. After praying before the Shroud of Turin, he said the plight of migrants and refugees makes on want to cry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-may-not-seek-cabinet-approval-for-war-anniversary-statement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T18:53:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/business/financial-markets/norinchukin-top-lender-to-farmers-to-park-more-of-its-%c2%a564-trillion-overseas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T19:19:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past Norinchukin Bank Ltd.'s headquarters in Tokyo. The farmers' lender with most of its money invested overseas says it sees little choice but to put additional funds into foreign assets this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/national/consumers-worldwide-impressed-japans-robotics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T19:36:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A hundred humanoid communication robots called Robi perform a synchronized dance during a promotional event called 100 Robi, for the Weekly Robi Magazine, in Tokyo in this Jan. 20, 2015 file photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/national/noted-tokyo-aquarium-adds-80-tuna-mass-fish-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T20:25:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boy takes a picture Monday of tuna added to a tank at Tokyo Sea Life Park in Edogawa Ward. The aquarium added the 80 new fish Sunday night after tuna in the tank suffered a still-unexplained mass death earlier this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/national/maestro-ozawa-hopes-japan-will-remain-a-country-of-peace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T20:33:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiji Ozawa is interviewed Saturday in Rolle, Switzerland.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/21/national/politics-diplomacy/top-envoys-meet-pursuit-japan-korea-thaw/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T21:12:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se (right) is escorted by Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida before their meeting at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/national/japan-u-s-join-philippines-south-china-sea-navy-drills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T21:22:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C patrol aircraft launches anti-missile flares during a naval fleet review in Sagami Bay off Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in October 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/national/christian-warlord-takayama-ukon-beatified/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T21:28:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/national/social-issues/suicides-down-but-still-a-serious-problem-for-people-under-40/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T21:42:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to a government report, people younger than 40 accounted for 6,581 deaths, roughly 26 percent of the total number of suicides in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/national/politics-diplomacy/two-former-heads-legislation-bureau-blast-security-bills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T21:55:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Cabinet Legislation Bureau chief Reiichi Miyazaki tells a special Diet committee Monday morning that Japan exercising the right to collective self-defense would "go against (the war-renouncing) Article 9" of the Constitution.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/national/politics-diplomacy/diet-session-to-be-extended-through-september-as-abe-aims-to-pass-contentious-security-bills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T21:55:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-22T22:57:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean family members of victims of World War II chant slogans outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Monday during an anti-Japan rally.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/business/corporate-business/nomura-terminates-mortgage-bond-traders-amid-market-probes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-22T23:09:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-22T23:09:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-23T06:25:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This June 1 combination of file photos shows Republican 2016 US presidential candidates (from left) Sen. Ted Cruz, former Sen. Rick Santorum and Sen. Rand Paul. The three say they are donating to charity the contributions they received from Earl Holt III, the leader of a white supremacist group mentioned by the alleged perpetrator of last week's massacre at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/business/key-democratic-senators-look-set-support-u-s-trade-legislation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T08:56:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-23T09:02:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-23T09:03:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-23T11:44:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-23T12:39:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past a the scene of a bombing after at least 20 people were killed when a young female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a bus station in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, on Monday in an attack likely to be blamed on Boko Haram. The blast happened near a fish market in the Baga Road area of the city, which has been repeatedly targeted in recent weeks by shelling, bombs and suicide attacks.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-23T12:51:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The One World Trade Center Tower is seen from West Street in New York on May 20. Three men who jumped with parachutes from the top of One World Trade Center were convicted of criminal charges on Monday in their plunge from America's tallest building. Their leap from the top of the 104-story building was partly caught on security video that showed at least two figures in black suits and helmets floating down beneath open parachutes and landing on the streets of Lower Manhattan, one of their defense attorneys said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/22/national/crime-legal/waseda-university-finds-data-leak-six-months-after-cyberattacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T12:56:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-23T13:14:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican South Carolina Gov. Nikki Hale embraces U.S. Sen Tim Scott at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church four days after a mass shooting that claimed the lives of Pinckney and eight others on Sunday, June 21, 2015, in Charleston. Haley was expected Monday to demand that the Confederate no longer fly at the state capitol.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/national/american-okinawan-working-keep-ryukyu-language-alive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T13:42:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Byron Fija, a teacher of the Okinawan language, holds a sanshin musical instrument last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/20/national/abe-hashimotos-political-dance-will-avoid-stepping-toes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T13:55:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Careful steps: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto (right) may need to work together in the future.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/national/tokyo-lawyer-leads-u-n-womens-rights-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T14:24:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoko Hayashi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-government-to-continue-efforts-to-curb-rise-in-social-security-spending/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T14:35:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/national/washington-welcomes-tokyo-seoul-thaw-anniversary-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T15:51:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/business/corporate-business/itochu-exits-u-s-shale-foray-1-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T15:52:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/business/corporate-business/softbank-plans-20-billion-indian-solar-power-joint-venture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T15:53:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Billionaires Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman and chief executive officer of Bharti Enterprises Ltd., and Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Corp., attend a news conference in New Delhi on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-china-seek-patch-common-ground-key-talks-begin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T15:59:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-23T16:14:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Navy Cmdr. Michael R. Jarett speaks during a media tour of the USS Fort Worth during the Cooperation Afloat Readiness And Training (CARAT) joint naval exercise at the Port of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, the Philippines, on Monday. The U.S. and Japan are conducting separate military drills with the Philippines near disputed islands in the South China Sea, signaling support for the country as China builds out reclaimed reefs in the waters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/asia-pacific/heat-wave-kills-400-karachi-rain-expected/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T18:03:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Pakistani heatstroke victim is moved to a hospital in Karachi on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/national/msdf-surveillance-plane-patrols-south-china-sea-joint-exercise-philippines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T18:06:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Maritime Self-Defense Force P3-C Orion taxis before taking off from Puerto Princesa, the Philippines, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-23T18:42:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An inmate brushes a cow on a farm near Abashiri Prison in Hokkaido in April as part of the prison's rehabilitation program.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/business/corporate-business/nissan-ceo-carlos-ghosn-tops-%c2%a51-billion-pay-first-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T19:51:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn, Japan's best-paid automaker executive, is interviewed in New York on June 3. He received more than ¥1 billion in salary and bonuses for the year that ended March 31, it was announced Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/business/corporate-business/toyota-finds-air-bags-demand-indias-deadly-roads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T19:51:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Toyota Corolla Altis is unveiled during the 12th Auto Expo in Noida, India, in February last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/national/770000-tons-of-solar-panels-to-end-up-in-garbage-in-2040/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T21:05:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/asia-pacific/offbeat-asia-pacific/chinas-dog-meat-festival-draws-rare-criticism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T21:05:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People toast over a dog meat dish at a dog meat restaurant during the local dog meat festival in Yulin, China, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/business/corporate-business/toyo-tire-chairman-president-resign-product-data-falsification/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T23:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyo Tire &amp; Rubber Co. President Takuji Yamamoto (center) bows Tuesday with other executives after a news conference in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/national/history/okinawa-battle-continues-islands-role-national-security/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T23:39:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/business/corporate-business/sharp-ceo-faces-calls-resignation-shareholder-anger-mounts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-23T23:41:21+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/24/world/crime-legal-world/jailed-n-y-prison-workers-husband-breaks-silence-says-breakout-included-getting-drugged/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-24T06:31:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this image released by NBC News Lyle Mitchell (right), husband of prison worker Joyce Mitchell,  appears with his attorney, Peter Dumas, during an interview with Matt Lauer on the "Today" show, airing Tuesday. Joyce Mitchell is in custody on charges she helped the two men escape by providing them hacksaw blades, chisels and other tools. Authorities say she had talked to the inmates about killing her husband, who also works at the prison. She has pleaded not guilty.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/24/asia-pacific/china-set-list-greenhouse-gas-reduction-goals-cost-topping-6-trillion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-24T10:43:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinaclimate-a-20150625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry takes a pair of crutches as he leaves after a climate change session during the Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&amp;ED) at the State Department in Washington June 23, 2015. The United States on Tuesday expressed deep concern about state-sponsored cyber theft and stressed the need to keep Asian sea lanes open at the start of annual talks with China, and said the world depended on the ability of the two countries to narrow their differences.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/24/national/japan-may-hold-g-7-finance-meeting-sendai-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-24T11:25:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/24/world/massachusetts-creator-iconic-pink-lawn-flamingo-dies-79/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-24T13:49:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this 1998 photo, Don Featherstone, creator of the original plastic pink flamingo, sits surrounded by many of the plastic creatures at Union Products, Inc. in Leominster, Massachusetts. Featherstone died Monday at an elder care facility in Fitchburg,  according to his wife, Nancy. He was 79.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/24/business/tech/mitsubishi-boasts-tech-leap-armored-amphibious-vehicle-eyes-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-24T13:50:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein (left) meets a South Korean former comfort woman Wednesday on a visit to Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukari Nishihara (left) and Tomoko Toyoda speak of the ordeals they suffered after telling their employers that they were pregnant, in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The state flag of Mississippi is unfurled against the front of the Governor's Mansion in Jackson Tuesday. Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves said Tuesday, that Mississippi voters, not lawmakers, should decide whether to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag. Reeves, who presides over the state Senate, spoke about the issue a day after Republican House Speaker Philip Gunn called the emblem offensive and said the state flag should change.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[State workers take down a Confederate national flag on the grounds of the state Capitol in Wednesday in Montgomery. Alabama, after Gov. Robert Bentley ordered their removal.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-26T17:53:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The "grandfather turtle" Pappochelys combined traits of its lizard-like ancestors with emerging turtle-like features.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/26/business/despite-tpa-bumpy-road-ahead-pacific-trade-agenda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-26T18:18:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-26T18:19:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants, mostly from Syria, walk toward the Hungarian border on Thursday in Kanjiza, Serbia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/26/national/whale-meat-consumption-falls-efforts-afoot-boast-merits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-26T18:20:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/cameron-tells-eu-new-terms-needed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-26T18:25:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister David Cameron leaves the headquarters of the European Council on Friday at the end of the first day of a European Union summit in Brussels.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/24/national/social-issues/women-okinawa-japans-best-recipe-liberty-fertility-longevity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-26T18:28:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n okinawawomen-a 20150625]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawans, women and men, work fewer overtime hours than people almost anywhere else in Japan, while their counterparts in Tokyo work about four hours more each month. That means more time for couples to raise a family, and increases the likelihood that men may share more of the burden of looking after children.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/25/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/pyongyang-seouls-hosting-u-n-rights-office-declaration-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-26T18:32:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se (right) during an opening ceremony of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Seoul on Tuesday. North Korea has announced it will boycott next month's World University Games in South Korea in protest at the opening in Seoul of a U.N. office to monitor Pyongyang's human rights record.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/26/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-names-china-prime-suspect-government-hacking-wsj/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-26T18:32:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/f-chinahack-a-20150627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinahack-a-20150627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Patrick McFarland, inspector general of the Office of Personnel Management, speaks to a staff member during a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill Thursday. Witnesses testified about the hacking of OPM data that top U.S. intelligence chief James Clapper blamed on China.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/24/national/history/south-korean-court-orders-mitsubishi-heavy-to-pay-korean-women-for-forced-labor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-26T18:32:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean people involved in a lawsuit seeking compensation over wartime forced labor at Mitsubishi Heavy's factories in Japan celebrate their victory on Wednesday in Gwangju, South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/26/national/government-releases-first-female-empowerment-guidelines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-26T21:18:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/26/national/crime-legal/chinese-seek-damages-japan-forced-labor-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-26T21:19:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/26/national/u-s-rights-report-slams-japan-on-child-abuse-prison-conditions-asylum-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-26T21:20:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/26/national/history/lawsuits-based-wwii-muddy-effort-ease-japan-south-korea-tension/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-26T21:52:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-park-a-20150627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Toshihiro Nikai, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's General Council, prepare for a meeting Feb. 13 in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/26/national/politics-diplomacy/hiroshima-selected-2016-venue-g-7-foreign-ministerial-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-26T23:02:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/26/national/snow-problem-yamanashi-path-fuji-summit-set-open-july-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-26T23:46:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yamanashi prefectural officials and climbing guides check the Yoshida trail on Mount Fuji on Thursday, before the route officially opens next Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/26/national/zushi-opens-with-eye-on-reviving-summer-buzz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T00:48:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under a gray sky, elementary school girls splash each other in the sea in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Friday. It was the first beach to open this summer in the Kanto region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/27/world/social-issues-world/landmark-u-s-supreme-court-ruling-legalizes-gay-marriage-nationwide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T11:55:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The White House is illuminated in rainbow colors after Friday's historic Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage nationwide.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/27/world/social-issues-world/u-s-supreme-court-rules-favor-gay-marriage-nationwide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T11:57:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-gaymarriage-a-20150627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Becker, 30, of Silver Spring, Maryland, waves a rainbow flag in support of gay marriage outside of the Supreme Court in Washington on Thursday. The same-sex marriage ruling was among those remaining to be released before the court's term ends this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/27/world/social-issues-world/obama-calls-racial-harmony-gun-control-funeral-slain-pastor-charleston/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T12:37:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/f-obamaeulogy-a-20150628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-obamaeulogy-a-20150628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Barack Obama sings "Amazing Grace" during services honoring the Rev. Clementa Pinckney on Friday in Charleston, South Carolina, where Pinckney was one of the nine people killed in the shooting at Emanuel AME Church a week earlier.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/26/world/one-decapitated-suspected-terrorist-attack-french-factory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T12:47:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French security and emergency services gather at the entrance of the Air Products company in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon, central eastern France, o Friday. An attacker carrying an Islamist flag killed one person and injured several others at a gas factory in eastern France, according to a legal source.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/republican-presidential-hopefuls-condemn-high-courts-ruling-gay-marriage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T14:14:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/f-gaygop-a-20150628.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scott Walker]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/27/world/social-issues-world/legal-battles-remain-u-s-gay-rights-despite-momentous-ruling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T14:21:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-gaylegal-a-20150628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of same-sex marriage hold up balloons reading, "Love wins" outside the White House, which was lit up in rainbow colors in commemoration of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling to legalize same-sex marriage, on Friday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/27/national/media-national/humans-may-face-singular-concern-comes-robot-employment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T22:48:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/p18-hoffman-big-in-Japan-a-201506281.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p18 hoffman big in Japan-a 20150628]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Automated teller: A robot named Minami sells men's shirts at a Takashimaya department store in Osaka. Is she the future of customer service?]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/26/national/politics-diplomacy/media-fire-back-ldp-targeting-newspaper-funding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T20:37:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ldp-a-20150627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Friday morning editions of The Okinawa Times and Ryukyu Shimpo lead with novelist Naoki Hyakuta's inflammatory remarks at a Liberal Democratic Party gathering Thursday calling for "destroying the two Okinawan newspapers" critical of the government's contentious national security bills. A group of LDP lawmakers said media outlets should have their ad revenues "taken out" if they criticize the government.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/27/national/science-health/japan-launch-new-group-study-extraterrestrial-materials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T20:43:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hayabusa probe hovers above the asteroid Itokawa in this illustration by J.R.C. Garry for the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science, JAXA’s predecessor.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/27/business/top-problem-new-tpp-talks-will-disputes-japan-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T20:43:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trade-a-20150628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Barack Obama says the U.S. needs the TPP to boost its economy as well as to prevent China from setting the rules in the Asia-Pacific region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/27/business/japan-post-units-plan-simultaneous-ipos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T20:43:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jpost-a-20150628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taizo Nishimuro, president of Japan Post Holdings Co., announces at a press conference in Tokyo on Friday that the holding company and its banking and insurance arms will file Tuesday with the Tokyo Stock Exchange for approval for simultaneous listings.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/27/national/media-national/okinawas-lobbyist-chief-scores-subtle-win-washington/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T22:46:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p19 brasor media mix-a 20150628]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Not impressed: People in Okinawa join a rally protesting the new U.S. Marine base in Henoko. Media outlets in the rest of the country tend to be clueless when it comes to knowing the aims of the island's representatives.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/27/business/toyotas-drug-problem-japans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T21:34:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-27T22:22:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi speaks Saturday in Beijing at the World Peace Forum organized by China's Tsinghua University.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/27/national/nagaoka-illustrator-for-earth-wind-fire-other-bands-dies-at-78/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-27T22:52:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shusei Nagaoka]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/28/world/suicide-bombers-kill-at-least-three-in-northeast-nigeria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-28T15:55:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-28T17:24:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeo Kokubun]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/28/business/economy-business/rift-with-greece-sends-european-union-into-uncharted-territory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-28T18:15:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/28/asia-pacific/constitutional-jihad-spurs-indonesian-islamic-groups-plans-to-produce-nations-own-car/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-28T18:17:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joko Widodo poses with a locally made Esemka car in February 2012, when he was the mayor of Solo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/28/national/diet-staffers-jump-tourism-promotion-drive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-28T18:29:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saki Kuroda (left), a member of the administrative staff of the Diet's secretariat, shows tourists around the House of Representatives in April.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/28/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-media-bashers-put-security-bills-doubt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-28T20:37:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/28/business/57-countries-set-to-sign-on-to-china-backed-investment-bank-aiib/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-28T20:37:58+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/28/national/container-lid-bolts-low-level-nuclear-waste-might-failing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-28T20:38:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the bolts used to secure the lid of a container used to transport low-level radioactive waste is shown sheared at the threads.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-28T22:18:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-28T23:24:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Central Bank President Mario Draghi leaves a Eurogroup Summit meeting on June 22 at EU headquarters in Brussels.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-29T07:44:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French police escort Yassin Salhi, a man suspected of decapitating his boss in an attack on a gas factory, as they leave his flat in Saint-Priest on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/national/conservative-firebrand-hyakuta-sticks-guns-hardens-stance-okinawa-newspapers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T08:29:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-29T09:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man holding a rainbow flag throws stones as riot police use water cannon to disperse people taking part in the Gay Pride parade on Sunday in the Istiklal street near the Taksim square in Istanbul. Riot police in Istanbul used tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of participants in the Gay Pride parade.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-29T11:34:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier (left) and Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif (right) attend a meeting at the Palais Coburg Hotel, the venue of the nuclear talks in Vienna, on Sunday. Negotiators in Vienna for make-or-break nuclear talks with Iran are all "planning to stay past" a June 30 deadline to reach a deal, a U.S. official said Sunday, echoing comments from Iran.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/business/islamic-state-peddling-looted-art-ebay-facebook-cash-flow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T11:37:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/business/economy-business/summit-eu-hopes-deepen-ties-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T13:52:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian in Athens on June 22 walks past graffiti depicting a protester squeezing a euro. On Monday the European Union is to briefly put aside worries about Greece to broaden its relations with China at a summit in Brussels.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/national/politics-diplomacy/male-female-tie-ends-oisos-status-assembly-dominated-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T15:47:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-29T16:03:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up to withdraw cash from an ATM outside a Eurobank branch in Athens on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-29T17:29:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-29T17:37:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (left), Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (center) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a European Union leaders summit in Brussels on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-29T17:58:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shabani, a "handsome" 18-year-old western lowland gorilla at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, has become a star on Twitter.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/asia-pacific/china-says-changing-position-south-china-sea-dispute-shame-ancestors/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese dredging vessels are purportedly seen in the waters around Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in this image from video taken by a P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft provided by the United States Navy in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-29T18:00:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This handout picture released from the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens shows giant male gorilla Shabani, who weighs about 180 kg, at the Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture. The 18-year-old silverback with brooding good looks and rippling muscles is causing a stir at the Japanese zoo, with women flocking to check out the hunky pin-up.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/business/economy-business/industrial-production-slumps-more-than-expected-in-may-denting-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T18:17:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-29T18:25:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[University of Southern California President Max Nikias speaks with The Japan Times in Osaka on Sunday, prior to a meeting of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/business/slowboat-china-quick-fix-luxury-yacht-firm-ferretti/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T18:33:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ferretti Chief Executive Alberto Galassi looks on at a shipyard in Sarnico, Italy, in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/business/mitsubishi-eyes-india-revival-as-next-driver-of-commodity-cycle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T18:34:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An advertisement for Mitsubishi Corp. sits on display outside the company’s headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 22, 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/business/corporate-business/aozora-bank-completes-repayment-of-bubble-era-bailout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T18:56:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/reference/law-gets-serious-cycling-safety/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T19:02:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers in Osaka urge cyclists June 1 to heed traffic rules after the revised Road Traffic Law took effect that day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/national/defining-contribution-engineering-society/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T19:12:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-zaidan-h-20150630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshitaka Uchijo, advisor and contributing editorial writer of Kyodo News: Born in Tokyo, Uchijo graduated from Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University and entered Kyodo News in 1977. From 1994 to 2002, he held a position at the Washington D.C. bureau. He later served as the science division manager and human resources division manager. He was the president of Kyodo's Sendai branch from 2010 to 2012, overseeing coverage of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that struck the Tohoku region. He assumed his current position in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/business/japan-hopes-aiib-will-meet-standards-befitting-an-international-body/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T20:23:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/national/solar-impulse-2-flies-toward-hawaii-one-month-weather-layover-nagoya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T20:35:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Solar Impulse 2 takes off from Nagoya Airport in the early hours of Monday morning in this handout image. In a statement, the team thanked Japanese government agencies and the public for their support and "wonderful positive encouragement" during the monthlong stay.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/business/economy-business/value-of-household-assets-inflates-to-%c2%a51-708-quadrillion-thanks-to-boj-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T20:36:42+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/business/japan-weighs-almost-suicidal-pension-squeeze-growing-band-seniors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T20:37:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b pensioner-a 20150630]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With a shrinking birthrate, the proportion is projected to top 30 percent within a decade, causing a surge in welfare spending in the world's most-indebted nation.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-plans-agreement-high-quality-development-mekong-states/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T21:33:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/28/national/politics-diplomacy/majority-of-teens-intend-to-go-to-polls-when-voting-age-drops-next-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T21:34:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-regrets-ldp-members-remarks-calling-pressure-news-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T23:21:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato addresses a a Lower House special committee Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/business/economy-business/salarymens-allowances-lowest-three-decades-living-costs-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-29T23:22:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Office workers carry bags containing bento lunch boxes in Tokyo. Salarymen's allowances have fallen to their lowest level in 33 years while the cost of lunch has surged, according to data released by Shinsei Bank.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/30/business/obama-inks-fast-track-trade-bills-says-tough-talks-lie-ahead-tpp-reality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-30T06:26:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama, surrounded by Cabinet officials and lawmakers, signs H.R. 2146 Defending Public Safety Employees' Retirement Act, which includes fast-track trade promotion authority (TPA) that allows Obama to negotiate trade treaties, including the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), during a bill signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Monday. Obama also signed H.R. 1295 Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015, which includes assistance for Americans who lost their jobs to foreign outsourcing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/30/world/23-homes-lost-washington-state-wildfire-residents-told-flee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-30T08:42:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-wildfire-a-20150701.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke from several warehouses on fire, thought to have been sparked by embers from a wildfire that hit homes on a nearby hillside, fills the sky Monday in Wenatchee, Washington. The wildfires hit parts of central and eastern Washington over the weekend as the state is struggling with a severe drought, destroying dozens of structures and forcing hundreds to flee.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/27/business/home-electronics-market-loses-spark/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-30T11:04:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers visit a Yamada Denki store in Tokyo in 2007.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/national/social-issues/fuji-tv-apologizes-subtitles-inaccurately-quoting-south-koreans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-30T11:15:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fujitv-z-20150630]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Japanese subtitle for a Fuji TV program reads, “I hate Japan because it tormented Korea,” although the high school girl on a street in Seoul is actually saying in Korean: “(South Korea) has a rich culture. I think that’s why many foreigners visit us.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/30/world/suspected-boko-haram-suicide-blasts-police-raid-chad-capital-kills-11/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-30T11:29:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An explosive expert examines explosive belts on the site of a blast where five Chadian police officers and six Islamists were killed when suspected Boko Haram militants blew themselves up during a police raid on a safe house in the capital N'Djamena on Monday5. The latest bloodshed follows a June 15 double suicide bombing blamed on the Nigerian militants, which killed at least 33 people in N'Djamena in the deadliest attack of its kind in the city.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/for-many-black-americans-confederate-flag-debate-merely-a-distraction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-30T13:35:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/f-flag-a-20150630.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-flag-a-20150630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this May 10, 2000, file photo, Kevin Gray of the Harriet Tubman Freedom House watches as a Confederate flag burns during a demonstration in Columbia, South Carolina, to protest the Confederate flag flying atop the dome of the South Carolina Statehouse. On the left side was a Nazi flag which burned first.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/30/national/history/hokkaido-towns-ties-historical-ship-helps-draw-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-30T14:37:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monument to the Kanrin Maru, Japan's first sail- and screw-driven corvette, is displayed in Kikonai, Hokkaido, in April.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Noriko Nishio poses during an interview in February in Tottori.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters gather during an anti-austerity demonstration in support of the Greek government in Syntagma Square in Athens on Monday. European leaders intervened in Greece's referendum campaign by framing Sunday's vote as an up-or-down decision on whether to quit the euro and the wider European Union.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former home affairs minister Takeshi Noda (left) and Yu Zhengsheng (right), the fourth-highest ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party, hold talks Monday in Beijing's Great Hall of the People.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-30T15:42:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Komatsu Ltd. President and CEO Tetsuji Ohashi speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teddy Casino (left), a former representative in Congress and current spokesman for the leftist group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance), speaks at a rally on June 23 in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/30/business/corporate-business/sony-raise-%c2%a5440-billion-sales-shares-convertible-bonds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-30T17:05:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-30T18:39:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koyuki Higashi (right) and her partner Hiroko Masuhara join a parade in New York on Sunday celebrating the Supreme Court decision to recognize gay marriages in all U.S. states.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/30/national/politics-diplomacy/diet-ranks-reported-income-averaged-%c2%a524-27-million-14-ldps-watanabe-tops-%c2%a51-28-billion/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Holding a portrait of her late husband, Eiko Isozaki speaks to reporters Tuesday outside the Fukushima District Court. The court ruled that his suicide in July 2011 was linked to living as an evacuee and awarded her ¥27 million in damages.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/30/asia-pacific/china-says-some-south-china-sea-land-reclamation-projects-completed/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-30T22:10:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park denounce the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement on May 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-30T22:11:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suzuki Motor Corp. President Osamu Suzuki (right), the longest-serving leader of any major global automaker, cedes his title to his son, Toshihiro, during a news conference Tuesday in the city of Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/30/asia-pacific/20-dead-indonesian-military-plane-crashes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-30T22:35:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Security forces and firemen attempt to extinguish the wreckage of an Indonesian military transport plane after it crashed in the city of Medan on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/29/national/science-health/curiosity-prizewinning-researchers-driving-force/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-30T22:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tasuku Honjo, a professor of immunology and genomic medicine at Kyoto University, receives the first Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science from Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou at a ceremony last September in Taipei.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/30/world/science-health-world/odd-looking-sea-creature-thrived-half-billion-years-ago/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-30T22:50:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fossil of Collinsium ciliosum, a Collins' monster-type lobopodian, was found in southern China. Scientists announced Monday that the bizarre little creature with rows of spikes on its back and delicate, feather-like front limbs thrived in the primordial seas of what is now China more than half a billion years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-06-30T22:51:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama speaks to reporters June 19 in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/30/business/economy-business/for-japan-lesson-from-greek-crisis-is-to-keep-on-spending/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-06-30T23:07:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-01T05:37:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Confederate flag flies at the base of Stone Mountain Tuesday in Stone Mountain, Georgia. At Georgia's iconic Stone Mountain — where the Confederacy is enshrined in a giant bas-relief sculpture, the Ku Klux Klan once held notorious cross-burnings and rebel battle flags still wave prominently, as officials  consider what to do about them. The KKK is planning a rally in South Carolina in defense of the flag.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-01T08:18:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tunisian shopkeeper Aghmi Bubaker speaks with Reuters journalists at his shop in Sousse, Tunisia, Tuesday. Bubaker knows he is experiencing the worst threat yet to his 40-year career in tourism. Last Friday when a gunman attacked the Imperial Marhaba hotel in Sousse in the name of Islamist militancy, Bubaker rushed dozens of holidaymakers into his store until the shooting was over. Now he wonders whether his country's tourism industry is at an end too. Thousands have left the North African country since Friday and the government estimates the sector will lose $500 million this year — a quarter of last year's total revenues.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-01T09:49:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas speaks June 19 in Washington. Congressional Republicans are poised to deal a sharp blow to their traditional allies in the business community by allowing the federal Export-Import Bank to go out of business at midnight Tuesday. But it may only be temporary.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars and trucks are stuck in a traffic jam on a highway leading to the Channel tunnel after striking workers invaded the Eurotunnel train tracks in Calais, northern France, in a protest Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sayaka Kuriyama, who used to be a fashion shop manager and ganguro gal in the late 1990s, left Japan in March to work as a medical technician at a hospital in Mozambique, after graduating from a local medical school.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A portable shrine is carried past rows of lanterns during the Mitama Matsuri festival at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine in July 2013.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyu Corp. and other railways is expected to finish work on a 230-meter building by Shibuya Station in 2019 that will have a 3,000 sq. meter observation deck where people can get a 360-degree view of Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Parthenon, currently under scaffolding for repairs, is seen Thursday with a European Union flag in the foreground.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Assist Suit AWN-03 is strapped around a user's shoulder, waist and thigh. The battery can power the 6 kg suit for six hours.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-05T08:24:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The annual food festival held at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in Fuchu, Tokyo, is known for its wide range of dishes from foreign countries.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young people in Thailand dressed in "cosplay" clothes pose for a photo at an event featuring Japanese anime held in Bangkok on March 14.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gestures as he talks to journalists from a balcony of the Palais Coburg hotel in Vienna, where the Iran nuclear talks are being held, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7 brasor generics-a 20150712]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Generic drugs tend to be more expensive in Japan than they are in other countries when compared to patent drugs with the same active ingredients.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Only in dreams: A nap is a great place to escape the world's problems, if you can afford the time. A study showed that Japanese are among the developed world's worst sleepers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takahiro Mitani, president of the Government Pension Investment Fund, gestures as he speaks during an interview in Tokyo in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hot stuff: Beachgoers relax on El Palo Beach in Malaga, Spain, on July 5.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family ties: A woman holds a baby while she looks out onto a residential area in Tokyo. Raising Japan's birthrate will require more creative ideas.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The English version of a new smartphone app developed by Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. shows where to evacuate in times of disaster.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking beyond strife: Ethiopian Ambassador Markos Tekle Rike is interviewed at the Ethiopian Embassy in Tokyo May 21.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left, Ambassador of Honduras Marlene Villela-Talbott; former Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Nobuo Kishi; Ambassador of Nicaragua Saul Arana Castellon; Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Minister Takashi Uto; Charge d'affaires of Guatemala Cristobal Herrera Dubon; Charge d'affaires of Costa Rica Liliam Rogriguez Jimenez; and Ambassador of El Salvador Martha Lidia Zelayandia Cisneros attend a reception on March 25 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Djiboutian Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita (right), who was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, attends a reception on Nov. 6 in Tokyo organized by Djiboutian Ambassador Ahmed Araita Ali.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers secure the area near the western Ukrainian city of Mukachevo Sunday, where at least two people were killed Saturday in a gun and grenade attack involving the country's notorious nationalist militia Right Sector, but details of the violence remained confused. Police had surrounded some gunmen in a wooded area of Mukachevo and were trying to negotiate their peaceful surrender, a statement from the regional prosecutor's office said.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsuya Okada, leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, is interviewed in Tokyo on July 7.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Confederate battle flags are flown during a Confederate Medal of Honor ceremony for Sgt. Tapley Mays in Pearisburg, Virginia, on Saturday. Mays, an ensign in Company D of the 7th Virginia, was killed in battle carrying the Confederate battle flag. "The flag isn't a racist symbol. It's a symbol of an oppressive government," said Patrick Seay, 16 (right). Supporters of the flag turned out en masse Sunday in Ocala, Florida, in a vehicle parade.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin prior their talks during a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Ufa, Russia, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oscar-winning animator Hayao Miyazaki speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The future is now: An artist's rendering released by Japan Sport Council shows the new National Stadium, designed by architect Zaha Hadid. The stadium, which will seat 80,000 spectators, will serve as the main venue for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Olympic wrestling gold medalist Saori Yoshida lights a torch during the farewell ceremony Saturday for Tokyo's National Stadium.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa residents, many of them wounded, surrender in June 1945 in this image taken by the U.S. military.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This July 16, 1945, photo shows an aerial view after the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, New Mexico.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/16/asia-pacific/philippines-station-warplanes-frigates-former-u-s-subic-base-facing-disputed-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-16T18:37:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. warships are seen docked at Subic bay in Olongapo city, north of Manila, in this October 14, 2014, file photo. The Philippines will station new fighter jets and two frigates at the former U.S. naval facility in Subic Bay from early next year, officials said, the first time the massive installation has functioned as a military base in 23 years. Using Subic Bay would allow the Philippine air force and navy to respond more effectively to Chinese moves in the disputed South China Sea, security experts said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/16/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-close-aide-holds-talks-chinas-top-diplomat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-16T19:31:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/16/national/typhoon-nangka-menaces-west-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-16T19:38:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The coastline near the city of Kochi is battered as Typhoon Nangka approached on Thursday packing winds of up to 144 kph.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/16/business/economy-business/japan-proposes-low-tariff-quotas-butter-imports-tpp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-16T20:21:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/16/world/social-issues-world/u-n-human-rights-experts-say-china-must-end-crackdown-on-lawyers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-16T21:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/16/world/crime-legal-world/transgender-people-win-legal-recognition-in-ireland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-16T21:20:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/16/national/politics-diplomacy/lower-house-set-to-pass-security-bills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-16T22:15:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and minister in charge of reviving local economies Shigeru Ishiba applaud after the government-proposed security-related legislation passes in the Lower House during the plenary session of the parliament in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/national/crime-legal/kanagawa-police-issue-new-warrant-2013-algeria-hostage-crisis-mastermind/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T05:52:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/national/stray-gsdf-round-found-way-shiga-homes-roof-drill-injuries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T09:24:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/world/crime-legal-world/jury-finds-aurora-cinema-massacre-gunman-guilty-multiple-counts-first-degree-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T09:26:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[James Holmes (left) stands in court as the verdict is read in this still image taken from video in Denver Thursday. Holmes, the Colorado movie massacre gunman, was found guilty on Thursday of multiple counts of first degree murder and attempted murder, a verdict that enables prosecutors to seek the death penalty for the former graduate student who killed a dozen people and wounded 70 at a midnight premiere of a Batman film in 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/world/aircraft-new-jersey-new-york-increasingly-hit-laser-beams/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T11:15:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/world/crime-legal-world/tennessee-marine-slayings-lone-gunman-will-fully-probed-obama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T12:13:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks to the media in the Oval Office of the White House Thursday on the shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Obama said the "heartbreaking" shootings in Chattanooga that killed four Marines appeared to be the work of a lone gunman.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/business/tech/diy-fertility-testing-goes-digital-taiwans-isperm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T15:22:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/business/economy-business/north-koreas-economy-grew-1-percent-2014-says-south-koreas-central-bank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T15:28:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/business/corporate-business/ambition-ego-inside-nagamoris-nidec/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T16:01:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nidec Corp. CEO Shigenobu Nagamori poses for a photograph in the lobby of the company's headquarters in Kyoto in May.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/16/national/chinese-duty-free-shopping-sprees-leading-flight-delays-narita/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T17:06:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee at a duty-free store in Narita International Airport places a sticker July 3 warning travelers not to exceed carry-on restrictions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/national/doshisha-academics-denounce-presidents-support-security-bills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T17:09:59+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/business/mitsui-tries-pin-identity-says-try-anything-attitude-key-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T17:24:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masami Iijima, chairman of Mitsui &amp; Co., poses for a photograph in Tokyo in May. Over the centuries, Mitsui group has made everything from silk kimono to skyscrapers. It has also spun off brands like Toshiba and Sapporo Beer.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/national/crime-legal/chongryon-chiefs-son-pleads-guilty-importing-matsutake-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T18:31:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/national/gold-gundam-replica-highlights-extensive-exhibition-on-famed-series/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T22:05:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeweler Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry unveiled a pure gold robot figure Gundam, worth ¥20 million, at a press preview Thursday of "The Art of Gundam" exhibition at Mori Arts Center Gallery in Roppongi, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/national/typhoon-nangka-pounds-shikoku-pair-dead-hundreds-thousands-told-flee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T22:39:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to the Gion festival in Kyoto are hit by strong wind and rain Thursday as a typhoon approaches. Festival organizers announced Friday morning that they will hold the procession of Yamahoko floats Friday as scheduled.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/national/social-issues/hope-frustration-activists-lament-lack-women-japanese-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T22:56:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/n-women-a-20150718.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image of Tenkoko Sonoda is shown at a Tokyo meeting in March. Sonoda, who died this year, was elected to the Lower House in 1946.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/disillusioned-hong-kong-youths-eye-separatism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T22:58:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-Beijing demonstrators shout at a pro-China group in Hong Kong's Mong Kok shopping district on July 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/business/forum-corporate-competitiveness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-17T23:22:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panelists answer questions at a symposium titled "Corporate Competitiveness from an International Viewpoint," organized by the Keizai Koho Center in Tokyo on June 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/national/politics-diplomacy/top-sdf-officer-says-bills-meant-expand-military-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T12:22:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adm. Katsutoshi Kawano, chief of the Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, speaks to reporters at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/18/world/offbeat-world/teddy-bear-breaks-girls-fall-from-third-floor-window/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T12:23:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/national/japan-sets-26-percent-cut-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions-as-2030-target/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T12:24:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/18/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/china-to-deport-11-foreign-tourists-after-some-watched-genghis-khan-video/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T12:58:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/18/world/crime-legal-world/survivors-of-colorado-theater-rampage-want-gunman-put-to-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T13:08:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[James Holmes]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/18/world/islamic-state-forces-accused-of-using-poison-gas-on-kurds-in-northeast-syria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T13:36:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/18/world/islamic-state-suicide-car-bomb-kills-over-100-in-iraq/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T13:53:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/national/pop-singers-pop-new-vice-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T14:22:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n bureaucrat-a 20150718]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shun Sakurai]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/18/national/tokyo-opens-citys-first-swimming-beach-since-1960s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T15:28:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play at the beach of Kasai Rinkai Park on Saturday in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/18/national/stolen-buddhist-statue-arrives-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T16:25:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Buddhist statue stolen by South Korean thieves is shown to the media Saturday on the island of Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, after it was handed over to Japan the previous day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/national/social-issues/young-single-japanese-less-keen-children/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T16:57:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/n-childsurvey-a-20150718.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-childsurvey-a-20150718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recent survey indicates single people in their 20s today are less interested in children than their counterparts were a decade ago.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/world/gunman-five-others-killed-terrorist-attack-chattanooga-military-installations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T16:58:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/f-shooting-a-20150718.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-shooting-a-20150718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers enter the Armed Forces Career Center through a bullet-riddled door after a gunman opened fire on the building Thursday in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Authorities say there were multiple casualties, including the gunman.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/business/tech/narita-airport-get-sim-card-vending-machines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T16:59:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-narita-a-20150718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SIM card vending machines targeting inbound tourists will start operating at Narita International Airport, Chiba Prefecture, next Friday. Two machines will be available — at the airport's Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 buildings.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/18/national/media-national/history-hexes-feature-criminal-potpourri/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T22:25:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p19-schreiber-big-in-japan-a-20150719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[I put a spell on you: A wara ningyo (straw doll) like the one seen here was used in a recent case of intimidation in Shimane Prefecture, though the suspect says he was just exorcising his own demons after being dumped.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/18/national/media-national/despite-media-says-juvenile-crime-kids-alright/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T23:29:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-brasor-media-mix-a-20150719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[No place for a kid: A detention center in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward is where juvenile criminals would go if many in Japan had their way. While youth crime is decreasing, though, people believe it's on the rise.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/18/national/science-health/surfing-waves-two-worlds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-18T23:38:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/p21-hooper-physics-a-20150719.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p21-hooper-physics-a-20150719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Matter of fact: Yasuhiro Ohshima, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Tokyo Institute of Technology, has captured images of particles behaving like waves.  	 ISTOCK]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/18/national/three-day-weekend-gets-bad-start-train-service-disruption-hits-320000-western-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-19T12:25:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-typhoon-a-20150719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers check a monitor for train delay information at JR Osaka Station on Saturday after heavy rainfall caused by a typhoon wreaked havoc in the area.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka University professor Shimon Sakaguchi, one of two Japanese researchers selected for this year's prestigious Gairdner International Award, is interviewed in Osaka in March about his discovery of regulatory T cells.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The real heart of Kyoto lies not in famed locations, but in chance discoveries.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artificial trans fats will be banned from all processed foods sold in the United States in three years.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fire and smoke rise from the site of a car bomb attack in Sanaa Monday. The Yemen branch of Islamic State claimed it carried out the deadly blast.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors make Wakasa lacquered chopsticks at the world expo in Milan on Monday during a workshop sponsored by Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The last book by Yasuhiro Okudaira, a prominent constitutional scholar who died Jan. 26, is titled "Continuing to Gather Threads of Constitutional Narrative." Like-minded academics are continuing his legacy in the face of proposed government changes to the charter.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The HondaJet is shown to the media inside a hanger at Haneda airport in Tokyo in April. Honda Motor Co.'s first jet plane will soon make its debut in Brazil.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takaaki Nishii]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-21T23:58:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-22T00:03:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple Inc. said it is experiencing some issues with its App Store, Apple Music, iTunes Store and some other services. The company did not provide details but said only some users were affected.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-22T10:45:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mark Milley]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/22/business/japanese-investment-china-falls-16-first-half-2015/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-22T15:39:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kaori Sasaki, founder and CEO of ewoman Inc. and Unicul International Inc., launched the International Conference for Women in Business in 1996. She said women have to think outside the box to change Japan's male-dominated system.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pressing for change: Some 800 people took part in the 17th International Conference for Women in Business held in Tokyo on July 28th.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the 14 photos released by the government Wednesday shows Kashi, or Tianwaitian in Chinese, as one of 12 gas fields Japan says is being developed by China in the East China Sea.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hemp-based food products of Azienda Agricola Fiore Marzio ILario are seen in this handout photograph taken in London July on Monday. Farmers from southern Italy presenting their wares at a London food festival this week say their hemp pasta, oil and bread won't get you high, but do provide a healthy, tasty alternative to the traditional, wheat variety.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington about the shootings at a Charleston, South Carolina church, in this June 18 file photo. Dylann Roof, who was charged in South Carolina with the murders of nine African-Americans at a historic Charleston church last month, will face federal hate crime charges, media outlets reported Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two Rhinoceros auklets rest in June on the sea off Hokkaido's Teuri Island, which is home to the world's largest colony of the bird.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kaori Sasaki (left), president of ewoman, Inc., and Sayuri Daimon, executive operating officer and managing editor of The Japan Times, have a talk on July 1 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo provided by Erin Conwell, taken Tuesday, smoke from the Reynolds Creek wildfire rises above the landscape at St. Mary Lake in Glacier National Park, Montana. The fire burning in the drought-parched northwestern Montana park doubled in size Wednesday, leading officials to evacuate homes along St. Mary Lake and visitors to flee hotels and campgrounds in the nearby community at Glacier's eastern entrance.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Astronaut Kimiya Yui (front left) speaks to his family from the International Space Station Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael C. Woodford, former president and chief executive officer of Olympus Corp., speaks to the media in Tokyo in November 2011.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The mother of Emiri Yamaguchi holds a photo of Emiri at a news conference at the Tochigi prefectural government office on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pepper robots run through their paces at a Yamada Wood House Co. showroom in Osaka on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/24/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-looking-visit-five-central-asia-nations-october/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Luc Everaert, head of the IMF’s Japan Division, is interviewed in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-24T21:35:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waller County prosecutor Warren Diepraam gives a report on the death of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old woman who died while in police custody after being arrested during a traffic stop, during a news conference held at the Waller County Courthouse, Thursday in Hempstead, Texas.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this Sept. 1, 2013, file photo, a U.S. Air Force plane takes off from the Incirlik airbase in southern Turkey. Turkey has agreed to let the U.S. military use the key air base near the border with Syria to launch airstrikes against the Islamic State, senior Obama administration officials said Thursday, giving a boost to the U.S.-led coalition amid a surge of violence in Turkey blamed on IS-linked militants.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-25T01:29:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kinki Federation of Chambers of Commerce, which includes chambers from cities and towns in Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Hyogo, Shiga and Wakayama prefectures, voted to change its name to the Kansai Federation of Chambers of Commerce.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-25T21:41:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette pray Friday during a candlelight vigil for victims of a mass shooting a day earlier in the city.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/25/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-battles-prevent-support-slipping-toward-danger-zone/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man wearing a traditional "sugegasa" conical hat holds a rainbow flag emblazoned with the word peace during a rally denouncing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-26T17:28:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image obtained from NASA shows Typhoon Halola on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-26T17:55:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-26T18:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-26T18:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-26T18:28:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto addresses reporters at Osaka City Hall on June 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/26/national/history/bomb-victims-remembered-potsdam-truman-ordered-nuclear-strikes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-26T18:49:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants in Potsdam, Germany, on Saturday recall the victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki almost 70 years ago. They launched paper lanterns onto water.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/26/national/politics-diplomacy/osaka-merger-rejected-referendum-not-dead-yet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-26T19:36:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Ishin no Kai seeks to combine the city's 24 wards into five larger wards with more autonomy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/26/business/economy-business/japan-plans-70000-ton-tariff-free-import-quota-for-u-s-rice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-26T21:01:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-27T08:08:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handout picture taken Sunday and released by the Nigerian Army shows a vehicle of Boko Haram fighters destroyed by an IED (improvised explosive device) by soldiers following clashes to take control of the town of Dikwa, northeastern Nigeria in the Borno State. Meanwhile, a "mentally handicapped" female suicide bomber killed at least 14 people and injured 47 more at a crowded market in the northeastern Nigerian town of Damaturu on Friday, witnesses and a hospital source said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/26/national/japans-mount-io-shows-signs-volcanic-activity-small-eruption-warning-issued/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-27T09:19:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-27T09:38:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this May 2014, file photo, the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles sign is seen after being unveiled at Chrysler World Headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The U.S. government will fine Fiat Chrysler a record $105 million for violating safety laws in a series of recalls, a person briefed on the matter says. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will reveal the fine on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-27T11:37:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-27T13:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some of the letters penned by Japanese students to Nepal's quake survivors are shown in this photo taken Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-27T13:46:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Performers of "Ninja Boimenkun" pose in front of Inuyama Castle in Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-27T14:23:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-27T14:24:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boy and his family pray during Mass at Saint Joseph Catholic Church in Detroit on Saturday, ahead of the unveiling of a controversial goat-headed Baphomet sculpture in the city.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-27T15:03:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-27T15:34:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at an organizing house party in the Kraus home in Carroll, Iowa, Sunday, when she unveiled her climate goals, including a strong push for solar power.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-27T16:09:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-27T16:56:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives carry the coffin of Saulat Mirza after his body arrived in Karachi in May. Mirza was hanged after an anti-terrorism court sentenced him to death in 1999 for killing three people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/27/national/moss-viewing-trips-catching-on-among-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-27T17:14:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[During an observation workshop held in June, participants observe moss growing beside a trail in the Kita-Yatsugatake mountain range in Nagano Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/27/business/bojs-cpi-overhaul-suggests-bond-buying-slowdown-analysts-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-27T17:27:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman rides a bicycle with her child past a realtor's office in Tokyo with posters advertising properties for sale and for rent. The Bank of Japan is pushing to revise housing cost estimates, which could boost its preferred price gauge.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/27/asia-pacific/china-eyes-new-cruise-link-to-disputed-south-china-sea-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-27T17:37:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/27/national/fatal-plane-crash-leaves-chofu-residents-fearful/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-27T17:38:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/27/business/japanese-farmers-urge-government-to-protect-key-items-before-tpp-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-27T20:18:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese farmers hold up placards as they take part in a rally opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative in Tokyo on Monday. The event was held one day before trade ministers from the 12 Pacific Rim nations resumed talks on the deal in Hawaii.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/27/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-motors-to-shutter-u-s-plant-if-no-buyers-found/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-27T20:19:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Tetsuro Aikawa speaks during a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Monday. The automaker said it will stop making vehicles in the U.S. this year and will close down its plant in Illinois if no buyer is found.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/27/national/nuclear-expert-tasked-with-leading-fukushima-decommissioning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-27T21:32:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toru Ogawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/27/business/kansai-electric-eyes-joint-procurement-with-four-other-utilities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-27T21:33:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This 2012 file photo shows Kansai Electric Power Co.'s headquarters in Osaka. Kepco and four other regional utilities are planning to jointly purchase equipment as part of cost-cutting efforts.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/27/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/gunmen-storm-police-station-indian-punjab-six-killed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-27T21:34:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activists of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) shout anti-goverment slogans during a protest Monday in New Delhi following a suspected militant attack in Punjab's Gurdaspur district.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-27T22:30:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-27T22:31:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seito Sakakibara killed two children and wounded three others at the age of 14 in Kobe in 1997 in a crime spree that terrorized the nation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/world/science-health-world/two-suspected-mers-cases-probed-northern-england/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T06:07:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-28T06:09:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A left-wing protester throws wood into a fire lit by protesters, to help avoid tear gas used by police to disperse them, in Istanbul on Sunday during clashes between police and people protesting  Turkey's operation against Kurdish militants. Turkey has bombed Islamic State positions near the Turkish border in Syria, also targeting Kurdish rebels in Iraq and carried out widespread police operations against suspected Kurdish and Islamic State militants and other outlawed groups inside Turkey.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/business/u-s-paves-way-malaysia-tpp-entry-upgrading-human-trafficking-situation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T09:09:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry leaves after announcing the release of the "2015 Trafficking in Persons Report" on Monday at the State Department in Washington, D.C. The United States on Monday accused Russia, Thailand, Iran and Libya of insufficient action against human trafficking, in a damning report on a global scourge that the State Department decried as "modern slavery." Those nations — as well as Venezuela, Algeria, Syria, Yemen, North Korea, South Sudan and Zimbabwe — were at the bottom of a ranking compiled annually by the State Department.  Malaysia's ranking meanwhile was upgraded.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/23/business/economy-business/japan-trade-deficit-shrinks-77-%c2%a51-73-trillion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T10:15:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Nippon Yusen KK cargo ship is loaded at the Oi Container Terminal in Tokyo in June. Japan's January-June goods trade deficit shrank 77.4 percent on-year to ¥1.73 trillion, the government said Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/business/fiat-chrysler-buy-back-unrepaired-trucks-may-cost-billions-resale-option/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T12:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo of Jeep is seen on a steering wheel of the 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee on a car dealership in New Jersey on July 24. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles could pay billions of dollars to buy back defective trucks as part of a settlement with U.S. safety regulators, but has the option to recover costs by reselling vehicles once they are repaired. In addition to the $105 million fine and vehicle buyback provision, FCA agreed to provide financial incentives to more than a million Jeep owners to bring their recalled vehicles in for repairs.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-28T13:07:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Helping others: Sayaka Osakabe founded Matahara Net, a support group for pregnant women who experience bullying at their workplaces. The word "matahara" is short for "maternity harassment."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/25/business/tech/sonys-yoshida-affirms-faith-indie-developers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T13:08:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shuhei Yoshida]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-28T13:08:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[House of the mouse: A fan walks through Tokyo Disneyland, which, along with Tokyo Disney Sea, drew 31.3 million visitors in 2014, wiping the floor with its nearest domestic rival, Universal Studios Japan in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fireworks light up the evening sky over the Sumida River in Tokyo on Saturday. As part of the evening's entertainment, nearby Tokyo Skytree was also illuminated in special colors.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Both sides: Shizuka Kamei (left) and Shintaro Ishihara discussed the new security bills in the Shukan Asahi.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/25/business/corporate-business/industry-nikkei-deal-acquire-ft-raises-questions-shift-standards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T13:08:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Copies of the Financial Times are prepared for delivery by an employee on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-28T13:08:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-28T13:39:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiko Shimabukuro, a former nursing unit member for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of Okinawa, retired in March from working as a storyteller of wartime history.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/world/social-issues-world/ireland-hand-adoptees-birth-records-first-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T13:42:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-28T14:54:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-28T15:04:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/business/economy-business/surreptitious-grexit-plan-not-secret-varoufakis-slip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T15:24:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yanis Varoufakis]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/business/corporate-business/vw-passes-toyota-take-global-sales-lead-first-half-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T15:45:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-28T15:46:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-28T15:53:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toru Hayami, head of Mie Prefecture-based forest management company Hayami Forest, views hinoki cypress trees on a mountain slope in the town of Kihoku.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-28T16:19:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/business/stage-set-final-negotiations-proposed-tpp-trade-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T16:26:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Amari]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-28T16:53:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (right) and Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin share a light moment in 2009 during an event marking the 63rd anniversary of the United Malays National Organization in Kuala Lumpur.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/world/china-not-planning-build-military-bases-maldives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T17:34:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/national/calling-honky-gaffe-prone-fuji-tv-stumbles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T18:41:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-28T18:43:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/national/u-s-slams-japan-sex-trafficking-forced-labor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T20:53:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/national/fuel-weight-heat-may-led-chofu-plane-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T20:54:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/business/corporate-business/wendys-japan-chief-hopes-first-kitchen-tie-recipe-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T21:26:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wendy's Japan chief Ernest M. Higa speaks about the firm's future strategy during an interview earlier this month at the company's head office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/world/social-issues-world/boy-scouts-america-lifts-blanket-ban-gay-adult-leaders-employees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T21:40:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boy Scout Casey Chambers carries a rainbow flag during the San Francisco Gay Pride Festival in California in June 2014.The Boy Scouts of America ended its ban on gay adult leaders on Monday, dismantling a policy that has deeply divided the membership of the 105-year-old Texas-based organization.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/27/national/science-health/fertile-eggs-produced-donation-anonymous-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T21:56:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-28T21:56:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this Feb. 3, 2006, file photo, then-Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam waves to well-wishers prior to boarding his limousine upon arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila. Kalam has died at a hospital after collapsing while delivering a lecture in northeastern India.The president from 2002 until 2007 was known as the father of the country's military missile program. He was 83.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/world/nato-backs-turkeys-fight-islamic-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T22:17:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/business/financial-markets/china-regulators-pledge-support-shares-plunge-8-5/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-07-28T23:24:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian wipes his neck as he stands in front of an electronic board displaying an advertisement for Chinese stocks outside a securities firm in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children and grandchildren of ex-Imperial Japanese Army soldier Shujun Sashida gather in front of a banyan tree in the village of Ie, Okinawa Prefecture, in April.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda listens to a junior high school boy during a summer seminar for kids hosted by the central bank Tuesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-29T16:12:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-29T20:17:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-29T20:36:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-30T08:07:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-30T09:18:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-30T09:21:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-30T09:25:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Empress Michiko,80, seen in an undated photo, has shown possible symptoms of coronary artery obstruction, the Imperial Household Agency said on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-30T16:10:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The emblem for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games unveiled last week (right) resembles the logo for a theater in Liege, eastern Belgium, the designer of the latter claims.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-30T16:35:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In an era where more and more data are stored online and cyberattacks are discovered with regularity, reporting mechanisms are still lacking in Asia, experts say.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-07-30T16:37:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abu Said Shekh, 46, an asylum seeker from Bangladesh, washes dishes at his house in Sakaimachi near Ota, Gunma Prefecture, on April 5.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Big talk: Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori addresses the media at a news conference on July 24 where Tokyo's Olympic emblems were unveiled.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This 24-hour rest area, which opened Friday at Kansai International Airport's Aeroplaza section, can seat around 300 people and is equipped with  coin-operated shower booths.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Hikkoshisha Co. pay slip provided by labor union Precariat Union shows that money was deducted from an employee's salary as reimbursements for customers and payments to the company's mutual aid association.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches an aeronautics contest at Kalma Airport in Wonsan in this undated photo released Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-02T18:35:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-02T20:39:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-02T22:51:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese chef talks about masuzushi, a local raw fish dish from Toyama Prefecture at the Japanese pavilion of Expo Milano 2015 in Milan, Italy, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/02/business/delayed-tpp-stands-affect-japans-global-trade-deals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-02T23:24:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-02T23:31:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper shakes hands with a woman while serving pancakes during the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta, last month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo 2020 Olympics President Yoshiro Mori is seen at a news conference after he addressed the 128th International Olympic Committee session in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uighur refugee boys read the Quran where they are housed in a gated complex in the central city of Kayseri, Turkey, in February. Thousands of members of China's Turkic language-speaking Muslim ethnic minority have reached Turkey, mostly since last year, infuriating Beijing, which accuses Ankara of helping its citizens flee unlawfully.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T11:29:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-Houthi activist works on graffiti during a campaign against Saudi-led airstrikes on the wall of the Saudi Embassy in Sanaa on Sunday. A Saudi-led Arab alliance launched a military campaign on March 26 to end Houthi control over much of Yemen and to return President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi from exile. The Houthi leader urged the rebels to fight on.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T13:40:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers use two towering remote-controlled cranes Sunday to remove a 20-ton piece of debris that fell into into the fuel pool of the damaged reactor No. 3 after an explosion ripped through the building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant during the 2011 meltdown crisis.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T14:16:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toichi Nakatani holds a picture of his brother, Sakataro, in Osaka in March. Sakataro died in 1950 while engaged in a secret mission to remove underwater mines off Wonsan, in North Korea, during the Korean War.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T15:05:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T16:12:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/03/world/obamas-climate-legacy-takes-shape-with-move-on-power-plants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-03T18:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T18:30:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T18:38:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This sketch shows the plans of the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, to build a new park with 11 sports facilities.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T18:43:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T18:49:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T19:54:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T20:59:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Barack Obama wipes sweat from his face during a campaign event in Ames, Iowa in August 2012. The Obama administration is set to issue rules Monday to cut carbon emissions from U.S. power plants.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T21:12:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T21:14:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars drive on a highway on a hazy night in downtown Shanghai on Jan. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T21:15:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Najib Razak]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T21:26:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis destroyer Atago is docked at a U.S. naval base in San Diego in June 2013 for a joint drill.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T21:35:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hundreds of student protesters demonstrate against changes to their curriculum during a march near the Ministry of Education in Taipei on Sunday. Dozens of students stormed the ministry Friday, demanding that officials take responsibility for a student leader who killed himself in an apparent protest over curriculum changes that critics say overemphasize China's ties to the island.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T21:36:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-MH370-a-20150804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French police officers inspect a piece of debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island, on Wednesday. Air safety investigators, one of them a Boeing investigator, have identified the component as a "flaperon" from the trailing edge of a Boeing 777 wing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/03/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-adviser-retracts-remarks-about-security-bills-constitutionality-vows-not-to-resign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-03T21:38:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/03/national/italian-software-firm-offered-to-sell-hacking-software-to-japanese-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-03T21:38:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-03T22:20:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the end of a joint news conference following their meeting in Abe's office in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/03/business/tech/masu-maker-actualizes-the-warm-glow-of-a-cup-of-sake/</loc>
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