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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A flood-affected resident swims through floodwaters in Kalay, upper Myanmar's Sagaing region on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-04T18:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Italian police officer takes into custody Michele Gucciardi, one of the 11 men suspected of helping No. 1 Cosa Nostra fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro, in Palermo, Sicily, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mark Karpeles, founder and CEO of Mt. Gox Co., apologizes at a news conference in February 2014 after the bitcoin exchange filed for bankruptcy.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-04T21:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In his fourth foray into the country in two years, New York-based activist investor Daniel Loeb has taken a stake in Suzuki Motor Corp.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-04T21:19:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-04T22:36:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Comedian Naoki Matayoshi's novel "Hibana" ("Spark"), which won the Akutagawa Prize last month, is set to sell over 2 million copies, a record among works that have won the prestigious literary award.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-04T23:36:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-04T23:36:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-04T23:39:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-04T23:39:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-05T06:13:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Nusra Front fighter walks inside a building in the Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, Monday. It was reported Tuesday that Nusra Front attackers captured five U.S.-trained Syrian rebels.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-05T09:04:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-05T10:53:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speaking up: Students shout slogans during a rally denouncing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration outside the Diet in Tokyo on July 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-lawmakers-will-vote-republican-submitted-iran-deal-disapproval-resolution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T11:30:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/national/artist-aida-defiant-latest-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T14:17:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A piece by Makoto Aida and his family, entitled "Manifesto," hangs in the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in this photo published on the artist's Tumblr feed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/04/national/politics-diplomacy/turkish-ambassador-urges-abe-government-explain-security-reforms-better/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T15:36:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish Ambassador to Japan Ahmet Bulent Meric is interviewed at The Japan Times head office in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/04/national/meteorological-agency-alert-hikers-volcanic-eruptions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T15:38:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image from a monitoring camera shows smoke rising from the ground in the Owakudani area of Mount Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture on July 21. The mountain is one of the 47 regularly monitored volcanoes under the Meteorological Agency's new system designed to alert local residents and hikers of an eruption.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/business/corporate-business/nikkeis-1-3-billion-ft-bid-much-axel-springer-ceo-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T15:39:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Copies of the Financial Times await delivery at a distribution center in London July 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/national/tv-shopping-channel-operator-recognize-sex-marriage-among-ranks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T16:58:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/business/economy-business/corporate-earnings-japan-outshine-rest-asia-amid-weak-yen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T17:44:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/business/tech/japanese-smartphone-carriers-offer-mixed-responses-android-flaw/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T18:09:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mobile devices running the Android operating system are said to be vulnerable to hacking, but the recently discovered security hole in its Stagefright component is said to be the most serious flaw yet discovered.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/national/history/bomb-survivors-speak-nuclear-power-decry-abes-view-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T18:19:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kimie Mihara, a survivor of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing in Hiroshima prays at the cenotaph at the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima on July 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/national/u-s-stands-henoko-plan-despite-move-tokyo-suspend-construction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T18:55:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/31/national/belgian-logo-designer-plans-request-action-tokyo-olympics-emblem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T19:11:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Handout images show (from left) emblems created by Spain’s Hey Studio, the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee and Olivier Debie for a Belgian theater.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/national/tokyo-olympics-logo-designer-says-hes-shocked-by-plagiarism-claim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T19:12:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenjiro Sano speaks about the logos he designed for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/01/national/history/service-pays-tribute-wwii-pows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T19:24:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Group Capt. John Harwood (left), defense and armed services attache at the Australian Embassy in Tokyo, and Capt. Oliver Clark of the British Army, representing the British Embassy, attend the 21st annual memorial service in Yokohama on Saturday for POWs from the British Commonwealth and former Allied nations who died in Japan during World War II.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/national/broken-power-cable-knocks-vast-swath-jr-east-services-yokohama-area/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T19:41:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An information screen at JR Shinbashi Station at 9:15 p.m. Tuesday shows that the Tokaido, Yokosuka, Keihin-Tohoku, Utsunomiya and other lines are out of service.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/asia-pacific/china-place-security-staff-major-internet-firms-websites/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T19:49:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/national/crime-legal/teen-hokkaido-held-murder-says-wanted-kill-someone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T19:49:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/national/media-national/asahi-shimbun-apologizes-inappropriate-tweet-shinzo-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T21:08:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen shot shows a tweet by a veteran Asahi Shimbun staff writer about a rightists' rally and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/national/politics-diplomacy/biden-calls-abe-apologize-wikileaks-details-alleged-nsa-spying-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T21:10:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/national/social-issues/number-of-households-on-welfare-in-japan-hit-new-record-high-in-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T21:37:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/business/corporate-business/takatas-lobby-spending-rises-22-recall-scrutiny-intensifies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T22:24:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/national/politics-diplomacy/chinas-foreign-minister-dismisses-talk-of-abe-xi-meeting-in-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T23:12:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-defense-chief-says-sdf-deal-nukes-security-bills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-05T23:15:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Gen. Nakatani speaks before an Upper House special committee on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/06/world/crime-legal-world/senate-mull-bill-hacking-recess-boost-privacy-not-surveillance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-06T09:42:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/06/national/science-health/21st-century-nobel-rankings-japan-third-just-behind-u-k-way-back-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-06T10:13:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/national/politics-diplomacy/source-believes-aug-14-could-be-release-date-of-abes-war-anniversary-statement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-06T10:44:22+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/06/business/tech/verizon-shift-wireless-puts-union-ranks-benefits-huge-disadvantage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-06T11:31:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tyson Hoffman, a Verizon service technician, checks a cable in 2009 as he connects it to the Verizon FiOS fiber network in Rockville, Maryland. On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to require that phone companies warn residential customers three months before they abandon a copper network. For businesses, six months' notice would be required. Verizon is shifting to wireless, and away from highly unionized components based on landlines.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/06/world/search-called-off-legendary-russian-free-diver-vanished-off-spain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-06T11:33:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian Natalia Molchanova holds the minus 86-meter tag that gives her a win on Sept. 3, 2005, in the first women's free-diving world championship in Villefranche-sur-Mer. Molchanova, 53, has been reported missing since Sunday following a fun dive off the coast of Formentera, Spain.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/national/history/japan-times-reported-atomic-bombings-hiroshima-nagasaki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-06T12:11:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/business/corporate-business/skymark-creditors-pick-ana-sponsor-rejecting-delta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-06T12:36:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyoyuki Nagamine (right), senior executive officer at ANA Holdings, speaks while the head of Integral investment fund Nobuo Sayama (center) and Skymark Airlines chairman Takashi Ide (left) look on at a news conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This container was used to store the original recording of late Emperor Hirohito's war-ending speech and another postwar address.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People shed tears as they kneel down and listen to Emperor Hirohito's broadcast announcing Japan's surrender on Aug. 15, 1945, in this unspecified location.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p14 schreiber tinian-a 20150802]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nuclear first: The atomic bomb nicknamed “Fat Man” sits on transport carriage on Tinian Island in August 1945.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fast fashion: Shoppers gather outside a Uniqlo store in Tokyo in April. While Uniqlo is currently expanding in China, where its brand is seen as aspirational, market watchers believe it may be on the decline in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond attend a news conference at Iikura House in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maj. Charles Sweeney, pilot of the B-29 that atom-bombed Nagasaki, poses in the northern Mariana Islands on Aug. 9, 1945.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Batter up: Sixteen-year-old baseball prodigy Kotaro Kiyomiya gets the star treatment in Asahi Geino this week with the magazine dubbing him the "new monster." In the pages of Shukan Taishu, however, monsters of a different sort are described in tales of erotic horror.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bee best: Haruka Masuda holds the champion's cup after winning The Japan Times Spelling Bee in Tokyo on March 101.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a wreath during a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in the city Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A container ship is loaded at the Port of Yokohama in 2005.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pray for victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in front of the Peace Statue at Nagasaki's Peace Park on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. peacekeeping soldiers from Rwanda patrol in December in Bangui. A Rwandan U.N. peacekeeper in the Central African Republic shot dead four colleagues on August 7 and injured eight others before being gunned down, military sources said. It was the worst such incident to hit the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country, known by its French acronym of MINUSCA, since it was deployed in September following inter-religious clashes that claimed hundreds of lives. Two deaths and a girl's rape in Bangui have also been blamed on U.N. peacekeepers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tsuruhashi district in Osaka, home to over 24,000 resident Koreans, has narrow warrens of shops offering all sorts of Korean foods.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hibakusha offspring say the government should conduct thorough research on how their parents' radiation exposure will affect their own health.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/12/national/government-will-privatize-2020-olympics-stadium-event-ends-lessen-costs/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Burned cars are seen in a shipping yard at a chemical warehouse in Tianjin, China, after a series of explosions hit the area on Thursday. Japanese companies operating there have reported only minor damage to their facilities.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image provided by East Japan Railway Co. shows the new complex to be constructed on the west side of JR Yokohama Station.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese prisoners of war on Guam listen to a radio broadcast as Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender in World War II  on Aug. 15, 1945.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a statement marking the 70th anniversary of the war's end at a news conference at his office in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy speaks during a news conference with U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan at right Thursday, along the Animas River Trail in Berg Park in Farmington, New Mexico. It will take many years and many millions of dollars simply to manage and not even remove the toxic wastewater from an abandoned mine that unleashed a torrent of heavy metals into Western rivers and has likely reached Lake Powell, experts said Thursday. Colorado meanwhile said Friday the Animas was again safe for recreation, but not for livestock or crops.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ayaka Shiomura, a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, addresses the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo in June 2014.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators on Friday scour the site where the body of a girl was found in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, a day earlier.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leading members of nonprofit organization Minamiaizu Mori Network (from left) Shin Haganuma, Takehiro Sekine and Shun Matsuzawa are committed to revitalizing their town through adding more value to its forestry resources.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/17/world/myanmar-ruling-party-leaders-to-meet-monday-before-parliamentary-showdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-17T17:57:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-17T19:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elderly men sit on benches at Tapgol Park in Seoul. South Korean government efforts to stimulate consumer spending are being challenged by the swelling ranks of seniors. Average life expectancy is above 80 and older people are trying to save more and spend less during their ever-longer years of retirement.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/17/business/corporate-business/lotte-holdings-shareholders-back-younger-brother-akio-amid-family-feud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-17T20:58:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroyuki Shigemitsu (center) heads to Lotte Holdings Co.'s shareholders meeting in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/17/business/corporate-business/utilities-spent-%c2%a51-4-trillion-last-year-maintain-idled-reactors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-17T21:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-17T22:43:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/17/business/economy-business/japan-economy-shrinks-as-consumption-investment-fall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-17T22:43:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/17/business/economy-business/abe-revert-economy-war-statement-defense-fight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-17T22:56:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-17T23:08:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A family washes their prized Subaru 360 minicar, a highly popular symbol of Japan's postwar mechanization, in front of their house in April 1960.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/16/national/japanese-visit-graves-kin-died-end-wwii-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-17T23:08:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An old photo Yasuko Irie brought to the Ryongsan cemetery in Pyongyang shows the young Irie (front and center), and her deceased father, Minoru (behind her).]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/17/national/sumo-related-exhibit-held-kitte-ahead-special-bouts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-17T23:12:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sumo ring is set up at the KITTE shopping area inside JP Tower near JR Tokyo Station ahead of sumo exhibition bouts on Aug. 29. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/17/national/prince-akishinos-family-attends-battle-of-okinawa-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-17T23:12:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Hisahito]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/17/business/tech/secret-strategies-worlds-lucrative-apps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-17T23:43:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The "Puzzle &amp; Dragons" smartphone game, developed by GungHo Online Entertainment Inc., is displayed on an Apple iPhone 5 smartphone in Tokyo on Aug. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/18/world/ukraine-fighting-escalates-killing-civilians-solders-putin-talks-tourism-crimea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-18T05:59:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Ukrainian serviceman stands in front of a house destroyed by shelling perpetrated by pro-Russian separatists in the village of Sartana, near Mariupol, Donetsk region, on Monday. Fierce clashes in east Ukraine have killed at least 10 people, including 8 civilians, over the past 24 hours, according to official sources.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/18/world/western-u-s-wildfires-going-unchecked-stretching-resources-thin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-18T06:06:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters prepare to battle the Wolverine wildfire near Chelan, Washington, in this U.S. Forest Service picture taken Sunday. Wildfires have destroyed 50 homes in north central Idaho while a fire in north-central Washington nearly doubled in size, almost encircling the town of Chelan and forcing the evacuation of some 1,500.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/15/national/politics-diplomacy/growing-influence-japan-conference-reflects-resentment-tokyos-postwar-settlement-washington/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-18T13:21:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses the U.S. Congress in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/18/world/first-two-women-soldiers-pass-elite-u-s-army-ranger-course/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-18T14:33:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/18/national/history/japan-will-urge-g-7-foreign-ministers-visit-hiroshimas-bomb-park-museum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-18T15:15:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/18/business/economy-business/japans-holdings-treasuries-dip-lowest-level-since-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-18T16:31:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/18/asia-pacific/bangkok-shrine-pipe-bomb-toll-22-method-doesnt-match-past-insurgent-tactics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-18T16:32:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Policemen stand at the cordoned-off site of a bomb blast at the popular Erawan Shrine in the heart of Bangkok's tourist and commercial center on Tuesday. The death toll from a bomb blast in the Thai capital rose to 21 on Tuesday with 123 wounded, police said, adding that seven tourists, from China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, among those killed in the attack.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/18/national/shark-sightings-keep-tourists-away-authorities-impose-swimming-bans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-18T17:15:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A "no swimming" signboard stands at Chigasaki Southern Beach in Kanagawa Prefecture on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/18/national/training-academy-needed-boost-ranks-japanese-u-n-ex-official-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-18T18:11:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitoki Den, former U.N. senior political affairs officer, is interviewed in Tokyo on July 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/18/national/history/hibakusha-moved-mexico-forget-wound-relating-story-survival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-18T18:25:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuaki Yamashita talks about his work in recounting his ordeal as a Nagasaki A-bomb survivor, during an interview in New York in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/18/national/three-hurt-kanagawa-wind-gusts-blamed-twister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-18T18:47:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A storage container lies on its side Monday in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, after it was apparently blown over by a strong wind gust from a suspected twister.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-18T18:54:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/18/national/olympic-organizers-slam-belgian-logo-designer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-18T19:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This is the logo for the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens created by Kenjiro Sano.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/02/national/politics-diplomacy/all-eyes-on-abe-for-wars-70th-anniversary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-18T19:39:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping share an awkward greeting Nov. 10 in Beijing. Experts say the wording of Abe's statement on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II will have a major impact on Japan-China relations.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-18T19:40:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Businesspeople from Japan and South Korea gather to discuss bilateral economic ties in Seoul in February ahead of the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations on Monday. The two countries signed the normalization treaty on June 22, 1965.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-18T19:48:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Businessmen look at a sign for Sumitomo Realty &amp; Development Co.'s Shiodome Sumitomo building in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/18/national/crime-legal/driver-may-seizure-fatal-ikebukuro-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-18T21:15:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/18/national/july-saw-record-24500-people-taken-hospitals-heat-related-problems/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-18T22:57:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women use parasols to shelter from the sun as they cross a street in Tokyo on July 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/18/national/politics-diplomacy/soka-gakkai-members-lash-komeito-support-security-bills/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-18T23:41:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-18T23:42:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials comb through debris Tuesday at the site of a bomb blast in one of Bangkok's most popular tourist spots.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/19/world/social-issues-world/europe-braces-threefold-migrant-surge-italy-nabs-eight-alleged-traffickers-tied-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-19T06:06:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo provided by the Bodrum Sea Rescue Association and taken on Monday, migrants stranded on an inhabited islet are approached for rescue by members of the Bodrum Sea Rescue Association, close to the town of Bodrum, Turkey. The migrants, who were trying to cross in dinghies from the Bodrum area to the nearby Greek islands, abandoned their effort and found refuge on the islet, where they had to be rescued by the Turkish Coast Guard and members of the Bodrum Sea Rescue Association.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/19/world/suspected-boko-haram-attack-claims-151-fleeing-nigerians-drown-river/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-19T06:14:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A file picture of a screengrab taken on Oct. 2, 2014, from a video released by the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram and obtained by AFP shows Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau gesturing as he delivers a speech. The leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram denied he had been killed or ousted as chief of the jihadist group in an audio recording released Saturday attributed to him by security experts. In the eight-minute Hausa-language message. Boko Haram is believed to have been behind an attack last week in Nigeria that left 151 people dead, many of whom drowned.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/19/world/social-issues-world/germany-feels-migrant-strain-forecasts-750000-will-seek-asylum-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-19T11:42:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akie Abe poses with a senior priest of Yasukuni Shrine in a photo posted on Facebook on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba President Masashi Muromachi announces a new management lineup Tuesday at the company's headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese technical intern, who came to Japan under the government-backed foreign traineeship program, works at an oyster processing factory in Hiroshima Prefecture in March.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 2014 file photo shows Noel Biderman, chief executive of Avid Life Media Inc., which operates AshleyMadison.com., posing during a photo session in Tokyo. Hackers claim to have leaked a massive database of users from Ashley Madison, a matchmaking website for cheating spouses. In a statement released Tuesday, a group calling itself Impact Team said the site's owners had not bowed to their demands. "Now everyone gets to see their data," the statement said.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov.-elect Toru Hashimoto faces reporters at the prefectural government building Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese knotweed — scientific name Fallopia japonica, Japanese name itadori — has bamboo-like stems.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women are concealed from view by Planned Parenthood volunteers in 2009 as they enter the Planned Parenthood of Collier County in Naples, Florida. Planned Parenthood in Florida asked a judge Monday for an emergency ruling to allow them to continue performing abortions at 12 and 13 weeks after a discrepancy with the state about what constitutes first and second-trimester abortions. A poll released Wednesday found most Americans back federal funds for the nonprofit group.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/20/national/educational-videos-sent-japanese-kindergartens-said-include-pornography/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, a longtime advocate for transgender rights, will be an outreach and recruitment director for presidential personnel.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker seen at a Uniqlo store in Tokyo. Starting in October, full-time employees at Fast Retailing Co.'s stores can choose to work four days a week.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 7,000 fences across the country have inadequate safety measures in place, a government report says.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-20T23:36:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investors monitor stock market movements at a brokerage house in Shanghai last week. Bank of Japan policymakers are increasingly worried about the impact of the Chinese yuan's moves on the Japanese economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/20/national/crime-legal/mt-gox-ceo-served-new-arrest-warrant-suspected-embezzlement-client-funds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T06:14:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/business/finlands-santa-center-goes-bust-russian-visitors-slide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T06:17:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Santa Claus poses in December 2011 at Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland. Santa Claus is broke and has filed for bankruptcy in Finland, or at least a popular Santa tourist attraction on the Arctic Circle has done so, a court said Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-21T07:35:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Escaped hostages Philippine coast guard personnel Seaman Second Class (SN2) Gringo Villaruz (left) and Seaman First Class (SN1) Rod Pagaling (center) walk inside a military camp in Jolo, Sulu province, southern Philippines, Thursday. The two, who were threatened with beheading, escaped from their Abu Sayyaf extremist captors when hundreds of troops stormed the militants' jungle base in the country's south, military officials said Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/business/corporate-business/sapporo-test-market-japan-made-wines-singapore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T07:37:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-21T10:40:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israeli soldiers stand next to smoke from a fire caused by a rocket attack in northern Israel, near the Lebanese border, Thursday. Rockets that struck an northern Israeli village near the Lebanese border on Thursday, causing no casualties, were launched from the Syrian Golan Heights, the Israeli army said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/20/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-lawmaker-takaya-muto-quits-money-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T10:53:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takaya Muto]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/world/winds-fanning-raging-deadly-pacific-northwest-forest-conflagrations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T13:09:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-raging-a-20150822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters flee as the Twisp River fire advances unexpectedly near Twisp, Washington Thursday. Crews battling a flurry of wildfires raging unchecked in the Pacific Northwest braced on Thursday for high winds forecast in the region a day after three firefighters were killed and four others were injured in Washington state.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/world/ex-malaysia-leader-mahathir-calls-no-confidence-vote-najib/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T14:51:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/world/safety-hazards-found-70-percent-beijing-chemical-firms-inspected/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T15:02:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/national/crime-legal/line-messages-slain-girls-missing-phone-talked-going-kyoto-not-coming-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T15:39:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/national/social-issues/mothers-young-children-turned-away-local-assemblies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T15:59:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Momoko Konno (left), 32, a member of the municipal assembly in Toda, Saitama Prefecture, talks to a voter with her child in the gallery section of the city assembly on July 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/national/crime-legal/arrest-warrant-served-mt-gox-ceo-bitcoin-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T16:03:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/national/science-health/effort-afoot-freeze-animal-reproductive-cells-yokohama-zoo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T16:17:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Noriyoshi Ichikawa, director of the Preservation and Research Center in Yokohama, pulls up tubes of frozen reproductive cells from a tank.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/national/tokyo-olympics-logo-designer-faces-fresh-plagiarism-claim-u-s-artist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T16:36:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-logo-a-20150822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Designer Kenjiro Sano faces fresh accusations over a logo (top) for a museum in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, resembling a "Dot" logo created by U.S. designer Josh Divine in 2011 in these handout images.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/business/corporate-business/toyota-add-1400-workers-new-prius-land-cruiser/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T17:15:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/business/japan-lower-sales-tax-free-purchase-threshold-foreign-visitors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T17:46:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/national/politics-diplomacy/unopposed-abe-looks-set-returned-ldp-leader-next-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T18:11:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/national/shimamura-apparel-chain-pulls-pendant-bearing-nazi-symbol/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T18:22:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shimamura Co. decided Thursday to remove necklaces featuring a symbol resembling a swastika from its shelves.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/national/charlotte-monkey-rambunctious-ever-oita-zoo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T18:29:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Charlotte (front) plays with another monkey at a zoo in Oita on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/national/culture-change-needed-pension-body-massive-data-hack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T18:45:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Pension Service President Toichiro Mizushima speaks at a news conference Thursday as he releases an investigation report into data leaks at the agency.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/business/corporate-business/senators-urge-takata-recall-cars-air-bags-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T18:54:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The air bag on the passenger side of a Toyota car is seen at the company's Tokyo showroom in April 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/18/national/crime-legal/body-girl-found-bound-slain-osaka-parking-lot-may-missing-13-year-old/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T19:04:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/n-slain-b-20150819.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-slain-b-20150819.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flowers on Tuesday mark where the body of Natsumi Hirata was found last week in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/business/economy-business/economists-cut-japan-growth-view-widening-gap-boj/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T19:17:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/b-growth-a-20150822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-growth-a-20150822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economists lowered their forecasts for the economy this week, making the central bank's growth outlook for this year look increasingly optimistic.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/national/weekly-article-claiming-abe-vomited-blood-draws-official-protest-letter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T19:33:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/business/toyota-buy-13-million-air-bag-inflators-takata-rival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T19:41:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/b-airbag-b-20150822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-airbag-b-20150822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. is considering buying millions of air bag inflators from a rival of Takata Corp.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/20/world/science-health-world/female-viagra-seen-pacesetter-moneymaker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T19:45:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/f-addyi-a-20150821.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-addyi-a-20150821.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cindy Whitehead, chief executive officer of Sprout Pharmaceuticals Inc., gives an interview to Bloomberg Television in New York on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/20/business/corporate-business/gundam-shaped-tofu-go-sale-friday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-21T20:03:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tofu-a-20150821.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sagamiya Foods Co.'s new tofu modeled on Dom, a robot appearing in the popular Gundam anime series, is placed on top of a cake during an unveiling event in Tokyo Thursday. The tofu comes in three different chocolate flavors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/national/crime-legal/police-issue-warrant-man-connection-slain-osaka-schoolgirl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-22T11:47:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/n-girl-a-20150822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-girl-a-20150822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators probe the area in which the body of Ryoto Hoshino was found in Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, at 9:47 p.m. on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-condemns-north-korean-border-provocation-experts-say-military-escalation-unlikely/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-22T12:10:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Military guard posts of North Korea (top) and South Korea are seen close to each other near the South Korean border city of Paju on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/22/world/crime-legal-world/white-supremacist-convicted-targeting-obama-new-york-death-ray-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-22T13:55:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/f-deathray-a-20150823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-deathray-a-20150823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Glendon Scott Crawford]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/national/nagoya-resident-recognized-as-oldest-living-man-at-112/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-22T17:10:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/n-oldestman-a-20150822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-oldestman-a-20150822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasutaro Koide (center) is celebrated in Nagoya on Friday after he was recognized as the world's oldest living male by the Guinness World Records. Asked by Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (far right) what the key to his longevity is, the 112-year-old said it was taking things easy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/22/national/media-national/old-story-rural-depopulation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-22T22:46:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/p19-brasor-media-mix-a-20150823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p19-brasor-media-mix-a-20150823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Country boy: A man in a Tokushima Prefecture village checks some crops. A recent TV show called "Napoleon's Village" focused on depopulation in Japan's rural areas.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/business/corporate-business/activist-investor-murakami-loses-kuroda-electric-proxy-fight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-22T18:30:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/b-murakami-a-20150822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-murakami-a-20150822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiaki Murakami]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/22/world/science-health-world/scans-reveal-poverty-hurts-childrens-brains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-22T22:28:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p21-brainscan-a-20150823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Living in poverty: Migrant children pose in front of makeshift shelters on the Greek Aegean island of Kos on Aug. 16.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/22/national/tokyo-photo-exhibition-shows-many-faces-children-since-world-war-ii/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-22T20:21:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/n-photoshow-a-20150823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n photoshow-a 20150823]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors look at photographs from the end of World War II until the present day that show children at home and abroad at a photo exhibition that opened Saturday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/22/asia-pacific/as-pyongyangs-deadline-passes-north-south-korea-officials-meet-in-bid-to-ease-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-22T20:33:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/f-koreatension-a-20150823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-koreatension-a-20150823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean residents take shelter in a bunker at the South Korea-controlled island of Yeonpyeong, near the disputed waters of the Yellow Sea, on Saturday. South Korean troops stood at maximum alert the same day, hours before the expiry of a North Korean ultimatum for Seoul to halt loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts across the border or face military action.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/putin-polite-chilling-hero-russian-souvenirs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-22T20:47:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/f-putinpop-a-20150823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-putinpop-a-20150823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mobile phone cover shows Russian President Vladimir Putin as "politest of people."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/22/world/crime-legal-world/black-teen-killed-st-louis-police-shot-back-autopsy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-22T20:47:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boy holds a sign in St. Louis on Thursday. A medical examiner's report released Friday on a black teenager shot and killed by white St. Louis police officers appeared to contradict the police account of the shooting.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-23T01:41:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Yamada, who was arrested on suspicion of abandoning the body of a 13-year-old girl found murdered in the city of Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, last week, is escorted into prefectural police headquarters Friday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-23T02:07:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Survivor: Yoshinari Seko, a guide at Tokyo's Memorial Museum for Soldiers, Detainees in Siberia and Postwar Repatriates, speaks to a group of students in July.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shwe Mann greets some of his constituents in Kanyutkwin in the township of Pyu in Myanmar's division of Bago on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7 yen4living 20150809]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boom and bust: A worker applies make up to an elderly resident at a care facility in Osaka. Japan is grasping for ways to satisfy the increasing need for such facilities as postwar baby boomers hit old age]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image of a wolf pack was captured by a trail camera near Mount Shasta in Siskiyou County, California, on Aug. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/23/world/science-health-world/german-scientists-find-rare-dinosaur-tracks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-23T16:35:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (second from left) and Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan (center) unveil the surface-to-surface Fateh-313 missile in Tehran on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshitoshi Fukahori, an 86-year-old survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki who has collecting and analyzed atomic bomb-related photos, speaks in the city on June 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-23T18:59:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-23T21:06:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-23T22:35:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[7-Eleven stores will trade out Kansai Electric Power Co.'s electricity in favor of cheaper electricity from Tokyo Electric Power Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/23/national/crime-legal/man-arrested-murder-osaka-girl-sent-prosecutors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-24T00:21:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Yamada is sent to prosecutors Sunday by the Osaka Prefectural Police.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-24T00:22:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Train lovers gather to see the last "blue train" long-distance sleeper in service arrive at Tokyo's Ueno Station from Sapporo on Sunday. It completed its final run nearly 60 years after debuting in 1958.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-24T09:18:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Big spenders: Chinese tourists shop at a cosmetics store in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-24T11:57:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under pressure: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is seen delivering a statement on the anniversary of the end of World War II on Aug. 14. Abe's misfortunes — from opposition to his defense guidelines to his health — have been the topic of heavy coverage in Japan's weekly magazines this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/24/business/corporate-business/to-nomura-fannie-and-freddie-are-bright-spot-in-struggle-abroad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-24T15:07:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-24T15:31:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese climber Nobokazu Kuriki accepts his permit to climb Everest, and a Nepalese flag, from Nepal's tourism minister, Kripasur Sherpa, in Kathmandu on Sunday. Hundreds of climbers had to abandon their attempts when an earthquake-triggered avalanche struck Everest base camp in April, marking a second year with virtually no summits after the deaths of 16 Nepalese guides in 2014 sparked a shutdown of the world's highest peak. The mountain has been reopened to climbers and Kuriki will be the first to attempt reaching the summit.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-24T15:43:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A prototype of Sony's drone for commercial services, jointly developed with robotics venture ZMP, is shown in a company-supplied photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-24T15:47:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harsh reality: A drawing of conditions in a Soviet detention camp after World War II ended.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-24T17:51:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-24T18:45:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-24T19:15:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-24T19:47:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-24T20:05:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors at NHK look at an 8K Super Hi-Vision display on Aug. 19 in Tokyo. Satellite broadcasting using 8K technology is expected to begin by 2018.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children take an online class at a town hall in Kamikatsu, Tokushima Prefecture, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-24T20:33:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-24T22:38:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-24T23:14:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomy Co. CEO H.G. Meij is interviewed Aug. 18 at the company headquarters in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-24T23:37:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a budget committee session in the Upper House on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/24/national/japan-wraps-10-weeks-research-whaling-pacific/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-24T23:37:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/24/business/japan-charts-road-industrialization-mekong-region/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-24T23:41:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-25T11:36:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk through Times Square in front of the Nasdaq Stock Market on Monday in New York. U.S. stocks opened down more than 5 percent Monday before recovering somewhat as a global rout worsened following another big pullback in Chinese stocks. Shortly after the open, the Dow was off more than 6 percent and the Nasdaq more than 8 percent in panic selling that approached levels that could trigger exchanges to employ circuit-breakers to halt trading. U.S. stocks soon rallied from those depths, but remained headed for a fifth straight day of losses as leading bourses in Europe dropped more than 4 percent.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/25/world/taiz-residents-claim-houthi-rockets-killed-14-civilians/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-25T12:06:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man sits in front of a building damaged by Houthi shelling at a residential area in Yemen's central city of Taiz on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/24/national/aichi-meets-challenge-of-surge-in-non-japanese-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-25T13:36:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihiro Matsunami (center right), a teacher at Iwata Elementary School in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, teaches Japanese to non-Japanese children with the help of Filipino and Brazilian counselors.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/25/national/project-connect-american-youths-hibakusha-winding/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High school students get a taste of the New York-based Hibakusha Stories project on Aug. 6 at Hiroshima Jogakuin Junior &amp; Senior High School in Hiroshima, with project members Robert Croonquist (right) and Kathleen Sullivan (left) conducting an introductory presentation.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshimi Furusawa poses in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, in May before leaving for Cambodia to teach Japanese cooking there as a Japan International Cooperation Agency volunteer.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo from Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui shows Japan's unmanned cargo ship Konotori 5 (right) being guided by a robotic arm on the International Space Station on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[GLM's Tommy Kaira ZZ electric vehicle goes for a spin at the company's research and development facility in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign tourists pose with a selfie stick in front of Kuidaore Taro, a popular mascot, outside a commercial building in downtown Osaka in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/25/business/asia-pacific-nations-aim-eliminate-80-import-duties-10-years/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-25T19:33:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mother dolphin and its child are fed in a special pool for breeding at Enoshima Aquarium in Kanagawa Prefecture earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/25/national/favor-work-life-balance-inclined-use-paid-holidays-survey-shows/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters walk toward a subway station in Tokyo. As much as 48 percent of Japanese workers prioritize their jobs even though they want a better work-life balance.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/25/asia-pacific/china-north-korea-open-border-trade-zone-october/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-25T21:19:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of Neyagawa's crime prevention association talks to children walking on the street in Osaka Monday night.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The sandal in this photo, believed to have belonged to Ryoto Hoshino, was found in a mountainous area of Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, near where his body was discovered.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harapan, a Sumatran rhino, enters his Wildlife Canyon at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens Tuesday. Harapan, or "Harry," the only Sumatran rhino in the Western Hemisphere, one of three calves born at the Cincinnati Zoo, will be moved to Indonesia, to breed at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/25/business/financial-markets/china-stocks-extend-biggest-plunge-since-2007-support-doubts/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An investor monitors share prices during morning trading Tuesday inside a brokerage at the financial Central district in Hong Kong. China's major stock indexes slumped more than 6 percent to 8-month lows in early trade on Tuesday before paring losses, after a catastrophic Monday that destabilized financial markets around the world.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image grab taken from Hezbollah's al-Manar TV on Tuesday shows Syrian President Bashar Assad during an interview in Damascus.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Norifumi Nishio, who heads Lifull Scouting, shows the social networking site that aims to match athletes with teams, at Next Co., the firm's IT parent, on Aug. 12.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakue Shimohira, 80, speaks during a May interview in the city of Nagasaki, where she lived through the 1945 A-bomb.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Train platforms are full of people waiting for service to resume Tuesday evening at Tokyu Jiyugaoka Station in Tokyo. Trouble with the signal-controlling system affected about 360,000 evening commuters.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents attempt to clear flood debris from under a bridge in the city of Rajin, in North Korea, in this picture taken Saturday by a recent visitor.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/26/national/politics-diplomacy/obama-apologizes-abe-spying-allegations/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-26T20:35:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/26/business/japan-fiscal-2016-budget-requests-hit-record-%c2%a5102-trillion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-26T20:35:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-26T21:45:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Embattled Lower House lawmaker Takaya Muto, who recently left the ruling Liberal Democratic Party over his alleged involvement in stock investment fraud, faces the media at a news conference on Wednesday at the Diet.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-26T21:46:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-26T21:46:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A prototype robot with two arms, developed by Hitachi Ltd. for distribution warehouses, demonstrates its capabilities for the media at a warehouse in Noda, Chiba Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/26/business/corporate-business/panasonic-to-shut-down-battery-factory-in-beijing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-26T22:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Park Geun Hye gives an interview at the presidential Blue House in Seoul in this file photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/28/national/history/ex-lower-house-speaker-kono-criticizes-abes-wwii-statement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-28T19:58:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Lower House Speaker Yohei Kono delivers a speech on Thursday in the city of Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/28/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-protests-beijing-editorial-calling-emperor-apologize-wartime-actions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-28T21:06:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/28/national/science-health/2013-study-puts-japan-top-healthy-life-expectancy-list-followed-singapore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-28T21:07:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-healthy-a-20150829]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese men scored 71.11 years and Japanese women 75.56 years on the list measuring the probable period of life where people are expected to live on their own without the aid of nursing and without getting so sick that their daily activities are interrupted.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/28/national/japanese-pair-missing-ireland-rental-car-found-seaside-lot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-28T21:08:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-28T23:42:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Amari, minister in charge of the TPP negotiations, gestures during an interview Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/29/world/web-campaign-raises-67800-syria-refugee-family-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-29T11:55:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-29T13:09:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ashleyceo-a-20150830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Noel Biderman]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/21/national/social-issues/campaign-group-sealds-hooking-japans-youth-jazzy-placards-fliers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-29T13:41:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Touri Ise (left), head of the design team for the pro-democracy youth group SEALDs, and fellow member Yoshimasa Ushida pose for a photo during a recent protest over the security bills in front of the Diet.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-29T14:04:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New laws passed Friday aim to promote a greater female contribution to the economy, obliging large businesses as well as the central and local governments to set targets for employing and promoting women.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/28/national/tokyo-olympic-committee-backs-logo-designer-sano-says-design-not-plagiarized/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-29T14:32:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuichiro Ito]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese military refueling tanker flies with fighter jets during rehearsals for the Sept. 3 military parade to commemorate the end of World War II in Beijing on Aug. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/29/world/crime-legal-world/virginia-shooter-identified-911-attackers-mass-murderers/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-29T15:43:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-29T22:46:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Not amused: Young people take part in an antinuclear protest held in front of the Diet building.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-29T20:23:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-29T20:27:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-29T20:28:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ban Ki-moon]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-29T20:29:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wakako Fukuda (right), founding member of the protest group Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy (SEALDs), shouts slogans during a protest outside the Diet in Tokyo on Aug. 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/29/national/tokyo-police-probing-string-suspicious-fires-along-rail-tracks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-29T20:51:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-29T21:20:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (left) and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga meet at a hotel in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-29T22:04:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui (left) talks to Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto during a meeting of the Osaka Ishin no Kai (One Osaka) party Friday in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-29T23:04:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young vigil: Palestinian children light candles to remember 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh, who was killed after his home was allegedly set ablaze by Israeli extremists.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/30/national/15-tokyo-high-schoolers-bullied-internet-survey-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-30T14:20:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-30T14:58:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-30T15:13:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-30T15:53:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian touching her face is reflected on an electronic board showing various stock prices outside a brokerage in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/30/national/abe-moves-to-ease-world-rugbys-fears-over-2019-world-cup-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-30T15:57:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-30T17:29:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/26/national/designer-disputes-plagiarism-claim-tokyo-olympics-logo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-30T17:33:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-30T18:48:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-31T06:33:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto speaks to people on a street in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-31T06:33:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-31T14:50:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Recent economic indicators have led some market watchers to believe Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policies, dubbed Abenomics, need an overhaul.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-31T16:17:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-31T16:40:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-31T17:59:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev toast with tea cups during breakfast at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi, Russia, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/31/national/muslim-man-on-hunger-strike-after-immigration-gives-him-pork/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-31T18:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/31/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-party-says-no-disrespect-meant-with-jiang-sign-removal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-31T18:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-jiang-a-20150901.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jiang Zemin]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/31/world/islamic-state-flips-gold-coins-to-break-federal-reserve-enslavement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-31T18:07:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-31T19:08:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Yamada]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/31/asia-pacific/u-s-considering-sanctions-over-chinese-cybertheft-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-31T19:36:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-31T20:09:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-31T20:47:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A processed tiger pelt is auctioned on the Internet. Police are intensifying efforts to crack down on illegal trade of items from endangered species.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/30/national/thousands-protest-abe-security-bills-diet-rally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-31T21:16:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters hold up banners reading "No To War," during a rally to protest against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's drive to enact two controversial security bills on Sunday in Ogimachi Park in Osaka's Kita Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/31/asia-pacific/china-open-high-speed-rail-link-north-korean-border/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-31T21:26:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-08-31T21:28:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman looks at a wall of portraits of Ukrainian servicemen killed a year ago during fighting with pro-Russian rebels near the town of Ilovaysk in eastern Ukraine during a commemoration ceremony in Kiev on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/31/national/okinawa-launches-coral-survey-at-futenma-replacement-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-31T21:50:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa prefectural officials use a boat to check on coral reefs off the Henoko area of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/31/national/crime-legal/man-holding-employee-hostage-inside-aichi-convenience-store/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-31T23:22:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aichi Prefectural Police officers check a 7-Eleven convenience store in Okazaki after arresting a man who had held an employee of the store hostage at knife point earlier Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/31/national/new-msdf-family-cards-hint-expanded-japan-military-role-abroad-journalist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-08-31T23:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalist Yu Terasawa poses for a photo in Tokyo in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/world/social-issues-world/eu-asylum-rules-strained-refugee-throngs-ride-rails-vienna-points-west/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T06:16:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Refugees wait on a platform of the Eastern (Keleti) railway station of Budapest behind of a line of the local police on Monday as the last train left in direction of Austria and Germany. Several trains carrying hundreds of migrants arrived in Vienna from Budapest in the evening, police said, after they had been stopped at the Austrian border for several hours. The EU is grappling with an unprecedented influx of people fleeing war, repression and poverty in what the bloc has described as its worst refugee crisis in 50 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-01T10:20:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image obtained Monday courtesy of Lion Heart Autographs shows an April 14, 1912, menu from the R.M.S. Titanic. Lion Heart Autographs has announced an auction of three very rare and previously unknown artifacts recovered from survivors of the RMS Titanic's infamous Lifeboat No. 1 known as "The Millionaire's Boat," or "The Money Boat." Lifeboat No. 1 was lowered from the Titanic with just five wealthy passengers and seven crew members, who quickly rowed away without trying to rescue anyone else.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/31/national/politics-diplomacy/ishin-dpj-agree-to-work-together-to-challenge-ruling-coalition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T10:23:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-01T10:31:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A child pretends to hold a gun while posing for a photograph in front of a People's Liberation Army (PLA) tank during an open day at the Ngong Suen Chau Barracks in Hong Kong on July 1. Chinese leader Xi Jinping is reportedly planning a major overhaul of China's military with a focus on offshore force projection and U.S.-style command.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/31/national/tokai-thrill-seekers-find-haunted-houses-scream/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T10:59:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The scary "Curse of the Lullaby" house in Nagoya's Wakamiya Odori Park is popular with young people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/national/russia-seized-salmon-boat-returned-today/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T11:14:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-01T11:34:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-01T11:35:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience (GLACIER) Conference in the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center on Monday in Anchorage, Alaska.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/31/reference/no-exit-sight-futenma-quagmire-local-resentment-deep/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T12:10:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters rally outside the gate of Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa, on Aug. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/national/crime-legal/akb48-management-firm-revises-tax-statement-member-expenses-pays-%c2%a5100-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T14:49:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/world/crime-legal-world/pot-smoking-u-s-college-campuses-35-year-high-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T15:24:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marijuana plants are shown at a medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland, California. More college students are taking narcotics regularly, and perceptions of the risks are falling.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/anti-muslim-buddhist-group-moves-toward-myanmars-mainstream/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T15:25:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ashin Tilawkar Biwonsa, 77, Ma Ba Tha's founder and chairman, talks during a meeting at Ma Ba Tha's head office in Yangon on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/national/science-health/iaea-fukushima-linked-child-cancers-unlikely-rise-extent-radiation-exposure-unclear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T15:45:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/26/national/fishermen-ok-tepcos-plan-dump-fukushima-plant-water-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T15:46:11+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/national/science-health/japanese-zoologists-coral-findings-inspire-taiwanese-films/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T16:29:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-coral-a-20150902.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese marine biologist Siro Kawaguti is portrayed next to a sign reading "Experiments are Being Conducted" at the Palau Tropical Biological Station in 1936.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/national/residents-proposed-miyagi-nuke-waste-dump-venues-block-environment-ministry-officials-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T17:36:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents in the town of Kami, Miyagi Prefecture, including Mayor Hirobumi Inomata (far left), protest a visit by the Environment Ministry officials trying to survey a candidate site in the town for a nuclear waste disposal facility on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/national/famed-animator-plans-childrens-nature-retreat-okinawa-isle-forest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T17:47:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handout illustration shows plans for a children's facility being spearheaded by animated film director Hayao Miyazaki in Kumejima, Okinawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/national/politics-diplomacy/defense-budget-hike-sought-fortify-island-chain-facing-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T18:32:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-defense-a-20150901.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force ship Kurama leads other vessels in October 2012 during a fleet review in Sagami Bay south of Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/business/corporate-business/toshiba-probing-10-new-accounting-issues-including-u-s-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T18:43:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba President Masashi Muromachi speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/national/outlook-bleak-nuclear-power-despite-first-reactor-restart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T20:16:00+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/01/business/economy-business/capital-spending-climbed-5-5-second-quarter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T20:25:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-carpex-a-20141202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo's skyline is seen reflected on a table at dusk last month. Capital spending rose for the sixth consecutive quarter, according to government data released Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/02/business/economy-business/capital-spending-logs-7-4-first-quarter-jump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T20:25:36+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/business/economy-business/april-june-business-investment-5-6-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-01T23:34:00+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/world/washingtons-grand-coulee-dam-inspected-m4-2-temblor-hits-nearby/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T06:18:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/world/social-issues-world/priests-forgive-abortions-holy-year-pope-proclaims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T06:19:58+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/world/kurds-accuse-islamic-state-another-chemical-attack-peshmerga-forces-iraq/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T06:23:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture taken through a machine gun sight on Aug. 17 shows buildings that were damaged during fighting between Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters and the Islamic State roup's militants in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, west of the city of Mosul. Jihadis occupying the Iraqi town of Sinjar are so close that Kurdish fighters can watch them without binoculars and battles are often fought with hand grenades. Yet the recapture of the nearby town — the ancestral hub of the Yazidi minority — remains a distant prospect. Islamic State was accused Tuesday of carrying out another chemical attack on Kurds in the area.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/national/politics-diplomacy/hashimoto-continues-wrestle-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T08:05:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hashimoto-a-20150902.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto stumps Saturday for a local election candidate in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/national/japans-poor-submarine-pitch-deters-australian-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T08:06:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor photographs a model of a Maritime Self-Defense Force Soryu-class diesel-electric submarine at the MAST Asia defense exhibition and conference in Yokohama, in May.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/national/divers-ireland-find-body-believed-missing-japanese-man/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T08:08:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/cnn-tweaks-rules-coming-republican-debate-fiorina-may-get/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T11:24:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cnn-a-20150903.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina talks to a restaurant patron Aug. 14 during a campaign stop at the Starboard Market in Clear Lake, Iowa. CNN on Tuesday amended its criteria for the next Republican presidential debate, giving Fiorina a better chance at appearing in the Sept. 16 primetime affair.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/world/sierra-hiker-missing-nine-days-recounts-straying-group-injurious-fall-whistling-rescue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T11:31:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo provided by the Fresno County Sheriff's Office shows the area where Miyuki Harwood was found. The 62-year-old Harwood was found Saturday in a remote area of the Sierra National Forest after she used a whistle to get the attention of a search and rescue team looking for her. Authorities say she survived by dragging herself to a creek and using a water filter to drink from it.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/national/tateishi-outwardly-nondescript-but-grilled-fare-camaraderie-offer-inner-glow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T11:52:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wait for a train to pass in front of a shopping arcade in the Tateishi district in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, on Aug. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/national/sakurajima-alert-level-lowered-signs-looming-major-eruption-ease/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T13:07:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/asia-pacific/u-s-presidential-grandchildren-tout-chinese-nationalist-wwii-bona-fides-anniversary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T13:12:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/national/politics-diplomacy/china-blasts-japanese-criticism-bans-attendance-wwii-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T13:12:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-02T13:13:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A toilet sign created by PROUD, of the kind group is asking members of the public to draw up and submit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/national/four-dead-two-missing-fishing-boats-capsize-off-nagasaki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T14:22:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/national/taipei-travel-cards-featuring-japanese-porn-star-sell-hours/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T14:23:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/world/crime-legal-world/none-21-5-million-u-s-federal-ranks-hit-data-hack-informed-officials-admit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T15:16:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-02T15:35:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 24-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly putting on online auction bathing suits bearing fake autographs of the members of the girl pop group NMB48.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/business/nhtsa-says-defective-takata-air-bags-19-million-cars-across-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T15:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/business/corporate-business/sharp-to-sell-headquarters-remain-there-as-tenant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T15:55:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/asia-pacific/australias-secretive-refugee-camps-hampered-by-ethical-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T15:57:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/business/financial-markets/new-whale-to-make-splash-in-tokyo-markets-as-japan-post-sells-bonds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T18:04:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Post Bank Co., the public debut of which is expected later this year, may affect the Tokyo stock market.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/business/firms-promote-practical-items-times-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T18:17:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen grab from the Izu Shelter website shows a floating tsunami shelter designed to house four people. It is developed by Save, a company based in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/business/chinas-aiib-to-offer-loans-with-fewer-strings-than-world-bank-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T18:33:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jin Liqun (left) shakes hands with Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei ahead of a signing ceremony for articles of agreement of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 29.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/business/financial-markets/dollar-rebounds-to-120-yen-china-worries-persist-in-forex-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T18:55:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/business/hitachi-plans-wind-energy-parts-production-line/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T18:56:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitachi Ltd. plans to add a production line in Ibaraki Prefecture for turbine parts of offshore wind projects.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/business/financial-markets/china-fear-factor-still-slamming-stocks-oil-roiling-markets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T19:24:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the market opened in New York Tuesday. Continued concerns over China's economy sent shares falling anew.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/national/olympics-logo-scandal-highlights-power-of-the-internet-critic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T19:53:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sidebar-a-20150903.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A poster bearing the scrapped Tokyo 2020 Olympics logo is removed during an event staged for photographers at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/national/politics-diplomacy/chinas-leaders-welcome-chance-to-distract-attention-with-war-parade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-02T20:16:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Female honor guard soldiers prepare commemorative medals for Thursday's ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/world/crime-legal-world/washington-state-sues-u-s-toxic-vapors-wwii-era-hanford-nuclear-waste-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T06:21:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson holds up what he said were 19 reports and studies done since 1992 of vapors escaping from tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, at a news conference, Wednesday in Seattle. Ferguson announced the filing of a lawsuit by his office against the U.S. Department of Energy and its contractor, Washington River Protection Solutions, alleging that hazardous tank vapors at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation pose serious risk to workers there. In June, Ferguson said he would oppose a U.S. Department of Energy request to have more time to empty the next group of waste storage tanks at Hanford.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/world/science-health-world/global-tree-tally-3-trillion-falling-rapidly-humans-root-problem-study-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T06:30:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vegetation grows among trees burned by the Rim Fire, near Groveland, California, in July 2014. More than 3 trillion trees now grow on Earth, more than seven times greater than scientists previously thought. But it's also trillions fewer than there used to be, a new study concludes.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/world/refugee-scene-horror-12-syrians-drown-including-toddler-found-turkey-resort-beach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T08:03:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Turkish gendarmerie carries a young migrant who drowned in a failed attempt to sail to the Greek island of Kos, in the coastal town of Bodrum, Turkey, Wednesday. At least 11 migrants believed to be Syrians drowned as two boats sank after leaving southwest Turkey for the Greek island of Kos, Turkey's Dogan news agency reported on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/business/corporate-business/scandal-struck-toshiba-will-sell-e-book-business-video-demand-company-u-next/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T08:13:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/national/politics-diplomacy/obama-underscores-japan-relations-ahead-chinas-parade-military-might/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T09:44:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/national/crime-legal/ldp-panel-says-18-year-olds-should-be-able-to-drink-smoke/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T09:50:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-eighteen-a-20150903.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young people drink in the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district. Now that 18-year-olds are to be allowed to vote from next year, a Liberal Democratic Party panel has proposed letting them smoke and drink.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/world/crime-legal-world/57-clinton-email-threads-contain-foreign-government-info/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T11:19:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-clintmail-a-20150904.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks Aug. 26 in Ankeny, Iowa. The probe into her private emails indicates 57 more email threads contained information about foreign governments.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/world/crime-legal-world/french-prosecutors-end-probe-whether-arafat-fatally-poisoned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T12:08:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A file picture taken in 2003 shows Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat holding up a map of the controversial Israeli "security" fence during a meeting with a French solidarity delegation in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Arafat died in Percy military hospital near Paris aged 75 in November 2004 after developing stomach pains while at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. His widow, Suha, has maintained he was poisoned, possibly by highly radioactive polonium. But the judges ruled there was "not sufficient evidence of an intervention by a third party who could have attempted to take his life," the prosecutor said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/national/japan-no-stranger-emblem-logo-controversies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T12:24:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emblems-a-20150903.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Organizers of Expo '70 in Osaka show an official logo for the event in April 1966. The design was chosen after the initial design was retracted due to opposition from the organizer's board of directors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/national/eve-dolphin-hunt-cops-nab-u-s-activist-obarry-cove-fame-not-passport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T12:27:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-dolphin hunt campaigner Ric O'Barry is interviewed in Tokyo in June 2010.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/02/national/social-issues/tokyo-craft-store-meets-demand-lgbt-rainbow-goods-hard-find-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T13:02:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lgbt-a-20150903.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruka Imatoku, owner of the Nijiiro Komachi craft store in Tokyo's Kichijoji district, poses for a photo. Some of the postcards on the wall feature rainbow colors.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/12/national/history/british-public-horrified-hiroshima-atomic-bombing-surveys-reveal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:17:24+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/06/national/new-york-interfaith-leaders-mark-70th-year-since-hiroshima-bombing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:17:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/n-newyork-a-20150807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-newyork-a-20150807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomiko Morimoto West, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, speaks during a ceremony in New York on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/19/national/fukushima-disaster-prompts-woman-to-pass-on-fathers-stories-about-a-bomb/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:18:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukushhirosh-a-20150320.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mari Tamba, whose father was exposed to radiation from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945, speaks at a high school in Nagoya last November about eliminating nuclear weapons.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/31/national/politics-diplomacy/hiroshima-nagasaki-differ-on-urging-japan-to-oppose-nuke-weapon-use/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:18:31+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/06/national/censored-at-first-memoirs-penned-by-teen-nagasaki-a-bomb-survivor-revived/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:18:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/nn20130807f2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130807f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Childhood memories: Masako Yanagawa, 82, talks about the diary she wrote when she was 14 after surviving the Aug. 9, 1945, atomic bombing of Nagasaki.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/04/national/u-s-bomb-archives-go-digital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:19:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/n-nukearchive-a-20150405.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nukearchive-a-20150405.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hiroshima A-Bomb Dome is surveyed in March last year. Experts from the U.S. and Japan are exploring ways to disclose key online hibakusha archival collections.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/national/japan-to-conduct-research-whaling-off-northern-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:19:45+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/06/national/hiroshima-marks-69th-anniversary-of-atomic-bombing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:20:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/n-hiroshima-a-20140807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hiroshima-a-20140807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (center) leaves a memorial service marking the 69th anniversary of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States at the city's Peace Memorial Park on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/08/national/film-director-stone-dismisses-u-s-a-bomb-claim-as-tremendous-lie/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:20:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oliver Stone]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/06/national/enola-gay-pilots-log-auctioned-for-86500/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Items related to World War II are displayed Tuesday at Bonhams auction house in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/07/national/history/white-house-sounds-cautious-tone-possible-obama-hiroshima-visit/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/30/national/yoko-ono-asks-youths-spread-hiroshima-bomb-peace-message-world/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artist Yoko Ono and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui stand before a 4-meter-long, 6-meter-wide sheet with messages of peace written by local high school students in the city of Hiroshima on Wednesday, one week before the 69th anniversary of the atomic bombing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/06/national/full-text-hiroshima-peace-declaration-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:22:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:22:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:23:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:23:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteer guide Okihiro Terao stands in front of the iconic Atomic Bomb Dome with his self-made stained-glass models of the building in Hiroshima on July 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/16/national/nagasaki-hibakusha-recalls-struggle-to-dodge-discrimination/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:23:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagasaki A-bomb survivor Katsuko Kanamori and her husband, Kazuhiko, walk in the city of Gifu last October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/27/national/social-issues/hibakusha-in-brazil-seek-more-financial-aid-from-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:25:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takashi Morita, president of the Peace Association of Atomic Bomb Victims in Brazil, displays a medical notebook issued by the Japanese government for atomic bomb victims living in Brazil, in Sao Paulo in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/01/national/project-underway-restage-1947-choir-service-hiroshima-church/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:25:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo taken around September 1945 shows the damaged Hiroshima Nagarekawa Church surrounded by wreckage from the atomic bomb.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/national/politics-diplomacy/hiroshima-mayor-expresses-anger-russias-nuclear-readiness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:25:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:25:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshima A-bomb survivor Yoshiko Kajimoto speaks to the British Parliament Thursday via Skype at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:27:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshima University students retrieve A-bomb debris from the Motoyasu River near the Hiroshima Commercial Exhibition Hall on Sunday, the 100th anniversary of the completion of the building. It is now known as both the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and the Atomic Bomb Dome.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/06/national/history/hibakusha-koreas-hiroshima-still-press-redress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:27:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Baek Du-yi poses for a photograph at a shrine inside the Hapchon Welfare Center for Atomic Bomb Survivors in Hapcheon, South Korea, on July 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:29:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20130722jpa.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Four-decade "accident": The remains of the No. 3 reactor building smolder at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 15, 2011, after a hydrogen explosion blew it apart.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:32:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Doves fly over Peace Memorial Park, with the Atomic Bomb Dome in the background, during the annual ceremony in Hiroshima on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/05/national/history/diary-shows-eisenhower-misgivings-bomb-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:36:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dwight Eisenhower]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/07/national/history/nagasakis-providential-nightmare-shaped-religious-ethnic-undercurrents/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo taken in September 1945 by an American journalist shows the devastation inflicted on Urakami Cathedral in the city of Nagasaki.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical help: Survivors receive emergency treatment from military medics in Hiroshima after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city on Aug. 6, 1945.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cameraman films the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima on Tuesday. Japan will mark on Thursday the 70th anniversary of the attack on Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, killing about 140,000 by the end of the year in a city of 350,000 residents. The grandson of Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the U.S. Enola Gay bomber, said Tibbets was dedicated to following the orders of the president.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/26/national/wwii-pumpkin-bomb-victims-remembered-in-osaka-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:38:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:39:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:39:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Photographs taken by U.S. researchers about a year after the 1945 atomic bombing are exhibited at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/10/national/anti-nuke-protesters-bike-around-washington-anniversary-nagasaki-atomic-bombing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:41:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-nuclear cyclists hold a banner urging U.S. President Barack Obama to abolish nuclear weapons by 2030, in Washington on Saturday, to coincide with the 69th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/26/national/social-issues/panels-depicting-scenes-after-1945-a-bombings-to-be-exhibited-in-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:44:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mother and son view a painting on a folding screen depicting the horrors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama Prefecture, on Aug. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:44:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130814f4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ghostly video: Saeri Kiritani, a New York-based Japanese artist, talks in New York at the end of July about her entry at an exhibition being held at a nuclear shelter in Bosnia-Herzegovina.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/13/national/hiroshima-history-horror-ingrained-ex-reporter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:44:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshima story: Mona Nakanishi is interviewed in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:44:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In respect: Thousands gather for a ceremony Friday to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, which killed nearly 75,000 people, at Nagasaki Peace Park.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/09/national/ballerina-morishita-still-dancing-for-world-peace/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Agent of peace: Ballerina Yoko Morishita is interviewed in Hiroshima on July 13.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130726a9a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manga with conscience: The late cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa's widow, Misayo, visits an exhibition about his series "Hadashi no Gen" ("Barefoot Gen") in Hiroshima on July 19 to mark the 40th anniversary of its publication.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T15:46:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130129a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Faulty: The D-1 fault, which has small rocks and sediment, runs past the base of the steps in Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture, as seen in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T16:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gobisaurus (top) preceded dinosaurs with a fully developed tail club such as Ziapelta (bottom).]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/national/science-health/regenerative-medicine-get-boost-deregulation-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T18:05:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiyuki Sankai, president of Cyberdyne Inc., discusses stem-cell technology in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/business/new-star-wars-figurines-revealed-tokyo-global-youtube-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T18:53:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actor Dante Carver and YouTuber Einshine introduce new Star Wars goods at the YouTube Studio in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T19:11:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T19:18:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man perched on a railing above the partially frozen Lake Michigan takes a selfie in Chicago on Jan. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/business/corporate-business/panasonic-sell-home-solar-batteries-europe-pitting-self-tesla/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T19:56:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Solar panels developed by Panasonic Corp. are seen on the roofs of houses in a neighborhood where alternative energy is promoted, in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, last November. Panasonic will begin selling solar batteries in Europe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/business/corporate-business/resona-asset-unit-aims-to-manage-%c2%a51-3-trillion-by-2021-as-savers-seek-returns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T19:57:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/business/economy-business/asia-depreciates-japan-megabanks-fear-loans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T19:57:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/national/crime-legal/online-fraud-robs-japan-banks-%c2%a51-5-billion-first-half-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T19:57:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T22:11:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-03T22:40:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/national/crime-legal/number-quasi-illegal-drug-cases-fivefold-first-half-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-03T23:55:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/04/business/oil-slump-dooms-glomar-cia-spy-ship-built-raise-soviet-sub-scrapheap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T07:29:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Glomar Explorer is seen anchored in the U.S. Navy's National Defense Reserve Fleet in Suisan Bay, California, in this U.S. Navy handout file photo taken on May 15, 1977, and released to Reuters by the Archives Branch of The U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington on Thursday. The ship, built by the CIA for a secret Cold War mission in 1974 to raise a sunken Soviet sub, is heading to the scrapyard, a victim of the slide in oil prices. Christened the Hughes Glomar Explorer, after billionaire Howard Hughes was brought in on the CIA's deception, the 619-foot vessel eventually became part of the fleet of ships used by Swiss company Transocean to drill for oil.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/national/politics-diplomacy/defense-ministry-leak-shows-sdf-chief-talking-politics-washington-jcp-cries-foul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T07:32:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n sdf-a 20150904]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A copy of what is described as a confidential Self-Defense Forces document, revealed Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/04/world/crime-legal-world/canary-camp-refugees-rat-trafficking-ring-boss-smuggling-boat-skipper-midst/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T08:45:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An African migrant looks at a local policeman after arriving on a fishing boat at Las Carpinteras beach in the Canary Island of Gran Canaria, Spain, Tuesday. Around 60 people, including six women and a 2-year-old child, were aboard the fishing boat, according to local authorities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/lawyer-says-ex-clinton-aide-will-invoke-fifth-amendment-wont-testify-republiican-led-house-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T11:14:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Hillary Rodham Clinton aide Cheryl Mills and House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., listen as ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday. Mills was deposed before the panel investigating Benghazi. The committee was launched last year to investigate the Obama administration's response to the Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador. The investigation has widened in recent months to focus on Clinton's use of a private email account and server.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/04/world/crime-legal-world/south-carolina-seek-death-penalty-accused-21-charleston-church-massacre/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T11:17:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Solicitor Scarlett Wilson announces her intention to seek the death penalty against Dylann Roof in the killing of nine people at the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church as Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen and solicitor's office spokeswoman Namoi Nation listen on Thursda in Charleston, South Carolina.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/business/panel-draft-controls-bluefin-tuna-fishing-amid-fears-stocks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T11:40:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prospective buyers inspect the quality of fresh tuna before the first auction of the year at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/04/business/financial-markets/boj-readies-liquidity-squeeze-t-bill-yields-zero/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T13:37:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/asia-pacific/china-criticizes-abes-view-of-war-history-at-massive-military-parade-vows-to-cut-troop-numbers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T13:37:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A veteran is shown saluting on a big screen as vehicles carrying missiles roll past in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Thursday in a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-sanctions-russias-state-owned-arms-exporter-rosoboronexport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T14:33:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/04/asia-pacific/u-s-may-sanction-chinese-firms-next-week-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T14:36:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/national/tokyos-bunkyo-ward-picked-sensuous-city-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T14:43:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Autumn foliage in Rikugien Garden in the Komagome area of Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward. A think tank recently ranked the area the most "sensuous" of the city.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/national/japans-kurds-often-limbo-despite-significant-community/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T14:47:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kurdish residents of Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, help to clear up a park on July 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/national/seasons-first-dolphin-hunt-taiji-ends-unsuccessfully/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T15:09:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of an animal conservation group watch dolphin hunters leaving the port of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, early Thursday for the season's first dolphin drive hunt.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/04/national/crime-legal/u-s-nagoya-based-ngk-insulators-agrees-pay-65-million-fine-price-fixing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T15:46:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-04T15:50:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-04T16:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-04T18:07:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker is seen at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s gas-fired power station in Kawasaki. Power utilities are to invest in new turbines to improve efficiency at their gas-fired plants.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/04/business/corporate-business/japan-auto-recalls-top-annual-record-less-six-months/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-04T18:09:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Syrian refugee from Aleppo holds his month-old daughter moments after arriving on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/04/national/japans-medical-spending-top-%c2%a540-trillion-fiscal-2014/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-04T18:12:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-04T18:37:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-04T21:25:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-04T21:57:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/04/national/history/historic-japan-sakhalin-seabed-cables-now-damaged-hazards-fishermen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T22:26:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A copy of the Karafuto Nichinichi Shimbun daily's evening edition dated Dec. 11, 1934, shows a front page story about undersea telecommunications cables that went into operation with ceremonies in three locations that day.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese tourists exit from the home appliance retailer Laox Co.’s outlet in the Ginza district of Tokyo with shopping bags and suitcases on Friday. A favorable exchange rate and relaxed visa rules are luring many Chinese to Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/04/national/politics-diplomacy/opposition-leaders-pledge-last-ditch-efforts-block-security-bills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-04T22:42:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Japan leader Katsuya Okada speaks at during a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-05T14:32:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-05T15:05:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-05T15:41:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-05T16:07:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German musician Stefan Aaron plays the piano as cheerleaders perform next to him on top of the 296-meter-high Yokohama Landmark Tower, the second-tallest building in Japan, as part of his Orange Piano Tour, in Yokohama on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/04/national/politics-diplomacy/ex-supreme-court-chief-justice-raps-abes-security-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-05T16:16:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Yamaguchi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Restrooms in the Shibuya Hikarie commercial complex in Tokyo have been enhanced with art displays, background music and fragrances designed to change visitors' moods.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tea time in Tokyo: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (left) joins Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, at a tea ceremony in Tokyo. Seated next to them are Vietnam's deputy chairwoman of the national assembly, Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan (second from right), and U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers stand guard in Nada Ward, Kobe, on Tuesday, where the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate is located.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/05/business/japan-u-s-agree-work-toward-early-conclusion-tpp-trade-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-05T19:29:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-05T20:35:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. actor Steven Seagal shake hands after visiting an oceanarium built on Russky Island, where the Eastern Economic Forum takes place, in Russian Far Eastern port of Vladivostok on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/05/business/refunds-on-all-food-considered-to-ease-17-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-05T21:17:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso speaks at a news conference in Ankara on Friday about developments on the first day of talks between the finance chiefs and central bank governors of Group of 20 economies. Aso said Japan had urged China to tackle structural challenges as Beijing grapples with a cooling economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/05/national/japan-begins-research-whaling-season-off-coast-of-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-05T21:31:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-05T21:53:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-05T22:26:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No logo: A worker takes down a sign bearing the discredited logos for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building on Sept. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/31/national/atomic-bomb-survivors-attend-nobel-peace-prize-award-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-06T09:12:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-06T09:18:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seeking support: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech in Tokyo on Saturday to around 1,800 Myanmar nationals currently residing in Japan as the Nobel Peace Prize laureate kicked off a weeklong visit at the invitation of the government.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-06T12:44:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenichi Shinoda, sixth don of the Yamaguchi-gumi, visits the grave of his predecessor in Kobe in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/06/world/science-health-world/odd-ancient-lizard-like-reptile-called-earliest-known-turtle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-06T12:47:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A reptile named Eunotosaurus that lived 260 million years ago is the earliest known turtle, though it did not have a shell.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/06/business/economy-business/chinese-build-factories-u-s-creating-jobs-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-06T13:13:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-06T14:34:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-06T19:28:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/06/national/prince-hisahito-third-line-throne-turns-9/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-06T20:03:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Hisahito, the only son of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko and third in line to the Imperial throne, holds a net on the grounds of Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on Aug. 16. He turned 9 on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/business/tech/sony-developing-1000-pictures-second-sensor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T13:29:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An older Sony Corp. image sensor is displayed at the product's unveiling in Tokyo in October 2013. The electronics giant is developing a next-generation technology that can process 1,000 images a second.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-k-use-foreign-aid-money-pay-housing-syrian-refugees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T13:29:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister David Cameron and his Spanish counterpart, Mariano Rajoy, arrive to a joint news conference after their meeting at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/business/china-urges-firms-test-overseas-markets-amid-glut-construction-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T13:35:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-china-industry-a-20150908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[XCMG front loaders sit in Xuzhou, in China's Jiangsu province, last month. Two years after China unveiled a sweeping plan to rebuild Silk Road trade links with Europe and Asia, machinery maker XCMG Group has opened a factory in Uzbekistan, sent 300 staff abroad and set ambitious goals to grow overseas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/world/social-issues-world/every-european-parish-host-refugee-family-pope-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T13:40:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis recites the Angelus noon prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sunday. The Vatican will shelter two families of refugees "who are fleeing death" from war or hunger, Pope Francis announced Sunday as he called on Catholic parishes, convents and monasteries across Europe to do the same.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/business/economy-business/see-china-slump-speed-bump-like-japan-hit-1960s-not-like-1990s-shocker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T13:40:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-07T13:43:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iraqi Staff Lt. Gen. Anwar Hama Amin delivers a speech during a press conference in Baghdad on Sunday. Iraq's newly-acquired F-16 warplanes have begun carrying out strikes against the Islamic State jihadi group, according to the commander of the air force. The U.S.-led coalition has carried out over a dozen strikes on Islamic State targets as well.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/asia-pacific/nuclear-waste-dump-is-one-option-for-australias-faltering-rust-belt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T13:52:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-07T13:52:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-07T14:27:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/world/social-issues-world/europes-migrant-tide-is-a-theme-at-venice-film-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T15:17:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/world/rich-gulf-arab-nations-refugee-response-questioned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T15:57:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist works on a sand sculpture depicting drowned Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi at Puri beach, some 65 km from Bhubaneswar, India, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/national/crime-legal/drunken-kanagawa-man-60-arrested-after-kicking-softbank-robot-in-fit-of-rage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T16:07:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pepper humanoid robots are shown during a July event in Tokyo. A drunken 60-year-old man was arrested Sunday for allegedly damaging a similar robot in a fit of rage at a SoftBank outlet, police said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korea-join-fleet-review-japan-first-time-since-2002/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T17:22:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/04/business/japan-tourism-website-touts-regional-food-treats-activities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T18:03:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nipponquest-a-20150905.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nippon Quest website allows people to share tips about regional food, goods and activities, with automated translations between Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/national/politics-diplomacy/hashimotos-new-national-party-likely-closely-resemble-ishin-no/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T18:35:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto holds a news conference in the city last Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/business/financial-markets/1960s-japan-guide-recent-china-turmoil-just-blip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T18:39:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinastocks-a-20150908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past an electronic stocks board displaying the Shanghai Composite Index outside a securities firm in Tokyo on Aug. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/dark-side-of-the-mooncakes-china-warns-against-extravagance-as-gift-giving-season-looms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T19:08:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-china-mooncakes-a-20150908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mooncakes such as these are often given as gifts in autumn in China. An official drive against ostentatious consumption has targeted individuals in authority, with edicts to keep them out of higher-end restaurants and boutiques.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/national/crime-legal/police-arrest-akita-man-murder-local-taxi-driver/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T19:21:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/business/economy-business/july-composite-economic-index-weak-industrial-output-shipments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T19:24:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/national/mobile-fingerprint-terminals-speed-immigration-process-airports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T19:25:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/national/crime-legal/one-man-killed-two-hurt-osaka-brawl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-07T19:45:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/reference/female-empowerment-law-first-step-male-oriented-work-culture-must-change-experts/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-07T22:59:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-07T23:06:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-07T23:06:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T06:36:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T06:53:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Sinuiju Measuring Instrument Factory in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on Friday. IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said Monday that the North appears to be renovating its Yongbyon nuclear site.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T11:24:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T12:45:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T14:24:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T14:31:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T15:44:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T16:53:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T16:53:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T16:58:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Koreans read a copy of a daily newspaper displayed on the platform of a subway station in Pyongyang last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/08/national/staff-behavior-spotlight-kawasaki-nursing-home-three-residents-died/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passers-by stand near the S Amiyu Kawasaki Saiwai-cho nursing facility in Kawasaki on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T17:38:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Taiji Whale Museum in Wakayama Prefecture has withdrawn from the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/08/national/tourism-industry-riding-high-dragon-sightseeing-trail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-08T17:38:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The scenic old town of Takayama in Gifu Prefecture forms part of the Shoryudo tourist route covering nine prefectures in central Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/07/national/hiroshima-bomb-museum-admission-fees-rise-next-april/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-08T17:39:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Atomic Bomb Dome stands in twilight in the city of Hiroshima in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/08/national/crime-legal/yamaguchi-gumi-yakuza-splinter-syndicate-declares-launch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-08T17:40:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T20:26:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pastor Randy Smith, a Freewill Baptist preacher, speaks at the prayer support rally outside of the Carter County Detention Center for Rowan County clerk Kim Davis, who remains in jail for contempt of court in Grayson, Kentucky, Saturday. Around 200 supporters gathered outside the Kentucky jail on Saturday to support Davis.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/08/national/crime-legal/meiji-university-professor-suspected-leaking-bar-exam-questions-female-student/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-08T21:59:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koichi Aoyagi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/08/national/woman-believed-japanese-found-dead-jakarta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-08T22:13:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T22:13:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T23:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T23:25:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T23:27:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-08T23:28:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters gathered near the Diet building in August call for a bill amending the temp worker dispatch law to be scrapped.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boats are beached and fire personnel staff Hume Lake in the Sequoia National Forest on Aug. 19 as the Rough Fire continues burning in the background. California's largest wildfire burning near the popular Hume Lake in the Central Sierra Nevada raged through the holiday weekend and jumped its containment line Tuesday, prompting evacuations.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-09T07:45:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-09T07:46:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-09T10:07:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Refugees warm their hands over ashes from a fire at a migrant collection point near the Hungarian village of Roszke, near the border with Serbia, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-09T16:11:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-09T16:11:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-09T16:31:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-09T16:31:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-09T16:39:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Bus Rapid Transit bus runs through the city of Niigata free of charge Tuesday due to a system glitch.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/09/business/corporate-business/tepcos-index-topping-gains-fueled-electricity-shake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-09T16:57:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s corporate logo is displayed on helmets at the company's Yokohama Thermal Power Station in Yokohama. Despite the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Japan's reform of its energy market is proving a boon to Tepco investors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/09/asia-pacific/myanmar-president-thein-sein-meets-armed-rebels-peace-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-09T16:59:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar President Thein Sein (second left) shakes hands with Lian Hmung Sakhong of the Chin National Front, a member of the Nationwide Cease-fire Coordination Team, during a meeting in Naypyitaw on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/09/national/regulator-warns-kansai-electric-may-not-win-approval-mihama-reactor-restart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-09T17:01:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/failure-syria-diplomacy-exposes-enduring-divisions-assad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-09T17:35:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester holds a placard with a drawing slamming Syrian President Bashar Assad during a demonstration in support of refugees at the Place de la Republique in Paris on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/09/national/social-issues/unclear-guidelines-prevent-evacuees-from-keeping-pets-in-many-tohoku-municipalities-survey/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The new Prius hybrid is the first global vehicle built under Toyota's strategy of sharing components across models.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This composite photo shows camerawoman Petra Laszlo tripping a migrant who was carrying a child while they were trying to escape from a collection point in Roszke village, Hungary, on Tuesday. Laszlo was fired later that day after videos of her kicking and tripping up migrants fleeing police, including a man carrying a child, spread in the media and on the web.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo taken from a plane window, smoke billows out from a plane that caught fire at McCarren International Airport, Tuesdayin Las Vegas. An engine on the British Airways plane caught fire before takeoff, forcing passengers to escape on emergency slides.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton dances with DJ Stephen "Twitch" Boss next to television host Ellen Degeneres during a taping of "The Ellen Degeneres Show" in New York Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Ishiba]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T08:13:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teachers Sarah Martin (left) and Ina Shepard (with microphone) lead cheers during picketing in front of Chief Sealth International High School Wednesday in Seattle. Teachers in Seattle began walking picket lines Wednesday after last-minute negotiations over wages and other issues failed to avert a strike in Washington state's largest school district.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T11:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ishin no To (Japan Innovation Party) head Yorihisa Matsuno speaks at a news conference Tuesday in the Diet to announce a party executive shake-up as new Secretary-General Masato Imai looks on.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T13:50:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image shows an idea for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics emblem designed and posted in August by Twitter user @vivakankan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T13:50:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks beside a temporary housing complex Tuesday in Higashi-Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T14:34:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T15:09:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T15:16:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Channels believed to be carrying cables for a top-secret submarine detection system are seen Tuesday running into the sea from the U.S. Navy's White Beach base in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, where the MSDF Oceanographic Observation is located.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T15:25:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T16:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T16:46:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T18:10:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T19:24:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mako shark]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T19:59:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T20:15:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A university student volunteer teaches math to a junior high school student at the Tadazemi free cram school in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hundreds of demonstrators gather outside the governor's mansion in St. Paul, Minnesota, Wednesday in a protest calling for Gov. Mark Dayton to defund and investigate Planned Parenthood. Congressional Republicans are looking for ways to defund the group, but face another risk of a federal government shutdown in the process.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T23:05:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T23:05:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Song Il Ho, North Korea's top negotiator in charge of normalization talks with Japan, speaks during an interview in Pyongyang on Wednesday. Song said Pyongyang has nearly completed a fresh investigation into the fates of Japanese citizens allegedly abducted decades ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-10T23:36:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. Some BOJ officials see a growing likelihood the central bank will lower its inflation outlook again.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-11T09:41:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bryan Pagliano, a former U.S. State Department employee, leaves a House Benghazi Committee closed interview on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday. Pagliano, who reportedly assisted in work on Hillary Clinton's private mail when she was secretary of state, asserted his Fifth Amendment right not to testify before the Republican-led House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/11/world/chinese-hacking-requires-bolstered-guard-cyberattacks-clapper-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-11T11:18:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listens  to testimony given by Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart (far right) during the House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday. From left are FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, Clapper, Director of the National Security Agency Adm. Michael Rodgers and Stewart.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/11/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/south-koreans-make-child-care-family-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-11T13:06:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grandparents take part in a child care class organized for them in Seoul on Sept. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/11/asia-pacific/north-koreas-unofficial-markets-driven-repurposed-buses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-11T13:08:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buses like this one in Pyongyang are repurposed and used as trucks to transport goods around the country while skipping controls.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/11/national/crime-legal/husband-wife-vietnamese-compatriot-held-osaka-knife-assault-left-one-dead-pair-wounded/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-11T13:16:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-11T13:16:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying (left) and Bob Chapek, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, attend the 10th anniversary ceremony of Hong Kong Disneyland in the city Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/13/business/japanese-firm-indicted-price-rigging-south-korea-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-14T08:04:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Minebea Co. ball bearings are arranged for a photograph.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/russia-allegedly-arming-assad-also-seen-hinting-may-open-ouster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-14T09:20:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke rises from what activists said was a military position of forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Assad after clashes with Army of Islam fighters, on the eastern mountains of Qalamoun overlooking the town of Douma, eastern Ghouta of Damascus Sunday. Reports the same day indiated Russia may be willing to see key ally Assad sidelined to resolve the Syria situation and to maintain a Moscow leverage in the Mideast.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/hospitalized-thai-king-87-gets-treatment-pneumonia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-14T09:25:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-14T18:50:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Minister Lee Dong-phil (left), Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi (center) and Chinese Vice Agriculture Minister Chen Xiaohua attend a joint news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Sunday after a two-day meeting. They agreed to enhance cooperation in ensuring stable food supply in their first meeting in more than three years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/business/tech/sonys-mesh-gives-new-purpose-to-old-gadgets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-14T19:11:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takehiro Hagiwara, who heads the MESH project at Sony Corp., poses with MESH tags at Sony's headquarters in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/business/economy-business/china-unveils-details-of-state-firm-reforms-as-growth-sputters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-14T19:15:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laborers work at a railway bridge construction site in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, on Saturday. Beijing unveiled details Sunday of how it would restructure its state-owned enterprises, including partial privatization, as data pointed to a cooling in the world's second-largest economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/national/floodwaters-send-branches-garbage-downstream-wreaking-havoc-choshi-port/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-14T19:42:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dead branches and other debris litter a pier at Choshi port in Chiba Prefecture on Sunday. Since last week, workers have been attempting to clean up large amounts of debris with heavy machinery.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/malaysia-arrests-three-in-connection-with-bangkok-shrine-blast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-14T19:45:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-14T19:45:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/business/economy-business/boj-weighs-revising-overseas-economic-assessments-amid-china-slowdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-14T19:47:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/national/joso-facilities-open-baths-showers-to-flood-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-14T20:22:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boy receives some baked goods Sunday after bathing for the first time in three days at the Mitsukaido Asunaro no Sato training center in Joso, Ibaraki Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/national/retailers-use-networks-quickly-send-aid-flood-areas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-14T20:40:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiko Nakamura, 66, is escorted Saturday by Self-Defense Force's soldiers as she leaves her home in Joso, Ibaraki Prefecture, where the torrential rains of Typhoon Etau caused major flooding last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/asia-pacific/u-s-tells-china-take-back-undocumented-immigrants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-14T21:12:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daniel Maher stands at the Ecology Center, where he works as recycling program director, in Berkeley, California on Thursday. Born in Macau, Maher was arrested in an immigration sweep, but released when the Chinese government were unable to provide paperwork for his expulsion from the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/asia-pacific/china-plans-meeting-bid-revive-stalled-six-party-north-korea-nuclear-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-14T22:02:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/national/tepco-dumps-treated-groundwater-in-pacific-to-ease-toxic-water-buildup-at-fukushima-no-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-14T22:06:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tepco-a-20150915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filtered groundwater stored in these tanks at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant was discharged into the ocean Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/national/search-continues-missing-massive-flooding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-14T22:07:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n floodsearch-a 20150915]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local police and Self-Defense Forces soldiers conduct a search of an abandoned car in Joso, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Monday following last week's flooding of the area.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/national/crime-legal/shukan-post-article-carries-real-name-photo-1997-kobe-child-serial-killer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T06:34:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/world/u-s-uncertain-moscows-intent-russia-deploys-tanks-syria-airfield/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T11:22:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Syrian woman kisses a poster of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a 2012 pro-Syrian government protest in front of the Russian Embassy in Damascus. In ramping up its military involvement in Syria's civil war, Russia appears to be betting that the West, horrified by Islamic State's atrocities, may be willing to tolerate Syrian President Bashar Assad for a while, perhaps as part of a transition. Russian forces are meanwhile apparently being sent to parts of Syria.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/national/politics-diplomacy/okinawa-governor-revokes-approval-futenma-relocation-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T11:51:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga holds a news conference Monday to announce his decision to revoke permission for the central government's landfill work in Nago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/national/keidanren-rethink-timing-annual-student-recruitment-drive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T12:26:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keidanren plans to reassess when member firms should begin recruiting fourth-year university students, after criticism that a change this year created extra stress for students and some small companies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/world/u-s-general-sounds-alarm-russia-closing-gap-air-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T13:18:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/national/crime-legal/obuchis-former-aides-plead-guilty-falsifying-fund-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T13:22:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/business/proposed-food-drink-partial-tax-refunds-may-bring-little-benefit-economists-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T14:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/national/politics-diplomacy/security-bills-wont-allow-hormuz-mine-sweeping-abe-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T14:43:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/business/english-kogei-tour-charity-walk-run/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T14:52:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/business/financial-markets/nikkei-rebounds-moderately-mondays-plunge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T16:21:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/business/facebook-vows-go-racist-xenophobic-rants-german-site-amid-refugee-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T16:55:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/national/japan-pledges-open-info-sharing-iaea-fukushima-no-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T17:06:17+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/national/social-issues/japanese-firms-need-diverse-workforce-says-harvard-academic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T17:41:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harvard Business School professor Linda Hill is interviewed in Tokyo on Aug. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/historic-election-looms-myanmar-trials-target-student-protesters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T17:43:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A student activist shows his handcuffs after arriving at a mass trial of student protesters at Tharrawaddy court, in Tharrawaddy, Myanmar, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/business/corporate-business/tokyo-steel-cuts-prices-china-drives-supply-glut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T17:44:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-15T18:16:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-15T18:18:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/world/putin-website-hit-powerful-cyberattack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T18:18:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/business/financial-markets/dollar-falls-%c2%a5120-boj-leaves-policy-unchanged/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T18:23:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/business/komeito-wants-reduced-tax-rate-proposal-kept-alive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T18:50:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/business/china-experts-highlight-need-economy-based-consumption-innovation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T20:10:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinaeconomy-a-20150915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Li Keqiang speaks during an annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Dalian, China, last week, as Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, looks on.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/national/mount-aso-blows-top-tourism-industry-braces-fallout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T20:13:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A road near Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture is closed to traffic Tuesday after Mount Nakadake, one of the peaks that constitute Mount Aso, erupted the previous day. Smoke from the volcano can be seen rising from the mountain.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/national/japans-15-year-olds-among-worlds-best-retrieving-data-digital-devices-oecd/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T20:16:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/b-digital-z-20150916.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-digital-z-20150916.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[When the teens were asked if they could find certain information using digital instruments, Japan ranked fourth behind Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/business/financial-markets/boj-forgoes-additional-easing-betting-economy-will-turn-around/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T20:47:53+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/business/economy-business/japan-rise-machines-solves-labor-problem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T21:20:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/b-machines-a-20150916.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-machines-a-20150916.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Industrial robots await shipment at a Yaskawa Electric Corp. factory in the city of Kitakyushu. Japan hopes reliance on robots will help lift the economy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/world/border-free-europe-unravels-record-day-migrant-influx/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T21:26:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Syrian refugee child holds a balloon fashioned from a glove while waiting with her family in a train heading for the Austrian border, in Roszke, southern Hungary, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/world/hungary-locks-eu-border-taking-crisis-hands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-15T21:51:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants look over a fence into Hungary at the Horgos border crossing, near Horgos, Serbia, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/national/politics-diplomacy/ban-high-school-students-political-activity-end-new-law/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Student protesters set up a barricade across a street in Tokyo’s Kanda district on Jan. 18, 1969, in a face-off with riot police. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A male employee at Amiyu Toyonaka Hozumi, a nursing home in the city of Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, has been arrested for allegedly trying to strangle an elderly female resident in June.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, waves after making his inaugural speech at the Queen Elizabeth Centre in London on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters rally Tuesday outside the office of the governor of South Sumatra in Palembang, Indonesia, calling for the immediate end to forest fires in the province.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/national/15-people-missing-japans-deadly-floods-safe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T09:23:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women carry cleaning equipment along a flooded road in the city of Joso, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Tuesday. The area remained inundated more than five days after the Kinugawa River breached its banks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/national/social-issues/justice-ministry-unveils-eased-refugee-recognition-criteria-critics-quick-cry-foul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T09:25:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-16T09:50:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heath Bijsma reaches out to touch the torched remains of a 1970's-era Chevrolet Nova that was lost along with a home of a friend in a wildfire several days earlier, Tuesday in Middletown, California.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-16T11:02:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-survey-a-20150916.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo is the world's second-riskiest city to live in due to its high exposure to man-made and natural threats, according to Lloyd's of London.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/national/public-support-death-penalty-not-overwhelming-researchers-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T13:42:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mai Sato (rear), a lecturer at the University of Reading in the U.K., discusses her survey on the death penalty in Japan at a Diet members' office building in Tokyo last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/national/politics-diplomacy/close-aide-putin-visit-japan-late-month-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T14:48:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, escorted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, greets a guest as they arrive for a formal dinner at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lauren Culler, a postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth College's Institute of Arctic Studies, studies Arctic mosquitoes near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/world/no-friend-america-u-k-s-corbyn-faces-test-syria-airstrikes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T15:08:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (right) stands for the national anthem during a memorial service for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain at St. Paul's Cathedral in London on Tuesday. The Battle of Britain was an aerial battle in World War II between Allied forces and the German Luftwaffe in the late summer and early autumn of 1940.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-16T15:08:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto speaks on the phone with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, at the Los Pinos Residence in Mexico City on Tuesday. Mexico's foreign minister headed for Cairo Tuesday with relatives of some of her country's eight tourists mistakenly killed by Egyptian security forces, demanding an urgent enquiry into an "unjustified attack." Security forces killed 12 people in Sunday's air attack while chasing jihadis in the vast Western Desert.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/world/weary-refugees-munich-find-release-oktoberfest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T15:10:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors toast the opening of Oktoberfest in Munich last September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-china-south-korea-hold-talks-trilateral-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T16:09:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/world/social-issues-world/u-s-universities-lead-innovation-asia-rising-power-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T16:38:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/world/science-health-world/study-finds-young-people-antidepressants-prone-violence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T16:39:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/national/girl-12-lands-patent-for-can-separating-recycling-bin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T17:52:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20150915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asuka Kamiya, 12, shows the can self-separating recycling bin she invented that earned her a patent.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/business/corporate-business/hondas-north-american-production-reaches-30-million-vehicles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T18:20:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Honda Motor Co. badge from a N-One minicar is displayed in a showroom at the company's headquarters in Tokyo. The automaker said Tuesday North American production has reached 30 million automobiles since 1982.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/business/financial-markets/dollar-top-heavy-%c2%a5120-tokyo-fed-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T18:26:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-16T19:20:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester falls as a police officer holds his arm during a rally against Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's security bill and his administration in front of the parliament in Tokyo on Tuesday. Three protestors were eventually arrested.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/national/student-protests-continue-quest-block-security-bills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T19:25:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aki Okuda, a founding member of the student protest group SEALDs, shouts slogans during a rally in front of the Diet on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/national/politics-diplomacy/government-cries-foul-use-term-forcible-voting-security-bills-debate-heats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T19:43:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-waits-see-whether-new-australian-leader-will-rock-boat-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T21:11:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australia's then-Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, chats with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a trilateral meeting at the Group of 20 conference in Brisbane, Australia, last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-defense-reform-tarnished-low-public-support-unconvincing-sales-pitch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T21:11:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers detain protesters taking part in a rally against the government's security bills in front of the Diet on Tuesday. More protests will likely continue later in the week as the ruling bloc gears up for the passage of the bills.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/national/tourist-numbers-continue-to-surge-in-japan-with-china-underpinning-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T21:41:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/national/former-pm-naoto-kan-says-nuclear-power-makes-little-economic-sense-must-end/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T22:55:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kan-a-20150917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks about his experience with the Fukushima nuclear disaster to foreign residents in Tokyo during a lecture Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/business/energy-ministers-businesses-gather-tokyo-discuss-lng-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T23:56:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees of the LNG Producer-Consumer Conference pose for a commemorative photo in Tokyo on Wednesday. Ministers and business delegates from around 50 countries and regions discussed the latest trends and challenges in the LNG market.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/business/japan-flying-surplus-fish-across-asia-domestic-demand-falls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T23:56:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fishmonger arranges his wares at the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district in March. Facing declining domestic demand, Japan in boosting fish exports.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/business/airasia-boss-urges-japan-find-solution-congested-airports-lcc-access/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-16T23:56:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/b-airportcongest-a-20150917.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-airportcongest-a-20150917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tony Fernandes]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/national/politics-diplomacy/protesters-rally-contentious-security-bills-near-passage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-17T08:37:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rally-z-20150917]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People protest against Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's controversial security bills, outside of the venue of a public hearing in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on September 16, 2015. Japan is set to enact controversial security bills that opponents say will undermine 70 years of pacifism]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/business/major-tourism-delegation-visit-indonesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-17T09:14:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-indonesia-a-20150917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshihiro Nikai]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-09-17T13:08:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rongji-a-20150918.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji waves to supporters upon arriving at Hong Kong’s airport on Nov. 18, 2002, during a trip to attend the World Congress of Accountants.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-reportedly-seizes-157-billion-unspent-money-local-governments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-17T13:40:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/business/bank-japan-shields-bonds-equity-storm-steady-buying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-17T13:42:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/17/world/crime-legal-world/obama-urges-effort-prevent-weaponizing-net-chides-china-cyberspying-ahead-xi-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-09-17T15:14:36+09:00</lastmod>
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