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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T17:13:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T17:23:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T17:39:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China, which emits pollutants that foul much of the air nationwide, plans to launch its first carbon-monitoring satellites next year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/10/national/bangladeshi-seeking-asylum-deported-working-years-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-11T18:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Failed asylum seeker Abu Said Shekh walks along a street near his home in Dhaka last Friday. He was among 22 overstayers flown back to Bangladesh on a chartered plane from Japan on Nov. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T18:28:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T18:29:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T18:51:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T18:58:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T19:13:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seven-Eleven Japan Co. unveils its ¥16 million car based on the "Neon Genesis Evangelion" anime at a Tokyo hotel Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/11/business/corporate-business/jins-eyewear-maker-plans-overseas-expansion-amid-sluggish-domestic-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-11T19:41:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitoshi Tanaka]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/10/national/crime-legal/south-korean-admitted-setting-explosives-yasukuni-shrine-police-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-11T20:04:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vehicle carrying Chon Chang-han, 27, enters a police station in Tokyo on Wednesday. Chon was arrested in connection to a recent suspected bombing at a public restroom at Yasukuni Shrine.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T20:32:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/11/business/tech/scientists-coax-computers-think-like-people/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-11T20:33:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/11/business/twenty-years-making-daiwa-tutored-myanmar-bourse-fetes-baby-steps-debut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-11T20:33:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yangon Stock Exchange has an opening ceremony on Wednesday in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/11/business/government-unlikely-detail-revenue-recovery-plan-sales-tax-hike-exemptions-aso/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-11T20:34:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/11/national/science-health/nobel-prizes-medicine-physics-handed-japanese-pair/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-11T20:42:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobel Prize winners Takaaki Kajita (left) and Satoshi Omura show their medals Thursday after the award ceremony in Stockholm.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T20:43:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the FBI Underwater Search and Evidence Response Team work in Seccombe Lake on Thursday in San Bernardino, California.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T20:45:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a picture from April 2014, North Korea's premier pop group, the all-girl Moranbong Band, plays at a show for the country's leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T20:45:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police raided this house, where entrepreneur Craig Steven Wright reportedly lives with his family, in Sydney on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T20:45:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen shot from "Roasting the Holiday Turkey" on YouTube.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T20:47:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T20:47:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chon Chang-han (center) of South Korea is taken to the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward from nearby Kojimachi Police Station on Wednesday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T22:18:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-11T23:09:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-12T02:07:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-12T12:07:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men run past a burning car following reported airstrikes on the town of Hamouria in the eastern Ghouta region, a rebel stronghold east of Damascus, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/12/asia-pacific/chinese-military-paper-warns-lost-wars-shame-reforms-thwarted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-12T12:39:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tank of the People's Liberation Army Marine Corps fires a shell during a drill at a base in Taonan, Jilin province, in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/happen-region-ruled-frances-far-right/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-12T12:41:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A torn poster of French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen is seen in Henin-Beaumont on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oki Matsumoto, chief executive officer of Monex Group Inc., poses for a photograph at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China, in September last year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents on their bicycles and electric bikes wait at an intersection amid heavy smog in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/national/promoting-japanese-direct-investment-italy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-15T11:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italian Ambassador Domenico Giorgi makes opening remarks at an event to promote direct investment in Italy at the Italian Embassy in Tokyo's Minato Ward, on Nov. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T10:59:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Benedetto Della Vedova, undersecretary of Italy's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, speaks during an interview at the Italian Embassy in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T10:58:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riccardo Monti, the president of the Italian Trade Agency, speaks during an interview at a Tokyo hotel.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/14/world/australian-teenager-pleads-guilty-terrorism-charge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-14T21:34:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-14T22:03:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi take a photo together on a mobile phone on the banks of the River Ganges in Varanasi, India, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-14T22:04:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a lecture event in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/14/national/crime-legal/man-wounded-two-kanagawa-cops-sword-arrested-standoff-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-14T22:05:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/business/japans-participation-thai-myanmar-dawei-economic-zone-boost-confidence-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-15T08:03:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T10:17:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A plainclothes policeman grabs the hand of a foreign journalist as he prevents him from filming the supporters of rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang gathering near the Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court in Beijing, Monday. Police scuffled with protesters and journalists at the Beijing courthouse as the prominent lawyer stood trial on charges of provoking trouble and stirring ethnic hatred with online commentary critical of the ruling Communist Party.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T11:11:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T12:18:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Exports of breeding-age Japanese pond turtles are now restricted to conserve the species, although it can still be caught for use as a pet.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T12:47:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/business/economy-business/boj-gains-confidence-japans-economy-cheap-oil-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-15T13:41:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T13:41:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T13:42:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T13:45:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T13:48:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T14:19:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andy (left) and Barbara Parker (center), whose daughter Alison Parker was shot and killed on air during a live television segment in August, takes part in a protest and vigil against gun violence on the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook mass shooting, outside the National Rifle Association (NRA) headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/national/social-issues/spouses-await-court-ruling-retaining-maiden-name-marriage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-15T14:45:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kaori Oguni is suing the government over the constitutionality of a Civil Code provision that requires married couples to adopt one surname. She is seen on Nov. 17 in Tokyo's Nakano Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/business/tech/dont-let-friendly-face-fool-croupier-no-heart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-15T14:47:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Min, a prototype human-like electronic croupier, deals a card during a demonstration at the headquarters of Paradise Entertainment Ltd. in Macau, China, on Dec. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T15:13:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T15:42:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-keep-host-nation-support-u-s-forces-around-current-level/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-15T15:58:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/national/politics-diplomacy/regular-diet-session-convene-jan-4/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-15T16:07:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T16:09:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a hacking experiment carried out in Hiroshima on Dec. 1, the speedometer in a parked vehicle shows 180 kph.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/national/child-center-stripped-girls-find-missing-piece-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-15T16:09:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T17:11:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aki Okuda (seated, center) and other members of Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy (SEALDs) announce the launch of a new think tank, ReDemos, in Tokyo on Monday. Seated at left is Koichi Nakano, a political science professor at Sophia University, and seated at right is attorney Takahisa Mizukami.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/national/crime-legal/relative-murdered-family-claims-tv-asahi-program-misrepresented/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-15T17:49:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Irie, a sister of murder victim Yasuko Miyazawa, holds a news conference Monday in Tokyo after filing a complaint over a TV Asahi program on the unsolved case.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/national/meaning-safety-named-japans-kanji-year-2015/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seihan Mori, the chief priest of Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, writes the kanji an, meaning safety or peace, on a large sheet of washi paper Tuesday after the character was selected as the kanji best symbolizing the national mood in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/national/libel-cases-involving-twitter-posts-rise-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-15T19:19:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T21:36:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/14/world/fear-failure-smoothness-french-diplomacy-sealed-paris-climate-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-15T21:37:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres (left), U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (center), French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (second from right) and French President Francois Hollande, the COP21 president-designate, raise their arms in triumph during the final plenary session at the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/14/national/new-olympic-stadium-plans-submitted-by-unnamed-entrants-unveiled-by-japan-sports-council/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-15T22:27:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two fresh designs for the new National Stadium, the main venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, are shown in artists’ renderings released Monday by the Japan Sport Council. Design A is the top image and design B is above.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/national/politics-diplomacy/government-plans-five-year-extension-debt-financing-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-15T22:35:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-15T23:29:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/business/japans-%c2%a5135-trillion-pension-fund-boosts-infrastructure-weighting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-15T23:32:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/business/economy-business/delivery-take-foods-exempt-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-16T01:37:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/national/leafy-designs-new-national-stadium-seen-posing-security-headaches/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-16T01:38:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-olympsecurity-z-20151216]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist rendering used on the cover of a document detailing a proposed design for the National Stadium by the anonymous team, named B, unveiled by the Japan Sport Council on Monday, shows the stadium surrounded by greenery.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/national/new-olympic-stadium-designs-draw-praise-critics-fail-excite-public/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-16T01:42:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This artist’s rendering provided by the Japan Sport Council on Monday shows the interior of Design A proposed by one of two groups competing to build the new National Stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/national/kansai-international-naha-get-immigration-officers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-16T06:10:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People arrive at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture last Jan. 4 after spending the New Year's holidays overseas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/16/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/indonesia-looks-boost-defenses-around-natuna-islands-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-16T06:22:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/15/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-official-warns-south-china-sea-activities-may-precursor-adiz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-16T06:34:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adm. Scott Swift, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, attends the Pacific International Maritime Exposition in Sydney in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/16/world/american-airlines-jetliner-searched-miami-suspicious-item-found-flight-paris/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-16T09:37:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/22/world/social-issues-world/europe-heed-popes-call-succor-refugees-others-look-away/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-22T19:03:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-22T19:55:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor examines a display of steering wheels for Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus cars in the city of Chiba in January 2013. Jtekt Corp., a Japanese company that once revolutionized the auto industry by inventing electric power steering, is feeling the pinch with the rise of driverless cars.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-22T19:57:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa holds a news conference in the city of Fukui on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/22/business/japan-adds-kobe-beef-yubari-melons-to-list-of-protected-brands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-22T19:59:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-22T20:04:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Firefighters search for landslide survivors among debris of destroyed buildings in Shenzhen]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters search for landslide survivors among debris of destroyed buildings in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/22/national/quaint-kyoto-farming-community-gears-up-for-influx-of-tourist-seeking-a-less-beaten-path/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-22T20:05:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists stroll in the rain through the increasingly popular Kayabuki no Sato village of traditional thatched-roof houses in Miyama, northern Kyoto, on Dec. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/22/national/crime-legal/sanrio-database-leak-seen-covering-info-3-3-million-hello-kitty-fans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-22T21:36:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/22/national/politics-diplomacy/china-replace-japan-second-largest-funder-u-n-peacekeeping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-22T21:36:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dutch U.N. peacekeepers ride in an armored vehicle in Bosnia-Hercegovina in this Feb. 28, 1994, file photo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/22/business/corporate-business/mcdonalds-considers-downsizing-stake-struggling-japanese-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-22T21:36:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mac-a-20151223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An illuminated sign stands outside a McDonald's restaurant in Tokyo. Shares in the unit slid 7.8% on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/22/national/crime-legal/court-orders-operators-to-pay-damages-over-2012-tunnel-collapse-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-22T21:36:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs enter the Yokohama District Court on Tuesday ahead of a ruling dealing with the deadly 2012 collapse of the Sasago Tunnel in Yamanashi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/22/business/tpp-touted-raising-japans-gdp-%c2%a514-trillion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-22T23:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/22/national/crime-legal/western-japan-man-indicted-killing-girl-now-indicted-boys-slaying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-22T23:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/22/national/kengo-kuma-picked-design-tokyos-new-olympic-stadium-highly-regarded-field/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-22T23:38:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kumabio-a-20151223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kengo Kuma]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/22/national/history/british-wartime-course-boys-played-key-role-in-nurturing-anglo-japanese-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-22T23:41:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-warschool-a-20151223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ian Brown, professor emeritus at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), speaks recently at an SOAS event. He has just finished writing a history of the college, the birthplace of Japanese studies in Britain that has played an important role in developing ties between the two countries.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/22/business/corporate-business/japans-recruit-acquire-dutch-employment-firm-usg-people/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-22T23:45:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/22/business/abe-honors-firms-that-promote-women-on-heels-of-gender-target-cut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-22T23:47:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/22/business/corporate-business/moodys-lowers-toshibas-credit-rating-lowered-two-levels-junk-status/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-23T01:01:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-23T10:45:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Christmas tree stands in a makeshift memorial near the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/23/world/crime-legal-world/russian-airstrikes-syria-civilian-toll-may-constitute-war-crime-amnesty-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-23T13:19:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-amnesty-a-20151224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Russian Su-34 bomber drops bombs on a target on Dec. 9. A new report by a human rights watchdog group accuses Russia of using cluster munitions and unguided bombs on civilian areas in Syria in attacks that it says have killed hundreds of people. The report by Amnesty International released Wednesday says there has been a surge in reports of the use of cluster munitions in the areas being targeted by Russian forces since Moscow formally joined the conflict Sept. 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/23/national/emperor-akihito-turns-82-pays-tribute-wwii-victims-people-living-legacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-23T14:27:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko greet well-wishers on the occasion of the Emperor's 82nd birthday, at the Chowa-den Hall of the Imperial Place in Tokyo on Wednesday. Members of the public gathered outside to wave to the couple, who stood behind bulletproof glass.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/23/world/science-health-world/spacex-facing-big-challenge-reusable-rockets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-23T14:31:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida after making its first upright landing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/23/world/crime-legal-world/driver-plowed-las-vegas-crowd-charged-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-23T15:16:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lakeisha Holloway]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/23/national/u-n-assembly-chief-hails-significance-of-tsunami-resolution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-23T16:02:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/23/business/corporate-business/toshiba-faces-turnaround-that-strikes-at-heart-of-its-identity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-23T16:02:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. President and CEO Masashi Muromachi (second from right) leaves a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Monday. Muromachi faces tough decisions amid a projected ¥550 billion loss this fiscal year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/23/world/science-health-world/after-paris-accord-most-u-s-republicans-back-action-on-climate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-23T17:13:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/23/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-envoy-to-japan-faces-criticism-over-okinawa-base-remarks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-23T20:29:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kennedy-a-20151224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Caroline Kennedy]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/23/national/history/first-dna-test-eyed-for-remains-of-japanese-soldier-recovered-on-russian-island/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-23T22:02:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-remains-a-20151224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture from the early 1940s shows Shigeichi Idoi (center, front row) posing for a portrait in Otaru, Hokkaido, before he is drafted into the wartime Japanese military. The government will conduct a DNA test on remains of a Japanese soldier who died soon after Japan's surrender in World War II on Shumshu Island, now part of Russia's Kuril Islands. The remains are highly likely to be those of Idoi.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/23/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-says-armed-chinese-coast-guard-ship-seen-near-disputed-senkaku-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-23T22:44:08+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/national/japan-coast-guard-plans-system-control-vessel-traffic-bays-tsunami-crises/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T08:17:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/world/social-issues-world/black-lives-matter-stages-minnesota-california-black-xmas-protests-bid-disrupt-key-shopping-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T11:09:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-blacklives-a-20151225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Black Lives Matter protesters chant slogans at the Mall of America light rail station in Bloomington, Minnesota, Wednesday. Demonstrations by Black Lives Matter to protest police killings of black men took place in Minnesota and California on Wednesday, a day the activist group dubbed "Black Xmas" to show it could impact the economy on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/national/immigration-bureau-pulls-plug-emailed-tips-amid-flood-following-rumors-korean-resident-deportations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T12:02:09+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/06/national/renowned-architect-condemns-olympic-stadium-design/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T13:48:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-stadium-a-20141107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A revised design of New National Stadium Japan, the main venue for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, is shown in a computer rendering.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/national/head-tokyo-olympics-organizer-claims-hated-stadium-design-start/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T13:48:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-moristadium-a-20150718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (right), chairman of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee, and Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe speak to reporters in Tokyo in June.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/19/national/expert-panel-evaluates-details-design-of-planned-new-national-stadium/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T13:49:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/n-stadium-a-20151220.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-stadium-a-20151220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazumi Ohigashi, the senior director of the Japan Sport Council in charge of the project and the operation of the projected new National Stadium, speaks to reporters Saturday night in Tokyo's Minato Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/world/mox-project-death-knell-u-s-deem-6-tons-plutonium-nuclear-waste-ship-new-mexico-facility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T14:04:52+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/national/celebrated-kobe-tunnel-finds-new-life-as-concert-hall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T14:24:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tunnel-b-20151225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The entrance to the Minatogawa Zuido tunnel in Kobe is seen in October.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/national/23-tons-new-mortar-fall-inside-chiba-tunnel-no-injuries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T16:56:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chibatunnel-a-20151225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rubble sits on the road inside a tunnel Thursday in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, after newly installed pieces of mortar weighing a total of 23.5 tons fell to the road.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/business/kyoto-entrepreneur-finds-business-sweet-spot-with-cocoa-from-indonesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T17:51:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cacao-a-20151225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiichi Yoshino, 34, chief executive officer of Dari K Co., shows a product in Tokyo on Dec. 4. His firm operates chocolate shops in Kyoto featuring Indonesian cocoa.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/business/abe-boj-urge-higher-wages-businesses-unconvinced/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T18:25:28+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/national/history/japan-argued-against-declaring-region-nuke-free-at-1975-u-n-forum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T18:27:28+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/world/re-print-hitlers-mein-kampf-unleashes-row-germany/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T18:28:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kampf-a-20151225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A copy of Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" from 1940 is pictured in Berlin.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/national/crime-legal/ex-professor-gets-suspended-term-bar-exam-leak-ex-lover/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T18:41:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/national/media-national/japan-times-advisory-board-rates-papers-coverage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T19:04:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Times Media Advisory Board members discuss the paper's coverage over the past six months at its headquarters in Tokyo on Nov. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/business/financial-markets/jpmorgan-says-japan-inc-must-prepare-yen-less-%c2%a5100-dollar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T19:08:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A currency trader is seen at work in the dealing room of the Tokyo Forex Ueda Harlow Ltd. foreign exchange brokerage in Tokyo in December 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/23/national/press-group-urges-japan-to-work-for-release-of-journalist-in-syria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T19:25:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jumpei Yasuda]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/business/japans-draft-budget-firm-move-fiscal-headwinds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T19:26:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Aso]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-24T20:02:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chung Sang-hoon adjusts the clothes of his son at his apartment in Seoul on Dec. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/national/history/nakasone-sought-early-meeting-reagan-ldp-race-prime-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T20:32:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-24T21:11:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-24T23:12:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiromi Abe announces her candidacy Wednesday for next year's House of Councilors election, where she will be the first common candidate fielded by four major opposition parties to challenge the ruling-party incumbent.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/national/japan-court-lifts-injunction-restart-takahama-nuclear-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T23:20:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers and opponents of restarting the Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture protest the ruling outside the court in Fukui on Thursday. The banners read: "Where is the responsibility of the justice system?" and "Nothing learned from the Fukushima nuclear disaster."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/business/japans-gdp-rise-2-59-tpp-government-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-24T23:34:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T09:10:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Damage is seen Thursday inside the Jazan General Hospital after a blaze broke out in the intensive care unit and the maternity department in Saudi Arabia's southern Jizan province. The fire killed at least 25 people and injured 107, Saudi authorities said.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T09:18:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T09:22:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsuo Kobayakawa, chairman of a third-party panel on disputes between the central and local governments, faces the media early Friday in Tokyo after it decided not to screen the controversial Henoko land-fill work decision to build a replacement facility for the U.S. Futenma airbase in Okinawa.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/25/business/economy-business/november-saw-japans-consumer-prices-rise-0-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-25T10:50:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T13:09:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures Dec. 15 during the presidential debate in Las Vegas. Good. Bad. Stupid. When it comes to his choice of words, Trump keeps it simple. So simple, in fact, that even a 9-year-old can get what the Republican White House front-runner is saying, according to a test developed for the U.S. Navy.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T14:55:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Photographs of terrorism suspects, including Indonesia's top militant, Santoso (top left), are displayed on police billboard in the Poso area of Central Sulawesi province last Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T16:09:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the poems on these Udon Karuta playing cards sparked a sexism claim, but Kagawa Prefecture decided to resume sales after clearing the poem of ill intent.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/03/business/dog-coats-toilet-paper-nadeshiko-fever-hits-stores-ahead-world-cup-final/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-25T16:38:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Team-themed outfits for dogs are just some of the memorabilia available.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/03/national/parrot-picks-japan-defeat-u-s-womens-world-cup-final/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-25T16:38:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Olivia the parrot at Nasu Animal Kingdom zoo in Tochigi Prefecture predicts Japan over the United States for the Women's World Cup soccer final in Vancouver.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/04/national/tokyo-tower-shine-soccer-teams-colors-world-cup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-25T16:39:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Tower is illuminated in the colors of the national soccer team in June 2012 before the gold medal match at the London Olympics, where the United States beat Japan 2-1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/05/national/win-lose-world-cup-game-changer-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-25T16:42:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The women's national soccer team runs during a practice in Vancouver, Canada, on Saturday, ahead of the World Cup final against the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T16:55:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fighters from the Islamic State group march in Raqqa, Syria, in January 2014. Documents indicate the group could be selling organs to get cash.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/25/national/crime-legal/transgender-woman-sues-gym-over-changing-room-use/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-25T18:20:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A transgender business manager who underwent sex reassignment surgery to become a woman holds a news conference Friday in Kyoto after filing a lawsuit against a fitness club. She asked that her face not be shown.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/25/national/crime-legal/japanese-woman-held-in-china-since-june-arrested-last-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-25T18:21:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T18:49:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T18:58:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Furutachi]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T18:59:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gas station run by the Japanese unit of U.S. retailer Costco Wholesale Corp. stands in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture. The antimonopoly watchdog has warned two gasoline retailers in the area about engaging in a price war.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/national/top-japan-news-stories-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-25T19:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of people rally outside the Diet on Aug. 30 in protest of security bills that would allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense and expand the range of missions the Self-Defense Forces can take part in overseas.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T19:17:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker installs a new clean air system in J.D. Power's office in Shanghai.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T19:50:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T20:05:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T21:17:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ahn Se Hong, a plaintiff who is a 44-year-old South Korean photographer residing in Japan, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo after the Tokyo District Court's ruling on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T21:30:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to Apa Hotel, 60 to 70 percent of the guests at the new Kabukicho branch that opened in September in Tokyo are international travelers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/25/business/corporate-business/toshiba-fined-record-%c2%a57-3-billion-over-accounting-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-25T22:02:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T22:31:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-25T23:29:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/25/business/bank-of-japan-has-room-to-maintain-easing-suga-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-25T23:47:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bojsuga-a-20151226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/25/national/japan-drastically-lowers-its-goal-for-female-managers-in-government-and-private-sector/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-26T13:55:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-26T14:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kishida-a-20151226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters on Friday at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/26/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/modi-makes-sudden-stopoff-meets-pakistan-leader-sharif/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-26T16:04:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) shakes hands with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Lahore on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/26/asia-pacific/china-lays-blames-for-slide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-26T16:06:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Excavators search for survivors Tuesday at the site of a landslide that hit an industrial park two days earlier in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/26/national/science-health/riken-team-eyes-naming-rights-to-element-113-in-january/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-26T16:36:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/26/national/media-national/civilian-casualties-wwii-left-cold/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-26T22:58:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seeking compensation: Chisako Sugiyama lost an eye and the use of her left arm in a Nagoya air raid when she was 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/26/national/politics-diplomacy/seoul-protests-reports-saying-it-might-move-comfort-women-statue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-27T11:50:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-27T11:57:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeshi Onaga]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/26/national/media-national/can-democracy-survive-rise-right/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-27T13:51:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Summer of dissent: Protesters shout slogans at a rally against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration in Tokyo in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/27/asia-pacific/chinese-province-will-probe-waste-sites-landslide-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-27T14:04:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue workers conduct a search on Wednesday, three days after an industrial estate was hit by a landslide in Shenzhen, China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/27/world/u-s-backed-alliance-captures-key-dam-islamic-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-27T14:20:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2015-12-27T14:22:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/political-ads-2016-campaign-termed-positive-far-caveats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-27T14:44:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/26/national/crime-legal/comedian-fetish-arrested-theft-girls-uniforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-27T16:56:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/27/asia-pacific/nepal-quake-reconstruction-agency-finally-cleared-start-working/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-27T17:08:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A door of a house that collapsed in an earthquake this year still stands on Nov. 30 in the Sherpa village of Khumjung in Nepal's Solukhumbu district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/27/national/politics-diplomacy/cabinet-see-support-rating-rise-49-4/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-27T21:53:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/27/national/chinese-spy-ship-spotted-off-japans-boso-peninsula/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-27T21:55:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/27/national/abe-park-may-meet-u-s-settle-comfort-women-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-27T22:51:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/27/national/sapporos-landscape-inspires-70-color-painting-code-maintain-cohesion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-27T23:47:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Sapporo municipal employee shows 70 colors the city has chosen as the best matches for its landscape.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/27/national/fukui-defies-critics-nuclear-evacuation-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-27T23:48:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People protest in front of the Fukui Prefectural Government office on Tuesday over the plans to restart reactors 3 and 4 at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama power plant.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/27/national/politics-diplomacy/hashimoto-factor-keeps-political-pundits-edge-seats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-27T23:56:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/27/national/crime-legal/chiba-teen-turns-allegedly-killing-grandparents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T00:55:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators on Sunday search a residential area around the house where a 17-year-old high school student allegedly killed his grandmother in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/world/troops-aid-evacuations-flood-ravaged-northern-england/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T06:20:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the emergency services paddle down Huntington Road past a submerged parked car after the adjacent River Foss burst it's banks in York, northern England, on Sunday. Britain's government was holding emergency talks Sunday as flooding in northern England forced hundreds of people to leave their homes, including in the historic tourist destination of York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/world/rebels-three-syrian-shiite-towns-set-evacuate-turkey-u-n-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T07:59:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian children carry placards as they call for the lifting of the siege off Madaya and Zabadani towns in Syria, in front of the offices of the U.N. headquarters in Beirut, Saturday. The placards read in Arabic: " De Mistura , your initiatives siege us and your indifference kills us" (right) and "We didn't forget the memory of the massacre, Ghouta, Damascus countryside Syria, 1466 martyrs in the chemical attacks, the massacre continues."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/world/boko-haram-attack-near-key-nigeria-town-repelled-seven-killed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T09:37:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An almost empty street is seen on Christmas day in Maiduguri, Nigeria.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/world/social-issues-world/pope-pleas-central-america-governments-resolve-fate-stranded-u-s-bound-cubans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T11:06:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cuban Jeremy Frometa, 2, sits on a mattress at a shelter in the border between Panama and Costa Rica in Paso Canoas, Panama, Dec. 23. Hundreds of Cubans are stranded on the border between Costa Rica and Panama, after the government of Costa Rica decided not to give them more transit visas, according to local media.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/world/social-issues-world/kin-call-police-mayor-answer-fatal-shootings-two-black-chicagoans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T11:21:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A child holds a candle during a vigil outside Bettie Jones' home on Sunday in Chicago. Jones and Quintonio LeGrier, 19, were killed early Saturday by police responding to a domestic disturbance on the city's West Side, police said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/world/retaliation-coming-zionists-hezbollah-leader-warns-israel-militants-syria-airstrike-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T11:40:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image grab taken from Hezbollah's al-Manar TV on Sunday shows Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, giving a televised address from an undisclosed location in Lebanon on the one-week anniversary of the killing of Samir Kantar (portrait), one of the party's top militants, in a suspected Israeli airstrike in Damascus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/china-passes-first-domestic-violence-law-gay-couples-excluded/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T12:43:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/national/seibu-debut-dinner-trains-featuring-local-fare-scenic-chichibu-line-spring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T13:46:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist's sketch shows a Seibu Chichibu Line dinner train, which will debut in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/world/christmas-storms-twisters-rage-across-u-s-heartland-killing-34-store/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T13:55:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traffic backs up along I-30, right near a site of Saturday's tornado in Garland, Texas, Sunday. At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in apparently strong tornadoes that swept through the Dallas area and caused substantial damage this weekend.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/asia-pacific/filipino-protesters-land-on-disputed-island-in-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T14:36:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pagasa Island, part of the disputed Spratly group of islands, is seen in 2011. protesters have landed there in defiance of what they call China's creeping annexation of Philippine land and waters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-panel-seek-establishment-cia-style-intelligence-body/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T15:32:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/national/decade-high-36-aviation-accidents-mishaps-logged-15-nhk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T16:10:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/business/economy-business/crucial-week-yen-fourth-annual-loss-worlds-top-currency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T17:26:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/national/governor-mayor-push-osaka-become-japans-vice-capital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T17:41:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/national/politics-diplomacy/full-text-announcement-comfort-women-issue-japanese-south-korean-foreign-ministers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T18:28:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida is greeted by South Korean President Park Geun-hye during a courtesy visit Monday in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/reference/eat-areas-rise-japans-convenience-stories-supermarkets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T18:50:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Established in 2014, a K's Cafe in Tokyo's Harumi district is one of 13 such outlets run by the Circle K group that, unlike traditional eat-in areas, aim to offer customers space to take long breaks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/national/government-offices-companies-mark-japans-last-business-day-of-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T20:18:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People go to work in the Kasumigaseki district in Tokyo on Monday, the last working day of the year for government offices and many companies.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/national/japan-eases-flight-time-requirements-non-japanese-pilots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T20:24:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/national/politics-diplomacy/china-cautiously-hails-japan-south-korea-deal-comfort-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T20:32:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/world/crime-legal-world/banned-life-salvadoran-national-soccer-player-alfredo-pacheco-gunned-gas-station/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T21:35:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Costa Rica's Alvaro Saborio (left) fights for the ball with El Salvador's Alfredo Pacheco during their 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match at the national stadium in San Jose on June 8, 2012. Pacheco, who played for the Salvadoran national side before being banned from the sport for life for his involvement in match-fixing, was murdered on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/national/politics-diplomacy/taiwan-asks-japan-resolution-comfort-women-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T21:37:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/national/2015-census-finds-record-population-drop-tsunami-hit-area/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T21:37:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/28/national/panel-holds-first-meeting-finding-new-monju-reactor-operator/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-28T22:17:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/29/world/science-health-world/switzerland-kept-records-150-years-december-clocks-warmest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2015-12-29T11:19:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gunmen exercise alongside the Islamic State flag in this grab from an online video purportedly shot in the southern Philippines. The video came to light in December.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hu Shujie, the head of China's Great Wall Motor Co., speaks at an inauguration ceremony for its research and development base in Yokohama on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 23-year-old man from the city of Kagoshima (left), who has requested the media withhold his name, attends a news conference Tuesday in the city of Miyazaki after the Fukuoka High Court's Miyazaki branch cleared him of raping a teenage girl in 2012, reversing a lower court ruling.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe raises his hand to answer a question during a Lower House committee meeting on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-13T21:05:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-13T23:33:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The new Fujisan View Express train is seen in this illustration.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This frame grab from Tuesday video by the Iranian state-run IRIB News Agency shows the detention of American Navy sailors by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Persian Gulf, Iran. The 10 U.S. Navy sailors detained by Iran after their two small boats allegedly drifted into Iranian territorial waters around one of Iran's Persian Gulf islands a day earlier have been freed, the United States and Iran said Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama takes part in a living room discussion in the home of Lisa Martin and Jeff Martin and their son, Cooper, in Omaha, Nebraska, on Wednesday. Llisa Martin as a new mother had written a letter to Obama about her concens for the future her son would grow up in.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-14T10:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An A-10 Warthog sits on the flightline at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, in 2011. The US Air Force will delay retiring the A-10 — a stalwart attack aircraft beloved by ground troops — because of the ongoing fight against the Islamic State group, a military news site reported Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/13/national/japans-labor-ministry-investigate-2-million-workers-wrong-pension-program/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-14T11:26:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lake with low levels of water can be seen in a drought affected farming land on the outskirts of Canberra Tuesday. Indications are emerging that the current El Nino weather pattern could be easing, after causing drought and other extreme weather that is affecting millions of people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/14/national/cash-strapped-tsukiji-fishmongers-call-greater-help-rent-relocation-costs/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz speaks during a campaign stop on Wednesday in Dorchester, South Carolina.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dead fish lie on the shore of Guanabara Bay in Rio de JaneiroWednesday. Thousands of dead fish washed up on the shores not far from where events are being held at this year's Olympic Games, environmental officials said.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-14T14:56:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-14T14:59:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-14T15:20:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christophe Weber]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kensuke Miyazaki]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-14T17:31:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency officials show off a test facility in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-14T18:08:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of over 5,000 beef cutlets manufactured for use at Curry House Coco Ichibanya restaurants and later discarded for fear of plastic contamination is seen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/14/national/jr-east-shinkansen-decorated-dazzling-livery/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A father and son admire the Genbi Shinkansen, a specially decorated six-car bullet train, at JR Omiya Station in Saitama on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/14/national/seibu-railway-cars-feature-hello-kitty-characters-tourist-draw/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seibu Railway Co. train cars in Saitama Prefecture will bear Hello Kitty characters from Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters from a citizens' group demonstrate in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila against joint Philippine military drills with the U.S. and Japan in June.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters and gas company staff gather at a pizza shop in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Thursday following an explosion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/14/national/crime-legal/number-crimes-japan-falls-postwar-low-2015/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/10/business/economy-business/japan-hopes-to-blow-ahead-in-renewables-with-floating-wind-farm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-20T14:59:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A floating offshore wind turbine in Fukushima.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20130911s2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's symbolical mountain, Mount Fuji, as well as the surrounding Miho no Matsubara pine grove are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage through the longtime efforts of advocates such as former Cultural Affairs Agency chief Seiichi Kondo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/23/national/an-outlook-for-optimism-a-dose-of-much-needed-medicine-for-worlds-ills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-01-20T15:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bitter mountain vegetables called sansai are a harbinger of spring.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tatsuo Hatta, distinguished fellow, Tokyo Foundation; director, Keizai Doyukai Center for Policy Study and Analysis; president, International Center for the Study of East Asian Development; former president, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies; member, Council on Special Economic Zones, Cabinet Office.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/23/national/young-entrepreneur-out-to-change-education/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yusuke Matsuda, founder and CEO of Teach For Japan, is pictured in his office in Tokyo in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/23/national/impact-of-2020-olympics-paralympics-being-felt/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeo Hirata]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The congress center in Davos, Switzerland, where the Annual Meeting 2014 of the World Economic Forum is taking place.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/23/national/ygl-program-inspires-educates/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kohey Takashima, Oisix Inc. president and a Young Global Leader alumnus of the World Economic Forum, holds up a renkon (lotus root) during a company event in which employees experience harvesting vegetables with an Oisix contracted farmer in Chiba Prefecture in April 2007.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/23/national/abenomics-returns-spotlight-to-japan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeshi Niinami, CEO of Lawson Inc., talks to The Japan Times at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/10/business/economy-business/olympic-games-expected-provide-economic-stimulus/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants move through the Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-20T15:03:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-20T15:04:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masako Mori, an Upper House lawmaker and member of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet, speaks to The Japan Times in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/20/business/japan-takes-global-role-vision-tomorrow/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The congress center in Davos, where the World Economic Forum annual meeting is taking place. Davos is in the middle of Swiss Alps and a city popular for holidays, sports and congresses]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-20T16:11:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kagami-biraki (sake barrel opening ceremony) is performed by the representatives of the organizers, as well as Klaus Schwab (sixth from right) and his wife (second from right).]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-20T17:55:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders (second from left) and Japan's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Yoji Muto (second from right) break a sake cask Tuesday in Brussels at a ceremony marking 150 years of bilateral relations.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cookpad employees sample meals based on the company's recipe in Tokyo. The operator of Japan's largest online receipe website has been reportedly rocked by internal management strife.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ben Smith (left), BuzzFeed editor-in-chief, and Daisuke Furuta, founding editor of BuzzFeed Japan, discuss the unit's launch at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Special post boxes like the one seen in this photo will be opened in London for about a month through Feb. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/20/business/onion-worth-washington-post/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pakistani soldiers rescue people from Bacha Khan University following an attack by militants in Charsadda, about 50 kilometers from Peshawar, on Jan. 20, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A city in Akita Prefecture may seek the loan of this statue of a dog considered a model of fidelity.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tohoku University researchers report making progress in raising the accuracy rate of breast cancer detection by combining mammography with ultrasound.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Photo released by German Federal police Wednesday shows special police opening the apartment door in a building in Dresden, eastern Germany, early Wednesday morning. Fifteen people have been arrested in Germany and Turkey as part of coordinated raids against people traffickers. German Federal Police said officers, including special tactical units, searched 16 premises in Germany Wednesday, arresting five people.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker uses an excavator Wednesday to clear a zone where makeshift shelters were set up in the migrant shantytown on the outskirts of Calais known as the "Jungle" where thousands are trying to make their way across the English Channel. A prefectoral decree posted Tuesday gave people 24 hours to leave the premises of a 100-meter-wide strip of land in the "Jungle."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-21T12:50:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-21T12:53:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-21T13:07:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-21T15:21:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-21T15:27:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-21T15:28:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-21T15:52:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-21T16:21:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-21T16:39:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A train departing Ginza Station. An old hit song, "Ginzano Koino Monogatari" (A love story in Ginza) will now be the departing melody at Ginza Station on the Hibiya Line.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-21T18:26:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-21T21:51:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian passes a Sharp Corp. advertisement in Tokyo. A deal with INCJ would keep Sharp within Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-21T22:29:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-22T00:13:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-22T00:14:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Joe Biden addresses an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-22T13:05:40+09:00</lastmod>
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