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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wax ecstatic: TV personality Becky attends the unveiling of her wax figure statue at Madame Tussauds in Tokyo last month. The star has had a rocky start to 2016 after being caught in a scandal with Gesu no Kiwami Otome singer Enon Kawatani.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Kumkop General Foodstuff Factory for Sportspersons in this undated photo released Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Richelda Extremadura (right) executive director of Lila Pilipina, or the League of Filipino Women, an organization of former “comfort women” and their supporters, assists Filipino victims at a forum Friday in suburban Quezon City, northeast of Manila. The event was held ahead of this week’s five-day state visit to the Philippines by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. They women, from left, are: Narcisa Claveria, 85, Hilaria Bustamante, 90, Felicidad Delos Reyes, 87 and Estelita Dy, 85.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoto Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa speaks to reporters last June in Kobe.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather at JR Kanazawa Station in Ishikawa Prefecture last March 14 to view the launch of the first Kagayaki bullet train on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line directly linking Tokyo with the region.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (second from left) are given a tour of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in Sagami Bay, off Kanagawa Prefecture, in October.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiichiro Shimura]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders greets supporters at a town hall at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Condoms manufactured by Sagami Rubber Industries Co. have seen a boom recently as Chinese tourists visiting Japan have been loading up on the firm's products, which may help the company counter a dwindling population and lackluster demand at home.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Julia Hunt (bottom), 12, and Kayla Hunt, 9, slide down a hill together with their friends in Park Ridge, New Jersey, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (right) and Polish President Andrzej Duda hold a joint news conference after their bilateral meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Jan. 18.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants in a hunting course learn how to slaughter a serow under the instruction of local hunters in Ueda, Nagano Prefecture, on Dec. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-01-25T17:43:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Fuji is seen behind an international cargo terminal in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars are capped with snow in the city of Kagoshima on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Japan Secretary-General Yukio Edano is interviewed in his office in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Armed officers patrol Termini Station, in Rome, Monday. Earlier Monday Italian authorities arrested a Moroccan citizen living in southern Italy suspected of seeking to become a foreign fighter for Islamic State. Italy's interior minister, Angelino Alfano, said that the arrest demonstrated the efficiency of new anti-terrorism measures adopted last spring.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rikkyo University has been selected for the education ministry's Top Global University Project.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satoshi Hagiwara (right), a Japanese-Brazilian, participates Nov. 1 with his family members in the first disaster drill for foreign residents held by the city of Takahama, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican U.S. presidential candidates (from left) Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush pose before a Fox News debate in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Etsushi Ohashi shows a bento boxed meal his company will start selling at the Okazaki service area.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A couple ride the Keikyu Love Train in one of four nonreserved box seats decorated with heart designs, in Tokyo on Monday. The special Keikyu Corp. train, launched to promote Valentine's Day on Feb. 14, will run through White Day on March 14, the Tokyo-based railway said.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[FBI agents man an entry as Harney County residents protest the FBI's presence at the Burns Municipal Airport in Burns, Oregon, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keio University student Shiori Suzuki learned about the plight of Rohingya only after visiting Myanmar as a tourist.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/02/business/fsa-monitor-effects-negative-interest-rate-banks-aso-says/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda (right) addresses a news conference at the bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People customarily throw and eat roasted soybeans on Setsubun to drive away evil spirits and invite good fortune.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This government guesthouse in Kyoto may be opened to visitors throughout the year as the government mulls ways to boost the tourism industry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/02/national/crime-legal/japanese-supreme-court-hears-first-case-dementia-liability/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-02T21:27:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker at Oak Clinic, Sumiyoshi in the city of Osaka pulls up and displays frozen eggs on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-02T21:31:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks at a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks on stage as his wife, Melania,  looks on during a caucus watch party in West Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-02T23:34:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-02T23:36:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-03T01:10:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs hold up placards that say "Monitoring is unconstitutional" in front of the Sendai High Court on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flowers grow Tuesday at the site where the body of Ryota Uemura, 13, was found along the Tama River in Kawasaki.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flint, Michigan, residents raise their arms during a town hall meeting about the Flint water crisis on Monday at Flint Trinity Missionary Baptist Church. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has undertaken a five-part strategy to determine whether Flint's water, which has become contaminated with lead, is safe to drink.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to examine the implementation of the decision to open all ground combat units to women.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference following an anti-Islamic State summit with the Foreign Ministers of 23 countries from Europe, the West and the region, on Tuesday in Rome. Washington and its allies vowed to "accelerate and intensify" the fight against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq but distanced themselves from calls for military action to curb the group's expansion in Libya.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter answers questions after a speech at the Economic Club of Washington in the U.S. capital on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A poster with information about the Zika virus hangs on a wall as a pregnant woman undergoes an ultrasound treatment at the Social Security Institute maternity ward in Guatemala City on Tuesday,. The Zika virus is spreading explosively in Latin America along with a spike in cases of microcephaly, a birth defect that causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Silvia Cercheaza (right), secretary to the Romanian ambassador, tells visitors about her nation at the Romanian Embassy in Tokyo on Jan. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/03/national/japan-joins-minamata-convention-mercury-pollution/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Small packs of tissue paper bearing illustrations explaining manners in Japan will be distributed to foreign tourists at airports during the Chinese New Year holidays.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/03/national/tokushima-group-trains-abandoned-dogs-rescue-roles/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sana Okamoto participates in a rescue dog training course with Monaka, a formerly abandoned mixed-breed, in Itano, Tokushima Prefecture, in December.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miwako Maki demonstrates a prototype for a home-based drug-testing device aimed at finding cures for rare diseases.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/03/national/japan-grapples-low-birthrate-fsa-allow-insurance-firms-cover-infertility-treatment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-03T17:23:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-03T17:24:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Motorists travel east on West Dodge Road during a snowstorm Tuesday in Omaha, Nebraska.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/03/business/boj-will-look-media-report-foreshadowing-negative-rates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-03T17:44:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-03T17:48:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg answers questions from the media during a forum  Wednesday,  in at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-03T17:53:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aung San Suu Kyi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/03/business/corporate-business/toyota-pay-22-million-car-loans-discriminated-blacks-asians/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-03T17:57:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-03T18:42:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Popular sumo wrestler Endo (center) stands on a ring in Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Jan. 24, 2014, before a bout where a winner would gain prized money from companies advertised on banners.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/03/national/politics-diplomacy/new-calls-reopening-talks-u-s-okinawa-base-closure-emerge-ginowan-elects-new-mayor/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ginowan Mayor Atsushi Sakima (left) talks with Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga in the Okinawa Prefectural Government building on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/03/national/mother-missing-girl-urges-government-address-north-korea-abductions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-03T20:26:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie Yokota]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/03/national/crime-legal/u-s-murder-suspect-gumo-tried-lesser-charge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-03T20:29:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-03T20:38:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/03/business/corporate-business/panasonic-cuts-full-year-earnings-outlook-amid-china-slowdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-03T21:35:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/03/national/u-n-expert-on-freedom-of-expression-to-visit-japan-in-april/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-03T21:50:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-03T23:37:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/national/missile-launcher-move-launchpad-activity-north-korea-nhk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T10:01:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-04T10:07:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/03/national/crime-legal/retired-slugger-kiyohara-arrested-possessing-stimulants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T10:10:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former professional baseball star Kazuhiro Kiyohara is seen entering the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Tokyo at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday following his arrest late Tuesday night on suspicion of stimulant drug possession.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/03/national/anger-sanctions-threats-greet-north-korea-rocket-launch-plans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T10:11:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/n-nklaunch-a-20160204.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Self-Defense Force member stands by a PAC-3 Patriot missile unit deployed at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sunday ahead of an anticipated North Korean rocket launch.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-republican-sen-rand-paul-suspends-2016-white-house-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T10:13:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/f-randpaul-a-20160205.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rand Paul]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/03/business/economy-business/kuroda-ready-cut-rates-needed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T10:14:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/b-kuroda-a-20160204.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kuroda-a-20160204.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda delivers a speech in Tokyo on Wednesday. The BOJ Policy Board last week introduced a rate of minus 0.1%, an unprecedented move in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/new-hampshire-primary-requires-candidates-recalibrate-campaigns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T10:16:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/f-nhvote-a-20160204.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nhvote-a-20160204.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigns on Tuesday in Claremont, New Hampshire.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/santorum-gop-running-white-house-gives-nod-rubio/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T12:14:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-santorum-a-20160205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum meets with voters in Greenfield, Iowa, on Jan. 19. Santorum said Wednesday he is suspending his second bid for the White House.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/national/japan-sizes-online-menace-israel-offers-expertise-cybersecurity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T13:09:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/n-israel-a-20160205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-israel-a-20160205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official with an Israeli cybersecurity company discusses products during the Special Equipment Exhibition &amp; Conference for Anti-Terrorism in Tokyo's Koto Ward last October.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/national/history/alumni-britains-wwii-japanese-language-effort-honored/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T13:52:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/n-schoolboys-a-20160205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-schoolboys-a-20160205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hugh Cortazzi (left) and Ronald Dore attend an event honoring their contributions as linguists to Anglo-Japanese relations at London's School of Oriental and African Studies on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/national/sapporo-women-passing-furoshiki-cloth-wrapping-skills-others/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T14:33:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wrapping-a-20160205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakura Tomoda, who heads the Musubiya Yuiku women's group, shows off a furoshiki (wrapping cloth) on Jan. 8 in Sapporo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/world/terror-fight-paris-attack-prompts-charge-stifled-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T15:08:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taubira-a-20160205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, shown at New York's John F. Kennedy airport on Jan. 28, tweeted after quitting, "Sometimes to resist means staying, sometimes resisting means leaving."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/national/ministry-tests-smartphone-app-navigate-underground-stations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T16:14:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-navigation-a-20160205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A land ministry official demonstrates a navigation app in the underground shopping mall near Tokyo Station on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/business/corporate-business/mitsui-slashes-profit-forecast-21-amid-rout-commodities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T17:15:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/national/crime-legal/japan-sports-world-saddened-disappointed-arrest-ex-baseball-slugger-kiyohara/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T18:59:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kiyoharareax-a-20160205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuhiro Kiyohara tearfully addresses fans after his last professional baseball game in October 2008.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/national/crime-legal/endangered-slow-lorises-illegally-sold-japan-study-suggests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T19:01:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-primate-a-20160205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Slow lorises are sold widely as exotic pets in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/national/politics-diplomacy/amari-received-%c2%a58-million-payments-says-construction-firm-worker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T19:36:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/national/japan-withdraw-bid-world-heritage-listing-nagasaki-kumamoto-sites-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T20:03:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-unesco-a-20160205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakitsu Church in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, where people practiced Christianity in secret to escape persecution, is among the sites Japan is set to retract from its recommendation to UNESCO for World Heritage listing.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/business/kansai-business-leaders-hail-nuclear-power-plant-restarts-urge-tpp-ratification/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T20:12:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The annual Kansai Economic Seminar kicks off Thursday in Kyoto to discuss ways to boost the regional economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/national/crime-legal/prosecutors-seek-10-15-years-ringleader-kawasaki-teen-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T21:47:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/business/corporate-business/foxconns-gou-said-plan-appeal-sharp-deal-tomorrow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T21:49:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-foxconn-a-20160205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp Chief Executive Officer Kozo Takahashi speaks during a news conference on Thursday in Tokyo. He said neither of its potential partners is preferred over the other at this point.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-explains-alert-systems-used-north-korea-fires-missile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T21:58:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-missilealert-a-20160205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Maritime Self-Defense Force transport vessel carrying ground-based interceptor missiles leaves its base in Hiroshima Prefecture for Okinawa on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/04/business/corporate-business/toshiba-loss-outlook-grows-amid-accounting-scandal-fallout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-04T21:59:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The buildings of Share Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture resemble a camp or ski resort more than a center for the elderly.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/asia-pacific/china-island-building-expands-asean-leaders-gather-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T13:40:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-16T14:42:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles sit parked in Yokohama on Feb. 9. Despite more than three years of Abenomics, the era of easy gains in Japan's stock market is over, a Japanese hedge fund has warned.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/national/crime-legal/police-arrest-gunma-man-okinawa-suspect-sold-drugs-ex-slugger-kiyohara/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T14:53:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Media gather outside the Metropolitan Police Department building in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, early Tuesday after a man was arrested on suspicion of selling drugs to former baseball player Kazuhiro Kiyohara.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/national/science-health/japans-first-female-astronaut-chiaki-mukai-head-u-n-space-subcommittee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T15:16:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/national/actor-dies-rehearsal-pierced-abdomen-prop-samurai-sword/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T16:18:20+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/15/business/financial-markets/gdp-contraction-darkens-outlook-japan-policymakers-run-options/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T18:47:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-analysis-a-20160216.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An elderly woman passes a stock price display in Tokyo on Monday. The Nikkei's leap of 1,069 points on the day was one of its best ever.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/business/economy-business/japanese-household-spending-falls-2-7/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T19:06:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/asia-pacific/south-china-sea-tensions-military-reforms-look-fuel-china-defense-spending-boost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T21:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese People's Liberation Army soldier performs a motorcycle stunt during a demonstration for the public at the Ngong Suen Chau Barracks in Hong Kong last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/business/garuda-adds-luxury-seats-cathay-offering-discounts-china-airlines-expands-flights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T21:41:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/asia-pacific/china-raps-australia-foreign-minister-ahead-beijing-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T21:42:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/asia-pacific/australia-ask-china-others-will-get-access-reclaimed-south-china-sea-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T22:03:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop addresses reporters in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/national/crime-legal/man-landed-drone-roof-japanese-prime-ministers-office-gets-suspended-sentence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T22:16:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The drone owned by Yasuo Yamamoto sits on top of the Prime Minister's Office last April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/world/ukrainian-military-reports-highest-daily-death-toll-since-november/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T22:17:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/business/russia-saudis-tentatively-offer-freeze-oil-output-levels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T22:18:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oil pumps work in the desert oil fields of Sakhir, Bahrain, last September. Russia's energy minister said Tuesday that it has agreed with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Venezuela to freeze oil production at January 2016 levels if other producers do the same following a closed-door meeting in the Doha.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/national/japan-u-s-vow-step-defense-ties-north-korean-provocation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T22:27:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Navy Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., commander of the United States Pacific Command, talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/asia-pacific/beijings-non-navy-boats-south-china-sea-stoke-concern-u-s-7th-fleet-commander/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T23:08:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/business/corporate-business/solar-frontier-dbj-taiyo-oil-build-solar-farm-yamaguchi-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T23:49:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/business/corporate-business/softbank-plans-record-4-4-billion-buyback-share-slide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T23:49:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/national/politics-diplomacy/twin-lower-house-elections-set-april-24/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T23:55:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kensuke Miyazaki attends a Lower House plenary session Tuesday, where his resignation was approved.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/national/socially-conscious-youngsters-helping-tohoku-survivors-school-tuition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-16T23:58:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satoshi Okuno (left) talks with Midori Chiba, a beneficiary of the Chance for Children program, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in November.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/national/foreign-visitors-soared-52-january-second-largest-monthly-total/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T00:02:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/business/japans-daicel-britains-bae-target-helicopter-air-bags-u-s-army/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T00:04:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A logo of Daicel Corp., which makes air bag inflators, is seen at its Tokyo headquarters in 2014. Japanese Daicel and Britain's biggest defense firm, BAE Systems, are designing an air bag for military helicopters that they hope to sell to the U.S. Army.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/national/crime-legal/nhk-fires-newsman-kenichi-tsukamoto-charges-dangerous-drug-production/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T00:05:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/17/world/crime-legal-world/top-court-frozen-obama-climate-plan-may-get-new-legal-life-scalias-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T07:38:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The bench of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is seen draped with black wool crepe in memoriam inside the Supreme Court in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/17/world/kin-say-freed-american-journalists-left-bahrain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T07:41:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bahraini lawyer Mohammed al-Jishi (left) walks out of the public prosecution office after meeting four detained American journalists, identified as Anna Day and three members of her camera crew, in Manama on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-17T14:39:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indonesian President Joko Widodo listens as U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Rancho Mirage, California, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/17/national/nagano-tops-survey-prefectures-japanese-like-move/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T15:08:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Snow-covered hillsides surround the popular Kamikochi resort in Nagano Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/national/%c2%a5300-billion-price-tag-projected-scrapping-monju/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T15:41:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Monju fast-breeder reactor is located on the coast in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/17/asia-pacific/canadian-behind-rodman-trips-bring-hockey-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T15:53:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean children pass a signboard depicting ice hockey players in this undated photo taken in Pyongyang.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/17/business/economy-business/machinery-orders-rose-4-2-percent-december/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T16:47:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker rests at a Tokyo construction site on Wednesday. The government says machinery orders are "picking up."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/17/world/crime-legal-world/apple-ordered-aid-fbi-unlocking-california-shooters-phone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T17:13:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-17T17:14:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/17/business/japans-auto-unions-seek-slimmer-pay-raises-economy-stagnates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T18:16:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. vehicles are assembled at a plant in Kanda, Fukuoka Prefecture, last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/17/national/social-issues/third-japanese-city-recognizes-sex-unions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T18:17:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/n-samesex-z-20160218.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n samesex z 20160218]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mie Prefecture's Iga will become the third city to recognize same-sex unions after Tokyo's Shibuya Ward and Setagaya Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/17/national/history/taiwan-court-orders-compensation-slaying-japanese-man-1947/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T18:36:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-17T20:27:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-comfort-b-20160218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A former "comfort woman" joins a rally outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/17/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-arranging-visit-ukraines-poroshenko/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T20:28:19+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/17/national/social-issues/japan-tweaking-cost-health-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T20:52:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A list of revisions for fees hospitals and pharmacies can charge under the public health insurance program shows how the government is trying to tweak financial incentives for them.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/17/national/politics-diplomacy/polls-show-abe-riding-storm-bad-news/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T21:51:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/17/national/crime-legal/japans-first-miss-international-ikumi-yoshimatsu-settles-stalking-lawsuit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-17T21:52:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-settlement-a-20160218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ikumi Yoshimatsu, Miss International 2012, holds a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/18/world/science-health-world/zika-linked-508-confirmed-microcephaly-cases-brazil-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-18T06:13:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Patients receive treatment at a medical mobile unit in the Brazlandia neighborhood of Brasilia Wednesday. The medical unit is in place to attend those who have been affected by diseases transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, like dengue, malaria and Zika.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/18/world/highly-dangerous-radioactive-material-stolen-15-iraq-arms-potential/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-18T08:18:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-radioactive-a-20160219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security guard walks past the Weatherford booth during the Basra International trade fair for oil and gas in Basra, Iraq in 2010. Iraq is searching for "highly dangerous" radioactive material stolen last year, according to an environment ministry document and seven security, environmental and provincial officials who fear it could be used as a weapon if acquired by Islamic State.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vice President Joe Biden speaks Wednesday after touring the Port of New Orleans to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in New Orleans. Biden, in a radio interview airing Thursday, said that President Obama is looking to nominate a Supreme Court candidate who has enjoyed past Republican support, offering some of the first indications of the president's criteria in replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez speaks about President Barack Obama's planned trip to Cuba during a news conference Thursday in Union City, New Jersey. Obama said Thursday he'll raise human rights issues and other U.S. concerns with Cuban President Raul Castro during a history-making visit to the communist island nation. The brief visit in mid-March will mark a watershed moment in relations between the U.S. and Cuba, making Obama the first sitting U.S. president to set foot on the island in nearly seven decades.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Banknotes worth ¥119 million held by a 48-year-old Japanese man are seen after they were found by aviation police at Taoyuan International Airport in Taiwan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A huge tsunami caused by Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 hit the Tohoku region, destroyed large areas near the eastern coast. The police are reviewing how evidence needs to be stored, as the tsunami washed away key items and documents at some police stations in the region.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiyuki Shiga, chairman and chief executive officer of the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, speaks in a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Neighbors early Friday look toward a church in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, where a man had barricaded himself inside with a woman hostage.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Same as it ever was: The Kansai Economic Federation held a forum in Osaka last month, but there wasn't much talk on new ideas.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A coalition of security companies says the perpetrators of the 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment hack were not activists or disgruntled employees and likely had attacked other targets in Asia.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the North Korean women's soccer team arrive at Kansai International Airport in Osaka on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Evan Wolfson, founder and president of Freedom to Marry, delivers a speech in Osaka on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign is seen outside the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. In a new era of below-zero rates, money managers are grappling with new market realities.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Dodo and Red Parakeet," attributed to William Hodges, circa 1773]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (right) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hold a press conference at the State Department in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, after the two sides made progress toward agreeing on a United Nations sanctions resolution to punish North Korea for its recent nuclear tests, the powers' top diplomats said. An agreement was reached Wednesday, envoys said.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Student activists burn a mock missile during a protest in front of the Chinese Consulate in Manila on Feb. 19. The protesters denounce China's deployment of surface-to-air missile system on Woody Island, part of the Paracel chain  also claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thai army soldiers patrol a pier popular among Chinese tourist at the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok Feb. 16. The perpetrators of last year's deadly explosion at a Bangkok shrine originally chose the pier packed with Chinese tourists as their primary target and had amassed enough chemicals to make 10 equally powerful bombs, the chief of Thailand's police bomb squad told Reuters.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-26T11:56:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-26T12:07:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Bernie Sanders action figure prototype is displayed with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama figures in a photo illustration taken in the Brooklyn borough of New York Thursday. A Brooklyn product design company, FCTRY, created a prototype for the 6-inch (15-cm) tall plastic version of the U.S. senator from Vermont and started a Kickstarter campaign with a goal of raising $15,000 to fund production.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-26T13:23:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Juan Carlos Lentijo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/26/world/crime-legal-world/gunman-goes-kansas-shooting-spree-slays-four-cops-kill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-26T13:34:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police guard the front door of Excel Industries in Hesston, Kansas, Thursday after where a gunman killed an undetermined number of people and injured many more.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/26/world/u-s-test-fires-missile-amid-debate-upgrades-aging-nuclear-arsenal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-26T13:41:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-26T14:22:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese-Brazilians Silas Alves Okada (right) and Lucas Toshio Suzuchi (center), talk about their teenage experiences of being left out of school while Suzuchi's wife looks on in November in Kamisato, Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-26T16:38:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators head to a house where a grenade as well as guns and bullets were found on Thursday in Sendai.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The core consumer price index, released Friday, did not move in January. A shopper (front left) browses at a store while others walk though a shopping street in the Sugamo district of Tokyo in May 2015.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lab technician researching a cure for Zika displays mosquitos in a test tube at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 19, 2016. Confirmation of Japan's first Zika infection since an outbreak erupted in Latin America last year has elevated concern about the disease.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Comparison between two sea surface temperature datasets for the month of October 2015. At the top is the sea surface temperatures from the ERSSTv4 dataset. Below that is the monthly value of the averaged weekly OISSTv2 dataset.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-26T18:39:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-26T19:15:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-26T19:16:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-26T19:39:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-26T20:42:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Katsu Maru No. 2, which was washed away from Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, by tsunami on March 11, 2011, is loaded onto a larger vessel in Honolulu last Saturday for the journey home.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/26/business/economy-business/japans-government-talks-postponing-2017-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-26T20:55:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-26T21:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-26T21:02:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ads for Sharp products are seen at an electronics shop in Tokyo in 2012. The troubled electronics giant accepted a rescue package by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. of Taiwan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past signage advertising Nintendo products outside an electronics store in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/26/national/teen-in-kanagawa-prefecture-diagnosed-with-zika-virus/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-zika-a-20160226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Aedes aegypti mosquito like this one can carry the Zika virus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/26/national/politics-diplomacy/midterm-census-confirms-population-shrinkage-vote-value-disparities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-26T23:35:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-02-27T12:26:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou speaks at the outset of his talks with Deputy Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The No. 4 reactor (second from left) at the Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture shut down Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/29/national/politics-diplomacy/dpj-ishin-merge-march-27-special-convention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-02-29T22:46:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters are escorted out of a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Radford University in Radford, Virginia, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filipinos, together with Vietnamese expatriates, display placards during a rally at the Chinese Consulate to protest China's island-building and deployment of surface-to-air missile system on the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, on Thursday in the financial district of Makati city, east of Manila.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters post images of missing booksellers at the Beijing liaison office in Hong Kong. At left is a picture of detained storekeeper Gui Minhai.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese warship is seen after taking part in an exercise with Cambodian naval officers in Preah Sihanouk province, Cambodia, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-01T14:21:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-01T15:01:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A plant used for testing carbon capture and storage is shown last September in Tomakomai, Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/05/national/ministry-announces-new-junior-high-school-english-exam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-01T15:16:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-01T15:17:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takuro Segawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/01/national/science-health/japan-plans-stipulate-80-emission-cut-goal-2050/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bar in a hotel near Lake Kawaguchi in Yamanashi Prefecture provides a scenic view of Mount Fuji.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-01T16:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese chefs whose restaurants were named to William Reed Business Media's list of the 50 best in Asia get together in Bangkok on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-01T17:35:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-01T17:38:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-01T18:07:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Experts say Japan's Soryu-class submarine appears to have emerged as the front-runner in the race to build Australia's next-generation vessels.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a Lower House Budget Committee session Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-01T22:20:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeyuki Tsuchida (left), head of the Value Creation Investment Group for Innovation Network Corp. of Japan, astronaut Naoko Yamazaki (center) and Astroscale CEO Nobu Okada join hands behind their space debris technology in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama plant in Fukui Prefecture is seen from the air Monday. Reactor 4 is at the lower left.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A satellite image taken at 11 p.m. Monday shows a big low-pressure system near Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-02T12:08:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Megumi Hiroshima makes a stole from Aizu cotton cloth in Aizubange, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p14 flower-a 20140311]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Subaru Niizuma, 6, accompanied by his sister Shizuku, 8, and father Atsushi, 40, throws a pink flower into the ocean in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sunday in honor of his grandmother, who died in the March 11 tsunami and was fond of pink flowers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fisherman on a boat moored in Onahama port in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, unloads containers of fish caught nearby in the Pacific Ocean in January.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of the shadows: Kyaba-kura hostesses and other assorted nightspot workers hold a rally in 2010 through the Kabuki-cho entertainment district in Shinjuku, calling for better work conditions, among other issues.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-04T09:31:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Social construct: An engineer working on the Tokyo Gaikan Expressway explains the project to Akihiro Ota (right), then the infrastructure minister, in 2014. Channelling working women into sectors where there are labor shortages, such as construction, will be vital if Japan is to have any hope of meeting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ambitious growth target.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-04T09:36:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton checks her Blackberry from a desk inside a C-17 military plane upon her departure from Malta bound for Tripoli in 2011. Clinton's work-related emails from her private account are now public, a ledger longer than 52,000 pages detailing her tenure as America's top diplomat while failing to resolve questions about how she and her closest aides handled classified information.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/04/business/four-japanese-diesel-vehicles-flunk-road-nitrogen-oxide-emissions-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-04T09:43:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-04T11:14:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Alice Wells speaks at the official delivery of eight UH-60A helicopters, better known as Blackhawks, from the United States to Jordan's Marka Airport, in Amman Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese truck crosses the Yalu Bridge on its way to the North Korean town of Sinuiju from the Chinese border town of Dandong on Thursday. The United Nations adopted the toughest sanctions to date on North Korea in response to its fourth nuclear test and rocket launch.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/03/national/nara-allow-deer-culled-new-management-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-04T12:32:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deer roam free in Nara Park in the city of Nara. The Nara Prefectural Government has decided to redefine the areas where the animals are protected.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/04/national/tohoku-tsunami-debris-invasive-life-still-turning-north-american-west-coast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-04T13:40:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo taken June 7, 2012, more than four different species of sea worms are found on a floating dock in Newport, Oregon, that was swept away from the port of Misawa, Aomori Prefecture, in the March 2011 tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/04/business/schengen-brexit-risks-euro-stacking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-04T14:51:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-04T15:54:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students at Seishin Joshi Gakuin school in Tokyo listen to a speech in December by Jafar Atayee, an Afghan who came to Japan in 2009 after fleeing his home country and who has since sought refugee status.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-04T16:31:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-04T17:08:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-04T17:14:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-04T17:25:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Japan and Ishin no To (Japan Innovation Party) officials announce plans for public input into their new political party name, at a news conference at the Diet on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/04/world/science-health-world/u-s-proposes-lifting-protections-grizzlies-yellowstone-area/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-04T18:28:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/04/business/jw-marriott-hotel-open-nara-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-04T18:29:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-04T20:31:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda (center) and the central bank's policymakers attend a meeting on Dec. 18 at its headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/03/national/nra-team-set-announce-whether-fault-ishikawa-reactor-active/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-04T20:31:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n nra-a 20160304]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The restart of reactors at Hokuriku Electric Power Co.'s Shika nuclear plant in Ishikawa Prefecture hinges on a judgment by the Nuclear Regulation Authority on a suspected active fault running underneath them.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-04T20:38:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-04T20:57:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/04/business/economy-business/boj-chief-kuroda-says-interest-rates-wont-drop-now/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-04T21:43:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/04/business/japans-major-business-lobby-to-urge-workers-to-take-more-holidays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-04T22:06:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-04T22:06:56+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/04/business/corporate-business/facebook-to-ditch-tax-reducing-u-k-sales-structure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-04T23:02:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-05T11:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senjafuda business cards are used by geisha or maiko (apprentice geisha) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. A foundation in the city will start subsidizing the cards in an effort to promote the culture of female entertainers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/04/national/review-team-works-weigh-location-2020-olympics-cauldron-new-tokyo-stadium/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-05T11:18:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The cauldron location at the new National Stadium, seen in this artist's projection, is under review amid fears the wooden interiors could breach fire laws.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/06/national/documenting-tohokus-long-road-to-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-06T21:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An aerial view of Fukushima Prefecture as seen from a Cessna aircraft on March 12, 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-05T15:38:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mika Matsuno, winner of the 2016 Miss Nippon beauty pageant, shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his office in Tokyo Friday. Matsuno, a 20-year-old sophomore at Keio University, is the daughter of Yorihisa Matsuno, who leads opposition party Ishin no To (Japan Innovation Party).]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-05T22:32:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-05T18:40:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shelf displaying bottles of wine inside a branch of Marks &amp; Spencer in London on March 2. The European Union maintains Japan's smaller wine bottles would allow Japanese sellers to undercut prices.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/05/business/eu-may-downgrade-summit-with-japan-as-trade-talks-stall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-05T21:41:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the hot seat: Former pro baseball slugger Kazuhiro Kiyohara avoids the cameras after being arrested for alleged possession of illegal stimulants. Shukan Bunshun magazine broke this story and has scored a number of other scoops this year after editor Manabu Shintani returned to the weekly following a three-month leave of absence.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-05T23:03:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kozo Takahashi leaves the company’s Tokyo headquarters on Feb. 25 after reports of Sharp agreeing to a takeover by Taiwan’s Foxconn.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/05/national/one-29-babies-2014-least-one-foreign-parent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-06T12:29:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[baby laying in the bed.]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Of the 1.02 million babies born in Japan in 2014, an estimated 35,000, or about 3.4 percent, had at least one parent who is not Japanese.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-06T12:54:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New recruits at Fast Retailing Co. take part in an initiation ceremony in Tokyo Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This possible new species of octopus was discovered more than 4 kilometers down on the Pacific Ocean floor near the Hawaiian Islands.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The leader of the left-wing Smer-Social Democracy party, Prime Minister Robert Fico, addresses a news conference at party headquarters on Sunday in Bratislava following general elections in Slovakia.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-06T22:35:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alaskan musher DeeDee Jonrowe and her team leave the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to begin the near 1,000-mile (1,600-km) journey through Alaska's frigid wilderness in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/06/business/corporate-business/lotte-shareholders-reject-bid-remove-chairman-shin-dong-bin-family-feud-continues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-06T23:18:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shin Dong-joo (Hiroyuki Shigemitsu in Japanese), elder son of Lotte Holdings Co. founder Shin Kyuk-ho (Takeo Shigemitsu), talks to reporters at the Japanese unit's headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday after his bid to be reinstated as a Lotte executive was rejected.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-arranging-mugabe-92-visit-japan-late-march-summit-ahead-kenya-ticad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T06:37:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe gestures Feb. 27 as he delivers his speech during celebrations to mark his 92nd birthday celebrations in Masvingo about 300 km south of Harare. "Do you want me to punch you to the floor to realize I am still there?" The speaker was not a boxer trash-talking before a fight. It was Mugabe, who is 92 and known for pugnacious comments. This one, to an interviewer from state TV, was in response to a question about retirement plans and who would succeed him. "Why 'successor' when I am still there?" Mugabe said in the interview aired Thursday night. "Why do you want a successor?"]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/06/national/line-16000-green-tea-dumplings-kyoto-prefecture-city-sets-guinness-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T12:09:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adults and children participate in an event to set a record for the longest line of green tea dumplings in the city of Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, on Sunday. A Guinness World Record's official confirmed the line of dumplings, at 341.57 meters, was the world's longest.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/national/crime-legal/cops-issued-almost-8000-penalties-reckless-bicycling-since-new-laws-took-effect-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T12:11:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/business/toray-industries-pushes-health-monitoring-textile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T16:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toray-a-20160308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new textile by Toray Industries can measure the wearer's biometric signals.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-weighs-large-scale-oda-myanmar-suu-kyis-request/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T16:13:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/world/islamic-state-takes-credit-suicide-truck-bomb-blast-deadly-60-south-baghdad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T17:28:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man reacts at the site of a bomb attack at a checkpoint in the city of Hilla, south of Baghdad, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/business/universal-studios-japan-attracts-record-number-visitors-fiscal-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T17:40:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A ceremony is held at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka on Thursday to celebrate the theme park’s record-breaking year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/world/russia-cut-defense-spending-5-report-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T17:44:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/national/crime-legal/plaintiffs-appeal-ruling-leaving-ineligible-nagasaki-bomb-recognition-government-aid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T18:07:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeshi Yamauchi (left), leader of a group of 151 plaintiffs seeking to be acknowledged as hibakusha, heads to the Nagasaki District Court on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/national/politics-diplomacy/namibian-ambassador-says-japan-helped-build-economic-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T18:13:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Namibian Ambassador Sophia-Namupa Nangombe is interviewed Monday at The Japan Times building in Minato Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/06/national/social-issues/aging-indebted-japan-debates-right-die-dignity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T19:19:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoji Nakanishi, president of the nonprofit Human Care Association, worries that giving legal protection to doctors who stop life-prolonging care with patient consent would lead to the legalization of euthanasia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/business/japans-prefectures-map-damage-agriculture-sectors-tpp-trade-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T19:20:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/business/corporate-business/drugmaker-wins-big-japan-gamble-leads-landmark-cancer-drug/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T19:37:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-drugmaker-a-20160308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The approval of Opdivo, the drug Ono Pharmaceutical Co. worked on with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. in Japan 20 months ago was the first worldwide in a new class of cancer treatments.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/national/two-thirds-local-government-leaders-want-reliance-nuclear-power-reduced-ended-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T19:41:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/06/national/ships-prepare-return-331-kg-plutonium-stash-japan-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T19:43:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Pacific Heron (left) and the Pacific Egret sit in Kobe on Saturday ahead of a 52-day voyage to transport 331 kg of toxic plutonium to the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/world/science-health-world/emotive-humanoids-may-one-day-care-for-people-with-dementia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T20:38:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/f-robot-z-20160308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-robot-z-20160308]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NTU Professor Thalmann and a humanoid that she and her team created take questions during an interview at Nanyang Technological University's Institute of Media Innovation in Singapore.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/world/trump-tower-funded-rich-chinese-invest-cash-visas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T23:05:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trump-tower-a-20160308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trump Tower, a well-known New York landmark, contains offices and upscale apartments.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/business/economy-business/bojs-kuroda-says-impact-next-sales-tax-hike-less-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-07T23:28:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/national/activists-form-network-support-upper-house-candidates-fighting-japans-security-laws/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-08T10:10:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sealds-a-20160308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of citizens' groups announce Monday in Osaka the launch of a coalition that includes the Kansai branch of Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy (SEALDs).]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/08/world/icao-boosts-real-time-tracking-planes-distress-mh370-disappearance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-08T11:42:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/08/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-top-court-strikes-alabama-rejection-lesbians-parental-rights-adopted-trio/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-08T11:42:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/disbelief-turns-panic-foreign-diplomats-voice-alarm-u-s-officials-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-08T11:43:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/f-trumpalarm-a-20160309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpalarm-a-20160309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a campaign event in Concord, North Carolina, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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