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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Help the aged: One survey reports that 80 percent of nursing care workers are overworked, underpaid and dissatisfied with their jobs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese only: Trolley buses solely for use by tourists on package deals with major Japanese tour operators are a common sight on Hawaii's roads. Japanese visitors can spend a week or two in Hawaii without ever having to use English or leave their cultural comfort zone.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Ali Taiebnia (left) and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida sign a bilateral investment pact in Tokyo on Feb. 5.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-grave-a-20160324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takahiro Horiuchi, chief priest at Jokyuji Temple in Fuchu, Tokyo, talks in February about the services it offers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/23/world/asia-risk-disasters-africa-likely-suffer-report-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-23T15:19:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-23T15:20:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-23T15:24:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian expat Assi Alghazali is interviewed in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, on Feb. 20.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The bow of a derelict boat possibly from the March 2011 tsunami in Japan is seen floating off the coast of Oregon in this undated photo from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Algae and an oyster are among the clues Oregon biologists believe may link the vestiges of a sea-ravaged boat that washed up on a state beach Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/23/business/japans-obayashi-considers-major-offshore-wind-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-23T16:20:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-23T16:43:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-23T16:49:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sidaarth Kumarevel, a student attending Tathva International Secondary School in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward, poses with his trophy after winning the 7th Japan Times Bee in Tokyo on Saturday. For the winning word, the 12-year-old correctly spelled philhellenism, a veneration of Greece or the Greeks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/23/business/economy-business/nobel-laureate-krugman-calls-tax-hike-delay-stimulus-measures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-23T17:02:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economist Paul Krugman addresses reporters on Tuesday night after meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/23/national/social-issues/abused-boy-left-chance-child-consultation-center-dies-injuries-2014-suicide-attempt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-23T17:03:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials at a child consultation center in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, attend a news conference at the municipal office on Tuesday following the death of a 14-year-old boy who died as a result of a 2014 suicide attempt after the center declined to remove him from his parents despite evidence of physical abuse.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-23T17:04:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bojboard-a-20160324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Upper House lawmakers approve the appointment of Makoto Sakurai as a Bank of Japan board member during a plenary session Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/23/business/rooftop-solar-booms-japan-market-moves-beyond-utilities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-23T17:25:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two homes in this strip of tract housing in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, have solar panels on their roofs. The solar-energy market is said to be shifting from mega-projects to rooftops because of the lack of large spaces in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/23/national/ikata-reactor-passes-safety-screenings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-23T17:26:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-23T18:31:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-23T18:32:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (left) meets with Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga on Wednesday at the Prime Minister’s Office.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/23/national/crime-legal/u-s-sailor-admits-okinawa-rape-police/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-23T19:36:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stands for a moment of silence for the victims of the attacks in Brusselswith Puyallup tribal members Rollen Hargrove (left) and Bill Sterud during a roundtable with Washington Tribal Leaders at Chief Leschi School in Puyallup, Washington, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/23/national/crime-legal/long-haul-truck-driver-hiroshima-tunnel-pileup-dozed-off-wheel/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Narimichi Minami, who was arrested Friday for allegedly causing a deadly pileup inside a tunnel in Hiroshima Prefecture the previous day, enters a police station in Hiroshima Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/23/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-cabinet-says-jcp-promoting-violent-revolution-subject-anti-subversive-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-23T21:32:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-23T21:32:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-23T21:38:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/23/business/economy-business/japan-cuts-economic-assessment-on-weak-consumer-business-sentiment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-23T21:44:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-23T21:50:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wait at the ANA counter at Haneda airport on March 22. Staff from Haneda, Narita and Kansai airports said that they already operate at a heightened level of security and therefore do not plan to introduce fresh measures at the moment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/23/national/japan-aims-to-cut-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-10-billion-tons-by-2050/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-23T22:49:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/national/crime-legal/shizuoka-couple-son-15-arrested-alleged-use-stimulants-positive-urine-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T08:47:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-24T09:05:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A containment shelter for the damaged fourth reactor (left) and the New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure (right) at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant are seen from Ukraine's abandoned town of Pripyat Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-24T13:06:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/national/history/uzbeks-museum-keeps-memories-japanese-prisoners-soviet-camps-alive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T14:45:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jalil Sultanov]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/national/social-issues/firms-filling-needs-graying-populations-aging-pets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T15:56:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A special walking harness for elderly dogs is one of many products being developed as pets live longer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/national/japanese-injured-brussels-bombings-idd-one-said-coma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T16:15:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-24T16:20:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp Corp. President Kozo Takahashi addresses the media as he leaves the company's offices in Tokyo on Feb. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/business/total-build-27-megawatt-solar-plant-ishikawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T16:32:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-24T17:10:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-24T17:15:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sean McArdle Kawakami]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-charge-iran-cyberattacks-banks-new-york-dam-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T18:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-24T18:24:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-24T18:26:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/national/new-emergency-icon-system-denotes-disaster-shelters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T18:29:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/23/national/japanese-man-seriously-hurt-another-slightly-brussels-attacks-firms-step-security-curb-travel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T19:03:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-companies-a-20160324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People stand in a street outside the security perimeter as police search Brussels' Place Princesse Elisabeth in Schaarbeek Tuesday. Belgian police found a bomb and an Islamic State flag during a search of a Brussels apartment carried out hours after deadly attacks in the Belgian capital that killed around 35 people and wounded some 200, including two Japanese men.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/22/world/belgian-media-say-explosions-brussels-airport-several-injured/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T19:05:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two women are seen wounded after explosions rocked Brussels airport on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/business/corporate-business/trading-giant-mitsubishi-projects-first-net-loss-since-founding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T19:08:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/national/crime-legal/police-raid-toyo-tires-headquarters-eye-criminal-charges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T19:09:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/world/brussels-airport-bombers-ordered-large-taxi-got-small-one-left-bomb-behind/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T19:24:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cabmixup-a-20160325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture taken Wednesday shows a building at the corner of the street Rue Max Roos — Max Roosstraat and Rue Maurice Ombiaux, in which an Islamic State flag and explosive materials were found. This appartment could be the place from where the three terrorists of Zaventem airport (two of them committed suicide bombings) came to the airport by taxi,]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/23/world/u-s-airports-airlines-high-alert-deadly-belgium-bombings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T19:28:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-airports-a-20160324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New York Police Department officers stand guard in Times Square on Tuesday. New York and Washington stepped up security in the wake of the attacks in Brussels, deploying counterterrorism reinforcements and the National Guard to airports and stations, officials said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/22/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-denounces-attacks-in-belgium-hikes-security-as-ministry-warns-japanese-travelers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T19:29:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/world/area-around-chernobyl-plant-become-nuclear-dump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T19:36:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/national/politics-diplomacy/g-7-foreign-ministers-focus-terrorism-april-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-24T22:29:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/world/crime-legal-world/biden-chides-senate-snub-obama-top-court-pick-denies-set-precedent-voter-poll-backs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T07:17:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-biden-a-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Georgetown Law School in Washington Thursday. Biden is pointing to his years as Senate Judiciary Committee chairman to cast Republicans' election-year Supreme Court blockade as a dangerous new escalation of partisanship. In a speech at Georgetown Law School, Biden, took credit for moving eight Supreme Court nominees through the committee and to a vote on the Senate floor.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/world/recent-raids-may-led-brussels-bombers-ditch-plan-hit-nuke-plant-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T07:19:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nukehit-a-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soldiers stand guard at the entrance of the closed De Brouckere metro stationThursday in Brussels, two days after a triple bomb attack, claimed by the Islamic State group, hit Brussels' airport and the Maelbeek — Maalbeek subway station, killing 31 people and wounding 300 others.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/national/crime-legal/child-abuse-cases-reach-record-high-2015-police/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T11:02:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/national/social-issues/taking-flak-abe-administration-looks-set-ceiling-japans-notorious-overtime-workload/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T11:04:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/n-labor-a-20160325.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-labor-a-20160325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is considering strengthening restrictions on overtime work as part of a push to overhaul its notoriously demanding labor culture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/business/tech/u-s-officials-confident-can-crack-california-killers-iphone-say-encryption-debate-not/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T12:21:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/b-iphone-a-20160326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-iphone-a-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[J.J. Thompson, founder and CEO of Rook Security, poses in the companions offices in Indianapolis Thursday. Inspired by the FBI-Apple standoff, Rook Security, an Indianapolis-based cybersecurity firm that works with law enforcement, formed an expert team devoted to creating a copy of an iPhone's flash memory, hoping a backup would allow investigators to restore data that could be wiped out after too many wrong password guesses. Rook, however, suspended its efforts when it couldn't find a way to take the phone apart without damaging it.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/national/politics-diplomacy/government-media-equally-blame-debate-free-speech-say-journalists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T13:10:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/n-journalists-a-20160325.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-journalists-a-20160325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalists Soichiro Tahara (left) and Shuntaro Torigoe attend a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/national/japanese-man-deported-turkey-trying-join-islamic-state-group-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T13:19:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/n-isjapan-b-20160325.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-isjapan-b-20160325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese man holds his hands in the air after being stopped by Turkish soldiers in Gaziantep as he reportedly sought to cross the border into Syria on Wednesday. The 23-year-old arrived at Kansai International Airport Thursday night after being deported by Turkish authorities.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/world/offbeat-world/north-carolina-man-arrested-rented-vhs-tape-14-years-overdue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T14:49:45+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/kremlin-lays-reasons-will-back-trump-clinton/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T15:17:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/f-vplvsdt-a-20160326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-vplvsdt-a-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in St. Louis on March 11.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/national/politics-diplomacy/rumored-u-s-presidential-visit-hiroshima-nagasaki-stokes-mixed-reactions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T15:37:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/n-hiroshima-a-20160325.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign tourists view the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima in January. U.S. President Barack Obama is rumored to be considering a visit to the city in May.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/world/tech-help-secure-public-spaces-europeans-wants-surveillance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T15:46:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/f-euspy-a-20160326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-euspy-a-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police patrol Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 in London on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/business/corporate-business/commodity-rout-cuts-%c2%a5970-billion-japans-major-trading-houses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T16:14:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/b-shosha-a-20160326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-shosha-a-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/business/economy-business/japan-inflation-zero-10th-month-boj-goal-remains-distant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T16:50:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/business/japans-household-assets-hit-record-high-end-december/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T16:51:34+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/national/karaoke-firms-think-inside-box-new-release-films-language-classes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T17:01:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/n-karaoke-a-20160326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-karaoke-a-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Karaoke rooms have recently been offered for parties and movie-watching as well as for singing.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/exact-role-clintons-staffer-remains-unknown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T18:28:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/f-pagliano-a-20160326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pagliano-a-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton attends a community forum on counterterrorism and homeland security in Los Angeles on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/national/japanese-police-quiz-turkey-deported-wakayama-man-23-find-no-link-islamic-state-crime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T18:32:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/n-isquestion-a-20160326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-isquestion-a-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese man holds his hands in the air after being stopped by Turkish soldiers in Gaziantep Province as he reportedly sought to cross the border into Syria on Wednesday. His face is blurred to protect his privacy.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/national/politics-diplomacy/diplomat-yutaka-yokoi-named-new-ambassador-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T18:36:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/world/srebrenica-survivors-say-verdict-karadzic-lenient-late/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T18:38:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/f-karadreax-a-20160326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-karadreax-a-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic sits in a courtroom in the Hague on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/national/miyagi-city-preserve-school-building-hit-311-tsunami/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T19:25:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/n-okawa-a-20160326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okawa-a-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, is considering preserving Okawa Elementary School, seen nearly two weeks after the 3/11 disaster (above) and on Feb. 28, 2014 (below).]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/national/crime-legal/japan-sends-two-inmates-gallows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T19:29:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/n-execution-a-20160326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-execution-a-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasutoshi Kamata]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/national/islamic-state-growing-threat-east-asia-including-japan-defense-review/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T21:07:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/national/safety-upgrade-costs-spur-shikoku-electric-ditch-plan-restart-aging-ehime-reactor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T21:07:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/n-ikata-a-20160326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ikata-a-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shikoku Electric Power Co. is considering scrapping reactor 1 (center) of the Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/national/anti-groping-badges-distributed-stations-tokyo-osaka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T21:08:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/n-badges-b-20160326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-badges-b-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Badges distributed by the Chikan Yokushi Katsudo Center to warn would-be gropers on trains.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/national/crime-legal/taiji-told-pay-%c2%a5110000-woman-barred-whale-museum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T21:18:05+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/business/corporate-business/skymark-expected-to-return-to-black/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-25T22:47:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-skymark-a-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Skymark Airlines Inc., Japan's third largest air carrier, filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2015 but is expected to return to the black for the business year ending March.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/national/ministry-touts-cultural-industry-promotion-with-japan-house-diplomacy-hubs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-26T11:39:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/26/national/tourists-to-get-greater-access-to-kyoto-imperial-palace-14-other-sites/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-26T12:38:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/26/asia-pacific/nearly-100-chinese-boats-detected-in-malaysian-waters-officials-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-26T13:06:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/26/asia-pacific/philippines-releases-north-korean-ship-held-under-u-n-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-26T14:05:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/26/national/new-olympic-paralympic-logos-to-be-announced-on-april-25-at-earliest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-26T18:35:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/26/business/tech/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-tirade-by-its-chatbot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-26T18:53:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/f-tay-z-20160327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f tay-z 20160327]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot of a GIF posted on Twitter by Microsoft's chatbot Tay.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/26/national/russia-considering-building-naval-base-in-area-including-disputed-isles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-26T20:10:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/n-rusisles-a-20160327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rusisles-a-20160327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sergei Shoigu]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/26/national/figures-show-record-number-of-asylum-seekers-challenged-rejected-applications-last-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-26T20:12:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/26/business/japan-fruits-bow-top-banana/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-26T20:19:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/p7-yen4living-a-20160327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-yen4living-a-20160327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nature's perfect package — packaged: Bananas are so popular across the archipelago that you can even find the sweet yellow fruit in vending machines.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/business/corporate-business/mazda-mx-5-wins-2016-world-car-year-award/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-26T20:34:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mazda-a-20160326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata won the World Car of the Year Award at the New York International Auto Show on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/national/crime-legal/ex-coach-of-yokozuna-hakuho-given-suspended-prison-term/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-26T20:50:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/n-sumo-a-20160327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n sumo-a 20160327]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuyuki Yamamura]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/26/world/ten-thousand-rabbits-shot-in-new-zealand-easter-hunt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-26T21:36:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/26/national/media-national/teflon-abe-gets-high-marks-despite-unpopular-policies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-26T22:55:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/p18-big-in-japan-b-20160327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-big-in-japan-b-20160327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steering the ship: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s high approval ratings may come from voters who are looking for a confident leader in troubled times.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/26/national/media-national/pundit-didnt-need-actual-harvard-degree-get-top-marks-gaming-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-26T22:56:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/p19-brasor-media-mix-b-20160327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p19-brasor-media-mix-b-20160327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Educational errors: The hallowed grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts — where TV pundit Sean McArdle Kawakami did not attend school, despite claims to the contrary on his CV.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/26/national/the-hokkaido-shinkansen-line-at-a-glance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-26T23:04:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-27T11:56:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image taken from a video on Saturday shows Faycal Cheffou, one of the main suspects of the Brussels attacks, speaking in a video posted on YouTube in 2014 in which he calls himself an independent journalist demanding the authorities respect the rights of asylum seekers.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-27T11:57:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-27T13:17:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the support group for the Osaka Museum of Natural History attend a tour of its treasure house on Feb. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/27/asia-pacific/china-tries-ease-worries-overseas-military-bases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-27T14:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy personnel guide Chinese citizens boarding a naval ship at a port in Aden, in this March 2015 file photo. China has launched an unusual charm offensive to explain its first overseas naval base in Djibouti, seeking to assuage global concerns about military expansionism by portraying the move as Beijing's contribution to regional security and development.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-27T15:36:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yumiko Yokozeki]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-27T16:24:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People outside the Otsu District Court in Shiga Prefecture on March 9 praise a ruling that blocked the restart of two nuclear reactors at the Takahama nuclear power plant in neighboring Fukui Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A general view shows the old citadel of Palmyra after forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Assad recaptured it on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-27T17:48:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local leaders in Kansai are pushing several ideas, including decentralization, to counter projections of long-term depopulation in the region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/26/national/more-pro-pyongyang-koreans-banned-from-re-entering-japan-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-27T17:51:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This former elementary school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, will be turned into a monument to the destruction caused when the March 2011 tsunami nearly wiped out the town. A total of 84 pupils and staff were killed there.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-27T20:25:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-27T22:01:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsuya Okada (center), leader of the newly formed Democratic Party, and other members of what is now Japan's largest opposition party, wave blue handkerchiefs during its inauguration ceremony in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-28T08:30:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in Washington March 21. Trump on Sunday doubled down on his criticism of NATO, a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy for decades, and called for the alliance's overhaul days before world leaders convene in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/28/national/politics-diplomacy/incumbent-governor-pushed-kumamon-mascot-returned-third-term/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-28T10:41:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Incumbent Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima celebrates his victory in a gubernatorial election Sunday in the city of Kumamoto.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/28/business/economy-business/poll-finds-24-top-firms-plan-expand-new-grad-recruitment-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-28T12:25:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-28T14:01:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mother-a-20160329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mika Okada (right) visits a woman in Saitama who gave birth 2½ months earlier to provide postnatal care support on Jan. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-28T14:39:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The interior of the BMW i8 Mirrorless car. The surrounding views are displayed on a monitor attached to the inside of the windshield, where the rear-view mirror is usually located.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-28T16:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iraqi Christians who fled violence in the northern city of Mosul after Islamic State group militants took control of the area attend a Good Friday Mass in Irbil, the capital of the country's autonomous Kurdish region.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-28T16:42:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cubicles in the men's restroom in the Okazaki Service Area along the Shin-Tomei Expressway in Aichi Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-28T17:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign stop Saturday in Madison, Wisconsin.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/28/business/womenomics-wait-line-tenure-obstructs-abes-goal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-28T18:51:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman waits to cross a road in the Tokyo's Kasumigaseki area, which is the center of Japan's government agencies. Although the government aims to increase the ratio of women in supervisory positions, they fill just 6.2 percent of junior management jobs in the bureaucracy.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-28T20:23:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police subdue suspected suicide bombers Monday during a security drill at Tokyo Station. The exercise was held ahead of the Group of Seven leaders' summit in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/28/national/science-health/debris-spotted-floating-around-silent-hitomi-x-ray-satellite/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitomi, the X-ray astronomy satellite Japan launched in February, has lost communication with Earth.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Right-wing demonstrators protest a wave of terrorism in front of the old stock exchange in Brussels on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force Lt. Gen. Kiyoshi Ogawa (left) hands a flag to Daigo Shiomitsu, commander of the new radar unit set up Monday on Yonaguni Island in Okinawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, speaks in Vandalia, Ohio, March 12. Trump wants to win the White House in November. House Speaker Paul Ryan wants to save the Republican Party for the future. Those goals put Trump and Ryan increasingly at odds over both tone and substance as the billionaire businessman barrels toward the GOP presidential nomination.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-29T13:40:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama delivers the keynote address at the awards dinner for Syracuse University's Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama delivers the keynote address at the awards dinner for Syracuse University's Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/clinton-rip-trump-republicans-snub-obamas-top-court-pick/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waits to be introduced before speaking at the Mary Ryan Boys and Girls Club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on March 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/29/asia-pacific/china-security-push-match-economic-model-singapore-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-29T15:16:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (right) meets with President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Xi Jinping]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-30T13:08:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. Hajime Kikima, 71, of Shizuoka Prefecture speaks in February about the possible radiation exposure of fishermen from 1954 U.S. nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-30T19:40:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-30T20:15:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-30T21:14:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuyuki Shimizu, who runs suicide prevention nonprofit organization Lifelink, discusses the revised suicide law during an interview at his Tokyo office on March 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-30T21:36:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-31T07:56:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tourism-z-20160331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government said it plans to double the amount of foreign visitors to Japan and also raise the amount tourists spend to ¥8 trillion by 2020 — more than double last year's record ¥3.48 trillion.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-31T07:57:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recalled Takata air bag inflator is shown in Miami, Florida, in this June 2015 file photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-31T07:58:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/national/humble-pay-phone-vanishing-fixture-japan-came-handy-girl-fled-held-abductor-two-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-31T10:39:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-31T10:54:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in De Pere, Wisconsin, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/national/12-japan-correspondence-schools-caught-using-improper-state-subsidy-claims-woo-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-31T11:33:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Francois Hollande visits the Paris Art Fair at the Grand Palais on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/world/nuclear-security-measure-take-effect-near-future-iaea-head/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-31T14:38:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-31T15:10:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-31T15:19:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n sdf-a 20160323]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Gen Nakatani speaks at the graduation ceremony of the National Defense Academy of Japan on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/world/russia-despite-drawdown-shipping-syria-removing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-31T16:50:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian and Syrian servicemen line up near military jets during a ceremony dedicated to the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria at the Hmeymim air base on Syria on March 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/world/britain-ship-record-amount-nuclear-waste-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-31T16:54:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-31T17:04:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-china-a-20160401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumio Kishida]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/national/kishida-plans-myanmar-visit-forge-closer-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-31T18:40:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/national/three-tokyo-teachers-fight-national-anthem-rule/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-31T19:35:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/national/defense-ministry-probes-spent-round-found-2013-outside-gsdf-barracks-juba-goes-display/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-31T20:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bullet displayed at a Ground Self-Defense Force camp in Kyoto in this undated photo is believed to have been fired at a GSDF South Sudan barracks in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/national/abe-iaea-chief-pledge-enhanced-cooperation-nuclear-security/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-31T20:09:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (second from left), accompanied by his delegation, speaks during a dinner meeting at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/national/sea-wall-guard-tsunami-completed-hamaoka-nuclear-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-31T20:21:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hamaoka-a-20160401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chubu Electric Power Co. said it has finished building a huge sea wall (right) at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/world/politics-diplomacy-world/obamas-last-atomic-summit-finds-nuclear-fears-high-momentum-proliferation-low/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-31T20:26:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-obamanuke-a-20160401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police stand outside a metro station March 22 after an explosion in Brussels. Still reeling from attacks in Brussels and Paris, world leaders are wrestling this week with the chilling prospect of the Islamic State group or other extremists unleashing a nuclear attack on a major Western city.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/business/tech/mobsters-meet-hackers-new-improved-bank-heist/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-31T21:58:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a demonstration of a new large-caliber multiple rocket launching system in file released on March 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-31T21:59:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (left) is welcomed by new Myanmar President Htin Kyaw during a dinner reception in Naypyitaw on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/national/japan-urges-taiwan-relax-restrictions-food-imports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-03-31T22:04:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-31T22:04:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-31T22:08:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riot police try to form a barrier between members of the ultraconservative anti-Korean Zaitokukai organization and a group of counterprotesters in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in May 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-03-31T23:09:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/business/corporate-business/modularization-felled-japans-electronics-titans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T01:52:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-electronics-a-20160401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Sharp Corp. worker inspects a TV at the company's LCD plant in Yaita, Tochigi Prefecture, in November 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/reference/japans-electricity-shake-gives-power-people/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T01:52:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-electricity-a-20160401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to the Energy Market Liberalization Expo in Tokyo on March 4 hear a presentation by Tokyo Electric Power Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/business/tech/japans-professional-video-game-sector-advances-next-level/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T03:03:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-esports-a-20160401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dogura (right) wins Japan's first nationwide competitive video gaming tournament on March 13, as the game is broadcast live online.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/national/politics-diplomacy/suga-declines-comment-remarks-krugman-quoted-abe-saying-germany/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T07:45:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/world/social-issues-world/sponsor-complaints-prompt-canada-accept-10000-syrian-refugees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T10:09:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/national/crime-legal/japans-top-court-apologize-ex-leprosy-patients-segregation-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T10:10:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-leprosy-b-20160401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideo Inoue (second from right), head of the Supreme Court's panel, inspects a site at a former medical prison used for special courts for leprosy patients in Koshi, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Feb. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/national/tepco-starts-freezing-soil-around-fukushima-plant-reactors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T10:11:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/n-icewall-a-20160401.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-icewall-a-20160401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday it has started freezing soil around damaged nuclear reactor buildings at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/national/kishida-plans-nuclear-free-declaration-g-7-foreign-ministers-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T10:13:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/national/crime-legal/arrest-looms-alleged-kidnapper-23-held-girl-two-years-even-took-eat-fled-tokyo-flat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T10:14:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/n-arrest-a-20160401.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-arrest-a-20160401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kabu Terauchi (second from left) leaves a hospital in Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Thursday after he was arrested on suspicion of abducting a teenage girl.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/national/150-fukushima-no-1-workers-got-maximum-radiation-dose-start-crisis-can-now-return-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T10:37:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/asia-pacific/indonesia-to-deploy-f-16s-to-guard-south-china-sea-territory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T12:02:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-01T12:22:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/f-trumpgaffe-a-20160402.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpgaffe-a-20160402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump leaves the stage after speaking at a town hall event in Appleton, Wisconsin, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/world/science-health-world/zika-molecular-map-unveiled-scientific-consensus-blames-virus-microcephaly-gbs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T12:34:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/f-zika-a-20160402.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-zika-a-20160402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Therapist Rozely Fontoura holds Juan Pedro, who has microcephaly, in Recife, Brazil, on Saturday. When Daniele Santos gave birth to a baby boy with microcephaly, a serious birth defect linked to the Zika infection, she was distraught. She was left to look after Juan Pedro alone after her husband left. In addition to traditional treatment at a hospital in Recife, Santos is learning therapeutic massage from an NGO to help alleviate Pedro's symptoms.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/business/california-lawmakers-ok-minimum-hourly-wage-15-2022/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T15:57:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/f-calimin-a-20160402.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-calimin-a-20160402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of a bill to raise California's minimum wage celebrate in the state Senate gallery after the measure was approved by the Senate on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/asia-pacific/swiss-swedish-troops-remain-korea-dmz-monitor-1953-truce/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T15:57:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["The Bridge of No Return" is seen near the truce village of Panmunjom, Korea, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/national/tainted-fukushima-towns-stuck-time-decon-crews-plug-away/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T15:58:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-reporter-a-20160402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police and security officers keep watch along National Route 6 leading to the off-limits zone in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/national/japans-kinki-university-changes-name-silence-jokes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T17:21:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kindai-a-20160402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The former Kinki University in Osaka Prefecture became Kindai University on Friday with the unveiling of a new nameplate in English. Its name in Japanese remains Kinki Daigaku.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/business/corporate-business/ex-missionary-hedge-fund-boss-faith-sun-will-shine-fukushima-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T17:49:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fishing boat swept inland by the 2011 tsunami sits next to a bowling alley within the evacuation zone in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/national/crime-legal/saitama-police-probe-alleged-kidnappers-scrapped-car-seek-know-learned-girls-name/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T19:07:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/national/system-trouble-grounds-jals-domestic-flights-affects-travelers/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jaltrouble-a-20160402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Frustrated passengers flock to Japan Airlines' counters in Haneda airport Friday morning after a problem with the carrier's computer system led to the cancellation of some flights.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/national/japan-firms-begin-challenge-boosting-women-workplace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-01T19:11:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-women-a-20160402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women visit a job fair in Tokyo on March 20. A law requiring firms to promote female staff took effect Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/national/mammoth-burger-ghostbuster-device-japan-enjoys-range-april-fools/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Get the ball rolling: International Olympic Committee evaluation commission members (left) and Japanese representatives, including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (third from the podium) and Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose (fifth from podium), meet at a Tokyo hotel Monday morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The construction site for the new National Stadium, which will replace Tokyo's National Olympic Stadium (center), as seen in June.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiaki Endo]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-04T22:24:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-04T22:24:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tour-a-20150620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteer guide Norio Hasegawa talks Friday with tourists from Colombia in Tokyo's Shinjuku district.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-04T22:25:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This rendering shows how the new National Stadium is intended to look. It is expected to be the central venue of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shibuya Ward in Tokyo plans to ban cars from two of its busiest streets on weekends again.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-04T22:25:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zaha Hadid]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/13/national/diet-oks-creation-national-sports-agency-ahead-2020-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-04T22:26:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-04T22:26:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High school children listen to a foreign member of Kinki University's English village explain how to make a bracelet during an open campus program held last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/national/commemorative-tokyo-olympics-coins-said-in-the-works/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-04T22:26:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-04T22:26:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-brasor-media-mix-a-20150412.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the works: The National Stadium was one of many buildings torn down ahead of the 2020 Olympics. Other changes are afoot as Tokyo seeks to fall in line with standards set by the International Olympic Committee.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/04/national/g-7-foreign-ministers-seek-interpol-info-fight-terrorism-sources-claim-draft-statement-says/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peace Field Japan executive Mari Murahashi poses for a photo in Tokyo on March 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-05T17:22:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Metro President Yoshimitsu Oku answers questions from reporters on Tuesday following an incident on a train the previous day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/05/business/economy-business/real-wages-rise-february-first-time-four-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-05T18:03:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-05T20:53:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-05T21:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wu Dawei (left), the Chinese Foreign Ministry's special representative for Korean Peninsula Affairs, is greeted by Kimihiro Ishikane, the Foreign Ministry's director-general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, before a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/05/business/corporate-business/western-japan-utilities-plan-nuclear-safety-tie-up-to-curb-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-05T21:40:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-05T21:40:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lower House lawmakers begin debating bills related to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/05/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-front-load-budgetary-spending-summer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-05T22:02:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-05T22:19:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Female job seekers take notes as they attend an orientation session at a company booth during a job fair held for fresh graduates in Tokyo on March 20.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-zika-a-20160406.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scientists estimate the risk of transmission of the Zika virus in Japan at 16.6 percent for the remainder of 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/05/business/familymart-japan-post-join-hands-offer-delivery-service-asia/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Post Holdings Co. President Masatsugu Nagato (left) poses for a photo with Japan Post Co. President Toru Takahashi (center) and Japan Post Bank Co. President Norito Ikeda during a joint news conference held Tuesday with FamilyMart Co. on their business tieup in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panama has long faced flak for its reputation as a financial haven for drug lords, tax dodgers and corrupt oligarchs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama's choice to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, meets with Sen. Susan Collins on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday. Republican senators, at the insistence of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, remain steadfast in refusing to hold hearings or a confirmation vote on the nomination during the waning months of Obama's presidency.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-06T10:20:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maneki neko (beckoning cat) ornaments are seen at Gotokuji Temple in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on March 12. Visitors purchase a cat at the temple and then set it in place in gratitude for their wishes coming true.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/06/national/himeji-clocks-record-2-87-million-visitors-2015/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Himeji Castle in Hyogo Prefecture attracted a record 2.87 million visitors in fiscal 2015.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rebel fighters and civilians gather around the wreckage of a Syrian warplane that was shot down in the Talat al-Iss area, south of Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-06T15:40:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mikio Ikegaya]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/06/business/boj-may-reach-limit-bond-purchases-year-former-deputy-governor-says/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazumasa Iwata]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/06/business/corporate-business/takeover-sharp-advances-hon-hais-clean-energy-ambitions/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left to right: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Vice Chairman Tai Jeng-wu, Chairman Terry Gou and Sharp President Kozo Takahashi attend a news conference in Osaka on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The autonomous ship Sea Hunter, developed by DARPA, is shown docked in Portland, Oregon, after its christening ceremony Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elementary school children at Kidsbasecamp Co., a private after-school care provider, get a lift home in this undated photo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mutsuko Kogo, general manager of the diversity and inclusion division at Honda Motor Corp., poses with a Honda bike at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on March 30.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks at a town hall campaign event at Mekeel Christian Academy in Scotia, New York, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoichi Masuzoe]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiko Fujimori waves to supporters during her closing presidential campaign rally in Lima on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Doctors at the National Cancer Center in Tsukiji, Tokyo, unveil equipment used in Boron Neutron Capture Therapy on March 1.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sportsmen Kenichi Tago (left) and Kento Momota deliver an apology. Their hair, which was light brown on Thursday, was newly dyed black, an apparent gesture of remorse.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold a joint news conference at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on Friday. Roivas is on a six-day visit to Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off Friday from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-09T14:18:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, meets Foreign Office Minister Mark Simmonds in London on March 3, 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-09T22:48:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Down in the dumps: The U.N. ranks Japan as the 53rd-happiest nation in the world.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-09T19:11:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Evelyn Sharma helps launch Ritu Kumar's new store in the Mumbai area of Versova on April 18, 2013.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet currently has only three female ministers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Whaling ships leave port in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Saturday to hunt up to 51 minke whales in nearby waters through late May for the government's scientific program.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office carry out a raid on a branch of the Urban Renaissance Agency in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visiting Canadian Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion shakes hands with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida during bilateral talks Saturday evening in the city of Hiroshima ahead of the Group of Seven foreign ministers' meeting that kicked off Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-10T15:45:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-10T18:16:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni (left) and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (right) hold talks in Hiroshima Sunday on the sidelines of a two-day Group of Seven foreign ministers' meeting, which started the same day.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida shake hands prior to their bilateral meeting in Hiroshima on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians cross an intersection in the Shibuya district of Tokyo March 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-10T23:51:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past a campaign mural promoting presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori in Tambo, Peru, on Saturday. Peru's general election took place on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opposition lawmakers pile pressure on Koya Nishikawa (second from right) on Friday. Nishikawa is chairman of the Lower House special committee on the TPP.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/10/national/politics-diplomacy/white-house-aides-mulling-possible-obama-visit-hiroshima-g-7-summit/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leslie Odum Jr. (left) from the Broadway musical "Hamilton," presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio perform Saturday at the 94th annual Inner Circle Dinner in New York. Clinton and de Blasio have come under fire over their comedy skit at the show that some people feel was racially insensitive. Many in the room where it happened, which was filled with New York politicians, power brokers and reporters, laughed at the joke. But it soon made its way around social media and drew some scornful media coverage.]]></image:caption>
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