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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hazuki Kikuchi attaches milking equipment to a cow at a farm in Shintoku, Hokkaido, as part of training at the Ladies Farm School in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-20T16:38:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-20T16:59:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Evacuees who have pets are seen in accommodations at Ryunosuke Animal Hospital in the city of Kumamoto on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-20T17:10:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Phil Hogan]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-20T17:19:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was one of the record number of tourists who visited Hiroshima this past fiscal year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-20T19:49:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Hakuryu, a Soryu-class submarine, is seen docked at a naval base in Sydney on Friday ahead of joint exercises with the Australian Navy.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-20T19:54:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents walk on a street next to houses destroyed in the recent earthquakes in Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture. on April 17, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/20/national/politics-diplomacy/clintons-election-momentum-makes-continuity-asia-pivot-likely/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-20T20:58:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets attendees at her New York presidential primary rally in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Tuesday evening.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/20/national/politics-diplomacy/quakes-seen-rule-possibility-double-election-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-20T21:10:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-20T21:47:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-21T07:47:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump signs autographs at a campaign event at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-21T09:31:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The terminal at Cologne-Bonn airport near Cologne, Germany, is seen in 2010.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-21T09:38:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-21T09:43:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Belgian nuclear power plant of Tihange is seen in 2009 near Huy. Germany asked neighboring Belgium on Wednesday to temporarily shutter two aging nuclear plants near their border over safety concerns.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-21T11:10:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-21T11:18:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Akuto shows off barrels of whisky at his distillery, Venture Whisky Ltd., in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture. His single malts sell for as much as ¥100,000 a bottle.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/20/national/ginza-kumamoto-kan-antenna-shop-logs-record-sales-disaster-hit-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-21T11:25:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crowds of people are seen at Ginza Kumamoto-kan, Kumamoto Prefecture's "antenna shop" located in Tokyo's Ginza district, on Wednesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-21T11:29:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chieko Miyamura holds her daughter, Mei, Tuesday at Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto, as obstetrician Kimiko Okumura (right) looks on.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/21/national/japans-revised-insurance-law-leads-raft-new-policy-options/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-21T13:54:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo provided by Aiaru Syogakutankihoken Corp. shows a customer consulting a representative.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/21/national/kumamoto-ramen-chain-serves-bowls-evacuees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-21T15:38:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers of Ajisen Ramen chain and volunteers provide free ramen noodles at a shelter in the town of Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-21T15:49:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artist Chen Forng-Shean points to his miniature portrait of Taiwanese President-elect Tsai Ing-wen on a grain of rice in Taipei on Monday. The Chinese characters read, "Modest, modest and even more modest."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-21T15:50:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsai Ing-wen]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masaki Sugisawa (left), a Sendai native who survived the Kumamoto earthquake last week, asks for donations at Sendai Station Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A masakaki wooden tribute signed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) is offered to Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-21T23:55:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks before business leaders in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/21/business/corporate-business/sharp-hon-hai-develop-tvs-jointly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-21T23:57:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-21T23:57:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Barack Obama arrives at Winfield House on Marine One in London Thursday as he arrives in England from Saudi Arabia.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-22T09:46:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gov. Rick Snyder speaks to the press on Wednesday, in Lansing, Michigan. Months after officials conceded that a series of bad decisions had caused a disaster, charges were filed against a pair of state Department of Environmental Quality employees and a local water treatment supervisor and stem from an investigation by the office of the attorney general.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-22T13:37:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo headquarters of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. is seen Wednesday. The carmaker is at the center of a fresh scandal over falsifying fuel economy tests.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shelves at this convenience store in the city of Kumamoto lie empty on Wednesday morning. All the food delivered in the morning sold out in about an hour.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is submitting a bill to legalize medical marijuana and increase the amount of the drug that people can carry legally for personal consumption.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmakers headed by Hidehisa Otsuji (right behind the priest) visit Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-22T15:40:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[If the yen continues to strengthen, Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda believes it may affect consumer prices and business confidence.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man in his 30s (right) who was arrested for allegedly stabbing his family members enters a police station in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Friday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/22/national/science-health/japan-panel-greenlights-gene-editing-of-human-eggs-for-basic-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-22T22:37:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-22T22:58:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo shows the damage made by a 113-meter-long, 1,350-ton bridge beam that fell while under construction at the Shin-Meishin Expressway in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-22T22:59:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A notice declaring that a house is in dangerous condition is seen in the quake-hit town of Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Thursday. A shortage of inspectors has meant a tense waiting game for many homeowners. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/22/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-motors-likely-used-unapproved-testing-method-on-pajero-i-miev/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-22T23:04:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-22T23:21:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue workers resume a search for victims in the village of Minamiaso, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Friday. Their effort was earlier suspended when bad weather set in. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/17/national/kumamoto-quake-info-where-to-go-how-to-help/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-23T13:44:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[pracitcalkumamotoinfo]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up at an evacuation center in Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, after two major quakes had struck the area.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Julian Castro]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/23/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-bomb-survivors-hail-obamas-planned-landmark-visit-hiroshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-23T14:45:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese national flag, the Hinomaru, flutters at half-staff in the foreground of the Atomic Bomb Dome at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in August 1998.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An A-10C Thunderbolt performs a flyover during training near Alamo, Nevada, in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/23/business/changing-values-behind-school-uniforms/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pulling the wool over their eyes: It's not cheap to send a child to school, especially with the rising cost of school uniforms.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/22/business/tech/pachinko-firm-scores-iphone-cracking-digital-forensics-unit/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-24T23:26:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-25T08:07:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagoya City Art Museum’s Seizo Tsukamoto stands next to a poster on an upcoming special exhibition featuring Japanese-French painter Tsuguharu Fujita.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The attackers who stole $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank probably hacked into software from the SWIFT financial platform at the heart of the global financial system.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A field is seen being plowed on a Russian farm in this undated file image. Despite the economy shrinking 3.7 percent last year, the nation's agricultural output rose 3 percent.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This is what remains of hard discs after they have been crushed to destroy data. The global hard disc sector is projected to shrink 3 percent this year as solid-state drives become cheaper.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan has 8 million invasive red-eared sliders, seen here, and only around 1 million endemic turtles.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a group led by legal experts hold a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday after filing a lawsuit arguing that the new security laws violate the Constitution.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-28T19:50:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b boj-a 20160429]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Bank of Japan Policy Board hold the second day of their meeting in Tokyo on Thursday. They held off on further stimulus and pushed back a target of reaching 2 percent inflation to 2017, the fourth such delay in about a year. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-28T19:56:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At-home-dad Taizo Horikomi folds laundry together with his sons in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/28/world/fbi-gain-new-hacking-power-supreme-court-approves-search-warrant-rule-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-28T21:05:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/f-fbeye-a-20160429.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[NSA Phone Records Big Data Photo Gallery]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Google employee works at a data center in The Dalles, Oregon. Google and civil liberties groups oppose expanding the ability of the FBI to hack into computer networks. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-28T21:09:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures Wednesday during a meeting with space officials at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Uglegorsk, about 200 kms from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region. Putin criticized the country's large number of space failures after the first rocket launch from Russia's new Vostochny cosmodrome was put off minutes before blastoff.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-28T21:12:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-28T21:12:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-28T21:12:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-28T21:12:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-28T21:23:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Xi Jinping]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/28/national/g-7-ise-shima-summit-fails-excite-local-residents-poll-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-28T21:24:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists take a selfie in front of a summit countdown board in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors can see images such as this one, of workers reeling silk from cocoons.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-28T22:04:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The headquarters of Mossack Fonseca, a law firm at the center of the so-called Panama Papers leak, is seen in Panama City on April 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-28T22:38:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-28T22:46:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-29T09:16:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A temporary day care center is set up in the city of Kumamoto, as many such facilities have been forced to close after the earthquake and continuing aftershocks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/28/national/u-s-embassy-announces-leadership-seminars-female-high-school-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-29T09:19:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-29T12:31:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lizards-a-20160430.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Australian bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) sleeps. Scientists said Thursday they have documented for the first time that reptiles, like people, experience rapid eyemovement, or REM, sleep and another sleep stage called slow-wave sleep.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/29/world/crime-legal-world/judge-says-lawsuit-against-former-u-s-house-speaker-hastert-can-proceed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-29T14:36:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert leaves the Dirksen Federal courthouse after his sentencing hearing in Chicago on Wednesday. Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in prison for attempting to skirt banking regulations in order to conceal hush money payments intended to cover up sex abuse allegations stemming from the time he was a high school wrestling coach at a suburban Chicago high school decades ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/29/world/u-s-agencies-split-fingerprinting-parents-child-immigrants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-29T15:12:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-29T15:58:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Tower stands among commercial buildings in the nation's capital. Preparations for the "Big One" have taken on more urgency after two devastating temblors in Kyushu this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/28/national/crime-legal/freed-osaka-man-swears-innocence-girls-fire-death-retrial-held/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-29T15:59:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tatsuhiro Boku (left) and his de facto wife Keiko Aoki head to the Osaka District Court Thursday morning for their retrial over a 1995 house fire that killed Aoki's 11-year-old daughter.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-29T17:28:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-29T17:38:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cpt. Kristen Griest and U.S. Army Ranger School Class 08-15 render a salute during their graduation at Fort Benning, Georgia, on Aug. 21, 2015. Griest and class member 1st Lt. Shaye Haver became the first female graduates of the school.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-29T19:30:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumio Kishida]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-29T20:56:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-29T23:06:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-29T23:19:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A guide addresses tourists inside Tokyo Tower during a tour operated by Hato Bus Co. in November 2015. As Japan seeks to lure more foreign visitors, the tour guide industry is in flux.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sanae Takaichi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Islamic State fighter is seen carrying a rocket-propelled grenade launcher in Iraq, in this still image taken from an amateur video supplied by Kurdish Peshmerga and received on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with members of the Legislative Council in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crew members from the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Ise helicopter carrier stand on deck shortly after arriving at the former U.S. naval base in Subic Bay, the Philippines, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-30T14:07:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-04-30T14:10:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A trader works at a foreign exchange brokerage in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/30/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-korea-tightens-security-ahead-party-congress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-30T14:43:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Koreans watch a TV broadcast about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at Seoul Station in October 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/30/world/science-health-world/astronomers-make-new-discovery-tailless-manx-comet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-04-30T15:47:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-comet-a-20160501.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[C/2014 S3, also known as a "Manx" comet, is seen in this artist's rendering released Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left), European Council President Donald Tusk (center) and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker talk to the media before a working dinner at the EU Council in Brussels on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister David Cameron leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on May 4, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-05T01:41:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 20 percent of Japanese men in their 20s did not eat rice during the previous one-month period.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/04/national/social-issues/number-of-children-in-japan-declines-for-35th-straight-year-to-hit-record-low/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-05T20:29:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Taiwanese patrol vessel leaves a port in Kaohsiung on Sunday to sail to Okinotorishima island, the southernmost point of Japanese territory.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-05T22:42:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-05T22:48:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister David Cameron meets with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Downing Street in London on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-05T23:01:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-05T23:35:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, arrive to speak to supporters at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Tuesday following his victory in the Indiana primary.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This microscope photo provided by The Rockefeller University shows a human embryo 12 days after fertilization in vitro, with different cell types marked by separate colors. Scientists have gotten their first good look at a crucial stage in the development of human embryos, a step that could help clear up mysteries about the early days of a person's life.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/06/business/financial-markets/abe-vows-respond-excessive-foreign-exchange-volatility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-06T07:17:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-06T09:55:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An electronic signboard used to display train schedules of various shinkansen lines at Tokyo Station is blank Wednesday after the system crashed.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-06T10:20:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally Thursday in Charleston, West Virginia.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-06T10:32:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-06T11:24:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-06T13:56:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-06T14:22:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp's headquarters building in Osaka is seen in this file photo. The firm plans to sell the current headquarters and will likely move to the city of Sakai, which is also in Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are almost certain to face off against each other, yet both are widely unpopular.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The left lower jaw of Yunnanadapis folivorus, one of six new fossil primate species found in southern China, is pictured in this undated handout photo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An elderly couple receive a visit from a doctor in Tokyo's Ota Ward. The health ministry has lifted a ban on clinics that specialize in sending doctors to patients' homes instead of providing outpatient care.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida meets with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh during their talks in Hanoi on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gay student is verbally harassed by a teacher in a manga released by Human Rights Watch on Friday. HRW released a report the same day on LGBT students in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-06T23:12:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp.'s Miyata factory in Fukuoka Prefecture resumes operations Friday following the powerful earthquakes that hit Kumamoto Prefecture last month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[RELEASE-2400-f-panama-a-20160507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The massive Panama Papers leak has implicated global politicians and business leaders in large-scale tax evasion schemes.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-07T13:20:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny is congratulated as he leaves parliament in Dublin on Friday after he was re-elected head of a minority government.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-07T13:22:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/06/national/sex-assault-likely-at-evacuation-centers-groups-warn/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A flier made by the gender equality center Harmony warns of sexual violence at evacuation centers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/06/national/man-dies-falling-wooden-pillar-nagano-shrine-festival/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/07/business/foreign-ski-instructors-may-get-visa-incentives-work-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-07T16:48:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/07/national/false-labeling-duvets-sold-japan-may-widespread-problem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-07T17:42:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-07T19:36:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-yen4living-a-20160508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Big spender:  Since becoming Tokyo governor, Yoichi Masuzoe has gone on nine journeys abroad, during which he has racked up 29 nights in expensive hotels, 24 of which cost more than double the limit set by the metropolitan government.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-07T21:01:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Roos]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-07T22:05:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cat sleeps at a cat cafe in Tokyo. The Neko no Te (Cat's Paw) cafe in Sumida Ward was ordered to be closed after it was found to have neglected dozens of the felines.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Delegates applaud during the Workers' Party congress in Pyongyang on Friday in this image made from a broadcast by North Korea's KRT television.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-08T11:27:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uwe Morawetz (center), chairman of International Peace Foundation, speaks next to Nobel laureate Richard Roberts (left) and Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein at a news conference in Beijing on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-08T12:07:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi Aramco Chief Executive Officer Khalid al-Falih speaks to the media at the company's booth during a conference on petrochemicals in Manama in May 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/07/national/science-health/mental-illnesses-surge-among-care-workers-for-japans-elderly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-08T12:57:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A female nursing care worker who said she has depression due to overwork applies for workers' compensation in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-08T12:58:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-08T12:59:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Ishiba, regional revitalization minister, gives a speech in Washington on Friday. 				KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/07/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-meets-putin-advance-bilateral-talks-isle-row-peace-treaty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-08T12:59:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-08T13:07:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters display placards during a rally accusing Chinese fishermen of poaching, outside the Chinese Consulate at the financial district of Makati city, east of Manila, in April 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/08/world/canadian-wildfire-explodes-in-size-approaches-oil-sands-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-08T18:39:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wildfire burns near Highway 63 south of Fort McMurray, Alberta, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trumps-scottish-island-ties-world-away-fireworks-u-s-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-08T18:49:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump's mother grew up in this house in Tong, on the Isle of Lewis and Harris off Scotland, pictured on April 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/07/national/media-national/japans-resident-koreans-endure-climate-hate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-08T18:50:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/07/national/media-national/read-good-mooks-lately/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-08T18:50:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kannon marks the spot: This monument in Tokyo’s Shibuya district was erected on the site where the rebel officers behind the failed 1936 coup d’etat were excecuted by firing squad. To mark the incident’s 80th anniversary, publisher Yosensha released an 111-page mook titled “Ni-niroku Jiken no Shinjitsu” (“The Truth of the 2-26 Incident”).]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-08T19:29:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[As part of China's crackdown on "inappropriate" content online, live-streaming videos of people eating bananas "erotically" have been banned, state media has reported.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/08/national/tohoku-bullet-train-delayed-five-hours-hitting-person-tracks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-08T22:41:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bullet train passengers who were trapped aboard a Tohoku Shinkansen Line train for five hours by a fatal accident arrive at Morioka Station early Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/08/national/politics-diplomacy/ldps-summer-election-manifesto-focus-child-rearing-disaster-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-08T22:42:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama, seen here with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at joint news conference at the White House in Washington in April last year, will become the first active U.S. president to visit Hiroshima. Obama will make the historic visit accompanied by Abe 'to highlight his continued commitment to pursuing the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,' White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissey Corp. says its Privacy Visor blocks all facial-recognition programs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People look around the showroom at the headquarters of Nissan Motors, Japan's No. 2 automaker, in Yokohama on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son speaks during a news conference in Tokyo in August 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-16T21:01:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The environment ministers of the Group of Seven nations get together for a group photograph Monday morning in Toyama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/16/national/head-japan-olympic-committee-defends-payment-consulting-firm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-16T21:01:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda speaks during a Lower House Budget Committee session on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/16/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-moscow-vow-cooperate-developing-russian-far-east/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-16T21:03:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-16T22:25:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yutaka Yokoi, Japan's new ambassador to China, faces the media during a news conference Monday at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman covers her face as she walks out of the Vietnamese commercial Tien Phong bank in Hanoi on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-16T23:22:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-16T23:25:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Henry Kissinger]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bison calf]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-17T14:09:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leo Bosner, a former official of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, says Japan failed to apply lessons from the 2011 disaster to its response in Kyushu.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-17T14:51:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Environment Minister Tamayo Marukawa (third from right) and other ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations shake hands after a joint news conference Monday in Toyama.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-17T14:52:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atsuko Hashimoto plays with her son in a room lit by a purple light at a Tokyo condominium.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/17/national/social-issues/foreign-lgbt-people-feel-comfortable-japan-although-barriers-still-exist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-17T14:55:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lgbt-a-20160518.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marchers take part in the Tokyo Rainbow Parade on May 8. Non-Japanese gay people say they feel less physically threatened in Japan than in the West, but many complain about the assumption that everyone is straight.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/17/business/japans-fish-consumption-shrinks-lowest-since-1960s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-17T16:58:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/08/15/reference/special-presentations/surrender-spared-a-young-doubting-kamikaze/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-17T16:58:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20070815w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070815w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masamichi Shida, at 17, poses in the white uniform of an elite naval cadet with his older sister, Yuriko, younger brother, Tatsuya, father, Masanori, and mother, Mutsu, in this 1944 photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/01/03/reference/special-presentations/recalling-nagasakis-fateful-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-17T17:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090103w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reunited: Hiroshi Ito (left) poses with his classmates upon returning to school in February 1946 after surviving the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-17T17:11:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080605w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Starting out: Donald Richie poses in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district in 1947, the year he arrived in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/17/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-governor-rebuked-expenses-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-17T17:40:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-17T18:36:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20070817w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070817w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kanji Murakami, 92, speaks about his experience as a reporter in Korea and Manchuria during the war in an interview last month in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/17/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/philippines-detains-25-chinese-fishermen-suspected-poaching/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-17T18:36:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/09/22/reference/special-presentations/nemuro-raid-survivor-longs-for-homeland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-17T18:41:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shohei Yamamoto gives an interview in August at his home in Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/17/business/asia-airline-mergers-may-cards-worlds-largest-budget-carrier-tie/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-17T18:50:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-airalliance-a-20160518.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eight low-cost Asian air carriers, including Vanilla Air, formed a landmark alliance Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-17T18:54:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester carries Hong Kong's British colonial-era flag in the city on May 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/10/05/reference/special-presentations/veteran-navy-officer-keeps-an-open-mind/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-17T19:54:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20071005w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Ito now lives in Tokyo. The lower left photo was probably taken in Japan around 1944, while the one at right was taken at the Sasebo base in Nagasaki Prefecture around 1978 while he was a Maritime Self-Defense Force officer.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-17T19:56:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20071010w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ensign Lee Olson mans his Hellcat aboard the carrier USS Essex in late 1944 in the Pacific.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070816w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese settlers pose for a photo outside an elementary school that opened in 1943 in the Manchukuo puppet state in northeast China. Noriko Suzuki can be seen beneath the flag, indicated by an arrow.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/17/business/tech/twitter-bending-140-character-limit-fit-way-people-tweet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-17T21:25:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-17T21:27:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-guamkiller-a-20160518.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese military vehicles carrying DF-26 ballistic missiles drive past Tiananmen Gate during a military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing last September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/17/national/former-trade-minister-mitsuo-horiuchi-dies-86/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-17T22:49:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-18T06:49:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boat rides past Asia World port at the Hlaing river in Yangon Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-18T06:55:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[ALS patient Hiroki Okabe (second from right) meets with Lower House Speaker Tadamori Oshima (second from left) Tuesday in the Diet.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/17/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-seoul-reaffirm-commitment-%c2%a51-billion-comfort-women-fund/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-18T06:57:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-18T13:05:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Science ministers and representatives from the Group of Seven economies try out personal transportation vehicles in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-18T14:12:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-iseshrine-a-20160519.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the Ise Jingu Shrine in Mie Prefecture on Jan. 5 to offer prayers to mark the start of the new year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-18T15:06:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-18T15:06:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/18/national/politics-diplomacy/in-hiroshima-obama-to-talk-about-consequences-of-nuclear-war-aide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-18T16:20:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-18T17:20:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Experts will be watching an upcoming meeting of Group of Seven finance ministers and central bankers for signs of likely reaction if Japan were to sell the yen.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This handout picture released Wednesday by the Italian Carabinieri shows documents written by Christopher Columbus describing his trip to the Americas. A stolen letter dating from 1493 in which Christopher Columbus describes his trip to the Americas was handed back to Italy on Wednesday after being discovered in the library of the U.S. Congress. "500 years after it was written, the letter has made the same trip back from America," Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said at a ceremony in Rome to mark the handover.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nationwide shock: In July 1976, former-Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was arrested and marched off to the Tokyo Detention Center on charges of receiving nearly $2 million in bribes from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Now, 40 years since his arrest, there is a major revival of interest in Tanaka, including a slew of books and magazine articles that portray him in glowing terms.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/21/business/whither-taxi-withering-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-21T19:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No free ride: A driver checks a Nihon Kotsu taxi at the firm's garage in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/21/national/media-national/wrath-awaits-japanese-women-shun-childbearing-destiny/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-21T22:54:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-brasor-child-a-20160522.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Difficult choices: Women who publicly admit they don't want children, such as actress Tomoko Yamaguchi, may face criticism, especially in the current atmosphere of social pressure to increase Japan's population. To some, such a position is no longer simply a denial of a women's "female destiny"; it is also a disavowal of the privilege of being Japanese.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/21/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-back-rethink-japans-plutonium-recycling-program-white-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-21T20:32:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jon Wolfsthal]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/21/national/politics-diplomacy/diet-enacts-law-to-rectify-vote-gap-crisis-but-adams-method-wont-take-effect-till-2022/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-21T20:35:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-22T13:30:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a meeting with businessmen on the sidelines of the Russia-ASEAN summit in Sochi on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/21/national/politics-diplomacy/g-7-finance-leaders-reject-coordinated-action-to-revitalize-global-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-22T18:13:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso and Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda address reporters in Sendai on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/22/national/politics-diplomacy/hiroshima-nagasaki-mayors-expect-obama-visit-empower-quest-nuke-free-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-22T20:30:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (left) and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui speak during separate interviews with Kyodo News.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/22/national/japanese-businessman-hit-train-thailands-famed-river-kwai-bridge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-22T21:30:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-22T21:39:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiyotaka Takahashi (front), superintendent-general of the Metropolitan Police Department, patrols Tokyo's swanky Ginza shopping district Saturday to inspect security ahead of the Group of Seven summit starting Thursday in Shima, Mie Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/22/national/politics-diplomacy/obama-says-hiroshima-visit-emphasize-current-friendly-u-s-relationship-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-22T21:56:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-22T22:05:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-22T22:29:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists take a stroll in Kyoto's popular Arashiyama area last August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/22/business/corporate-business/suzuki-used-weather-data-cloud-car-tests-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-22T23:47:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/22/national/history/hibiya-park-plaque-honor-late-filipino-leader-quirino/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-22T23:55:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elpidio Quirino]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/22/national/social-issues/thailand-popular-japanese-retirees-many-end-dying-alone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-22T23:55:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cat sits on a bed on April 22 at the home of an 81-year-old Japanese man who died in February on the outskirts of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/22/world/crime-legal-world/cyberthieves-exploit-banks-faith-in-swift-transfer-network/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-22T23:56:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-swift-a-20160523.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It is unclear what SWIFT tells banks about cyberthefts, which are typically discovered by the defrauded bank.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/23/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-will-urge-g-7-counterparts-boost-asean-anti-terror-efforts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T08:48:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-23T08:54:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-23T13:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Nusra Front, al-Qaida's Syria wing, holds his weapon as he squats in the northwestern city of Ariha, Idlib province, in May 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/20/national/politics-diplomacy/alleged-okinawa-murder-expected-exacerbate-japan-u-s-base-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T15:37:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-analysis-a-20160521.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters rally in front of U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture on Friday after former U.S. Marine Kenneth Franklin Shinzato reportedly admitted killing a young woman.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/09/national/social-issues/anti-poverty-advocates-launch-petition-state-backed-scholarship-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T15:44:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-scholarship-a-20160510.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroki Komazaki (left) and other anti-poverty advocates announce the launch of an online petition drive to call for the establishment of a government scholarship program for aspiring university students at a news conference in Tokyo Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/23/business/corporate-business/asahi-eyes-u-s-beer-expansion-with-%c2%a5400-billion-war-chest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T15:47:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akiyoshi Koji, president and chief operating officer of Asahi Group Holdings Ltd., speaks during a recent interview at the company's headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/14/national/science-health/change-brain-central-nervous-system-cells-finally-get-recognition-deserve/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T16:15:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p21-hooper-astrocytes-a-20160515.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Connectivity: Recent research suggests astrocytes help to regulate synaptic strength.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/23/business/japan-pays-least-since-2005-for-lng-amid-price-slump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T16:35:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-23T16:45:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke rises after civil defense members safely detonate cluster bombs inside a field in al-Tmanah town in southern Idlib countryside, Syria, Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/22/national/crime-legal/female-idol-stabbed-multiple-times-by-purported-fan-at-event-in-western-tokyo-police/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T17:26:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigate the scene of the stabbing of female idol Mayu Tomita in the city of Koganei, Tokyo, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/23/business/corporate-business/suntory-sell-shareholding-hamburger-chain-first-kitchen-wendys/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T17:56:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/sanders-ratchets-feud-democratic-establishments-clinton-anointment-process/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T18:06:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addresses supporters during a rally Saturday in National City, California.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/23/asia-pacific/china-planning-base-station-for-spratly-advanced-rescue-vessel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T19:29:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese dredging vessels are seen in the waters around Fiery Cross Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea last May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/23/business/economy-business/japans-exports-post-seventh-monthly-decline-stronger-yen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T19:29:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-exports-a-20160524.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A laborer works in a container yard at Tokyo port. Exports fell for the seventh consecutive month in April as the yen strengthened.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/22/national/crime-legal/convenience-store-atm-heist-sees-%c2%a51-4-billion-stolen-two-hours-across-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T19:59:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/23/business/g-7-finance-meeting-reveals-sharper-gap-currency-tactics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T20:14:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso leaves a news conference after the Group of Seven finance ministers and central bank governors' meeting in Sendai Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-23T20:14:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte speaks during his final campaign rally in Manila on May 7 ahead of his victory in the Philippines' presidential election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/22/national/politics-diplomacy/osaka-ishin-existential-crisis-election-looms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T20:15:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshimi Watanabe (right), who is running for the Upper House on the Osaka Ishin no Kai ticket, meets with Osaka Ishin leader Ichiro Matsui at a news conference to announce his candidacy on May 16 in the city of Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-23T20:18:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Metropolitan Police Department conducts security dog training in February 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-23T20:19:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A young girl looks out and smiles under a poster of U.S. President Barack Obama hung on the door of a shop in Hanoi on Sunday, ahead of his historic visit to the Southeast Asian nation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/23/national/crime-legal/anti-stalking-law-fire-stabbing-japanese-idol-singer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T20:50:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomohiro Iwazaki, arrested following Saturday's stabbing of singer Mayu Tomita, is transported from Koganei Police Station in western Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/23/national/japanese-activist-groups-call-abe-boost-support-syrian-refugees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-05-23T20:50:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-05-27T09:13:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo provided by ABC, Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump talks with host Jimmy Kimmel on the ABC television show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Wednesday in Los Angeles.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[APTOPIX Obama Japan G7 Summit 20160528]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mie Prefecture Gov. Eikei Suzuki, left, joins leaders of Group of Seven industrial nations, from second left, European Council President Donald Tusk, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as they participate in a tree planting ceremony during their visit to the Ise Jingu shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to a Reuters' poll, 70 percent of companies are pessimistic about Japan escaping deflation in the foreseeable future.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marin Minamiya, 19, has became the youngest Japanese to scale Mount Everest after completing the feat on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A China Southern Airlines jet lands at the airfield on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands on Jan. 6.]]></image:caption>
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