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		<lastmod>2016-06-29T14:28:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-06-29T14:38:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage (left) greets European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker ahead of a special EU Parliament session in Brussels on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-06-29T14:40:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-06-29T15:22:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-06-29T16:35:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-06-29T17:48:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-06-29T17:48:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha answers a question from reporters at Government House in Bangkok on June 6.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A former "comfort woman" speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony held in Seoul on Wednesday to create the "Site of Remembrance" for those forced to work in wartime Japanese military brothels.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-06-29T18:38:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighter jet is scrambled from the ASDF's base in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, in April 2015.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Calgary (front), the U.S. littoral combat ship USS Coronado (center) and the Legend-class cutter USCGC Stratton sail in formation while transiting to the Rim of the Pacific 2016 exercises.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kibiro, a robot using AI technology, is displayed during the AI exhibition at Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Defense Minister Yuriko Koike speaks during a news conference where she announced her intention to run in Tokyo's gubernatorial race in July.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An elderly man living on welfare displays photos from his youth at his home in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in May.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An LDP staff member puts up a poster for the July 10 Upper House election featuring Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday. The slogan on the poster reads: "Moving forward with strength."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Representatives of Japanese financial firms discuss the impact of Britain's exit from the European Union at a meeting Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants and a moderator (center) pose before their discussion on the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) to be held in Kenya in August at The Japan Times' offices in Tokyo on June 3.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[TICAD V was held in Yokohama in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Serena Williams (left) and Venus Williams celebrate winning their women's doubles final on Thursday in the London suburb of Wimbledon.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroya Masuda]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-07-10T22:47:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Democratic Party's Renho smiles on Sunday at an election event in Tokyo's Minato Ward after winning re-election to the Upper House.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoichi Iha (right), who won the single Okinawa seat being contested, celebrates Sunday with Gov. Takeshi Onaga.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomomi Inada (left), policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, shakes hands with Toshimitsu Motegi, the LDP's election campaign chief, at party headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Intelligence Agency director U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on "Worldwide Threats" in Washington in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (second from left) and Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Sadakazu Tanigaki (second from right) place flowers next to the names of winning candidates in the Upper House election at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on July 10, 2016. with Masahiko Komura (left), vice secretary-general and Tomomi Inada (right) head of the Liberal Democratic Party's Policy Research Council]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party leader Katsuya Okada (left) and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe express their emotions following their parties' respective defeats and victories following the 2016 Upper House elections.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers extract salt near the Russian town of Barnaul in 2011. Russian authorities believe a hydropower project in Mongolia will affect the water flow into Lake Baikal, the world's largest body of fresh water.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Constitutional scholar Setsu Kobayashi, who ran unsuccessfully in Sunday's Upper House election, speaks to the media late Sunday in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Power relations: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and members of his predominantly male party stand during a plenary session of the Lower House at parliament in Tokyo.  At present there is a bipartisan bill in the Diet that urges parties to set quotas for female candidates. However, without making these quotas mandatory, it will be almost impossible to persuade male career politicians to risk their livelihoods for the sake of a political "ideal."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshimi Watanabe of Osaka Ishin no Kai celebrates his victory with supporters Sunday evening at his election headquarters in Otawara, Tochigi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White van man: Tokyo No. 20 district representative Seiji Kihara waves from a vehicle during his successful bid for re-election in December 2014. 	            Bloomberg]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell was one of only 12 men to walk on the moon.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hard-liner: Ariel Sharon, Israeli prime minister-elect at the time, touches Judaism's holiest site, the Western Wall, in Jerusalem on Feb. 7, 2001. Sharon died Saturday at age 85.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Accept no substitutes: Russian weapon designer Mikhail Kalashnikov presents his legendary assault rifle to the media while opening the exhibition "Kalashnikov — legend and curse of a weapon" at a museum in Suhl, Germany, in July 2002. Kalashnikov died Monday at age 94.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground rules: David Frost talks with former President Richard Nixon in March 1977 prior to the taping of his interview with the former president.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gamer plays "Pokemon Go" in Barcelona on July 14. The popular game has increased the share prices of Tomy Co., Bank of Kyoto Ltd. and more.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito Empress Michiko talk with evacuees from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at the Tokyo Budokan on March 30, 2011. After the Tohoku disaster, the Emperor and Empress visited the region for seven weeks in a row.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-07-15T18:49:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators inspect a rental truck that a Tunisian-born man, 31, rammed into Bastille Day crowds in the French city of Nice on Thursday. Police shot the driver to death after he brought carnage along a 2-km stretch of the seafront.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Emperor Akihito and his wife, Empress Michiko, wave to well-wishers as they leave the Imperial villa in Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a biennial summit of Asian and European leaders, which kicked off on Friday in Ulan Bator.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Okinotorishima atoll is shown in this aerial photo taken in April 2005.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Line Corp. CEO Takeshi Idezawa poses at the launch on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Making ends meet: Japan's national health insurance plan, which is relatively inexpensive, is too costly for some low-income earners. Shukan Toyo Keizai magazine cites research showing low-income part-time employees working long hours to make ends meet are more likely to fall ill, sink into depression, smoke and eat badly than the more affluent and more secure.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Yamato Maru No. 8 is overturned in the sea off Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on Friday after it collided with another cargo ship.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jordy Tshimanga (left) and Brett Sapp look at their phones during a "Pokemon Go" event at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heightened fear, heightened security: Police officers stand guard behind a roadblock near the Bangladesh restaurant where seven Japanese were murdered by militant jihadis on July 1.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women stand outside a bar in a red light district in Bangkok on July 12.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Displaced civilians who fled their Islamic State-held towns and villages south of Mosul during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants arrive at a camp for displaced people outside Irbil, 217 miles (350 k) north of Baghdad, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Philippine President Fidel Ramos has accepted a position as special envoy to China after rebuffing earlier offers for the post over age and health concerns.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese Orthopedic Association recommends that elderly people examine their motor functions using a 25-question checklist on a smartphone.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's population of farmers has fallen below 2 million for the first time since records have been kept.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly appointed Defense Minister Tomomi Inada answers questions from reporters at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Printed figures are seen at a 3-D printing company in Seoul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stories untold: Kanagawa Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa prays for victims of the deadly attack on July 26 on a home for people with disabilities in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito waves to well-wishers who gathered at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo  last Dec. 23 to mark his 82nd birthday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Renho, the deputy chief of the main opposition Democratic Party, takes a question from the media during a news conference Friday at party headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The sun rises behind the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima on Saturday, the 71st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-06T23:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play in water at a park in Tokyo on Friday, the day the mercury climbed to 35.0 C or above at 77 observation points out of the 929 across the nation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/06/national/history/full-text-2016-hiroshima-peace-declaration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-06T23:49:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-07T15:05:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/07/world/science-health-world/exquisite-dolphin-fossils-provide-insight-evolution-ultrasonic-hearing-echolocation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-07T16:27:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A newly identified prehistoric dolphin called Echovenator sandersi is seen in an undated illustration released on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/07/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-protests-13-chinese-government-ships-spotted-around-senkaku-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-07T23:55:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-07T23:56:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More businesses are becoming interested in digital health care as advances smartphone technology and wearable devices expand its potential.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-07T23:57:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Zatko "nutritional label" for software gives fine-grained results on vulnerabilities.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-07T23:58:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filipino and Vietnamese activists display placards during a rally over the South China Sea disputes in front of a Chinese Consulate in Makati city, metro Manila, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/07/national/politics-diplomacy/senkaku-swarm-tactic-spells-trouble-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-08T00:04:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-08T00:06:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-salt-a-20160808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Recent research has shown that Japan's salt intake remains high despite years of public health campaigns to reduce it.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-08T06:07:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Thai woman checks names at a polling station in Bangkok on Sunday. Thais headed to the polls for the first time since the army grabbed power in 2014 in a referendum on a new military-drafted constitution.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-08T09:11:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-08T11:07:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Windham High School, Saturday in Windham, New Hampshire.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/08/asia-pacific/despite-sanctions-north-korean-prices-hold-steady-kim-leaves-markets-alone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-08T13:18:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting of Korean People's Army officials in this undated photo released Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/08/national/ex-nagoya-official-hopes-help-others-overcome-stage-fright/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tetsuya Miyaki practices giving a speech while an instructor takes a video of him at a speech class in Nagoya's Higashi Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-09T07:26:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-09T14:45:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito speaks to people affected by the March 2011 Tohoku disasters at an evacuation center in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, in May of that year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/09/business/ports-japan-china-u-s-greatest-risk-natural-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-09T14:47:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Port of Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture is seen at twilight. A risk-management firm says ports in Japan, China and the U.S. face the greatest financial risk from natural disasters because of their vulnerable locations and increasing cargo volumes.]]></image:caption>
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