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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, protest the launch of construction of a platform at a planned seabed drilling site in preparation for a proposed offshore airport.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie Yokota displays photographs of her daughter, Megumi, during a news conference in Tokyo. The photos were reportedly taken in North Korea after Megumi was kidnapped to the country in 1977.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A crane puts a bullet train derailed by an earthquake last month back on the Joetsu Shinkansen Line tracks Nov. 10 near Nagaoka Station in Niigata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yosuke Ohashi was set to leave Thursday for the U.S. from Chile to await a multiple organ transplant.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uonuma, Niigata Pref. -- Residents watch Friday as Ground Self-Defense Force personnel tear down a house that was destroyed in last month's deadly earthquakes.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman prays Saturday for 7-year-old Kaede Ariyama in Heguri, Nara Prefecture, where the girl's body was found early Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/12/18/business/scandal-tainted-seibu-railway-delisted-from-tse/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2004-12-18T09:01:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/12/18/business/japanese-firms-wake-up-to-wonders-of-fair-trade/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenzo Oshima]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2004-12-20T09:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials from the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry (right) reseive a draft budget Monday from a budget officer at the Finance Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A container of depleted uranium is offloaded for transport Monday from a freighter here at Mutsu-Ogawara port.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/12/21/national/cancer-patient-slays-two-in-hospital-room/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers block access to Shirahigebashi Hospital in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, after a patient went on a killing spree with a knife Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/12/21/business/honda-hopes-to-boost-worldwide-sales-by-8/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Salsa dancers perform in the sixth annual Japan Salsa Congress, a three-day sweat fest devoted to the serious business of dancing, in Tokyo on Oct. 31.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mevisa Yoshida]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. President Fujio Cho introduces the Lexus GS 430 at a media preview Tuesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The North Wing of Terminal 1 at Tokyo's Haneda airport reopens Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hidenao Nakagawa]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2004-12-23T09:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[MAWI, 3, whose Myanmarese mother, Sung, was released from detention Tuesday, faces reporters Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2004-12-23T09:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2004-12-23T09:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan's 700T bullet trains sit in a shed at Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp.'s main workshop in this file photo taken Oct. 27. The 700Ts are based on Japan's Series 700 Tokaido Shinkansen Line trains.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2004-12-23T09:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2004-12-23T09:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2004-12-23T09:01:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2004-12-23T09:02:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tadayoshi Nagashima, mayor of the village of Yamakoshi, bows Wednesday to the tent he has lived in since the Oct. 23 earthquakes hit here.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers Azuma Konno and Sayuri Kamata speak separately to reporters Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Megumi Yokota is shown in one of three photos that North Korea provided to visiting Japanese government officials in November.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takanori Sakai]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiro Tsuda]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie and Shigeru Yokota (left, second from left) address reporters in Tokyo on Friday afternoon after the government questioned the credibility of North Korea's information on Japanese abductees.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Resona Bank has installed compact counters with ATMs at its Takenotsuka branch in Adachi Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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