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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuo Murakami]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Kawamura]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the drama troupe Theater Douke perform a scene from "Nagasaki Graffiti," which depicts the lives of Korean A-bomb survivors.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean residents in Japan pray at a cenotaph here dedicated to Korean victims of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoichi and Kazono Gomi pose with their great-grandson, Seiya, at their home in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[TThe main entrance to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum sports a billboard promoting Saturday's ceremony marking 60 years since an atomic bomb destroyed the city.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks during Friday's session of the House of Councilors special committee on postal privatization.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Three generations of the same family pray Saturday morning at Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park for the souls of their relatives killed in the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Maeue, with a jacket over his head, is escorted Saturday morning out of a police station in Kawachi Nagano, Osaka Prefecture, on his way to be questioned by prosecutors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/08/07/national/textbook-fight-not-as-simple-as-it-seems/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's wartime history has been depicted in various ways in history textbooks used at elementary and junior high schools during and after World War II, including these kept at the Educational Library of the National Institute for Educational Policy Research of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks to reporters Saturday after attending the ceremony in Hiroshima to mark the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Upper House members vote on the disputed postal reform bills at the plenary session of the chamber Monday afternoon. The Upper House rejected the bills by 125 to 108, prompting Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to dissolve the Lower House for a snap general election.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi holds a news conference at his official residence Monday evening after dissolving the House of Representatives for a snap election.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diet officials tally the votes Monday in the House of Councilors on the government's postal privatization bills. The bills were voted down 125-108.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tsukuba Express line, linking Akihabara Station in Tokyo with Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, will open for business on Aug. 24.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Jung Wook (left), chairman of Herald Media Inc., publisher of The Korea Herald, meets Toshiaki Ogasawara, The Japan Times chairman, at The Japan Times head office Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kuniko Inoguchi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/08/18/national/postal-rebels-try-to-regroup-via-new-party/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Lower House Speaker Tamisuke Watanuki holds a sign bearing the name of his new party -- Kokumin Shinto -- at a news conference Wednesday in Tokyo with colleagues (from left) Kensei Hasegawa, Hisaoki Kamei, Hideaki Tamura and Shizuka Kamei.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/08/18/national/bolts-in-sendai-pool-ceiling-unstable/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuyuki and Naomi Toyama and their son, Keisuke (trio at right), eat lunch with other mothers and kids at Yokohama Family House in July.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo holds one of four false gavials falsely registered as being born in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagano Prefecture Gov. Yasuo Tanaka (left) announces in Tokyo on Sunday the formation of a new political party with Liberal Democratic Party dissident Koki Kobayashi at his side.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira (right) enters talks in November 1962 in Tokyo wiJong Pil (center), who was South Korea's intelligence chief under the Park Chung Hee government.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stumps for Satsuki Katayama (right), a former bureaucrat running against postal rebel Minoru Kiuchi, in front of JR Hamamatsu Station on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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