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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masao Yamazaki]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Windsor castle, Queen Elizabeth's official residence shown in this photo provided by The Royal Collection, started an audio tour in Japanese on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Aso]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense agency chief Fukushiro Nukaga is flanked by Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (left) and communications minister Heizo Takenaka in an Upper House Budget Committee meeting Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koichi Haraguchi (above) and Song Il Ho, the chief delegates of Japan and North Korea, prepare to meet for bilateral talks Saturday in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A stolen Buddhist statue -- a replica of one made in 711 that is a national treasure kept at Horyuji Temple -- is shown Monday at a police station here after it was recovered.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appears at the Lower House Budget Committee.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atsuko Aoyagi (left) shows her books that demand that Japan compensate Koreans pressed into wartime service, as Harumi Iwahashi, who translated them into Korean, looks on.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dogs are served pet food that contains calcium.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kawasaki Mayor Takao Abe and Masako Fujimoto, the widow of cartoonist Fujiko F. Fujio, announce a plan to build a hall dedicated to Doraemon cartoons at a news conference Friday at Kawasaki City Hall.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. AMBASSADOR to Japan Thomas Schieffer (above) holds a Department of Agriculture report on a prohibited veal shipment to Japan at the U.S. Embassy Friday night after meeting with farm minister Shoichi Nakagawa.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zheng Yongshan, under arrest on suspicion of fatally stabbing two children, is taken into the Otsu District Public Prosecutor's Office.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takenori Kanzaki]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers Cemi Saga and Kenshin Muramoto face reporters Monday after the Osaka High Court, in a reversal, sentenced their client, a former Kyoto police chief, to a suspended prison term for ordering a prisoner-death coverup.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators enter the Grand Stage Fujisawa condominium complex here Wednesday to check its quake resistance.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The results of negotiations at each corporate union belonging to the Japan Council of Metalworkers' Unions are shown on a white board at the organization's headquarters Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Yokota gestures Thursday as he explain to U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer (second from left) how his daughter, Pyongyang abductee Megumi, disappeared in 1977 on a beach in Niigata.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iwakuni Mayor Katsusuke Ihara (right) meets Thursday with Noriyuki Shikata, director of the Foreign Ministry's Status of U.S. Forces Agreement Division, at the ministry.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government's official jet practices takeoffs at Aomori airport in July 2004.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-17T09:05:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taizo Nishimuro]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/03/18/business/tse-eyes-30-order-cap-on-buying-a-firms-shares/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:01:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:01:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:01:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Life in the now-ghost village of Tokuyama, Gifu Prefecture, is captured for posterity by photographer Tazuko Masuyama in 1981. Masuyama speaks at her home in city of Gifu in 1992.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:01:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:01:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:01:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:02:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A prototype hybrid train sits on the tracks in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/03/18/national/ldp-oks-sanctions-bill-targeting-north-korea-rights-abuses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:02:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Electronics Inc.'s BDP-S1, the first Blu-ray Disc player capable of storing a large quantity of moving images, will hit stores in North America at $1,000 per unit this July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:02:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indicted Lawmaker Shingo Nishimura walks into a Lower House plenary session Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:03:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:04:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Frost on trees in Zao, Yamagata Prefecture, is illuminated for tourists on Feb. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/03/18/national/envoy-gets-u-n-disarmament-post/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-03-18T09:05:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/03/19/national/protesters-mark-iraq-war-anniversary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-03-19T09:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters hold signs during a march through Tokyo Saturday to mark the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. About 2,000 people rallied in the capital and demanded that Japanese and other coalition troops pull out.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/03/19/national/ldp-to-propose-100-trillion-yen-asset-selloff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-03-19T09:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/03/19/national/benefits-for-war-displaced-japanese-eyed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-03-19T09:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/03/19/national/nissan-gives-1-5-million-euro-to-oxford/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-03-19T09:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/03/19/national/u-n-panel-unveils-action-plan-for-water-sanitation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-03-19T09:02:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito is welcomed Friday at Liceo Mexicano Japones, a school for Japanese and Mexican children in Mexico City.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/03/19/national/oil-smears-108-birds-on-tsushima-dumping-not-accidents-suspected/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-03-19T09:03:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pair of oil-soaked seabirds is seen on a beach here Friday. Oil has crippled about ten times more birds than last year, researchers say.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/03/19/national/chicken-farm-operator-held-over-obstruction/</loc>
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