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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters Thursday following a televised news conference held in North Korea by a South Korean man who is apparently the former husband of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs in a lawsuit demanding that the state revoke permission to build the Tokuyama Dam in Ibigawa, Gifu Prefecture, head to the Nagoya High Court with a banner reading "Say 'No!' to the Tokuyama Dam" Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-08T09:00:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-08T09:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-08T09:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-08T09:01:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Song Il Ho, North Korea's ambassador in charge of diplomatic normalization talks with Japan, faces Japanese reporters here Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-08T09:01:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-08T09:01:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-08T09:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-08T09:02:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Judges preside over a Hiroshima District Court murder trial before handing down a sentence Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-08T09:03:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Togo Fujita]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers clear mud Friday from the Kyushu Shinkansen Line after a predawn slide closed the section. Operations resumed in the early afternoon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/07/08/national/royal-pairs-may-be-interred-together/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-07-08T09:05:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-08T09:06:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20060708a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs and their supporters rejoice Friday outside the Tokyo District Court after winning compensation for pneumoconiosis, a disease many workers caught while working on state tunnel projects.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/07/08/national/first-troops-out-of-iraq-in-kuwait/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-07-08T09:06:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-09T09:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-09T09:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prosecutors enter the eastern Japan headquarters of Mizutani Kensetsu Co. in Fukushima Prefecture on Saturday to search for evidence of corporate tax evasion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/07/09/national/boj-to-name-new-exec-director/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-07-09T09:01:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People view the "Myth of Tomorrow" mural by Taro Okamoto outside NTV headquarters in the Shiodome area in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-09T09:02:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-09T09:03:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-09T09:06:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travelers delayed by a flight shutdown at Tokyo's Haneda airport form long lines Saturday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-11T09:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-11T09:02:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20060711b4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The dormitory for Lower House members in the Takanawa district of Minato Ward, Tokyo, will be razed and the site sold.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-11T09:04:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-11T09:04:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-11T09:04:32+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/07/11/national/mizutani-in-2-billion-yen-tax-dodge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-07-11T09:06:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20060711a6a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police search the headquarters of Maeda Corp. in Tokyo on Monday in connection with a tax evasion probe targeting Mizutani Kensetsu Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/07/11/national/man-arrested-over-garden-cesspool/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-07-11T09:06:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-12T09:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-12T09:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-12T09:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-12T09:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-07-12T09:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/07/12/national/mizutani-gave-millions-to-north-linked-ngo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-07-12T09:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Osawa bridge on the Fujikoto River in Akita Prefecture is where murder suspect Suzuka Hatakeyama (below) claims her daughter accidentally fell off and subsequently drowned.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. President Katsuaki Watanabe speaks Thursday during a news conference in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Japan executives (from left) Deputy President Naoto Kan, Secretary General Yukio Hatoyama and President Ichiro Ozawa fish Tuesday off Miyake Island.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Sil Gun poses at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima last month while explaining the situation surrounding North Korean survivors of the atomic bombings.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The notebooks of Sakae Shimizu and Yoshiaki Uemura, scientists involved in Japan's program to develop atomic bombs during the war, were recently found in the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. Vice President Masatami Takimoto bows Thursday after handing over a report on its system for checking vehicle defects to a transport ministry official.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masaaki Miwa (right), president of Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd., and Niigata Mayor Akira Shinoda greet each other Thursday at City Hall.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Skipper Noboru Sakashita (left) is questioned Wednesday by Russian authorities on board the Kisshin Maru.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor to the Tokyo Guitar Show on June 24 gives a classic Gibson a workout as a staffer adjusts the amplifier.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Yoshida]]></image:caption>
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