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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prosecutors believe Tokyu Construction and Sato Kogyo Corp. got the contract to build this sewage system upstream on the Abukuma River through a rigged bid.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-09-07T09:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-09-07T09:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-09-07T09:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-09-07T09:01:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-09-07T09:01:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-09-07T09:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masazumi Gotoda, parliamentary secretary in charge of financial services, answers questions from reporters at the Financial Services Agency on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/07/national/newborn-prince-to-get-3-million-yen-stipend/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-09-07T09:02:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-09-07T09:03:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-09-07T09:03:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-09-07T09:03:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/07/national/new-prince-becomes-the-third-in-line-to-assume-chrysanthemum-throne/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-09-07T09:05:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Kiko fixes Prince Akishino's hair during their wedding photo shoot on June 29, 1990.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/07/national/princess-kiko-delivers-a-boy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-09-07T09:05:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Kiko]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/07/national/ntt-firms-say-sweet-potatoes-best-to-fight-heat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-09-07T09:05:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-09-08T09:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Qashqai, Nissan Motor Co.'s new SUV, is shown in this handout photo. The new vehicle, designed entirely in Europe, was unveiled in Paris this week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/08/business/takeda-plans-100-billion-yen-drug-lab/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2006-09-08T09:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kashmiri women work on embroidery in this undated photo from the Japan Agency for Development and Emergency.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ginowan mayor Yoichi Iha puts a sticker on an official vehicle Thursday to promote the resolution of issues related to the U.S. military base in the Okinawan city.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harumi Sugiyama, widowed by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, strolls through Tokyo's Omotesando district last Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mikio Aoki, head of the Liberal Democratic Party's Upper House caucus, responds to questions after meeting with LDP President Shinzo Abe at party headquarters Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Horigome]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A crowd of 35,000 people attends a concert by singer Takuro Yoshida and trio Kaguyahime on Saturday at Tsumagoi resort in Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hidenao Nakagawa]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chiho Aoshima's multipanel "City Glow, Mountain Whisper" graphic installation lights up the platform at the Gloucester Road subway station in London.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Pacific War History Museum, a nonprofit group based in Ohshu, Iwate Prefecture, hold skulls found on New Guinea in June 2005.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeo Iizuka, whose younger sister, Yaeko Taguchi, was abducted to North Korea in 1978, fields questions from reporters as Teruaki Masumoto, chief secretariat of a group of relatives of abductees, stands by holding a photo of his own missing sister, Rumiko.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michio Kishita]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Monks chat with young female visitors while serving tea and sweets Aug. 9 at Kamiyacho Open Terrace, a cafe overlooking the cemetery in Komyoji Temple in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dishwashers manufactured by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. that are subject to recall for a fire hazard are displayed Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-11-02T09:01:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son announces Softbank Mobile's "zero yen" mobile-phone service at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-11-02T09:01:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeo Iizuka, whose younger sister, Yaeko Taguchi, was abducted to North Korea in 1978, meets Tuesday with U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton Tuesday in New York.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Metropolitan Police Department investigators enter University of Tokyo Hospital in Bunkyo Ward Wednesday to search for evidence in a bid-rigging case.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-11-02T09:05:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/02/national/number-of-new-hiv-cases-in-quarter-is-second-highest/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/03/national/government-to-certify-real-japanese-food/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/03/business/takenaka-to-head-keio-think-tank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heizo Takenaka]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eisaku Sato]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/03/national/cabinet-asset-average-91-million-yen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/03/national/ldp-panel-backs-order-on-nhk-coverage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/03/business/matsuoka-to-visit-eu-for-trade-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/03/national/japan-wont-talk-directly-with-north-korea-aso/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:01:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/03/business/state-wary-of-softbank-overload/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:01:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/03/national/06-suicides-may-fall-below-30000/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:01:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/03/national/750-people-record-19-groups-to-receive-medals-of-honor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/03/business/mazda-sales-profit-soar-to-records-in-first-half/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:01:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/03/business/hard-to-limit-bond-issues-omi-says/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/03/national/talk-of-going-nuclear-irks-opposition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/03/national/bases-key-as-trio-square-off-for-okinawa-gubernatorial-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:03:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Hirokazu Nakaima, a former Okinawa vice governor running in the Nov. 19 gubernatorial election, stage a rally Thursday morning as campaigning kicks off.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/03/national/niigata-cops-get-warrant-for-soga-abductor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:04:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:05:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/03/national/plan-okd-to-help-students-graduate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-03T09:05:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/04/national/over-70-percent-of-japanese-pollees-have-positive-view-of-sdf-iraq-stint/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-04T09:00:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-11-04T09:02:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-11-04T09:02:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/04/national/writing-nun-setouchi-four-get-culture-citation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-11-04T09:03:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This year's recipients of the Order of Culture awards (from left) Jakucho Setouchi, Miyohei Shinohara, Hidekazu Yoshida, Chusaku Oyama and Yoshiaki Arata pose Friday at the Imperial Palace.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/04/national/site-near-iwakuni-sought-for-touch-goes/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2006-11-04T09:06:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up at the Setagaya ramen shop on Tokyo's busy Kan-nana loop artery. The shop said it initially saw a decline in sales when tighter parking rules were enforced, but then business later bounced back.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/05/national/transplants-performed-without-written-consent/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Mannami (left), in charge of kidney transplants at Uwajima Tokushukai Hospital, and Hiromichi Sadashima, president of the hospital, speak to reporters Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean soldiers last week observe the southern side of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mike Johanns]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scientists display an ice sample that was believed to be 1 million years old but has turned out to be hundreds of thousands of years younger, at the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo in April.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuhei Sato]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryosaku Shindo]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Principal Kenji Nagata issues an apology Saturday for failing to crack down on bullying at his elementary school in Yahata-Higashi Ward, Kitakyushu. The next day he was found dead in an apparent suicide.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kohei Arai, a professor of information science at Saga University, demonstrates a system that allows users to enter data by looking at characters on a computer screen.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suzanne Berger, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speaks recently in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nicole Piasecki]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiki Kimura]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coins with holes punched through them are displayed Wednesday at a police station in Ota Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masumi Hayashi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ernie Fletcher]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign posted at arrested Wakayama Gov. Yoshiki Kimura's office on Thursday reads, "The governor is absent."]]></image:caption>
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