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		<lastmod>2006-11-22T09:04:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-11-22T09:04:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiho Fujita poses with her book, "Gal Revolution," during a book-signing at the Taiseido in Tokyo's Shibuya district on Oct. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-11-22T09:05:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-11-23T09:00:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-11-23T09:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sadamichi Hirasawa talks with his lawyer at the Sendai Detention House in this undated photo. He died in 1987 at age 95.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines Corp. employees wearing happi coats assist passengers Monday at Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tadahiro Ando]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hirokazu Nakaima (right), fresh off his election win, shares a moment Sunday with departing Gov. Keiichi Inamine at Nakaima's campaign office in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Food and flower offerings lie Thursday on the bank of the Oto River in Okazaki where Miyoko Hanaoka was found beaten death.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Midori Komori leads students in a workshop on bullying in November at Nogawa Junior High School in Kawasaki.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumio Kyuma]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cetaceans such as this endangered humpback whale in Alaskan waters (above) and this endangered fin whale killed by Icelandic hunters last month are among the few mammals known with "consciousness."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs rejoice Friday after the Kobe District Court ordered the state to pay them compensation for failing to take adequate steps to resettle them in Japan from China, where they were abandoned at the end of the war.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Capitol Tokyu Hotel in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, is open Wednesday for its last night, before being shut down to make way for a new building project.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese bark scorpion stung a woman in Okinawa as she was trying on jeans imported from China.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enters his official residence to attend a Cabinet meeting Wednesday morning at which the Finance Ministry submitted a draft government budget for fiscal 2007.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-12-21T09:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-12-21T09:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-12-21T09:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Anopheles, a species of mosquito, can transmit malaria into humans.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/22/business/ua-to-end-osaka-chicago-flights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/22/national/court-halts-kadokawa-book-over-photo-rights-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/22/business/japan-brunei-swiftly-agree-to-pursue-fta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/22/business/november-trade-surplus-jumped-54/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:01:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/22/business/toyota-upscale-hatchback-unveiled-for-japan-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:01:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp.'s new Blade hatchback is displayed as Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe speaks during a news conference Thursday at a Tokyo hotel.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/22/business/traders-face-selloff-of-sakhalin-2-stakes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:01:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/22/national/traffic-fatalities-down-for-sixth-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:01:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/22/national/traffic-fatalities-down-for-sixth-year-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:01:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/22/national/japan-u-s-to-formalize-exchange-of-global-topographic-data-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:02:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:02:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:03:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2006-12-22T09:03:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flowers are placed Thursday near the spot where homeless woman Miyoko Hanaoka was found slain on Nov. 20. Police suspect three teenagers, led by a 28-year-old man, are behind the murder.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masaaki Honma]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police search a home Thursday in Tama, western Tokyo, belonging to Tadao Maejima where a corpse packed in cement, believed his, was found under the floor.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Exhibition about the abuses inflicted on East Timorese women during the Japanese and Indonesian occupations]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Motoshige Ito]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paloma Industries Ltd. Vice President Jiro Kawase bows to reporters at a news conference in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. Takeo Koizumi treats a seriously ill patient at Kyorin University Hospital in the city of Mitaka, Tokyo, last month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fujio Mitarai (left), chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), speaks during a meeting Monday in Tokyo with the Japanese Trade Union Federation (Rengo), including Rengo Chairman Tsuyoshi Takagi (lower right).]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fujiya Co. President Rintaro Fujii (center) and other executives of the major confectioner apologize over product safety problems at a news conference Monday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuji Ishihara, a teacher in charge of students' mental care at Nagisa Junior High School in Chuo Ward, Kobe, greets students at the gate every morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-17T09:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-17T09:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A notice about the murder of Kyoto Seika University freshman Daisuke Chiba is posted Tuesday morning on campus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/17/national/ldps-ito-avoids-charges-due-to-lack-of-evidence/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Aso]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koichi Kato, a Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker, holds a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan last Aug. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-17T09:03:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials from municipal governments in Hokkaido talk to visitors about their cities during a promotional event to try to get baby boomers to move to the prefecture, at Sunshine City in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-18T09:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/18/national/ex-state-official-admits-bid-rigging/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-18T09:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/18/business/farm-sector-shielded-by-subsidies-wto/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman holds a candle Wednesday morning during a memorial service in Kobe's Chuo Ward to mark the 12th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The word "Nagata" is created with hundreds of candles during a memorial held Wednesday evening for victims of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake at the city's Nagata Ward, which was among the hardest hit by the killer quake.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prius hybrid vehicles wait to roll off Toyota Motor Corp.'s production line Dec. 15, 2005, in Chanchung at a ceremony marking the start of local Prius production.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/18/national/culture-agency-chief-kawai-retires/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-18T09:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-18T09:01:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/18/national/fair-pay-urged-for-filipino-nurses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-18T09:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-18T09:03:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe cheers alongside Liberal Democratic Party members at the end of the party convention Wednesday in Tokyo's Minato Ward.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Agricultural Ministry officials enter Fujiya Co.'s head office in Tokyo to conduct a search Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/19/business/china-agrees-in-principle-to-again-import-japan-rice/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/19/business/widely-awaited-boj-rate-hike-a-no-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-19T09:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/19/national/likely-asbestos-tumor-candidates-to-be-tracked/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-19T09:00:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara beams at a Tokyo hotel last August after the Japanese Olympic Committee chose the capital as the JOC's candidate for the 2016 Summer Games.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Khin Maung Hla, a Myanmarese asylum-seeker, enters the Nagoya High Court Thursday afternoon.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thailand's ousted prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, waves as he arrives Thursday night at the Narita International Airport.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A supporter for defendants in the so-called Yokohama Incident shows a banner saying their appeal has been rejected Friday in front of the Tokyo High Court.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-21T09:01:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-21T09:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-21T09:03:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-22T09:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-22T09:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-22T09:02:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-22T09:02:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers Sunday morning investigate a fire at a karaoke hangout the previous evening that left three people dead.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/22/national/tv-entertainer-voted-miyazaki-governor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-22T09:03:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. Chief Operating Officer Toshiyuki Shiga shows off the new Pino minicar at Nissan headquarters in Tokyo's Ginza district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/23/national/67-6-of-pollees-have-concerns-about-daily-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panelists at a Sunday symposium in Osaka discuss human rights, missile tests and other issues related to North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/23/national/vote-buying-sato-brother-handed-suspended-term/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cycling on sidewalks]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/23/business/tying-up-with-mittal-top-priority-nippon-steel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:01:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants in the first meeting of five international tuna conservation bodies discuss measures to curb overfishing Monday in Kobe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/23/business/regional-ties-key-to-handling-crisis-bankers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/23/national/abe-endorses-suspensions-to-fight-school-bullies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:01:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/23/business/new-tax-panel-chief-keeps-cards-close-to-his-vest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:01:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/23/national/tanka-anthology-by-death-row-inmate-published/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:02:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070123f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The tanka anthology "Owari no Hajimari" ("The Start of the End") depicts the daily life and remorse of death-row inmate Kaoru Okashita.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/23/national/contractors-in-nagoya-bid-rigging-raided/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:02:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070123a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prosecutors enter the headquarters of Kajima Corp. in Minato Ward, Tokyo, Monday to search for evidence of bid-rigging for a Nagoya subway extension project last year. Fellow contractors Obayashi Corp. and Shimizu Corp. also were raided.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/23/national/japan-and-china-to-pursue-nuclear-power-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:02:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/23/national/over-100-apply-to-take-in-stray-dog-rescued-from-ledge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-23T09:03:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A female dog rescued last fall from a ledge 70 meters up a concrete wall is fed in her cage at a local animal shelter in December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/24/business/some-boj-policymakers-wanted-hike-in-january/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-24T09:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/24/national/arson-nets-nhk-reporter-seven-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-24T09:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/24/business/fujiya-to-go-solo-with-rehab-morinaga-told/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-24T09:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/24/national/upper-houses-no-2-denies-fund-allegations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-24T09:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070124a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Giichi Tsunoda]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/24/national/new-miyazaki-governor-starts-at-a-sprint/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-24T09:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-24T09:01:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/24/business/japan-australia-u-s-urge-tuna-tracker-rating-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-24T09:01:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-24T09:01:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/24/national/interpol-opens-regional-conference/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-24T09:01:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/24/business/tse-to-increase-trading-capacity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-24T09:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/24/business/nippon-oil-enters-alliance-with-sk-to-expand-asia-presence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-24T09:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/24/national/taiwan-china-dorm-row-before-top-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-24T09:02:41+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/25/business/1-5-billionth-rides-monorail-to-haneda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-25T09:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20070125a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatoshi Kawahara, the 1.5 billionth person to ride the Tokyo Monorail, receives two coupons for a 200,000 yen tour package Wednesday at Hamamatsucho Station.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/25/national/some-in-hokkaido-preserve-ainu-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-25T09:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070125f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeo Toyokawa crafts an "inaw" to be used in Ainu rites at his workshop in his Sapporo home last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/25/business/sanyo-credit-unit-shares-to-be-sold-off/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-25T09:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-25T09:01:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-25T09:01:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-25T09:01:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20070125a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissin Food Products Co. will be selling reusable cups and instant noodle packets.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/25/business/world-must-try-harder-to-save-tuna-u-n-says/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Darren Huston]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-25T09:01:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-25T09:03:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-25T09:03:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-26T09:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-26T09:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/26/national/kadena-to-hold-paratroop-drill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-01-26T09:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-26T09:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20070126a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Softbank Mobile Corp. CEO Masoyoshi Son, flanked by TV celebrities Rei Kikukawa (left) and Aya Ueto, unveils the company's new handsets Thursday at a news conference in Tokyo's Minato Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-01-26T09:01:36+09:00</lastmod>
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