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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toru Takahashi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiji Hasuda, head of Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto, speaks to reporters Thursday, the day the hospital opened Japan's first baby hatch.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Verdier, chief executive officer of Dexia Credit Local's Tokyo branch, gives an interview.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Upper House President Chikage Ogi announces her plan to retire from politics, during a Friday morning news conference.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-13T09:04:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saeid Partow Helal, his daughters Bita (second from right) and Anahita, and his wife Mitra Keshavarz smile Friday in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, after learning they have been allowed to remain in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-13T09:05:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-13T09:05:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The house of the late U.S. architect J. H. Morgan in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, was struck by a fire early Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prison guards watch monitors during a dress rehearsal last month ahead of Sunday's inauguration of the Mine Shakai Fukki Sokushin Center, Japan's first privately run prison.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-14T09:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-14T09:01:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-14T09:01:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-14T09:02:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-15T09:01:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/15/business/japan-switzerland-start-first-round-of-fta-talks/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Agriculture minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka (center) joins officials of meatpacking companies during a ceremony marking the resumption of beef exports to Hong Kong in Soo, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[THE HOUSE of Councilors passes a bill Monday that sets out the procedure for holding a national referendum on amending the Constitution.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima speaks to a group of reporters Monday ahead of the 35th anniversary Tuesday of the reversion of Okinawa Prefecture from the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/16/national/asdf-iraq-mission-extension-gets-nod/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-16T09:03:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko answer questions during a news conference Monday ahead of their trip to Europe next week.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tetsuya Chikushi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/16/national/south-korean-newspapers-denounce-moves-to-rewrite-the-constitution/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuhiro Soda, director of the documentary "Campaign," talks about the film in Tokyo last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/17/national/report-raises-alarm-about-kids-diet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-17T09:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Windsor Hotel Toya Resort &amp; Spa, the main venue of next year]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The newly built Guru House protects abused children in the Afghan capital thanks partly to a donation from the late harpist Sumire Kuwajima.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-17T09:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A dog at a public animal health center here meets his new owners in late April. The government wants new homes to be found for strays.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/17/business/ntt-east-suffers-net-breakdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-17T09:00:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines Corp. President Haruka Nishimatsu (center front) shares a large room with other employees Wednesday after JAL did away with individual executive offices.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-17T09:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Radha Mainali, the wife of convicted murderer Govinda Mainali, covers her face with a booklet published by a support group for her husband, in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/17/national/fluorine-compounds-suspected-of-poisoning-antarctic-animals/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The principal of the public high school that a 17-year-old boy suspected of beheading his mother attends speaks to reporters Wednesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/18/business/rakuten-refuses-to-limit-tbs-stake-goal-to-20/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-18T09:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kirin Tropicana will raise its orange juice prices next week because of storm damage in Florida, one of the world's largest citrus producers, and growing demand for ethanol.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/18/business/toyota-throws-hybrid-models-into-lexus-lineup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-18T09:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-18T09:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/18/business/economy-grew-just-0-6-in-quarter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-18T09:02:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-18T09:02:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/18/business/microfinance-champion-urges-japan-to-promote-tool-in-oda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-18T09:02:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-18T09:02:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-18T09:04:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-18T09:05:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-18T09:05:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/18/national/panel-mulls-lowering-voting-age-to-18/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-18T09:05:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/18/national/trail-to-obara-said-overlooked-in-92-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-18T09:05:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/19/business/mitsubishi-bids-to-up-holdings-in-three-affiliates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-19T09:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/19/national/lower-house-passes-education-bills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-19T09:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opponents of three education bills rally in front of the Diet on Friday with placards protesting the forced display of the Hinomaru and the singing of "Kimigayo" in public schools.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/19/business/sxl-to-correct-financial-statements/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-19T09:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-19T09:01:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bull-Dog Sauce Co. Senior Managing Director Masaomi Tamiya speaks to the press in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/19/business/farm-concession-said-key-to-u-s-fta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-19T09:01:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myron Brilliant]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/19/business/monthly-scheduled-pay-dips-0-4/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-19T09:01:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/19/business/gyudon-chains-beef-strategies-proved-critical-to-06-earnings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-19T09:01:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-19T09:02:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-19T09:02:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/19/national/delivery-education-wins-the-hearts-of-young-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-19T09:03:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Small boats filled with activists and residents opposed to the relocation of a U.S. Marine Corps facility try to stop a vessel from the Defense Facilities Administration Agency from conducting a survey of the disputed area off Cape Henoko on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/19/national/fujifilm-chief-selected-to-join-nhks-management-panel/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-19T09:06:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-20T09:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hydrofoil Seven Island Ai is docked at Kurihama Port in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Saturday evening after it was hit by high waves that broke windows and injured several passengers.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-05-20T09:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/20/national/taiwan-mulls-export-ban-on-eels/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/20/national/japan-to-pitch-global-nuclear-safety-rules-at-g8-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-20T09:05:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/20/national/grisly-crimes-spark-rethink-of-safe-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-20T09:05:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators scour the area Saturday in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, where ex-gangster Hisato Obayashi staged a 29-hour standoff with police.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/21/national/teenager-says-he-went-to-a-karaoke-hangout-after-beheading-mother/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-05-21T09:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The media records the return of U.S. beef to a Costco store in Makuhari, Chiba Prefecture, last August, a sign that meat's popularity is growing here.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuhiro Nakasone]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihisa Akiyama]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michio Tanaka (left), husband of deceased shooting victim Kimiko Tanaka, and Shizuko Ebinuma, who was wounded and confined to a wheelchair, head to the Utsunomiya District Court on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kosaburo Morinaka]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man looks over samples of lunch specials in front of a restaurant in Tokyo on Thursday as a man using his cell phone passes by.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kanayo F. Nwanze]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Slow lorises, a species protected by an international treaty, are shown this undated file photo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travelers at Tokyo's Haneda airport wait in long lines Sunday at All Nippon Airways ticket counters after flights were halted due to a system glitch.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito visits the monument in Vilnius to Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who rescued Jews in Lithuania during World War II, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/29/business/mitsubishi-heavy-licenses-wind-turbine-tech-in-china/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satoaki Mizutani]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waseda University students return to the Shinjuku campus in Tokyo Wednesday after the university resumed classes amid a national measles epidemic affecting mostly young people.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet members see off the hearse carrying farm minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka outside the Prime Minister's Official Residence in Tokyo on Tuesday, a day after the minister killed himself.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demolition work starts Thursday at the U.S. military's Sobe Communications Site in Yomitan, Okinawa.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/06/01/business/no-taxi-fare-hike-till-after-july-election-sources-say/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atsushi Saito, the next Tokyo Stock Exchange president, is interviewed Wednesday at the TSE.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-06-02T09:03:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-06-02T09:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-06-03T09:02:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-06-03T09:02:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-06-04T09:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and elementary school students pick up litter along the Tama River on Sunday as part of his environmental protection campaign]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-06-04T09:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-06-04T09:01:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-06-04T09:01:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-06-04T09:01:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/06/04/national/abe-may-let-defectors-go-to-s-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-06-04T09:03:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-06-05T09:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-06-05T09:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-06-05T09:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-06-05T09:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Toho Air Service Co. helicopter lies crashed on a Mount Okuhodaka lodge along the border between Gifu and Nagano prefectures Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-06-05T09:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-06-05T09:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Red-crowned cranes here have recently been found to contain mercury at levels up to 300 times the maximum generally found in bird species.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoriko Mori]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People interact recently with Paros therapeutic robots at a demonstration during Tech Epoch, held by the Japan Society in New York.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuhiro Nakasone]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Long known as Iwojima, this island 1,200 km south of Tokyo is now officially known as Iwoto]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jassim Darwish, a University of Bahrain student studying Japanese, works at his desk in Manama. He hopes to someday study in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The flagship outlet of the Hakata Ippudo chain of ramen restaurants in Hakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, is pictured last week. The chain plans to open a New York branch this year.]]></image:caption>
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