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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hisashi Ueda, president of Michi Corp., which markets handmade paper products made in Sri Lanka from elephant dung, displays some of his products at his office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Kimura]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akafuku Co. President Noriyasu Hamada faces reporters as the sweets maker reopened its main store near Ise Jingu Shrine early Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2008-02-08T09:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Hoketsu, an equestrian who is set to become the oldest-ever Japanese participant in the Olympics, poses for a photo last August.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junichi Yamamoto (head covered) is handed over to prosecutors in a police car Saturday in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven industrialized countries join a photo session Saturday in Tokyo before starting discussions on the global economy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cook cuts frozen vegetables imported from Thailand on Friday at Itabashi Nursing Home in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo. Industry experts say that frozen food is indispensable for food service companies.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ex-Nova teachers stage a rally Friday in Osaka, demanding G. communication Co. honor its promise to hire all teachers from failed Nova Corp. language schools.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panelists at a symposium held Saturday at the University of Tokyo discuss challenges facing English-language newspapers in East Asia. The panelists were (from left) Sayuri Daimon of The Japan Times, Kim Hoo Ran of The Korea Herald, Amber Chang of The Taipei Times, Kang Myung Koo of the Seoul National University, Dennis Peng of the National Taiwan University, and Kaori Hayashi of the University of Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daisaku Kadokawa answers reporters' questions in front of his house in Kyoto on Monday after winning the city's mayoral election.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiichi Aoyama (right) speaks to reporters outside the Nagoya District Court on Monday after the court handed down a 22-year prison term for the killer of his infant son.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshio Yanagisawa]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Finance Ministry will auction this rare 1880 gold coin on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/02/19/business/electron-sharp-join-for-solar-gear/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Divers from the Japan Coast Guard on Wednesday examine scratches left on the bow of the MSDF destroyer Atago, which ran over a fishing boat off Chiba Prefecture early Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A used Japanese footbridge is reopened here Wednesday after being transported all the way from Moriguchi, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The unmannedD probe Deep Tow, which is capable of detecting 50-cm-long objects by sonar and video camera, is loaded Friday aboard the deep-sea research vessel Kaiyo in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign tourists watch as Waki Masayuki, ninja master of Bujinkan Training Hall in Tokyo, demonstrates a technique (above), while Australian tourist Michael Studte throws a rope during a ninja class Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/02/23/business/cautious-nukaga-nixes-sovereign-wealth-fund/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Quarantine station officials in Kobe examine frozen processed foods Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gary and Aki Neuwirth pose in Toho Park in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/02/23/business/mufj-eyes-singapore-brokerage/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Buddhist monk prays with local residents Saturday for the safety of two fishermen who went missing after the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Atago ran over their boat Tuesday off the Boso Peninsula.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The new top U.S. military commander in Japan, Lt. Gen. Edward Rice, delivers a speech at his inauguration Monday at U.S. Yokota Air Base in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. President Fumio Otsubo is interviewed recently in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee of the convenience store chain Seven-Eleven Japan Co. shows off bottles of Coke with collectible extras attached.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bangladeshi women are crucial to the country's economic growth, comprising the majority of garment factory workers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto announces the prefecture's four-month provisional budget starting in April at a news conference last Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuyoshi Miura, who was arrested for allegedly arranging the fatal shooting of his wife in 1981, leaves a courtroom Wednesday in Saipan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians cross one of Tokyo's most crowded intersections near JR Shibuya Station last Sept. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/02/28/national/data-on-3859-fibrinogen-victims-sat-on-since-01/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoichi Oizumi, 79, and his wife, Keiko, 68, face reporters Wednesday in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, after the district court rejected their lawsuit for health-related damages in connection with the fatal 1999 criticality accident in Tokai.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/02/28/national/quake-damaged-nuclear-plant-passes-safety-probe-with-flying-colors-iaea/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/02/28/national/atago-skipper-apologizes-to-relatives-of-fishermen/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seven new versions of Nissin's Chicken Ramen to be sold abroad include noodles for (clockwise from top left) India, Brazil, the United States, mainland China, Hong Kong, Hungary and Indonesia.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ibrahim Gambari]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Charles Mcjilton, CEO/executive director of Second Harvest Japan, gives a presentation Friday to students at Tokyo YMCA International School in Koto Ward.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Ishiba]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Handwritten messages adorn a Japanese flag that was found by a U.S. sailor during the war and kept for more than 60 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-03T09:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenji Nagamoto addresses a public forum in Tokyo on Saturday about his experiences as a congenital Minamata disease patient.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/03/national/japan-to-push-ratio-goals-for-energy-saving-equipment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-03T09:03:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda receives a letter Sunday from relatives of two missing fishermen outside their house in Katsuura, Chiba Prefecture. The fishermen have been missing since their trawler collided with a warship Feb. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/03/national/profits-from-malicious-firms-to-go-back-to-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-03T09:04:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ifbot, designed to be a chatty companion to lonely elderly people that is said to have the communication ability of a 5-year-old child, smiles in Tokyo on Nov. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/04/business/ex-ernst-young-cpa-investigated-for-insider-trading/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshio Mizushima (center), Ernst &amp; Young ShinNihon's Japan area managing partner, bows before reporters in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/04/national/miuras-lawyer-says-u-s-transfer-would-constitute-double-jeopardy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-04T09:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/04/business/nikkei-falls-4-5-as-dollar-tests-under-103/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20080304a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The dollar is quoted at ¥102.99 at 11:17 a.m. Monday at Gaitame.Com Co. in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/04/national/snow-caves-in-yubari-pools-roof/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-04T09:01:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/04/business/loft-offers-to-extend-part-timers-contracts-indefinitely/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-04T09:02:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-04T09:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-04T09:02:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-04T09:02:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/04/national/central-asia-yellow-sand-fogs-japan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yellow dust blown from western China fills the air Monday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-04T09:05:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-04T09:05:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manjiro Nakamura, believed to be the first Japanese to travel to the United States, lived in this house in Fairhaven, Mass.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/04/national/poisoned-gyoza-factory-asks-its-workers-to-resign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-04T09:05:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:01:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:01:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigators raid the office of real estate firm Koyojitsugyo on Tuesday morning before arresting the president and nine others on suspicion of pressuring tenants to vacate a building in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/05/national/bill-would-take-aim-at-unsafe-pet-food/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:01:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:01:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:01:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/05/business/cabinet-oks-revised-financial-law-with-teeth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:01:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:02:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:02:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:02:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:02:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:02:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Part of the wheelhouse from the fishing boat that was run over by the destroyer Atago off Chiba Prefecture last month was found Tuesday by the oceanographic vessel Natsushima near the collision site.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/05/national/obama-to-namesake-town-thanks-for-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:03:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/05/national/freighter-dings-msdf-destroyers-in-vietnam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:04:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/05/national/drug-runners-sentences-finalized/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-05T09:05:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/06/business/chinas-place-secure-food-exec/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-06T09:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/06/national/okinawas-u-s-ire-remains-low-profile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-06T09:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. servicemen sit on a bench inside Camp Zukeran in Chatan on Feb. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/06/business/toyota-mulls-investing-in-mhi-regional-jetliner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-06T09:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/06/national/six-years-sought-for-president-of-meat-hope/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-06T09:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/06/business/firms-capital-spending-fell-7-7-in-last-quarter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-06T09:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/06/national/hus-visit-faces-delay-until-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-06T09:01:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/06/national/france-fetes-relations-with-bunraku-staging-at-louvre/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-06T09:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Joruri bunraku" puppetry is performed Tuesday at the Louvre Museum in Paris as part of cultural events to mark the 150th anniversary of the signing of a Franco-Japanese treaty of commerce and friendship.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/06/national/saipan-court-rejects-miuras-bid-for-release/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-06T09:01:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/06/business/chances-of-boj-being-leaderless-unlikely-fukuda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-06T09:02:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/06/business/gasoline-prices-climb-to-151-90/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-06T09:02:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/06/business/warm-reception-may-not-await-iphone-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-06T09:03:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple Inc.'s iPhone, combining the features of a mobile phone and an iPod music player, is shown last June 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/06/national/triple-ship-collision-leaves-one-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-06T09:03:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/06/national/fukuoka-woman-cleared-in-04-slaying-of-brother/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-06T09:05:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsuko Katagishi smiles at her son, Kazuhiko, during a news conference Wednesday in Kitakyushu after being freed from detention upon her acquittal in her brother's 2004 murder.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/business/vegetable-imports-from-china-dive-after-scare/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/business/fukuda-calls-for-wage-raises-to-boost-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/business/sanyo-shareholders-ok-corrections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:01:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/national/sofa-improvement-mulled-in-bid-to-clarify-joint-patrols/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/business/quarterly-gdp-faces-downgrade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:01:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/business/new-imported-car-sales-down-1-1-in-february/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/national/schwarzenegger-signs-miura-papers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:01:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/business/fake-viagra-haul-ups-07-counterfeit-import-seizures-16/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:01:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nb20080307a5a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20080307a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Counterfeit goods confiscated by customs on their way into Japan are shown to the media Wednesday at the Finance Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/national/kumamoto-gubernatorial-race-draws-five-contenders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/national/izakaya-are-more-than-just-plain-pubs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:02:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mark Robinson, the author of "Izakaya: The Japanese Pub Cookbook," enjoys some beer and yakitori at Morimoto, one of eight Tokyo pubs detailed in the book, on Feb 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/national/london-duns-embassy-for-1-million-in-congestion-fees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:02:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/business/microsoft-launches-free-web-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:02:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/business/nippon-steel-lowers-earnings-estimates-on-rising-materials-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:02:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/business/disney-to-work-with-two-local-animators/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:02:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20080307a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The entrance to the Walt Disney Corp. office and studio complex is shown in this file photo. Walt Disney Corp. will team up with two Japanese studios to produce animation products in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/national/sunken-freighter-skippers-body-found/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:03:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:04:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A passenger gets into a taxi operated by a certified "excellent" driver at a new stand in Shinbashi, Tokyo, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/national/man-wrongly-sent-up-for-rape-sues-for-redress/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/national/myanmar-woman-to-be-deported-despite-marriage/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/national/07-saw-52-food-safety-law-violations/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/national/japan-rank-improves-to-23rd-in-wef-08-tourism-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:04:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/national/top-court-juki-net-not-against-the-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-07T09:05:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Yamamoto, the lead lawyer for plaintiffs suing the government over the Juki Net national resident registry network, faces reporters Thursday in Tokyo after the Supreme Court ruled that the identification system is not unconstitutional.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/national/dead-nagasaki-shooters-case-closed/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asahi Breweries Ltd. claims its new protein prevents weight gain by staying longer in the stomach, thus delaying hunger pangs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahiro Kanagawa, who is suspected of randomly killing two people and wounding seven others in knife attacks, leaves the police station Tuesday at Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, as he is handed over to prosecutors.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ines Ligron, national director for Miss Universe in Japan, takes Miss Universe Japan 2008 candidates out on the street for field training in Tokyo in December. Below, she instructs the candidates before a charity fashion show in Tokyo in October.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigators early Wednesday examine the train platform at JR Okayama Station where a 38-year-old man was pushed to his death allegedly by a teenager.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-28T09:01:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Leach, the oldest grandson of famous British potter Bernard Leach, and Tomoo Hamada, grandson of Japanese ceramicist Shoji Hamada, pose at the Leach Pottery studio in St. Ives, England, in this undated photo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto attends a prefectural assembly session Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-29T09:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue workers transport a wounded member of Masao Enari's family to an ambulance early Friday after the Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, bookbinder stabbed five of his family, killing three, before trying to kill himself.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emobile Ltd. Chairman Sachio Senmoto (second from left) and President Eric Gan attend an event Friday in Tokyo to launch the firm's wireless voice service.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/29/national/gsdfs-iraq-reconstruction-projects-still-unfinished/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-29T09:01:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/29/business/markets-laud-fukuda-offer-to-untie-taxes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-29T09:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/29/business/sapporo-shareholders-vote-to-keep-steel-partners-at-bay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-29T09:02:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/29/business/mitsubishi-heavy-to-proceed-with-regional-jet-development/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-29T09:02:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French representatives (from left) Jean-Marie Mochizuki, 16, and Clarisse Tistchenko, 12, participate Friday in the Junior Labour Summit 2008 in Niigata.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bill Hawker, father of slain English teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, passes out leaflets with the image of Tatsuya Ichihashi, the suspect in his daughter's murder, at Gyotoku Station in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, on Tuesday. Joining him are his other two daughters, Lisa (left) and Louise.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-29T09:05:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-30T09:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-30T09:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors at the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008 at Tokyo Big Sight check out three-dimensional animation Saturday created by Redrover International.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/30/national/north-defector-enters-embassy-in-laos/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/30/national/japanese-fathered-philippine-trio-get-nationality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-30T09:02:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/30/national/marubeni-used-in-multibillion-yen-swindle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-30T09:02:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/30/national/gas-tax-break-to-be-brief-machimura/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-30T09:02:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/30/national/poverty-in-japan-scrutinized-at-multinational-school-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-30T09:03:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080330a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Macneil of The Independent newspaper speaks in a Saturday symposium at the "antipoverty festa" at Tokyo's Kanda Hitotsubashi Junior High School.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/30/national/2167-asbestos-handling-firms-idd/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-30T09:03:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/30/national/tokyo-area-gets-last-pac-3-battery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-30T09:04:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/30/national/more-airport-checks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-30T09:05:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/30/national/japan-times-receives-genesis-bardot-award/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/31/national/company-falsified-data-on-bridge-component/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080331a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ST Engineering Corp. President Shingo Taniyama bows in apology at a news conference Sunday in Yao, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/31/national/lehman-brothers-to-sue-marubeni-over-alleged-fraud/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/31/national/fukuda-to-keep-up-fight-on-road-taxes/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/31/business/the-vacancy-at-the-boj-and-the-merits-of-emptiness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-31T09:02:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/31/business/group-plans-to-bury-tokyos-elevated-shuto/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nihonbashi Bridge, the starting point for five major trunk roads in the Edo Period and one of Tokyo's historical landmarks, is overshadowed by an elevated expressway. A government panel proposed in fall 2006 to then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to put a 2-km section of the expressway underground, and build a park and promenade near the bridge. The project remains stalled due to its huge cost — estimated at between 400 billion yen and 500 billion yen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/31/national/asbestos-victim-benefits-to-run-out/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/31/national/japan-post-bank-looks-to-end-cap-on-deposits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-31T09:04:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-03-31T09:04:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080331a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suspachai Panitchpakdi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/31/national/election-observers-deploy-in-nepal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-03-31T09:05:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:01:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:01:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:01:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:01:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:02:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:02:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors view a steam locomotive and other exhibits Monday at Saitama's Railway Museum.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/01/national/wholesale-gas-prices-to-fall-23/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-01T09:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/business/fukuda-resolves-to-revive-extra-gas-tax-in-lower-house-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/national/ozawa-threatens-censure-over-pension-record-mess/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Ozawa, Democratic Party of Japan chief, heads to a Tuesday meeting at DPJ headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/national/new-ambassadors-named-to-u-s-and-britain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080402a7a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Fujisaki]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/national/video-puts-sailor-near-slaying-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/national/45-loath-to-take-part-in-lay-judge-trials-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/business/drivers-flock-to-pumps-as-extra-tax-ends/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Drivers hoping to fill their tanks with cheaper gas form a long line in front of a service station Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/national/lee-to-meet-with-fukuda-emperor-during-two-day-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/business/food-to-take-bigger-bite-out-of-pocketbooks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/business/firms-welcome-recruits-amid-inhospitable-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:01:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20080402a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kensuke Yanagida, one of 24 newly hired employees of Mitsubishi Pencil Co., sharpens a pencil with a blade Tuesday during an entrance ceremony at the company's head office in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo. As 2008 marks the 50th year since the company began selling its premium pencil, the uni, new employees were asked to sharpen pencils to acquaint them with the quality of the firm's products.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/national/april-1-proves-readers-no-fools/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:01:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/national/items-from-turkish-shipwreck-recovered/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:01:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080402f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Melike Aykut, 81, shows a picture of her grandfather, who was a crewman aboard an Ottoman Empire warship that sank off Wakayama Prefecture on Sept. 16, 1890, at her home in Istanbul on Jan. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/business/post-bank-seeks-deposits-ceiling-end/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:01:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/national/defense-civilian-recruits-get-pep-talk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:02:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New civilian employees listen to a welcoming speech by Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba on their first day of work at the ministry Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/national/g8-seeks-emerging-donors-help-on-development/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:02:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/business/outlook-bleak-businesses-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:02:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/business/mitsukoshi-isetan-join-eye-record-industry-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:03:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Taiko" drummers perform in front of Mitsukoshi's department store in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, to celebrate the Tuesday management integration of Mitsukoshi Ltd. and Isetan Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/national/meat-milk-from-cloned-cattle-are-safe-institute/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:03:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/national/nova-successor-claims-other-schools-poaching-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:03:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/national/local-assemblywomen-top-10-for-first-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-02T09:03:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/business/steel-asks-nissin-to-speed-integration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/hydrogen-release-spike-halts-reactor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/business/nikkei-tops-13000-up-4-as-credit-fears-ease/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/lower-house-committee-approves-new-u-s-base-hosting-agreement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/nonproliferation-to-be-raised-at-g8/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/business/toyota-poised-to-raise-stake-in-fuji-heavy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/earthquake-will-pack-millions-in-tight-areas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/business/promise-faces-4-7-billion-in-gray-zone-era-back-taxes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/business/nippon-paper-chief-takes-hit-for-falsehoods-over-recycling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:00:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/ruling-confirming-military-role-in-okinawa-suicides-appealed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/lagos-market-is-africas-answer-to-akihabara/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:01:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Retailers carry newly purchased secondhand TV sets at the Alaba International Market in Lagos, Nigeria, to sell them in the city's suburbs and other parts of the country.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/freed-abductee-now-college-teacher/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:01:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/wind-blamed-for-fatal-2005-jr-east-accident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:01:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/hashimoto-seeks-lower-house-seat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:01:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/fao-shows-japanese-artists-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:01:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080403a7a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sculptor Mitsuaki Tanabe poses with his work "Yasei Ine," which is based on the shape of wild rice, at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/climber-to-g8-fight-himalaya-thaw/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:01:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080403a8a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080403a8a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Renowned climber Ken Noguchi and actress Mayumi Wakamura face reporters Tuesday in Tokyo to call on the Group of Eight leaders to discuss melting Himalayan glaciers.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/japan-no-5-oda-donor-oecd/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/business/mufj-unit-takes-big-kim-eng-stake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:01:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/business/most-prefectures-to-freeze-money-from-expired-road-related-taxes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:02:05+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/business/monetary-base-remains-almost-flat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:02:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/u-n-looks-for-japan-to-send-mine-removal-troops-to-sudan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:02:41+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/building-of-first-japan-legation-to-brazil-found/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:02:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080403f2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080403f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Western-style house in Petropolis on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro housed Japan's first legation in Brazil.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/u-s-sailor-admits-killing-taxi-driver/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-03T09:03:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/04/national/magazine-aims-to-report-on-reality-of-life-in-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-04T09:00:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/04/national/oda-fall-poses-africa-policy-dilemma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-04-04T09:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tanzanian Ambassador to Japan Elly Elikunda Elineema Mtango is interviewed at his mission in Tokyo on March 27.]]></image:caption>
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