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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Long-term warning: Atsushi Saito, president and CEO of Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc., talks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peekaboo: A boy and his parents wave from inside a bullet train featuring Pikachu, a popular character in the "Pokemon" animation series, at JR Ueno Station on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-19T09:02:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beware: Special glasses for Wednesday's solar eclipse should have darkened eye slits, like those in the top photo. Some glasses, like those in the bottom photo, have lighter eye slits and should not be used.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-19T09:02:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Momma eel: The first-ever egg-bearing eel caught in the Pacific Ocean is displayed by government researchers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/19/business/crisis-hit-firms-have-received-3-83-trillion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-19T09:02:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/19/national/japan-u-s-set-regular-talks-on-deterrence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-19T09:03:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/20/national/ldp-bigwig-tsushima-retiring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-20T09:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/20/national/chiba-student-wins-gold-medal-at-biology-olympiad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-20T09:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/20/national/scientists-gear-up-for-total-eclipse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-20T09:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sneak preview: A woman peers through a telescope Sunday in a schoolyard on Akuseki Island in Kagoshima Prefecture where tents for visitors have been set up for Wednesday's solar eclipse.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/20/national/drummer-kuidaore-taro-returns-to-dotonbori/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-20T09:01:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Back beat: Visitors have their picture taken in front of the mechanical drummer man Kuidaore Taro (left), which returned to Osaka's Dotonbori area Sunday, and his "younger brother" Kuidaore Jiro.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-20T09:01:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/20/national/cathay-jet-makes-emergency-landing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-20T09:03:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/20/national/beijing-reasserts-claim-to-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-20T09:03:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/20/national/mystery-woman-sought-in-slaying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-20T09:04:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/20/national/agent-sorry-for-mountain-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-20T09:05:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Going home: The body of a hiking victim is placed in a hearse Sunday morning in Shintoku, Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/21/national/nagoya-univ-produces-worlds-first-wingless-ladybird-beetles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-21T09:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No fly zone: The world's first "wingless" ladybird beetle, produced by researchers at Nagoya University's Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, is hoped to be employed as a new biological control agent.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/21/national/tornado-like-gusts-hit-okayama-pref/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-21T09:02:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brute force: Clean-up crews survey the aftermath of strong winds that pummeled Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture, Sunday evening. Local authorities believe it was probably a tornado as the damage was limited to a small area of about 100 meters in width.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/21/national/police-raid-sapporo-firm-over-unregistered-forex-trading/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-21T09:03:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-21T09:03:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-21T09:04:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/21/national/suspected-stalker-put-on-wanted-list-for-murder-abduction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-21T09:04:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wanted man: Police are search for Hiroyuki Nakada, who is believed to have been involved in the murder of Aiko Toyoda, 61, and in the disappearance of her daughter Tomomi, 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/22/business/policymaker-called-for-exit-strategy-minutes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-22T09:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/22/business/business-seeks-serious-debate-before-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-22T09:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/22/business/department-store-sales-slip-11/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-22T09:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/22/business/ose-starts-currency-margin-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-22T09:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/22/national/election-offers-ray-of-hope-to-struggling-voters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-22T09:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/22/national/u-s-destroyer-visits-yokohama-passenger-pier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-22T09:01:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dress whites: Tugs guide the Aegis destroyer USS John S. McCain to the international passenger terminal in Yokohama on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/22/national/hawaiis-only-japanese-language-daily-fights-for-survival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-22T09:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-22T09:02:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Who will be back?: Members of the Lower House shout "banzai" Tuesday afternoon as the chamber is dissolved.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-22T09:03:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/22/business/carmakers-woes-put-40-dent-in-crude-steel-output/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-22T09:03:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/22/national/eco-tour-interpreter-in-new-zealand-maori-inspired/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-22T09:03:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/22/national/junior-high-official-held-in-drug-bust/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-22T09:03:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/22/national/lifer-freed-by-a-single-smuggled-hair-strand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-22T09:04:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshikazu Sugaya]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/22/national/aso-pulls-plug-on-lower-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-22T09:05:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/23/national/ldp-cartoon-ad-attacks-dpj-vows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-23T09:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/23/national/investment-losses-put-the-kibosh-on-keio-university-building-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-23T09:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/23/business/disney-films-on-panasonic-cards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-23T09:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/23/national/mudslide-flood-toll-at-nine-nine-missing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-23T09:01:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dirty business: Ground Self-Defense Force members on Wednesday examine an area hit by a mudslide the previous day in Hofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/23/business/angry-whopper-adds-spice-to-burger-wars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-23T09:01:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spicing things up: Burger King Japan President Hitoshi Arimoto (right) watches as comedian Cunning Takeyama eats an Angry Whopper, the fast-food chain's latest burger, during a promotional event in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/23/national/hiroshima-memorial-draws-record-56-countries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-23T09:01:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/23/national/curry-poisoner-seeks-retrial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-23T09:01:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Talking security: Atsuyuki Sassa, a veteran security expert who was the first head of the Cabinet's Security Affairs Office, addresses a symposium on crisis management held recently in Tokyo as Yuri Konno, chairwoman of the nonprofit policy advisory group Committee on the Year 2001, which organized the forum, looks on.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Make or break: Yukio Hatoyama, president of the Democratic Party of Japan, stumps for a DPJ candidate outside JR Tokorozawa Station in Saitama Prefecture Thursday. Prime Minister Taro Aso, the Liberal Democratic Party chief, enters LDP headquarters in Tokyo Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Roos]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toru Hashimoto]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robots, start your batteries: Panasonic Corp.'s battery-powered cycling robot will take on the Le Mans 24 Hours circuit to demonstrate its long-life batteries.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man of the hour: Director Hayao Miyazaki speaks Friday during a symposium in San Diego.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking to dry out: A woman heads for a shelter as heavy rain floods a road in Sasaguri, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/27/business/dollar-beauty-may-be-fading-but-it-still-tops-currency-pageant-list/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090727a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dual use: The taspo smart card allows the holder to buy cigarettes from vending machines — and authorities to monitor where and when they are used.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking the wraps off: DPJ President Yukio Hatoyama unveils the party's campaign manifesto in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Charged up: A Nissan Motor Co. employee shows the lithium-ion battery stack under the floor of the carmaker's new prototype electric vehicle during a test-drive Monday at the firm's Oppama plant in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuyasu Kato]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/28/national/chinese-envoy-slams-uighur-activists-japan-visit/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090728a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Before and after: Kiyoshi Ihara surveys his house Sunday in Hofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, following a rain-induced landslide last week (lower photo). Ihara, whose family has lived in the neighborhood since the Meiji Era, says he will probably have to move.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-28T09:04:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Hatoyama]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tragic end: Rescue workers pray for Takuyo Fukano, 76, a resident of the Life Care Takasago nursing home in Hofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, whose body was found buried in mud Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-28T09:05:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/28/national/dpj-platform-vows-to-weaken-bureaucrats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-28T09:05:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/28/national/book-looks-into-japans-long-ignored-asbestos-fiasco/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-28T09:05:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tension in the air: Uighur rights leader Rebiya Kadeer arrives at Narita International Airport on Tuesday afternoon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/29/business/hitachi-suffers-first-quarter-loss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/29/business/toyota-january-june-sales-off-26/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/29/national/scientists-laud-dpj-emissions-vow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/29/national/lotte-finds-fits-what-kids-choose-to-chew/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pick and chews: Lotte Co.'s new Fit's gum, with its easy-to-open package, is proving a hit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/29/business/six-banks-get-fsa-order-to-improve/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/29/national/shii-says-jcp-will-play-loyal-opposition-role/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/29/national/yokohama-mayor-quits-but-rules-out-diet-run/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Outta here: Yokohama Mayor Hiroshi Nakada speaks at a news conference Tuesday at City Hall after submitting his letter of resignation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/29/national/alico-data-leak-leads-to-card-fraud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/29/national/kanji-test-body-seeks-billions-over-bum-deals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:01:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/29/business/nearly-one-in-eight-houses-vacant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/29/business/ailing-aichi-qualifies-for-tax-grants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/29/national/death-toll-from-mudslides-flooding-in-yamaguchi-hits-16/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:02:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:02:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:03:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-29T09:04:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For that extra kick: A woman looks at a vending machine in Tokyo that also is equipped with an automated external defibrillator.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/29/national/new-komeito-chief-slams-dpj-policies-rules-out-alliance/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akihiro Ota]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/29/national/three-killers-are-sent-to-the-gallows/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-30T09:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/30/national/aso-makes-offering-to-yamaguchi-mudslide-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-30T09:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090730a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Surveying the damage: Prime Minister Taro Aso inspects a mudslide-damaged area in Hofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, from the rooftop deck of a nursing home Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/30/business/retail-sales-down-for-10th-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-30T09:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-30T09:01:05+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/30/national/iranian-picture-book-exhibition-drawing-crowds-across-japan/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090730f3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Persian version: Visitors browse through picture books from Iran at an exhibition in Niigata in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/30/national/panel-urges-laws-to-assist-ainu-preserve-culture/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/30/national/abductee-support-may-be-extended/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-07-30T09:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/30/national/uighur-activist-calls-on-japan-to-probe-riot/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reaching out: Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer speaks Wednesday at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/30/national/the-new-face-of-home-caregivers/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lash stash: A Shu Uemura "lash bar" in Omotesando, Tokyo, offers 40 types of false eyelashes and advice on how to wear them.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Global warmth: Akira Hiraishi (right), a student at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Public Policy, greets China's Yupu Zhao, who attends Franklin &amp; Marshall College in Pennsylvania, during an international youth summit at Tsinghua University in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking for trouble: Two of the greatest villains in the evil Shocker syndicate, Jigoku Taishi (left) and Shinigami Hakase, played by Ren Osugi and Renji Ishibashi, appear at a promotional event this week in Tokyo for "Kamen Rider Decade."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/31/business/five-firms-team-up-against-global-warming/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Still looking: Rescue workers continue their search Tuesday night for victims of a mudslide caused by heavy rain Saturday in Sasaguri, Fukuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-07-31T09:02:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-01T09:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[End of a generation: A Japan Airlines ground crew bids farewell to a Boeing 747-300 on Thursday as it prepares to depart for Okinawa from Kansai International Airport. Domestic airlines will stop flying early-model jumbo jets starting Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/01/business/toshiba-unit-buys-nuke-related-firm/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-01T09:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/01/national/researchers-discover-excessive-fluorine-levels-in-tea-beverages/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reading the leaves: Finding that levels of fluorine in tea drinks exceed the standard for tap water, Japanese scientists warn that prolonged consumption could weaken bones.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/01/national/japanese-on-death-row-in-china-fingers-killer-in-95-store-slayings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-01T09:01:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/01/national/hatoyama-disses-ldp-but-is-otherwise-vague/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-01T09:01:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Hatoyama]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/01/national/kagawa-slams-china-trademark-quest-for-udon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-01T09:01:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[What's in a name?: An application filed for Sanuki "udon" noodles appears on the Chinese Trademark Office's Web site in this photo taken Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/01/national/market-for-pet-funerals-expands-as-owners-opt-for-burials/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Final bow: A woman bows in front of a tombstone during a funeral ceremony for a pet at Shofukuji Temple in Nishi Ward, Osaka, recently.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Room to negotiate: A man enters a real estate agency in the Shibaura district of Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/01/national/aso-unveils-ldp-policy-platform/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshio Tamogami]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A good cause: Latin American musicians perform at a charity concert sponsored by the Nagayama Children Fund and other civil groups in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Star attraction: Nissan Motor Co.'s new electric vehicle, the Leaf, draws the scrutiny of photographers Sunday at the company's headquarters in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Not called upon: Yusuke Takagi, 28, who was not picked in the lay judge selection process Monday, faces reporters in the Kasumigaseki district of Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/04/business/daihatsu-sees-brighter-earnings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-04T09:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/04/national/language-in-court-to-be-simple/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-04T09:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Call any channel: A scene from the drama "Sweet Room" broadcast on BeeTV starting last Saturday features popular actor Hiroki Narimiya.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The victors: Plaintiffs and supporters hail a ruling by the Kumamoto District Court on Monday over atomic bomb-related illnesses.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/04/national/first-lay-judge-trial-kicks-off-in-tokyo/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trial of patience: Some 2,000 people line up Monday in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district for a chance to get tickets for the 58 gallery seats at the first trial involving lay judges.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/04/national/woman-slain-grandchild-wounded/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-04T09:02:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/national/historic-first-lay-judge-quizzes-witness/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trial by fire: Six lay judges flank three professional judges (top) in this sketch of a courtroom trial Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/national/media-mistranslated-obama-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/national/dpj-to-be-more-assertive-on-u-s-ties-okada/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:00:17+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/national/voters-still-favor-dpj-over-ldp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/national/web-site-offers-artifacts-from-a-bombings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/national/dpj-will-say-anything-to-win-defector-asao/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the race: Keiichiro Asao, then an Upper House member from the Democratic Party of Japan, leaves a news conference in Tokyo on July 24 after saying he will run in the Aug. 30 Lower House election as an independent.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/business/dpj-policies-need-25-tax-hike-yosano/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/national/suit-eyed-over-sumo-assault/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/national/economist-behind-bars-for-groping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:01:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manabu Oshio]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/national/lee-visit-now-expected-next-month/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/national/fukuoka-ngo-finishes-afghan-irrigation-canal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:01:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/national/yokohama-adopts-nationalistic-junior-high-history-textbook/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/national/scholar-interns-at-old-bookstore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:02:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Old tomes: Isseido Booksellers President Takehiko Sakai talks to intern Peter Bernard at the antiquarian bookstore in Jinbocho in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/business/new-easy-to-use-audio-gear-aimed-at-seniors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:02:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Golden oldies: A man checks out radios for elderly people at the Kinokuniya Co. flagship bookstore in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on July 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/business/lawson-stores-begin-installing-chargers-for-electric-vehicles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:02:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/business/civil-servants-bonuses-to-get-cut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:02:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/business/bridgestone-opens-radial-tire-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:02:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/business/prius-helps-trim-toyotas-losses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:02:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/business/rainy-season-cuts-into-uniqlo-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:02:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/05/national/jal-wine-to-come-in-plastic-bottles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-05T09:02:44+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/06/business/seven-eleven-accepts-ftc-order-on-discounts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-06T09:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/06/national/all-lay-judges-quiz-accused-killer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-06T09:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/06/business/companies-put-good-face-on-bad-results/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-06T09:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/06/national/once-groomed-to-be-pop-star-undone-by-pachinko-ball-thievery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-06T09:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/06/business/apparently-facing-farmers-ire-dpj-backpedals-on-u-s-fta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-06T09:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/06/national/government-promises-to-offer-recognition-of-ailing-hibakusha/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-06T09:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/06/national/manhattan-project-relic-may-be-spared/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-06T09:01:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Never forget: Bill Wilcox, a former nuclear scientist who chairs a project to preserve a former Manhattan Project site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., stands against the backdrop of K-25, one such site, last month. K-25 produced enriched uranium used in the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima in August 1945.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/06/national/actress-sakai-traced-to-yamanashi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-06T09:01:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/06/national/higher-incomes-equal-higher-test-results-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-06T09:01:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/06/national/asylum-seekers-facing-destitution/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nothing else to do: Asylum-seekers who have been cut off from government aid while awaiting their interviews watch TV at a temporary shelter set up in Chiba Prefecture by the Japan Association for Refugees in late July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/06/national/probes-to-hunt-japans-seabed-for-resources/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bureaucrats beware: The Aug. 30 general election will pit Prime Minister Taro Aso (left) and his Liberal Democratic Party against Yukio Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan, which vows to go after the all-powerful bureaucracy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/06/national/moon-panel-mulls-exploration-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-06T09:02:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshimi Watanabe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/06/national/freeing-of-journalists-by-north-welcomed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-06T09:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Punch it, baby: A Boeing 737 carrying former U.S. President Bill Clinton and two American journalists released Tuesday by Pyongyang takes off for the United States on Wednesday after refueling at Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/07/national/survivor-updates-annual-tally-of-dead/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Growing list: Hiroshima A-bomb survivor Kazuko Ikegame writes out the names of recently deceased victims of the nuclear attack, in Hiroshima's Minami Ward on July 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/07/national/citizens-stepped-up-fulfilled-new-court-duty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-07T09:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/07/national/u-s-nuclear-umbrella-crucial-aso/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/07/national/hiroshima-sides-with-obama-on-nukes/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Poignant: A woman and girl pray for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the city's Peace Memorial Park on Thursday, the 64th anniversary of the attack.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/07/business/seven-i-opens-first-drugstore/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Job done: The nation's first lay judges face the media during a news conference Thursday at the Tokyo District Court after they found a 77-year-old man guilty of murder.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/07/national/aso-inks-pact-on-hibakusha-relief/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Louder than words: Peace protesters stage a die-in outside the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park on Thursday, the 64th anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/07/national/dpj-to-aid-individuals-otsuka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-07T09:02:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/07/national/big-promises-but-wheres-the-funds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-07T09:03:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Get with the program: Prime Minister Taro Aso announces the Liberal Democratic Party's campaign platform at the party's headquarters July 31. Right: Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama shows off the DPJ manifesto July 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/08/business/elpida-to-tap-30-billion-from-dbj-spigot-state-to-help-back-loans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-08T09:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/08/business/bearings-tariffs-to-be-extended/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-08T09:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/08/national/68-of-100-who-voted-ldp-in-05-have-seen-enough/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-08T09:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/08/national/obama-trusts-roos-to-manage-japan-ties/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan-bound: President Barack Obama meets with Ambassador-designate to Japan John Roos Thursday in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/08/business/toyota-to-drop-obsession-with-global-market-share/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-08T09:01:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-08T09:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-08T09:01:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Can't be shaken: Evidence of radioactivity is present in preserved cells taken from people who died in 1945 following the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/08/business/jal-net-loss-expands-to-99-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-08T09:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/08/national/harley-guide-makes-good-on-flight-attendants-plight/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One, two, tree!: The Macklin family pushes a tree together in Adelaide, Australia, last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/08/business/sanyo-plant-to-up-solar-cell-output/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-08T09:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/08/national/clintons-success-highlights-japans-abductee-failures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-08T09:02:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-08T09:02:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Herme-copter?: An EC135 helicopter with an interior decked out by French luxury brand Hermes is shown to the media Friday in Minato Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/08/national/warrant-issued-for-actress-sakai/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Better times: Actress Noriko Sakai announces her marriage to Yuichi Takaso in December 1998. Sakai is wanted for alleged drug violations in connection with the Monday arrest of her husband for similar offenses.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/08/national/visit-to-a-bombed-cities-unlikely/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-08T09:02:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-08T09:03:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Party time: Former Cabinet minister Yoshimi Watanabe (fifth from right) gathers with members of his newly established political party, Your Party, at a Tokyo hotel on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/09/national/arrest-drugs-shatter-sakais-pure-image/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-09T09:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-09T09:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/09/national/former-minister-tagawa-dies-at-91/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-09T09:01:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/09/national/doctors-deserting-ldp-ahead-of-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-09T09:01:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-09T09:02:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Noriko Sakai]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/09/national/memorial-held-for-wartime-chinese-forced-laborers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-09T09:02:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For those who suffered: Participants in a memorial service for 6,830 Chinese forced laborers who died in Japan during the war pray during a service at a temple in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/10/national/dpj-vows-civilian-afghanistan-aid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-10T09:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/10/national/temblor-shakes-tokyo-vicinity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-10T09:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/10/national/sakai-blames-her-husband/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-10T09:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/10/national/nagasaki-seeks-world-ban-on-nukes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-10T09:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/10/national/aso-suffers-another-kanji-gaffe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-10T09:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-10T09:02:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Birthplace of a bomb: This reactor building is part of the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state that produced the plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/10/national/court-errors-unavoidable-ex-judges-tell-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-10T09:02:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/11/national/13-dead-10-missing-as-typhoon-unloads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-11T09:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Don't call City Hall: A municipal employee shovels mud from the flooded-out town hall in Sayo, Hyogo Prefecture, on Monday as the area reeled from the impact of Typhoon Etau.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/11/national/tohoku-to-go-from-rain-season-to-fall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-11T09:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/11/national/european-calls-mount-for-bluefin-trade-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-11T09:01:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heading toward extinction?: Bluefin tuna swim in the Atlantic in this photo provided by the World Wide Fund for Nature.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/11/national/dpj-builds-a-slightly-bigger-lead-over-ldp-survey-shows/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/11/business/no-surprises-expected-as-boj-policy-board-remains-cautious/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-11T09:01:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/11/business/american-home-lists-delinquencies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-11T09:02:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bridge too far: The swollen Sayo River washed away this bridge in Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/11/national/jr-worker-late-halts-trains/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-12T09:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/12/national/french-nuke-redress-bill-praised-as-model/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-12T09:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-12T09:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man with a plan: Democratic Party of Japan policy chief Masayuki Naoshima holds a news conference Tuesday at DPJ headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/12/national/1995-sakai-song-tops-itunes-chart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-12T09:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/12/business/sato-delays-parcel-service-integration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-12T09:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/12/national/consumer-agency-opens-sept-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-12T09:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/12/national/strong-quake-hits-shizuoka-injuring-112/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-12T09:01:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[When the Earth shakes: A woman in Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, views a backyard stone wall that collapsed early Tuesday while workers at a Sapporo beer factory in Yaizu clean up broken bottles.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/12/national/day-laborer-enclave-gets-media-center/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-12T09:01:16+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/12/business/economic-assessment-continues-guarded-optimism-on-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-12T09:01:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20090812a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mulling it over: Prime Minister Taro Aso attends a meeting of economic ministers at his official residence Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/12/national/hiranuma-planning-new-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-12T09:01:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/12/national/second-lay-judge-ruling-due/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-12T09:01:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/12/national/election-monitors-for-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-12T09:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/12/national/japan-kazakhstan-share-fate-as-nuclear-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-12T09:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090812a8a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090812a8a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Contemplating tragedy: A woman looks at panels explaining the 1945 atomic bombings in Japan and nuclear testing in Kazakhstan at the "Against Nuclear Arms" exhibit, which opened Monday at the United Nations.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/12/national/party-platforms-offer-no-quick-fix-to-job-woes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-12T09:01:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090812f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bread line: Jobless people and temp workers who spent the yearend holiday season in a tent village in Tokyo's Hibiya Park wait to receive hot meals provided by nonprofit organizations on Jan. 5.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Absentee ballot: A Japanese voter receives a ballot Wednesday at a polling station set up at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing as early voting by absentees overseas for the Aug. 30 election begins.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Roos]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opening their eyes: Pupils from Taimei Elementary School visit Galerie Nichido in Tokyo's Ginza district during a study tour in July.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Power play: Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto (top left) has launched a hot debate over regionalization with Wataru Aso, chairman of the National Governors' Association, and other governors.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aftermath: Satoshi Mase, president of Mase Consultant, faces reporters Thursday in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, after a flood killed four workers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fond farewell: A photo of popular actress Reiko Ohara, who passed away earlier this month, adorns the venue for a farewell gathering for friends and acquaintances Sunday in Tokyo's Aoyama district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/29/business/publishers-buy-europe-anime-pair/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-29T09:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rural link: Rice farmer Chikara Inoue, 64, stands by a paddy in Aomori on Aug. 6, while Democratic Party of Japan candidate Hokuto Yokoyama speaks at his office in the city the same day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/29/national/chinese-pundits-expect-solution-to-yasukuni-if-opposition-prevails/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-29T09:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-29T09:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-29T09:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-29T09:01:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-29T09:01:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pressing the flesh: Yukiko Miyake of the Democratic Party of Japan meets with DPJ deputy chief Ichiro Ozawa on July 27 in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/29/national/foiled-escapee-faces-fresh-charges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-29T09:01:18+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/29/national/bureaucracys-budget-requests-in-limbo-till-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-29T09:01:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-29T09:01:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-29T09:01:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Audience of none: A high school choir sings to an empty hall at a competition that began Friday at Alios Iwaki Performing Arts Center in Fukushima Prefecture. Audiences were not permitted, in order to prevent the spread of the H1N1 flu.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-29T09:02:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-29T09:02:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090829n2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prelude: Part of a four-page Wednesday ad SMAP ran taking up the front and back pages of the Sankei Shimbun is shown in this photo Friday. The first part sounds as if it is encouraging voters to support incumbent politicians, as the ruling party heads for a widely projected defeat in Sunday's poll.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/29/national/disarmament-confab-ends-with-hope-for-npt-review-in-2010/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-29T09:03:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-30T09:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At greater risk: A pregnant mother and her child walk along a street Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/30/national/record-high-10-9-million-voters-cast-early-ballots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-30T09:01:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-30T09:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-30T09:02:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-30T09:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Campaign mode: Prime Minister Taro Aso delivers a speech Saturday at Ikebukuro Station in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/30/national/nara-evades-graffiti-charge-in-n-y/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-30T09:02:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-30T09:02:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/30/national/dpj-may-have-to-forfeit-seats-if-wins-exceed-candidates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-30T09:02:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/30/national/75000-km-logged-on-campaign-trail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-30T09:02:56+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/30/national/truants-get-fresh-start-in-shikoku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-30T09:03:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dedicated educator: Takatoshi Uka, principal of Ikegawa Shizen Gakuen, poses in front of his school in the town of Niyodogawa, Kochi Prefecture, earlier this year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/hatoyama-finally-gets-his-chance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/dpj-starts-to-plan-cabinet-lineup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/aso-decides-to-step-down/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facing the music: Hiroyuki Hosoda, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, appears before the media Sunday evening at LDP headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/voters-fed-up-with-ldp-say-its-time-for-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/typhoon-draws-bead-on-kanto-spurs-flood-alert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/several-ldp-bigwigs-sent-down-to-defeat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:01:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crash and burn: Former Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura makes a grim appearance before supporters Sunday in Sapporo. At right, former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa speaks to supporters at his campaign office in Obihiro, Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/koizumis-children-find-the-tables-turned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:01:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defeat: Liberal Democratic Party candidate Yukari Sato apologizes for losing her bid to represent the Tokyo No. 5 district Sunday at her campaign headquarters in Meguro Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/ozawa-reaches-goal-clout-to-grow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/victor-puts-on-the-glitz-with-dash-of-humble/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:01:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/komeito-ldp-crash-in-kansai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:01:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Valiant effort: New Party Nippon leader Yasuo Tanaka arrives at his campaign headquarters in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/new-komeito-leaders-knocked-out/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:02:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akihiro Ota]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/11-year-old-gets-away-with-voting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:02:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/one-teen-dead-three-hurt-in-niigata-car-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:02:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/historic-sea-change-at-polls-product-of-frustrated-public/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:02:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staggered: Prime Minister Taro Aso faces the media Sunday evening at Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo as reports came in of the ruling party's crushing defeat.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/foreigners-weigh-in-on-election-outcome/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:02:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/31/national/live-fire-drill-at-base-of-fuji-is-a-350-million-blast-for-fans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-08-31T09:02:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Star shells: Ground Self-Defense Force tanks engage in an annual live-fire drill Sunday in Shizuoka Prefecture at the foot of Mount Fuji.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/01/national/interest-high-among-foreign-media-in-historic-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-01T09:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090901a6a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Korean connection: Most major South Korean newspapers reported the historic victory of the Democratic Party of Japan in Sunday's election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/01/national/no-big-shift-seen-in-foreign-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-01T09:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/01/national/dpj-allies-mull-ruling-coalition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-01T09:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aftermath: Prime Minister Taro Aso appears at a loss during a news conference Monday at Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/01/national/winners-and-losers-react-to-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-01T09:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spoils of office: Eriko Fukuda of the Democratic Party of Japan poses with gifts from supporters in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Monday. Right: Seiko Noda of the Liberal Democratic Party celebrates her victory in the city of Gifu.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/01/business/end-to-diet-gridlock-elates-markets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-01T09:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/01/national/kansai-airport-lures-with-80-landing-fee-cut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-01T09:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/01/national/victors-rookies-win-big-elected-women-set-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-01T09:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/01/national/ozawa-kept-for-upper-house-race-in-10/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-01T09:01:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All smiles: Ichiro Ozawa, deputy chief of the Democratic Party of Japan, celebrates in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Sunday as the opposition party's landslide victory became apparent.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-01T09:01:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/01/national/bureaucrats-jockey-to-face-new-management/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-01T09:01:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/01/business/wages-slid-by-slower-4-8-in-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-01T09:01:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/01/business/uniqlo-teams-up-with-disney/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-01T09:01:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20090901a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mouse that roared: Models sport Uniqlo Co. clothes featuring Disney characters in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/01/business/crude-oil-imports-continue-to-dip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-01T09:01:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-01T09:01:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out with the old: Cardboard boxes fill a defeated Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker's office near the Diet building in preparation for moving out.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Draw it and they will come: Officials of the Japan Agricultural Cooperative Ugo pose for a picture with illustrator Aoi Nishimata (center), who drew the illustrations for packages of local products that have been enjoying strong sales.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In with the new: Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama, the likely next prime minister, leaves his home in Tokyo on Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wife of an `alien?': Miyuki Hatoyama, poised to become the next first lady, is interviewed recently in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Exhibit A: Stolen Peko-chan figures confiscated from secondhand shops are displayed Wednesday at a police station in Wakayama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manabu Oshio]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/03/national/covert-u-s-japan-nuke-pact-still-valid-source/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Optimistic: Bill Emmott, ex-editor of the Economist magazine, is interviewed Sunday in Taunton, southwest England.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Main event: Observers pack the gallery at the Aomori District Court on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-03T09:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-03T09:01:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-03T09:02:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-04T09:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the running: Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda addresses reporters with JOC Director Mikako Kotani.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/04/national/plan-to-shut-oldest-reactor-in-10-put-on-hold/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steaming on: Japan Atomic Power's boiling-water No. 1 reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, is seen in July 2006.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Center of attention: Yukio Hatoyama, president of the Democratic Party of Japan and the next prime minister, briefs the press at DPJ headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/04/national/planetariums-offer-healing-shows/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relaxing scene: The image of a starry sky over a lake is projected on the ceiling of the Manten planetarium in Tokyo's Toshima Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/04/national/driver-sought-in-bank-cash-car-heist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-04T09:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-04T09:01:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-04T09:01:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/04/business/keidanren-chief-seeks-common-ground-with-dpj/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-04T09:01:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Voice of business: Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), is interviewed Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/04/national/vienna-park-to-be-named-for-tora-san/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Friendship park: This park in the Floridsdorf district of Vienna will be named after Tora-san, the main character in Japan's longest-running movie series, "Otoko wa Tsurai yo" ("It's Tough Being a Man"), to promote friendship between Japan and Austria.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/04/business/new-lumix-to-be-smallest-lens-interchangeable/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20090904a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shrinkage continues: The Lumix GF1, set to be launched Sept. 18 by Panasonic Corp., is being touted as the world's smallest, lightest digital camera with an interchangeable lens system.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/04/national/first-lady-grabs-spotlight-with-spiritual-quirks/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unorthodox: Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama and his wife, Miyuki, pose for the media after casting their absentee votes for last Sunday's general election at a polling station in Tokyo on Aug. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/04/national/ozawa-set-to-be-dpj-secretary-general/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-04T09:02:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Ozawa]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-04T09:02:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Luxury and modesty: A Mercedes-Benz S-Class hybrid is shown to the media Thursday in Tokyo as the German carmaker introduces the first foreign-made luxury hybrid to the domestic market, which is dominated by Toyota Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-04T09:02:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[End of the road: New Komeito leader Akihiro Ota announces his resignation as party chief in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-04T09:02:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-04T09:02:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-05T09:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-05T09:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-05T09:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/05/national/dpj-to-fast-track-bill-to-fix-pension-fiasco/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-05T09:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-05T09:01:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-05T09:01:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign spotlight: The Independent, a British newspaper, features Miyuki Hatoyama, wife of Prime Minister in waiting Yukio Hatoyama, in its Thursday edition. The foreign media are curious about past remarks made by the new first lady.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/05/national/11-year-old-shoplifters-parents-held/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-05T09:01:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-05T09:02:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Game over: A former state-paid secretary for a defeated Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker sits idle Wednesday at the office of his former boss after packing his belongings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/05/national/stateless-boy-gets-ok-to-travel-to-japan-for-contest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-05T09:02:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cleared to travel: Mong Thongdee, a stateless boy living in Thailand, and Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva hold origami planes Thursday at the legislature in Bangkok after Mong was cleared to attend the 4th All Japan Origami Airplane Competition.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-05T09:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-05T09:02:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/05/national/hirano-tapped-for-top-spokesman/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hirofumi Hirano]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/06/national/retrial-for-man-wrongfully-convicted-of-90-murder-of-girl-set-for-oct-21/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-06T09:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-06T09:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/06/national/suspected-outbreak-of-o-157-sickens-11/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-06T09:01:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/06/national/prince-hisahito-celebrates-third/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-06T09:01:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Birthday boy: Prince Hisahito poses for a photo in Tokyo earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/06/business/docomo-ready-to-enter-u-s-market-in-2010/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-06T09:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/06/business/suzuki-plans-new-india-auto-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-06T09:02:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/06/national/sdp-seeks-north-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-06T09:02:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/06/national/health-workers-first-in-line-for-h1n1-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-06T09:02:47+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/07/national/new-book-explores-blackman-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-07T09:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clare Campbell]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/07/national/restaurant-fire-stops-kyoto-line/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-07T09:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-07T09:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New power suit: Incoming Diet member Kayoko Isogai picks out clothes at a Nagoya department store Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/07/national/do-nations-new-leaders-lack-economic-vision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-07T09:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/07/business/solar-cell-shipments-hit-record-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-07T09:01:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/07/national/ldp-heavyweight-sasagawa-to-retire-from-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-07T09:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takashi Sasagawa]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-07T09:01:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-07T09:02:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/07/national/1-year-old-boy-falls-to-his-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-07T09:02:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/national/cheap-digs-near-diet-cant-house-dpj-swarm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Balance of power: Mizuho Fukushima, leader of the Social Democratic Party, is interviewed at the party's head office July 22. Right: Newly elected Kokumin Shinto leader Shizuka Kamei, picture here during an interview in 2008.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/national/expectations-rise-for-surgery-to-stem-obesity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/national/consumer-affairs-boss-underscores-new-yet-tenuous-role/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:00:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shunichi Uchida]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/national/american-arrested-for-suspected-child-abuse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/national/rail-fans-stepping-out-of-the-shadows/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[That's the ticket: Kazuhiro Watanabe, who runs the Tsubame barbershop in Kiyose, Tokyo, serves a customer at his railway-themed premises.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/national/ailing-new-komeito-taps-policy-chief-as-new-boss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Changing of the guard: New Komeito's policy chief Natsuo Yamaguchi enters the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/national/six-party-talks-best-approach-to-denuclearization-bosworth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/national/smash-and-dash-at-mito-jewelry-shop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/business/toshiba-lsi-output-may-be-outsourced/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:01:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:02:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/business/goma-books-fails-files-for-protection/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/national/hatoyama-dance-oldie-takes-flight-on-internet-auctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:02:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/national/jr-station-robber-gets-3-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:02:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/business/showa-shell-to-expand-output-of-solar-panels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:02:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sunny disposition: The solar panels covering the roof of this house were manufactured by Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/national/e-coli-shuts-pepper-lunch-steakhouse-chain-nationwide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-08T09:02:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090908a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kitchen closed: Pepper Food President Kunio Ichinose faces reporters Saturday in Sumida Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/09/national/teenager-dies-in-tokyo-canal-leap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-09T09:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/09/national/chiba-accounting-off-by-3-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-09T09:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/09/national/ldp-picks-stand-in-for-diet-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-09T09:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Placeholder: Former farm minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi sits next to outgoing Prime Minister Taro Aso during a meeting Tuesday of Liberal Democratic Party members from both Diet chambers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/09/national/man-held-for-killing-noisy-sister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2009-09-09T09:00:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clearer than ever: Shoppers peruse a shelf dedicated to the digitally remastered versions of the Beatles' 14 albums at a music store in Tokyo's Ginza district Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Open season: Fishermen round up about 100 bottlenose dolphins for sale and 50 pilot whales for sale or slaughter early Wednesday to kick off the annual hunt in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture. They plan to sell some dolphins to aquariums and return the rest to the sea.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's new H-IIB rocket, carrying supplies to the International Space Station, lifts off early Friday from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stepped-up security: A man passes through a new explosives detector developed by Hitachi during a test Tuesday at Tokyo's Haneda airport.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Winds of change: Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism Minister Seiji Maehara talks about his plan to suspend the Yamba Dam project in Gunma Prefecture at a press conference Thursday. At right, Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada is interviewed by The Japan Times.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Picture this: Nomiun Delgerkh, 18, presents her favorite Japanese word, "mieruka," at an event on Tuesday at Nikkei Hall in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. The Mongolia teen and 13 other young foreigners participated in a cultural experience program run by NPO Japan Return Program this summer.]]></image:caption>
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