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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/28/national/tepco-woman-took-three-times-radiation-limit/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/28/national/doctor-symbol-of-disaster-courage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-28T09:00:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seeing for themselves: Minamisanriku Mayor Jin Sato (right) explains the devastation to Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at the playground of the tsunami-hit Isatomae Elementary School in Miyagi Prefecture on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/28/%news_category%/carmakers-eyeing-weekend-production/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flotsam: Fishing boats swept away by the March 11 tsunami drift in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/28/national/nuke-crisis-medical-response-team-learns-hard-lesson/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/28/national/thai-guide-admits-slaying-tourist-wounding-another/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/28/national/fukushima-city-removing-schools-topsoil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-28T09:02:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scraping the surface: Workers remove topsoil from a nursery school playground Wednesday in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/28/national/daylight-saving-plan-gets-the-ax/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-28T09:03:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/28/national/prosecutors-prison-term-finalized/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-28T09:03:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/28/national/court-questions-exclusion-of-overseas-japanese-from-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-28T09:03:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/28/national/plan-to-join-hague-pact-on-custody-due-in-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-28T09:04:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/28/national/tateyama-sightseeing-route-opens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-28T09:04:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/28/national/envoy-to-u-n-vows-utmost-effort-to-share-nuke-crisis-developments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-28T09:05:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/28/national/crisis-bolsters-unlikely-miyagi-port-tunisia-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-28T09:06:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tohoku connection: Maher Azaiez, a Tunisian who once had a home-stay in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, visits his hometown in the Kerkennah Islands, eastern Tunisia, last November with his Japanese wife, Toyoko, and their daughter, Linna, and son, Jamel.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/28/national/child-organ-transplants-still-face-hurdles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-28T09:06:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/29/national/kan-eyes-10-years-for-repairs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-29T09:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/29/national/law-makes-suing-foreign-firms-easier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-29T09:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/29/national/asdf-msdf-relief-elements-looking-to-stand-down/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-29T09:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unending: A Ground Self-Defense Force soldier searches Thursday for people missing in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/29/national/school-that-lost-70-of-its-pupils-mourns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-29T09:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Valediction: Family members pray for students killed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami Thursday at Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, after a memorial service.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/29/national/hamaoka-reactor-restart-in-july-urged/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-29T09:01:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/29/national/rethink-in-offing-for-crises-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-29T09:02:56+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/29/national/evacuee-mayors-community-torn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-29T09:03:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leader in exile: Katsutaka Idogawa, mayor of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, speaks last week to reporters outside Kisai High School, now serving as a shelter in Kazo, Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/29/national/disneysea-reopens-for-holiday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-29T09:03:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flight of fancy: Visitors rush to attractions after Tokyo DisneySea in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, reopened Thursday for the first time since the March 11 mega-quake.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/29/national/bill-to-suspend-abusive-parent-rights-gets-okd/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-29T09:03:38+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/29/national/22000-file-suit-over-kadena-night-flights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-29T09:05:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Making noise: Plaintiffs rally Thursday in Naha, Okinawa, after filing a lawsuit against the government over noise pollution from the U.S. Kadena Air Base in Kadena.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/29/national/378-students-killed-158-missing-in-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-29T09:06:29+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/29/national/npa-panel-proposes-autopsy-units/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-29T09:06:59+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/30/national/tohoku-bullet-trains-fully-resume/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-30T09:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Good to be back: A boy waves from a Tohoku shinkansen at JR Sendai Station, bound for Tokyo on Friday. The entire Tohoku Shinkansen Line reopened the same day, after services were suspended following the March 11 quake and tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/30/national/extra-budget-for-rebuilding-sent-to-the-diet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-30T09:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/30/national/sony-encrypted-credit-card-data-but-not-basics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-30T09:01:27+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/30/national/futenma-replacement-runway-plan-okd/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-30T09:01:45+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/30/national/panel-to-probe-nuke-accident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-30T09:04:46+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/30/national/25-governors-hit-kans-handling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-30T09:04:49+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/30/national/tepco-and-state-responsible-kan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-30T09:04:57+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/30/national/maestros-tokyo-sinfonia-to-serenade-evacuation-centers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-04-30T09:05:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Take it from the top: Conductor Robert Ryker and Tokyo Sinfonia members greet the audience in Oji Hall in Tokyo's Ginza district on March 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/01/national/matsumoto-clinton-hit-farm-produce-rumors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-01T09:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/01/national/weather-chief-hit-for-putting-lid-on-speedi-projections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-01T09:01:15+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/01/national/tepco-pair-caught-radiation-overdose/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-01T09:01:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hot tub: Debris is seen Thursday in the spent-fuel pool of reactor 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/01/national/disaster-budget-gets-ok/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-01T09:02:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stroll among the wreckage: A woman and two of her granddaughters walk among piles of debris in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on Saturday. Lifelines have been restored in the area, but the nursery school the girls attend remains closed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/01/national/media-national/tabloids-warn-of-major-quake-beneath-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-01T09:02:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/01/national/iaea-team-to-inspect-fukushima-plant-this-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-01T09:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/01/national/u-s-to-sony-clarify-data-breach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-01T09:02:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/01/national/three-years-eyed-to-remove-disaster-debris/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-01T09:03:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[When words are not enough: Tokyo Electric Power Co. Vice President Norio Tsuzumi (second from left) and other officials of the company bow in apology Saturday before residents in the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/01/national/52-nursing-homes-in-iwate-miyagi-shut-after-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-01T09:04:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/02/national/worlds-oldest-captive-orangutan-dies-at-59-at-tama-zoo-in-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-02T09:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/02/national/kans-leadership-poor-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-02T09:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/02/national/u-k-experts-split-on-chances-of-grand-coalition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-02T09:01:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/02/national/temporary-housing-for-all-vowed-by-bon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-02T09:02:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shelter on the way: Construction workers build temporary housing Sunday in the schoolyard of Utatsu Elementary School in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, where half of its residents are presumed dead or missing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/02/national/worker-found-overexposed-to-radiation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-02T09:02:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/02/national/ritz-carlton-to-open-third-in-kyoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-02T09:02:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/02/national/workers-rally-at-may-day-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-02T09:02:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[United: Union workers hold banners at a May Day rally in Tokyo on Sunday. The banner in the center reads "Abolish nuclear power plants."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/02/national/sony-asks-fbi-to-look-into-data-breach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-02T09:02:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/02/national/n-y-marks-49th-day-with-service/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-02T09:03:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/02/national/new-death-linked-to-barbecue-chain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-02T09:04:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/03/national/vow-to-double-africas-oda-stands-matsumoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-03T09:00:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Friend of Africa: Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (front row center) poses with fellow participants at a ministerial meeting at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Dakar on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/03/national/power-cut-doomed-fallout-computer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-03T09:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/03/national/ex-jet-teacher-dashed-from-u-k-to-help/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-03T09:01:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Friends in need: Luke Dunn, a former JET program English teacher, poses in London on April 20, shortly after returning from Iwate Prefecture to help out local people in the tsunami-devastated towns.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Remembering Challenger: Astronaut Soichi Noguchi delivers a speech during an event in Torrance, Calif., on Saturday to commemorate the 1986 Challenger disaster.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cozy club: Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata speaks during a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on April 17.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No way out: Vehicles swept away by the March 11 tsunami are piled up in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12. Survivors say traffic jams following the quake added to the tsunami death toll.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No-play zone: Students watch as workers remove possibly radioactive soil from the Kaoru Elementary School playground in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Piecing it together: Makoto Iokibe, head of the government's panel on rebuilding Tohoku, speaks during a meeting with officials of Fukushima Prefecture in the city of Fukushima on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Child support: Donna Schuurman, executive director of Dougy Center, speaks to The Japan Times on April 20 in Minamiaoyama, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keeping tabs: Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (left) and Reconstruction Design Council Chairman Makoto Iokibe make opening remarks at the beginning of their meeting in Sendai on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An aerial photo shows the extensive damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Nine workers entered the plant Thursday to install a new ventilation device and possibly pave the way for more repair work in the near future.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/06/national/sony-confirms-personal-info-theft-of-all-77-million-network-users/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano speaks to the media Thursday after surveying diaster-stricken areas of Miyagi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/06/national/noda-names-disaster-prevention-as-one-of-asias-most-important-development-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-06T09:02:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/06/national/city-officials-work-related-illness-recognized-in-verbal-abuse-case/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2011-05-06T09:03:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An outlet of the Yakiniku-zakaya Ebisu chain in Tonami, Toyama Prefecture, has been linked to the food-poisoning deaths of two women who ate there on April 23. More than 30 people have been hospitalized in the food poisoning outbreak in Toyama and Kanagawa prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nuclear maze: This image shows a blueprint for a permanent nuclear disposal site, with tunnels several hundred meters underground designed to store canisters filled with solidified high-level nuclear waste for millennia.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Danger zone: A worker measures radiation levels inside the building housing the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/07/national/wartime-story-inspires-newspaper/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Power of the pen: Hiroyuki Takeuchi, editor in chief of the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun, shows a "wall paper" it distributed in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/07/national/police-launch-raids-over-fatal-yakiniku-poisonings/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/07/national/dolphin-hunt-in-taiji-extended-though-may/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the running: The Golden Hall of Chusonji Temple, a historical site in the Hiraizumi area of Iwate Prefecture, is shown in this 2005 photo. Hiraizumi and the Ogasawara Islands off Tokyo have been recommended for listing as UNESCO World Heritage sites.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2011-05-08T09:02:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/08/national/universities-suffered-90-billion-in-damage/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/08/national/sendai-chorus-to-sing-at-n-y-s-carnegie-hall/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tune up: Members of the chorus group Hagi practice at Tohoku University in Sendai on Saturday for their planned performance at a benefit concert in New York's Carnegie Hall on May 20.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Next nuclear crisis?: This photo taken Saturday shows the five reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant run by Chubu Electric Power Co. on the coast of Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Air scrubber: A worker points to a ventilator on Friday intended to filter out radioactive substances in a turbine building at the Fukushima No. 1 plant.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking part: Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Katsuya Okada (second from left) speaks with residents in the city of Fukushima on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/09/national/utility-eyes-lng-for-hamaoka-decision/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Still intact: A photo taken from a helicopter on March 19 shows reactors No. 1 through No. 4 (right to left) at the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/09/national/clinics-to-be-built-in-all-temp-housing-clusters/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soothing sounds: A concert is held Saturday at a hall built by Japan in L'Aquila, Italy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/10/national/nuke-plant-terrorism-worried-u-s-cable/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Call for help: Japanese athletes Reiko Tosa (right), Yoko Shibui (second right) and other participants in Sunday's "Run for Hope" charity event in New York's Central Park solicit  donations for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Worn out: Day laborers rest outside the welfare center in the Airin district of Nishinari Ward, Osaka, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2011-05-10T09:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/10/national/subsidies-to-region-will-continue/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Building bridges: Shuichi Hatta (left), grandson of late Japanese architect Yoichi Hatta, and Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou (center) pose for photos during an opening ceremony Sunday for a memorial park for Hatta, the man behind Taiwan's Chianan Canal and Wushantou Reservoir in Greater Tainan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteer spirit: Tracy Kato-Kiriyama (left) talks with students at a meeting of the Bridging Communities Program held at the West Coast Islamic Society in Anaheim, California, in March.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journey home: Evacuees from Kawauchi, Fukushima Prefecture, prepare to head to their homes in the no-go zone near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant Tuesday, where they cleaned up and retrieved valuables.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/12/national/two-msdf-officers-acquitted-over-fatal-08-trawler-collision-off-chiba/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bitter tears: Mitsuo Kichisei, the younger brother of Haruo Kichisei, who was killed in a collision between a fishing boat and a destroyer in 2008, cries in disappointment after the Yokohama District Court ruled Wednesday that two Maritime Self-Defense Force officers weren't criminally responsible for the accident.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/12/national/government-eyes-opening-trilateral-summit-in-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-12T09:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/12/national/crisis-a-chance-to-forge-new-energy-policy/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heart of the matter: U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma is seen in January at Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miyu Uehara]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kevin Maher]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/13/national/probe-into-nuke-crisis-to-take-about-a-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-05-13T09:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taste of home: Boxed lunches for Brazilian workers are placed on a kitchen counter of Fuji Nippon in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/14/national/cabinet-expansion-bill-sent-to-diet-to-create-new-posts/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/14/national/russia-warned-not-to-let-official-visit-disputed-isles/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Green advocate: Tetsunari Iida, executive director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies, speaks at the institute in Nakano Ward, Tokyo, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/14/national/radioactive-ash-found-in-tokyo-after-march-11/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/14/national/singapore-lifts-travel-advisory-but-backs-80-km-no-go-zone/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Planning pays off: Residents at Nonoshima Island in Miyagi Prefecture gather to draw up a disaster prevention map in August 2008.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Duck and cover: Children at Isatomae Elementary School in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, hide under their desks during a disaster drill May 12.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turtle trade: Tokyo police say this rare Angonoka tortoise was sold illegally by a pet-shop owner.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Final justice: Shoji Sakurai (right) and Takao Sugiyama, who served nearly 30 years in prison, enter the Tsuchiura branch of the Mito District Court in Ibaraki Prefecture on Tuesday before the court acquitted the pair of robbery and murder charges.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Making a difference: Volunteers, including refugees and both Japanese and foreign exchange students, work hard removing debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/25/national/sendai-to-resume-international-flights-in-june/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Envoy excitement: Council of Arab Ambassadors in Tokyo members (from left) Lukman Faily of Iraq, Abdulaziz Turkistani of Saudi Arabia, Walid M. Abdelnasser of Egypt, Waleed Siam of the Palestinian territories and Khalid Al-Muslahi of Oman pose with Yukiko Ogasawara, president of The Japan Times, during their courtesy call at the paper Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2011-05-26T09:04:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Focused: Fujifilm Corp. employees (top) sort photos and put them in lukewarm water at an evacuation shelter in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 15. Below: Photographs are hanged to dry at a shelter in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 17.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking on the bright side: Hiroaki Ohno, director of the Hoshi no Mura Observatory in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, poses May 21 with a telescope that was wrecked by the March 11 earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Offering support: Daisuke Aoyama (left) talks with a Turkish drug rehabilitation patient in Istanbul.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sunny side up: Softbank Corp. founder and President Masayoshi Son (center) fields a question during a news conference after meeting with local political leaders in Osaka on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoto Kan]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heaven help me: Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who expressed his intention to resign Thursday, listens to a speech by Tadamori Oshima, vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party, before a vote on a no-confidence motion the same day at a Lower House plenary session.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Access denied: Democratic Rep. Jim Moran speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington last September as relatives of American children abducted to Japan look on.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoto Kan]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Hirai]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Having a ball: Danish Crown Prince Frederik plays soccer with elementary school students in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/16/national/fukushima-urged-to-stop-relying-on-nuke-power/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Any tips?: Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada (front left) and Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada meet with Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (front right) on April 17 in the city of Fukushima.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Welcome: Prime Minister Naoto Kan greets Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (left) Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2011-06-19T09:02:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/19/national/iaea-calls-for-tsunami-warning-system-to-improve-nuclear-safety/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-19T09:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Where'd it go?: Members of the panel investigating the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant gaze at its No. 3 reactor on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2011-06-19T09:04:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-06-20T09:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The deluge: Tsunami bear down on the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant on March 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/20/national/tohoku-toll-roads-free-for-victims/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2011-06-21T09:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Playing Santa: Students (from left) Rina Kawamura, Shoko Yamaji, Freya Kirwan and Kaya Frese stuff recorders into bags recently at Osaka International School of Kwansei Gakuin in Minoo, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/21/national/justice-ministry-plans-to-ditch-refugee-role/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No China Syndrome: Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama briefs reporters in Tokyo on March 31 about the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoto Kan]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/21/national/dpj-prods-noncommittal-kan-on-exit/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[AKB49: The virtual character Aimi Eguchi was made using the facial features of six members of pop idol group AKB48.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mobbed: Lady Gaga (left) arrives at Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Face of despair: Fujiko Sato, 82, sits on the flattened remains of her home in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 5.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fish protector: Mitsuaki Yamasaki, leader of the environmental conservation group Osakana Post that accepts unwanted fish for free, looks at an aquarium recently in Kawasaki.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Survivor: The late Samuil Manski, who was among more than 6,000 Jews granted life-saving transit visas by Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara during World War II, is interviewed last year at his Massachusetts home.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lower down on the food chain: Yasushi Kogune, president of Kokune Ltd., talks about his company at his foundry in Hekinan, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2011-06-25T09:04:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-06-26T09:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-06-26T09:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Celebrating scuba style: Members of the Ogasawara Diving Center hold a sign that reads, "Congratulations Ogasawara World Natural Heritage Site," in waters off Chichijima Island.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Acknowledging reality: Residents of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, are seen at City Hall on Saturday declaring the deaths of people who have been missing since March 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/26/national/more-than-14000-disaster-survivors-had-mental-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-26T09:02:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-06-26T09:02:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Between the lines: Boris Michel of the International Committee of the Red Cross is interviewed in Tokyo on Friday.?]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/26/national/top-scientist-in-academic-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-26T09:04:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akihisa Inoue]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/27/national/hiraizumi-gets-listed-as-heritage-site/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Recognition: A "kusudama" ball is opened by (from right) Shunwa Yamada, senior monk at Chusonji Temple; Myokyu Fujisato of Motsuji Temple; and officials in Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture, to celebrate the town's approval as a World Heritage cultural site Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/27/national/disaster-plans-need-overhaul-after-tsunami/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-27T09:01:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-06-27T09:01:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-06-27T09:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Listen up: Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Katsuya Okada addresses reporters Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/27/national/meti-goes-on-tv-to-pitch-reactor-restarts-at-genkai/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2011-06-27T09:02:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/27/national/fukushima-residents-urine-now-radioactive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-27T09:03:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/27/national/shareholders-preparing-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-27T09:03:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/28/national/ngo-extends-help-to-philippine-flood-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-28T09:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of the storm: Children displaced by floods sleep at an evacuation shelter in Cotebato on Mindanao Island in the Philippines on June 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/28/national/circulation-system-tried-on-reactors/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under a lid: Junichi Matsumoto, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co., uses a model Monday to explain Tepco's plan for building giant covers to contain radiation from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/28/national/dai-ichi-life-investor-sues-over-politics/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ready care: A female patient sees a doctor Monday at tsunami-hit Otsuchi Hospital in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, after it resumed services at a prefabricated clinic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/28/national/fukushima-starts-health-checks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-28T09:03:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Exposure check: A worker at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in the city of Chiba undergoes a thyroid radiation exposure checkup Monday. Residents of Fukushima Prefecture are now set to undergo similar exams.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/28/national/tsunami-hit-hospital-reopens-at-clinic-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-28T09:03:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/28/national/kan-revamps-cabinet-posts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-28T09:04:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Realigned: Kazuyuki Hamada, a member of the Upper House from the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, faces reporters Monday at the Diet.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/london-exhibition-provides-view-inside-typical-japanese-residence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110629f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[How others live: Visitors enter a mockup of a modern Japanese home at the Geffrye Museum in London earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/ehime-hospital-in-organ-trade-raid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:01:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shady trade: Police search Uwajima Tokushukai Hospital in Ehime Prefecture on Tuesday morning over its alleged involvement in organ trade.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/lay-judges-appointed-in-hawker-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:01:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/water-decontamination-restarts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/court-rejects-isahaya-floodgate-opening/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:01:53+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/noda-critical-of-kans-pick-of-ldp-member-for-post/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:01:55+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/japan-fourth-in-digital-literacy-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:02:10+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/disaster-hit-get-marathon-invite/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/ministry-wants-patrol-boat-with-whalers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:02:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Catch of the day: Members of the media walk past the whaling ship Nisshin Maru in Tokyo in April 2008.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/kan-keeps-foes-on-edge-over-resignation-timetable/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:02:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/u-s-envoy-roos-visits-hard-hit-areas-in-iwate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:02:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomodachi: U.S. Ambassador John Roos poses with students of Komezaki Elementary School in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/shareholders-hammer-tepco-over-nuclear-fiasco/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:02:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fallout: Police guide shareholders arriving for Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s investors' meeting Tuesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/38-years-of-nuke-profit-up-in-smoke/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:03:18+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/kan-hints-at-playing-nuclear-energy-card/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:03:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/reconstruction-hq-holds-first-meet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:03:37+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/29/national/kikuta-arrives-in-myanmar-for-talks-with-suu-kyi-foreign-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-29T09:03:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/30/national/japans-likability-up-in-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-30T09:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/30/national/saga-closer-to-genkai-reactor-resumption/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-30T09:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/30/national/hose-leak-again-halts-water-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-30T09:00:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/30/national/no-unesco-listing-for-tokyo-museum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-30T09:02:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/30/national/tax-panel-execs-to-negotiate-sales-levy-hike-timing-with-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-30T09:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/30/national/hep-b-damages-agreement-signed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-30T09:02:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/30/national/lady-gaga-denies-quake-charity-scam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-30T09:03:54+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/30/national/debris-removal-recycling-daunting-piecemeal-labor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-06-30T09:04:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110630f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waste not, want not: Utility poles and other wreckage from the March quake and tsunami are piled up in front of a sign reading "Metal waste storage area" at a temporary disposal site in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, in late May.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/01/national/man-to-hang-for-killing-woman-21/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-01T09:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/01/national/cesium-found-in-child-urine-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-01T09:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/01/national/last-nuclear-evacuees-leave-closed-grand-prince-akasaka-hotel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-01T09:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110701a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Feeling the heat: Iwaki Mayor Takao Watanabe (right) hands a letter Thursday demanding compensation to Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Toshio Nishizawa at a meeting in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, as former Tepco President Masataka Shimizu looks on.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/01/national/radioactive-debris-dilemma-unresolved-growing-worse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-01T09:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110701f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Survivor: A man climbs over tsunami debris March 15, in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, four days after the quake.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/01/national/dolls-link-kids-to-haiti-counterparts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-01T09:01:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110701a6a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reaching out: Children in New York write messages on dolls as psychologist Judy Kuriansky watches them Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/01/national/reformatory-officers-guilt-upheld/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-01T09:01:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/01/national/single-member-homes-top-30/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-01T09:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/01/national/taiwan-professor-lobbies-to-honor-engineer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-01T09:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110701f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keeping memory alive: Taiwan Police College professor Hsu Guang-hui has been seeking recognition for the late Yoichi Hatta, a Japanese colonial-era figure who built the island's Chianan Canal and Wushantou Reservoir.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/01/national/canada-inviting-150-students-from-disaster-zone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-01T09:02:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110701a7a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Warm feelings: A quilt made by Canadian children with messages for kids in the Tohoku region will be displayed in various places in Miyagi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/01/national/japan-to-support-myanmar-rights-suu-kyi-assured/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-01T09:03:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110701a9a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Positive relations: Makiko Kikuta, parliamentary vice foreign minister, appears with Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi after their meeting in Yangon on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/01/national/police-ok-with-partial-taping-of-confessions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-01T09:04:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/01/national/doubled-sales-tax-by-16-gets-nod/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-01T09:04:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110701a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoto Kan]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/01/national/113-households-identified-as-radioactive-hot-spots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-01T09:04:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/01/national/unesco-listing-for-japan-fare/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-01T09:04:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/01/national/magnitude-5-4-quake-jolts-nagano-leaving-11-injured/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-01T09:04:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/02/national/suit-seeks-to-shut-hamaoka-reactors-for-good/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-02T09:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/02/national/japan-brazil-move-to-ease-visa-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-02T09:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/02/national/foreign-vocational-grads-get-break/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-02T09:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/02/national/first-overseas-military-base-since-wwii-to-open-in-djibouti/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-02T09:01:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ahmed Araita Ali]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/02/national/disaster-photo-exhibit-opens-in-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-02T09:01:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Worth a thousand words: Visitors look at photos of the Tohoku region at an exhibition in Seoul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/02/national/power-saving-plan-kicks-in-for-big-users/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-02T09:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110702a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Juice supply: People at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on Friday walk beneath electric signboards displaying information about power consumption in the Kanto region as well as details of the supply capacity of Tokyo Electric Power Co.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/02/national/inter-korean-dialog-said-trumps-six-party-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-02T09:01:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/02/national/saga-governor-comes-under-fire-over-genkai-restart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-02T09:02:20+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/02/national/entertainer-gets-3%c2%bd-years-for-drugs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-02T09:02:47+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/02/national/kans-exit-will-spur-reforms-talk-edano/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-02T09:03:05+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/02/national/adrift-20-days-fisherman-70-is-safe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-02T09:04:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/02/national/nagoya-tv-tower-losing-role-future-iffy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-02T09:04:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20110702cca.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110702cca.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Legs to stand on?: Nagoya TV Tower dwarfs Hisaya Odori Park in Sakae Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/03/national/media-national/japan-needs-to-do-more-than-simply-cope-with-stress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-03T09:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/03/national/apple-exports-to-taiwan-fell-to-less-than-a-ton-in-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-03T09:01:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/03/national/ebizo-back-on-kabuki-show-bills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-03T09:02:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110703a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anticipation: Kabuki lovers visit a theater in Tokyo on Saturday to view the comeback of Ichikawa Ebizo, who hadn't performed since being badly injured in a bar brawl in November.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/03/national/ministry-pitches-plan-to-use-mage-for-u-s-carrier-jet-drills-to-locals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-03T09:02:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/03/national/u-s-fans-gather-for-anime-expo-in-los-angeles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-03T09:03:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20110703a5a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Strength of character: "Anime" fans show off their handmade costumes at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Friday for the opening of the Anime Expo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2011-07-04T09:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Recognized: Banana Yoshimoto (center) receives a plaque for the Capri Award at a ceremony held on the island of Capri, Italy, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2011-07-04T09:01:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Another fine mess: Seawater gushes from a ruptured hose at the Fukushima power plant's No. 5 reactor Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2011-07-05T09:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-07-05T09:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-07-05T09:01:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sorry: Tohoku reconstruction minister Ryu Matsumoto faces reporters at the Prime Minister's Office on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/05/national/matsumoto-yang-address-sea-spats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-05T09:01:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grip and grin : Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (left) shakes hands with Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi on Monday in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2011-07-05T09:01:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Safe haven: Host Kelly Tomioka and her two children sit on the porch of their home in Kailua, Oahu.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/05/national/ichihashi-denies-intent-to-kill-hawker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-05T09:03:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tatsuya Ichihashi]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2011-07-05T09:03:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-07-05T09:04:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-07-06T09:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/06/national/reconstruction-minister-quits-after-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-06T09:01:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Quick exit: Departing reconstruction minister Ryu Matsumoto faces the media Tuesday morning in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/06/national/ldp-planning-major-energy-policy-rethink/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-06T09:01:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/06/national/kin-bequeath-writer-inoues-works-to-sendai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-06T09:01:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hisashi Inoue]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/06/national/asdf-f-15-and-pilot-missing-in-the-east-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-06T09:01:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Missing: An Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighter like this one apparently went down in the East China Sea on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/06/national/triple-killers-death-penalty-final/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-06T09:02:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/06/national/tohoku-riled-by-matsumotos-shortcomings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-06T09:02:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hoping for better: Yoshie Otomo, a survivor of the March 11 quake and tsunami, cries as she talks about the resignation of postdisaster reconstruction minister Ryu Matsumoto. "We don't need a minister like that. Governors, mayors, ward chiefs — everybody is hanging on here," she said at an evacuation center in Sendai.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/06/national/ldp-expels-hamada-suspends-two/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-06T09:02:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-07-06T09:03:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/06/national/unhcr-exec-lauds-refugee-strides-urges-more/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-06T09:03:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One who cares: Alexander Aleinikoff, U.N. deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, speaks at the Japan National Press Club on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/06/national/utility-seeks-support-toward-hamaoka-restart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-06T09:04:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/07/business/quake-survivors-stock-up-on-pest-fighting-goods-as-bugs-wreak-havoc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-07T09:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/07/national/north-ioc-member-may-visit-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-07T09:00:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/07/national/chinese-lawmakers-return-to-diet-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-07T09:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/07/national/all-nuclear-plants-face-stress-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-07T09:01:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/07/national/heatstroke-cases-in-aid-cars-up-three-fold/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-07T09:01:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-07-07T09:01:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/07/national/kan-under-fire-in-wake-of-matsumotos-resignation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-07T09:02:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoto Kan]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/07/national/man-who-forcibly-tried-to-spirit-kids-from-wife-gets-suspended-term/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-07T09:02:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/07/national/job-1-for-hirano-is-rebuilding-public-trust/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-07T09:02:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fresh face: Newly appointed reconstruction minister Tatsuo Hirano raises his hand during a Lower House Budget Committee meeting Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/07/national/all-nurseries-to-provide-preschool-education-service/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-07T09:02:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/07/national/heavy-rain-triggers-flooding-mudslides/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-07T09:03:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/08/national/no-penalty-for-posting-exam-questions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-08T09:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/08/national/foreign-media-invited-to-see-recovery-efforts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-08T09:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/08/national/genkai-mayor-withdraws-ok-for-two-reactors-restart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-08T09:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-07-08T09:01:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/08/national/quake-hit-cat-island-launches-fund-drive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-08T09:02:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Feline friends: Two cats wait to be fed in front of a fishing cooperative on Tashiro Island in Miyagi Prefecture on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/08/national/chikushis-heirs-hit-for-tax-dodge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-08T09:02:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-07-08T09:02:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-07-08T09:02:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/08/national/kyushu-electric-tv-stunt-slammed/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seeking support: Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano bows to Saga Gov. Yasushi Furukawa in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/08/national/water-treatment-cooling-systems-finally-working/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-08T09:02:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/08/national/tokyo-may-drop-bid-for-20-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-08T09:03:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/08/national/minamata-recognition-38-years-late/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-08T09:03:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiyuki Kawakami]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/08/national/polish-film-resonates-with-elderly-widows/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Striking a chord: Elderly women wait in line for the movie "Time to Die" at the Iwanami Hall theater in Tokyo's Kanda district on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/08/national/attacks-on-npa-website-originated-in-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-08T09:04:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/08/national/japanese-english-teachers-leave-for-u-s-looking-to-broaden-horizons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-08T09:05:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teachers become students: English-language teachers heading to the U.S. for training attend a send-off ceremony at the education ministry Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/09/national/shikoku-utility-delays-restarting-of-reactor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-09T09:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/09/national/hawkers-father-urges-harshest-punishment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-09T09:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/09/national/nagoya-assistance-for-disaster-hit-city-a-bit-rocky-at-times/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-07-09T09:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High energy: Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son speaks during a press conference in Osaka on May 26, announcing his intention to set up a subsidiary to build renewable energy power plants in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Village elders: Members of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission look at the core of nuclear test reactor 1 in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Sept. 18, 1957. When it was completed it became the first reactor in Japan to reach criticality.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Center of attention: Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman Osamu Suzuki is surrounded by reporters in Tokyo on June 23.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moving pictures: The work of the "godfather" of manga, Osamu Tezuka, is now available in English to be read on iPad tablet computers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jubilee: A pair of U.S. Postal Service stamps to be issued next year feature a panoramic view of the cherry trees blooming around the Tidal Basin in Washington to mark the 100th anniversary of the gift of more than 3,000 cherry trees from Japan to the U.S.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakyo Komatsu]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshitaka Shindo]]></image:caption>
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