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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Special guests: Crown Prince Naruhito welcomes Bhutanese Queen Jetsun Pema as her husband, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, looks on Friday at the State Guest House in Tokyo's Akasaka district.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Measure of faith: Taiwanese tourists have their photo taken after arriving at Fukushima airport Saturday on an international flight.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of nowhere: Debris is all that remains Saturday of a house destroyed by a suspected tornado that struck the previous day, killing three people in Tokunoshima, a town on a remote southern island in Kagoshima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2011-11-21T09:01:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-11-21T09:01:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thein Sein]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Decision made: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks at a press conference Saturday evening in Bali, Indonesia. He returned to Tokyo on Sunday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2011-11-21T09:03:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-11-21T09:03:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/21/national/u-s-to-let-civilians-on-bases-face-trial-here/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-21T09:04:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/22/national/gavel-now-silent-but-aum-case-not-over-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-22T09:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/22/national/aum-may-be-gone-in-name-but-guru-still-has-following/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-22T09:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deep wounds: Shuzue Takahashi (center) and other relatives of victims of the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack appear Monday at the Tokyo District Court's press club.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/22/national/failed-appeal-ends-last-aum-murder-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-22T09:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seeking justice: Shizue Takahashi (left), who lost her husband in the 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system, and other relatives of victims head to the Supreme Court Monday morning to learn the fate of cult killer Seiichi Endo's appeal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/22/national/iraqi-prime-minister-makes-pitch-for-oil-infrastructure-investment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-22T09:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking for investors: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is interviewed in a Tokyo hotel on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/22/business/toyota-reopens-three-thai-factories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-22T09:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Back from the floods: Employees at a Toyota plant on the outskirts of Bangkok head to work Monday as the company resumed production at three factories in the area.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/22/national/daio-paper-files-breach-of-trust-complaint-against-ex-chairman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-22T09:01:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/22/national/diet-passes-third-stimulus-package/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-22T09:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/22/business/former-dentsu-president-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-22T09:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/22/national/tax-hike-may-deliver-perks-to-poor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-22T09:03:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/national/woodford-in-house-probe-lacks-credibility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/national/sky-tree-takes-opening-reservations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reaching for the sky: The Tokyo Sky Tree tower in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, as seen from a helicopter Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/business/domestic-flat-screen-tvs-slide-74/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:01:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/business/toyota-auto-body-to-be-subsidiary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/national/saga-nuke-scandal-takes-new-turn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:01:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/national/death-sentence-stands-in-mabuchi-motor-slayings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:01:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/national/daio-ex-chief-admits-breach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:01:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mototaka Ikawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/national/disaster-zone-kids-to-take-to-pitch-at-wembley/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:01:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Away game: High school students from Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures pose at Narita International Airport on Tuesday before departing for London to play soccer matches in Wembley Stadium.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/business/supermarket-sales-off-third-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:01:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/business/suzuki-may-get-mmc-electric-van/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/national/noda-weighs-publics-nuclear-fears-firms-export-ambitions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:02:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Do we still have a deal?: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda greets his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Tan Dung, in Tokyo on Oct. 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/national/u-s-plea-deal-woman-to-hand-over-daughter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:02:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/national/fourth-extra-budget-eyed-for-relief-work-azumi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:03:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/national/mito-museum-hosts-ultraman-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:03:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/national/malaysia-rethinks-gallows-woman-has-hope/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:04:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crime and punishment: Mariko Takeuchi, of Aomori Prefecture, emerges from a court in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 25 after she was sentenced to death for drug trafficking.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/national/yamagatas-cherry-pit-pillows-said-therapeutic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-23T09:04:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stone-cold truth: The tourism association of Higashine, Yamagata Prefecture, has started selling pillows that contain cherry pits and can be heated up or chilled.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/24/national/k-pops-fanatical-followers-turn-to-promising-new-faces-here-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-24T09:01:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heartthrobs: Women interact with members of Apeace, a new pop group made up of young South Korean males, after a performance at K Theater Tokyo in Shibuya Ward on July 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/24/national/woodford-here-to-aid-in-probe-of-olympus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-24T09:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/24/national/rakugo-upstart-tatekawa-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-24T09:01:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Danshi Tatekawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/24/business/camry-awaits-vital-consumer-reports-review/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-24T09:01:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/24/national/two-killed-in-fishing-boat-fire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-24T09:02:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Disaster at sea: The gutted tuna trawler Koei Maru is adrift Tuesday afternoon off Hachijo Island south of Tokyo. The fire killed two crew members and left two others missing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/24/national/corporate-law-change-eyed-for-investor-suits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-24T09:03:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/24/national/crisis-dialogue-plan-eyed-over-senkaku-rows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-24T09:04:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/25/business/woodford-talks-with-tokyo-prosecutors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-25T09:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/25/national/reagent-sets-aglow-cancer-cells-for-surgery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-25T09:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/25/national/miyagi-debris-from-tsunami-tokyo-bound/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-25T09:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/25/business/smart-apps-becoming-lifestyle-game-changer/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Piling up: A gigantic mound of debris from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami sits on the waterfront in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 29.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tatsuya Ichihashi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jun Azumi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under control: A fire looks almost contained early Friday at Electric Power Development Co.'s Isogo thermal power plant in Yokohama. The blaze broke out shortly past 10 p.m. Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/26/national/mom-to-drop-kobe-appeal-in-u-s-custody-battle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-26T09:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/27/national/yakiniku-sold-chinese-tourists-mislabeled-beef/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One more time: Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba (left) meets with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima in Naha on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[R.C. Bhargava]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/29/national/british-supermarkets-find-success-with-economic-wagyu-beef-hybrid/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Here's the beef: Butcher Angie Jessup displays "wagyu" beef at an Asda supermarket in London on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/29/national/heavy-red-meat-diet-poses-colon-cancer-risk-research/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pass the juice: Officials from Kansai Electric Power Co. and seven regional prefectural governments discuss measures to save electricity this coming winter during a meeting in Osaka on Nov. 14.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Matter of bourse: The Tokyo Stock Exchange serves as the backdrop for TSE President Atsushi Saito (left) as does the Osaka Securities Exchange for its president, Michio Yoneda.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/29/business/honda-may-boost-thai-bike-output/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/29/national/movie-festival-will-focus-on-water/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-29T09:01:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/29/national/iwojima-search-parties-resume/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-29T09:01:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/29/national/emperor-resumes-official-duties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-29T09:01:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/29/business/sumitomo-trust-shakeup-planned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-29T09:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/29/national/festival-dance-to-go-on-heritage-list/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rice rite: Drummers, flute players and women in colorful dress take part in an annual Hiroshima Prefecture rice-planting ritual called Mibu no Hana Taue in Kitahiroshima in June. The musicians accompany the women as they sing while planting rice. The ritual is to be registered by UNESCO for Intangible Cultural Heritage status.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/29/national/fukui-to-get-storks-from-hyogo-for-breeding-release/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-29T09:02:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/29/national/israeli-charity-offers-tohoku-ptsd-therapy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-29T09:02:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Art of healing: Nira Mizrahi from IsraAID (second from left) teaches people from Miyagi Prefecture how to use art as therapy earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/29/national/china-urges-reviving-sea-boundary-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-29T09:03:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/29/national/agency-seeks-to-keep-up-aum-surveillance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-29T09:04:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/30/national/no-new-binding-kyoto-protocol-targets-japan/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/30/business/domestic-auto-output-posted-19-7-gain-in-october/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-11-30T09:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At risk: Expensive improvements are needed to make the Mihama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, operated by Kansai Electric Power Co., safe from natural disasters.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abuzz: Eiji Ueda (left), chairman of the female soccer committee of the Japan Football Association, and comedian Tanoshingo show off plaques for buzzwords they helped spread this year at a ceremony Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paper wait: The compensation operations center of Tokyo Electric Power Co. is shown to the press Monday as some of the staff of 280 work on claims submitted by people affected by the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/06/national/one-stop-trilingual-website-launched/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rice alternative: An official in the village of Sakai, Nagano Prefecture, shows packages of Fukko "soba" on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Long-term project: Work continues last week on a seashore embankment in tsunami-hit Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Muneo Suzuki]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Safety in numbers: Mothers walk children to school in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, on Tuesday morning near where an 8-year-old girl was stabbed last week.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paying homage: An employee at Kamen Rider the Diner, a restaurant in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district based on the popular TV series, performs Kamen Rider No. 1's "henshin" (transformation) ritual in front of the Cyclone motorbike used in the show.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2011-12-07T09:01:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Big unveiling: People check out Toyota's new Prius plug-in hybrid at its unveiling in Tokyo on Nov. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/08/national/tepco-eyes-selling-thermal-plants-to-raise-cash/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2011-12-08T09:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-12-08T09:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-12-08T09:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/08/national/cesium-laced-baby-formula-sparks-concern-but-risk-low/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-12-08T09:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stepped-up screening: Some cans of Meiji Co.'s Meiji Suteppu (Meiji Step) formula milk have been found to be contaminated with low levels of radioactive cesium.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/08/national/hong-kong-says-meiji-baby-formula-is-safe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-12-08T09:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Just be "cos": "Cosplayers" from Japan and abroad pose Wednesday for a tourism-promotion photo  at the site where Sendai Castle once stood.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/08/business/woodford-calls-probe-report-helpful/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-12-08T09:01:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/08/business/tower-investment-acquires-stake/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2011-12-09T09:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/09/business/eu-turmoil-yen-eat-into-machinery-orders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-12-09T09:00:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/09/national/envoy-to-croatia-gets-ax-for-sexual-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-12-09T09:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Remembering: Pearl Harbor survivor James Dewitt looks out over the sunken USS Arizona on Monday in Pearl Harbor ahead of the 70th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/09/national/kansai-braces-for-power-shortages-after-kepco-halts-reactor/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2011-12-09T09:01:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-12-09T09:01:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-12-09T09:01:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/09/business/hitachi-sale-spurs-chinese-strike-over-severance-pay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-12-09T09:02:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2011-12-10T09:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/10/national/nisei-vets-92-unite-via-parallel-lives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-12-10T09:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Parallel lives: George Nakamura (second from left in bottom row) and Yukio Kawamoto (far right in back row) first met in 1943 at an army camp in Minnesota, where they were sent for Japanese language training even though both were bilingual.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/10/business/july-september-gdp-growth-downgraded-to-5-6/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/10/national/fresh-sanctions-slapped-on-iran-over-nuke-drive/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/10/business/olympus-has-way-to-go-before-its-out-of-the-woods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2011-12-10T09:02:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out in the open: Olympus Corp. cameras and lenses are displayed at a store in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/11/national/radioactive-water-leaks-at-genkai/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nothing to see here: Reactor 3 of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear plant in Saga Prefecture is seen in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/12/national/full-radiation-cleanup-wont-begin-until-at-least-late-march/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihiko Noda]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeshi Niinami]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abduction anger: Rep. Christopher Smith (center) is surrounded by relatives of American children abducted to Japan during a September 2010 news conference in Washington calling for swift passage of a resolution on child abduction to the country.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiyuki Shiga]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Natural beauty: Yakushima, an island with a population of 15,000, is famed for its yakusugi trees, a prime inspiration for anime director Hayao Miyazaki. A study has shown that the island could replace all of its petroleum-derived electricity with hydroelectric power.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Caught in the middle: Minami Takahashi (center) poses with fellow members of the AKB48 spinoff group No Sleeves, Haruna Kojima (left) and Minami Minegishi (right). Takahashi's mother was recently fined for having sex with a 15-year-old boy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moving pictures: On Nov. 11 1855, the Great Ansei Earthquake struck Edo (now Tokyo), killing 7,000 and inflicting widespread damage. According to legend, quakes are caused by giant catfish moving underground. Soon after, quake woodblock prints known as namazu-e (catfish pictures) became popular, such as this one which shows residents of Edo punishing the catfish that caused the quake.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ready to roll: Materials from Japan are extracted from cargo containers Saturday after reaching the Ground Self Defense Force's storage area in Juba, South Sudan, where the GSDF are participating in a U.N. peacekeeping mission.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Silver award winner for short film: Atsushi Wada]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grim task: Officers from the Miyagi Prefectural Police search for bodies Monday around Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Final results: A resident checks a sample of incinerator ash at Shimada City Hall in Shizuoka Prefecture on Monday after debris from a town in Iwate was given a test run.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All welcome: Takeshi Maeda, minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism, unveils a new poster to promote inbound tourism by foreigners during a news conference at his ministry on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tofu aid: A farmer checks his soybean crop at a farm near Iguassu Falls, Paraguay, in early February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/25/national/zoo-site-hacked-amid-nanjing-fracas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-02-25T09:04:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the chopping block: The Monju experimental fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, is being increasingly seen as unviable.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/25/national/tokyo-bay-to-get-tsunami-upgrade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-02-25T09:06:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Try to hold on:  This poster featuring five members of the hugely popular all-girl pop group AKB48 has been prepared as part of the government's suicide prevention campaign.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Porn to be wild: Adult-video star Kokomi Naruse accepts her award for Best Actress at this year's Sky PerfecTV! Adult Broadcasting Awards.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gearing up: A worker prepares to start his shift Monday in the crippled Fukushima No.?1 nuclear plant's emergency operations center.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-02-26T09:04:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Getting a reading: Snow covers a radiation-measuring device on the campus of Fukushima University on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-02-26T09:05:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-02-26T09:06:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Into the fire: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda visits Peace Memorial Park in the Okinawan city of Itoman on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-02-27T09:03:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The big one: The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant's No. 5 reactor (far left) is shown in Niigata Prefecture on May 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-02-28T09:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Not on same page: Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura (left) and Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura attend a press conference Feb. 1. at the prefectural headquarters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/28/national/big-cities-lobby-kepco-to-drop-nuclear-power/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/28/national/talks-with-u-s-commence-on-okinawa-forces-situation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-02-28T09:04:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-02-28T09:05:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/28/national/victimized-adults-turn-to-help-the-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-02-28T09:05:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/28/national/university-of-tokyo-opens-india-office/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-02-28T09:06:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/29/national/fukushima-farmer-presses-tepco-to-look-after-abandoned-animals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-02-29T09:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Back in business: People in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, check the quality of seaweed harvested on the Sanriku coast on Tuesday. It is the first time the product has been marketed since the earthquake and tsunami last March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-02-29T09:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spoiler?: Liberal Democratic Party President Sadakazu Tanigaki faces reporters in September after selecting his party executive team to fight the Democratic Party of Japan-led government.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/29/national/fukushima-nursery-gets-caribbean-kids-letters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-02-29T09:06:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Personal touch: Children at the Torikawa nursery school in the city of Fukushima look over letters from children in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/01/national/port-breakwaters-seen-vulnerable/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-01T09:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists from Tokushima take in the Imperial Palace in Chiyoda Ward. Right: Girls meanwhile head to high school in Ota Ward.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Long march: Akio Mizoguchi enters the Fukuoka High Court on Monday carrying a photo of his mother, Chie Mizoguchi, who was posthumously recognized by the court as a victim of the Minamata mercury poisoning later the same day.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Good-packing: Tokyo Sky Tree in Sumida Ward vanishes in snow Wednesday as a mother and her kids pass by.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/01/national/keep-females-in-imperial-clan-experts/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Urban remission: The Kobe Hankyu department store in Chuo Ward, Kobe (left), will close its doors for good on March 11, while the Kintetsu department store in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, was shuttered Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/01/national/in-rare-case-of-bipartisanship-diet-cuts-bureaucrats-pay/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/02/national/visa-problem-makes-separation-from-kids-even-worse/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paternal petition: African fathers separated from their children after divorcing Japanese women seek signatures from passersby in front of Futakotamagawa Station in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, on Jan. 29. to urge the government to adopt a joint custody system.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/02/national/evacuated-town-prepares-for-residents-return/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rite of passage: Carrying a picture of one of 12 classmates killed in the quake-tsunami disaster last year, a Takata High School student leaves his graduation ceremony Thursday. Takata High, located in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, moved to an empty school building in the neighboring city of Ofunato, where the ceremony was also held.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/02/national/colombian-foreign-minister-voices-optimism-over-inking-bilateral-epa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-02T09:04:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Partnering: Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin is interviewed by The Japan Times on Feb. 23.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/02/national/chinese-students-cook-gyoza-for-disaster-evacuees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-02T09:06:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Food aid: Former Chinese exchange students from Shanghai prepare "gyoza" dumplings Tuesday with disaster evacuees still living in temporary housing in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/02/national/no-cesium-detected-in-milk-at-116-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-02T09:06:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/02/national/japan-issues-wary-welcome-awaits-concrete-action-warns-of-loopholes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-02T09:07:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/03/national/tokyo-sky-tree-fetes-completion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-03T09:00:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Take the elevator: The Tokyo Sky Tree, the world's tallest freestanding broadcast tower, was celebrated at a formal completion ceremony Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/03/national/tokyo-now-taking-onagawa-debris/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-03T09:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fuel for the fire: A truckload of disaster debris from Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, arrives in Tokyo Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/03/national/ice-phenomenon-warms-up-hearts-in-the-lake-suwa-region/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-03T09:02:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Back to the future: A priest from Yatsurugi Shrine conducts the "omiwatari" ritual on Lake Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, on Feb. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/03/national/hibakusha-cancer-mortality-risk-42-higher-at-age-70/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-03T09:03:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-03-03T09:03:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/03/national/prosecutors-ozawa-report-was-dodgy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-03T09:05:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/03/national/deep-freeze-winter-saw-record-snow-below-average-cold/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-03T09:05:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/03/national/cancer-heart-disease-stroke-deaths-plunge-to-50-year-low/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-03T09:06:27+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/03/national/operation-tomodachi-a-huge-success-but-was-it-a-one-off/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-03T09:06:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Friends: Evacuees hand paper cranes to U.S. servicemen Feb. 24 at the U.S. Navy base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. The cranes, made by 650 evacuees from Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, contain messages of thanks for Operation Tomodachi.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/03/national/castro-to-hibakusha-on-peace-boat-relate-nuclear-experience-to-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-03T09:06:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/03/national/futenma-move-still-best-u-s-admiral/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-03T09:07:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/04/national/tokyo-olympics-support-trails-rivals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-04T09:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/04/national/elderly-force-subway-to-rethink-all-priority-seats-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-04T09:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/04/national/all-remote-eez-isles-officially-named/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-04T09:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/04/national/illness-suicides-drive-up-disaster-linked-toll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-04T09:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stationary: Bicycles remain abandoned outside a shop in Okuma, a town in the no-go zone around the Fukushima No. 1 plant, on Friday, the first day the media were allowed to enter the town and neighboring Futaba since the March 11 disasters.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/04/national/britain-appoints-new-ambassador/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-04T09:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/04/national/food-must-be-cleansed-chernobyl-expert-warns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-04T09:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/04/national/noda-fate-in-doubt-just-six-months-on/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-04T09:01:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Up in flames?: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda addresses a session at the House of Councilors last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/04/national/ministry-hid-data-on-fallout-from-public/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-04T09:01:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/04/national/emperor-likely-to-be-discharged-from-hospital-sunday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-04T09:02:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/04/national/arson-in-himeji-bar-leaves-one-dead-four-hurt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-04T09:05:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crime scene: Police guard the building that housed the Ammy bar in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, after a man set it on fire, killing one person and injuring himself and three others Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/04/national/dpj-ldp-execs-in-grand-coalition-talks-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-04T09:05:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/05/national/sdf-to-join-u-s-filipino-military-drill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-05T09:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/05/national/noda-makes-international-pitch-for-tax-hike-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-05T09:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/05/national/crackdown-on-intellectual-property-piracy-pays-off/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-05T09:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Off the market: Taiwanese authorities display pirated DVDs of Japanese TV dramas at the Intellectual Property Rights Division of the National Police Administration on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/05/national/20-of-tsunami-zone-families-have-insomnia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-05T09:02:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/05/national/tokyo-to-drop-fugu-license-ordinance-amid-decline-in-fatal-diner-poisonings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-05T09:03:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fugu for all: A man passes a sign advertising fugu meals outside a restaurant in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/05/national/emperor-goes-home-to-recover/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-05T09:05:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Released: Emperor Akihito leaves University of Tokyo Hospital with Empress Michiko on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/05/national/major-repair-work-planned-at-futenma-air-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-05T09:06:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/05/national/a-look-back-at-the-spellers-who-triumphed-last-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-05T09:06:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador John Roos congratulates Yuichi Yoshioka after the 12-year-old won The Japan Times Spelling Bee on May 14, 2011. Below: Nineteen other youths competed for the right to advance to the finals held in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/05/national/the-japan-times-bee-recasts-its-spell/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-05T09:07:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students at Columbia International School in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, take part in a school spelling bee held on Feb. 2 to choose a champion to advance to The Japan Times Spelling Bee.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/05/national/86-of-municipalities-leery-of-taking-debris/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-05T09:07:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-03-06T09:00:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-03-06T09:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/06/national/island-fortresses-floated-for-tohoku/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyo Ito of Toyo Ito &amp; Associates, Architects,]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/06/national/myanmar-refugees-set-for-new-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-06T09:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/06/national/kanagawa-group-starts-checking-food-for-radiation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-06T09:03:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Home-made: A woman measures out rice bran to test it for radioactivity in Yokohama on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/06/national/photos-of-hope-adorn-prime-ministers-door/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Always in mind: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda looks at photos displayed at an exhibition titled "Watashi no Fukko Dayori" (My Reconstruction Letter") at the entrance to the Prime Minister's Office on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/06/national/japan-hopes-putin-win-will-help-resolve-dispute/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-06T09:04:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-03-06T09:04:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/06/national/wary-eye-on-china-buildup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-06T09:05:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/06/national/tokyo-aquariums-penguin-still-at-large-touring-rivers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-06T09:06:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Humboldt bolts: A penguin that fled Tokyo Sea Life Park swims Sunday at the mouth of the Old Edogawa River.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/06/national/crown-prince-cancels-france-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-06T09:07:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-03-06T09:07:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-03-06T09:07:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/07/national/fukushima-farmers-in-two-front-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-07T09:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People of the soil: Mayumi Sugeno, an organic farmer in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, stands outside her home on Feb. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/07/national/tsuruga-nuke-plant-sits-atop-major-fault/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/07/national/population-tax-yield-dive-across-tohoku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-07T09:03:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/07/national/real-time-online-tsunami-feed-starts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-03-07T09:03:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/07/national/fugitives-harborer-faces-two-years/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akemi Saito]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/07/national/fisheries-rebound-at-sporadic-pace/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Up from the depths: Fish dealers check out the catches at Kesennuma port in Miyagi Prefecture on Feb. 23.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dangerous ground: Recycleable-Fuel Storage Co. works on construction of a nuclear fuel temporary storage facility Friday in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Just in case: Residents of the town of Wakasa, Fukui Prefecture, are screened for radiation contamination during a disaster drill held Sunday near the Tsuruga nuclear power plant.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Not so secret: Song Il Ho, a senior North Korean official in charge of Japanese affairs, meets reporters Saturday in Ulan Bator after holding talks with Japanese university professor Sadaki Manabe.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Over the edge: Investigators look down on a mobile crane that fell into the Yodogawa River in Fukushima Ward, Osaka, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/22/national/uno-birthplace-gets-makeover/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Public service: This house in Moriyama, Shiga Prefecture, where the late Prime Minister Sosuke Uno was born, has been renovated for public use and now has a restaurant.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paper ties: Akira Kubota, a paper-making craftsman from Misumi, Shimane Prefecture, teaches two trainees during a visit to Bhutan in October 2001.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relocation: Mothers concerned about the effects of radiation on their young children gather in a community center in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 15 to listen to Mamiko Joosten as she shares her experience of staying in Okinawa with her 6-year-old daughter for a month and a half prior to moving there for good this month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Avenger: A masked former Goldman Sachs Japan employee using the alias Adam Lee appears Thursday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo to claim his dismissal was illegal. He is accompanied by Yumiko Nakajima, secretary general of the National Union of General Workers, Tokyo Nambu, and a supporter, Timothy Langley.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Onward and upward: A student from Tomioka No. 1 Elementary School who was displaced by the Fukushima nuclear crisis receives a graduation certificate Friday at a different school in Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ancestral secrets: An "ema" plaque at Mikuriya Shrine in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, shows a fishing boat washed away by massive tsunami in 1854.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Build it and they will come: Students from Harvard Kennedy School build a raft for use in oyster farming at an oyster business in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 14.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atsuko Maeda]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grip and grin: Finance Minister Jun Azumi poses Sunday with visiting World Bank presidential candidate Jim Yong Kim at the ministry.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local knowledge: Shinzo Kimura (left), a radiation hygiene expert, talks with Chuhei Sakai (center), head of a residents' association promoting decontamination in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coup de glacier: An ice gorge near Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture, that has been recognized as one of the three first glaciers found in Japan is shown last June. All three are in the Northern Alps.]]></image:caption>
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