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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Let the show begin: A PAC-3 antimissile battery is deployed Thursday in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-11T09:01:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomas Alfredson]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-11T09:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arms deal: British leader David Cameron is greeted by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda before holding talks at the prime minister's office Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-11T09:01:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/11/national/hatoyama-on-his-own-after-private-iran-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-11T09:02:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the media glare: Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama gets ready for a news conference in Tokyo on Monday evening after returning from Tehran.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/11/national/following-poor-catches-importation-of-eels-from-madagascar-confirmed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-11T09:02:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Homegrown: Immature Japanese eels are seen in a file photo released by Aichi Prefectural Fisheries Experiment Station. They are difficult to distinguish from young eels from overseas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/11/national/restart-of-two-reactors-at-fukui-facility-nears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-11T09:03:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/11/national/taiwan-japan-share-atomic-power-dilemma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-11T09:03:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Overreaction: A nuclear reactor is under construction at Taiwan Power Co.'s No. 4 plant in New Taipei City in October 2010.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/12/national/37000-tsunami-damaged-vehicles-stuck-in-limbo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-12T09:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abandoned: Cars wrecked by last year's tsunami are piled up at a yard in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-12T09:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/12/national/opposition-grills-noda-over-tax-reform-details/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-12T09:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sadakazu Tanigaki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/12/national/woodford-book-chronicles-story-of-coverup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-12T09:00:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese-language book by the firm's former president, Michael C. Woodford, titled "Kainin" ("Terminated"), hits store shelves Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-12T09:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-12T09:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-12T09:01:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/12/national/sendai-district-raises-handkerchiefs-of-hope/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-12T09:02:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flag day: Yoshio Sato, a 77-year-old fisherman, places yellow handkerchiefs at the site where his home stood in Sendai's Arahama district before the March 2011 disasters.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-12T09:02:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-12T09:03:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/13/national/decision-on-oi-reactor-restarts-delayed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/13/national/drawing-offers-tantalizing-hint-of-ancient-high-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scraping the sky: A model of a 48-meter-tall structure at Izumo Taisha Shrine in Shimane Prefecture, based on the ancient design drawing (below), is on display at the Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/13/national/governors-visit-oi-nuke-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Concerned neighbors: Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada (center) and Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada (left) listen to a Kansai Electric Power Co. official while inspecting the Oi nuclear power plant in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:01:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:01:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:01:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[First responders: Paramedics help people injured by a rampaging minivan at a busy intersection in the historic Gion district in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:01:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:01:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:02:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:02:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-13T09:02:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-14T09:00:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-14T09:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/14/national/de-icing-agent-in-deer-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-14T09:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Salt season: Wild deer lap salt from a road sprayed with a de-icing compound in Iijimamachi, Nagano Prefecture, on Feb. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/14/national/failure-spoils-norths-bid-to-salute-new-young-leader/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-14T09:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Phew!: Women read an extra on North Korea's attempt to launch a rocket Friday in Tokyo's Giniza district.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Larry Carlson]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Edano]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eye to eye: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda welcomes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Improvised recreation: Issey Tanaka, 20, mixes concrete to support an improvised volleyball net pole in Cagayan de Oro City, the Philippines, on March 12. The city suffered massive damage from Tropical Storm Washi in December.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ever more costly: The Sakaiminato power station run by Kansai Electric Power Co. in Tottori Prefecture is fired by liquefied natural gas, a commodity Japan has been snatching up to offset the loss of atomic power.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rejected: Zhou Tong (left) stands outside the Tokyo District Court on Monday after it threw out a damages suit he and another Chinese filed over injuries caused by a gas shell left behind by Japan after World War II.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoki Tanaka]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bright move: Visitors check out Softbank Corp.'s solar power plant in Obihiro, Hokkaido, in December.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aya Abe]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marthinus Van Schalkwyk]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eye in the sky: An aerial photo taken this month shows part of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, which is within the 20-km no-go zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan now allows Internet users to download aerial images of the 20-km exclusion zone at www.gsi.go.jp/BOUSAI/h23_tohoku.html.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Blessed: Jiroemon Kimura, the world's oldest man and the oldest person in Japan, celebrates his 115th birthday Thursday with his great-great grandson Akikazu Oda at his home in Kyotango in northern Kyoto.?]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Digging deeper: Lawyer Kazuo Hizumi speaks about the Fukushima nuclear disaster and its coverage by the media during a recent event in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Urban renewal: The Futenma air station, situated in the middle of a densely populated part of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, is in need of repairs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Booze talking?: Democratic Party of Japan member Keisuke Tsumura (second from right) mingles with students Wednesday during a "nomikai" event at a pub in Tokyo to counter youth apathy toward politics and boost voter turnout.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High point: Tomohiko Yoshida visits his photo exhibition on Narao Higashiura, who set a record by ascending mountains for nearly 10,000 days in a row, in Nagoya this month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Save me a river: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (far left), Laotian Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Myanmar President Thein Sein, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung pose for a group photo before the Mekong-Japan Summit held in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hand in glove: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda poses for a photograph Saturday with his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Tan Dung, prior to their bilateral meeting.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Twisted metal: Firefighters attempt to cool the remnants of a glue factory in Waki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Sunday after multiple explosions ripped through the Mitsui Chemicals facility in the early morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Evidence gathering: Yamaguchi police on Monday enter the Mitsui Chemicals Inc. plant in Waki the day after explosions there killed one worker and injured 22.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Top billing: Yahoo Japan's website offers a collection of popular services that have turned it into Japan's top portal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/24/national/naritas-second-runway-marks-10-contentious-years/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ready for takeoff: Narita airport's contested second runway (top right), which marked its 10th anniversary on Wednesday, is shown in October 2011.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ice, ice baby: Aki Matsushima holds a cup of ice cream in London last month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bouncing back: Shiori Sato of Iwate Prefecture learns Monday in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, that a volleyball she lost in the March 2011 tsunami was found by David Baxter, 51, on a beach in Alaska.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thein Sein]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/25/national/craft-shop-replicates-pets-lost-in-disaster/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dolls made of wood powder replicate pet cats and dogs lost in the March 2011 tsunami and earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Playing it safe: Police and other adults lead children across a road Tuesday in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, near where an unlicensed youth drove a car into a crowd of kids and grown-ups, killing two and injuring eight the previous day.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-25T09:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-25T09:03:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-26T09:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/26/national/farthest-seen-galaxy-clusters-distance-determined/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-26T09:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Galaxy quest: Japanese researchers using the Subaru Telescope on the island of Hawaii have determined the distance of the farthest observed galaxy cluster ever seen from Earth.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/26/national/lights-out-as-last-nuke-reactor-in-operation-prepares-to-go-offline-may-5-hokkaido-electric/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-26T09:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Ozawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/26/national/iwate-gets-space-pumpkin-seeds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-26T09:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/26/national/u-s-bse-case-may-affect-beef-import-decision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-26T09:01:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/26/national/tsuruga-plant-may-sit-atop-active-fault/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-26T09:01:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-26T09:01:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Not forgotten: Visitors to the seventh anniversary memorial service for the 2005 derailment of a JR West train in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, mark the deadly accident on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/26/national/feed-in-tariff-to-up-solar-power-fees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-26T09:02:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/26/national/osprey-may-come-to-futenma-before-fall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-26T09:03:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-27T09:00:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Near miss: A resident displays a 6-meter-wide chunk of debris Wednesday that apparently came from the roof of a glue plant that exploded Sunday in Waki, Yamaguchi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/27/national/fighters-launched-156-times-for-china/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-27T09:01:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ready for second run: Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide poses in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-27T09:01:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-27T09:01:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spectacle: People line up for tickets to win gallery seats to the trial of politician Ichiro Ozawa at the Tokyo District Court on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/27/national/ozawa-not-guilty-of-fund-conspiracy/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the clear: Veteran Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Ichiro Ozawa makes his way to the Tokyo District Court on Thursday. The former party leader was found not guilty of conspiring to falsify the financial reports of his political fund management body in 2004 and 2005.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deterrent: A Fuji Taxi sign warns that a camera is fixed to the windshield (upper left).]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koichiro Genba]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Safety pitch: Residents in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, listen to Mitsuyoshi Yanagisawa, a senior vice minister at the industry ministry, explain safety issues related to restarting two idled nuclear reactors in the town at a meeting Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Face to face: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's meeting with Barack Obama on Monday will be the first formal talks between a Japanese leader and a U.S. president in Washington since 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/29/national/actor-yakusho-among-spring-decoration-recipients/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-29T09:00:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Yakusho]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mass movement: Passengers board a bullet train Saturday at Shin-Osaka Station at the start of Golden Week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/29/national/clinton-to-give-noda-dinner-tour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-29T09:01:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beholders: Visitors admire artworks in a touring exhibition by the Louvre Museum that opened Friday at the Iwate Museum of Art in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, with the aim of lifting spirits among Tohoku's disaster victims and displaying France's support.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/29/national/ldp-drafts-conservative-revisions-to-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-29T09:01:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/29/national/foreigners-to-start-getting-notices-for-new-registry-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-29T09:02:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-29T09:02:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/29/national/antinuclear-mayors-want-abolition-of-atomic-power-included-in-new-basic-energy-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-29T09:02:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-29T09:02:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-29T09:03:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-30T09:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Holiday tragedy: A bus is towed away after seven passengers were killed and dozens of others were injured on an expressway in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, on Sunday. The bus was bound for Tokyo Disneyland in Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/30/national/china-focus-of-japan-u-s-defense-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-30T09:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-30T09:01:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adding fuel to the fire: Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa speaks during a meeting in Moka, Tochigi Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/30/national/japan-kazakhstan-likely-to-join-hands-on-mining-dysprosium/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-30T09:01:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-04-30T09:02:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/30/national/cabinet-polling-at-new-record-low-of-26/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-04-30T09:03:13+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/01/national/japan-myanmar-make-rapid-strides/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-01T09:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hand in hand: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (left) and visiting Myanmar President Thein Sein attend a joint news conference after a meeting in Tokyo on April 21.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/01/national/aid-for-shanghai-schoolhouse-eyed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-01T09:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/01/national/80-year-old-woman-hurt-by-bagsnatcher/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-01T09:01:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/01/national/bus-firm-in-fatal-crash-searched/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-01T09:02:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gathering evidence: Police remove seats from a shredded bus Monday that crashed into a wall in Gunma Prefecture the previous day, leaving seven people dead and dozens injured.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/01/national/sky-tree-holds-drill-against-terror-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-01T09:02:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Just in case: Police, firefighters and local residents take part in a counterterrorism drill on the observation deck of Tokyo Sky Tree in Sumida Ward on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/01/national/otsuchi-residents-hope-forest-sprouts-from-seeds-of-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-01T09:03:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adapting to nature: Otsuchi residents participate in an experiment to turn a pile of debris from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami into a new forest on Monday in Iwate Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/01/national/first-disaster-law-tweak-since-hanshin-quake-eyed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-01T09:04:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/01/national/tax-hike-small-change-in-senior-care-dilemma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-01T09:04:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Checking up: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda greets elderly residents at a temporary housing facility in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, in January.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/01/national/tokyo-new-delhi-agree-to-bolster-indias-infrastructure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-01T09:05:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/01/national/two-slayings-taint-golden-week-in-nagoya-and-chiba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-01T09:07:26+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/01/national/lady-gaga-auctioning-teacup-to-help-japanese-artists-after-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-01T09:07:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/01/national/japan-extends-3-million-in-grants-to-nepal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-01T09:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/02/national/police-arrest-bus-driver-for-negligence-over-fatal-highway-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-02T09:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/02/national/1-in-4-japanese-has-thought-of-suicide-government-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-02T09:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/02/national/emperor-plays-tennis-for-first-time-since-heart-surgery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-02T09:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/02/national/to-french-japanese-towns-the-world-is-their-oyster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-02T09:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shellshocked: Harvested oysters are stacked in baskets by the sea in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/02/national/plaque-marks-gift-of-3000-dogwoods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-02T09:01:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Your good health: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton toasts Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda during a dinner Monday at the National Geographic Society in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/02/national/noda-obama-vow-to-boost-asia-security/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-02T09:01:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/02/national/miyagi-harley-floats-across-to-canada/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-02T09:02:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/02/national/kyotos-top-crisis-manager-slams-safety-explanation-for-oi-reactors-restart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-02T09:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/02/national/obama-noda-seek-close-ties-amid-skepticism-over-goals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-02T09:05:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/02/national/okuda-to-lead-jbic-in-new-direction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-02T09:06:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New direction: Hiroshi Okuda, president of Japan Bank for International Cooperation, attends a press conference in Tokyo on April 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/02/national/fatigue-problem-for-bus-drivers-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-02T09:07:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From all points: Tour buses fill a lot Monday at Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/02/national/cesium-exceeding-new-limit-detected-in-51-food-items-in-nine-prefectures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-02T09:07:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/02/national/china-city-turns-japan-funded-hall-into-a-hotel-facility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-02T09:08:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-05-02T09:08:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/03/national/multilevel-parking-accidents-probed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-03T09:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/03/national/stray-parakeet-gives-cops-his-address-is-driven-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-03T09:01:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-05-03T09:01:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/03/national/ruling-aids-online-drug-vendors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-03T09:02:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Online exemption: Only limited types of over-the-counter drugs are currently allowed to be sold online.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/03/national/egypt-to-ease-ban-on-japan-food/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-03T09:02:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-05-03T09:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Starving 'em out: Nuclear foes (from left) writer Satoshi Kamata, novelist and Buddhist nun Jakucho Setouchi and writer Hisae Sawachi join a hunger strike Wednesday in front of the industry ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/03/national/famed-electron-holography-physicist-tonomura-dies-at-70/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-03T09:05:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/03/national/kanagawa-river-yields-three-piranhas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-03T09:05:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Count your fingers: Two piranhas, presumably pets, are shown Saturday next to a cigarette pack after they were caught in a river in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/03/national/charter-bus-tour-firms-to-be-audited/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-03T09:05:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/03/national/utilities-gave-nuclear-plant-hosts-billions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-03T09:05:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/03/national/genba-discusses-iran-with-top-israeli-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-03T09:05:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A meeting of minds: Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba meets his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman, in Jerusalem on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/03/national/new-jica-head-meets-muslim-leaders-in-restive-mindanao/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-03T09:06:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-05-03T09:08:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/03/national/economy-prestige-at-stake-in-kyoto-nara-maglev-battle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-03T09:08:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Next generation: A family checks out a shinkansen train at the SCMaglev and Railway Park in Nagoya on March 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/04/national/fault-near-shiga-nuclear-power-plant-said-probably-active/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-04T09:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/04/national/matsues-ghost-tour-still-popular/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-05-04T09:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Popular: Participants take in Matsue's ghost sights in Shimane Prefecture on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jun Azumi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Helping hand: Visiting Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba chats Wednesday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking a stance: Citizens stage a Thursday march in Tokyo against moves to revise the Constitution, walking from Hibiya Park to the Ginza district. About 2,700 people gathered at the park, where politicians from the Social Democratic Party and the Japanese Communist Party made speeches.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eye on safety: A poster created by associations of ophthalmologists and astronomers warns that eclipse glasses must be used when looking directly at the sun. It is unsafe to look at the sun even during a partial eclipse, and viewing it through sunglasses or other dark materials can also be hazardous.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sweetly done: Curator Rupert Faulkner checks "Sweet Lolita" mannequins at an exhibition illustrating the fashion's British influence at London's Victoria and Albert Museum on April 23.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nonnative: A member of the Inokashira Nature Watchers group shows off one of five bass caught in Inokashira Park in western Tokyo on April 21, along with three bluegill.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reaching for the stars: The Tara Astronomical Observatory is officially opened in the town of Kamiishizu, Gifu Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sight unseen: An F-35 fighter jet is shown in an undated file photo provided by its manufacturer, Lockheed Martin.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tetsunari Iida]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Purr snatchers: Customers play with cats at a newly opened cat cafe in Vienna on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cliffhanger: A Nagano police helicopter airlifts a mountaineer who was found Saturday morning near Mount Korenge.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenji Yamaji]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At rest: Reactors (from left) 1, 2 and 3 at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear plant, seen April 22, are now all offline.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naomi Hirose]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[You pollen my leg?: A Toyama prefectural official shows off young pollen-free Tateyama Mori no Kagayaki cedar trees in the town of Tateyama in March.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Three's company: South Korean President Lee Myung Bak, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda join hands before their summit on security and economic issues in Beijing on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Holed up: Trucks dump toxic soil from the Hanford Site, a former U.S. nuclear complex holding millions of tons of irradiated waste, into a huge pit in Richland, Washington, on April 24.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Airworthy: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda receives a Korean kite with his portrait on it during Campus Asia, a ceremony to promote intercollege exchanges between China, South Korea and Japan, Sunday in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Forward-projected: U.S. Air Force Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, seen in March 2010, is a sprawling installation.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Being grilled: Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata answers questions Monday from a Diet-appointed panel investigating the Fukushima nuclear disaster.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Now boarding: Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko depart Wednesday for London from Tokyo's Haneda airport as Imperial family members see them off.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deep diver: The Shinkai 6500, to be deployed in waters near Guam in July to seek out spawning eels, is seen in April at Suruga Bay off Shizuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Matsunaga]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Starting a new tradition: Kotomi Inayama, a new apprentice of "ukai" fishing master Takayoshi Muto (right), holds a cormorant in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Safety first: Workers measure for airborne radiation Friday near containers holding tsunami debris in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, before trucking them to Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Up, up and away: The trajectory of an H-IIA rocket launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture is captured in an image early Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The euro factor: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (third from right) hold talks with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (second from left) and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy (third from left) Friday on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit at the Camp David U.S. presidential retreat in Maryland.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stellar performance: Time-lapse photography captures Monday's annular eclipse in Tokyo. Students of Honmura Elementary school (bottom) in Minato Ward share the moment, as women in the Odaiba waterfront (below) try to see it through their sunglasses after proper glasses were all sold out.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wanted: Security video footage from Monday night shows a man suspected of stabbing another man on an escalator leading down to the Fukutoshin Line platform at Tokyo Metro Co.'s Shibuya Station.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High times: A vending machine in Yokohama boasts a sign that says it sells "legal herbs" in 0.5-gram doses.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out with the old: Workers replace a signboard at Tokyo Metro Co.'s Oshiage Station early Monday with a new one reading Oshiage (Skytree) Station after the station closest to the tower was renamed ahead of Tuesday's official opening of the 634-meter-tall attraction.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masked man: Ichiro Ozawa enters the Diet before meeting with Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Azuma Koshiishi on Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The buck starts here: Akihiko Tanaka, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, is interviewed last week in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hands on: A man is shown how to operate the zoom function on an iPad during a study group for the visually impaired in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, in February.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All aboard: The Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building, shown here on April 4, has been undergoing renovation since 2007.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toru Hashimoto]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uncertain future: The Monju fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, as seen in November, remains idled.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lonely vigil: A worker stands in the entrance of a tunnel in Minamiuonuma, Niigata Prefecture, after the construction site was hit by an explosion of unknown origin Thursday morning, leaving three workers injured and four trapped inside.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-05-25T09:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Ozawa]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Size matters: Tokyo Skytree towers above the capital on Wednesday, a day after the world's tallest freestanding structure opened to the public, with Mount Fuji in the distance.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/25/national/olympic-chef-readies-french-toyama-blend/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fryathlon?: Tsutomu Momoi, a Toyama Prefecture chef who will represent Japan at the 23rd Culinary Olympics, is seen at work in the city of Toyama on May 9.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lock-less: A bronze statue of Namihei lacks the cartoon character's trademark lone hair in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Warm welcome: Chinese tourists pose in front of Tsuruga Castle in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of options: A Turkish asylum seeker (left) discusses his fight for a special residence permit Wednesday with Social Democratic Party lawmaker Ryoichi Hattori (right) in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Going to the dogs: Takao Yamada, president of Dog Dept Cafe operator Net Work Co., stands outside his cafe in Tokyo Skytree Town. Top right: A dog wears a Skytree outfit. Bottom right: The Dog Dept Cafe is bustling after its debut Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All for naught: Supporters of an 86-year-old man who has been on death row 40 years are stunned after the Nagoya High Court rejected his retrial appeal Friday over his conviction of fatally poisoning five women in 1961 in Nabari, Mie Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Copycats: Bogus products featuring Hello Kitty and other popular characters, formerly owned by a woman in Hidaka, Saitama Prefecture, are displayed at Isesaki Police Station in Yokohama on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hot topic: The online documentary "We Are All Radioactive" visits the town of Motoyoshi in Miyagi Prefecture to listen to what the residents have to say about life after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami and the prospects of a radioactive future.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Edano]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tunnel toll: Medical personnel carry the bodies of four construction workers who were killed by a tunnel explosion last week into a hospital in Minamiuonuma, Niiagata Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tatsuki Narita]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On top of the world: Mountain climber Hirotaka Takeuchi (left) reached the summit of Dhaulagiri (right) in Nepal on Saturday to become the first Japanese to conquer the world's 14 highest mountain peaks above 8,000 meters.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Magnet for thieves: The antique shop in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, from where a dozen antique Japanese swords were stolen, is seen Monday afternoon.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuko Yamaguchi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vulnerable: Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Hamaoka nuclear plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, has been idle for more than a year as work to build a seawall continues.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No man's land: Tin Win Akbar, who fled Myanmar's junta in 1996 and was granted refugee status in Japan, shares a meal with his wife, Tin Nwe Oo, in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, in May.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hashim Thaci]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Top class: Elon Musk (above), CEO of SpaceX, one of whose Falcon 9 rockets is seen here blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. On May 22, 2012, a Falcon 9 launched a Dragon C2 craft on the first-ever round-trip commercial supply run to the International Space Station, returning on May 31.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[End of story: The media converge on a manga cafe where Aum Shinrikyo fugitive Katsuya Takahashi was seized by Tokyo police Friday morning, after 17 years on the run. Below: Takahashi is transferred to Metropolitan Police Department headquarters.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Came at a price: Counterfeit brand-name bags are lined up in July 2007, when Kobe Customs officials charged Japanese nationals who attempted to smuggle the fake goods after coming back to Okayama airport from China.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Competition between the sexes: The sales area for male beauty products at retailer Tokyu Hands in Tokyo's Shibuya district is seen in this photo taken on June 11.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[To offer care: Indonesian caregivers undergoing on-the-job training in Japan prepare to take a qualification exam in Tokyo in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/20/national/aij-chief-others-held-in-pension-funds-fraud/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuhiko Asakawa]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brushing up: Takuya Takahashi practices calligraphy at his home in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, on Sunday. His work, "Tohoku Forward," is on display at a site for an upcoming U.N. conference in Rio de Janeiro.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Class dismissed: Paramedics and firefighters respond  Wednesday to a food poisoning outbreak at Hirano Elementary School in Hirano  Ward in the city of Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/21/national/japan-also-has-stake-in-universal-rights-says-ex-congo-child-soldier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-06-21T09:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spreading the word: Michel Chikwanine, a former child soldier from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is interviewed at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo on June 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/21/national/zoo-squirrels-saw-their-chance-split/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All aboard: A model train museum in Yokohama featuring a collection of works by Nobutaro Hara is shown to the media Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/21/national/uncommon-june-typhoon-forces-thousands-to-flee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-06-21T09:01:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under repairs: Scaffolding scattered by Typhoon Guchol is seen at a construction site near JR Tamachi Station in Minato Ward, Tokyo, Wednesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/21/national/roommate-says-police-forced-him-to-sign-false-statement-indicating-mainalis-guilt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-06-21T09:01:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hot property: The Solamachi shopping complex near Tokyo Skytree in Sumida Ward attracts visitors Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Industrial espionage: Confidential blueprints from Yoshizuka Seiki Co. in Kawasaki allegedly ended up in the hands of a Chinese company.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The spoiler: Democratic Party of Japan kingpin Ichiro Ozawa attends a meeting with his supporters in the lawmakers' dormitory at the Diet on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/23/national/skytree-visited-by-5-8-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-06-23T09:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[View from the bottom: People pose Friday morning with Tokyo Skytree, which marked its first month of operations. The 634-meter-tall Sumida Ward landmark, complete with commercial complex, has had some 5.8 million visitors so far.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fired up: James Makins and two of his students check on their ceramic works after bisque-firing them at the Kyoei-gama Ceramics Art School in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture, earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-06-23T09:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/24/national/words-best-visual-cues-in-autism-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-06-24T09:00:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-06-24T09:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-06-24T09:01:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No way, Noda: Antinuclear energy protesters rally outside Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's office in Tokyo on Friday to denounce his controversial decision to restart two idled reactors at the Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/24/national/media-national/the-doomsday-cult-of-9-to-5-depression/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-06-24T09:01:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/26/national/boys-perish-in-rain-swollen-canal/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Resting place: Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visit the graveyard in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on June 19 where his cousin, Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, who died June 6, was buried.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/26/national/lost-kids-school-items-incinerated-in-ishinomaki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-06-26T09:01:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sacrificial bonfire: A man throws toys into a fire during a memorial service Sunday at Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, which was devastated by the March 11, 2011, tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/27/national/more-barrier-free-steps-urged-in-disaster-zone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-06-27T09:00:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sporadic support: People have lunch at a center for the disabled in the city of  Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, in May.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No ice cream?: Shin Shin eats bamboo leaves Monday in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, which announced the giant panda appears to be pregnant.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Incalculable loss: Mikio Watanabe holds a photograph of his wife, Hamako, on Monday. He blames Tokyo Electric Power Co. for her suicide and is seeking compensation from the utility.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-06-28T09:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Ozawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/29/national/labor-leader-hints-at-cooler-dpj-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-06-29T09:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-06-29T09:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-06-29T09:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tentacle oracle: An octopus predicts, by moving from one side of the tank to the other, how many medals Japanese athletes will win at the London Olympics during an event in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Preventable?: Prayers are said for two pedestrians a day after they were stabbed to death in downtown Osaka on June 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-06-30T09:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-07-03T09:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hip pop: Kirin Beverage Co. employees show Mets Cola during a press review March 26. The cola debuted April 24, bearing a tokuho mark (below).]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/07/04/business/10-year-bond-rate-cut-to-0-8-percent/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A growing problem: A large number of jellyfish polyps are observed along the coast of Ise Bay.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Taki]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Only show in town: Tourists snap shots with bobbies in London on July 27. Despite the lure of the Olympics, soaring hotel prices and traffic restrictions have seen the number of Japanese tour groups to the Lake District and other tourism destinations plummet.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toru Hashimoto]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Personal effects: Items belonging to Norio Nagayama, who was executed 15 years ago for shooting four people to death in 1968, are displayed at his former Tokyo residence July 13.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Edano]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hail to the chief: Prime Minister  Yoshihiko Noda on Friday attends an Upper House committee session on his planned tax and social security reforms.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsuneo Miyamori]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Witnesses: Clifton Truman Daniel (left) and Ari Beser, whose grandfathers ordered and participated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are shown copies of oil paintings by Hiroyuki Goto (third from right) depicting scenes he witnessed after the Hiroshima attack on Aug. 6, 1945.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the pink: Kyoko Hashimoto in "Sexy Battle Girls" (1986).]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Surveying his domain: South Korean President Lee Myung Bak takes in the view during a Friday visit to the disputed Takeshima islets, which are claimed by Tokyo, in the Sea of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hello kiddy: Japan's fertility rate has dropped to fewer than two children per woman, which will result in a significantly lower and older population. New advances in science, however, could make it possible to grow a baby in an artificial womb, outside of the human body.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-12T09:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travelers wait to check-in at Narita International Airport the same day.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A dive in the dark: Coast guard divers search for the remains of victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Natori in Miyagi Prefecture on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[It's a girl!: Giant panda Rauhin takes care of a newborn cub Saturday at Adventure World in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihiko Noda]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In memory: Masaru Onishi, chairman of Japan Airline Corp., prays Sunday at a memorial to the 520 victims of the jet that crashed into Osutaka Ridge in Gunma Prefecture in 1985.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-13T09:02:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/14/national/evacuees-visit-homes-briefly-find-damage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-08-14T09:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Home sweet home: Daughters of nuclear evacuee Hiromi Konno (rear) pack items in a bag Friday in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, when they temporarily returned to the town.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-14T09:00:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking shape: Mayumi Karako (left), a housewife from Ikoma, Nara Prefecture, teaches a visually impaired boy how to draw a picture at an orphanage in Herat, Afghanistan, in 2006.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-14T09:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Go-to guy gone: Deputy Cabinet Secretary for Public Affairs Noriyuki Shikata (left) is interviewed by Jackie Northam of U.S. National Public Radio at the prime minister's office July 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-14T09:01:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-14T09:01:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-14T09:02:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/14/national/h-k-protest-ship-on-course-to-reach-senkakus-on-wednesday/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-15T09:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Common language: A staff member at a facility for the elderly in Kobe uses vocabulary cards last month to communicate with He Zhaolin, a Vietnamese man of Chinese descent.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-15T09:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dark sentinel: Lights for ads on  Tsutenkaku  Tower in Osaka are turned off July 1. Firms have been straining for ways to meet summer energy-reduction targets.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-15T09:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man the pumps: A neighborhood in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, is inundated  Tuesday morning. Other areas in the Kinki region also suffered record rainfalls.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New chapter: Shoko Kubota receives her certificate from Kawauchi Mayor Yuko Endo at a coming-of-age day ceremony in the Fukushima Prefecture village on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-15T09:01:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Refugees' voice: Filippo Grandi, commissioner general of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), is interviewed by The Japan Times on Aug. 9 in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Enduring the unbearable: Hiroshi Watanabe's photographs document handcrafted works by Japanese-Americans in World War II U.S. internment camps, such as a flower brooch and a carved bird, as well as everyday items like this teapot found broken in the garbage dump at the Tule Lake camp in California.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Remains initiative: Osamu Tasaka (left), head of the international department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of North Korea's Red Cross, speak to reporters separately in Beijing on Aug. 10.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man of inaction?: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda attends a plenary session of the Lower House on Aug. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/17/national/elderly-fukushima-plant-volunteer-appeals-for-u-s-help/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Folded up: An MV-22 Osprey aircraft sits by a hangar at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/17/national/senkaku-isle-trespassers-to-be-deported/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Walk the plank: Chinese activists from Hong Kong enter a police van after deboarding a Japan Coast Guard ship in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Thursday following their arrest for landing on the disputed Senkaku Islands a day earlier.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/17/national/u-k-unveils-hiroshima-monument/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Evergreen friendship: Japanese Ambassador to Britain Keiichi Hayashi unveils a monument with a stone from the ruins of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, England, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/17/national/china-repeats-demand-for-immediate-release-of-senkaku-activists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-08-17T09:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/17/national/pyongyang-dashes-tokyos-hope-of-addressing-abductions-issue-in-remains-retrieval-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-08-17T09:01:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-17T09:01:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/17/national/abe-sings-praises-of-hashimoto-bid-to-form-party-but-keeps-distance/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-17T09:01:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-17T09:01:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-17T09:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alternative learning: Students play cards at the Tokyo Shure free school in Kita Ward last year. Below: Yuki Ujiie, who stopped attending a public junior high school because of bullying, is interviewed July 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/18/national/seoul-currency-swap-may-be-curbed/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese activist Tsang Kin-shing is escorted by authorities at the port of Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Something to declare: Saburo Shochi, professor emeritus at Fukuoka University of Education, arrives at Fukuoka airport Thursday, his 106th birthday, after a monthlong around-the-world lecture tour.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/18/national/chubu-sees-solid-future-in-sunlight/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Solar system: Chubu Electric Power Co. operates the Mega Solar Taketoyo facility in Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/18/national/japan-logs-second-highest-number-of-foreign-visitors-on-record-in-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-08-18T09:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/18/national/chinese-media-blur-out-photos-of-activists-taiwan-flag/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-08-18T09:01:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/18/national/ospreys-to-avoid-populated-areas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-08-18T09:01:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-18T09:02:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/18/national/fukuoka-plans-halal-food-fair-next-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-08-18T09:02:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/18/national/handing-down-minamata-lessons-continues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-08-18T09:02:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/18/national/latest-dpj-defectors-to-join-nagoya-force/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-08-18T09:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koki Kobayashi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/18/national/tokyo-seeks-icj-ruling-on-takeshima/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Isle impasse: South Korean Ambassador Shin Kak Soo leaves the Foreign Ministry after meeting Friday with Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/19/national/chinese-protest-against-japans-arrest-of-activists-who-traveled-to-senkaku-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-08-19T09:00:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seeing red: Protesters chanting anti-Japan slogans and carrying Chinese national flags and banners march toward the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/19/national/bon-overseas-return-rush-jams-narita/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-19T09:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sea of troubles: Prime Minister  Yoshihiko Noda (left) and Deputy Prime Minister Katsuya Okada attend an Upper House committee session on Aug. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/19/national/bureaucrats-attend-hashimoto-school-despite-local-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-08-19T09:01:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-19T09:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Curve ball: Hirokazu Iwashima, coach of the Sakushin Gakuin High School baseball team, faces the media Saturday in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, after one of his players was arrested.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tense times: Chinese in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, protest the landing of 10 Japanese nationals on one of the Senkaku Islands on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-20T09:01:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-20T09:01:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-20T09:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-21T09:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For the count: Japanese judoka Daiki Kamikawa (below) grapples with Iha Makau of Belarus on Aug. 3 in London. Daiki lost the 100-kg class match, which left the Japanese male judo team bereft of Olympic golds for the first time since the sport was introduced at the 1964 Games in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wearing silver in Ginza: Women's soccer star Homare Sawa waves to fans Monday during a parade in Tokyo to fete Japan's London Olympics team.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Last message: A radio transmitter believed to have been used by the Imperial Japanese Army to send its final telegram before making its last organized stand against the United States during the Battle of Iwojima was recently found in an underground bunker.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/22/national/cultural-exchanges-a-top-priority-for-new-armenian-ambassador/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grant Pogosyan]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crime fighters: Daughters of Gin Kanie — (from left)  Toshiko Yano, 98, Chitayo  Tsuda, 93,  Yuriko Sano, 91 and Mineyo Kanie, 88, want to speak out against fraud targeting the elderly.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Triple-whammy: Traces of ground liquefaction that occurred in the late seventh century indicate three temblors simultaneously hit the Tokai, Tonankai and Nankai regions.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Another time: People in Seoul on Monday view personal effects and documents that belonged to Koreans who were forced into working for the Japanese during the colonial period.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20120823a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fishy business: Record-high levels of radioactive cesium were found in these two "ainame" greenlings caught Aug. 1 off the coast of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2012-08-23T09:00:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Casualty of war: An image grab taken from a video uploaded Tuesday to the video-sharing site YouTube shows Japanese journalist Kazutaka Sato mourning over the body of his colleague and common-law wife, Mika Yamamoto, who was shot dead Monday while working in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dangerous debris: The locations of space debris in relatively low orbits around the Earth are displayed in this NASA image.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bojana Adamovic Dragovic]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Extra help: Aya Kawai deals with questions from a junior high school student at a tutorial class in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on July 2.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man of peace: Masahiro Sasaki speaks about his sister Sadako during an interview with  The Japan  Times this month in Hiroshima.]]></image:caption>
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