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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stony silence: Residents who were forced to evacuate from their homes in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, listen to Norio Tsuzumi, executive vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speak about the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant April 30.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pressure job: A worker in protective gear checks a water-level indicator at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant¥x81fs reactor No. 1 on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prudent measure: Prime Minister Naoto Kan announces Friday that he wants the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture to close until tsunami defenses can be built.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suit up: A worker walks on the second floor of the main building of the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Monday, when unusually high levels of radiation were found in the building.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unearthed: An entrance leads to a 150-meter tunnel found in Beppu, Oita Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/13/national/mother-arrested-for-death-of-infant-son/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:09:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/13/national/fukushima-no-2-reactor-temperature-rises-to-82-c/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:09:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/11/national/u-s-asks-japan-to-cover-tab-to-move-marines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:10:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:10:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/11/national/survivors-of-thai-floods-carve-a-temporary-niche-in-aichi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:11:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Making the best of it: Jiraporn Tulwanthana (right) chats with a Thai interpreter while working in Owariasahi, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:12:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/18/national/barak-urges-tougher-iran-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:12:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/10/national/embassy-in-damascus-may-have-staff-vacated/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:12:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/12/national/hu-meeting-nixed-amid-senkaku-spat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:13:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hu Jintao]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/18/national/foreign-visitors-off-for-11th-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:13:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/10/national/child-rearing-website-data-hacked/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:13:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/16/national/tokyos-rabbit-cafes-hopping-with-customers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:14:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Down the rabbit hole: A customer makes new friends during a visit to the Ra.a.g.f rabbit cafe Jan. 31 in Meguro Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/15/national/hirano-to-review-311-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:14:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/12/national/sendais-first-valentines-day-since-disasters-about-more-than-just-love/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:14:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/17/national/psychiatrist-in-info-leak-loses-appeal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:14:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/11/national/shorter-detention-of-asylum-seekers-set/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:14:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/18/national/emperor-enters-hospital-for-bypass/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:14:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/11/national/dpj-unveils-hidden-tax-estimate-of-17-1-to-sustain-pension-system-in-2075/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:14:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/17/national/chiba-shooting-suspect-found-dead-in-suicide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:15:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Getaway car: Police examine a minivan (right) in which shooting suspect Chong Yong Bom was found dead of an apparent suicide in Kujukuri, Chiba Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/13/national/sakima-wins-mayoral-race-in-ginowan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:16:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atsushi Sakima celebrates Sunday evening at his campaign headquarters after it was confirmed that he would beat former Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha in hotly contested mayoral election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/18/national/court-nixes-key-depositions-against-ozawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:17:34+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/2012/02/15/national/wanted-suspect-identified-in-fatal-eatery-shooting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:18:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20120215a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chong Yong Bom]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/16/national/top-court-rejects-actors-appeal-over-drug-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:19:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manabu Oshio]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/17/national/u-s-clashed-over-iaea-inspections-in-1960s-papers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:20:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Open secrets: Files of declassified diplomatic documents are shown at the Foreign Ministry's Diplomatic Archives in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/14/national/racism-panel-asked-to-review-futenma-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:20:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/10/national/sukiya-operator-aids-famine-relief-in-east-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:20:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/17/national/u-s-manga-i-kill-giants-bags-award/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:20:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/10/national/tunnel-flooded-where-seabed-dipped/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:20:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/11/national/u-n-honors-forest-hero-fisherman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:21:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Great protector: Angler-turned-environmentalist Shigeatsu Hatakeyama makes a speech after receiving the Forest Hero award at the United Nations on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/10/national/iwakuni-housing-land-sale-in-doubt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:21:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/10/national/hirano-gets-nod-to-lead-agency-for-rebuilding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:21:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/15/national/documentary-on-fukushima-town-is-screened-at-berlin-film-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:22:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Movie message: Atsushi Funahashi (right), director of the documentary "Nuclear Nation," and Ryuichi Sakamoto, who composed music for the film, field questions from the audience at the Berlin International Film Festival on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/16/national/nuclear-safety-boss-faults-agency-utilities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:22:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/15/national/fukushima-farming-hard-row-to-hoe/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nuked earth: Homes lie abandoned and farmland untended April 20 in Okuma, inside the exclusion zone and just 1 km from the wrecked No. 1 nuclear plant, in Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/13/national/disruption-of-kddis-mobile-mail-service-affects-6-15-million-users/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/14/national/reactor-2-heat-spike-reading-said-faulty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:24:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/11/national/ehime-maru-tragedy-marked/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:25:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maritime memorial: Relatives of the victims of the Ehime Maru sinking attend a service Friday in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, to mark the accident's 11th anniversary.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/19/national/israels-barak-calls-a-bombing-unavoidable/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:26:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:26:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:27:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No audits: Children at KidZania Tokyo receive "tax refunds" after filing their returns for the role-playing jobs they worked at the entertainment center in Koto Ward on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/16/national/governors-slam-tepcos-price-hikes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:27:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:28:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Getting to know you: Single men and women chat over drinks at Queen's, a dining bar in Tokyo's Meguro district, during a "machikon" matchmaking party on Feb. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/16/national/filipinos-teach-english-to-japanese-via-website/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:29:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Language lord: Md Moin, founder of a firm that hires Filipinos to teach English online, shows his website.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pep art: Fifth-graders from Thomson Elementary School draw pictures with messages of encouragement for elementary school students in the Tohoku region, at the Japanese Information and Culture Center in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/15/national/victims-of-abuse-drugs-hold-solidarity-photo-exhibit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:30:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/19/national/studies-on-lethal-avian-flu-should-be-printed-who/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:30:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:30:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:31:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shizu-chan]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/16/national/net-malls-liable-in-trademark-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:32:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/12/national/daio-paper-to-punish-23-for-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:32:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/10/national/unswayed-by-disaster-iwaki-spa-hulas-anew/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:51:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flower power: Dancers perform Polynesian dances Monday during a rehearsal for the reopening Wednesday of Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/14/national/new-ginowan-mayor-renews-futenma-pledge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:52:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atsushi Sakima]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/15/national/with-return-agreed-taiwan-to-lend-china-treasures-for-exhibit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:52:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/10/national/u-s-likely-to-scale-down-plans-for-bases-in-japan-and-guam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:52:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/13/national/pachinko-firms-said-to-have-failed-to-declare-100-billion-income/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:52:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/11/national/11-months-on-reconstruction-agency-makes-official-debut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:52:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/12/national/another-body-pulled-from-tunnel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:52:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/12/national/pcbs-detected-in-57-paint-materials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:53:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/19/national/mongol-shipwreck-to-be-first-historical-seabed-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T11:53:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/10/national/will-shrinking-the-diet-solve-anything/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:07:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20120210f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Magic number: The 480-seat Lower House meets Feb. 3. Calls are mounting to slash the number of Diet members to help reduce the snowballing national debt.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/18/national/reform-means-the-world-for-todai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:08:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hoping to blossom: High school students visit one of the University of Tokyo's campuses to take the unified college entrance examinations on Jan. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/18/national/cabinet-gets-ball-rolling-on-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:08:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/18/national/nagoya-aid-for-tsunami-hit-city-starts-to-pay-off/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:14:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Symbiotic: Mushroom grower Hirofumi Sato shows a big shiitake to Nagoya Mayor Kawamura in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/17/national/rare-tohoku-debris-disposal-test-starts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:15:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the back foot: Environment Minister Goshi Hosono (right) faces local residents Thursday who are opposed to the incineration of tsunami debris from Iwate Prefecture in Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/13/national/chinese-patrol-vessels-spotted-near-senkaku-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:15:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/11/national/red-tape-impeding-reform-of-nuclear-reliant-energy-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:16:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Not on board: A demonstration is held Wednesday outside the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to protest the government's decision to endorse the results of stress tests on reactors at the Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/14/national/hashimoto-group-hopes-to-upset-political-applecart-big-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:17:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20120214a7a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heavy hitters: Osaka Mayor T oru Hashimoto shares a smile with Takashi Shimada, one of the creators of the popular "Kinnikuman" ("Muscleman") manga series, as he presents Hashimoto with his portrait featuring the character during a courtesy visit Monday at City Hall.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/19/national/emperor-undergoes-heart-bypass-surgery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:18:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20120219a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heart of the nation: Emperor Akihito formally opens the current ordinary Diet session in Tokyo on Jan. 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/10/national/actress-meisa-pop-singer-tie-knot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:19:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/18/national/defense-chief-richest-member-in-noda-cabinet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:19:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/15/national/store-debuts-zambia-bamboo-bikes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:20:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of Africa: Takaya Fukuda assembles a Zambikes bamboo bicycle at F.I.G bike in Harajuku, Tokyo, last Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/19/national/fuji-heavy-bot-rd-funds-misused/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:20:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:20:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:20:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/14/national/thousands-apply-to-hashimotos-politics-school/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:20:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/16/national/long-period-quake-warning-urged/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:21:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/14/national/tepco-to-get-additional-689-4-billion-edano/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:21:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/17/national/tickets-on-sale-for-disaster-relief-lottery-worth-record-500-million-in-total/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:21:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/10/national/airfield-would-destroy-nago-environment-panel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:21:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/17/national/industrial-revival-claims-ring-hollow-as-makers-flee-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:21:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/17/national/shimane-ikata-nuclear-plants-hold-crisis-drill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:22:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Just a drill: A mock casualty is checked for radiation Thursday during an accident drill at Chugoku Electric Power Co.'s Shimane nuclear power plant in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/17/national/panel-oks-lower-cesium-limit-for-food/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:22:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/19/national/aussie-fta-said-still-far-off-as-talks-end/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:22:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/19/national/philippines-woos-japan-investors-over-infrastructure-projects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:22:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/10/national/scandal-may-affect-space-launch-jaxa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:24:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/16/national/photog-gets-too-close-causes-shinkansen-halt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:25:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Last hurrah: A JR West official runs between a 100 series bullet train (left) and a 300 series at a car shed in Hakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Wednesday. The two series will be taken out of service on March 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/11/national/kansai-exec-forum-skims-atomic-power-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:25:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/15/national/deep-sea-temperature-up-0-02-degree-every-decade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:25:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/16/national/hamaoka-locals-evasive-on-no-nuke-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Exposed: Minoru Ito, 70, walks on the beach near the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Feb. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/18/national/jetros-singapore-airshow-pavilion-promoting-promising-aerospace-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:26:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/19/national/akb48-thanks-china-for-311-aid-with-beijing-concert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:27:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Skirt diplomacy: Members of all-girl idol group AKB48 perform during a special event held Friday in Beijing to thank China for its support in the aftermath of the March 11 disasters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/12/national/oe-leads-rally-against-nuclear-power-plants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:27:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/11/national/most-singaporeans-still-shunning-visits-to-japan-on-nuke-safety-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:34:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tarnished image: Iwate officials promote rice and other food items from the prefecture during an event this week in Singapore to try to lure visitors from the city-state back to Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/16/national/emperor-to-enter-hospital-friday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:34:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/15/national/governor-why-no-arrests-over-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:34:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/11/national/nationwide-antinuke-rallies-planned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:34:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/13/national/emperor-akihito-to-undergo-heart-bypass-surgery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:34:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/01/20/reference/exam-hell-now-not-so-hot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:48:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Show time: University hopefuls prepare to take unified college entrance exams Saturday in a classroom on the University of Tokyo's Hongo campus.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/01/13/reference/graduate-job-search-in-full-swing-despite-recession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T12:54:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/01/16/national/man-held-over-asashoryu-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T13:27:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/01/27/reference/no-brown-bagging-it-for-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T13:35:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chow down: Students at Shinonome Elementary School in Koto Ward, Tokyo, have lunch in their classroom in October 2006.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/03/reference/bank-transfer-fraudsters-have-that-grift-of-gab/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T13:47:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cut off: A sign warns customers there is no cell phone reception around automatic teller machines at Chiba Bank's main branch in Chiba Prefecture in an effort to prevent bank transfer frauds.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/10/reference/recession-wont-sour-valentines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T13:48:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dolce: Women throng at a Valentine's Day chocolate display at the Printemps department store in the Ginza district of Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/17/reference/accelerating-toyota-forced-to-downshift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T13:53:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090217i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[We are family: Akio Toyoda, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., attends a January press briefing during which the carmaker announced his promotion in June to president, replacing Katsuaki Watanabe (right).]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/24/reference/christianitys-long-history-in-the-margins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T14:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local legend: Members of the local women's association dance at the purported grave of Jesus in Shingo, Aomori Prefecture, in June 2006. The grave is the focal point of the village's annual Christ festival.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/03/03/reference/newspapers-here-soldiering-on/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T14:11:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090303i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unsteady stack: Largely shielded until now by high circulation rates, Japanese newspapers are likely to start feeling the pinch as advertising revenue drops due to the sagging economy.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/03/10/reference/nintendo-secret-its-all-in-the-game/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T14:14:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This is a DS: Junior high school students at Tokyo Joshi Gakuen in Minato Ward use Nintendo Co.'s DS during their English-language class on March 5.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/03/11/national/antipiracy-bill-gets-ldp-approval/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T14:18:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Remembrance: Masayuki and Junko Ito view a photo exhibit Tuesday in Fukuoka that commemorates their aid worker son, Kazuya, who was slain in Afghanistan last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/03/17/reference/found-in-area-51-he-goes-by-one-name/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T15:09:56+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T15:13:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090324i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[No need to walk a mile: Cigarette machines are ever-present across Japan, including these outside JR Shimbashi Station in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/04/09/reference/special-presentations/imperial-army-war-vet-haunted-by-horrors-in-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T15:20:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Repentant executioner: Ichiro Koyama is pictured in his Imperial army uniform.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/04/14/reference/so-you-wanna-be-a-johnny/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T15:30:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090414i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marketing talent: A fan enters a shop plastered with photos of "Johnnies" in the Harajuku district of Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, last week.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/04/28/reference/corporate-bankruptcy-the-japanese-way/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T15:39:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/04/21/reference/the-past-present-and-future-of-fortunetelling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T15:44:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090421i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Future man: Fortuneteller Eisuke Ito displays his "zeichiku" bamboo sticks used in conjunction with I Ching to divine the future, in the Harajuku district of Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, in January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/28/national/h7-bird-flu-detected-in-aichi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T15:51:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For the birds: Workers in hazard suits disinfect a quail farm where a bird-flu outbreak was reported in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/28/national/fishery-talks-with-taiwan-kick-off/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T15:55:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/05/05/reference/go-with-the-flow-at-classic-sento/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T15:57:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090505i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pleasure for the senses: A painting of Mount Fuji adorns the wall of the Inari-yu public bath in Kita Ward, Tokyo. Steeped in centuries of tradition, "sento" remain popular places for people to relax and interact.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/28/national/fukuda-salutes-japan-pavilion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T15:57:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090228a9a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Digging in: Former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (center) and Takamori Yoshikawa, senior vice minister at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, attend a ceremony Friday to start construction of the Japan Pavilion at the Shanghai World Exposition to be held in 2010.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/05/12/reference/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T15:57:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/28/national/key-china-party-exec-to-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T15:59:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Li Changchun]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/05/19/reference/weight-of-imperial-world-on-princess-masako/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:04:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/05/19/national/rainy-season-kicks-off-in-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:04:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/27/business/toyota-to-cut-output-10-in-09/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:06:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/27/national/trader-tried-wmd-linked-export-to-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:10:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/05/26/reference/manga-heart-of-pop-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:10:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reading for pleasure: Salarymen read comic books at a convenience store in the Shibaura district of Minato Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/27/national/two-held-for-sending-junk-mail-using-postal-discount-for-disabled/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boxed in: Prosecutors raid the Shinsei Kigyo advertising agency in Osaka on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/27/national/a-year-in-osaka-gov-hashimoto-on-a-roll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:18:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/06/30/reference/japan-a-low-key-player-in-space-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:18:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090630i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[No humming "Daisy": A computer graphic shows Japan's Kibo manned space experiment facility being attached to the International Space Station.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/27/national/suit-fails-to-remove-11-from-yasukuni/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:24:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defiant: Ryuken Sugawara (left), leader of the plaintiffs who sued Yasukuni Shrine, speaks with reporters Thursday in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/26/business/kansai-bank-pair-to-merge/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/26/national/hit-china-movie-aids-hokkaidos-tourism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:27:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The scenic route: Lake Akan in eastern Hokkaido was among the sites featured in the Chinese movie "If you are the one."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/26/national/temple-tests-sexes-brawn-via-mochi-lift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:30:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sweet taste of victory: A participant in a contest of strength holds up a 150-kg "mochi" pounded-rice cake at Kyoto's Daigoji Temple Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/26/business/obama-urges-japan-china-to-spur-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:32:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/26/national/asos-white-house-visit-low-key/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:34:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[First impressions: Prime Minister Taro Aso meets with U.S. President Barack Obama in the White House Oval Office in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/25/national/doctor-admits-breaking-in-vitro-egg-guidelines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:35:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/06/09/reference/narita-airport-worth-long-struggle-to-build/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:35:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090609i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Closed to traffic: An X marks the spot beyond which aircraft landing on Narita airport's 2,180-meter runway must not enter as work continues to get a 2,500-meter strip operational by October.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/25/national/firms-warming-to-work-sharing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:36:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tooling up: In this photo released by ASKK Ltd., employees work at their precision machinery company in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/06/02/reference/supercomputers-infinity-within-reach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:37:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090602i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Humming along: Earth Simulator, the nation's most famous supercomputer, performs various meteorological calculations at the Japan Agency for Maritime Earth Science and Technology in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/25/national/aso-set-to-go-over-agenda-checklist-with-obama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:37:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090225a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Last hurrah?: Prime Minister Taro Aso is greeted by a U.S. Air Force officer as he arrives Monday at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/25/national/aomori-execs-arrested-for-falsely-labeling-apple-juice-from-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:41:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090225a9a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Perp walk: Takao Sasaki (covered by jacket), former president of apple processor Aomoriken Kako, leaves his home in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, under police escort Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/25/national/aichi-to-pay-damages-over-fake-quake-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:42:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Favorable ruling: Saburo Nakagawa, president of Center One Hotel Handa, holds a news conference Tuesday in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/25/national/prefectures-taking-steps-to-bring-people-together-prod-nuptials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:43:50+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/24/national/suspect-seen-at-site-of-nhk-bureau-blast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/24/national/u-s-sought-tissue-from-fisherman-exposed-in-54-h-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:46:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/06/16/reference/the-all-powerful-voice-of-corporate-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:46:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090616i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090616i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) has moved to a new building in Tokyo's Otemachi district.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/24/national/ldp-lawmaker-reveals-accounting-irregularity-at-foundation-she-heads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:47:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090224a5a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090224a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Irregular accounting: Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Nobuko Iwaki faces the media Monday in Osaka over an alleged irregular accounting involving two groups she heads.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/24/national/two-japanese-films-bag-oscars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:48:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090224a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090224a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nailing it: Director Yojiro Takita holds up an Oscar at the 81st Annual Academy Awards ceremony Sunday in Los Angeles after his "Okuribito" ("Departures") won for best foreign-language film as actors (from left) Masahiro Motoki, Kimiko Yo and Ryoko Hirosue look on.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/24/national/seoul-prepared-to-defend-islets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:49:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/23/national/prefecture-holds-takeshima-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:51:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/23/national/thousands-apply-for-five-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:52:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/23/national/9000-near-naked-men-scramble-for-glory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:53:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090223a3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090223a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Free-for-all: Thousands of men struggle to grab sacred pieces of wood at Saidaiji Temple in Okayama on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/23/national/aussie-police-seize-documents-in-raid-on-sea-shepherds-ship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:55:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/14/reference/for-hatoyamas-politics-is-considered-birthright/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:58:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090714i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090714i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family tradition: Yukio Hatoyama (right) and his brother, Kunio, talk to reporters in front of a statue of their grandfather and former Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama at Hatoyama Hall in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, in February 2007.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/22/business/sharp-eyes-china-lcd-production/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T16:58:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/22/national/myanmar-woman-wins-nagai-award/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:01:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/22/national/nakagawa-also-misbehaved-at-vatican-museum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:10:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090222a2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090222a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Proper reason: Blind visitors touch a replica of a statue of Laocoon and His Sons at a museum in Bogota in 2008.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/28/reference/japans-funerals-deep-rooted-mix-of-ritual-form/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:11:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090728i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090728i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flowered sendoff: A floral funeral altar is displayed at the Funeral Business Fair in Yokohama in 2008.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/21/business/wto-chief-pushes-farming-compromise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:13:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nb20090221a5a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20090221a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pascal Lamy]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/21/national/mayor-in-bribery-sought-graveyard-expansion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:14:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090221a5a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090221a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grave matter: An aerial view of the Takarazuka Violet Cemetery in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, is shown in this photo taken Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/21/national/nakagawas-brain-turned-off-in-meeting-with-russian/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:15:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090221a2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090221a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Disconnect: Then Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa meets with Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin on Feb. 14 in Rome.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/21/national/turbulence-hurts-43-over-narita/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:16:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090221a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090221a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Terra firma: A Northwest Airlines passenger injured by turbulence is put into an ambulance Friday at Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture. The accident injured 43 on board.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/20/national/guam-referendum-needed-on-military-buildup-lawmaker-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:17:39+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/20/national/fishermen-killed-in-collision-honored/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:19:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/22/reference/wake-up-hike-out-tune-in-move-it/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:21:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090722i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090722i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Radio days: People work out in the morning at a park in Edogawa Ward. Tokyo. The photo was taken by Hideo Ikeda, who won the grand prize in a radio exercise photo competition in 2008.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/20/national/in-vitro-egg-mixup-prompts-abortion-lawsuit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:23:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090220a3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090220a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fiasco: Yuzo Matsumoto (left), Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital head, and OB-GYN chief Dr. Masaru Yonezawa apologize Thursday over an in vitro egg mixup.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/20/national/chinese-fishing-boat-seized/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:25:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/20/national/ex-chief-of-ehime-food-processor-arrested-over-eel-mislabeling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:25:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090220a6a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090220a6a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eely feeling: A police investigator carries a box of items seized Thursday from the home of Shuto Oyama, former president of Sunrise Foods in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/19/national/industrial-uses-targeted-for-hemp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:26:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090219f2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090219f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Drug-free: Hidetaro Funayama, who leads a project to cultivate hemp without a narcotic component, shows a variety of products made from the plant in Kitami, Hokkaido, on Nov. 19.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/19/national/japan-u-s-hold-military-crash-drill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:28:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/19/national/aso-medvedev-pledge-efforts-to-end-isle-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:30:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090219a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090219a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Conflict resolution: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev poses with Prime Minister Taro Aso in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, on Wednesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/18/national/progress-clause-a-tangible-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:36:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090218a3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090218a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local color: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton takes a sip of "sacred sake" in a ceremony at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on Tuesday ahead of talks with top officials.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/18/national/court-holds-retrial-of-yokohama-incident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:38:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/18/reference/in-anonymous-packed-train-lurk-gropers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:43:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090818i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090818i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Safe haven: Passengers board a female-only car on the JR Chuo Line in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/17/national/deserted-battleship-isle-may-become-heritage-ghost-ship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:43:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090217f1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090217f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ghost ship: Hashima, popularly known as Gunkanjima, or "Battleship Island," in Nagasaki Prefecture, has been nominated as a World Heritage site.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/17/national/novelist-murakami-accepts-israeli-literary-prize/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:44:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/19/national/nurse-is-cleared-in-girls-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:46:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/17/national/city-to-help-out-foreign-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:46:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/16/national/three-held-on-charge-of-bogus-home-repairs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:48:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/04/reference/strict-rules-in-play-to-keep-campaigning-above-board/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:48:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090804i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090804i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speaking in general: Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama delivers a speech Sunday on a street in Yotsukaido, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/16/national/japans-iraq-aid-mission-officially-ends/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:49:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090216a2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090216a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Welcome home: Air Self-Defense Force personnel in charge of the pullout work from Kuwait attend a ceremony Sunday at the ASDF Komaki base in Aichi Prefecture commemorating the formal end of Japan's reconstruction aid mission in Iraq.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/16/national/g7-platitude-on-currency-may-worsen-headache-for-japan-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:50:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/16/national/kyoto-univ-law-student-busted-for-pot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:52:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/16/national/obuchi-announces-historic-pregnancy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:54:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/16/national/group-trying-to-develop-artificial-limbs-for-amputee-loggerhead-sea-turtle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:55:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090216a5a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090216a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Just getting by: Yu-chan, a loggerhead sea turtle missing part of its forelimbs, takes a swim at the Hiwasa Chelonian Museum in Minami, Tokushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/15/business/japan-imf-sign-100-billion-loan-deal-to-bolster-international-relief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T17:58:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/15/national/ex-educator-returns-money-to-oita/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:02:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/15/business/geithner-nakagawa-agree-on-protectionism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:03:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/25/reference/pop-idol-phenomenon-fades-into-dispersion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:03:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Idolized: "Nendoru" (clay) idol Hitomi Okada holds miniature food made of clay; "tetsudo" (train) idol Momo Ito poses on a station platform and "rekishi" (history) idol Eri Komukai dresses in a kimono for "cosplay."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/14/national/choked-with-visitors-kyoto-takes-slow-road-toward-eco-tourism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:05:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Back street: A young couple stroll by "machiya" wooden town houses in Kyoto's traditional weaving district of Nishijin. The traditional houses are a key component of the city's attempts to build a viable eco-tourism and slow food, slow life tourist industry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/14/national/red-crowned-cranes-surpass-1000/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:06:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/14/business/7-eleven-to-expand-in-n-america/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:08:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fresh food the future: Workers prepare fresh food wraps at a recently opened "green" center on Long Island for 674 7-Eleven stores in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/11/reference/todai-still-beckons-nations-best-brightest-but-goals-diversifying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:08:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Big clock on campus: The University of Tokyo's Yasuda Auditorium symbolizes the main Hongo campus in Bunkyo Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/14/national/japan-warned-on-human-trafficking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:10:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/14/national/iwanaga-failed-to-report-donations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:12:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/14/business/hitachi-wins-in-consortium-for-u-k-train-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:13:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/14/national/basra-inspection-to-pave-way-for-yen-loan-reconstruction-projects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:14:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Powwow: Officials from the Japanese Embassy in Iraq and the Japan International Cooperation Agency chat Monday with officials of an oil refinery in Basra.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/13/national/improving-ties-mutually-beneficial-for-tokyo-seoul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:15:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/13/national/ex-stablemaster-denies-ordering-assault/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:16:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On trial: A sketch shows former sumo stablemaster Tokitsukaze, whose real name is Junichi Yamamoto, standing trial Thursday at the Nagoya District Court over the fatal beating of junior wrestler Takashi Saito in 2007. At right, Masato Saito heads to the court for the first trial session into his son's death.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/13/national/three-hurt-in-fire-on-state-research-ship-in-kobe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:17:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/13/national/japan-pressed-s-korea-to-take-convicts-in-78-documents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:18:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/05/reference/special-presentations/washington-u-let-nisei-avoid-internment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:21:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In grandpa's footsteps: Yoshio Matsumoto is accompanied by his son, Joe, and grandson, Andy, an incoming freshman, on the campus of Washington University on Aug. 28 in St. Louis. At bottom, Japanese students including Yoshio Matsumoto (top right), who avoided being sent to an internment camp by attending Washington University, pose for a photo in 1941.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/12/national/man-held-over-slaying-in-mongolia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/10/national/politics-diplomacy/chinese-navy-weapons-lock-proof-in-offing/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prepared to serve: Kotaro Kaneko, 81, talks about his experience in the elite Imperial Japanese Army Academy in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Aug. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/12/national/japanese-s-korean-abductees-said-to-have-married/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:26:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:27:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:31:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All the bells and ring tones: A man takes a look at the latest cell phone models at a store in the Akihabara district of Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/11/national/diplomats-in-third-world-turn-to-thai-chefs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:31:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/11/business/sanyo-to-build-solar-plant-in-osaka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:32:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/15/reference/community-groups-provide-lifelines-in-many-ways/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:33:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Helping hands: Children carry a "mikoshi" portable shrine during an autumn festival organized by the neighborhood association in Meguro Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/11/national/prayers-mark-loss-of-nine-in-sub-ship-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:34:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/10/national/seized-crab-boat-crew-return-safely-to-tottori/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:36:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Back on home ground: Nobuhiro Funakoshi (left), a crew member of the Yoshi Maru No. 38 that was seized by Russia last month, returns to Sakaiminato port in Tottori Prefecture on Monday, accompanied by Shinsuke Iwata, president of seafood processor Hiyoshi Suisan, which owns the boat.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/10/national/temp-19-arrested-for-hyogo-cabbys-slaying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:37:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/10/national/kanji-testers-shady-deals-prompt-raid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:38:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/29/reference/murakami-titan-of-postwar-literature/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:38:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Going fast: Copies of "1Q84," Haruki Murakami's latest book, are displayed at a bookstore in Tokyo in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/09/national/defense-chief-likely-to-order-antipiracy-mission-in-march/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:39:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/09/national/dud-removal-disrupts-air-traffic-at-miyazaki-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:40:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force load a 250-kg dud bomb after it was defused Sunday at Miyazaki Airport. The unexploded bomb was discovered Jan. 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/09/national/japanese-woman-found-dead-on-street-in-ulan-bator/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:41:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:42:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/reference/u-s-ambassador-serves-a-role-most-vital/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hasty edition: News on U.S. ambassadors to Japan make headlines in The Japan Times, including the extra edition when Edwin O. Reischauer was stabbed by a deranged Japanese teenager on March 24, 1964.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/08/national/usj-swamped-by-1800-job-seekers/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All ears: Job applicants at Universal Studios Japan listen Saturday as officials explain the part-time work being offered by the Osaka-based theme park.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/08/national/gazprom-vows-stable-lng-supply-for-japan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alexander Medvedev]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/07/business/imf-says-japan-economy-is-in-deep-recession/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T18:53:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Shimozuma]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/06/national/bus-firm-employee-paid-losses-of-880000-out-of-his-own-pocket/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local uprising: (From left) Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto, Hiroshi Yamada, chief of Suginami Ward, Tokyo, and former Yokohama Mayor Hiroshi Nakada meet the press after a meeting of Shucho Rengo (the Local Leaders Federation) in Tokyo on Aug. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/05/national/crash-victim-refused-by-14-hospitals-dies/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vote of confidence: Kashiwazaki Mayor Hiroshi Aida (left) hands a notice lifting the suspension order on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigata Prefecture to station chief Akio Takahashi of Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Tuesday at City Hall.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/04/national/cell-infested-inmate-sues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:11:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/03/business/fukuho-bank-mulls-size-of-infusion-it-needs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:13:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/03/national/chiba-refuses-to-register-net-cafe-refugees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:15:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/03/national/karoshi-case-leads-to-damages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:17:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/03/national/wii-fit-links-user-data-to-health-care-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:18:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/02/national/jal-starts-flying-brazilian-jets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:19:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maiden flight: Passengers board a Brazilian-made Embraer 170 jet operated by Japan Airlines at Nagoya airport Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/02/national/kitty-hawk-is-decommissioned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:20:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/02/national/sumo-wrestler-turned-over-to-prosecutors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:21:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Center of attention: Media crews try to get a look at sumo wrestler Wakakirin as he is taken to the Kawasaki branch of the Yokohama District Public Prosecutor's Office on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/01/business/sharp-warns-net-loss-likely-for-business-2008/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:22:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:23:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090201a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[So what's the plan?: Prime Minister Taro Aso shakes hands with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/01/national/nix-clean-in-nuke-ads-utilities-told/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:24:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:25:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hunting for clues: Police investigate a suspected arson at a noodle restaurant in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/01/national/drug-watch-rises-after-mexican-busts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:26:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/01/business/jal-flight-attendant-calendars-become-cost-cutting-casualty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:27:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For the memories: This photo shows calendars featuring photographs of Japan Airlines cabin attendants. The once-popular calendars are being discontinued.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/10/20/reference/abortion-still-key-birth-control/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:28:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:32:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:35:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No premeditation: Former University of Tokyo researcher Isamu Kaneko enters the Osaka High Court on Oct. 8. The court overturned a lower court judgment and acquitted him of intentionally encouraging copyright piracy via his Winny brainchild.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-06T19:39:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Golden harvest: A rice farmer in the village of Yahiko, Niigata Prefecture, harvests the popular Koshihikari rice last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/06/business/panasonic-to-sell-shiodome-building/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-06T22:52:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-07T00:18:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-07T00:18:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/24/national/tepco-should-partly-cover-cost-of-irradiated-beef-purchases-kaieda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-07T00:18:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/20/national/tepco-plans-for-cold-shutdown-by-january/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-07T00:18:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-07T00:18:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-07T00:18:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-07T00:18:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-07T00:18:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/02/national/mayor-raps-ex-tepco-president/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-07T00:18:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-07T01:09:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/07/national/crime-legal/vote-disparity-in-12-unconstitutional/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-07T01:10:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-07T01:11:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/07/national/crime-legal/retrial-appeal-in-79-murder-case-rejected/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-07T01:13:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No retrial: Ayako Haraguchi speaks to reporters Wednesday in the city of Kagoshima after the Kagoshima District Court rejected her appeal for a retrial in a 1979 murder case.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the mood?: Giant panda Ri Ri holds bamboo Monday at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/07/national/crime-legal/jurors-stress-fairness-of-sentences-for-rapists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-07T01:17:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harsh but fair: The Naha District Court on Friday handed down prison terms of nine and 10 years to two U.S. seamen convicted of raping a local woman.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Living tradition: Daisuke Suzuki, a sake brewer, holds a bottle of his product on Feb. 15 in front of a brewery he bought in Nagai, Yamagata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-07T01:19:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chin up: Risa Hikata (right) talks with a resident in the Kitakami district of the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/07/business/top-finance-official-eyed-for-adb-slot/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Short-listed: Takehiko Nakao, vice finance minister for international affairs and the likely candidate to replace Asian Development Bank chief Haruhiko Kuroda, is interviewed in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/07/business/toyota-aqua-stays-best-selling-car-for-fifth-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-07T01:29:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Outbound: Toyota Motor Corp. Aqua hybrid compacts await shipment at the port of Sendai in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/07/business/corporate-business/apple-offers-japanese-e-book-service/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/07/business/biz-group-going-to-china-to-mend-ties/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tea-cozy: Celebrating the Chinese new year in Beijing on Feb. 23, (from left) Keidanren Chairman Hiromasa Yonekura, China-Japan Friendship Association Chairman Tang Jiaxuan and Japanese Ambassador to China Masato Kitera drink tea. The Japan-China Economic Association, of which Yonekura is an honorary chairman, is arranging to send a delegation to Beijing later this month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fast track: Haruhiko Kuroda, Bank of Japan governor nominee, speaks during a Monday confirmation hearing in the Lower House. The Diet is likely to approve his appointment as well as that of the two proposed vice governors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/01/06/business/toyota-tops-2-million-in-north-america-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-07T15:19:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/01/06/business/japan-blue-chips-delisting-from-european-bourses/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-08T07:16:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20070921a6a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fujio Cho]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/09/19/business/u-s-court-rejects-case-against-carmakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T07:16:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/09/16/business/80-of-big-firms-see-expansion-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T07:16:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/09/15/business/toyota-plans-100-billion-domestic-assembly-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T07:16:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/09/11/business/chinese-entrepreneurs-to-gather-in-kobe-as-relations-warm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T07:16:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/09/01/business/toyota-announces-goal-of-10-million-units-in-09/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T07:16:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-08T07:22:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A maritime Self-Defense Force supply vessel (right) provides fuel to a Pakistani warship in September in the Indian Ocean.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/15/national/diet-session-extended-a-second-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T07:52:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-08T07:56:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20071204i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A countdown sign in the Bic Camera store in Yurakucho, Tokyo, last month pitches TV sets compatible with terrestrial digital broadcasting. It reads: "TVs you have now will be out of use in 1,337 days."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/11/reference/hemp-ok-as-rope-not-as-dope/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T07:58:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20071211i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Decriminalization activist and president of New Age Trading Co. Koichi Maeda shows off some edible hemp seeds at his Hemp Restaurant Asa in the Shimokitazawa area in Tokyo last month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/10/16/reference/no-tell-love-hotels-cash-in-catering-to-the-carnal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T08:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20071016i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A couple discreetly enter a love hotel in Tokyo's Dogenzaka district.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/09/25/reference/pachinko-seeks-to-shed-shady-image-as-market-shrinks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T08:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070925i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man plays pachinko at one of P-Ark Holdings' parlors in Tokyo's Ginza district last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/09/18/reference/typhoons-more-predictable-but-still-deadly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T08:04:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070918i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women brave the strong winds generated by Typhoon No. 9, which hit Hakodate on Sept. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/09/04/reference/japans-shinto-buddhist-religious-medley/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T08:07:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070904i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A buddhist saint at Enmei-ji Temple in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, and a pair of Koma-inu statues guarding Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu Shrine in nearby Kamakura symbolize Japan's two main religions.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/10/09/reference/oda-shrinking-but-still-key-tool/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T08:13:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20071009i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The National Highway in India that runs 260 km between Delhi and Jaipur ? built with official development assistance loans from Japan Bank for International Cooperation, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank ? has cut travel time between the two cities by 25 percent.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/20/reference/special-presentations/a-long-life-of-peace-that-sprung-from-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T08:14:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20071220w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An aerial photo taken in 1945 shows the industrial section along the Sumida River in Tokyo destroyed by U.S. bombing raids.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/21/national/yamadas-bill-padding-balloons-to-4-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T08:14:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/09/09/national/four-dead-babies-found-in-closet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T08:15:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-08T08:15:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20071002i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Search engines' ability to locate and index Web sites written in Japan's three primary writing systems is nothing short of a technical miracle.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/18/reference/japan-has-its-christmas-cake-and-eats-it-too/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T08:17:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20071218i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asuka Uozumi, 12, her brother, Kenta, 9, and their mother, Keiko, trim a Christmas tree during a decoration contest last December at Sheraton Grand Tokyo Bay.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/11/27/reference/japan-zeroes-in-on-homegrown-jetliner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T08:23:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/11/06/reference/sales-tax-hike-economic-cure-or-curse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T08:28:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20071106i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20071106i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Consumers may have to pay a higher consumption tax in the future.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/11/02/national/korean-hibakusha-benefit-snub-illegal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T08:33:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/11/17/national/senba-kitcho-raided-over-suspect-labeling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T08:34:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigators enter the main branch of Senba Kitcho in Chuo Ward, Osaka, during a Friday morning search prompted by the high-end restaurant chain's alleged false labeling of beef products.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/29/national/watanabe-named-new-reform-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:50:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061229a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reporters flank Yoshimi Watanabe, who was appointed as the new administrative reform minister Thursday, before his meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Prime Minister's Official Residence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/12/national/taking-a-new-look-at-wwii-soldiers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:52:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061212f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ken Watanabe (center) portrays Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi in the World War II film "Letters From Iwojima."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/06/national/tumbling-cargo-boxes-kill-one-in-crash-over-koshien/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:52:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 3-ton cargo container sits outside a ticket booth at Koshien Stadium after falling 18 meters from a truck on the Hanshin Expressway. No one was hurt on the ground, but another container from the truck killed a woman on the expressway.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/21/national/mutation-likely-behind-virus-spread/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:52:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/29/national/shibuya-garden-turns-up-body-parts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:52:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/04/national/north-okinawa-aid-to-continue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:52:46+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/18/national/annan-to-urge-japan-not-to-take-up-nuclear-arms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:53:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/12/national/ministry-to-cease-aid-for-some-elderly-homeowners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:53:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/27/national/north-korea-home-be-it-ever-so-humble-rationed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:54:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061227f3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Won Gyong and his family pose at their home in Pyongyang. On the wall are portraits of North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung, and his son and heir, Kim Jong Il.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/28/national/reform-minister-sata-exits-over-fund-snafu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:54:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061228a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Genichiro Sata announces his resignation as administrative reform minister during a news conference Wednesday at the Cabinet Office.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/06/national/pachinko-take-tied-to-north-nuke-quest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:54:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061206f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man smokes as he waits at a pedestrian crossing near a pachinko parlor in central Tokyo last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/22/national/abes-point-woman-on-abductees-firm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:55:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061222f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoko Nakayama, special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the abduction issue, speaks during an interview on Dec. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/13/national/kyushu-hansens-museum-opens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:57:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061213a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors at a new museum on Hansen's disease in Koshi, Kumamoto Prefecture, look Tuesday at a portion of a concrete wall that once surrounded the National Kikuchikeifuen Sanitarium.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/18/national/japans-excessive-fishing-of-southern-tuna-detailed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:57:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/07/national/japan-cant-stop-the-tide-of-people-unhcr-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:58:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061207f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Antonio Guterres]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/25/national/budget-gets-cabinets-ok-despite-failing-to-address-future-social-needs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:58:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20061225a4a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061225a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Koji Omi faces reporters Sunday after the Cabinet officially approved the fiscal 2007 budget.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/20/national/diplomats-file-scientific-whaling-protest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:58:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:58:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061205a6a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs gather Monday outside the Health, Welfare and Labor Ministry to demand that the government not appeal a court ruling that held it liable for failing to take adequate steps to resettle them from China after the war.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/24/national/ldp-proposes-additional-sanctions-on-n-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:58:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/09/national/kyuma-admits-tokyo-backed-iraq-attack/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:58:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/07/national/chief-justice-of-icc-lauds-japan-pledge-to-join-tribunal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:59:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/20/national/shizuoka-teens-cinch-first-high-school-english-debate-cup/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-08T09:59:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A diver inspects what appears to be a Japanese minisubmarine that took part in a daring attack in Sydney Harbor 64 years ago in this image taken from Channel 9 TV in Australia in late November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/03/national/miyazaki-governor-opts-to-lose-job-over-bid-scandal/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Miyazaki Gov. Tadahiro Ando (center) leaves the governor's official residence in the city of Miyazaki under police escort Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/03/national/train-speed-in-fatal-wreck-pinpointed/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miyazaki Prefectural Assembly members cast their votes on a no-confidence motion against Gov. Tadahiro Ando on Friday. The motion passed 40-0.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/22/national/msg-aside-ajinomoto-amino-acids-find-u-s-fans/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061222f3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuichiro Nakajima, general manager of the nutraceuticals division of Ajinomoto U.S.A. Inc., says he counts on the Americans' love of sports to market the company's amino acid supplement Amino Vital.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061221a6a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Tokyo Gov. Yukio Aoshima welcomes his gesturing successor, Shintaro Ishihara, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building in this photo taken in 1999.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/05/national/kinmirai-searched-in-fraud-probe/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061205a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers carry cardboard boxes Monday into the headquarters of Kinmirai Tsushin Inc. in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, as they search of evidence that the IP telephony company defrauded investors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/12/national/woman-gets-four-years-in-killing-of-3-year-old/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eduardo Mira Bastista, a one-time counselor at the Portuguese Embassy in Tokyo, shows off a dish at his restaurant, Portugalia, which opened in Osaka in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/12/national/six-hurt-in-edogawa-condo-fire/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-08T10:03:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061215a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito chats with Self-Defense Forces officers Thursday at a dining hall in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/10/national/american-making-film-on-filched-temple-bells/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. high school teacher Paul Creager films the Gokoku Temple bell, now housed in the Okinawa Prefectural Museum, in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/27/national/court-reversal-no-retrial-for-prisoner-condemned-in-1972/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masaru Okunishi appears in his first trial session on June 16, 1961, in connection with the slaying of five people and injury of 12 others, all of whom drank wine he allegedly poisoned at a gathering in Nabari, Mie Prefecture, earlier that year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/21/national/japans-population-to-fall-30-by-2055-study-finds/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/14/national/sex-slave-apology-annulment-eyed/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-08T10:04:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-08T10:04:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-08T10:04:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061227a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Disgraced architect Hidetsugu Aneha leaves his home Tuesday morning bound for the Tokyo District Court, which later sentenced him to five years for falsifying quake-resistance data for six buildings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/07/national/kinmirai-probe-takes-in-kddi/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080115i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kasato Maru steamer, which carried the first group of about 790 Japanese emigrants, docks at Santos port in Brazil in June 1908.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080108i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A December snow-dusted Mount Fuji, held sacred by monks, climbers, shutterbugs and Japan in general, is also a potentially dangerous volcano.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/05/reference/special-presentations/aug-13-field-draftee-fast-tracked-to-soviet-gulag/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiro Yazawa and his mother, Toyo, pose for a photo in Manchuria a year before he was drafted in August 1945.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters in polar bear outfits demonstrate during the December U.N. Climate Conference in Bali, Indonesia, where negotiations for a post-Kyoto Protocol were held.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-08T12:32:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/08/national/a-quick-blow-then-lingering-death-for-devastated-towns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T13:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130308f3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Holding on: The district of Ogatsu in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, is seen in September. Below: A bus remains stranded on the roof of Ogatsu's community center on March 23, 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/02/27/reference/special-presentations/war-exacts-top-toll-on-bottom-echelons-vet/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080227w1b.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tota Kaneko (third from left in back row) poses for a photo with fellow students at the Imperial Japanese Navy's Naval Paymasters School in Shinagawa, Tokyo, in winter 1943, then in the Truk Islands around August 1944.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese and Australian meat line the shelves at a Daimaru Peacock store in Minato Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers prosecutors and judges conduct a mock trial at the Tokyo District Court last June in preparation for the introduction of the "saiban-in" quasi-jury system next year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/04/reference/politics-in-game-of-never-ending-musical-chairs/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080304i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Democratic Party of Japan chief Ichiro Ozawa share a moment prior to their Nov. 2 talks in the Diet, where they discussed a grand coalition between the ruling and opposition camps.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/25/reference/basics-of-the-u-s-military-presence/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Military aircraft are lined up at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa, in December 2000.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/11/reference/solar-power-shines-through-as-energy-option/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080311i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp Corp.'s new solar panel, which is thinner, lighter and uses less silicon than the conventional type (left), is expected to have several applications.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/08/reference/japans-holidays-and-their-meaning/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130223p2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Make love, not hate: Iceland is famous worldwide for its Blue Lagoon hot spring — now it wants to make headlines as the first Western country to ban Internet pornography that portrays sexual activity in a violent or hateful way.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/17/national/man-gets-17-years-for-child-porn/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/05/14/national/boys-child-porn-site-nets-20-arrests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/05/01/national/child-porn-ranking-sites-targeted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/03/26/national/site-blocking-pushed-in-effort-to-halt-child-porn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/03/16/national/teacher-indicted-for-child-porn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/03/05/national/internet-access-crimes-hit-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/12/23/national/human-trafficking-plan-okd-by-cabinet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/10/07/national/japan-hit-over-child-porn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/07/national/child-porn-cases-victims-jumped-to-record-highs-in-years-first-half/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/22/national/some-ministers-slam-aso-execs-for-poll-timing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090722a5a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090722a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Feeling lucky: Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama raises his fist along with fellow lawmakers Tuesday during a meeting at DPJ headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/06/19/national/police-set-up-team-to-care-for-child-porn-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/06/16/national/nursery-chief-held-over-child-porn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/06/12/national/anything-goes-in-virtual-pornography/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/06/11/business/pc-makers-rush-to-install-chinas-filters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/06/05/national/thailand-to-try-child-porn-suspect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/06/04/national/thais-arrest-man-over-child-porn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/03/31/reference/child-porn-hard-to-define-stop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090331i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090331i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hardcore hard drives: Computer equipment confiscated in connection with child-pornography cases across Japan is displayed.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/03/13/national/npa-to-regulate-date-cafes-to-shield-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090313a3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090313a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fertile ground: Investigators raid a dating club in Kanagawa Prefecture in this undated collage.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/20/national/net-profile-sites-new-threat-to-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/18/national/web-site-seven-in-child-porn-bust/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090218a7a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090218a7a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Confiscated: Computer equipment allegedly used for selling child pornography on the Internet is displayed Tuesday at the Kojimachi Police Station in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/01/14/national/unicef-envoy-agnes-chan-to-ldp-tighten-ban-on-child-pornography/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090114b1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090114b1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking action: Agnes Chan, singer and goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, submits a petition demanding a tighter ban on child pornography to LDP Policy Research Council Chairman Kosuke Hori at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/01/07/national/server-operator-held-for-child-porn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/12/national/unicef-japan-challenges-child-porn-with-online-petition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/07/06/national/teacher-avoids-prison-for-internet-crimes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20070706a3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070706a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Parents who lost children to traffic accidents in 2005, face reporters at the Tokyo District Court after it handed a fired elementary school teacher a suspended prison term for posting on his Web site photos of their kids without their consent]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/03/national/photos-of-preteen-girls-in-thongs-now-big-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20070503f1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070503f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asuka Izumi, a "T-back junior idol," and her mother, Kotomi, pose with one of Izumi's photo books.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/30/national/swedish-queen-urges-more-action-to-fight-child-porn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/02/08/national/teacher-held-over-e-mailed-child-porn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/05/national/teachers-web-site-made-fun-of-kids-killed-in-traffic-accidents-families-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/24/national/state-let-courts-award-redress-in-criminal-trials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/03/11/national/priest-held-over-paid-sex-with-minor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/02/25/national/number-of-arrests-for-web-crimes-hits-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/01/29/national/media-national/sifting-through-the-geeks-thats-all-of-us-to-identify-the-perverts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/10/22/national/npa-plans-hotline-for-harmful-internet-content/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/01/reference/boj-finds-itself-in-unpresidented-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:02:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080401i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080401i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo in January.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/15/reference/tse-shrugs-off-pitfalls-in-quest-to-be-a-hit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:04:38+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/29/reference/pension-system-obligations-and-benefits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:14:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080429i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080429i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For the record: Pension handbooks, which track a person's payments into the public pension system, are kept in Japanese.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/08/reference/national-holidays-trace-roots-to-china-ancients-harvests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:22:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/22/reference/yellow-dust-storms-getting-worse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:25:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080422i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080422i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spring cleaning: A taxi in Fukuoka is covered with yellow dust from China last month.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/05/27/reference/law-bends-over-backward-to-allow-fuzoku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:43:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080527i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080527i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hey sailor: Two men stroll among "soapland" parlors in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, last year.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/05/20/reference/ainu-indigenous-in-every-way-but-not-by-official-fiat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:44:25+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/05/23/national/rainy-season-hits-okinawa-amami/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:54:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/05/13/reference/striving-to-mold-definition-of-convenience/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T15:56:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080513i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080513i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers shop at a new FamilyMart convenience store that also houses a Subway sandwich outlet in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/05/06/reference/finance-ministry-losing-its-luster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T16:06:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/06/03/reference/absentee-ballot-system-up-running/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T16:30:04+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080603i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080603i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Absentees: Japanese voters living in Australia turn out at the Japanese Consulate in Sydney on Aug. 31, 2005, to vote in a Lower House election held the following Sept. 11.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/06/10/reference/pawing-in-enough-to-be-a-fat-cat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T16:38:27+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/06/17/reference/how-hard-is-it-really-to-learn-japanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T16:57:43+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/07/15/reference/famed-electronics-hub-still-sparks-the-curious-bizarre/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T17:08:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080715i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080715i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[All that glitters: Tokyo's Akihabara district bustles last Thursday. The area transformed itself from the ashes of war into a mecca of electronics ? and is now a pop culture hub.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/07/01/reference/low-key-off-key-but-anyway-its-your-way/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T17:12:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080701i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080701i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singing in the rain: A customer soaks her feet in a warm "ashi-yu" foot bath while crooning at the Fioria aria blu karaoke parlor in Tokyo's Roppongi district last week.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/07/22/reference/nation-opens-its-eyes-to-audiobooks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T17:37:09+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080722i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080722i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Listen up: Audiobooks, recordings of books read out by narrators, can now be downloaded to portable music players such as Apple Inc.'s iPod. More and more people with busy lives are listening to books.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/07/29/reference/it-came-it-saw-and-it-bowled-over-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T17:43:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080729i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080729i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to the Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum in Yokohama check out ramen shops on a re-created 1958 street. Below, a bowl of soy sauce-flavored ramen is served at the restaurant Daigen in Minato Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/07/23/reference/special-presentations/veteran-sheds-hatred-finds-japan-now-like-second-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T17:44:37+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/07/02/reference/special-presentations/finding-papua-war-dead-a-vets-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T17:46:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080702w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080702w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[War trophy: Kokichi Nishimura stands in front of his house in Kazo, Saitama Prefecture. Protruding from his garden wall is a B-24 bomber's propeller that he had shipped back from Papua New Guinea.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/07/02/national/panel-formed-to-study-ainu-situation-advocate-policies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T17:52:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/07/08/reference/japans-last-frontier-took-time-to-tame-cultivate-image/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T17:54:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080708i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080708i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dual roles: A family of "tondenhei" farmer-soldiers pose in front of their house in Akkeshi, Hokkaido, in the late 1880s.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/08/19/reference/regions-not-prefectures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T18:09:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/08/26/reference/brisk-output-belies-crisis-facing-publishing-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T18:13:37+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080826i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080826i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Browsing the shelves: Customers check out magazines at the Toranomon Shobo bookstore in Minato Ward, Tokyo, last week.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/09/02/reference/against-high-odds-masses-chase-luck/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T18:38:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080902i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080902i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chasing dreams: A crowd is on hand to buy Summer Jumbo lottery tickets at booths in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district in July.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/09/15/national/aso-has-commanding-lead-with-50-7-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-08T18:40:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police raid an office Wednesday in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, as part of searches around Japan in connection with an alleged senior member of the al-Qaeda terrorist network.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wanted: Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, which has forced thousands of children to become soldiers and sex slaves in Uganda and Congo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oral contraceptives manufactured by eight Japanese pharmaceutical companies are shown at the Oral Contraceptives Information Center in Tokyo recently.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The gutted house of Yasutaka Fujishiro, suspected of murdering seven people early Monday in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture, sits between those of the victims, labeled above as (1) and (2).]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuhiro Imamura, an assistant professor of Japanese language at Hitotsubashi University, holds a hardcover version of "What Happens Before War?" in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiko Takahama, widow of the captain of Japan Airlines Flight 123, prays Thursday at a grave set up for the 520 who died when the plane crashed on Mount Osutaka in Gunma Prefecture 19 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers board a Tohoku Shinkansen Line train at JR Tokyo Station as the Bon holiday outbound rush hits its peak.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students and crew of the Ehime Maru take part in a welcoming ceremony at Honolulu port.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-09T09:14:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The captain of the North Korean freighter Suyangsan, stranded off Toyama port, responds to a question from aboard the vessel.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/06/07/national/police-chief-eyed-for-security-job/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-09T09:15:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-09T09:16:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-09T09:16:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/06/15/national/train-track-deaths-apparently-suicide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-09T09:17:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators examine  train tracks in the city of Yao, Osaka Prefecture, early Saturday after three people were hit by a train in an apparent suicide pact.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/06/01/national/typhoon-loses-some-of-its-sting/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuri Yoshikawa, missing since May 20, is seen in this undated photo provided by her family.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/06/01/national/big-issue-kansai-magazine-to-help-homeless-help-themselves/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/11/07/national/illusory-promise-of-freeways-exacts-a-toll/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuyo Yamazaki holds up a mock "toll-free" expressway ticket at his office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2002/09/15/national/kansai-who-what/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hazardous smog: A computer projection by Kyushu University associate professor Toshihiko Takemura shows the spread of PM2.5 as of midnight Friday. Red zones indicate higher density.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A yellow haze settles over Osaka as dust from China and Mongolia blows into town.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No place to go: Debris from the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami is processed at a temporary storage facility in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in February.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Question of safety: Japan Nuclear Safety Institute Chairman Shojiro Matsuura fields questions during an interview at his office in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on March 1.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hurting: A supporter of Republican Sen. John McCain dresses as Joe the Plumber at a presidential election rally in Roanoke, Virginia, in October 2008.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Byron Nuclear Generating Station]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kingmakers: Key figures in the Liberal Democratic Party faction led by former Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura played major roles in the rise of Taro Aso (lower right) to the LDP presidency last month. They are (clockwise from top left) Hidenao Nakagawa, Yoshiro Mori, Machimura and Shinzo Abe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/1999/09/01/national/new-car-sales-down-for-29th-month-in-row/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reason to smile: Economist Hiroko Ota, who served as minister for economic and fiscal policy between 2006 and 2008, has been picked as struggling Panasonic Corp.'s first female director.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With them in spirit: A South Korean woman at a temporary housing unit in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, holds handmade Jizo deities dedicated to the students at Okawa Elementary School who were killed by the 2011 tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Futenma plan stands: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses the Lower House Budget Committee on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yellow haze: Tokyo Skytree is barely visible through the dust Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Read all about it: An Iwate Nippo official hands out an extra Monday in front of Matsuyama Station in Ehime Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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