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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime minister Junichiro Koizumi prays Monday in front of the altar of the main chamber at Yasukuni Shrine.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crisis manager: Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan delivers a videotaped message to a symposium on the Fukushima nuclear crisis during the conference in New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Survivors: Students from the Tohoku region sing as U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos (front right) and other guests watch at the conclusion of the "BEYOND Tomorrow Global Leadership Academy 2013" forum at the Tokyo American Club on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense strategy: A Lockheed Martin plant in Fort Worth, Texas, where an F-35 is under production. Lockheed Martin has spread work on the fighter jet across 45 states, which in turn has generated broad bipartisan support on Capitol Hill.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Calculated risk: Gakushuin University professor Kikuo Iwata, a candidate for the next Bank of Japan deputy governor, speaks at an Upper House committee session Tuesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Birds and the bears: Ueno Zoo's giant pandas, female Shin Shin and male Ri Ri, both 7, are seen mating Monday evening. Officials at the Tokyo zoo confirmed the pair mated again Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deep connection: Students form the Japanese character "kizuna," meaning bonds between people, during a Monday ceremony in Indonesia's Aceh Province to commemorate the second anniversary of the March 11 Tohoku quake and tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sunny side up: Japan's proposal to cut the price paid for solar power by 10 percent leaves in place incentives for a boom in installations this year, according to an advisory group to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Making a difference: Naoko and Hajime Ishii stand at the entrance of Magonote Clinic in the Ogatsu district of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-13T00:06:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marching orders: Honda Motor Co. vehicles await shipment in the port of Yokohama in January. Business sentiment at large companies is believed to have improved in the first quarter of 2013 thanks to a weaker yen and higher stock prices, the government said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-13T00:46:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-13T00:47:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/13/business/economy-business/seabed-gas-extraction-first-of-its-kind-meti/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-13T00:47:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hot commodity: Methane gas extracted from undersea methane hydrate burns Tuesday in waters off Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-13T00:48:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[web3 protest-a 20130313]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unyielding: Farm and related consumer lobbyists stage a rally Tuesday in the outdoor amphitheater in Tokyo's Hibiya Park to protest Japan's pending participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/13/national/warming-bill-to-ax-long-term-emissions-goal/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/13/national/japan-plans-%c2%a510-trillion-plus-fiscal-2013-stopgap-budget/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-13T00:49:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2002/04/19/national/obituaries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-13T11:20:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-13T11:26:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[BOJ Gov. Masaru Hayami speaks to reporters at the Bank of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-13T12:47:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/03/18/business/economic-assessment-upgraded/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-13T12:54:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/03/06/business/boj-leaves-monetary-policy-unchanged/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-13T13:06:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-13T15:40:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-13T16:07:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-13T16:07:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-13T16:19:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-13T17:23:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-13T17:34:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-13T18:16:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-13T18:18:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/13/business/economy-business/carmakers-cite-abe-in-bonus-pay-decisions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-13T21:53:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In writing: A Japan Council of Metalworkers' Unions official writes down the results of spring wage negotiations on a whiteboard in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/14/national/welfare-recipients-hit-all-time-high/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vindication: Plaintiffs hold a "victory" sign Wednesday after the Yamaguchi District Court ruled against Mazda Motor Corp.'s handling of temp staff.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/14/national/hiroshima-nagasaki-protest-u-s-tests-on-plutonium-properties/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All ears: U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listens during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats Tuesday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-14T01:50:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Milking it: A camel grazes outside a market in Doha last month. Sales of camel milk are surging in Karachi, Pakistan, with some proclaiming it "the world's next superfood."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2002/03/09/business/foreigners-turn-net-buyers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-14T12:01:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hazard pay: A worker at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex gets a radiation reading of 114 microsieverts per hour on March 6 near reactor 4, which stands surrounded by cranes next to the concrete foundations for a storage facility for melted fuel rods.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nariaki Nakayama]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shared concerns: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa meets Thursday with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Collared: Around 90 high school girls' uniforms and jerseys confiscated from the home of Yasushi Uehara, 40, are displayed by the Kanagawa Prefectural Police.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Most reputable: High school students tour the University of Tokyo campus in Bunkyo Ward in January. The institution placed ninth in this year's Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, remaining the most prestigious university in Asia.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A job fair for Saudi students in Japan is held in Tokyo on March 12, with 30 companies and 190 students attending.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/16/business/corporate-business/orix-might-issue-new-shares-to-fund-mas-ceo/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking to buy: Yoshihiko Miyauchi, chairman and CEO of Orix Corp., is interviewed Monday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/16/national/tomodachi-program-lets-youths-dream-anew/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moving on: Tohoku residents Ayako Ogawa, Atsuko Arimoto and Minori Endo pose at an event held by the Beyond Tomorrow Global Fund for Education Assistance program in Tokyo on March 9.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/16/business/economy-business/economic-assessment-upgraded-for-a-third-month/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/16/national/jta-heralds-start-of-10-million-tourists-a-year-era/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-16T00:24:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With taste: Ho Su Hwei (center) from Taiwan receives the Delicious category award for her picture for the Share Your Wow! — Japan Photo Contest hosted by the Japan Tourism Agency on Friday in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/16/national/science-health/seismometer-takes-on-seas-deepest-quakes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-16T00:25:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All change: Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa (left) will be succeeded next week by Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda, after his nomination to head the central bank was approved Friday by the Diet.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The nuclear option: U.S. Ambassador to Japan Douglas MacArthur II in 1958 told U.S. government officials that then-Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi (left) and Vice Foreign Minister Hisanari Yamada were exploring the possiblity of Japan acquiring "defensive" nuclear weapons, newly unclassified documents show.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Setsu Kobayashi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/06/national/history/52-coup-plot-bid-to-rearm-japan-cia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070306f3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida gives a speech June 10, 1954, in Tokyo. Declassified documents reveal that ultranationalists with ties to U.S. military intelligence plotted to overthrow the government and assassinate Yoshida in 1952.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/08/12/national/history/generals-foiled-aug-15-palace-coup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20050812f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeshi Mori (above) and Shizuichi Tanaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/08/11/national/history/pair-want-reporters-pulitzer-for-45-story-on-a-bomb-revoked/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20050804f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo listens as his death sentence is read aloud on Nov. 12, 1948, at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/05/01/national/history/the-only-woman-in-the-room-who-helped-to-reshape-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/11/08/national/history/u-s-mulled-using-emperor-in-wartime-propaganda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/01/14/national/history/zero-inspired-todays-innovations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20040114b6a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoichi Nakagawa (center), former Nissan Motor Co. senior managing director and designer of the wartime Zero fighter's 14-cylinder, twin-row Sakae-21 radial engine, stands next to his protege, Shinichiro Sakurai (right), who developed components for the Skyline car models.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/04/30/national/history/japan-occupation-turned-foes-into-friends/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20030430b6a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur reviews more than 15,000 troops of the Occupation from all over Japan at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on July 4, 1949.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2002/08/11/national/history/macarthur-feared-japan-war-via-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2001/08/30/national/history/a-half-century-of-media-pigeonholing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2001/05/11/national/history/woman-drafter-of-constitution-calls-for-action/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2001/04/16/national/history/macarthurs-honor-guard-returns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2000/09/30/national/history/macarthur-honor-guard-to-fete-his-exit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2000/07/02/national/history/japanese-american-war-unit-honored/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:54+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2000/06/28/national/history/chinas-korean-war-pows-find-you-cant-go-home-again/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:56+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2000/05/04/national/history/macarthur-pondered-showa-conversion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T09:21:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2001/09/06/national/two-panels-created-on-diplomacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:24:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/28/national/history/russia-to-provide-records-of-japanese-pows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/21/national/history/aussies-get-data-on-4500-pows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/03/04/national/history/maehara-apologizes-to-aussie-ex-pows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/02/25/national/history/ex-pow-seeks-rail-firms-apology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110225f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fighting to the end: Lester Tenney, 90, a former American prisoner of war, and his wife, Betty, meet in September with then California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in San Diego to solicit a call from him for Japanese firms to apologize to former POWs.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/08/08/national/history/kanagawa-allied-pow-cemetery-rites-held/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/05/25/national/history/british-pow-kept-in-touch-with-japanese-camp-guard-for-64-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/12/11/national/history/british-towns-seniors-oppose-sister-city-plans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/11/19/national/history/demons-still-haunt-christian-soldier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20091119w1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20091119w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Onward: Ryozo Watabe, 86, in his home in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, in October, talks about his experiences as a Christian who was sent to war.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/02/national/history/allied-pow-war-dead-honored-in-yokohama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/25/national/history/moscow-finds-gulag-records-on-760000-japanese-pows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090725a3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090725a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Home sweet home: Japanese imprisoned in Soviet labor camps after World War II arrive in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, in December 1946 on the first ship to return from Siberia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/10/national/history/u-s-navy-pilot-registered-as-a-bomb-victim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090710a6a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090710a6a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Hantschel]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/06/19/national/history/pair-seek-pow-apology-from-aso/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090619a3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090619a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Not to badger: Ex-Australian POW Joseph Coombs holds up an Aso Corp. lapel pin Thursday in Tokyo that the firm gave him when he visited its Fukuoka base.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/05/31/national/history/kin-of-aso-mine-workers-demand-apology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090531a5a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090531a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[James McAnulty]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/05/21/national/history/apologize-on-record-ex-pow-urges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/04/25/national/history/aussie-pows-seek-apology-from-aso/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/07/national/history/aso-mining-pows-seek-redress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090207a2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090207a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Slave laborers: Arthur Gigger (second row, fifth from left) poses in late August 1945 with other Australian POWs who had been put to work at a company run by Prime Minister Taro Aso's family.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/05/national/history/sketches-stories-depict-horrors-of-pow-camps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090205a7a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090205a7a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haunting: Former British POW Jack Chalker has published a book containing sketches of his fellow Allied POWs in Japanese prison camps.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/04/national/history/red-cross-group-back-in-japan-after-60-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:39+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/01/07/national/history/ministry-pulled-protest-to-nyt-over-family-mine-pow-claim-aso/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/12/19/national/history/its-official-aso-family-mine-used-pow-labor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/11/14/national/history/aso-what-pow-servitude/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/11/13/national/history/dutch-pow-to-receive-a-bomb-health-benefits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/11/07/national/history/pows-diary-reveals-life-in-camp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20081107f1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20081107f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rediscovering the past: David Moreton holds up the diary and a photo of his grandfather, Albert, during an interview with The Japan Times in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/10/17/national/history/britain-covered-up-japan-massacre-of-pows-bbc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/09/26/national/history/dutch-pows-seek-a-bomb-benefits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080926a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Survivors: Former Dutch prisoners of war Ronald Scholte (right) and Armand Busselaar file applications Thursday for government recognition as sufferers of radiation-induced illnesses caused by the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/09/21/national/history/dutch-pows-eye-a-bomb-recognition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/09/12/national/history/pows-of-japan-seek-u-s-compensation/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080912a8a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Still fighting: American veterans held as prisoners of war by Japan during World War II hold a news conference Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/08/03/national/history/respects-paid-to-allied-soldiers-in-yokohama-who-died-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With respect: People gather at Yokohama Commonwealth War Cemetery on Saturday for an annual memorial service for soldiers of the British Commonwealth and other Allied nations who died in Japan during World War II.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/16/national/history/storyteller-murakami-plumbs-depths-of-the-soul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/24/national/history/tree-goes-up-for-70th-christmas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20071224f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Warren Nobuaki Iwatake and his wife, Emiko, put the final touches on an artificial Christmas tree in their Tokyo home earlier this month. Iwatake's family has brought the tree out every Christmas for the past 70 years, even when that meant risking arrest.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/13/national/history/nanjing-massacre-certitude-toll-will-elude/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:35:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/07/27/national/history/is-blunt-speaking-aso-next-act-after-abe/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/02/national/history/u-s-professor-recalls-bataan-death-march-horror/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:36:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/03/31/national/history/debate-rages-on-world-heritage-status-for-wartime-burma-railway/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:36:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/01/04/national/history/atlee-sought-quick-end-to-war-notes/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/08/09/national/history/visiting-u-k-students-compare-notes-on-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-03-17T10:36:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Read my lips: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses the Liberal Democratic Party's annual convention in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suite spot: The Hotel Washe in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, is one of four hotel properties managed by Comuei Inc. with money collected by Initia Star Securities Inc.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Overstock: Unsold 2010 Toyota Prius cars sit on the lot of a Seattle dealership Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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