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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Li Ying, Chinese director of the documentary film "Yasukuni," faces reporters Thursday afternoon in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/08/national/official-defends-yasukuni-screening-for-lawmakers/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/04/national/osaka-theater-to-screen-yasukuni/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A poster for the documentary "Yasukuni" hangs inside the Seventh Art Theater in Yodogawa Ward, Osaka, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/02/national/yasukuni-cinema-snub-not-ldp-fault-machimura/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:20:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/24/business/chinese-frozen-foodand-frigid-bilateral-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:20:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/23/national/cherry-blossom-season-off-to-early-start-in-tokyo-shizuoka-kumamoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:20:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/19/national/t-joy-cinema-nixes-yasukuni-premiere/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:20:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/15/national/guide-to-top-urban-cherry-blossom-viewing-spots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:20:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/13/national/ldp-ranks-given-yasukuni-preview/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:20:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/02/28/national/seoul-ties-thawing-but-can-always-get-cold/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:20:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/02/26/national/seoul-agrees-to-summits-fta-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:20:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is greeted by new South Korean President Lee Myung Bak on Monday at the National Assembly in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/02/07/national/molotov-man-slices-self-at-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:20:30+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/19/national/ambassador-upbeat-on-gas-row-progress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:20:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cui Tiankai sits down for an interview Friday at the embassy in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/27/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-so-far-soothing-u-s-fears-says-ex-envoy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:22:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tom Schieffer]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/23/national/redress-urged-for-east-timor-sex-slave-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:22:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/21/national/politics-diplomacy/for-abe-overcoming-perceptions-top-job-at-obama-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:22:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All ears: U.S. President Barack Obama holds a meeting in the Oval Office last Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/16/national/tojos-granddaughter-yuko-dies-at-73/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:22:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuko Tojo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/15/national/history/abe-risks-much-with-sex-slave-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:22:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ringing the alarm bell: Kazuhiko Togo, former chief of the Foreign Ministry's European and Oceanic Affairs Bureau, speaks during an interview in Tokyo in Jan. 14.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/01/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-says-he-feels-war-sex-slaves-pain-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:22:46+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/28/national/abe-opens-diet-skips-hawkish-rhetoric/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:22:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traditional touch: Lawmakers participate in the opening ceremony for the Diet on Monday in the Upper House. About 80 members of a nonpartisan parliamentary group promoting the use of kimono attended the first session.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/18/national/new-york-politicians-draft-resolutions-seeking-comfort-women-apology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:22:49+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/16/national/media-national/japan-loses-its-cool-as-south-korea-heats-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:22:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20121216bja.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Psyche out: South Korean pop sensation Psy, performing for fans in Sydney on Oct. 17, 2012. The singer's "Gangnam Style" is mega hit around the world but has largely gone unnoticed in Japan, where the popularity of Korean acts is waning in the wake of the dispute over the Takeshima Islands.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/11/04/national/u-n-prods-japan-on-sex-slaves-gallows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:02+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/29/national/sex-slave-resolution-issued-in-seoul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:04+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/26/national/ishihara-also-seeking-october-senkaku-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20120826a6a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shintaro Ishihara]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/25/national/on-sex-slaves-hashimoto-on-same-page-as-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20120825a4a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Color of discontent: Korea Liberation Association members take part in an anti-Japan rally outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Thursday. The banner reads: "Demand an apology and compensation for the wartime sex slaves from the Japanese government."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/23/national/no-evidence-sex-slaves-were-taken-by-military-hashimoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/19/national/media-national/serious-island-negotiations-long-overdue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flag waving: South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (left) during a surprise visit Aug. 10 to the disputed islands called Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/29/national/photog-calls-on-nikon-to-stand-up-to-rightists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20120629a4a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20120629a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Do the right thing: Photographer Ahn Se Hong poses in front of his photographs of former sex slaves at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/26/national/exhibition-portrays-okinawas-wartime-sex-slaves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Domestic atrocity: Visitors view photos on wartime sex slavery in Okinawa at an exhibition Saturday at the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/29/national/various-reasons-halted-sex-slave-exhibit-nikon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/12/national/bangkok-police-arrest-man-for-trafficking-thai-sex-slaves-to-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/21/national/possible-remains-of-japanese-found-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:17+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/01/25/national/genba-wants-china-in-loop-with-u-s-firm-on-takeshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:18+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/26/national/lee-to-visit-for-noda-parley-in-december/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/09/29/national/activists-seek-sex-slave-resolution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/09/09/national/seoul-to-seek-sex-slave-redress-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/08/24/national/japans-filipino-wartime-sex-slaves-tell-their-story-in-documentary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20110824f3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110824f3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speaking out: Virginia Vielaruma, 80, a former sex slave of Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during the war, demonstrates with other victims in Manila on Aug. 11. She appears in the documentary "Katarungan! Justice for Lolas!"]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/08/25/national/exhibit-shows-struggle-of-comfort-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:25+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/02/11/national/former-sex-slaves-demand-apology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:26+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/11/24/national/documentary-puts-in-perspective-hirohito-and-a-turbulent-century/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20091124f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Weighty moment: Emperor Hirohito waves to a crowd during a visit in 1947 to a bombed-out Hiroshima in this scene from the documentary "The Emperor and the Army."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/10/29/national/comfort-women-bill-gets-new-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/20/national/media-national/the-forgotten-dpj-promise-on-womens-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/07/07/reference/nhk-a-fount-of-info-a-lot-of-it-from-the-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20090707i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20090707i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Info central: NHK, Japan's sole public broadcaster, is headquartered in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo. The building includes major studios and NHK's main news center as well as the office of NHK World.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/11/12/national/taipei-demands-redress-apology-for-sex-slaves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/11/11/national/tamogami-history-again-retold/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20081111a4a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20081111a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unapologetic: Former Air Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Gen. Toshio Tamogami faces reporters last week after being dismissed for a controversial essay on Japan's wartime role.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/11/01/national/u-n-rights-panel-urges-japan-to-end-capital-punishment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:23:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/09/27/national/tourism-minister-apologizes-for-gaffes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080927a2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080927a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apologetic: Tourism minister Nariaki Nakayama apologizes Friday in Tokyo for insensitive remarks he made Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/09/08/national/cenotaph-unveiled-for-wartime-sex-slaves-on-miyako-island/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080908a3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080908a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa memorial: South Korean women take part in a ceremony Sunday to unveil a cenotaph commemorating wartime sex slaves on Miyako Island, Okinawa.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/07/11/national/exhibit-on-wartime-sex-slaves-showing-in-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080711f2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080711f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honoring the victims: The Women's Active Museum on War and Peace in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, hosts a special exhibition on sex slavery during the war.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080626f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[English teacher Chie Miyagi]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/06/22/national/media-national/how-can-the-press-be-free-if-its-used-as-a-public-relations-tool/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:07+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/06/20/national/sex-slaves-became-navy-nurses-after-surrender/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/06/13/national/nhk-censorship-ruling-reversed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/05/16/national/sex-slaves-struggle-to-keep-plight-in-focus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080516f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking for closure: Wartime sex slave Kang Il Chul stands in the courtyard of Sharing House, a commune and museum in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, for former "comfort women."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/05/10/national/booklet-on-sexual-slavery-printed-to-fill-omissions-in-history-texts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080510f3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atrocity in brief: "Field Work — `Comfort Women' of the Japanese Army," is a pamphlet detailing the wartime sexual slavery perpetrated by the Imperial Japanese Army.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/20/national/asian-activists-slam-revote-on-sex-slave-resolution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080214f3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Editors of Japonesia Review, a biannual English-language magazine, work on the fourth edition at the office of the People's Plan Study Group in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/02/14/national/east-timor-set-to-hold-exhibition-on-comfort-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/13/national/media-national/media-pundits-ponder-japans-prospects-for-year-ahead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:16+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/09/national/clear-apology-to-sex-slaves-demanded/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20080109a4a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080109a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mike Honda]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/27/national/a-last-hurrah-at-some-of-the-years-political-howlers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20071227f1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20071227f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shintaro Ishihara]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/21/national/supreme-court-hints-at-change-in-nhk-sex-slave-censorship-ruling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/11/28/national/military-forced-okinawa-mass-suicides/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/11/11/national/dutch-lower-house-oks-resolution-on-sex-slaves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/11/09/national/u-s-got-abe-to-drop-denial-over-sex-slaves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:25+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/10/30/reference/textbook-screening-not-always-on-same-page/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20071030i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20071030i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Okinawa resident, part of a group of political leaders and activists from the prefecture, reads out a newspaper report at a textbook publisher's office in Tokyo about the Sept. 29 rally in Okinawa protesting the government's March textbook screening order.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/09/28/national/web-site-documents-wartime-sex-slaves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/09/20/national/aussie-sex-slave-resolution-fails/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/08/03/national/manila-art-exhibit-interrupts-sex-slave-trauma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:31+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/08/01/national/resolution-irks-right-wing-but-wont-harm-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20070801a2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070801a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Yong Soo, a South Korean who was forced into sexual servitude at Japanese military brothels, expresses satisfaction Monday over the passage of a U.S. House of Representatives resolution rapping Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/07/14/national/conservatives-want-u-s-reps-to-kill-apology-motion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:34+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/07/14/national/u-s-sex-slave-resolution-about-human-rights-not-japan-bashing-honda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/06/28/national/supporters-laud-u-s-motion-on-comfort-women-as-first-step/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/06/28/national/u-s-panel-oks-sex-slave-resolution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20070628a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070628a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Michael Honda thanks his colleagues after the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee passed a resolution in Washington]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/06/22/national/u-s-congress-sex-slave-resolution-will-harm-ties-japan-envoy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/06/12/national/nakayama-joins-race-for-house-of-councilors-seat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/04/01/national/media-national/from-comedian-to-politician-an-easy-step-for-miyazakis-governor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/31/national/texts-stop-saying-army-forced-okinawa-suicides/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/30/national/abe-is-petitioned-to-extend-unequivocal-sex-slave-apology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/25/national/media-national/nhk-upholds-freedom-of-the-press-so-long-as-it-doesnt-annoy-anyone-with-its-content/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/24/national/u-s-resolution-on-japan-sex-slavery-up-for-vote-in-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/21/national/no-common-history-view-with-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/20/reference/were-they-teen-rape-slaves-or-paid-pros/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/18/national/comfort-women-military-rape-victims-schieffer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070318a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer, seen in this July 2005 file photo taken in Tokyo, told reporters Friday the wartime "comfort women" were raped by the Japanese forces.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/17/national/state-mum-on-nakasones-war-brothel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/17/national/abe-pressed-again-on-sex-slavery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/15/national/gov-sonomanma-what-sex-slaves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:57+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/15/national/u-s-resolution-on-sex-slaves-not-bid-to-shame-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:25:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070315a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eni Faleomavaega, a Democrat from American Samoa and head of a House Foreign Affairs Committee panel, speaks on the pending resolution on Japan's wartime sex slavery during a Tuesday interview in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/12/national/aso-backs-ldp-reinvestigation-of-wartime-brothels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:26:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/11/national/sex-slave-history-erased-from-texts-93-apology-next/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:26:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/11/national/media-national/female-foreigners-are-ok-in-japan-so-long-as-theyre-not-asian/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:26:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/09/national/abe-endorses-ldp-probe-into-wartime-sex-slaves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:26:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/09/national/sex-slave-funds-work-is-done-or-not/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:26:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20070309b2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asian Women]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/28/national/seoul-tells-abe-to-address-japans-history/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ban Ki Moon]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/28/national/white-house-hails-abe-hopes-he-mends-asia-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:26:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/28/national/populist-unambiguous-koizumi-tough-act-to-follow/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe, accompanied by his predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, raises a fist after winning the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election on Sept. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/28/national/abe-will-mend-asian-fences-shiozaki-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:26:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:26:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (front row, third from right) poses with his Cabinet at the Prime Minister's Official Residence after an attestation ceremony at the Imperial Palace on Tuesday evening.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/27/national/south-korea-urges-abe-to-develop-future-oriented-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:26:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/27/national/new-lineup-a-good-indicator-where-policy-emphasis-will-be/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:26:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/26/national/abe-may-be-ozawas-target-of-opportunity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:26:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20060926b2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Ozawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/26/national/ethnic-minorities-hope-for-better-life-post-koizumi/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20060926f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese-Brazilian kids learn Portuguese earlier this month at a weekend class run by the nonprofit organization Grupo ABC.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/26/national/success-elusive-so-far-in-china-summit-talks/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/24/national/talks-open-with-china-to-lay-summit-groundwork/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/22/national/inexperience-closer-u-s-china-ties-to-limit-abe-expert/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20060922a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gerald Curtis]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20060921a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe bows to Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers Wednesday after being chosen party president.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/18/national/n-korea-seen-as-japans-biggest-threat/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/16/national/next-leader-should-shun-shrine-u-s-lawmakers/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/15/national/abe-holds-tongue-on-japans-war-deeds/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa, president of the Democratic Party of Japan, speaks Wednesday during an interview with The Japan Times in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Three candidates in the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential race (from left to right) -- Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, Foreign Minister Taro Aso and Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki -- are shown at an LDP regional convention in Nagoya on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:26:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe gives an interview Wednesday at the prime minister's office.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/07/national/abes-conservative-lineage-runs-deep/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:26:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Richard Armitage]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/04/national/yasukuni-rejects-officer-killed-in-korean-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:26:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/04/national/seoul-willing-to-resume-summits-with-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:26:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man takes a photo of his son in the public information center at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka Camp in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, during a Hato Bus military tour on Aug. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:27:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Aso faces reporters Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/22/national/aso-declares-candidacy-for-ldp-race/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Aso faces reporters Monday morning outside his home in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, ahead of officially declaring his candidacy for the Liberal Democratic Party presidential race later in the day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/21/national/chinese-official-raps-koizumi-but-says-dialogue-will-continue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:27:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/21/national/time-to-discuss-shrines-fate-ldps-katayama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:27:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/20/national/following-arson-attack-kato-warns-of-dangerous-nationalism-emerging/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koichi Kato]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:27:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:27:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:27:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/08/national/abe-firm-coercion-not-proved/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/08/national/abe-eyes-new-probe-into-sex-slaves-in-war-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/07/national/keep-helping-ex-sex-slaves-murayama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/06/national/no-new-sex-slave-apology-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks Monday in a House of Councilors Budget Committee session.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/05/national/abe-will-stand-by-1993-sex-slave-apology-aide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/04/national/soldier-confirms-wartime-sex-slavery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/03/national/sex-slaves-coerced-u-s-rep-honda-says-in-abe-rebuttal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/02/22/national/recognize-us-and-apologize-ex-wartime-sex-slave-tells-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/02/20/national/aso-u-s-resolution-on-sex-slaves-groundless/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/02/15/national/u-s-resolution-on-sex-slave-apology-bad-for-ties-kato/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members and supporters of Violence Against Women in War-Network Japan celebrate in front of the Tokyo High Court on Monday after NHK and two production companies were ordered to pay damages to the nongovernmental group.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/02/national/china-filmmaker-finds-wartime-sex-slaves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guo Xi Cui speaks about being a sex slave to the Imperial Japanese Army in this still taken from the film "Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters." At left is an illustration of Hou Dong E, known as "Gai Shanxi," in her 20s.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/09/national/u-s-democrat-victory-may-mean-heat-for-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A salesman adjusts TV screens Wednesday at a Kimuraya electronics store in Tokyo as re-elected U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., appears in an interview.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/07/national/pundits-try-to-guess-first-trip/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/31/national/last-of-district-court-level-sex-slave-lawsuits-fails/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/03/16/national/nhk-to-take-on-global-broadcast-giants/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Park Geun Hye, leader of South Korea's Grand National Party, the main opposition force, is greeted by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the Prime Minister's Official Residence in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/12/24/national/pyongyang-may-resolve-abduction-question-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/11/25/national/ex-sex-slaves-art-on-show-depicting-wartime-atrocities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman looks at paintings by former "comfort women" depicting their experiences in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/11/06/national/1905-treaty-paving-way-to-annexing-korea-illegal-scholars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/10/30/national/japan-urged-to-give-reparations-to-war-sex-slaves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/09/21/national/nhk-fee-boycott-to-tune-of-50-billion-yen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20050921a7a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Genichi Hashimoto, president of NHK, announces the public broadcaster's revival plan at its headquarters in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/08/25/national/translations-of-disputed-texts-on-web/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/08/13/national/550000-name-sex-slave-petition-for-koizumi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators for former sex slaves gather in front of the offices of Diet members in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, earlier this week, holding pictures of deceased victims and signs demanding the government compensate for the hardships of the sex slaves.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/07/16/national/japans-sexual-slavery-focus-of-museum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace, Japan's first resource center on wartime sexual slavery, prepare for its Aug. 1 launch at its library in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/06/30/national/u-s-court-rejects-sex-slaves-suit-against-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/06/28/national/emperor-pays-respects-to-saipan-war-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/06/15/national/did-nakayama-apologize-over-sex-slave-gaffe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/06/11/national/gaps-dog-history-study-with-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated file photo shows the former headquarters of the Government-General of Chosen (Korea) in Seoul. The building was dismantled in 1996.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/04/16/national/common-sense-solutions-floated-to-ease-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20050416f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomoyuki Kojima]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/04/01/national/former-chinese-sex-slaves-kin-denied-damages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/01/26/national/nhk-boss-exits-as-viewers-stop-paying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20050126a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsuji Ebisawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/01/25/national/fund-for-comfort-women-to-draw-to-a-close-in-2007/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20050125a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama announces the termination of a fund for former "comfort women" in two years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/01/23/national/media-national/ldp-big-guns-fight-nhk-censorship-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/01/15/national/nhk-closes-ranks-against-asahi-whistle-blower/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/01/14/national/nhk-censored-tv-show-due-to-political-pressure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/12/16/national/high-court-convenes-snubs-sex-slave-appeal-calls-it-a-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20041216a8a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liu Mianhuan voices her anger after the Tokyo High Court dismissed a lawsuit by her and three other Chinese former sex slaves.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/12/07/national/revisionist-text-author-to-join-saitama-education-board/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/12/04/national/hosoda-apologizes-to-former-sex-slaves-for-wartime-acts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/11/30/national/top-court-nixes-sex-slave-korean-vet-suit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20041130a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Jung Im (left) and Yang Soon In, daughters of South Korean soldiers who were forced to work for the Japanese military during World War II, express their outrage Monday in front of the Supreme Court after their damages suit was rejected.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/08/27/national/board-oks-nationalist-bent-history-text-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Tokyo metropolitan board of education meet in Tokyo to approve the use of a history textbook written by a nationalist group for use at a new junior high school in Taito Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/08/27/national/board-oks-nationalist-bent-history-text/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20040827a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Tokyo metropolitan board of education meet in Tokyo to approve the use of a history textbook written by a nationalist group for use at a new junior high school in Taito Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/08/12/national/nanjing-war-brothels-fate-uncertain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:29:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/02/10/national/court-rejects-former-sex-slaves-plea-for-damages-government-apology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20040210a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former sex slaves from Taiwan and a relative of a deceased former plaintiff address the media after the Tokyo High Court dismissed their appeal for an apology and compensation from the Japanese government.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/10/18/national/japan-abducted-200000-sex-slaves-pyongyang-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/08/24/national/media-national/keeping-abreast-of-the-boob-tubes-favorite-idols/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/07/02/national/students-conclude-japan-should-learn-from-its-brutal-past/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/19/national/politics-diplomacy/china-has-only-one-test-for-japans-next-leader-yasukuni/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/18/national/politics-diplomacy/jcg-foils-senkaku-landing-try/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:23+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/18/national/politics-diplomacy/yasukuni-issue-poses-headache-for-china-too/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/17/national/politics-diplomacy/man-found-in-katos-house-a-rightist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20060817a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters and police examine the remains of the home of Lower House member Koichi Kato Wednesday morning. The house burned to the ground in a suspected arson.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/17/national/politics-diplomacy/last-shrine-trip-ok-but-not-next-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/16/national/politics-diplomacy/defiant-koizumi-visits-yasukuni/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is led by a Shinto priest at Yasukuni Shrine after paying his respects at the main altar early Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/16/national/politics-diplomacy/koizumi-visit-quick-but-so-is-protest-outcry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/16/national/politics-diplomacy/stubborn-maverick-makes-good-on-promise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men dressed in wartime military uniforms play bugles at Yasukuni Shrine to pay respects to the nation's war dead Tuesday, the 61st anniversary of the day Japan surrendered.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/16/national/politics-diplomacy/rightists-hold-the-line-despite-a-series-of-recent-setbacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/16/national/politics-diplomacy/prime-ministers-yasukuni-visits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/16/national/politics-diplomacy/china-south-korea-lodge-protests-yet-again/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/16/national/politics-diplomacy/enshrine-the-war-criminals-at-a-separate-site-nakasone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/15/national/politics-diplomacy/seoul-beijing-deny-report-that-one-trip-to-shrine-ok/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/13/national/politics-diplomacy/china-s-korea-to-accept-one-shrine-visit-by-next-leader/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/12/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-lauds-koizumi-but-hopes-successor-skips-shrine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/12/national/politics-diplomacy/china-weapons-cleanup-requires-five-more-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/12/national/politics-diplomacy/kin-of-war-dead-sue-yasukuni-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/11/national/politics-diplomacy/nukaga-unlikely-to-join-ldp-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20060811a4a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20060811a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fukushiro Nukaga]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/10/national/politics-diplomacy/history-strains-seoul-ties-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/10/national/politics-diplomacy/koizumi-drops-fresh-hint-on-surrender-day-yasukuni-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/09/national/politics-diplomacy/two-ministers-to-go-to-yasukuni/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/09/national/politics-diplomacy/make-better-rural-life-a-priority-tanigaki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/09/national/politics-diplomacy/ceos-give-koizumi-mixed-review/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Aso attends a Cabinet meeting Tuesday morning with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/08/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-ban-to-hold-brief-talks-before-hashimotos-funeral/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/08/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-close-to-sewing-up-ldp-majority/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/06/national/politics-diplomacy/tojo-yasukuni-solely-for-those-killed-in-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:30:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/05/national/politics-diplomacy/aug-15-yasukuni-trip-trumps-all-faux-pas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:31:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/05/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-april-yasukuni-visit-regrettable-seoul-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:31:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/03/national/politics-diplomacy/discuss-yasukuni-after-ldp-poll-lobby/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:31:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/08/03/national/politics-diplomacy/group-plans-trip-to-assert-chinese-right-to-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:31:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:31:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/07/31/national/politics-diplomacy/war-criminals-kin-urges-next-leader-shun-yasukuni/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:31:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/07/29/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-hopefuls-kick-off-debates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:31:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/07/28/national/politics-diplomacy/tanigaki-throws-hat-into-ring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:31:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reporters flank Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki after his Thursday meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the Prime Minister's Official Residence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/07/28/national/politics-diplomacy/aso-li-ban-to-push-for-six-party-meet/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20060728a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Aso (left) poses Thursday with his Chinese counterpart, Li Zhaoxing, at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/07/27/national/politics-diplomacy/bun-maker-unfazed-by-fukuda-exit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:31:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20060727f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Manju" sweet buns stamped with caricatures of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and the prospective candidates to replace him are sold at a shop in Nagata-cho, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:31:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:31:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief cabinet secretary Shinzo Abe gives a speech Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chung Ji Hye, in front of a poster for the documentary "Annyong Sayonara," was the key figure in bringing the film's Japanese and Korean crew members together.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa speaks to reporters Monday at Narita International Airport before leaving for China.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brochures issued by Yasukuni Shrine in Korean and Chinese use a question-and-answer format.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canon Inc. President Fujio Mitarai, the new Chairman of Nippon Keidanren, speaks during a recent interview in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[visiting U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan meets Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Wednesday at the latter's official residence.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Henry Hyde]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:33:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kofi Annan]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Ghanaian President John Kufuor propose a toast at a reception in Accra.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senior members of the Liberal Democratic Party visit Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Veteran lawmaker Ichiro Ozawa is applauded by his Democratic Party of Japan colleagues after being elected the new DPJ president.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Place your bets: Pedestrians cross an intersection in front of the Casino Grand Lisboa, operated by SJM Holdings Ltd., in Macau in February. Diet members are considering submitting a bill to legalize casinos like this.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Whole again: Yukako Fukushima, a maker of prosthetics, paints an artificial pinkie in her office in the city of Osaka on Feb. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/29/reference/in-japan-gun-control-is-the-norm-and-discipline-is-rigid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:34:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130129i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fair game: A hunter stalks deer that have been harming crops in December 2011 in the city of Nagano.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/25/national/crime-legal/with-inagawa-kai-top-three-yakuza-groups-now-on-u-s-sanctions-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:34:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/08/reference/xenophobia-finds-fertile-soil-in-web-anonymity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:34:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/06/national/media-national/even-gangsters-live-in-fear-of-japans-gun-laws/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:34:59+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/05/national/npa-database-starts-barring-stock-trading-yakuza/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/04/national/child-custody-injustices-hard-to-fix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130104f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Playing catchup: Yasuyuki Watanabe, deputy mayor of Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, speaks during an interview at a Tokyo hotel on Dec. 11.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/09/national/media-national/new-breed-of-criminal-elements-emerging-from-the-shadows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/11/16/national/1-in-5-firms-hit-up-by-extortionists-pay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/11/11/national/science-health/japans-live-organ-donors-enjoy-better-health-than-normal-citizens-do/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/11/09/national/diet-takes-up-bond-bill-as-ldp-caves-in/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/11/04/national/media-national/angry-mobster-looms-large-over-politicians/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/11/01/national/abe-tries-fails-to-prod-noda-on-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/10/28/national/media-national/hashimoto-needs-a-much-thicker-skin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fd20121028pba.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20121028pba.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Questionable practice: The Shukan Asahi was forced to apologize to Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto after he took offense at an article written by journalist Shinichi Sano.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/10/21/national/media-national/watching-the-wealthy-a-popular-spectator-sport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:18+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/19/national/media-national/yakuza-face-new-battles-within-and-without/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/15/national/reporter-fired-for-leaking-cop-bribe-info/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/08/national/law-tightened-to-curb-yakuza-seen-as-all-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/03/national/search-for-work-renders-tattoos-taboo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20120803f2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20120803f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Burning issue: A doctor erases a tattoo using laser surgery at the Takasu Clinic in Minato Ward, Tokyo, recently.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/17/national/media-national/social-networking-online-games-in-japan-medias-sights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/13/national/yamaguchi-gumis-no-2-to-go-free-on-1-5-billion-bail-during-extortion-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:26+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/10/national/media-national/its-not-that-easy-to-quit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:27+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/25/national/tattoo-flap-escalates-as-dissenters-face-penalty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/18/national/osakas-hashimoto-puts-municipal-workers-tattoos-into-the-limelight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20120518a4a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20120518a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toru Hashimoto]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/27/reference/tohoku-in-rebuilding-bubble/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20120327i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20120327i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[City reborn: Wakabayashi Ward in the city of Sendai (top), which was hit hard by the March 11 tsunami and earthquake, is seen on Feb. 10, the day the Reconstruction Agency debuted in Tokyo. Below: Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai holds up a board displaying kanji spelling "Wish for reconstruction" in January at the prefectural office in Sendai.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/20/reference/fukushima-not-just-about-nuke-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20120320i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20120320i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[How sweet it is: Junya Tomita of the Fukushima Prefecture Tourism &amp; Local Products Association holds a package of "mama-doru" sweets at a Fukushima shop in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/04/national/media-national/anti-yakuza-laws-are-taking-their-toll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fd20120304bja.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20120304bja.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gangland: Citizens of Nakama city, Fukuoka stage a demonstration against yakuza gangsters.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/14/national/mobster-dead-in-eatery-shooting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nn20120214a9a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20120214a9a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[CSI Chiba?: A couple watch police probing a fatal shooting Monday at a Denny's outlet in Togane, Chiba Prefecture]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/01/22/national/decision-on-olympus-stirs-more-tse-doubts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:42+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/01/01/national/what-2011-means-for-japan-in-2012-and-beyond/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20120101c2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20120101c2a.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/25/national/media-national/when-will-the-japanese-media-stop-avoiding-antinuke-sentiment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:45+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/09/business/disasters-an-opportunity-for-casino-advocates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nb20111209n1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20111209n1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wheel of fortune: A croupier warms up a roulette wheel at Casino Venus, a mock casino operated by Japan Casino School and Bright Inc. to teach people how to be dealers, in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/20/national/media-national/is-aums-guru-finally-headed-for-the-gallows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:35:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fd20111120bja.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20111120bja.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Death row: Shoko Asahara in 1990. The ex-guru of the Aum Shinrikyo cult is currently awaiting execution.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/01/national/hashimoto-bows-out-amid-controversy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20111101a2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20111101a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Swan song: Toru Hashimoto delivers a speech in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Friday before stepping down as governor on Monday to run for mayor of Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/10/16/national/media-national/average-joe-could-be-collateral-damage-in-war-against-yakuza/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/10/16/national/history/men-marrying-later-the-new-diet-building-opens-grenade-causes-plane-scare/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:42+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/09/27/reference/a-compact-guide-to-guidebooks-on-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20110927i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110927i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grand tour: Tourists stand on the edge of Lake Motosu in Minobu, Yamanashi Prefecture, in July, with Mount Fuji in the background.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/09/25/national/media-national/welfare-system-not-faring-well/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/08/28/national/media-national/stars-exit-shows-its-not-what-you-know-but-who/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fd20110828pba.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20110828pba.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bad influence: Shinsuke Shimada arrives at a press conference to announce his retirement from the entertainment industry due to his links with the yakuza.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/08/25/national/yakuza-link-undoes-tvs-shimada/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20110825a2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110825a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinsuke Shimada]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/08/02/reference/new-law-fails-to-ease-organ-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20110802i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110802i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clock is ticking: An organ from a male donor is taken from a hospital in the Kanto region for a transplant last August.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/02/national/dark-world-of-illegal-organ-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20110702f1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110702f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under a cloud: Dr. Toshinobu Horiuchi (left) is escorted by police as officers search his clinic in Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, on June 24.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/04/national/police-arrest-second-man-over-biggest-ever-robbery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/14/national/rocker-uchida-held-for-trespassing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/10/national/yakuza-don-exits-the-big-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20110410b1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110410b1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of the joint: Kenichi Shinoda, head of the Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate, arrives at JR Shin-Kobe Station on Saturday afternoon after being released from a Tokyo prison earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/02/12/national/fukuoka-gang-raided-over-shooting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/02/09/national/sumo-rigging-born-of-necessity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20110209f1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110209f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ozeki Harumafuji practices at the Isegahama stable in Koto Ward, Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/02/09/national/10-held-for-bilking-investors-in-resorts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20110209a3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110209a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Front for fraud?: The Atami Okamoto Hotel in Shizuoka Prefecture is one of the hotels run by Okamoto Hotel Systems.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/02/07/national/sumo-idled-over-fans-betrayal-long-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:36:59+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/02/03/national/texts-point-to-bout-fixing-sumo-floored/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:37:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20110203a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110203a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hanaregoma]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/01/17/national/ex-yakuza-held-in-vehicular-attack-in-ibaraki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:37:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nn20110117a5a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110117a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crime scene: Police officers inspect the truck used to fatally ram the campaign office of Kazuyuki Toita in Ishioka, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Dec. 12.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/08/30/national/sumo-cameras-to-search-for-yakuza/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:37:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/08/23/national/yakuza-ex-wrestler-given-fresh-warrants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:37:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/08/21/national/tattoo-as-art-on-human-canvases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:37:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/08/18/national/photograph-ties-ozeki-to-gangster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-10T23:37:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hold still: Horiyoshi III tattoos a man in Yokohama last Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Off the cuff: An Internet user views the bulletin board 2channel, Japan's largest online forum, where postings are anonymous and often controversial.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Contraband: The freighter Universal lies docked in Moji port in Kitakyushu on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoto's Higashi Honganji Temple, on the left side of Gojo street and as seen from the top of the Kyoto Tower beside Kyoto Station, is located within a jumble of modern buildings of different heights.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Market shaker: Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda is interviewed Wednesday at BOJ headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The participants in the first session of The Japan Times Forum on Africa-Japan Relations are (from left) Zimbabwean Ambassador Stuart Comberbach, Mayor of Yokohama Fumiko Hayashi, moderator and Japan Times Managing Editor Takashi Kitazume, Ambassador for TICAD V Makoto Ito of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Moroccan Ambassador Samir Arrour, at the newspaper's Tokyo headquarters on March 1.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto (left) bestows the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle on (from left) Sadako Ogata, Takashi Yamanouchi and Hirofumi Nakasone during a ceremony at the Mexican Embassy in Tokyo on April 10.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The governor's not for turning: Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda delivers a speech in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No recourse left: Akio Chikazawa (right), who led a group of plaintiffs in a suit against the Japan unit of British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC for damages related to deaths from side effects of the firm's cancer drug, faces reporters Friday after the Supreme Court rules against his suit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Tokyo Disneyland, Cinderella Castle at Magic Kingdom, 30th anniversary ''The Happines Year'', press review, on April 11, 2013. Hodo-bu Nagata reporets. MIURA PHOTO.]]></image:title>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Welcome back: Aung San Suu Kyi will visit Japan for the first time in nearly three decades from Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hassan Rowhani]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-14T00:46:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-14T00:47:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Expansive: Garuda Indonesia President and CEO Emirsyah Satar explains the airline's expansion plans and new service to Kansai International Airport in an interview Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lights fantastic: Fireflies engage in courtship dances in a wood at night, producing flashes of light — known as bioluminescence — from a chemical in the abdomen called luciferin which is stored in cells lined with a reflective layer of crystals. Oddly, among species in  North America it is  the males who flash for mates; while among the Asian variety (Luciola parvula) found in Japan, females do the advertising.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-15T04:31:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-15T04:35:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-15T04:47:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-15T04:50:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-15T04:51:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-15T23:30:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-16T00:03:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe inspects work to recover the remains of Imperial Japanese Army soldiers killed in the Battle of Iwojima during his visit to the island Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/16/national/fukui-museum-unearths-japans-dinosaur-roots/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mining for clues: Yoshikazu Noda, a researcher at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, holds a fossil excavated at a site in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand, on Feb. 4 through a joint project with the Khorat Fossil Museum.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/gops-rubio-throws-weight-behind-u-s-immigration-revamp/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/16/national/drafts-documents-from-1920s-by-u-s-architect-morgan-discovered/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Time capsule: Draft plans and other documents from the 1920s linked to U.S. architect Jay Hill Morgan are displayed in Yokohama on Thursday, alongside the briefcase they were found in.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/16/asia-pacific/yeonpyeong-attack-raised-south-koreas-resolve/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hands-on response: A picture is painted below a blast hole from a North Korean shell that was fired at South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island on Nov. 23, 2010. The wall is on the side of a community soccer stadium.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/16/asia-pacific/beijing-bird-flu-case-asymptomatic/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the mind: A nurse works at a specialized fever clinic inside Beijing's Ditan Hospital, where a Chinese girl was being treated for the H7N9 strain of bird flu Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oval team: Bank of Japan regional managers participate in a meeting Monday at the central bank in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Extended reach: NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen holds a news conference Monday at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo ahead of talks with top Japanese officials.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peas in a pod: North Korean soldiers visit the statues of Kim Il Sung and his son, Kim Jong Il, on Mansudae Hill in Pyongyang on Monday to commemorate the birth date of the nation's founder.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A metter of trusts: Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda attends the annual meeting of the Trust Companies Association of Japan in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Homecoming: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi prays before she delivers a speech Monday at Ryukoku University in the city of Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In recognition: Actor Rentaro Mikuni stands next to his 1987 Cannes International Film Festival award in this file photo taken in 2010 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[While they last: Customers at the Yurakucho district Sanseido Bookstore in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, snap up Haruki Murakami's latest novel, which went on sale Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Girl power: Toshihiro Nakamura of the nonprofit organization Kopernik speaks at a symposium held in Los Angeles on March 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/11/national/500000-copies-of-latest-murakami-book-printed/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wrong connotation: An example of Google Inc.'s autocomplete search function shows that when the words Tokyo District Court are entered, many other words also appear. The court Monday ordered the U.S. Internet giant to delete terms from its function in connection with a Japanese man who filed a defamation suit against the company.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[City under attack: A man lies on the ground as police officers react to a second explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in the city Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Policy wonk: Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is interviewed in his office in Arlington, Virginia, on March 7.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A win for the administration: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks Tuesday before the Lower House Budget Committee. The full Lower House passed his budget later in the day.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eye on transparency: Francois Hollande campaigns for the Socialist Party's primary elections in May 2011 in Dijon, France. Under a new transparency policy, Hollande on Monday released details about the personal wealth of all 38 members of his government.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking to invest in America: Nobuyuki Hirano, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., is interviewed in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Make believe: Takeshi Kitano in a still from his latest film "Outrage Beyond" (2012). Kitano often uses violence in his films and has admitted that the basis of his humor is bullying, but everyone understands it's all in fun.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Damage control: Japanese Olympic Committee Chairman Tsunekazu Takeda speaks to reporters after meeting Thursday with education minister Hakubun Shimomura in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/30/national/social-issues/judo-federation-apologizes-for-abuse/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secret's out: All Japan Judo Federation senior director Koshi Onozawa (right) apologizes at a news conference  Wednesday in Tokyo over head coach Ryuji Sonoda's harassment and physical violence targeting top female athletes.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Instant shrapnel: The FBI shows remnants of a pressure cooker Tuesday that was part of one of the bombs used Monday during the Boston Marathon.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Memento: A University of Tokyo student gives visiting Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi a woodblock print of the school's Akamon gate after she gave a lecture on campus Wednesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Online: Reactors 3 (lower) and 4 at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s plant in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, have been operating since July.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In vain?: Carlee Soto (left), sister of the late Sandy Hook teacher Victoria Soto, and Erica Laffferty, daughter of Sandy Hook Principal Dawn Hochsprung, who was also killed in the November shooting massacre in Connecticut, embrace outside the Senate chamber after a vote Wednesday on firearms legislation. Republican senators, backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats, scuttled the most far reaching gun control legislation in two decades, rejecting calls to tighten background checks on firearms buyers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Broadening horizons: A Harvard University student chats with Japanese high schoolers during a gathering held as part of the Harvard College in Asia Program in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, on March 21.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Confident: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures after meeting Monday with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hi: Nobel laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe exchange greetings ahead of their meeting at the prime minister's office on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ready to fly?: U.S. aviation authorities may soon allow Boeing Co. to put its 787 Dreamliner back into service, sources said. All Nippon Airways Co. and other carriers aren't expected to resume flights with the aircraft before June.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ready to launch: A McDonald's employee shows off three new products during a press event earlier this month. McDonald's Holdings Co. Japan Ltd. announced Thursday that prices for some items will rise next month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Overly onerous?: Under a plan presented in the Senate on  Wednesday, Ecuadorian illegal immigrant Marta Gualotuna would have to wait 10 years for permission to bring her three children to the United States.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[LNG appeal: Industry minister Toshimitsu Motegi (right) speaks Wednesday in Tokyo with Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, (second from left).]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dynamic static: This image shows the cosmic microwave background detected by the ESA's Planck space probe.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Total recall: Toyota, Honda and Nissan are recalling more than 3 million vehicles because the airbag on the passenger side may send plastic pieces flying. Some of the vehicles effected are the Honda Civic (pictured), Toyota Corolla, Tundra and Lexus SC built between November 2000 and March 2004.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hot off the press: Fans of Haruki Murakami buy his newly published book, "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and the Year of his Pilgrimage," at a bookstore in Tokyo on April 12. The store started selling the books for Murakami fans at midnight.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brotherly love: Tamerlan Tsarnaev (in black cap), who was dubbed Suspect No. 1 in the Boston Marathon bombing, and his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (in white cap), dubbed Suspect No. 2, are seen approximately 10 to 20 minutes before the April 15 blast.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-22T01:29:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rough ride to recovery: Visitors look at a Toyota Landcruiser Prado SUV on media day at the Shanghai auto show Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defend the homeland: A SWAT team marches through a neighborhood while searching for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing in Watertown, Massachusetts, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-22T01:34:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-22T03:06:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Double talker: Keiji Furuya, state minister in charge of addressing North Korea's abductions of Japanese, visits war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Victorious: Supporters of Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura dump a celebratory bucket of water on him Sunday after deciding from early returns that their bicycle-riding tax cutter had won re-election.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-22T20:13:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grounded: All Nippon Airways has 17 Boeing 787 Dreamliners in its fleet.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The good news: The Rev. Peter Pang Wenxian holds a Bible above his head during morning Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/23/national/lawmakers-received-dubious-tax-breaks/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/23/national/swiss-ask-japan-to-join-antinuclear-statement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-23T00:12:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-23T00:12:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-23T00:13:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scales of justice: A lawyer holds up a sign that says "judged unconstitutional" after the Okayama branch of the Hiroshima High Court ruled on a vote-disparity case March 26 in Okayama. A paper pasted at the top left says "invalid."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-23T00:35:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-23T00:35:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inside looking out: Australian trade minister Craig Emerson takes a photo with his mobile phone as his Japanese counterpart, Toshimitsu Motegi, looks on during a photo session after the APEC trade ministers' meeting in Surabaya, Indonesia, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cut and thrust: Men dressed as samurai fight in a re-enactment of the 16th-century Battle of Kawanakajima, on Sunday in Fuefuki, Yamanashi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/23/business/corporate-business/kawasaki-heavy-mitsui-engineering-begin-initial-talks-on-integration/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/24/national/mystery-loss-fuel-murakami-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-24T00:07:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Novel approach: Copies of Haruki Murakami's latest book, "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage," are stacked at a Tokyo bookstore on April 12 after its midnight release.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/24/national/cote-divoire-envoy-seeks-cocoa-boost/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jerome Kloh Weya]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/24/business/economy-business/boj-seen-deploying-price-forecasts-as-tool-in-fighting-deflation-analysts/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Money talks: Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda attends a meeting of the International Monetary and Financial Committee in Washington on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/24/national/politics-diplomacy/claims-against-tepco-can-run-long/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ready for takeoff: All Nippon Airways Co. planes sit on the tarmac at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/23/business/fast-retailing-to-unify-wages-worldwide/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/23/national/politics-diplomacy/lower-house-oks-ratification-of-child-custody-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-24T00:33:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/24/national/eternal-reminder-teen-erects-tsunami-monument/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Message to the future:  Yusaku  Yoshida (left), a 16-year-old high school student in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, and Tadayoshi Oguni, deputy chief of the Ando district neighborhood association, stand in front of a wooden monument Yoshida erected on a hill in Otsuchi on March 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/24/business/sequestration-linked-furloughs-spur-u-s-airport-mayhem/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No sweater: A delayed passenger knits to pass the time at  Tampa International Airport on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Freed: Paul Kevin Curtis, who had been in custody under suspicion of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others, hugs his attorney, Christi McCoy, following his release Tuesday in Oxford, Mississippi.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rocking the boat: Ships from China's State Oceanic Administration, the Japan Coast Guard and boats carrying members of a Japanese nationalist group sail in Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands on Tuesday morning. In the foreground, a Japan Coast Guard cutter stays between a Chinese vessel at left and a boat carrying the nationalists.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toys for men: Junichi Nishizawa, one of the model makers at Bandai Co., holds a plastic rendering of the popular Gundam character in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-24T16:54:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-24T17:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-24T17:03:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Second coming: Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe bows after being named prime minister Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Milestone: Jiroemon Kimura receives flowers Friday at a hospital in Kyotango, Kyoto Prefecture, after he became the world's longest-lived man, reaching the age of 115 years and 253 days to top the previous Guinness record by a day.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-24T17:03:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Who dat cat?: Sakumi Otomo, a 17-year-old high school student, hugs a stuffed Hello Kitty at her home in Ebetsu, Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Itsunori Onodera]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shadow of doubt: Ex-Tokyo High Court Judge Kunio Harada is interviewed last week at his Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, office.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoki Inose]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Short-term gain?: Liberal Democratic Party chief Shinzo Abe is surrounded by voters after making a speech on his party's economic policies in Tokyo on Nov. 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-24T17:59:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-24T17:59:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shipping out: The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk sails with U.S. and Japanese naval vessels in November 2007. China announced plans Tuesday to build a new generation of carriers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hands off: Police examine a damaged escalator at JR Akihabara Station in Tokyo that injured six people on Wednesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No exceptions: New Zealand  Trade Minister  Tim Groser speaks at the Japan National Press Club in  Tokyo on  Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hosed: Kosho Shono (left), leader of Koyasan Shingon Buddhism, speaks at a press conference Wednesday at the temple's headquarters in Koya, Wakayama Prefecture. Shono announced his resignation to take responsibility for financial losses at the temple, which saw about a quarter of its assets vanish as bets on the Australian dollar and structured bonds soured.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Destroyer" strikes again: Nippon Mirai no To (Tomorrow Party of Japan) leader and Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada walks beside a board Monday showing Ichiro Ozawa as the only member to have won a Diet seat as of that time Sunday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/26/national/prosecution-of-2channel-founder-draws-flak/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sending a message: Police enter a company that manages 2channel's servers in Sapporo on Nov. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/20/national/grand-cordon-given-to-algerian-diplomat/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abdelmalek Benhabyles (left) is bestowed the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun by Japanese Ambassador Tsukasa Kawada in Algiers on Dec. 17. Below: Benhabyles (right) with Japanese supporter of Algeria Tokusaburo Dan in 1962.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/06/national/cricket-remake-of-popular-baseball-anime-to-hit-indian-tv/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T15:37:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-25T15:38:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-25T15:38:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/30/national/abe-putin-agree-to-put-peace-treaty-bid-on-fast-track/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T15:38:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No one gets in: Police guard the entrance to the Sasago Tunnel on Tuesday in Koshu, Yamanashi Prefecture. Nine people were killed when the tunnel's ceiling collapsed Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/10/national/ana-pilot-to-be-investigated-after-overshooting-runway-at-shonai-airport/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An aerial photo over Shonai Airport in Yamagata Prefecture shows where an  ANA flight landed after after overshooting the runway Saturday evening.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/17/national/hawkish-abe-wants-to-change-constitution/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Victorious: New Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi is all smiles Sunday at party headquarters in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/07/national/sasebo-bars-petition-to-let-sailors-drink/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T15:57:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/16/national/tokyo-rally-seeks-to-keep-alive-quest-to-end-nuclear-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T15:57:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-25T15:57:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/04/national/key-arterys-closure-blow-to-transport-bus-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T16:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Just in case: Workers check inside the Enasan Tunnel in Nagano Prefecture on Monday, following the deadly collapse of the concrete ceiling of the Sasago Tunnel in Yamanashi Prefecture on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/13/national/footprint-fossil-an-unknown-bird/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T16:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/27/national/tohoku-electric-fails-to-convince-nra-that-faults-are-inactive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T16:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/28/national/nippon-mirai-breaks-up-as-ozawa-allies-veer-off/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T16:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/19/reference/firms-move-some-eggs-out-of-china-basket/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T16:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Offshore presence: Women work at a Japanese garment factory in Mingaladon Industrial Park in Yangon, Myanmar, last December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/28/national/time-for-japan-to-let-go-of-the-status-quo-u-s-leadership-expert-counsels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T16:06:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teaching leadership: Dean Williams, public policy director at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, is interviewed Dec. 13 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/17/national/loss-of-niigata-seat-puts-end-to-tanaka-empire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T16:27:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Empire loses: Former education minister Makiko Tanaka speaks to her supporters in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, Sunday evening after conceding defeat.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/29/national/bearing-maker-execs-guilty-of-cartel/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/06/national/kabuki-star-kanzaburo-dies-at-57/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T16:53:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Contemporary master: Kabuki actor Nakamura Kanzaburo is interviewed in January 2005.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/23/national/group-based-therapy-reduces-sex-offenders-recidivism-rate-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T16:58:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New approach: Group work therapy for sex offenders is conducted under a recent Justice Ministry program in this image from a demonstration video.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/16/national/nippon-ishin-seen-in-coalition-lottery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T16:58:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-25T17:10:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eye on the sky: The Japan Spaceguard Association's Bisei center in Ibara, Okayama Prefecture, keeps an eye on space debris and asteroids with the aid of optical telescopes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/14/national/u-s-marine-gets-four-years-for-molesting-woman-in-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T17:10:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-25T17:10:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-25T17:10:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/14/national/defiant-chinese-plane-intrudes-over-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T17:10:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/28/national/60-spots-see-mercury-dip-to-new-low/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T17:57:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Frozen in time: A bird flies over a fountain featuring a sculpture of a crane with icicles hanging from its wings at a park in Tokyo on Thursday. A cold snap sent temperatures plummeting to their lowest levels this winter across Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/23/business/japanese-automakers-target-chinas-youth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T18:07:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cruise control: Visitors look at a Toyota Landcruiser Prado SUV on media day at the Shanghai international motor show Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/10/national/north-korea-may-delay-planned-rocket-launch-technical-problems-suspected/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T18:09:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SDF personnel stand at the ready Sunday afternoon near a mobile Patriot Advance Capability-3 battery in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/07/national/japan-could-restart-some-nuclear-reactors-next-summer-nra/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T18:09:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/15/national/slain-diplomats-school-starts-u-s-exchange-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T18:15:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Exchange: Students from Hyogo Prefectural Itami High School talk with Baruch College Campus High School students in New York Thursday at the Japanese Consulate General.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/13/national/major-events-linked-to-pyongyangs-pursuit-of-icbms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T18:15:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/18/national/third-force-had-high-hopes-but-got-stung/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T18:15:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/18/national/nothing-left-for-the-election-gutted-dpj-to-do-but-rebuild/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T18:46:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gamut of emotions: Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan faces reporters early Monday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/24/national/norovirus-kills-six-patients-in-miyazaki-as-outbreaks-spread-to-yamanashi-oita/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T18:46:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/25/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-election-strategy-more-farming-subsidies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-25T21:39:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-25T23:35:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of their own: Police enter a memorial service for slain Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier in Cambridge on Wednesday. Collier was fatally shot on the MIT campus April 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/business/families-help-universals-sales-soar/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-26T00:08:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-26T00:08:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/national/victims-of-amagasaki-train-derailment-honored/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T00:09:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Annual pilgrimage: People pray at the condominium complex that a JR West train crashed into in 2005 in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. The ceremony Thursday, on the eighth anniversary of the accident, was held to commemorate the 107 people who died in the derailment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/national/endangered-gorilla-gives-birth-again-at-ueno-zoo/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stable: Western lowland gorilla Momoko holds the baby she gave birth to Wednesday at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. Both the mother and baby are in a stable condition.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/national/politics-diplomacy/imelda-marcos-fan-of-japans-culture/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Great believer: Imelda Marcos, who was once the first lady of the Philippines, speaks during an interview Saturday at her condominium in central Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/national/industrial-sites-urged-for-unesco-list/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gunning hard: The Hashima coal mining facility on Hashima Island, better known as Gunkanjima (Battleship Island), off Nagasaki, is being floated for UNESCO's World Heritage list.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/national/nakaima-rips-signing-of-taiwan-fishery-accord/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/national/politics-diplomacy/yasukuni-visits-make-unified-response-to-n-korea-difficult/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T00:12:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Won't forget: South Koreans protest visits to Yasukuni Shrine by members of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet at a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/business/economy-business/congress-given-90-days-to-ok-japan-tpp-entry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T00:12:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/national/azerbaijan-has-more-than-oil-envoy/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/business/corporate-business/china-slaps-conditions-on-marubenis-gavilon-deal/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/business/corporate-business/young-gree-chief-loses-2-6-billion-to-smartphone-boom/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Left behind: Gree Inc. President Yoshikazu Tanaka delivers a keynote speech at Tokyo Game Show 2012 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on Sept. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/national/politics-diplomacy/parties-lining-up-celebrities-for-upper-house-race/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daisuke Shima (left), Mitsuo Tsukahara]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/national/compensation-system-for-terrorism-victims-may-expand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T00:36:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The war goes on: Koichi Kawana (right), president of engineering firm JGC Corp., and another JGC official place flowers on the coffins of fellow employees killed by terrorists in Algeria in January. A government panel is to submit proposals Friday to increase compensation for those caught up in terrorist attacks abroad.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/national/tepco-develops-its-own-filtered-venting-system-to-hasten-reactor-restarts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T00:42:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/national/ando-designed-university-building-completed-in-mexico/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T01:27:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ando's latest: A new building designed for the University of Monterrey by architect Tadao Ando  was inaugurated Thursday in Mexico. Named the Centro Roberto Garza Sada, it is the first work by the prize-winning architect to be erected in Central and South America.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/02/national/ldp-book-hints-ploy-to-divert-sales-tax-yield-to-public-works/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T10:57:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The plan: This little-known book by a cadre of Liberal Democratic Party members led by former transport minister Toshihiro Nikai calls for diverting consumption tax revenues to fund a surge in public works projects nationwide.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/26/national/chiles-moai-statue-arrives-in-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T10:57:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/19/national/imperial-palace-keeps-bridges-are-set-aglow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T10:57:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/21/national/north-koreans-flown-to-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T10:57:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/01/national/kada-party-seen-banking-on-ozawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T10:57:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/14/national/ldp-likely-to-win-nearly-300-seats-in-election-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T10:58:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/30/national/hometown-bound-travel-rush-peaks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T11:02:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Outward bound: Children ride a luggage cart at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture as their family prepares to depart Saturday for the New Year's holidays, and as the outbound rush of travelers returning to their hometowns or catching flights to overseas destinations peaked.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/22/national/egg-production-from-stem-cells-among-top-10-science-achievements/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T11:02:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/15/national/prince-hisahito-to-enter-ochanomizu-university-elementary-school/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T11:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/08/national/crowded-race-raises-the-risk-of-re-balloting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T11:02:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/04/national/ldp-still-leads-in-voter-poll-next-is-nippon-ishin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T11:13:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pooling ideas: Liberal Democratic Party chief Shinzo Abe (center) and party executives meet in Tokyo on Monday to discuss how to respond to North Korea's plan to launch a rocket later this month, which might fly over Okinawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/01/national/transit-firms-offering-themselves-up-as-movie-tv-locations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T11:47:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lights, camera, action: A scene from the NHK drama "Koisuru Hae Onna" is filmed in the departure lobby at Central Japan International Airport.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/21/national/sdf-to-end-golan-heights-mission/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T11:47:04+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/01/national/tokyo-confab-calls-for-stronger-sanctions-against-syria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T11:47:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/17/national/ldp-aware-voters-just-punished-dpj/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T11:47:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/19/national/kyoto-man-115-now-worlds-oldest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T11:50:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For record longevity: Jiroemon Kimura is offered a board with congratulatory messages from local elementary school pupils at his home in Kyotango, Kyoto Prefecture, in September.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/28/national/record-setting-alpinist-feared-killed-on-russia-road/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T12:12:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhisa Watanabe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/06/national/kada-sorry-for-late-lists-of-mirai-candidates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T12:12:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/25/national/police-use-facebook-to-fix-net-threats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T12:12:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/07/national/nra-to-add-three-foreign-advisers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T12:12:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/22/national/ldp-mulling-u-turn-on-takeshima-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T12:12:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/national/politics-diplomacy/seoul-protests-abe-for-defending-shrine-visits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T12:53:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/26/national/new-ruling-bloc-gets-on-same-page/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T12:57:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In agreement: Incoming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (third from right), and New Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi seal their deal Tuesday at the Diet. The two leaders of the coalition partners signed a policy agreement the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/26/national/nra-panel-looks-to-distribute-iodine-tablets-to-households-near-japans-nuclear-plants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T12:58:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/13/national/ethics-concerns-still-rage-in-face-of-stem-cell-breakthroughs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T13:54:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Much to discuss: Shinya Yamanaka speaks with Swedish Princess Madeleine at the 2012 Nobel Prize Banquet in Stockholm on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/19/national/obama-calls-abe-eyes-summit-in-u-s-next-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T14:25:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Groundwork: Liberal Democratic Party President Shinzo Abe (second from right) talks Tuesday with New Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi in the Diet as LDP Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba (right) and New Komeito Secretary General Yoshihisa Inoue look on.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/14/national/launch-to-again-stall-talks-on-abductions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T14:25:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/29/national/software-firm-releases-burmese-phrase-book/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T14:33:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Novel: Daiichi Computer Resources Co.'s Burmese phrase book, "Active Myanmar," is displayed in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/27/national/nationalism-takes-back-seat-to-the-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T14:36:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new day: A lawmaker bows before passing through the gates to the Diet building Wednesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/04/national/saitama-man-slain-in-philippines-compatriot-held/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T14:36:05+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/11/national/fault-under-reactor-at-tsuruga-likely-active/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T14:36:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/20/national/china-said-mulling-law-to-justify-security-patrols/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T14:36:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/22/national/probability-of-strong-quakes-revised-upward-for-eastern-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T14:36:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/30/national/deputy-prime-minister-aso-to-visit-myanmar-to-help-japanese-firms-tap-lucrative-new-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T14:36:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/01/national/mobsters-held-in-osaka-for-playing-golf-after-hiding-yakuza-status/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T14:36:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/23/national/abe-hints-at-scrapping-reactor-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T16:12:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A time to pray: Incoming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife visit the grave of his father, former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, on Saturday in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/26/national/fire-guts-historic-okayama-temple/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T16:12:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/13/national/police-offer-cash-rewards-to-solve-online-threat-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T16:13:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/26/national/number-of-home-hiv-tests-sent-for-analysis-via-mail-hits-record-66000/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T16:13:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/21/national/host-towns-hope-new-ldp-regime-will-see-reactors-restarted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T16:13:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/30/national/rightwing-minister-seeks-to-radically-revamp-education-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T16:15:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Take the next right: Education minister Hakubun Shimomura is interviewed by The Japan Times and other media outlets Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/28/national/china-expresses-reservations-about-abes-return-to-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T16:37:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Top dog: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday arrives at the prime minister's office to meet his new Cabinet.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/26/national/japans-funding-to-u-n-falls-to-10-half-of-peak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T16:37:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/19/national/abe-prepares-ruling-bloc-pressures-boj/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T16:37:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/national/crime-legal/two-japanese-inmates-executed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T20:34:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/national/crime-legal/two-inmates-hanged-for-yakuza-slayings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T20:36:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsuji Hamasaki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/asia-pacific/construction-permit-for-collapsed-bangladesh-building-disputed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T22:41:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amid the ruins: A Bangladeshi rescuer shouts for assistance as another waits with a stretcher to take away the injured or deceased Thursday at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/business/japan-to-approve-787-flights-starting-friday-night/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-26T23:17:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p1 web1 top1 dreamliner-z 20130427]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relieved: All Nippon Airways President Osamu Shinobe speaks Friday after the transport ministry said Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners could resume service the same day.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/world/science-health-world/gene-sequencing-breakthrough-may-save-koalas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:01:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/wn20130427f1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130427f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hang in there: Koalas may soon be vaccinated en masse against chlamydia, which together with an AIDS-like virus has been ravaging their population.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/world/crime-legal-world/what-will-allow-the-last-briton-in-guantanamo-to-come-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Still behind bars: Activists hold a banner with a photo of Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer, at a rally in Washington on Jan. 11. Captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2001, Aamer has been imprisoned for the past 12 years without being charged.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130427f4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rebellion remembered: A ceremony on April 19 commemorates the 70th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which 13,000 Polish Jews died fighting Nazi troops, and the opening of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/world/science-health-world/can-you-really-train-your-brain-to-be-more-intelligent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:03:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130427f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brain training: Despite scant evidence that they work, online games aimed at improving mental ability are becoming increasingly popular, especially among seniors and aging baby boomers determined to stave off dementia.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:06:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clean dream: Residents bathe at a public water supply point in New Delhi. India hopes to pull people out of extreme poverty by collecting biometric data on its 1.3 billion people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/world/israeli-court-permits-non-orthodox-prayer-by-women-at-western-wall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:06:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Un-Orthodox ruling: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touches the stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem on election day in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:07:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:10:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Where there's smoke: A black plume rises high into the sky following shelling in the al-Turkman Mountains, in Latakia Province, western Syria, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/business/tech/europe-forces-google-to-make-searches-fairer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:11:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/business/germany-europes-green-paradise-considers-pros-and-cons-of-fracking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:12:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Energy solutions: An ExxonMobil shale gas excavation site operates in front of a wind turbine in Wagenfeld, Germany.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-china-defense-officials-eye-maritime-hotline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:39:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/national/letters-written-by-novelist-kobo-abe-are-found/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:42:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/national/politics-diplomacy/globe-trotting-abe-has-energy-on-the-brain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:43:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Head to head: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting during a trip to Elista in the southern Kalmykia region on April 16, while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers questions at a news conference April 19 at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/national/temple-in-gifu-seeks-elderly-disciples/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:44:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heart set: Takashi Nagahama, a trainee priest, copies the Heart Sutra at Shogen Junior College in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/business/economy-business/boj-stands-pat-on-new-monetary-easing-steps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:44:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/national/kishida-preps-for-latin-american-tour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:46:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/business/corporate-business/yahoo-japan-to-introduce-rare-one-year-leave-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:47:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:48:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taste of Japan: Vietnamese women wait to taste saury at the Oishii Nippon Fair in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday. The event was held as part of celebrations for the 40th anniversary of Japan-Vietnam diplomatic relations. The fish were caught at Nemuro, in east Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/business/nakao-named-new-adb-president/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:49:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takehiko Nakao]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:50:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese touch: The newly renovated Trusteeship Council at U.N. headquarters is using 260 armchairs made by Asahi Sofu Manufacturing Co. in Yamagata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:50:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20130427a9a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In demand: Kazuhiko Shimokobe, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co., has been asked by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to remain in the post beyond the end of his planned exit in June to continue restructuring the utility.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/business/economy-business/consumer-prices-dip-fifth-month-in-a-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T00:51:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/26/business/corporate-business/why-are-investors-punishing-apple/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T03:25:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kid's play: An Apple salesperson shows an iPad to a customer at an Apple Inc. store in San Francisco.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/27/national/china-officially-labels-senkakus-a-core-interest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-27T13:25:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-27T20:05:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/28/national/talks-with-canada-on-fta-progress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-28T00:02:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-28T00:02:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-28T00:04:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-28T00:05:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/28/national/minister-to-pitch-floating-offshore-platform-project-to-brazil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-28T00:05:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-28T00:10:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-28T00:10:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/28/national/kepco-mulls-takahama-plant-restart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-28T01:02:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Next up: Reactors 3 and 4 at Kansai Electric's Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture are seen in March 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-04-28T01:04:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Narrow miss: A climber who was part of a group that was struck by an avalanche Saturday on Mount Shirouma in Nagano Prefecture recounts the experience after reaching the nearby village of Hakuba.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/28/national/number-of-elderly-workers-in-2012-soared-to-new-record-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-28T01:12:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/28/national/suspected-north-korean-body-found-floating-off-niigata/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-28T01:26:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/28/national/singer-matsutoya-among-723-spring-decoration-recipients/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-28T05:01:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/14/national/media-national/net-tv-expresses-views-the-mainstream-ignores/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-28T17:50:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/20/national/media-national/nico-nico-douga-warner-launch-video-on-demand-service/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-28T17:52:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Picking up stream: Takeshi Natsuno (left), director at Dwango Co., presents Nico Nico Douga's new movie distribution service on Monday with  Taichi Fukuda, general manager of Warner Home Video and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/17/national/media-national/charity-show-by-japanese-artists-streams-live-to-the-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-28T17:52:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20110717a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Go girls: Akiko Wada (left) will headline a charity showcase of artists, including AKB48's Tomomi Itano (right), which will be broadcast live online.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/10/business/new-media-keep-old-media-honest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-28T17:52:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20110610a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keeping them honest: Nico Nico Douga hosts a live streaming program March 10 at its Harajuku studio in Tokyo. The program was a part of collaborative project between the Internet media site and NHK that day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/09/business/video-sharing-website-sparks-net-revolution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-28T17:52:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20110609a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Social phenomenon: Nico Nico Douga has gained popularity among younger generations since its launch in 2006 and now has more than 21 million registered users.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/25/national/man-held-in-first-crackdown-on-web-film-posting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-28T17:52:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/04/national/tohoku-disaster-sparks-innovative-social-media-responses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-04-28T17:52:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/28/national/sovereignty-celebration-hit-by-protests/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130429a1c]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[No to Tokyo: People protest the first state ceremony commemorating the return of Japanese sovereignty in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sunday. For Okinawans, the "day of shame" when the San Francisco Peace Treaty took effect was the day it was abandoned and left under U.S. control until 1972]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/29/world/science-health-world/evolutionary-biologist-says-cave-man-diet-is-flawed/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marlene Zuk]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All business: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, wave to well-wishers upon his departure from Haneda airport on Sunday. Abe will visit Russia, the Middle East and Turkey.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/29/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/indian-activists-push-for-clean-cities/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Just a litter bit: A woman throws waste into a garbage-choked Mumbai canal on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/29/national/politicians-roll-up-sleeves-at-net-event/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mexican meeting: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto greets Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Mexico City on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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