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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Second lives: Kim Kyung-hee, 40, bursts into tears as she speaks with Lee Sun-woo, 82, on Wednesday in Seoul. Lee was captured by Chinese troops during the Korean War in July 1953, 13 days before the armistice was signed, and detained as a prisoner to work in a coal mine until he escaped from North Korea in 2006. Kim escaped from North Korea in 2012; her late father, Kim Woo-yong, worked in the same coal mine as Lee from 1953 to 2004.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/10/10/national/media-national/creative-battle-for-boost-in-regional-tourism-heads-to-japans-big-screen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T11:24:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Surprise attack: "Sakuradamongai no Hen."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/10/24/national/media-national/some-recent-adventures-in-intellectual-property/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T11:24:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/17/national/crime-legal/hiroshima-teens-friends-questioned-over-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T13:04:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/world/science-health-world/extra-down-syndrome-gene-silenced/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T13:05:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/10/17/national/media-national/pusan-festival-delivers-rich-lineup-of-movies-despite-budget-slump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T14:49:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/10/24/national/media-national/can-we-fix-japans-moral-morass/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T14:51:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/10/17/national/media-national/utopia-means-free-money-for-everyone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T14:53:18+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/national/u-s-says-12-more-ospreys-on-way/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T21:07:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/business/economy-business/tax-panelist-pushes-for-5-point-cut-in-corporate-levy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T21:32:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/national/chinas-unilateral-gas-field-pursuit-draws-protest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T21:32:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/business/women-need-to-be-up-to-speed-on-stocks-for-bourses-to-survive-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T21:33:27+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/national/group-warns-horseshoe-crabs-at-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T21:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Disappearing: Marine life expert Mari Shuno holds a horseshoe crab earlier this month on a tideland in Fukutsu, Fukuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/business/economy-business/china-economy-unsustainable-imf/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T21:56:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/asia-pacific/china-seen-usurping-u-s-hegemony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T21:58:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/world/germans-direct-nsa-ire-at-merkel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T21:58:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/business/g-20-to-discuss-how-to-keep-emerging-economies-healthy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T21:59:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/national/crime-legal/experts-say-sns-let-girl-hide-sinister-side/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T22:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Murder and SNS: Police on Sunday investigate a mountain road near the site where the body of a 16-year-old girl was found in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/national/kishida-kim-try-to-patch-up-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T22:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sign of detente?: Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (left) and Kim Kyou-hyun, South Korea's first vice minister of foreign affairs, meet in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/national/next-coast-guard-chief-to-come-up-from-ranks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T22:27:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuji Sato]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/business/corporate-business/sekisui-may-meet-profit-targets-on-demand-spike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T22:27:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/nb20130719a8a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20130719a8a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demand builds: Sekisui House Ltd. President Toshinori Abe is interviewed Tuesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/world/science-health-world/origin-of-gold-found-in-neutron-star-bursts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T23:53:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/national/japanese-man-five-more-teens-nabbed-over-girls-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T23:54:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/world/social-issues-world/review-turns-up-fbi-errors-in-27-death-penalty-convictions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-18T23:54:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/10/10/national/media-national/weeklies-tabloids-hawkish-over-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T12:17:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/10/31/national/media-national/hearing-chinas-take-on-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T12:18:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/world/panama-detains-ex-cia-operative-convicted-by-italy-of-kidnapping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T13:03:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/wn20130720n1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130720n1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[False target: Egyptian cleric Osama Hassan Mustafa Nasr, known as Abu Omar, who was allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents off the streets of an Italian city and taken to Egypt where he said he was tortured, makes a call in April 2007 after attending an Amnesty International press conference in Cairo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/world/crime-legal-world/manning-trial-judge-declines-to-dismiss-key-charge-he-aided-the-enemy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T13:06:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/wn20130720n2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130720n2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Over for another day: Army Pfc. Bradley Manning (center) is escorted to a security vehicle outside a courthouse in Fort Meade, Maryland, on Thursday, following another hearing. The military judge overseeing his trial refused a defense request to dismiss a charge that Manning aided the enemy.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/10/03/national/media-national/why-not-put-a-little-fun-into-your-funeral/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T14:16:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/10/17/national/history/korean-peerage-national-census-assasinaton-of-party-leader-and-sanctions-for-south-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T14:17:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/10/17/national/media-national/aeon-digging-grave-for-temple-funerals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T14:18:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/10/03/national/media-national/media-racism-how-unsportsmanlike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T14:41:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/national/80-think-another-nuke-disaster-probable-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T16:41:45+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/10/10/national/science-health/reflecting-on-some-recent-monkey-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T17:12:43+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/10/03/national/media-national/indias-expanding-film-industry-boasts-more-than-just-bollywood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T17:37:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/fd20101003a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20101003a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lights, camera, cocktail: A bar scene is shot at Whistling Woods International, a film school founded in 2006 by director and producer Subhash Ghai.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/10/31/national/media-national/japans-afghanistan-news-blackout-in-the-spotlight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T17:39:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/fd20101031pba.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20101031pba.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shot in action: War correspondent Yoichi Watanabe appears in a game ad.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/18/national/miyazaki-turns-to-adult-theme-in-new-film/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T18:23:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/nn20130719b2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130719b2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Kaze Tachinu" ("The Wind Rises")]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/business/detroit-files-for-largest-municipal-bankruptcy-in-u-s-history/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T20:11:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/wb20130720n1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[wb20130720n1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[TKO: Detroit's skyline rises behind the Monument to Joe Louis, who was raised in the city and went on to become one of boxing's greatest heavyweight champions in the 1930s and 1940s. State-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr on Thursday asked a federal judge for permission to place Detroit into Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/national/milan-expo-2015-welcomes-japans-participation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T20:44:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130720eaa.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking ahead: From left, Italian Ambassador Domenico Giorgi, Italian Vice Foreign Minister Marta Dassu, Commissioner of Expo 2015 Giuseppe Sala, Japanese Commissioner for Expo 2015 Hisanori Goto and Masaaki Taira, parliamentary vice minister of economy, trade and industry, attend the signing ceremony for Japan's participation in the next Universal Expo, to be held in Milan in 2015, on Thursday at the Italian Embassy in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mccain-threatens-to-block-dempsey-from-second-term-over-syria-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T21:56:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/business/does-u-s-agencys-new-office-represent-the-workplace-of-the-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T22:12:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opening up: A contractor for the General Services Administration uses the agency's flexible workspace in  Washington on June 18.  The office was revamped to create an open workspace in which desks are shared and "teleworking" is encouraged.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/business/tech/robots-likely-to-steal-jobs-from-poor-middle-class/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T22:13:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/world/social-issues-world/thats-me-in-the-picture-how-selfies-became-a-global-craze/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T23:05:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Space oddity: In December, astronaut Aki Hoshide took what might be the greatest selfie of all time at the International Space Station. The image encompassed the sun, the Earth, a robotic arm, a spacesuit and the darkness of the infinite beyond.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/world/science-health-world/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-the-naked-mole-rat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T23:06:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/wn20130720f2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130720f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wonder rodent: Naked mole rats, such as this pregnant female, are becoming popular in research laboratories. The African rodents, which have surprised scientists with their ability to live longer than 30 years without displaying typical signs of aging and their seeming immunity to cancer, are being used to study everything from aging to cancer to strokes.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/world/science-health-world/the-quest-is-to-clone-a-mammoth-the-question-is-should-scientists-do-it/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T23:30:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/wn20130720f3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130720f3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Frozen in time: The body of a 39,000-year-old female woolly mammoth, discovered in Siberian permafrost, is on display at Pacifico Yokohama through Sept. 16. Efforts to clone mammoths are raising ethical dilemmas, including whether such funding would be better spent on helping endangered species.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/national/barefoot-gen-exhibition-opens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T23:42:37+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/business/corporate-business/denso-mulls-tie-up-with-sharp-makita-also-eyes-investment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T23:42:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/national/politics-diplomacy/ishins-woes-go-beyond-hashimotos-gaffes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T23:43:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Regional outreach: Hyogo Gov. Toshizo Ido speaks during a meeting of the Union of Kansai Governments on May 23 in the city of Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/national/free-study-abroad-prep-in-kumamoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T23:44:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/national/nagoya-court-rescinds-deportation-of-residents-spouse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T23:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/business/corporate-business/honda-overhauls-its-all-important-fit-after-bringing-in-nsx-designers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T23:45:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Forward-leaning: Honda Motor Co.'s Fit has been completely overhauled.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/business/economy-business/april-june-gdp-forecast-faces-upgrade-to-3/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T23:46:04+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/business/summer-becomes-mother-of-cool-invention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-19T23:46:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130720cca.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer gets shampooed with shaved ice at hair salon Asai in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-19T23:49:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The youth vote: A girl casts a vote in front of posters for major political parties at the Kidzania career theme park in Tokyo on Friday. Children took part in a mock vote to learn about the political process ahead of Sunday's Upper House election.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teruo Asada]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-20T21:59:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coalesced: Indonesian protesters in Semarang, the capital of Central Java, rally against a Japanese project to build a large coal power plant in the province.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All fall down: The historic "Seven Sisters" smokestacks of Detroit's Conner Creek power plant are toppled in August 1996. Erected between 1914 and 1921, the seven 105-meter-tall chimneys became a city landmark, serving as a symbol of its industrial might and a navigational beacon for generations.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dislike: As people get savvier about social media, the chances that some people will abuse the Web tools for fiendish ends is also likely to increase.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Last impressions: A crowd listens to a stump speech by an Upper House candidate in Yamagata Prefecture on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-21T11:28:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[PROTESTS]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rallying to the cause: Tanisha Rollins, 29, of Dallas, and 32-year-old Nicole Cowan of Oxon Hill, Maryland, join a "Justice for Trayvon" vigil on Saturday to protest the shooter's acquittal in the death of black teen Trayvon Martin, in front of the historic E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Confidence game?: Finance Minister Taro Aso (left) and Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda attend a news conference after a Group of 20 meeting ended Saturday in Moscow.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-21T19:55:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Worth defending: Same-sex spouses Cathy Davis (second from left) and Catriona Dowling pose with their children in Boulder, Colorado. State officials across the U.S. are balking at defending laws on gay marriage, immigration and other socially divisive issues, arguing they are unconstitutional.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opening up: President Barack Obama shares his thoughts on the not-guilty verdict in the case of slain black teen  Trayvon Martin at the White House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-21T21:29:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-21T21:46:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/22/national/politics-diplomacy/online-campaigning-had-little-impact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-22T01:53:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sifting the ruins: Democratic Party of Japan President Banri Kaieda faces reporters in Tokyo on Sunday night, after the party's devastating defeat in the Upper House poll.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-22T11:16:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[While Yoshiko Kira of the Japanese Communist Party celebrates her win in the same district on Sunday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-26T21:10:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-26T21:25:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[I'm with  Weiner: Huma Abedin stands alongside her husband, New York mayoral candidate Anthony  Weiner, during a news conference in New  York on  Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-justice-to-take-on-state-laws-over-voting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T21:25:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-26T21:27:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pageantry and salesmanship: U.S. President Barack Obama (center) tours the port of Jacksonville, Florida, on  Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-26T21:27:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eye of the storm: Steven Cohen, manager of hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors, is seen with his wife, Alexandra.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/national/miyazaki-film-to-compete-in-venice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:29:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/national/japan-pledges-to-support-mideast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:29:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:29:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:30:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/national/comfort-women-to-aquino-sit-abe-down/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:30:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/national/china-sex-slave-who-sued-japan-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:31:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/national/ngo-calls-on-japan-u-s-to-up-humanitarian-aid-role/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:32:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/national/nagoya-commuters-get-their-cycle-on/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:33:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rush hour: People commute to work on a designated bicycle lane in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/national/japan-bucks-trend-captive-dolphin-biz-big/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:33:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Surging numbers:  Visitors learn about dolphins at Shimoda Aquarium in Shizuoka Prefecture on Sunday. The aquarium is one of just a handful in Japan that does not take dolphins from the wild but instead breeds them on-site.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-finds-an-ally-on-chinese-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:34:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the same page: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a news conference with his Malaysian counterpart, Najib Razak, in Malaysia's administrative capital of Putrajaya on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:35:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seat at the table: Koji Tsuruoka (center), Japan's chief  Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiator, attends a joint news conference after the 18th round ended Thursday in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/national/politics-diplomacy/dpj-lawmakers-ok-hosonos-exit-move-to-suspend-kan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:36:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:37:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:37:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/national/politics-diplomacy/opposition-disparate-foe-common/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:46:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Dc42048]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seeking common ground: The secretaries-general of three opposition parties, (from left) Yorihisa Matsuno of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party), Goshi Hosono of the Democratic Party of Japan and Kenji Eda of Your Party, may soon launch a new party.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/business/japan-singapore-agree-to-strengthen-economic-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:53:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:53:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deal assured: Japan Post President Taizo Nishimuro addresses reporters Friday while Daniel Amos, chairman of U.S. insurance giant American Family Life Assurance Co., looks on as they announce their agreement in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/national/china-set-to-try-suspect-in-case-of-tainted-dumplings-exported-to-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:53:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-26T22:54:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-26T23:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Salvation through art: Late Detroit artist Mike Kelley's installation work "Deodorized Central Mass With Satellites" from 1991-1999. "We need someone of his stature to be a figurehead," says Marsha Miro, board president of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-26T23:01:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-26T23:05:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Price-sensitive business: Tesco PLC, the U.K.'s largest supermarket chain, launched Price Promise, its latest initiative offering to match the price of customers' purchases to that of its rivals, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s ASDA. Tesco has a worldwide turnover of nearly £75 billion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/world/pay-properly-for-the-music-you-like-even-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T23:51:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Price wars: A screen grab from the online iTunes music store in the U.K. shows the price of Radiohead's album "In Rainbows" on Jan. 9, 2008. Radiohead had also made the 2007 album available online on a pay-what-you-want basis.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-26T23:57:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mean street: The home of murder/arson suspect Kosei Homi is blocked off with tarp Friday in Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Also shown is the gutted house of Miyako Yamamoto, one of five elderly neighbors slain earlier this week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/national/politics-diplomacy/defense-planners-mull-pre-emptive-strike-ability/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T23:58:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/national/tepco-chief-admits-pr-fiasco-over-water-info/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-26T23:59:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/26/national/towns-undersea-mailbox-lures-divers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-27T13:41:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fan mail from some flounder?: Divers mail water-resistant postcards in a postbox 10 meters down off the town of Susami, Wakayama Prefecture, in June 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/27/world/manning-portrayed-as-naive-and-brave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-27T22:02:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-27T22:03:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-27T22:39:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/27/national/sex-slavery-victims-rally-in-manila/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-27T22:40:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking for recognition: Filipino women who say they were forced into sexual slavery during the war hold a rally behind barbed wire outside the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Having fun: Ji Yingnan and her lover, Fan Yue, the deputy director of policy and regulation at the State Archives Administration, pose for a photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-27T22:45:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/27/national/media-national/tight-budgets-food-safety-and-eel-inflation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-27T23:18:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family ties: NHK's morning drama "Amachan" revolves around a teenage girl named Aki (Rena Nonen, center), who becomes an idol to help save the ama (female diver) culture in the hometown of her mother Haruko (Kyoko Koizumi, right).]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/27/national/history/leak-finally-led-to-removal-of-chemical-weapons-from-okinawa/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-27T23:25:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/27/national/sumida-river-fireworks-canceled-by-storm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-07-28T00:47:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brief bang: Fireworks light up the sky Saturday along the Sumida River in Tokyo before it was canceled by a thunderstorm.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staying put: Nippon Ishin no Kai co-leader Toru Hashimoto (center) and Ichiro Matsui (left), the party's secretary-general, attend a party meeting Saturday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/27/national/crime-legal/suspect-in-yamaguchi-murder-arson-case-is-turned-over-to-prosecutors/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kosei Homi]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-28T22:35:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Huma Abedin]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/28/world/idaho-mom-sues-obama-over-surveillance-program/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anna Smith]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bad reaction: Women who started feeling sick during an outdoor concert by the pop group NEWS are taken to the hospital in Tokyo's Aoyama district late Saturday night after the show was halted by rain.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For the record: Philippine President Benigno Aquino (right) watches Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sign the guest book before their meeting at Malacanang Palace in Manila on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Just ducky?: Gabriel Weinberg is one of the few entrepreneurs who has gained some traction in the search engine market dominated by Google. His site, DuckDuckGo, touts industry-leading privacy features and "zero click info" boxes.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The cat's out of the bag: Protesters take part in a demonstration against the U.S. National Security Agency in Hanover, Germany, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manna from heaven: Alzheimer's "experts" have touted natto (fermented soybeans) as a potential wonderfood that could cure the disease.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zeke peek: A Zero Fighter Type 52, on loan from a U.S. museum, is the hottest display at Tokorozawa Aviation Museum in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture. Thanks to the recent release of Hayao Miyazaki's animated film "Kaze Tachinu" ("The Wind Rises"), visitors here tripled in June compared with the previous year, and more are expected this summer.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paolo Pirjanian]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-07-29T23:59:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akitaka Saiki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/01/11/national/science-health/time-a-darwinian-true-myth-evolved-to-rival-religion/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Charles Darwin]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI recently ducked out of a speech in Rome after protests over his condemnation of 17th-century scientist Galileo Galilei.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Who am I to judge?": Pope Francis answers reporters' questions aboard the papal flight Monday on its way back from Brazil.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Survivor's tale: At home recently in Hiroshima, Tokihiko Hara holds his uncle's notebook detailing his experiences of the atomic bombing of the city.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Personal story: During a recent interview in Tokyo, actor Mikijiro Hira speaks about how the atomic bombing of Hiroshima affected him and his family.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On alert: A People's Liberation Army soldier is seen at a base in Xian on Monday. In recent months Beijing has sent frigates and surveillance vessels to the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, setting off alarm bells in Manila.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under fire: All Japan Judo Federation Chairman Haruki Uemura heads to an extraordinary board meeting Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Hisahito is cuddled by mom Princess Kiko outside a Tokyo hospital while her husband and the man second in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne, Prince Akishino, looks on.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Making a statement: Farmers raise their fists at a rally against Japan's participation in the negotiations for the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement Tokyo in October 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/06/20/national/media-national/talent-agencies-enjoy-the-biggest-laugh/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Downtown (Hitoshi Matsumoto (left) and Masatoshi Hamada) is the highest paid comedy act in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/06/13/national/media-national/murakamis-job-guide-for-teens-lights-the-pipe-of-dreams/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryu Murakami's new book aims to explain the job market to teenagers, but it's hard for kids to realize their ambitions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/02/15/national/media-national/politicians-score-d-minus-for-education-claims/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi looks to be tapping the head of the LDP Secretary General Shinzo Abe. Abe, reportedly, is confused about how much time he actually spent at an American university.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/02/01/national/media-national/entertaining-the-idea-of-surrogate-mums/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aki Mukai (right) and Nobuhiko Takada]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/01/25/national/media-national/japans-culture-dictates-thou-shalt-eat-meat/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wholesalers bid at a Tokyo meat market. In Japan  vegetarianism is very much an underground phenomenon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/11/02/national/media-national/on-tv-what-you-get-is-not-what-you-want/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[There are only 2,400 households acting as TV monitors in Japan, which leaves the program-rating system open to abuse.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/09/07/national/media-national/north-korea-unveils-secret-weapon-its-an-attack-of-the-clones/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The attempt to humanize North Korean cheerleaders by presenting them as individuals failed because the point of the group is faceless solidarity.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/12/07/national/media-national/japans-refusal-to-embrace-sex-education-fuels-spread-of-aids/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[When hotel boss Tadao Eguchi (left) was asked why he banned former Hansen's disease sufferers from using a hot-spring resort he runs he claimed it was "only natural"  as his staff lacked knowledge of the condition. A similar lack of awareness about how AIDS is spread is likely to see the number of cases shoot up in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koichi Tanaka is so "normal" he's a hero.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Self-confessed opportunist Ichiro Ozawa]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The cast members of "Friends" have agreed to a 10th season for the sitcom, while Koki Mitani, the maker of Japan's "first situation comedy," is struggling  to get through just one.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Found: "Madame Valtat" by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir was stolen from a Tokyo home in 2000 and auctioned by Sotheby's in February.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The body of a whale that was found dead under a pier in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, on July 27 is to be buried on a beach in Mihama Ward in the city of Chiba. Work started Monday to remove the 22-meter-long carcass of the mammal, tentatively identified as a fin whale.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the rise: A customer walks through the noodles section at a supermarket in Tokyo in April.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President George W. Bush registers his name at Meiji Shrine's main hall of worship.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Four of the five repatriated Japanese abductees speak at separate news conferences in Fukui and Niigata prefectures. Pictured above are Fukie Chimura and Yasushi Chimura, and below Yukiko Hasuike and Kaoru Hasuike.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/01/22/business/mitsubishi-fuso-plans-to-cut-costs-with-alliance/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wilfried Porth,  president of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck &amp; Bus Corp., addresses reporters Tuesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/11/27/business/japan-making-tariff-list-checking-it-twice/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoichi Nakagawa]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A house lies in ruins after being destroyed by an early morning gale in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture. Two people sleeping inside suffered minor injsuries.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/05/30/national/one-reporter-may-have-been-captured-before-being-shot-2/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20040530a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives of two Japanese journalists reported killed in Iraq - Shinsuke Hashida and Kotaro Ogawa - arrive Saturday at Narita airport before leaving for Kuwait. From left are Hashida's wife, Yukiko, his younger sister, Yoko, who is also Ogawa's mother, and Hashida's eldest son, Daisuke.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/11/17/business/cities-launch-east-asia-economic-exchange-forum/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-06T15:31:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-06T16:13:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chuhai]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/12/21/national/budget-wont-spark-growth-experts-warn/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Falling short: Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda speaks during a news conference at the Auto Shanghai 2011 car show on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Safe distance: A man at an Osaka electronics store watches a Self-Defense Forces helicopter drop water on the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hybrid plant: A Toyota car makes its way along the assembly line at New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. in Fremont, Calif., on June 3, 2002.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/28/business/car-output-posts-record-41-fall/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20090228a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Top pick: A revamped Prius hybrid from Toyota Motor Corp. is shown at Detroit's international motor show on Jan. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/24/business/mercedes-benz-to-debut-clean-diesel-suv/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-06T18:07:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/11/28/business/export-demand-boosts-car-output/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-06T18:09:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/10/03/business/new-nissan-skyline-boasts-pedestrian-protection/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20071003a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. Chief Operating Officer Toshiyuki Shiga shows off the new Skyline coupe in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/17/national/plane-maker-apologizes-over-landing-gear-failure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-06T18:23:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/18/business/nimbler-jal-to-bolster-overseas-flight-services/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-06T18:24:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/11/24/national/abduction-hard-line-self-defeating-expert/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20061124a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gerald Curtis (center), professor of political science at Columbia University, says at The Korea Society in New York that Japan's lack of flexibility on the abduction issue is narrowing its diplomatic options with Pyongyang.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/10/29/business/china-product-piracy-to-go-before-wto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-06T18:28:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/06/04/national/sdf-team-opens-clinic-in-quake-hit-java-town/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Self-Defense Forces personnel take notes at their clinic in Bantul, Indonesia, on Saturday as residents hit by the deadly May 27 earthquake explain their medical needs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators hold a banner protesting Japan's aspirations to become a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council during a rally Friday in front of U.N. headquarters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/04/21/national/machimura-urges-action-on-u-n-reform/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawan chronicler: Hiroaki Yamashiro, 64, is exhibiting his photographs at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Star newshounds: Journalists Bob  Woodward (right) and Carl Bernstein, whose reporting of the Watergate scandal won them a Pulitzer Prize, sit in the  Washington Post newsroom in May 1973.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hot off the press: Philip Graham (left) and Eugene Meyer look at the first-ever copy of  The Washington Post  Times Herald, in Washington on March 18, 1954.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prayers for peace: Elderly women pray for victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in front of the cenotaph at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Tuesday as ceremonies are held to mark the 68th anniversary of the bombing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rite of remembrance: Prayers are offered Tuesday during a ceremony at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima to mark the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Consolidated gripes: A protest is staged Tuesday outside U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa, following the crash Monday of a U.S. Air Force chopper elsewhere in the prefecture and over the additional deployment of MV-22 Osprey aircraft to Futenma.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Establishing relations: Makiko Orita, a graduate student at Nagasaki University, visits store owner Yoshiyuki Yanai in Kawauchi, Fukushima Prefecture, for a health consultation July 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-09T21:59:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-09T22:01:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-09T22:27:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-09T22:41:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[JAPAN-US-ECONOMY-TRADE]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese lead negotiator for Japan-U.S. trade talks, Takeo Mori, answers a question at the Foreign Ministry on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-09T23:33:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130810f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lest we forget: France's Douaumont Ossuary, dedicated to the 230,000 men who lost their lives at the Battle of Verdun (Feb. 21 to Dec. 19, 1916).]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-09T23:37:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oops, I did it again: New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, who resigned from the U.S. Congress in 2011 in the wake of a sex scandal, admitted at a July 24 press conference to sending sexually explicit text messages as recently as last summer.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-09T23:38:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sugar is sugar: A student in Connecticut buys a soft drink in the school cafeteria. While few parents believe sodas are good for their kids, many of them don't realize that "healthy" fruit drinks can contain nearly as much sugar as a can of cola.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-09T23:44:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[State of anarchy: Child soldiers of the Seleka coalition sit near the presidential palace in Bangui on March 25. Four months after a violent coup, the people of the Central African Republic are "living in a constant fear" as the rule of law has collapsed.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-10T00:41:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jackpot: TV personality and popular campaign girl Aki Hoshino, seen here promoting a slot machine, reportedly received 300,000 from World Auction to write on her blog that she'd bought an air filter from the site.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-10T19:58:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-10T21:57:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-10T21:57:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-10T21:57:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-10T22:07:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In detail: This classified NSA slide lists two of the agency's methods for eavesdropping on communications.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Solemn moment: An elderly woman offers prayers at Nagasaki Peace Park on Friday to mark the 68th anniversary of the atomic attack against the city at the end of World War II.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/10/national/politics-diplomacy/another-of-abes-ministers-mulls-visit-to-yasukuni-shrine-for-war-anniversary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-10T23:28:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/10/national/u-s-military-confirms-death-of-crew-member-in-okinawa-chopper-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-10T23:28:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-10T23:30:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Historical occasion: Participants pose for a group photo Saturday in Kraskino, in Russia's Far East, while re-enacting the 1938 Battle of Lake Khasan, also known as the Changkufeng Incident, between Imperial Japanese and Soviet troops. The event was held to mark the 75th anniversary of the clash.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-10T23:44:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-10T23:44:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-10T23:56:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aftermath: A landslide that crashed into the community of Tazawako Tazawakuyobutsu in Senboku, Akita Prefecture, killing three people and leaving two others missing, is seen Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-11T10:06:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sweet scent: Singer Kumi Koda attends the launch of her new perfume in December 2012. The singer made a big stink in the media five years earlier when she suggested older women were biologically unsuited to having children. Seen as a gaffe at the time, nowadays it seems women would not react as negatively.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High-rise and fall: Detroit's Renaissance Center (left), the global headquarters of General Motors Co., stands in contrast to a vacant home in the foreground in June.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taichi Sakaiya]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eric Holder]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tied for success: Aya Ohzeki, president and chief executive officer of Noble Apex Inc., shows a range of ties produced by her company in Tokyo in May.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[If the shoe fits: Shoppers sort through shoes on sale at a department store in Tokyo on June 28.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chain gang: MV-22 Osprey opponents form a human chain outside U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa, during a demonstration in September 2012. Their protracted fight against the deployment of the tilt-rotor transport aircraft at the air base is depicted in a documentary titled "The Targeted Village."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/12/national/security-panel-to-discuss-japans-response-to-cyberattacks-on-allies/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dialogue: New Komeito member Kyohiko Toyama (left) is greeted by Yang Yanyi, assistant minister of the Chinese Communist Party's International Department, prior to their meeting in Beijing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Up in arms: People block a U.S. military car outside Okinawa's Futenma base to protest Monday's Osprey ferry flights.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Make or break decision: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves after speaking to the media at his party headquarters in Tokyo on July 21. He will decide whether to raise the consumption tax after analyzing economic growth data.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ethnic diversity: People shop in Koreatown in Shinjuku's Shin-Okubo district in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spark plug: Campfire is one of the nation's leading websites enabling users to engage in "crowd funding," a method of mass fundraising over the Internet.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Your life in wires: The campus-network room of a data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, is seen in this photo provided by Google Inc. Reams of data are coursing through the fiber cables running along the yellow cable trays near the ceiling.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-13T20:39:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[After-school special: Sturgeons are raised inside a gymnasium of a former junior high school in Higashikagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-13T23:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Legacy: Leonid Brezhnev used the Hot Line several times with U.S. President Gerald Ford's predecessor, Richard Nixon, and successors Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense matters: Shinichi Kitaoka, president of the International University of Japan and acting chairman of a government panel on security issues, is interviewed Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keeping their cool: A family plays in the Shimanto River on Wednesday in Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, where the mercury hit a record 41.0 degrees Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Preflight: U.S Air Force crewmen brief reporters Wednesday near an HH-60G Pave Hawk rescue helicopter at the Kadena base in Okinawa.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/14/national/nra-oks-plan-on-safety-measures-for-fukushima-no-1/</loc>
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