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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New life begins: This photo, provided by the U.S. Army, shows a photo of Bradley Manning wearing a wig and make-up.  Manning, sentenced to 35 years for leaking secret documents, said Thursday he now considers himself a woman and wants to be known as Chelsea.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the up: Stacked redwood samples lie in a lab at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. The trees are in the midst of an unprecedented growth spurt due to climate change.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-23T21:18:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Safe sailing: Melting ice in Kongsfjorden, part of Norway's Svalbard archipelago. The Arctic's summer ice cover has dropped by more than 40 percent over the last few decades, making the centuries-old quest for a northern sea route a reality.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-23T21:40:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Targeted by trolls: After Caroline Criado-Perez (far right) successfully petitioned to have Jane Austen's image appear on Britain's new £10 banknote, Twitter trolls used the anonymity of the Internet to inundate her with threats of rape and violence. And when member of Parliament Stella Creasy (second from right) defended her, she suffered similar abuse.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-23T21:51:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/business/myanmar-offered-power-know-how/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-23T21:52:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/national/defense-officials-readied-for-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-23T21:52:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-23T22:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On a mission: The Voyager 1 pictured in 1979. Scientists are unsure where the space probe is, 36 years after it left Earth to explore Jupiter and Saturn.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-to-seek-contact-with-xi-at-g-20/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-23T22:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/business/corporate-business/mhi-jet-wins-u-s-backing-from-skywest-trans-states/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-23T22:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Friends in high places: Mitsubishi Aircraft President Teruaki Kawai (center) attends a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/business/economy-business/no-1-plant-leak-clouds-abe-nuke-spiel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-23T22:03:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Down to business: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Justice Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki (left) attend a plenary session at the Lower House on Aug 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/business/reform-plan-no-remedy-for-health-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-23T22:03:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/national/tepco-radioactive-flow-raises-alarm-over-seafood-safety/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-23T22:03:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Short straw: A worker checks radiation levels around a contaminated water tank Thursday at the Fukushima No. 1 plant.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/national/boards-request-to-restrict-barefoot-gen-assailed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-23T22:04:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/national/npo-helps-parents-help-child-victims-of-crime-by-altering-mind-set/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-23T22:05:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Changing perceptions: Parents and their children attend a workshop organized by the National Network of  Victim Support in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/national/liver-cells-successfully-transplanted-into-baby-for-first-time-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-23T22:51:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/national/crime-legal/love-of-buses-trips-up-osaka-man/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-23T23:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of service: Bus destination signs confiscated from the home of a bus buff who was arrested for allegedly stealing them are displayed Thursday at Yodogawa Police Station in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/national/politics-diplomacy/nixon-called-tanaka-nationalistic-new-boy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-23T23:21:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Levity: U.S. President Richard Nixon and Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka enjoy a laugh with Secretary of State William P. Rogers at the end of a summit in Hawaii on Sept. 1, 1972.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/national/tokyo-2020-olympics-bid-committee-girds-for-the-final-presentation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-23T23:23:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pumped up: The Tokyo Olympics bid committee holds a rally Friday at the metropolitan government office ahead of their final presentation to the International Olympics Committee in Buenos Aires in 15 days. Participants of the rally included (front row from second from left) JOC President Tsunekazu Takeda, Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/national/critics-split-on-kennedys-new-role-as-u-s-envoy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-24T19:38:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Full plate: Caroline Kennedy attends the 100th anniversary of New York City's Grand Central Terminal on Feb. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/national/maestro-rebounds-after-18-month-rest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-24T22:20:23+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/national/abe-advisers-divided-over-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-24T22:23:12+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/australian-coalition-ahead-of-labor-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-24T22:23:30+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/national/2channel-founder-hit-for-tax-dodge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-24T22:24:06+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/national/media-national/it-only-takes-one-barefoot-step-to-cross-the-line-into-censorship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-24T23:14:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators remove boxes of documents from an apartment in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward last year. Four men were arrested under anti-child-pornography laws in connection to the documents.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/national/history/only-in-japan-could-a-sword-be-life-giving/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-24T23:18:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/national/state-may-buy-into-tokyo-osaka-port-operators-to-counter-busan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-24T23:27:58+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/national/six-new-embassies-eyed-as-beijings-influence-spreads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-24T23:56:12+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/national/shimane-residents-urged-to-evacuate-amid-heavy-rain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T00:13:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Holding on: A house tilts after being hit by a mudslide Saturday in Hamada, Shimane Prefecture, where more than 36,000 residents were advised to evacuate due to torrential rain.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/national/politics-diplomacy/china-japan-hurts-trade-with-words/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T00:15:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/business/tech/under-ballmer-microsoft-struggled-to-modernize/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T00:15:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/national/science-health/victims-hit-cervical-cancer-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T00:28:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Other side of the story: Members of a support group for people injured by cervical cancer vaccines face reporters Friday in Tokyo after they filed a request for the government to end subsidies for the injections.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/asia-pacific/koreas-agree-to-let-families-reunite-in-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T00:29:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fingers crossed: Hyun Chun-koom, 80, looks at a computer monitor at the headquarters of the Korean Red Cross in Seoul on Saturday. Hyun was among hundreds of candidates vying for slots to meet with their long-separated North Korean relatives during family reunions planned for late September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/25/business/fdic-races-against-time-to-prosecute-bank-debacle-suspects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T21:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In pursuit: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. logo is displayed outside the agency's headquarters in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/25/business/time-of-reckoning-approaching-legarde-warns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T21:31:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sobering message: Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, gestures while being interviewed by Sarah Eisen of Bloomberg News at the Jackson Hole economic symposium sponsored by the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank at the Jackson Lake Lodge in Moran, Wyoming, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/25/national/u-s-soldier-dies-in-aomori-car-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T22:06:34+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/25/business/corporate-business/lexus-takes-aim-at-young-buyers-in-middle-east/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T22:14:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Targeting the nouveau rich: A man walks down a flight of stairs beside a decorated wall adorning the Intersect By Lexus luxury brand experience space run by Toyota Motor Corp., in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/25/national/abe-reaches-deal-with-bahrain-on-gcc-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T22:15:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reopening talks: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, prime minister of Bahrain, hold a joint press conference in Manama on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/25/business/economy-business/tax-hike-debate-expected-to-heat-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T22:15:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/25/business/tpp-stakeholders-next-summit-likely-in-october-in-bali/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T22:15:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/25/national/lawyers-to-support-bullying-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T22:16:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/25/world/crime-legal-world/mental-health-courts-seek-to-treat-rather-than-jail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T22:59:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Judgment: The facade of the Prince George's County Courthouse complex, where the mental court is held, is seen on Aug. 16 in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/25/world/science-health-world/nasas-mission-improbable-corral-an-asteroid/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rocket to ya: Components for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle sit on the floor at the NASA Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-25T23:05:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-25T23:05:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-25T23:06:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reality check: Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (left) is briefed on the status of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant during his visit to Ukraine on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/25/national/legal-process-for-collective-defense-eyed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-25T23:14:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-25T23:15:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20130826a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Missing in action: Ben Bernanke did not give the keynote speech to open this year's annual economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming — the first time in more than two decades a Federal Reserve chief has failed to do so.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/national/media-national/chilling-tales-are-tops-when-trying-to-beat-the-heat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-26T11:03:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-26T12:43:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-26T12:43:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumiko Hayashi]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-26T21:39:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-26T22:47:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-26T22:47:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-26T22:49:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-26T22:50:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-26T22:57:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/26/business/economy-business/tpp-talks-on-farm-tariffs-not-likely-till-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-26T23:55:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-26T23:55:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-27T00:03:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-27T00:06:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/26/national/outside-help-offered-to-deal-with-tepco-debacle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-27T00:07:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/26/business/economy-business/kuroda-says-stimulus-starting-to-exert-effects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-27T00:25:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Positive: Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda arrives at the Jackson Hole economic symposium in Wyoming on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/26/business/corporate-business/google-adds-japan-to-new-nexus-7-tablet-launch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-27T00:25:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan-bound: Chris Yerga, Google's engineering director, speaks in Tokyo on Monday while standing in front of an image of the new Nexus 7 tablet computer. The Nexus 7, produced by Taiwanese maker Asus, will go on sale in Japan on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/top-challenger-detained-as-moscows-race-for-mayor-heats-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-27T00:25:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hardball: Alexei Navalny speaks after police released him in Moscow on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-27T00:29:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[We're in: The Japanese women's ice hockey team celebrates after earning a berth to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, in the final qualifying round held in Slovakia in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-27T00:33:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-27T00:33:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/26/national/alps-filter-off-till-at-least-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-27T00:38:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-27T11:16:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-27T13:06:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-27T21:02:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-27T21:53:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rubble and ruin: Syrians evacuate a victim following an air strike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad in Aleppo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-27T22:12:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Poolside: The spent-fuel pool of reactor 4 at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which industry minister Toshimitsu Motegi visited Monday, is seen the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/27/national/crime-legal/girl-recruiting-teacher-in-hot-water/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-27T22:35:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-27T22:44:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-27T22:45:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Aso]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/27/national/crime-legal/six-more-police-forces-to-receive-dna-testing-gear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-27T22:45:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Campaign "girls": Three daughters of late centenarian Gin Kanie, who with her twin sister, Kin Narita, grabbed national attention until their deaths in the early 2000s, visit Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura Monday in Nagoya, where they are from. Next month, the daughters will appear in a traffic safety TV commercial produced by the prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-27T22:46:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-27T22:51:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-27T23:01:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/27/business/japan-budget-requests-likely-to-top-%c2%a5100-trillion-for-second-year-in-fiscal-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-27T23:59:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/27/national/epsilon-rocket-launch-called-off-on-the-pad-at-last-minute/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-28T00:01:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Observers gather to see the launch of the Epsilon rocket carrying the world's first space telescope for observing planets in Kagoshima Tuesday morning before its launch was postponed at the last minutes in the afternoon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/27/national/politics-diplomacy/ban-shouldnt-hit-abes-views-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-28T00:01:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/27/national/nagasaki-shipyard-among-old-industrial-sites-named-for-world-heritage-list/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Battleship Island": Nagasaki Prefecture's uninhabited Hashima Island, which was a thriving coal mining facility from the late 19th century to the mid-1970s, was picked Tuesday by a government panel for possible inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruo Iguchi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Checks, balances: New Komeito chief Natsuo Yamaguchi is interviewed Thursday by Kyodo News in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sympathetic ears: Members of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea (from left) Marzuki Darusman, Justice Michael Kirby and Sonja Biserko listen to relatives of Japanese abducted by North Korean agents during a two-day public hearing in Tokyo at U.N. University on Thursday. Right: Sakie Yokota (second from left) speaks about her abducted daughter, Megumi.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/29/national/fishermen-lash-out-at-tepco-over-toxic-water/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[xxx: Hiroshi Kishi (right), chairman of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations, hands a letter of protest to Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose at the association's office in Tokyo Thursday, given the widespread concern over the radioactive water leaks from the Fukushima plant into the Pacific.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Refloated: A magnetically levitated train developed by Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) runs on an experimental track in Tsuru, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators protest in front of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s head office in central Tokyo Wednesday night against the leakage of radioactive water at the company's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/30/business/corporate-business/google-exec-leaves-to-join-chinese-firm/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[BRITAIN-AUSTRALIA-ENTERTAINMENT-ART-MUSIC-SEX-ASSAULT-FILES]]></image:title>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Executed?: Singer Hyon Song  Wol, a former girlfriend of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was reportedly put to death by the regime on Aug. 20.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Slow march to parity: A man weeps during the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the March on  Washington at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis,  Tennessee, on  Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Greater things await: Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a rising Democratic star who is running for the U.S. Senate, speaks at an Aug. 24 rally from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-30T21:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-30T21:33:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-30T21:33:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syria options: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida prepare Friday morning to weigh Japan's responses to a possible U.S. military strike on Syria.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[End of an era: Built in 1917, the Hakuunso inn at the Tsuchiyu Onsen hot springs resort in the city of Fukushima lies in ruins after being gutted by a fire Thursday night.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Getting the word out: Meteorological Agency Chief Mitsuhiko Hatori briefs the media about the agency's new alert system Thursday ahead of its launch Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Get smart: Actress Yuki Amami shows off Toshiba Corp.'s new home appliance products compatible with smartphones Thursday in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/30/business/brunei-tpp-round-ends-in-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-08-30T22:21:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-30T22:35:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-30T22:36:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-30T22:36:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-30T23:19:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-31T21:09:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-31T22:42:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-31T22:42:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Be heard: Anti-nuclear protesters, including some who survived the atomic bombings of World War II, gather in Hiroshima. The anti-nuclear movement has long had to deal with the kind of harassment that pollutes the Internet today.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-31T23:43:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-08-31T23:43:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/31/national/events-held-to-promote-20-games/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Big splash: Participants taking part in a swimming and running race Saturday to promote Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Summer Games set out from the starting line in Odaiba.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Numbers game: A Mexican soldier takes a machete to poppies in an anti-drug operation in Guerrero state Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Star power: Doraemon, one of Japan's most popular animation characters, participates in a kick-off ceremony on Aug. 23 in aid of Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cash in!: Official posters promoting Tokyo's bid for the 2020 Olympics hang on the wall of a subway concourse in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-06T23:02:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fearless: Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez's book "Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and their Godfathers" links the Sinaloa cartel — the biggest criminal organization in the world — to the leadership of the Mexican state.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10 abenomics-a 20130907]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Round one: Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) gives his opening speech Thursday during the first working session of the Group of 20 summit in Constantine Palace near St. Petersburg. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attended the session.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Animated: Director Hayao Miyazaki holds a lively news conference Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-07T19:51:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-07T20:51:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-07T21:11:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a word: Moderator Akira Ikegami asks eight panelists what in their view is the most impressive feature of Japanese corporate culture at a symposium in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Against her will: This series of photos of a woman kidnapped for a forced marriage in Kyrgyzstan won Noriko Hayashi the highest award for feature reporting at the Visa pour l'image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Postwar story: Tommy Lee Jones (left) plays Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Matthew Fox plays Gen. Bonner Fellers in "Emperor," which is now playing in cinemas nationwide.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fears for the future: A child is screened for radiation shortly after the accident at Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant in 2011. Fukushima Medical School continues to monitor some 360,000 under-18s for signs of cancer.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leftovers again: A scene from the film "Taste the Waste" shows how much of our edibles turn into garbage. Japanese media has also been tackling the issue of wasted food as of late.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-08T00:34:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The eleventh hour: An audience in Tokyo's Marunouchi district watches Prime Minister Shinzo Abe make the final presentation in Buenos Aires on Saturday for Tokyo's dream of hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics, at an event organized by the capital's bid committee.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Full backing: Fujio Cho, honorary chairman of Toyota Motor Corp., speaks during the ACCJ Tokyo 2020 Olympics Task Force event in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-08T23:58:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The face of a nation: Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee speakers for its final presentation on Saturday in Buenos Aires included (top row, left to right) Princess Hisako, Paralympic long jumper Mami Sato, Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda, Tokyo 2020 CEO Masato Mizuno and (bottom row, left to right) Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose, Tokyo 2020 bid ambassador Christel Takigawa, Olympic fencer Yuki Ota and Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kingmaker: Kuwaiti IOC member Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah arrives in Buenos Aires on Sept. 7 for the 125th IOC Session.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Upgrade time: Customers admire widescreen TVs in Akihabara, Tokyo's tech mecca, Sunday morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hayao Miyazaki]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One president, one vote: Russian President Vladimir Putin casts his ballot at a polling station in Moscow on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dropped the ball?: Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks at a news conference at the Dipoli conference center in Espoo, Finland, on Sept. 3.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pinned down: Olympic wrestlers (from second from left) Saori Yoshida, Kaori Icho and Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu celebrate Monday in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward as the sport retained its place on the Olympics list of core sports.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From memory to legacy: Andy Anderson talks about Regge Life's documentary on his daughter, Taylor, who was killed by the tsunami that devastated the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 11, 2011.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finding a niche: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrate after signing a civil nuclear cooperation pact in Ankara in May. The pact is one of the fruits of Abe's efforts to boost exports of reactors.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[What's my line?: Iku Sakurabe (right), a graduate of Kyoto Seika University who studied cartooning, is trained by a supervisor how to serve tea at the luxury Nakanobo Zui-en inn in Kobe on July 18.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under the sea: The topography of Tamu Massif, the largest volcano ever found on Earth, is seen in 3-D.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fast paced: Members of Washington's Chinese Youth Club play 9-man volleyball in Washington in 1952. This version, usually played on city streets with rules stressing players' Chinese heritage, draws hundreds to tournaments.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In it together: Trade minister Toshimitsu Motegi (front row, second from right) and other delegates from nations that produce and consume LNG gather in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alan Bollard]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In demand: Hiroshi Kawano, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia, holds a news conference in Tokyo on Monday. Sony will release the PlayStation 4 console in Japan three months after it reaches shelves in North America.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/05/17/national/history/donts-for-ladies-hunting-pickpockets-and-tokyo-named-olympic-host/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-11T21:12:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Tokyo 2020 bid delegation react.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[APTOPIX Dow Shake Up Q&amp;A]]></image:title>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rand Paul]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New landscape: A man walks through a destroyed residential area of the Syrian city of Saraqib, southwest of Aleppo, on Tuesday following repeated airstrikes by government forces' fighter jets.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/11/world/kerrys-offhand-remark-on-crisis-has-long-reach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-11T21:50:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bringing home the gold: People involved in Tokyo's winning bid to host the 2020 Olympics celebrate Tuesday evening at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government office in Shinjuku Ward.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crossing the aisle: Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroshige Seko of the Liberal Democratic Party and Kumiko Hayashi of the Democratic Party of Japan were recently married.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-11T22:33:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bid to stop the bleeding: An employee at an NTT DoCoMo Inc. store in Tokyo stands by a display of mobile devices and tablet computers on Tuesday. Japan's largest mobile communications carrier will market the latest iPhones from Sept. 20 to recover market share lost to rivals Softbank Corp. and KDDI Corp.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-11T22:35:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Locked and loaded: A Nissan Rogue is loaded onto a car carrier at the Port of Los Angeles for dealer delivery on June 28. Nissan said Tuesday it has revamped the popular SUV to get a bigger share of the growing crossover segment.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-11T22:40:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-11T22:40:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-11T22:57:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Positive view: Photographer Karsten Thormaehlen shows a photo he took of 101-year-old physician Shigeaki Hinohara, at The Japan Times in Minato Ward in July.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In vogue: A waiter slices off some "churrasco" for diners at a Brazilian restaurant in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Summer Davos: Mitsubishi Corp. Chairman Yorihiko Kojima (second from left), Yasutoshi Nishimura, senior vice minister of the Cabinet Office (fourth from left), former economy minister Heizo Takenaka (right), and other panelists discuss "Abenomics" at the Annual Meeting of New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the money: A Sanrio Co. Hello Kitty figure arranged by Japanese model Ai Tominaga is displayed at the Swarovski "House of Hello Kitty" event at Omotesando Hills in Tokyo on June 29, 2011.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Overseas jab: Cartoons poking fun at Tokyo hosting the 2020 Olympics in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster appeared in the Sept. 11 edition of the satirical French weekly Le Canard Enchaine.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T18:43:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T20:53:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T20:55:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Revolving door: Parliament Speaker Wang Jin-pyng arrives at the Legislative Yuan for a meeting in Taipei on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T20:59:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Extracting answers: This illustration depicts Shin Dong Hyuk at the age of 13 being tortured over a charcoal fire at the No. 14 political prison camp in Kaechon, North Korea. Shin displayed this illustration in Tokyo in July 2008. Now 25, Shin was born at the prison camp and spent 22 years there until he was eventually able to escape in 2005.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T21:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deep focus: The 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera is installed atop a telescope in Chile.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/13/world/science-health-world/voyager-i-craft-becomes-first-man-made-object-to-enter-interstellar-space/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-13T21:33:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130914n2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Distant travels: This illustration released by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 at the edge of the solar system.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T21:53:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T21:53:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T21:53:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T21:54:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T21:54:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T21:55:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of a kind: Takashi Amano, head of the archives room at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Komaki-Minami plant, tells visitors about the Imperial Japanese Navy's Zero fighter plane.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T21:58:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Top tier: Commercial and residential buildings in Tokyo are seen from an observatory in Mori Tower in Roppongi Hills on Sept. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/13/national/compactness-key-to-olympics-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-13T21:59:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visions of the future: The new Olympic Stadium in Shinjuku Ward, conceptualized above, will be the main venue for athletics, soccer and rugby.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/13/national/centenarians-set-to-hit-record-high-of-54397/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-13T21:59:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T22:00:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Decision-maker: Shinichiro Ito, president and chief executive officer of ANA Holdings Inc., speaks behind a model of a Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner for ANA during an interview in Tokyo on Sept. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T22:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T22:31:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Telly time: "There's an intimacy to watching television, a comforting security like a glowing hearth."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Experienced hand: Luke Barret (center), external advisor to Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s task force on tainted water and tank leaks, inspects the Fukushima No. 1 plant in Fukushima Prefecture on Thursday. Barret was involved in the 1979-1993 cleanup of the Three Mile Island power plant in Pennsylvania following a partial meltdown in one reactor.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/13/national/toxic-drain-water-may-have-run-into-pacific/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-13T23:19:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the spotlight: Mechanic Fatih Uyar answers questions from investigators Thursday in Cappadocia, Turkey.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/14/national/u-s-court-tells-mri-to-leave-assets-be/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-14T21:46:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-14T21:46:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-14T21:46:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/14/world/obama-loses-key-economic-adviser/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-14T21:50:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gene Sperling]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/14/national/miyazaki-anime-breaks-10-billion-threshold-at-box-office/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-14T22:15:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-14T22:15:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-14T22:16:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-14T22:50:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sex machine: Barbarella, played by Jane Fonda, being punished in the Excessive Machine "orgasmatron," in the 1968 science-fiction film "Barbarella."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/14/national/media-national/japanese-media-declare-dark-times-are-on-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-14T23:14:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grim discovery: Investigators gather at a crime scene in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, after the body of a 16-year-old girl was discovered.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-14T23:17:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Welcome to the world: Subway station attendants in Tokyo put up posters that commemorate the decision to award the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics to the capital last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-14T23:42:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-14T23:43:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cute and cuddly: New variations of Paro, the therapeutic baby seal robot, are shown in a photo by their developer, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/14/national/industrial-sites-tabbed-for-heritage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-14T23:45:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Industrial heritage: One of the buildings at the Nagasaki Shipyard and Machinery Works is seen Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bridge builders: Mongolian Prime Minister Norov Altankhuyag is greeted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes prior to their meeting in Tokyo on Friday. The two leaders signed an agreement to strengthen the Mongolia-Japan strategic partnership.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-15T20:48:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3 briefs-a 20130916]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Cunliffe]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoto Kan]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/15/world/auschwitz-boss-daughter-lives-secret-life-in-u-s/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Banality of evil: Rudolf Hoss, the commandant of Auschwitz, walks the grounds of the concentration camp during World War II. His daughter Brigitte Hoss, 80, now lives a quiet, secretive life in Virginia, not even sharing her family history with close family members.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Join the club: Former Rep. Chris Chocola (center), president of the Club for Growth, meets with staffers Chuck Pike (left) and Adam Rozansky in Washington on April 9.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tarrnished legacy: Rebel fighters trample on a golden head of a Moammar Gadhafi statue inside the Libyan strongman's Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli on in August 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-16T20:29:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Larry Summers]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Set apart: Hashima Island in Nagasaki, site of a once flourishing undersea coal mine, is one of the old industrial facilities the government wants included on UNESCO's list of World Heritage cultural sites.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Narrow escape: People are escorted out of the building where a gunman went on a shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard in the U.S. capital on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trans-Pacific cooperation: Toyota Motor Corp. President Shoichiro Toyoda (left), General Motors Corp. Chairman Roger Smith (center) and Toyota Chairman Eiji Toyoda announce the launch of joint venture New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. at a Nagoya hotel in April 1984.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rain, rain, go away: A worker pumps out radioactive water accumulating inside the barriers around a leaky coolant storage tank at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant Sunday, the day before Typhoon Man-yi swept through Honshu, including the Tohoku region.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Judgment: Mothers of girls killed when their school bus was swamped by the 2011 tsunami enter the Sendai District Court on Tuesday. The court ordered the kindergarten that operated the bus to pay ¥177 million in damages.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meal ticket: Yu Shimono, who is enrolled in the Tokyo Sushi Academy's one-year course and training under chef Toshio Ogiwara, hones her sushi skills July 23.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahide Matsumoto]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Up close and personal: People taking a tour of National Olympic Stadium in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, take in a great view of the Olympic cauldron on Sept. 12.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gatekeeper: A Department of Defense security guard stands watch near the front gate of the Washington Navy Yard on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-18T21:48:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Something to see: A woman visiting the special observation deck at Tokyo Tower in Minato Ward photographs a window cleaner on Tuesday. A broken window on an elevator serving the deck, 250 meters above ground, forced a shutdown the same day.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Norika Fujiwara]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hard charger: A Datsun Go is displayed at a media event in Jakarta on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeshi Tokuda]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Too close for comfort: Dumped bags of wood chips contaminated with radioactive cesium are shown on the ground in Takashima, Shiga Prefecture, near Lake Biwa.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Urban uptick: The condominium towers at the Roppongi Hills complex in Tokyo rise into the sky. Commercial land in Japan's three major metropolitan regions rose for the first time in five years, according to government data.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eat, pray, love: Koshi Kawachi displays statues of the Buddha that he carved out of "umaibo" snacks.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man with the plan: Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shunichi Tanaka speaks to officials at the NRA's inauguration ceremony on Sept. 19, 2012, in Minato Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The right moves: Japanese dancer Kenichi Ebina, winner of the top prize on the popular TV show "America's Got Talent," poses for a photo in New York on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (third from right) inspects a site Thursday near a storage tank that recently sprung a leak of radioactive water at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Yamauchi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ardent evolutionist: "I'm occasionally tempted by the view that maybe it would be a shame if Christianity died," says biologist Richard Dawkins. The English atheist drew widespread response when he published "The God Delusion" in 2006.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-20T23:17:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Required class: Syrians wear gas masks in Aleppo while attending a class on how to respond to a chemical attack on Sept. 15.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alan Turing in 1951]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inside London's closet: Skeletons are part of the mystery being churned up in the tunnels of London's Crossrail network, Europe's largest ongoing construction project.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Identity protection: A customer configures the fingerprint scanner technology built into an iPhone 5S at an Apple store in Beijing's Wangfujing shopping district on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honeymoon voyage: Inspiration Mars is looking to send a married couple on a mission to fly by the red planet and zip back home, beginning in 2018. Funding for the spacecraft envisioned by the nonprofit organization is initially expected to come from multimillionaire Dennis Tito, the first space tourist. Analysts put the price tag at more than $1 billion.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defiant to the end: Chinese politician Bo Xilai, who was tried last month on charges of taking bribes, embezzlement and abuse of power, stands in court in Jinan, Shandong province, on Sunday, where he was sentenced to life in prison.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The grass is greener: Wild boars cross a road last month in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, a town located within the 20- km no-go zone around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hot seat: Caroline Kennedy is grilled last Thursday by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on her nomination as ambassador to Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-24T22:07:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Parliamentary sightseeing: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stands with Andrew Scheer (right), the speaker of the House of Commons, and Senate Speaker Noel Kinsella (center) during a tour of the Senate chamber in Ottawa on Monday. It is the first visit to Canada by a Japanese prime minister in seven years.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-24T22:07:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cut above: Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann unveils the Gallardo LP 570-4 Squadra Corse sports car at the Lamborghini Aoyama dealership in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hit the deck: Volunteers from the Asian-community run for cover Monday after hearing a volley of gunshots at the scene of a tense standoff with al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militants at an upmarket shopping mall in Nairobi.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-24T23:32:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Testing the waters: Members of the Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations attend a meeting Tuesday in the city of Fukushima on resuming operations.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-24T23:32:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-24T23:32:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gregory Jaczko]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A world away: Central Tokyo is seen from Harumi Pier in Chuo Ward on Sept. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-25T21:07:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-25T21:18:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Providing answers: Darryl Green, head of ManpowerGroup, is interviewed in Dalian, China, on Sept. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/25/business/lixil-plans-to-buy-germanys-grohe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-25T21:33:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/25/national/amagasaki-suspects-blame-sumida/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-25T21:33:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-25T21:33:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-25T22:04:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Having a gas: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Canadian counterpart, Stephen Harper, make their way to a joint news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/25/national/tokyo-nation-see-chance-to-rebuild-pride/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-25T22:20:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Big step: Japanese athletes walk during the opening ceremony for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics at the national stadium on Oct. 10, 1964.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/25/national/translator-channels-poet-miyazawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-25T22:21:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Work of a lifetime: Roger Pulvers (third from left) receives the Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature at the Japan Society in New York on Sept. 16 for his translation of Kenji Miyazawa's "Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-25T22:37:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marathon man:  Texas Sen.  Ted Cruz speaks on the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol in  Washington on  Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/25/world/science-health-world/earths-slowdown-messing-with-human-tech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-25T22:41:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/25/national/first-angola-investment-seminar-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-25T22:42:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opportunities: Angolan Minister of Geology and Mines Francisco Manuel Monteiro de Queiroz gives the keynote address at the Angola Investment Seminar held Sept. 4 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/25/national/trial-fishing-resumes-off-fukushima-after-radiation-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-25T23:09:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heading out: Fishermen in Fukushima Prefecture leave the port of Matsukawaura on Wednesday, resuming trial operations that were suspended by radioactive water leaking from the No. 1 nuclear plant into the sea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/25/national/lay-judge-seeks-payout-over-murder-case-stress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-25T23:10:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hifumi Aoki]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-25T23:12:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-25T23:17:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/25/national/humanitarian-aid-for-refugees-key-kishida-hague/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-25T23:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourist snapshot: International students pose for a photo with senior vice tourism minister Yosuke Tsuruho (seated, center) and others following a roundtable meeting on Japan's tourism strategy Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Telltale sign: Openings in foam applied to bolted areas in the tank that lost 300 tons of radioactive water last month are shown after a vacuum test Wednesday. The vacuum caused the foam to escape through previously undetected chinks in the flange-type tank.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atomic appeal: Tokyo Electric President Naomi Hirose (left) listens to Niigata Gov. Hirohiko Izumida's questions Wednesday about Tepco's plan to apply for safety inspections to restart two idled reactors in the prefecture, at the prefectural offices in Niigata.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Friend or foe?: A Free Syrian Army fighter holds his son outside their home in Habit, Hama province, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ahmed Godane]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/26/national/non-native-teachers-of-japanese-growing-among-brazils-immigrants/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filling the gap: Japanese-Brazilian students hand in a homework assignment to teacher Aline Wanderley at a Japanese-language school in Sao Paulo recently.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/28/national/abe-uses-u-n-stage-to-push-more-proactive-security-role/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-28T22:28:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Redefining pacifism: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, seen holding a news conference in New York on Friday, returned to Tokyo on Saturday afternoon after a five-day trip to North America.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/28/national/s-korean-official-says-stolen-statues-should-be-returned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-28T22:41:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Busy boy: Culture minister Hakubun Shimomura fields reporters' questions Friday in Gwangju, South Korea, after holding separate bilateral meetings with his South Korean and Chinese counterparts. On Saturday, Shimomura attended a trilateral summit with them and discussed how better to promote cultural exchanges between their three nations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/28/national/media-national/popular-horse_ebooks-web-comic-loses-its-comedic-engine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-28T23:02:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/28/national/media-national/nothing-is-clear-about-court-ruling-on-illegitimate-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-28T23:04:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/28/national/media-national/casinos-bet-on-success-in-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-28T23:07:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gambling gal: A woman leaves a casino aboard the Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.'s Voyager of the Seas, berthed at Tokyo's Ohi wharf on Sept. 14. Some believe casinos in Japan will become a possibility when the Diet resumes next month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/28/national/tepco-halts-trial-of-water-treatment-system-at-fukushima-no-1-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T00:07:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/28/national/google-maps-naming-policy-prompts-japan-to-request-home-page-bans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T00:09:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fair play: A Google Maps screen shot shows the Japan-held Senkaku Islands, claimed by China as Diaoyu and by Taiwan as Tiaoyutai, with the three different names used to refer to the disputed chain.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/28/national/japan-china-and-south-korea-designate-yokohama-as-east-asia-city-of-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T00:21:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cultured bunch: Culture minister Hakubun Shimomura (left) and his South Korean and Chinese counterparts, Yoo Jin-ryong (center) and Cai Wu, pose for a group photo after their trilateral meeting in Gwangju, South Korea, on Saturday. The three sides designated one city in each country as an East Asia City of Culture to further exchanges and mutual understanding next year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/28/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/one-fifth-in-h-k-living-in-poverty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T00:22:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[False picture: Despite its glamorous high-rises, about 20 percent of Hong Kong's residents are living below the poverty line.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/28/national/exhibit-highlights-plight-of-death-row-inmates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T00:22:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The view inside:  Visitors take in paintings by death-row inmates during a special exhibition of their works Saturday at Shibuya Cultural Center Owada in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/28/national/politics-diplomacy/myanmar-refugees-arrive-via-u-n-resettlement-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T00:22:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yokoso Japan: Four Myanmar families from a refugee camp in Thailand arrive at Narita airport Friday evening to begin their new lives in Japan under a U.N. resettlement program.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/28/national/crime-legal/mri-viewed-as-ponzi-scheme-by-fbi-in-2009/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T00:31:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-29T00:32:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Running behind schedule: Naoteru Takase, head of Shikoku Railway Co.'s engineering division, attends a news conference at the operator's headquarters in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, on Saturday. The company has failed to repair around 50 railway bridges despite being aware of some of the abnormalities for over three years, according to the Board of Audit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/national/estrada-honors-rizal-at-hibiya-park-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T18:03:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honor: (From right) Capt. Samuel Z. Felix of the Philippine Navy, who is a defense and armed forces attaché, former Philippine President Joseph Estrada and Philippine Ambassador Manuel M. Lopez, pay homage to Dr. Jose Rizal at a bust of Rizal in Hibiya Park, Tokyo, on Sept. 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/shutdown-quandary-shows-washingtons-breakdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T23:05:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mr. Reasonable: Newt Gingrich, shown in the U.S. Capitol in December 1995, was speaker of the House of Representatives the last time the federal government shut down.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/world/social-issues-world/cameron-seeks-strict-porn-curbs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T23:05:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/business/economy-business/american-dream-fading-for-many-in-wake-of-financial-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T23:13:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of reach: A home stands for sale in LaSalle, Illinois, in June. The aftermath of the subprime loan crisis has wrecked many Americans' prospects for the future.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/business/abes-overture-to-wall-street-lost-in-translation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T23:13:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[You know what I mean: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a news conference at the InterContinental hotel on Friday in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/politics-and-pride-drive-putins-anti-u-s-shift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T23:15:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Siberian summer: Current Russian President Vladimir Putin rides a horse during a vacation outside the southern Siberian town of Kyzyl in August 2009, when he was prime minister.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/world/social-issues-world/nontraditional-college-students-juggle-work-kids-bills-with-coursework/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T23:16:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Student mother: India Price (right) meets fellow members of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society's Northern Virginia Community College chapter in Annandale, Virginia, this month. Price is a mother of four who works part time and takes business courses with the goal of getting an associate degree next year and enrolling at a University of Virginia satellite campus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/looking-to-2016-rubio-and-paul-rush-to-join-cruz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T23:16:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grand ambitions?: Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz speaks about President Barack Obama's signature health care law on Capitol Hill in Washington in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/national/politics-diplomacy/komeito-fires-warning-shot-at-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T23:59:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/national/politics-diplomacy/convincing-search-needed-ishiba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-29T23:59:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/world/nsa-gathers-data-on-u-s-citizens-social-connections-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-30T00:01:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-30T00:03:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p2 women-z 20130930]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oh, Canada: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe descends from a government jet with his wife, Akie, after arriving at Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport on Sept. 23 to visit Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/national/politics-diplomacy/mayor-of-sakai-returned-in-fresh-blow-to-hashimoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-30T00:03:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[What now?: Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, co-leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party), sulks in the campaign headquarters of mayoral candidate Katsutoshi Nishibayashi on Sunday evening in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. Nishibayashi lost the election after being defeated by Mayor Osami Takeyama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/national/power-saving-targets-likely-to-be-dropped-this-winter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-30T00:09:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Old threat: A banner at the headquarters of Hokkaido Electric Power Co. in Sapporo in December asks residents to save power last winter. Utilities won't be setting numerical power-saving targets this year as they've returned to life without atomic power since the 2011 core meltdowns in Fukushima.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/30/national/rubber-mat-in-tank-may-have-shut-down-alps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-30T13:06:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p1 tepco-z 20130930]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Latest slip-up: A rubber mat sits next to a drain pipe in a tank in the ALPS water decontamination system at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-30T20:22:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investment opportunity: Laurence Ho, co-chairman and chief executive officer of Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd., is seen in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/30/national/ex-brokerage-exec-fined-1-5-million/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-30T22:27:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-30T22:27:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-30T22:27:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-30T22:50:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-30T22:50:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-30T23:55:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-09-30T23:55:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/30/business/seven-bank-acquires-atm-unit-of-global-axcess/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-09-30T23:55:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-01T00:07:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peacemaker:  Yoshinori Kurita, who works for the nonprofit organization Terra Renaissance, speaks about the NPO's activities during a lecture at Nara Prefectural University.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/30/business/economy-business/industrial-output-dipped-in-august/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-01T00:07:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Losing it: Steam rises from a plant in the Keihin Industrial Area in Kawasaki on Sunday. Data released Monday showed that industrial production fell 0.7 percent in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/30/national/new-trap-allows-boars-to-be-caught-by-smartphone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-01T00:10:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Getting the drop: A new camera-equipped boar trap can be shut remotely by smartphone.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/30/world/social-issues-world/russia-anti-gay-law-casts-shadow-over-sochi-olympics/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unsanctioned event: A dancer performs in a cabaret show in Mayak, one of the two gay clubs in Sochi, Russia, on Sept. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-01T00:26:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking a gamble: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is seen during his visit last Wednesday to the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. On Tuesday, Abe is expected to reveal his decision on whether to hike the sales tax, in conjunction with another stimulus package.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-01T00:26:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Male-free zone: Friends sit in a women-only carriage on a train from New Delhi's Nizamuddin Station bound for Gondwana in Maharashtra state on Sept. 19.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Holding steady: Toyota Motor Corp. is 10th on U.S. consultancy Interbrand's list of 100 Best Global Brands released Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-01T00:31:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rare breed: One of Japan's few professional art restorers, Emile Yoshimura, is seen at the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum in Minato Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Picture this: U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (left) listens to U.S. Army Col. James Minnich as a North Korean soldier takes a photograph of them through the window of a building at the demilitarized zone in Panmunjom, South Korea, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opposing team: Students at Sakuranomiya Senior High School in the city of Osaka meet the press Monday evening to lodge a protest over the board of education's decision to no longer offer special slots for sports majors.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Standing out: Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son (second from left) and others show the firm's new winter and spring lineup of phones and other products during a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Triumphant: Osami Takeyama celebrates his re-election Sunday night as mayor of Sakai, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-01T13:24:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-01T20:38:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fish wish: Hiroshi Kishi, head of JF Zengyoren, faces reporters Tuesday outside the South Korean Embassy in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-01T21:22:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SNS moment: An image posted on Twitter last month shows a man climbing on the roof of a police car and posing for a photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-01T21:51:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Icing on the cake: Midori Tomida, head of Babyshower Japan, shows a diaper cake, a popular gift for baby showers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Devin Nunes]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No backing down: U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi is accompanied by Rep. Steve Israel (left) and House Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn at a news conference on the looming government shutdown in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reality check: Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada attends an Economic Club event Monday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Better red than dead: According to the American Cancer Society tomatoes contain lycopene, an antioxidant that can block the action of cell-damaging free radicals.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/01/world/11-pieces-of-not-so-conventional-wisdom-on-obamacare/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Information distribution: A volunteer for the Get Covered America campaign organizes materials before canvassing the neighborhood to inform prospective health insurance consumers about new insurance possibilities available through the Affordable Care Act, in Englewood, New Jersey, on July 27.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facing trial: Chad De Soto, who stands accused of carrying out a vehicular and stabbing rampage that left three Japanese tourists dead and 11 wounded on Guam last Feb. 12, is seen in a local court later that month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amigos: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is greeted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prior to their Thursday meeting in Tokyo during the Madrid leader's three-day official visit to Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Resilience: Research institutes claim the housing market will weather the consumption tax hike next April because of a tax break on home purchases.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alpha kids: Russian children sing for a Japanese group during a visa-free visit to Etorofu on Sept. 23. The island, along with another three held by Russia off Hokkaido that Japan wants returned, were the subject of a recent symposium in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Transformer: Former Sony Chairman Nobuyuki Idei hold a news conference in Tokyo in 2008. In a recent interview, Idei said he is aiming to reinvent himself as a cross between a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Hollywood mogul.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ancient kin: A 49-million-year-old Ginkgo dissecta fossil from the Klondike Mountain Formation in Washington state.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-06T22:55:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ruthless?: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined the nation's top court in 1993. Now 80, she hears the calls to step aside, but says she isn't ready.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The root of growing animosity between the parties of House Speaker John Boehner (left) and President Barack Obama may be long in the making, scholars say.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Witness: The building housing the main store of bakery chain Andersen is seen Sunday in the city of Hiroshima. The building, formerly a branch of the Imperial Bank, survived the 1945 A-bombing but is facing demolition because the cost of reinforcing it against earthquakes is deemed too high.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p1 tpp-z 20131007]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[All systems go: Akira Amari, minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, addresses reporters Sunday following a ministerial meeting on the free trade pact.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New foundation for ties: Turkish and Japanese officials attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Atsushi Miyazaki Park in Istanbul on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-07T21:19:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Making waves: Koya Nishikawa (second from left), head of the Liberal Democratic Party's TPP committee, meets with officials from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Sunday in Nusa Dua, Indonesia.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alternative venue: The audience at a movie theater in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, watches live footage broadcast from a concert by popular pop singer Juju.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Native son: Minoru Ohira, a sculptor based in California who received the 2013 Denchu Hirakushi Award, talks about his works during a recent visit to Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Forming trust: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin speak Monday in Indonesia.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-08T00:19:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High hopes: Workers prepare a window display for the iPhone 5C outside an NTT DoCoMo store in Tokyo on Sept. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/07/national/ec-chief-pens-second-haiku-tome/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-08T00:23:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-08T00:43:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-08T00:47:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Quicksilver foes: Participants from around the world gather Monday for a preparatory meeting for an international conference on mercury in the city of Kumamoto. The three-day conference will begin Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-08T00:48:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/07/business/economy-business/areva-new-reactors-to-end-uranium-slump-by-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-08T00:54:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High and dry: A Tokyo Electric Power Co. employee in protective radiation suit and mask climbs scaffolding at the site of the ALPS multi-nuclide removal facility at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/07/business/economy-business/apecs-ceos-urged-to-keep-faith-in-abenomics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-08T01:03:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Believe it: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe engages Asia-Pacific business leaders at a seminar on Bali, Indonesia, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boxed in: People smoke at a "manner station" — an invented term for a smoking space — in Tokyo. Japan Tobacco Inc. plans to expand its range of smokeless tobacco products as consumers demand alternatives.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-08T01:29:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Landmark deal: Japan Airlines President Yoshiharu Ueki (right) and Airbus President Fabrice Bregier pose at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-08T12:56:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/08/national/water-injection-for-damaged-fukushima-reactor-accidentally-halted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-08T12:56:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-08T20:33:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Safety catch: A JR Hokkaido employee walks beside the Okhotsk express Tuesday in a depot in Sapporo. The diesel recently went on several runs between Sapporo and Abashiri, Hokkaido, with an automatic brake effectively disabled.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-08T20:35:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eye on the prize: Students do eye exercises to help relax at Beijing's Jingshan School, one of China's most elite. Despite the nation's campaign against corruption, many parents continue to pay bribes to get their children into top schools.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-08T20:51:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-08T21:31:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Breaking the cycle: Isao Shiratori, 67, a retired high school teacher, gives a free tutoring session for kids in poverty at Fujimino, Saitama Prefecture, recently.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/08/national/major-display-of-shunga-erotic-art-opens-in-london/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-08T21:32:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uncensored: A visitor looks at "shunga" Japanese traditional art during a preview of an exhibition at the British Museum in London on Oct. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/08/national/alpinist-photog-noguchi-focuses-on-life-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-08T21:36:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-08T21:36:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-k-political-pledges-reveal-divide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-08T21:41:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Going back to his roots: British Prime Minister David Cameron addresses delegates at the Conservative Party's annual conference in Manchester on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/08/world/science-health-world/report-links-sonar-to-whale-stranding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-08T21:44:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-08T21:45:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unbowed: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about hurricane preparedness and the budget showdown with Congress at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/08/business/subs-the-new-luxury-item-at-monaco/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-08T21:46:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Water world: Erik Hasselman, commercial director of U-Boat  Worx, stands inside a C-Quester 3 submarine during the Monaco Yacht Show on Sept. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/08/national/gone-in-60-seconds-abe-park-talks/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A start: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye chat Tuesday while attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit in Bali, Indonesia.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Student outreach: Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corp., waves as he arrives for a lecture Sept. 26 at Meiji University in Tokyo riding the company's Winglet personal transport assistance robot.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-08T22:15:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Helping hands: A sign language expert interprets for people with hearing disabilities during a session of the Tottori Prefectural Assembly on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Done deal: Fabrice Bregier, chief executive officer of Airbus SAS, speaks during a joint news conference with Japan Airlines Co. President Yoshiharu Ueki in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-08T22:16:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tax advocate: Finance Minister Taro Aso speaks to reporters at the ministry on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Still working: Tom Palome, a 77-year-old former vice president of marketing for Oral-B, adjusts his Sam's Club cap at the AARP office in Tampa, Florida, on Sept. 5. He has two part-time jobs: one as a $10-an-hour food demonstrator at Sam's Club, the other flipping burgers and serving drinks at a golf club grill for slightly more than minimum wage.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-08T23:20:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/08/business/corporate-business/japanese-convenience-store-chain-going-healthy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-08T23:23:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meeting demand: Lawson convenience stores will focus on health-related business areas over the next five years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/08/national/politics-diplomacy/chief-of-scandal-tainted-japanese-hospital-chain-offers-to-resign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-08T23:24:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-09T12:51:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-09T17:20:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Added convenience: A father with a baby in Minato Ward signs up for the Smart Kitchen home delivery service targeting working parents that convenience store Lawson Inc. introduced in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-09T20:36:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-09T20:39:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One color fits all: German three-time Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel poses besides Nissan Motor Co.'s NV200 "New York Taxi of Tomorrow" during its press preview Wednesday in Tokyo's Matsuya Ginza department store during the store's weeklong New York Week fair.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-09T22:10:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-09T22:50:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Norimichi Kusumi (right) and his son, Yoshitaka, hold rice ears of the Kame no O strain in a paddy in front of Kusumi Shuzo's brewing plants in Nagaoka on the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-09T22:58:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fewer toys: An Egyptian boy in an army costume salutes while posing next to soldiers from atop an armored vehicle guarding an entrance to Cairo's  Tahrir Square on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/09/business/tpp-talks-end-upbeat-but-year-end-deadline-uncertain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-09T23:01:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-09T23:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Power shake: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei shake hands ahead of their meeting in Brunei on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/09/business/corporate-business/honda-fit-designed-as-prius-killer-in-challenge-to-toyota/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-09T23:02:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Take your pick: An employee walks past a display showing the colors available for Honda Motor Co.'s new hybrid Fit at the vehicle's launch in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on Sept. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/09/business/corporate-business/panasonic-to-withdraw-from-plasma-tv-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-09T23:02:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cutting its losses: Panasonic Corp. will stop making plasma display panels for TVs at the end of this fiscal year and sell its Amagasaki No. 3 factory in Hyogo Prefecture where the panels are made, a source said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/09/business/corporate-business/mazda-to-debut-domestic-hybrid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-09T23:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newcomer: Mazda Motor Corp. President Masamichi Kogai stands by the hybrid version of the Axela compact in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/09/business/boj-must-be-ready-to-act-fast-member-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-09T23:03:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20131010a8a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staying tuned: A Bank of Japan policymaker stressed the importance of adjusting monetary policy without hesitation if the economy deteriorates, according to the minutes of last month's meeting.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/09/business/imf-cuts-japan-growth-estimate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-09T23:03:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-09T23:04:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hours extended: Tokyo Metropolitan Government-run Ueno Zoo is one of the facilities whose business hours will be extended this autumn.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/09/national/special-concert-to-remember-deceased-loved-ones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-09T23:05:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/09/national/city-to-compensate-monkey-victims/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Most-wanted: Local hunters and municipal workers discuss plans to capture a wild monkey that wreaked havoc in Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture, last month.]]></image:caption>
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