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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Evidence hunt: Police investigators gather in front of the home of murder victim Saaya Suzuki, an 18-year-old high school girl, Wednesday morning in the western Tokyo suburb of Mitaka.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elusive yield: Children plant vegetables at Abeno Harukas Farm, a rooftop garden at the Abeno Harukas building in Osaka, in early September. Kintetsu Department Store Co. has lowered its earnings estimate for the year through February as its new flagship in the building failed to meet its sales target.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Nakaso]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/09/national/politics-diplomacy/nakaima-defies-nago-base-plan-advocates/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Read my lips: Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (left) discusses issues related with U.S. military bases in Okinawa in a meeting Tuesday at his office with Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (left in right photo) and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (right).]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-10T12:55:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-10T20:32:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Common ground: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (from left), South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang join hands for a group photo at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Bandar Seri Begawan on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/business/economy-business/office-vacancies-in-tokyo-at-lowest-rate-since-2009/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-10T22:03:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-10T22:04:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/business/economy-business/imf-tells-japan-not-to-back-off-from-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-10T22:04:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/national/romania-court-nixes-killers-appeal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-10T22:05:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/national/msdf-destroyer-has-brief-fire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-10T22:05:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/national/history/scholar-aims-to-unravel-japanese-remains-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-10T22:17:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grave concern: Kyoto University professor Naoki Mizuno surveys burial sites in eastern North Korea on Sept. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/business/yellen-aims-to-take-over-herculean-effort-at-fed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-10T22:21:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank on it: Janet Yellen, U.S. President Barack Obama's nominee as chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, addresses the media during a Wednesday nomination announcement in the State Dining Room at the While House.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/national/models-tweak-skills-for-survival-off-the-catwalk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-10T22:23:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moe Oshikiri]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/national/crime-legal/man-rams-home-with-large-truck-attacks-dwellers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-10T22:23:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Assault with a deadly weapon: Police inspect a house rammed by a man's truck Thursday in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/national/kids-take-artful-approach-to-peace-building/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-10T22:26:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Giving peace a chance: An Inoue (right), a fifth-grader from Tokyo, draws a picture together with a 10-year-old girl in Pyongyang in late August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/national/iaea-to-vet-pacific-radiation-checks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-10T23:26:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hard scrutiny looms: Yukiya Amano (left), director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is greeted by Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shunichi Tanaka in Tokyo on Thursday. The visiting Amano urged the government to work harder to address international fears about toxic water gushing from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex, and said the U.N. watchdog will jointly monitor radiation levels in the Pacific.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/national/crime-legal/accused-killer-says-he-hid-in-victims-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T00:24:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nabbed: Charles Thomas Ikenaga, who has confessed to stalking and stabbing to death an 18-year-old female high school student, is escorted by police officers Thursday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/national/tougher-stalking-law-failed-to-stir-police/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T00:24:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/national/minamata-convention-is-adopted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T00:24:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Minamata memorial: Attendees of an international conference organized by the U.N. Environment Program place flowers at a memorial to the victims of Minamata disease on Wednesday in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/national/patriots-set-up-in-osaka-park-for-drill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T00:37:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lock and load: A Patriot anti-missile battery is set up by the Air Self-Defense Force in Expo Park in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, during a drill Wednesday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/business/corporate-business/docomo-unveils-10-new-android-smartphones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T00:39:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fresh faces: Models pose with new NTT Docomo smartphones in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-under-pressure-from-his-party-to-protect-sacred-five/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T00:39:51+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/republican-options-tapering-to-surrender/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T00:44:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unmoved: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stands on the steps of Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/business/economy-business/machinery-orders-see-best-surge-since-2008/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T00:46:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bustling: The JFE Steel Corp. industrial complex in Kawasaki is the scene of heavy activity on Sept. 12. Machinery orders rose to ¥819.3 billion in August, the highest since 2008.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/national/diplomats-bag-cool-photo-prizes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T00:47:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Picturesque: Princess Hisako awards the Prince Takamado Memorial Prize to Ciaran Chestnutt of the Australian Embassy during the opening of the "Japan Through Diplomats' Eyes" photo exhibition at Roppongi Hills in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/national/translator-jay-rubin-glad-swedes-passed-on-murakami-nobel-for-now/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T03:53:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/business/corporate-business/uniqlo-sets-sales-record-exceeding-%c2%a51-trillion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T10:52:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the up and up: Fast Retailing Co. chief Tadashi Yanai annouces the firm, which operates the Uniqlo casual clothing chain, posted record net sales of ¥1.143 trillion in the last business year on rapid growth in Asia, at a Thursday news conference in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/23/world/mystery-of-henri-ivs-missing-head-divides-france/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T16:29:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A heady mystery: Scientists say they have identified a mummified head (right) as belonging to France's King Henry IV (left), who was assassinated in 1610 and whose head went missing during the French Revolution. But critics contest the claim.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/world/opcw-bags-nobel-prize-for-fight-against-chemical-arms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T20:05:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/world/science-health-world/vitamin-ds-aid-for-bones-doubted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T20:24:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/world/science-health-world/africa-becomes-gmo-battleground/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T20:34:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waiting game: At Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, virologist Joseph Ndunguru has genetically transformed cassava to resist viruses that are devastating the crop. But instead of starting field trials, he must wait for new regulations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/world/for-nobel-laureate-alice-munro-the-subject-is-simply-life-itself/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T20:34:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Latter-day Chekhov: Author Alice Munro, who on  Thursday won this year's Nobel Prize in literature, poses at the Canadian Consulate in New  York in October 2002.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/10/national/firm-seeks-to-market-e-trikes-in-philippines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T20:39:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Electro-glide: Tokushi Nakashima, president of Uzushio Electric Co.'s subsidiary in the Philippines, rides the company's electric tricycle in Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/world/science-health-world/social-polarization-dated-back-to-stone-age/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T20:42:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sequins of history: A woman of the agricultural Corded  Ware culture was buried along with hundreds of shell sequins in Karsdorf, Germany.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/national/medical-experts-seek-to-dial-back-over-prescription-for-schizophrenia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:06:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/national/japan-to-finally-sign-anti-nukes-statement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:06:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/national/politics-diplomacy/south-china-sea-rows-not-your-affair-u-s-japan-told/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:09:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trading barbs: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attends the East Asia Summit in Brunei on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/business/economy-business/u-s-fiscal-woes-alarm-g-20-finance-leaders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/national/oyster-harvesting-season-starts-in-hiroshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:11:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rockefeller center?: Oysters are hauled aboard a boat in Hiroshima at dawn Friday, the first day of the harvest season.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/national/camera-grandmas-photos-document-gifu-villages-demise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:11:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20131012cca.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Only memories: Masashi Kohara, a researcher at the Izu Photo Museum in Shizuoka Prefecture, talks about the work of amateur photographer Tazuko Masuyama. As her life work, Masuyama, who died in 2006 at age 88, documented through photos a village that was eventually submerged by the Tokuyama Dam project in Gifu Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/business/economy-business/kuroda-vows-end-to-deflation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:11:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20131012b2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staying on point: Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at the Council On Foreign Relations in New York on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/national/social-issues/sexual-minorities-expand-mutual-support-amid-lack-of-legal-backing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:12:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/national/hokuriku-line-bullet-trains-christened/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:12:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/business/corporate-business/fsa-orders-abraham-private-bank-to-suspend-business-for-six-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:13:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/business/corporate-business/hydrogen-prototype-takes-to-the-road-in-race-toward-fuel-cells/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:16:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20131012b4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fueling a dream: Employees of Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. operate a hydrogen station in Tokyo during a demonstration Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/business/economy-business/abe-wants-japan-to-play-leading-role-in-tpp-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:26:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/p7-tpp-z-20131012.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7 tpp-z 20131012]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[TPP initiative: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Friday that Japan should play a leading role in the Trans-Pacific trade talks and strive to strike a deal by year's end, as planned.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/world/crime-legal-world/illegal-taps-on-oil-pipeline-wreaking-havoc-on-nigeria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:32:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wn20131012f4a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20131012f4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Black gold: Suspected thieves pilot a boat loaded with a cargo of stolen crude oil in Bayelsa, Nigeria. According to one oil trader: "All the authorities are involved — the oil companies, the military, the politicians. There's plenty of money to be made."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/world/science-health-world/is-that-why-men-have-low-voices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:32:29+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/world/wales-set-to-restore-dylan-thomas-faded-reputation-as-centenary-nears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:32:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wn20131012f1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20131012f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A classic: Dylan Thomas' 1940 collection of autobiographical short stories, "portrait of the artist as a young dog."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/business/corporate-business/toyota-wins-first-acceleration-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T22:54:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nn20131012a5a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20131012a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crash loss: Jeffrey Uno holds a photo of his late mother, Noriko, as his father, Peter, looks on in February 2010.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/meet-the-man-who-plotted-americas-shutdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T23:04:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wn20131012f5a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20131012f5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maverick: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz speaks at the Family Foundation of Virginia Annual Gala on Oct. 5 in Richmond, Virginia. Quoting from the Bible, Cruz told the socially conservative group that U.S. President Barack Obama's Democratic administration is "the most hostile to religious liberty" in American history and the health reform law is its most formidable weapon against them.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/world/crime-legal-world/how-i-bought-drugs-from-dark-net-its-just-like-amazon-run-by-cartels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-11T23:04:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20131012f3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Busted: An artist rendering of Ross William Ulbricht appearing in Federal Court in San Francisco on Oct. 4. Ulbricht is being charged as the mastermind of Silk Road, a "dark net" website where users could shop for illegal drugs anonymously.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/12/business/financial-markets/aso-says-g-20-finance-heads-praised-sales-tax-increase-to-tame-fiscal-debt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-12T20:31:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/12/national/history/seoul-raises-comfort-women-issue-again-at-u-n-human-rights-panel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-12T20:32:24+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/12/national/crime-legal/police-partially-blame-stalking-slaying-to-cellphone-mixup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-12T20:35:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nn20131012c3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20131012c3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mourning the loss: The wake of Saaya Suzuki, who was stabbed to death Tuesday by accused stalker 21-year-old Charles Thomas Ikenaga, is held at a church in Mitaka, Tokyo, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/12/national/mercury-tops-30-degrees-in-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-12T22:18:59+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/12/national/japan-post-mulls-inns-hospitals-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-12T22:20:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/12/national/firm-recalls-6-72-million-tuna-cans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-12T22:20:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/12/national/media-national/apologies-for-the-apologies-the-dogeza-boom-on-steroids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-12T23:01:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/12/business/corporate-business/mizuho-bank-faces-more-fsa-penalties-over-yakuza-loans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-12T23:41:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/12/business/tech/google-plans-to-put-users-photos-comments-in-online-ads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T00:10:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/12/business/corporate-business/japan-pavilion-promotes-firms-at-baghdad-fair/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T00:15:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nb20131013a4a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20131013a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Step right up: A Japan pavilion offers products at a global trade fair in Baghdad on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/12/national/japans-household-income-gap-reached-record-level-in-2011/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T00:26:39+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/12/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-to-stay-away-from-yasukuni-shrine-festival-to-appease-china-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T00:30:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nn20131013a7a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20131013a7a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Snubbed: Visitors pack Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, to mark the anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will reportedly not attend the war-related shrine's autumn festival, which begins Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/national/social-issues/u-k-raises-bar-for-dual-nationality-couples/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T00:48:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nb20131012b8a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20131012b8a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crusader: Marianne Bailey holds copies of documents she submitted to Britain's Home Office at her London home Oct. 2. Bailey is leading a campaign against new immigration rules that could prevent some Britons from living in the country with their foreign partners.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/12/national/media-national/tabloids-brimming-with-anti-korea-diatribes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T01:32:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/fd20131013bja.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20131013bja.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bad news: Sapio's October cover proclaims, "South Korea can't become an advanced country."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/13/asia-pacific/manila-denies-report-on-10-shooting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T21:17:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/13/world/release-sought-of-justification-by-secret-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T22:25:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/13/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/chinese-prison-bars-u-s-doctor-from-dissident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T22:30:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Devra Marcus]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/senate-opens-talks-on-end-to-shutdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T22:31:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20131014a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Last hope: Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid gives a news conference with Sen. Chuck Schumer (left) and Sen. Patty Murray on Capitol Hill on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/13/world/science-health-world/defective-gene-gives-some-stronger-darker-view-of-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T22:33:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/13/business/tech/on-the-offensive-in-the-cyberspace-arms-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T22:34:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/13/business/crumbling-keiretsu-networks-good-sign-for-foreign-firms-and-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T22:35:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/13/business/straitjacket-japan-could-use-more-brawling-billionaires-to-lead-the-way/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T22:35:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20131014f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clash of the titans: Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank Corp., introduces the Aquos Xx302SH smartphone in Tokyo on Sept. 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/13/world/cleanup-at-nations-war-cemetery-stirs-anger-grief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T22:35:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For the fallen: Mementos adorn a grave in Arlington Cemetery's Section 60, which is dominated by the Afghan and Iraq war dead, although deceased veterans from World War II, Korea and Vietnam are still being buried there.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/13/world/medal-of-honor-seen-as-vindication-for-war-hero/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T22:37:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (left) and Army Secretary John McHugh (right) watch as the remains of a soldier killed in Afghanistan are carried at Dover Air Force Base, in Delaware, last Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/13/business/loss-of-atomic-parts-vetting-regime-may-delay-reactor-deal-in-vietnam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T23:27:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/13/business/japan-to-outsource-management-of-some-forex-reserves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T23:29:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/13/national/radiation-estimates-for-no-1-workers-likely-20-too-low-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-13T23:38:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/14/national/sdf-engine-parts-cleared-for-export-to-british-navy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-14T02:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/14/national/social-democratic-party-picks-policy-chief-as-new-leader/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-14T22:43:45+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/14/national/social-issues/with-age-comes-sports-clubs-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-15T01:15:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/14/national/strong-typhoon-may-approach-mainland-on-wednesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-15T01:15:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/15/world/fama-shiller-hansen-receive-nobel-prize-in-economics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-15T01:20:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[SWEDEN-NOBEL-ECONOMIC-PRIZE 20131015]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Portraits of U.S. economic scientists (L-R) Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller are displayed on a monitor during a new conference to announce the Nobel laureates in Economic Sciences 2013 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/14/national/japan-says-parts-export-to-u-k-navy-not-illegal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-15T02:41:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/15/national/politics-diplomacy/ex-finance-chief-nukaga-met-parks-top-aide-to-improve-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-15T13:01:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/15/national/gsdf-mission-to-south-sudan-extended-for-another-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-15T13:03:23+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/15/world/nsa-said-collecting-millions-of-email-address-books-buddy-lists-daily/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-15T13:04:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/w1-s1-nsaemail-a-20131016.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Edward Snowden]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prize for spilling secrets: In this image released by WikiLeaks on Friday, former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden speaks during a presentation ceremony in Moscow for the Sam Adams Award. The prize is given annually by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, a group of retired CIA officers, to an intelligence professional who has taken a stand for integrity and ethics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/15/business/economy-business/aso-keeps-an-eye-on-u-s-debt-ceiling-from-a-respectful-distance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-15T13:07:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/15/national/iaea-team-begins-weeklong-mission-to-help-with-nuclear-waste-control/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-15T13:09:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-15T14:52:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Battle lines drawn: Demonstrators watch from atop a wall as veterans accompanied by their families and supporters hold a rally Sunday at the World War II Memorial in Washington to protest its closure amid the U.S. government shutdown.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In need of a quick fix: A pair of parking meters partly obscure the U.S. Congress in Washington on Monday as the federal government shutdown crisis dragged into a third week.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under lock and key: Officials of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, seen Monday, strictly monitor tours by news media, who have to submit all photos and videos shot for approval, among other restrictions.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[APTOPIX Shutdown Statue of Liberty]]></image:title>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scenic view: Two Japanese macaques climb among rocks on Mount Otensho in Nagano Prefecture in September.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Details, details: Koki Fukumoto and his fiancee discuss preparations for their wedding while looking at a picture on a free smartphone app created by Novarese Inc.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking a chance: A brokerage official in Tokyo explains the Nippon Individual Savings Account to a prospective client.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dennis Blair]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Full life: Takashi Yanase, creator of the "Anpanman" comic book series, is seen at his studio in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tying the loop: Guests applaud newlyweds Nobuhiko Suzuki and Sayaka Tsuchiya during their wedding ceremony aboard a specially chartered Yamanote Line train in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-16T21:49:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Star pupil: Akiko Takahashi holds a picture of an asteroid that she and two friends discovered in 2009, during an interview at her high school in Kanagawa Prefecture in August.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At what cost?: Toho Bank employees, in radiation suits, retrieve cash and documents left in its branch in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, within the 20-km no-go zone from the Fukushima No. 1 plant in April 2011. A government agency said Wednesday it will take up to 31 years to recover ¥5 trillion in aid for Tokyo Electric Power Co. for compensation related to the nuclear disaster.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Disengaged?: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks on as South Korean President Park Geun-hye speaks with her Brunei counterpart, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, while Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (fourth from left) chats with Myanmar President Thein Sein at the ASEAN Plus Three Summit in Bandar Seri Begawan on Oct. 10.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Super sale: The logo of Finnish computer game maker Supercell is pictured at the company's head office in Helsinki on Tuesday. Two Japanese investors, Softbank Corp. and GungHo Entertainment Inc., have bought control of Supercell for €1.1 billion ($1.5 billion).]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nose for business: A scent is emitted from the Scentee cellphone attachment created by Tokyo-based Scentee Inc. The product will debut Nov. 15.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secret operators: Nobuo Igarashi (left) and Enji Ota, former workers at Army Noborito Laboratory, speak of their wartime memories in separate interviews.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Next task: President Barack Obama speaks in the White House on Thursday after lawmakers voted to end the government shutdown.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Birds of a feather: Tokyo Electric Power Co. may be able to draw on the history of the 2010 failure of Japan Airlines Co., which was revived by government assistance.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This is just a test: Ehime prefectural officials work the phones during a disaster drill for a radiation leak at the Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bitter pill: U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech on the economy last month in Washington]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than just hot air: This artist's rendering released Tuesday by World View Enterprises shows its capsule to be lifted by a high-altitude balloon to around 98,000 feet]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local anger: Iwaishima Island fisherwomen in Yamaguchi Prefecture protest a nuclear plant planned nearby by Chugoku Electric Power Co. on Sept. 10, 2009.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Good neighbors: Chinese President Xi Jinping greets Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Beijing on Oct. 23. China and India signed an accord last week on border defense.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Up on the rack: A mechanic repairs a Toyota at a dealership in Singapore. A U.S. jury Friday ordered the automaker to pay $3 million in damages over the fatal crash of a defective Camry.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-27T05:28:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Girl, distracted: A woman uses a mobile phone in front of a pet shop in Tokyo last month. A sudden surge in articles critical of smartphones just so happened to coincide with the release in September of a new iPhone, which is being sold by all three of Japan's telecom giants.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-27T05:29:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bright future: Then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi puts on Elvis-style shades after being taken on a tour of Graceland, the Memphis, Tennessee, home of Elvis Presley, by U.S. President George W. Bush in 2006.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-27T06:09:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Full-on Fukushima : Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (right) speaks to reporters at a news conference Saturday following a Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/26/national/abes-play-for-secrecy-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-27T07:37:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Security debate: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel at their base in Djibouti, eastern Africa, in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-27T10:43:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-27T10:44:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An elderly woman is relieved and leaves a shelter on Saturday evening after the evacuation order and advisory were lifted.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-27T16:44:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Site difficulties: The &lt;A HREF="http://Healthcare.gov" TARGET="_blank"&gt;Healthcare.gov&lt;/A&gt; website is displayed on laptop computers in Washington on Thursday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rallying the troops: U.S. President Barack Obama attends a White House news conference in Washington in May]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-27T17:04:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cruz control: Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz speaks at a rally in front of the WWII Memorial in Washington on Oct. 13. Cruz took nothing short of a victory lap in his state of Texas last week, appearing before crowds that overlooked the fact that the Republican who led the charge to kill money for President Barack Obama's health care law had failed. Over the weekend, Cruz visited Iowa, where Republicans have the first say in the presidential race, and viewed him much more skeptically]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-27T18:46:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trail turns murky: People walk by a land plot in Ulan Bator apparently close to the address of a Mongolian company that recently won the auction bid for the Tokyo headquarters of the pro-North Korean association Chongryon. But the firm's address does not exist, to say nothing of its office.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/27/national/politics-diplomacy/the-method-behind-the-brashness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-27T21:05:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fearless: Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto holds a sign saying "No fear of criticism, no fear of counterargument, no fear of election" at a news conference in Tokyo in July]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-27T21:10:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-27T21:23:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miracle worker: Jack Newman, chief science officer at biotech firm Amyris, which creates more than 1,500 new organisms daily, stands in a yeast fermentation lab in Emeryville, California, on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vanishing act: The U.S. military is funding the  Vanishing Programmable Resources program, which aims to improve "born-to-die" or transient electronics &#8212; devices that are capable of dissolving into the environment around them]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One in a million: A Syrian boy sits on the ground at a temporary refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Al-Faour, near the border with Syria, on Sept. 11]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-27T22:23:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["More avuncular than ogre": Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa speaks during the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi in October 2007]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Surveying the damage: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (right) inspects typhoon-wrecked areas on Tokyo's Izu-Oshima Island on Sunday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christopher Roberts]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Full steam ahead: A work boat passes plants in the Keihin Industrial Area in Kawasaki on July 29]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/30/national/politics-diplomacy/easier-greenhouse-target-in-offing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-30T23:22:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-30T23:23:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/30/national/politics-diplomacy/anti-nuclear-koizumi-agitating-for-comeback/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Common cause: Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is flanked by Social Democratic Party chief Tadatomo Yoshida (left) and SDP Secretary-General Seiji Mataichi as they pose for a photo during a meeting Tuesday in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-31T12:18:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Child's play: This screen shot from a video clip explaining a Diet panel report on the Fukushima crisis bears symbols representing the 3/11 tsunami and a baffled Tepco]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Watching, waiting: A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday on Wednesday. Stocks were mixed in early trading as investors wait to hear what the Federal Reserve said about the future of its massive economic stimulus program]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Historic stage: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall about the federal health care law on Wednesday. The venue is where former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, Obama's rival in the 2012 presidential election, signed the state's landmark health care law in 2006, with top Democrats standing by his side]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hard landing: U.S. President Barack Obama and new FBI Director James Comey stand for the National Anthem during the latter's inauguration ceremony at FBI headquarters in Washington on Monday]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-31T21:11:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-31T21:12:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-31T22:15:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-31T22:15:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-10-31T22:22:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Damage control: Orient Corp. President Masayuki Saito holds a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/31/national/student-internships-becoming-more-oriented-toward-problem-solving/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Building experience: Senshu University students make a presentation in July of university dorm construction plans under an internship program for a dormitory operator in Kawasaki.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/31/national/shabondama-soap-finds-success-naturally/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hayato Morita]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/31/national/cash-users-to-take-brunt-of-fare-hikes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-10-31T22:26:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[And they're off: Passengers pass through ticket gates at JR Shinjuku Station on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/31/business/corporate-business/tepco-logs-%c2%a5616-20-billion-group-net-profit-for-april-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T00:13:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-01T00:14:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-01T00:19:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dubious drug: Shiga University of Medical Science President Tadao Banba attends a press conference Thursday and said the university's in-house investigation committee found that a clinical study on Novartis Phama K.K.'s Diovan contained doubtful data.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/31/national/more-restaurants-tied-to-food-fraud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T00:27:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than a typo: A notice Wednesday at a Chinese restaurant in Sapporo apologizes for deceiving clients about the food served.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/31/business/economy-business/wages-slide-for-16th-month-despite-abes-pleas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T00:27:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/31/national/expectations-high-for-japan-russia-parley/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T00:31:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/31/national/crime-legal/leak-gives-tokyo-police-black-eye/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T00:32:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/31/business/corporate-business/sonys-hirai-mixes-camera-phone-geeks-to-catch-apple/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T00:34:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20131101a6a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hybrid: Kazuo Hirai, chief executive officer of Sony Corp., tries out a Sony Xperia Z1 smartphone with the Sony DSC-QX100 smartphone attachable lens-style camera at the CEATEC Japan 2013 trade show in the city of Chiba on Oct. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/31/national/politics-diplomacy/pro-base-pair-may-split-nago-mayoral-poll-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T00:35:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshikazu Shimabukuro]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/31/national/politics-diplomacy/anti-nuclear-lawmaker-tries-to-get-emperors-attention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T10:44:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Controversial gambit: Upper House lawmaker Taro Yamamoto hands a letter to Emperor Akihito (center) during the autumn garden party at the Akasaka Palace Imperial Garden on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/foreign-a-bomb-survivors-ask-abe-to-correct-hiroshima-remarks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T11:59:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-01T16:26:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Silk ties: When Chinese President Xi Jinping was promoting trade and military ties in Malaysia and Indonesia in October, he mentioned the Chinese navigator Zheng He, who made seven visits to "the Western Seas" in the 15th century]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-evaluates-blowback-from-revelations-it-spied-on-allies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T16:37:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Surveillance quandary: President Barack Obama addresses the SelectUSA 2013 Investment Summit in Washington on Thursday. His administration is presented with a new quandary for the United States: Curtail spying on allies and lose critical intelligence, or continue the programs at severe diplomatic jeopardy]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/business/perfect-winds-give-brazil-another-option-for-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T17:00:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of fin air: Workers in Caetite, Brazil, prepare blades to be hoisted onto a tower at the High Wilderness Wind Complex, a project of more than 400 wind turbines run by Renova Energia, a Sao Paulo energy company, on Oct. 25]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/japan-denies-disrupting-china-drills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T20:31:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/prestigious-nitten-arts-exhibition-cancels-top-award-selections/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No-win situation: People view calligraphy Friday at the Japan Fine Arts Exhibition in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/business/apples-ipad-air-tablet-greeted-by-long-store-lines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T20:45:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Must-have: Customers look over Apple's new iPad Air tablets at an Apple store in Tokyo on Friday. More than 300 customers lined up to buy the slimmed-down device, which debuted worldwide.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/two-japanese-chocolatiers-win-awards-in-paris/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T20:45:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[How sweet it is: Hironobu Tsujiguchi gives the thumbs-up sign after receiving the highest award at the Salon du Chocolat global chocolate fair in Paris on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/tougher-law-stifles-mob-but-old-cases-nag/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T21:52:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On guard: Police officers carry out a night patrol in Kitakyushu on Oct. 28. Mob violence in Fukuoka has been declining since the revised law against organized crime took effect in 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/volunteers-flock-to-oshima-to-help/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Muck raker?: Radio DJ Kosaku Mukai scoops mud out of damaged houses on Izu-Oshima Island last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/business/corporate-business/ctbc-buys-tokyo-star-taiwan-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T21:57:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Acquired: A pedestrian walks past a Tokyo Star Bank Ltd. branch in Tokyo on April 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/business/hokkaido-asked-to-use-6-less-electricity-this-winter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T21:59:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/bill-for-sdf-rescues-abroad-passed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T22:01:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/tpp-bargaining-session-set-for-utah/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T22:01:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[To my friends: This ship-shaped memorial, which Capt. Jukichi Oguri built for his former crew members, stands at Jofuku Temple in Atsuta Ward, Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/pakistan-airports-to-get-security-gear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T22:01:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/defiant-inoki-leaves-for-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T22:01:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/japan-may-join-pact-on-compensation-for-nuke-damage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T22:01:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/mizuho-execs-face-diet-grilling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T22:01:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/world/u-s-airline-passengers-get-electronic-gadget-ok/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T22:01:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/yahoo-oks-three-month-vacations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T22:01:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/business/power-reform-bill-advances/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T22:19:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Watts up: It's business as usual at Tokyo Electric Power Co. headquarters Thursday night.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/crime-legal/south-korean-court-orders-mhi-to-pay-korean-women-for-forced-labor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T23:07:08+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/mcdonalds-store-pulls-apologizes-for-homeless-sign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T23:07:53+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/01/national/lawmaker-under-fire-for-letter-to-emperor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-01T23:26:21+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/world/obama-meets-iraqs-al-maliki-remains-mum-on-arms-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-02T16:52:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Weapons push: U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Friday, following their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/world/u-s-supreme-court-to-hear-new-case-on-public-prayer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-02T16:53:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/world/man-claims-he-told-u-s-of-bin-laden-home-in-03/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-02T20:58:37+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/business/china-mimics-worst-of-abenomics-at-worst-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-02T20:59:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["All under control": Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivers a speech at the opening ceremony for the 21st Century Council Beijing Conference at the Great Hall of the People on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/world/science-health-world/physical-activity-may-be-brain-food-for-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-02T23:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ball boys: Afghan boys play soccer at their school in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan. Recent studies suggest that fitness is the cause of higher test scores for kids.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/national/media-national/trust-no-one-japans-magazines-offer-a-bleak-message/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-02T23:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20131103bja.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bringing out the big guns: An Ishikawa Prefectural Police officer uses ventriloquism in a class aimed at teaching the elderly about the dangers of remittance scams last month. Despite years of imaginative awareness campaigns, the ore-ore scam is still finding gullible victims.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/national/politics-diplomacy/i-will-just-do-what-i-have-to-do-lawmaker-inoki-makes-unauthorized-trip-to-n-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T01:06:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Go North: Pro wrestler-turned-Upper House lawmaker Antonio Inoki of opposition party Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) walk toward the departure gate at Beijing international airport to catch a flight to North Korea on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/national/social-issues/system-failing-asylum-seekers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T01:19:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/nb20131103a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20131103a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anwar Hussin]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/national/japan-russia-to-ok-asia-security-cooperation-at-inaugural-two-plus-two-meet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T01:19:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w1-t1-rusjaptalks-a-20131103.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Show of hands: Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (second from right) and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera pose for a group shot with their Russian counterparts, Sergey Lavrov (second from left) and Sergei Shoigu, at the start of their "two-plus-two" meeting in Tokyo on Saturday morning]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/national/iaea-team-to-probe-fukushima-plants-water-woes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T01:19:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/nn20131103a1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20131103a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On a mission: Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks to the press in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/national/state-to-spend-over-%c2%a51-trillion-of-taxpayer-money-for-fukushima-decontamination-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T01:19:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/nn20131103a4a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20131103a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Funded by you: Decontamination work continues in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, on Thursday. The government is planning to use in excess of ¥1 trillion in public funds for efforts to clean up contaminated areas around the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/national/crime-legal/portrait-of-a-killer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T10:37:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20131103x2b.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dean Fujioka]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/national/crime-legal/crime-and-punishment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T10:38:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/fl20131103x3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20131103x3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In mourning: Lindsay Ann Hawker's father, William, sobs after visiting Gyotoku police station in Chiba Prefecture on Sept. 16, 2008, to inquire about the investigation into the murder of his 22-year-old daughter.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/national/media-national/hankyu-hanshin-scandal-is-a-by-product-of-the-medias-food-fetishization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T13:03:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20131103pba.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pay per word: Falsely labeled dishes are described on a Hotel Hankyu International menu. Reporting on the latest mislabeling scandal, the Tokyo Shimbun has suggested that the longer it takes to read a menu, the more expensive a meal is going to be.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/03/national/envoy-backs-myanmars-nation-building-bid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T20:09:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p2-myanmar-a-20131104.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-myanmar-a-20131104.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mikio Numata kyodo]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/03/national/sake-masters-draw-fans-at-first-u-n-tasting-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T20:13:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-sake-a-20131104.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rice wine diplomacy: Diplomats try their hand at sake-tasting Friday during a promotional event hosted by Japan at United Nations headquarters in New York]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/03/world/science-health-world/u-s-judge-mulls-video-of-paralyzed-mans-murder-suspect-id-through-blinks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T20:28:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/w1-blink-a-20131104.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w1-blink-a-20131104.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Blinking is believing: Melvin Pate is seen blinking to identify his shooter in a screen grab from a video released by the office of Maryland's state attorney. Pate was shot and left paralyzed, but he was able to ID the suspect by blinking his eyes during a police lineup]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/03/world/science-health-world/babies-know-songs-they-hear-in-the-womb-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T20:32:45+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/03/world/miranda-was-held-for-political-acts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T20:44:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p5-miranda-a-20131104.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Going into detail: Brazil's Espionage Parliamentary Inquiry Commission hears journalist Glenn Greenwald (right) and his partner, David Miranda, who is a Brazilian citizen, speak on Oct. 9 about accusations of espionage against Brazil that was conducted on behalf of the U.S. government]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/03/national/schieffer-howard-among-4242-set-for-autumn-honors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T20:52:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/03/national/crime-legal/former-nagano-pension-exec-found-on-lam-in-bangkok/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T21:15:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/03/world/secret-documents-reveal-how-close-ussr-came-to-launching-nukes-in-83/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T21:59:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20131104f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the brink: High-ranking Russian military officials peer into an opened intercontinental ballistic missile silo at an undisclosed location in the country in 2001. Recently revealed British documents show that a major 1983 war games exercise was so realistic, it nearly prompted the Soviet Union to launch a nuclear attack on NATO.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/03/world/unsung-heroes-emerge-in-stories-of-kenyan-mall-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-03T22:04:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Down low: Kenyan troops take up positions inside Nairobi's Westgate Mall on Sept. 21 after Somali militants attacked the upscale shopping complex.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/romney-slams-obama-for-fundamental-dishonesty-on-health-care-law-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-04T17:15:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/romney-slams-obama-for-fundamental-dishonesty-on-health-care-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-04T18:02:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/w2-romney-a-20131105.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Healthy diet?: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney eats a cookie made in his likeness on his campaign bus en route to Celina, Ohio, in October 2012, during his unsuccessful White House run. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/03/national/science-health/u-n-backs-network-to-monitor-near-earth-objects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-04T18:05:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/w3-space-z-cap-20131104.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w3 space-z-cap 20131104]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eye on future: Astronaut Soichi Noguchi (right) briefs reporters last month in New York about the need for global cooperation in monitoring incoming asteroids and other nearby objects that could threaten Earth.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/03/national/politics-diplomacy/yachi-tapped-to-head-new-security-council/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-04T18:05:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/04/national/u-s-airman-held-in-drunk-driving/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-04T22:09:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/04/national/chiba-residents-put-on-pm2-5-alert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-04T22:10:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/04/national/missing-china-scholar-set-to-return/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-04T22:10:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/04/world/social-issues-world/hot-mommas-project-promotes-life-balance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-04T22:18:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20131105s1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[High attitudes: Kathy Korman Frey (foreground) and others make faces for a snapshot as they watch the Hot Mommas Project Awards on Saturday in Washington. From left: Sonia Ledwith, Suki Howard, Rachel Eberhard, Francisca Alonso, Korman Frey, Ify Ofulue and Christianna Pyo. Hannah Friedman is obstructed.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/04/business/use-2020-olympics-to-lift-economy-suga-urges-execs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-05T00:14:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/nb20131105a4a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20131105a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pep rally: Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga addresses business leaders at an event in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/04/reference/diet-reform-paralyzed-by-hypocritical-habits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-05T00:14:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/nn20131105i1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20131105i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime minister's prerogative: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, during a visit to Turkey last month, hugs a relative of Orhan Suyolcu, a deceased former Turkish Airlines captain who, in 1985, flew in to Tehran during the Iran-Iraq War to retrieve 215 stranded Japanese.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/04/world/assad-loyalists-gaining-ground-in-civil-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-05T00:17:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/04/world/science-health-world/washington-state-to-vote-on-mandatory-gm-labels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-05T00:19:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Natural taste: Scott Smith tosses a fresh salmon to a colleague behind the counter at the Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle in October 2010. Television ads featuring Pike Place fishmongers, organic farmers and others have hammered the proposal to label food produced with genetic engineering.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Long stretch: Supporters of Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking tons of classified documents to WikiLeaks, wait to hear her sentence outside Fort George G. Meade in Maryland in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-05T14:16:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man looks at his cellphone as he walks in downtown Madrid on Thursday after allegations emerged that Spain was a target for surveillance by the NSA.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[It's not easy being green: British Prime Minister David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, speaks at the party's annual conference in Manchester, England. Environmentalists say Cameron's pledge to lead a new era of the "green Conservative" is in danger of melting away]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Frame by frame: Yoshiaki Nagasawa welds bicycle frames at his plant in Osaka]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/05/national/vietnam-photo-exhibit-opens/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["New Horizon": People involved in a photo exhibition jointly held by the Vietnam News Agency and Kyodo News launch the event Monday in Hanoi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/05/national/fukushima-slur-gets-yellow-card/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-05T20:59:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-05T20:59:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-05T20:59:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-05T21:03:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gem: Visitors view a Honda Jade at the booth of Dongfeng Honda Automobile Co. the joint venture between Dongfeng Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co., at the Wuhan Motor Show 2013 in Wuhan, central China, on Oct. 19]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-05T21:07:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-05T21:09:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Superdeal: Masayoshi Son (left), chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Corp., and Ilkka Paananen, chief executive officer of Supercell Oy, hold a news conference Thursday in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/05/national/politics-diplomacy/tpp-on-bidens-agenda-during-visit-next-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-05T21:11:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eastward-bound: Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a news conference Oct. 30 in West Lake Hills, Texas]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-05T21:13:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-05T21:14:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-05T21:43:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Recycled: An elementary school building in Sakae, Nagano Prefecture, renovated as apartments.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/05/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-stands-by-aggression-portion-of-1995-war-apology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-05T23:17:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-05T23:43:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-05T23:46:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[PAKISTAN-UNREST-MUSHARRAF-FILES]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pervez Musharraf]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/05/national/tepco-feeling-heat-over-fuel-removal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-06T13:28:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High degree of difficulty: The spent-fuel storage pool is seen inside the reactor 4 building at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 plant in July]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/05/national/takashimaya-daimaru-also-admit-menu-scams/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-06T13:29:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spilling the beans: Takashimaya Co. executives bow in apology Tuesday in Tokyo after admitting that company restaurants and stores misrepresented items on their menus]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/06/national/bureaucracy-reform-bill-submitted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-06T20:34:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-06T20:36:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-06T20:37:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-06T20:52:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-06T20:54:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Count 'em: Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie holds up two fingers to signal his second term after his election victory in Asbury Park on Tuesday. With him on stage are his wife, Mary Pat Christie, and their children, Andrew and Bridget]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/06/business/economy-business/northeast-asia-lng-prices-hit-10-month-high-before-winter-sets-in-wgi/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-06T21:12:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New chapter: Mitsuo Ohashi (left), chairman of the Japan Interchange Association, seals trade deals with Taiwan's East Asian Relations Commission Chairman Lee Chia-chin at a Taipei hotel Tuesday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/06/national/long-green-card-wait-has-happy-ending-for-japan-woman-and-wife/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-06T21:15:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All's well that ends well:  Takako Ueda and her wife, Frances Herbert, show Ueda's U.S. green card along with news stories and letters of support in their  Vermont home last month]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/06/national/with-midlife-job-switch-man-helps-foreigners-clear-legal-hurdles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-06T21:17:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masafumi Inagaki]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-06T21:21:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osamu Masuko kyodo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/06/national/hospitals-face-revamp-for-nuclear-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-06T21:40:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-06T21:51:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Not cool: The spent-fuel pool of reactor 4 at the Fukushima No. 1 plant is seen in May 2011. The government hinted Tuesday at relocation support for evacuees who can't return home]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/06/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-team-seeks-to-kill-rice-program-by-2018/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No limits: A farmer harvests rice in a paddy in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, in late August. The Liberal Democratic Party-led government proposed Wednesday to abolish in 2018 the decades-old state program limiting rice cultivation]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/06/national/iaea-experts-to-help-check-seawater/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-06T22:43:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-06T22:44:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-06T22:44:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bird's-eye view: Midori Kano (left), assistant director of Cavin-Morris Gallery in New York, and a visitor view owl-themed paintings by disabled artists from countries including Japan, Nepal, South Korea and Italy on Oct]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/06/business/economy-business/philippines-adopts-japanese-digital-tv-standard-joining-rest-of-asean/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-06T22:45:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/06/national/nuclear-watchdog-warns-monju-reactor-operator-jaea-over-lax-security/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trouble-plagued: The Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday admonished the Japan Atomic Energy Agency for its lax security at the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/06/national/no-online-trade-for-23-otc-drugs/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Mikitani kyodo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/06/national/crime-legal/did-stalls-net-yakuza-%c2%a5300-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-06T23:43:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/kerry-works-to-keep-israeli-palestinian-peace-talks-on-track/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-07T15:57:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tough going: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to the press after his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, the West Bank, on Wednesday. Kerry waded again into the nitty-gritty of faltering Israeli-Palestinian peace talks earlier in the day, saying he was optimistic that tensions and difficulties could be overcome even between "two proud people" struggling to reach an accommodation]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/world/white-house-mulls-separate-leaders-for-nsa-cyber-command/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-07T16:03:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Split in two: Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, takes part in a discussion at the Reagan Building on Oct. 30 in Washington. The Obama administration is reported to be considering ending a controversial policy that since 2010 has placed one military official at the head of both the largest U.S. spy agency and cyber command]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-07T16:47:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anachronism: A South Korean woman tries out a laptop at Samsung Electronics' headquarters in Seoul in July 2010. South Korea is renowned for its digital innovation, but the tech-savvy nation is stuck in the past in one way: its slavish dependence on Internet Explorer]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/national/crime-legal/canada-to-extradite-person-of-interest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-07T22:59:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/national/politics-diplomacy/lower-house-passes-investment-accord/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-07T22:59:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/national/student-hacks-into-academic-results/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-07T22:59:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/business/economy-business/key-indicators-index-hits-five-year-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-07T23:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/national/chef-from-64-olympics-looking-forward-to-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-07T23:05:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Isamu Suzuki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/national/adjusting-to-stay-in-the-frame-game/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-07T23:07:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Far-sighted: Yasuyuki Kobayashi wears glasses he designed based on those worn by the main character in Hayao Miyazaki's animated film "Kaze Tachinu" ("The Wind Rises").]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/national/office-vacancies-in-tokyo-decline-to-the-lowest-level-since-june-2009/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-07T23:22:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Office space: Commercial and residential buildings are seen from the observatory of the Mori Building Co.-operated Roppongi Hills Mori Tower on Sept. 3. The office vacancy rate in Tokyo fell in October to its lowest level in more than four years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/national/ex-ambassador-schieffer-highlights-dangers-of-senkaku-tinderbox-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-07T23:22:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thomas Schieffer]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-panel-on-constitution-abandons-hoped-for-minimum-age-of-18-for-referendum-votes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-07T23:54:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/business/corporate-business/acom-also-admits-extending-shady-loans-to-yakuza/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-07T23:54:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-07T23:54:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/national/empress-to-meet-with-indian-authors-in-new-delhi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-07T23:54:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-07T23:54:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/national/politics-diplomacy/bill-to-set-up-u-s-style-security-council-clears-lower-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T00:17:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/national/crime-legal/stalking-victim-info-leaked-by-zushi-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T00:17:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/national/panel-advises-use-of-government-authorized-ethics-textbooks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T00:19:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/business/corporate-business/staying-home-paying-off-for-toyota-amid-weakening-yen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T00:20:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Motoring on: A visitor looks at Toyota Motor Corp.'s Avalon (front) and Venza models at the company's Tokyo showroom Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/national/lawmaker-inoki-meets-top-aide-of-n-korean-leader-kim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T00:21:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Antonio Inoki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/business/asean-chief-says-integration-offers-potential-for-japanese-businesses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T00:26:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Connectivity: ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh is greeted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ahead of their meeting Tuesday in Tokyo. Minh is on a four-day visit to Japan to prepare for a Dec. 13-15 ASEAN special summit to mark 40 years of diplomatic ties.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/national/nobel-winner-shimomura-returns-to-isle-to-once-again-seek-sea-fireflies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T00:29:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Burning curiosity: Osamu Shimomura, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, explains how to trap sea fireflies during an observation event on Kone Island, Hiroshima Prefecture, in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/05/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-politician-wont-resign-over-breach-of-protocol-involving-emperor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T00:37:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hot seat: Upper House lawmaker Taro Yamamoto faces the media Tuesday in Tokyo to answer questions on why he broke with protocol and gave a letter to Emperor Akihito last week]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/national/hotel-okura-latest-to-own-up-to-fraudulent-menus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T00:47:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Step up: Isetan Mitsukoshi is one of several established chains caught up in a widening food fraud case.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/national/japan-s-korea-china-to-make-joint-effort-for-trilateral-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T12:12:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/national/media-national/can-japanese-really-be-such-cold-sushi-in-the-sack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T12:47:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/07/business/robots-walk-the-walk-fix-bento-at-tokyo-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T19:41:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20131108a2b.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Here and NAO: Mai Miyazaki of Aldebaran Robotics demonstrates NAO, a humanoid robot equipped with a microphone, camera, speakers and motors to control limb and finger movements. NAO can speak 19 languages, get back up after falling over, and even remember human faces, according to the manufacturer.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/national/cities-struggle-to-keep-from-killing-stray-cats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T19:53:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Feline assistant: Mei the cat sits on the shoulder of a staff member at Chuo Small Animal Management Center in the city of Kochi on Sept. 4. Mei's life was spared after she was brought in to the center to be disposed of.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/national/book-lays-bare-transparent-life-forms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T19:53:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/national/top-aficionado-plans-contest-to-test-the-best-spinners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T19:54:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Old master: Yoshihito Fujita demonstrates a spinning top technique at his home-turned-museum in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/national/engineer-devises-tiny-optical-sensor-after-nobel-triumph/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T19:58:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attention to detail: Hiroyuki Kyushima (right) observes an operation involving photomultiplier tubes at the Hamamatsu Photonics plant in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/national/crime-legal/stalking-victim-info-leak-laid-to-tax-man/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T20:46:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/business/economy-business/31-of-households-lack-financial-assets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T20:46:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rainy day: "Abenomics" has led many to tap their savings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/national/politics-diplomacy/yamamoto-nets-imperial-ban-for-letter-inoki-faces-discipline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T20:59:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Transgressors: Upper House lawmakers Taro Yamamoto (left) and Antonio Inoki enter the Diet on Friday. The chamber's Steering Committee banned Yamamoto from attending Imperial family events and Inoki faces punishment for visiting North Korea without approval.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/world/science-health-world/too-fat-to-fly-young-french-patient-is-stranded-by-british-airways-in-chicago/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T21:58:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/business/corporate-business/kagoshima-shochu-makers-seek-growth-via-h-k-fair/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T22:11:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taste of Japan: An employee of Kagoshima-based "shochu" spirits maker Tensei Shuzo offers a sample to a visitor at a trade fair in Hong Kong on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/national/crime-legal/mizuho-shareholders-file-complaint-over-yakuza-loans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T22:13:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/business/economy-business/economy-in-u-s-up-by-2-8-in-quarter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T22:15:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/national/81-know-of-russia-japan-isle-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T22:16:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/national/idb-chief-seeks-more-investment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T22:16:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/national/government-unpins-google-maps-for-top-design-prize/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T23:42:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Google Maps icon google]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/national/crime-legal/kidnapped-girl-12-safe-trio-nabbed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-08T23:43:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/national/fukushima-no-1-workers-to-get-raise-perks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-09T00:40:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/09/business/opponents-derail-obamas-dream-of-high-speed-trains-and-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-09T13:20:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dead stop: A finished high-speed rail carriage sits idle Sept. 6 at the Talgo factory in Milwaukee. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker refused federal money that would have helped fund a line connecting Milwaukee to Madison, the state capital.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/09/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korea-hints-at-tacit-ok-of-japan-collective-defense-quest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-09T14:03:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/08/national/fukuoka-issues-warning-on-high-pm2-5-levels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-09T15:02:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laying it out: Akitada Oishi (second from left), former mayor of Hita, Oita Prefecture, looks at a local tourist map in the government office of the northern Argentine province of Salta on Sept. 11, together with Salta government employees]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/12/business/mitsui-fudosan-partners-said-seeking-ok-for-odaiba-casino-resort-complex/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-12T22:11:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/12/business/farm-business-lobbies-push-tie-ups/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-12T22:13:50+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/12/business/corporate-business/skyline-to-be-infiniti-debut-car-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-12T22:14:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the horizon: Nissan Motor Co.'s Skyline sedan is seen in this undated handout image released to the media Monday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/12/national/kennedy-to-present-credentials-to-emperor-on-nov-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-12T22:47:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-kennedy-a-20131113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Caroline Kennedy]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/12/world/about-40000-americans-have-reportedly-signed-up-for-plans-on-healthcare-gov/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-12T22:56:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/w3-care-z-20131113.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-care-z-20131113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Slow going: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks Oct. 30 at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall about the federal health care law. Sources say only 40,000 people have signed up]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/12/national/crime-legal/court-bars-opening-of-isahaya-bay-dike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-12T23:15:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Environmental impact statement: The floodgates in the Isahaya Bay dike in Nagasaki Prefecture are seen in April. The Nagasaki District Court issued an injunction Tuesday barring the government from opening the gates]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/12/national/politics-diplomacy/six-arrested-over-tokuda-election-campaign-fraud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-12T23:16:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Knock, knock: Investigators from the Tokyo Prosecutor's Office enter the Kagoshima home of Torao Tokuda, father of Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Takeshi Tokuda and founder of the Tokushukai hospital and welfare chain, on Tuesday]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/12/world/author-divides-u-s-into-11-american-nations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T09:03:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Forget the 50 states: Members of the New York State National Guard carry a large flag during the annual Veterans Day Parade on Monday on Fifth Avenue in New York City. An author says the U.S is really made up of 11 distinct "nations."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/12/national/politics-diplomacy/koizumi-calls-on-abe-to-ditch-nuclear-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T18:28:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Change of heart: Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Tuesday. Koizumi spoke at the club after stirring controversy with a U-turn on nuclear policy]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/national/plan-for-indian-naval-drill-approved/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T20:18:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/national/inoki-sanctioned-for-n-korea-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T20:18:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p2-briefs-z-20131114.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p2 briefs-z 20131114]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In hot water: Upper House lawmaker Antonio Inoki leaves the chamber after a resolution was passed Wedneday to punish him for visiting North Korea without permission.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/national/prince-mikasa-97-hospitalized/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T20:18:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/national/nra-to-hold-safety-screening-meeting-for-restarting-tepco-reactors-in-niigata/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T21:30:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-bound-kennedy-attends-welcome-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T21:31:57+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/national/isahaya-ruling-puts-the-state-in-a-quandary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T21:33:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-isahaya-z-20131114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Do not open: The contentious plan to open the floodgates of the Isahaya Bay dike protecting filled-in land in Nagasaki Prefecture has become even more uncertain after the Nagasaki District Court issued an injunction Tuesday to bar the government from opening it in contradiction to an earlier high court ruling]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/business/rakuten-unit-sues-over-curbs-on-selling-drugs-over-internet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T21:34:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/national/crane-breeding-center-crowded-as-birds-age/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T21:35:10+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/national/politics-diplomacy/ships-can-carry-armed-guards-against-pirates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T21:41:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/business/corporate-business/ghosn-mexico-to-be-key-export-hub/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T21:43:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The whole enchilada: Carlos Ghosn, chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co., speaks Tuesday at the opening ceremony for a new plant in Aguascalientes, Mexico]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/business/economy-business/machinery-orders-log-further-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T21:43:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p6-machinery-a-20131114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mixing ingredients: A Kawasaki chemical plant is seen in September last year]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/business/corporate-business/critics-name-atenza-car-of-the-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T21:44:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p6-atenza-a-20131114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prestige: The Atenza sedan built by Mazda Motor Corp. won a car of the year award on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/business/hospitals-await-ok-to-invest-overseas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T21:45:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/national/citizen-runner-takes-unconventional-path/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T21:46:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-runner-a-20131114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[His way: Marathon marvel  Yuki Kawauchi runs toward a station in Saitama Prefecture on his way to work Oct. 3]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/national/manager-of-secondhand-shop-tifana-gives-fashion-items-new-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T21:50:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p3-sechand-a-20131114.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Recycler: Junichi Kato, manager of the Tifana outlet in the Musashikoyama district in Tokyo, helps a customer Oct. 15]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/national/ex-hunter-working-to-preserve-unspoiled-forest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T21:51:19+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/world/new-fraud-probe-nets-u-s-navy-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T21:54:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/world/egypts-secular-parties-crippled-by-infighting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T21:58:42+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/national/jr-hokkaido-may-face-criminal-charge-for-falsifications/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T22:53:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Besieged: JR Hokkaido chief Makoto Nojima attends a press conference on Wednesday at the railway's headquarters in Sapporo]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/australias-ex-leader-rudd-announces-retirement-from-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T22:55:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/national/new-law-paves-way-to-break-up-electricity-monopolies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T23:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/national/thyroid-cancers-up-in-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-13T23:02:25+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/14/national/abe-gives-thank-you-letter-to-chinese-student-for-rescuing-boy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-14T12:33:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/w1-hero-a-20131115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w1-hero-a-20131115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heroes: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (right) offers seats to Yan Jun (second from right), Masao Kuniyoshi and his wife, Kanoko, prior to recognizing their rescue efforts at the prime minister's official residence on Wednesday. Yan received the certificate of appreciation for saving a 9-year-old boy in Osaka in September, while Kuniyoshi helped save a man from a fire in Tokyo's Ota Ward in May last year]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/14/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-air-force-sex-assault-prevention-chief-cleared-of-groping-woman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-14T16:15:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/w2-sexassault-a-20131115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Jefferey Krusinski]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leading by example?: U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, who led the service’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit, leaves the General District Court in Arlington, Virginia, on July 18 after being criminally accused of groping a woman. On Wednesday, a seven-member jury found Krusinski not guilty.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/14/business/economy-business/japan-economy-grows-for-fourth-straight-quarter-but-at-slower-1-9/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-14T16:50:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/14/national/tokyo-air-pollutant-traced-to-kyushu-volcano-china-link-discounted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-14T20:49:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/w1-t1-sakurajima-a-20131115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w1-t1-sakurajima-a-20131115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Explosive: Volcanic gas carrying sulfur dioxide is released from Mount Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture during an eruption Sept. 26. The gas is partly responsible for spikes in the air pollutant PM2.5 in the Kanto and Tokai regions, the Meteorological Research Institute says]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/14/national/crime-legal/chinese-man-ready-for-extradition-from-canada/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-14T21:21:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/14/national/iranian-nomads-gabbeh-carpets-all-the-rage-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-14T21:22:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p3-carpet-a-20131115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-carpet-a-20131115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flying high: Ali Farmani, manager of a store that sells Gabbeh carpets in Tehran, spreads out some rugs that were woven by Qashqai women.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/14/world/crime-legal-world/secret-service-alleged-abuse-is-investigated/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-14T21:38:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/14/world/science-health-world/oldest-complete-fossil-discovered/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-14T21:40:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p7-fossil-a-20131115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-fossil-a-20131115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Distant ancestors: Ancient microorganisms in shallow, mainly marine waters built up mats over the years, sometimes fossilizing into layered rocks called stromatolites such as this one in the Strelley Pool Chert of Pilbara, Western Australia, which formed 3.6 billion to 3.2 billion years ago.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/14/world/science-health-world/chinese-fossil-is-oldest-known-of-insects-mating/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-14T21:40:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p7-perpetua-a-20131115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-perpetua-a-20131115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eternal embrace: This fossil found in China suggests that froghoppers mated in the same way 165 million years ago.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/14/business/economy-business/abes-third-arrow-vital-allianz-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-14T21:44:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p8-allianz-a-20131115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-allianz-a-20131115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speculation: A man is reflected in the window covering an electronic stock board at a securities firm in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/14/business/corporate-business/toyota-unveils-revamped-harrier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-14T21:48:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p8-harrier-a-20131115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-harrier-a-20131115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Targeting the young: Actor Koichi Sato stands beside Toyota's new Hybrid Harrier during a Wednesday press preview in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Side by side: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a news conference with Laotian Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong in Vientiane on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Advance look: An "augmented reality" app created by furniture retailer Ikea Japan K.K. allows customers to get a virtual preview of how a piece of furniture will look in their room.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Luxury for many: Curious onlookers look at toilet stalls placed in Tokyo's Showa Kinen Park Tuesday, as UNICEF celebrates World Toilet Day. The one in the center had no toilet to raise awareness of the lack of basic sanitation in many parts of the world.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stalked: Rie Miyoshi was killed in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, after a police officer gave information about her to her murderer, Hideto Kozutsumi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of their depth?: Workers at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant remove fuel rods from a pool in the reactor 4 building, in a handout picture provided by Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Monday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Friend or foe?: German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech on allegations of a massive spying program by the U.S. National Security Agency at the Bundestag in Berlin on Monday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking for takers:  A biometric authentication unit designed by Mofiria Ltd. is displayed with someone's finger.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Off the hoof: Curried venison is offered at 12 of curry chain CoCo Ichibanya's outlets nationwide. Hideharu Ishizaki (above) opens Ezo Shi Cafe in Sangenjaya, Tokyo, every Friday to promote deer meat.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inflamed tensions: Flames rise from the site of two blasts in Beirut on Tuesday. At least 23 people were killed in the bombings outside the Iranian Embassy in Lebanon's capital, including cultural advisor from Tehran, government sources said]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Courtesy call: U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy meets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his residence Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brand new Pad: An employee demonstrates an Apple Inc. iPad Air tablet at the Apple Store Ginza in Tokyo on Nov. 1.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ambassador of the Philippines to Japan Manuel Lopez speaks at the opening of a seminar to explain why his country is an optimal investment destination in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[A proposed flyby mission to Mars]]></image:title>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p1 w1 fisher-z 20131122]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With tears in her eyes, Catherine Fisher, the victim of a 2002 rape by an American serviceman near the U.S. Navy base in Yokosuka, pauses during a news conference Thursday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/21/national/nra-weighs-safety-of-idled-niigata-reactors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T00:09:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-22T00:13:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fuji Jr.: Smoke rises from emerging land in the Ogasawara Island chain, about 1,000 km south of Tokyo, on Thursday after a volcanic eruption.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/21/business/corporate-business/yamaha-motor-plans-four-wheeler/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T00:17:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Motiv-ating: Yamaha Motor Co. President Hiroyuki Yanagi presents the Motiv prototype at the Tokyo Motor Show on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/21/national/dud-shell-used-to-adorn-alcove-for-over-20-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T00:20:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No knickknack: This dud shell was used as a house decoration in Furano, Hokkaido, for more than 20 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/21/business/corporate-business/mizuho-chief-tells-diet-bank-will-clean-up-act/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T00:20:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato is seen attending the Committee on Financial Affairs of the Upper House as an unsworn witness on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/21/business/new-jcci-chair-seeks-to-learn-why-abenomics-not-helping-small-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T00:21:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akio Mimura Bloomberg]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/world/u-s-pakistan-tussle-over-drone-strikes-target/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T12:40:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hard lesson: Pakistani Islamic students gather at a site belonging to the Haqqani militant network after a U.S. drone strike in the Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/21/business/corporate-business/toyota-to-make-hybrid-cars-with-chinese-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T12:41:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Senior Managing Officer Hiroji Onishi speaks at the automaker's presentation during the Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-navy-suspends-another-officer-in-bribery-investigation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T12:49:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/world/offbeat-world/serial-911-caller-may-land-in-guardians-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T15:23:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Needs help: Martha Rigsby speaks with attorney Vickey Wright-Smith as they leave the courthouse Nov. 6 in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/senates-filibuster-change-will-boost-obamas-agenda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T18:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Power play: Sen. Charles Schumer (left), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (center) and Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin defend the Senate Democrats' vote to weaken filibusters and make it harder for Republicans to block confirmation of the president's nominees for judges and other top posts on during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/national/nankai-tsunami-defense-boosted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T20:06:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/national/ngo-helps-towns-ignored-on-leyte/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T20:24:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under the radar: A member of the International Children's Action Network (ICAN) delivers aid to residents in the town of Dulag on typhoon-hit Leyte Island.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/national/mayor-briefs-indonesian-leader-on-recovery-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T20:51:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High-level briefing: Shigeru Sugawara, the mayor of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, talks with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in his office in Jakarta.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/national/one-piece-hyped-in-u-s-taiwan-ads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T21:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/business/2013-tax-receipts-up-by-2-trillion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T21:39:25+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/national/october-drop-in-south-korean-visitors-alarms-tourism-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T22:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/national/inose-denies-hospital-funds-coverup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T22:08:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Swarmed: Reporters surround Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose at City Hall on Friday to grill him about an unfolding political funding scandal.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/business/corporate-business/sonys-hirai-plans-250-million-in-entertainment-cuts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T22:21:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking action: Kazuo Hirai, president and CEO of Sony Corp., attends a news conference in Tokyo in May.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/business/corporate-business/sharp-seeks-exit-from-foxconn-cellphone-venture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T22:22:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Making changes?: The Sharp Corp. logo appears on a wall during the unveiling of its new TVs in Tokyo in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/business/economy-business/economy-managed-to-stay-above-water/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T22:24:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/business/economy-business/10-year-tariff-cut-offered-sacred-items-excluded/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T22:24:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/business/corporate-business/honda-makes-english-official-language-for-global-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T22:25:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/national/first-batch-of-fuel-from-fukushima-reactor-4-pool-now-in-different-storage-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-22T23:51:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-fuel-rods-a-20131123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spare the rod: A Tokyo Electric Power Co. photo Friday shows a fuel rod removed from reactor 4 pool at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant being placed in the storage rack in the common pool.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/national/japan-to-lift-sdf-restrictions-on-weapons-use/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T00:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/world/crime-legal-world/prostitute-goes-on-trial-for-slaying-of-u-s-diplomat-in-johannesburg/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T00:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/national/three-alps-systems-undergoing-tests-at-fukushima-no-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T00:22:38+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/national/new-official-site-to-state-case-for-senkakus-takeshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T00:31:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichita Yamamoto]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/world/dealey-plaza-birthplace-of-a-mystery-that-still-reverberates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T12:01:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p7-kennedy-b-20131123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[JFK-DEALEY-ADV22]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cross road: Tourists stand in the middle of Dallas' Elm Street last month to take pictures from the spot, marked by a X, where the fatal shot hit President John Kennedy in 1963. They are looking up at the Texas School Book Depository (left). The sixth-floor window where Lee Harvey Oswald fired his rifle is on the right, the second row from the top.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/national/science-health/most-who-test-positive-in-new-prenatal-test-opt-for-abortion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T12:38:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/world/aclu-seeks-termination-of-nsas-call-records-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T17:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20131124n1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Getting a big head?: A demonstrator with a mask depicting German Chancellor Angela Merkel  poses  in front of other protesters holding posters of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden outside the German parliament building prior to a special meeting of lawmakers on the U.S.-German relationship, in Berlin on Monday. Posters read "Shelter for Edward Snowden in Germany," and "Asylum."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/22/national/kazakhstan-japan-antinuclear-exhibition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T18:14:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[(From left) Kazakhstan Ambassador Akylbek Kamaldinov, Akie Abe, wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Kazakhstan artist Karipbek Kuyukov and Japanese designer Hiromi Inayoshi attend the exhibition in Tokyo on Nov. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/national/japans-coast-menaced-by-storm-surges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T20:39:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wrecked: A ship lies washed ashore in Tacloban, Philippines, on Nov. 17 after Typhoon Haiyan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/ukraine-puts-brakes-on-historic-eu-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T21:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Not forgotten: A supporter of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko attends a protest outside the Kiev City Council building in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/world/u-s-health-care-enrollment-surges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T21:11:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/national/removal-of-used-nuclear-fuel-from-fukushima-no-1-plants-reactor-4-said-imminent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T22:56:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/national/fukushima-land-grab-eyed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T23:08:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/world/science-health-world/whats-happening-to-moose/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T23:12:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20131124h3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dying off: A bull moose crosses Kincaid Park Road in Anchorage, Alaska. Ecologists in the United States warn that moose could be gone within a decade.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/world/science-health-world/ocean-acidification-may-double-by-2100-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T23:14:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20131124h2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seas at risk : A shoal of fish and healthy coral are seen off Punta Cana, the Dominican Republic. Scientists are concerned about ocean acidification, which endangers marine ecosystems.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/national/media-national/nuclear-whistle-blower-spills-secrets-the-way-the-media-should/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T23:19:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20131124pba.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Next nightmare: A worker is screened for radiation in Minamisoma after leaving the 20-km exclusion zone around the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in September 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/national/politics-diplomacy/resisting-the-historical-deniers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-23T23:29:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20131124x2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe receives flowers from a child at ise Shrine, Mie Prefecture, in January.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/national/tepco-mitsubishi-group-to-build-coal-fired-plants-in-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-24T00:03:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-gov-inose-allegedly-tried-to-milk-%c2%a5100-million-from-scandal-hit-hospital-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-24T10:29:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/21/national/japanese-israeli-violinist-crosses-musical-boundaries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-24T10:36:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mei kyodo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/21/national/priests-take-up-pen-to-stop-suicides/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-24T10:39:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sacred writes: Kenichi Yoshida (right), chief priest of a Jodo-sect temple in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, and other members of a volunteer group of Buddhist priests read letters projected on a screen from people contemplating suicide.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/24/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/chinese-families-still-at-officials-mercy-despite-one-child-policy-easing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-24T19:02:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Just a mirage?: A boy stares at his reflection in a window in Beijing on Nov. 17. China's Communist Party announced an easing of the country's controversial one child policy as part of a raft of sweeping pledges.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/24/national/spent-fuel-rods-at-no-1-next-in-line/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-24T20:48:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/24/national/science-health/unep-chief-urges-japan-to-stay-in-fight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-24T21:08:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/24/national/secrets-bill-raises-fears-among-nuclear-foes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-24T21:40:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spelling it out: People opposed to the state secrets bill hold a protest banner at a rally in Tokyo's Yurakucho district Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/24/national/bullet-trains-on-a-pro-nuclear-curve/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-24T21:42:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two's a crowd: Two reactor buildings at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s nuclear plant in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, are shown in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/24/national/firms-tech-takes-out-chemical-arms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-24T21:43:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-wedge-a-20131125]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Disposer: A Davinci chemical arms disposal device can disintegrate sarin by detonating the gas in a vacuum chamber. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/24/national/nuclear-pacts-with-turkey-uae-face-delay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-24T21:44:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/24/national/information-grab-raises-ire-across-the-spectrum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-24T21:54:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/national/politics-diplomacy/re-engineering-shinto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-24T22:19:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/24/national/china-knocked-again-as-do-not-feel-friendly-factor-climbs-to-new-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-24T23:50:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/24/national/politics-diplomacy/cabinets-approval-rating-falls-to-57-9/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T00:15:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/national/politics-diplomacy/back-to-the-future-shintos-growing-influence-in-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T10:52:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Ise Shrine on Oct. 5 to watch the Sengyo no Gi, an important Shinto ritual that is held to transfer the symbol of the shrine's deity between buildings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/world/israel-gulf-states-and-many-u-s-lawmakers-share-deep-unease-about-iran-nuclear-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T12:25:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On guard: In this picture released by Tasnim News Agency on Wednesday, members of Iran's paramilitary Basij force, which is controlled by the Revolutionary Guard, attend a maneuver of preparation for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear sites, by the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, southern Iran.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/world/marathon-bargaining-that-led-to-iran-agreement-was-a-wild-ride-at-times/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T12:29:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/world/iran-deal-could-complicate-u-s-foreign-policy-efforts-in-mideast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T12:34:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/politics-diplomacy/hospital-source-disputes-inoses-loan-story/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T13:24:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Full-court press: Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose is mobbed by reporters Saturday in the western Tokyo city of Akiruno after admitting the previous day he borrowed ¥50 million from the Tokushukai hospital chain.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/space-industry-faces-choice-for-next-direction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T15:45:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking up: Employees walk beneath a Dragon spacecraft hanging from the ceiling on the factory floor at rocket manufacturer SpaceX on Oct. 21 in Los Angeles.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/20/business/tokyo-motor-show-still-green-tries-to-spark-pizazz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T18:56:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p1-motor-show-a-boximg-20131121.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Toyota motor president Akio Toyoda (left), and Takanobu Ito, president of Honda on the motor bycecle " HONDA GOLD WING F6C"The 43nd TOKYO MOTOR SHOW 2013. at Tokyo Bigsight on Nov. 20, 2013. PRESS DAY. YOSHIAK MIURA PHOTO]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cross-over rivals: Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda (left) makes a surprise visit to the Honda Motor Co. booth where Honda President and CEO Takanobu Ito was appearing during the Wednesday media preview of the Tokyo Motor Show. The biannual event at Tokyo Big Sight will open to the public Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/kennedy-makes-first-visit-to-tohoku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T21:12:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Art of diplomacy: Caroline Kennedy, the new U.S. ambassador to Japan, holds up the kanji for "friend," which she wrote in a calligraphy class during a visit to Mangokuura Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/business/nissan-road-tests-self-driving-vehicle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T21:17:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Look, Ma: A Nissan Motor Co. employee takes his hands off the wheel during the carmaker's test of a self-driving vehicle on the Sagami Expressway in Kanagawa Prefecture on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/business/japan-to-launch-task-force-to-boost-mekong-area-bound-medical-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T22:03:43+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-urged-to-boost-renewables-development/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T22:03:45+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/business/tpp-chiefs-ready-for-singapore-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T22:03:52+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/world/moving-syria-chemical-arms-proving-tricky/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T22:06:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Highest honor: Ahmet Uzumcu, the director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, comments on the body's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize in the Hague on Oct. 11.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/polish-soap-opera-gives-actor-a-chance-to-shine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T22:08:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opportunity on tap: Hiroaki Murakami, playing the role of an exchange student, is seen in a scene from the popular Polish soap opera "M jak Milosc."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/world/science-health-world/comet-to-dazzle-if-it-survives-sun/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T22:09:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Snowball in hell: This contrast-enhanced image produced by NASA from Hubble images of comet ISON in April reveals the subtle structure in the inner coma of the comet.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/tourism-industry-woos-asian-muslims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T22:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Make yourself at home: Muslims from Malaysia, Azlina Ahmad Azman (third from right) and her family visit Asakusa during their first stay in Tokyo earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/japan-trench-video-shot-8000-meters-down/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T22:25:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Another world: Members of a deep-sea research team monitor video taken remotely by the Edokko 1 device in the Japan Trench at a depth of some 8,000 meters on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/business/fukuoka-jv-begins-making-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T23:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/iran-nuke-program-deal-is-welcomed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T23:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/business/inflation-goal-may-happen-by-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T23:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/business/bank-of-france-upbeat-on-euro/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T23:21:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Upbeat: Bank of France Gov. Christian Noyer delivers a speech at the luncheon of the Paris Europlace financial forum in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/crime-legal/activists-file-criminal-complaint-against-tokyo-governor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T23:31:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/cool-japan-fund-launches-to-help-spread-products-overseas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T23:33:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thinking globally: Cool Japan Fund CEO Nobuyuki Ota speaks at the launch ceremony Monday in Tokyo for the public- and private-funded entity that will promote Japanese products overseas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/world/crime-legal-world/brazilians-wary-over-renewed-mass-beach-robberies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T23:34:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seaside robbery: Municipal guards chase a gang of thieves that stole bags and wallets from people on Rio de Janeiro's Arpoador beach Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/reference/national-stadium-plan-hit-as-too-grandiose/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T23:39:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p3-fyi-a-20131126.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3 fyi-a 20131126]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[If you build it: The planned new National Stadium designed by architect Zaha Hadid is coming under criticism for its massive size. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/one-dead-three-hurt-in-blast-at-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T23:40:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aftermath: Fire engines and other emergency vehicles sit out in front of the factory at the Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp. Yahata plant in Fukuoka Prefecture on Monday, where an explosion killed one worker and injured two others.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/legendary-akihabara-radio-store-closing-its-doors-after-six-decades/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T23:46:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-radio-a-20131126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[End of an era: Small shops crammed with electronics parts have operated for decades in the Akihabara Radio Store in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/business/boeing-warns-of-ice-risk-for-ge-powered-787s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T23:47:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trimmed: The Japan Airlines Co. logo is seen on the tail fin of a model of a Boeing Co. 787 aircraft displayed in an exhibition area at the company's maintenance center at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo in July.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/reference/adizs-common-but-chinas-is-worrisome/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T23:52:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-adiz-qa-b-20131126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Show of force: Chinese fighter jets are seen in May in a photo provided by Xinhua News Agency. China said Saturday any aircraft entering its air defense identification zone must obey its rules or face "defensive emergency measures."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/crime-legal/japanese-court-rules-gender-based-pensions-unconstitutional/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T23:58:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Winner: A 66-year-old plaintiff faces reporters during a news conference after the Osaka District Court ruled Monday that it is unconstitutional to set any age difference between widows and widowers for pension entitlement.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/iaea-starts-review-at-fukushima-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-25T23:58:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a hole: A file photo shows workers removing spent nuclear fuel rods at the Fukushima No. 1 plant on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/24/world/police-mine-officials-met-before-marikana-killings/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Striking out: Miners march during a strike over pay increases near the Marikana platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa, in September 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-26T12:26:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chris Christie]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/26/world/despite-obamas-plan-to-shift-drone-campaign-cia-still-behind-strikes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-26T12:36:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Important part: A Predator B drone, manufactured by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., is displayed at the company's stand at the Paris Air Show in Paris in June. Despite President Barack Obama's desire to shift the U.S.' drone strike campaign to the Defense Department, the CIA is still behind the vast majority of hits.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-26T20:39:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-26T20:39:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-26T20:40:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-26T20:40:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/26/business/fta-talks-with-seoul-beijing-start/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-26T20:53:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-26T20:54:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/26/national/crime-legal/parents-to-sue-in-bullied-sons-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-26T20:56:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-26T20:57:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/26/national/hyogo-lawmakers-bent-on-u-s-diplomacy-boost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-26T20:58:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miya Shidehara]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/26/business/economy-business/boj-policymaker-minority-didnt-buy-inflation-timetable/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-26T21:03:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-26T21:04:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prize catch: Fishermen unload a 172-kg bluefin tuna caught using a traditional pole and line off Iki Island, Nagasaki Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/26/national/okayama-uniqueness-in-its-jeans/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beyond denim: A manager at G-Star RAW Store Tokyo Shibuya arranges jeans before the shop opens on Nov. 21. An employee from the store took the exam for Japan's first "jeans sommelier" certification exam earlier this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/26/national/fukui-orthopedic-surgeon-helps-tackle-doctor-shortage-in-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-26T21:11:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lending a hand: Fukui University orthopedist Hisatoshi Baba shows solidarity with doctors at Makerere University in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, where he is teaching doctors how to treat traffic accident cases.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/26/national/kennedy-lauds-tohoku-survivor-spirit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-26T21:41:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Legacy  of 3/11: U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy faces reporters Tuesday next to the "miracle pine" that withstood the tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/26/national/2020-olympic-stadium-may-be-downsized-25-amid-criticism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-26T22:47:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-26T22:55:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/26/national/politics-diplomacy/defiant-inose-reveals-tokuda-loan-document/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-26T22:56:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/tokyo-cries-foul-over-chinas-declaration-of-air-defense-zone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T03:46:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/10/national/politics-diplomacy/china-eyeing-contentious-air-defense-zone-in-east-china-sea-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T03:49:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/11/national/politics-diplomacy/fccj-slams-vague-state-secrets-bill-as-direct-threat-to-journalists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T04:05:31+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/26/national/politics-diplomacy/ruling-bloc-rams-secrets-bill-through-lower-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T04:05:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Loud and clear: Protesters outside the Diet building deride the vote Tuesday on the state secrets bill.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/26/national/south-korea-college-to-receive-donation-of-carved-bird-sculptures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T04:10:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/21/national/gene-test-kits-help-determine-disease-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T10:30:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/27/world/social-issues-world/pope-denounces-trickle-down-economics-in-critique-of-inequality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T12:36:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man for the people: Pope Francis kisses a baby as he arrives at St. Peter's Square for his weekly general audience at the Vatican in April. Francis sharply criticized growing economic inequality and unfettered markets in a lengthy paper outlining a populist philosophy Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/26/national/tokyo-area-teachers-of-english-face-three-month-honing-home-stay-abroad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T18:57:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/27/national/diet-cuts-high-school-tuition-waivers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T20:31:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/27/business/corporate-business/amazon-begins-online-video-distribution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T20:57:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/27/business/economy-business/boj-policy-dissenter-warns-of-downside-risks-for-economy-prices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T20:58:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-27T21:12:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[US flies B-52 bombers China's air defense zone: official]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Danger zone?: A B-52 Stratofortress takes to the sky during drills in May 2010. A pair of the bombers flew over China's newly established air defense zone in a disputed area of the East China Sea without notifying Beijing, U.S. officials said Tuesday. The unarmed aircraft took off from Guam on Monday and the flight was "long-planned" as part of a regular exercise in the area, the officials added.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/27/national/politics-diplomacy/inose-in-denial-mode-as-cash-cloud-hangs-heavier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T21:15:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Papered over: Embattled Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose holds up what he claims is a document that confirms he borrowed &#165;50 million from the Tokushukai hospital group during a news conference at his office Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/27/business/corporate-business/sony-seeks-patent-for-high-tech-smartwig/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T21:19:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On top: A maintenance worker walks along the roof of the Sony Corp. headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 30. Sony is seeking a U.S. patent for "SmartWig" hairpieces that could help navigate roads, check blood pressure or flip through slides in a presentation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/27/business/corporate-business/ana-jal-peach-now-disregard-china-adiz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T21:20:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Straight and level: ANA, JAL and Peach Aviation flights on Wednesday flew through China's newly declared air defense identification zone without notifying the country after the Japanese government asked airlines to stop giving flight information to China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/27/business/panasonic-to-sell-chip-plant-trio-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T21:22:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Streamlining: People are reflected in the window of a Panasonic showroom in Tokyo on Wednesday. The company is nearing a deal to sell three domestic semiconductor plants to an Israeli company as it casts off money-losing operations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/27/national/asylum-seekers-hit-record-high-exceeding-2600/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T21:22:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-27T21:34:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis meets the head of Ukraine's Greek Catholic Church at the Vatican on Monday. Francis launched an attack on unfettered markets and trickle-down economics Tuesday, decrying an "idolatry of money." Story: Page 7]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/27/business/corporate-business/toyota-says-aqua-more-efficient-than-fit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T21:49:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fleeting milestone?: Reporters look at Honda Motor Co.'s new Fit Hybrid displayed at its launch in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on Sept. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/27/national/nra-sets-new-safety-regimen-for-fuel-reprocessors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T21:50:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/27/national/crime-legal/order-for-tokyo-to-pay-damages-to-aleph-upheld/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T21:50:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-27T21:51:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2013-11-27T21:52:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In from the cold: Activists wearing masks of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Social Democratic Party Chair Sigmar Gabriel stand in front of a sign welcoming fugitive U.S. whistle-blower Edward Snowden in Berlin on Nov. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/27/world/rouhani-gets-high-marks-after-100-days-in-office/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atomic reaction?: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani kisses the daughter of a nuclear researcher who was assassinated in July 2011 during a news briefing in Tehran on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/27/national/history/book-seeks-to-educate-about-an-ugly-legacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T22:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Setting the record straight: "Nihongun Ianfu Mondai Subeteno Shitsumon ni Kotaemasu" ("We Will Answer All Questions Over Japanese Military's 'Comfort Women' ") is aimed at enhancing public awareness about the wartime sexual slavery system.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/27/national/yoga-practitioners-moving-to-the-next-level/</loc>
		<lastmod>2013-11-27T22:03:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Awakening: People take part in an outdoor yoga event last month in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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