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			<image:title><![CDATA[Kiyonori Kanasaka (left), professor emeritus at Kyoto University, and Peter Barakan, a disk jockey and music critique, are presented The Japan-British Society Awards by Princess Akiko of Mikasa (not shown) at Palace Hotel Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2013.]]></image:title>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Making more: Workers labor on a residential building under construction in Tokyo on Nov. 22. Demand for industrial materials is showing clear signs of recovery, with steel and cement production in 2013 hitting their highest levels in five years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/24/national/negligence-in-parking-carousel-death-suspected/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-24T21:11:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/24/national/a-bomb-dome-to-be-quake-proofed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-24T21:11:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[To be reinforced: Hiroshima Peace Memorial, also known as the Atomic Bomb Dome, in the city of Hiroshima will be reinforced for the first time to protect it from earthquakes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/24/national/virginia-textbooks-to-use-sea-of-japan-east-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-24T21:13:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-24T21:22:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men participate in a workshop aimed at nurturing "ikumen" (men who take an active role in ikuji, or child-rearing) at a condominium showroom in Toda, Saitama Prefecture in December 2010.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/24/national/softbank-to-dentsu-firms-start-to-court-gays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-24T21:26:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Special event: Attendees pose for photographers at the Tokyo SuperStar Awards 2013, a gala event held to recognize contributions to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, in Tokyo on Dec. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/24/national/politics-diplomacy/as-western-leaders-decide-to-shun-sochi-abe-will-go/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-24T22:21:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-24T22:22:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-25T13:22:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Games faces: Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori faces the media Friday in Tokyo after he was officially named the president of the organizing committee for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, as Toshiro Muto, the committee's CEO and a former vice finance minister, looks on.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-25T20:32:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking a stand: Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks before corporate leaders Friday at a seminar at Palace Hotel Tokyo in Chiyoda Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/24/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-remarks-on-wwi-parallels-to-be-clarified/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-25T20:42:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p2 war-a 20140126]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/25/business/automakers-gird-for-super-bowl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-25T20:52:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-25T23:23:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Restarting in the summer?: Tepco's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant is seen from a beach in Kashiwazaki city, Niigata Prefecture, in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/25/national/suspect-arrested-in-food-poisonings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-25T23:58:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-26T00:01:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-26T00:02:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mind the poverty gap: Commuters wait to board a train in Tokyo. Japan is plagued by underemployment — in terms of salaries, not workloads, with many "part-timers" routinely putting in full-time shifts.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/26/national/politics-diplomacy/china-secretly-asked-japan-not-to-snatch-senkakus-hot-air-balloonist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-26T02:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-26T08:37:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsuto Momii]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/26/national/fishing-pact-forged-with-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-26T20:55:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-26T20:55:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-26T20:57:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Strutting their stuff: Models show off underwear creations at the international exhibition of lingerie on Saturday in Paris.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/26/national/farmers-reaping-benefits-with-apps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-26T21:10:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Digital farmhand: Yoichiro Nagai of Fukuhara Farm waves a smartphone over IC tags set up by rice paddies in Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/26/national/airlines-to-ease-rules-on-liquids-gels-in-carry-on-items-of-passengers-in-transit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-26T21:39:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prohibited item: A sign warns passengers from abroad about carrying liquids onto departing flights at Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/26/world/religious-differences-to-fuel-this-centurys-bloody-wars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-26T22:03:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ties to the region: British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi meet outside Tripoli in March 2004.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/26/world/former-leader-reignites-simmering-debate-about-his-role-in-iraq-conflict/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-26T22:05:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-26T22:06:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-26T22:59:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/26/national/nisa-a-hit-with-old-investors-not-new/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-26T23:34:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deja vu: Employees at SMBC Nikko Securities in Tokyo process applications for tax-exempt NISA accounts in August before the temporary scheme's nationwide launch this month. The scheme, aimed at luring newcomers into the risky world of investment, is drawing mostly veterans.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/26/national/new-york-lawmakers-unveil-second-comfort-women-memorial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-26T23:37:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For the record: New York state lawmakers and members of Korean-American and other community groups unveil tablets dedicated to women who were forced into sexual slavery before and during the war at Veterans Memorial in Eisenhower Park on Long Island on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/26/national/jury-still-out-on-kansai-unions-worth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-27T08:16:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/01/16/national/independent-body-proposed-to-monitor-education-boards/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fast growth: People walk in front of the flagship store of cheap-chic clothing chain Uniqlo in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district in January 2014.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiki Abe kyodo]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seeking justice: Yeon Un-taek (second from right), one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Nippon Steel &amp; Sumitomo Metal Corp., cheers in front of the Seoul High Court last July after it ordered the steel maker to pay compensation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/27/business/corporate-business/yamaha-hits-indonesia-target-for-motorcycles/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On target: Hiroyuki Yanagi, president and chief executive officer of Yamaha Motor Co., is interviewed on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/27/business/economy-business/japan-logged-record-trade-deficit-of-11-47-trillion-in-2013/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-30T23:40:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-30T23:52:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-30T23:54:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nintendo Co. president Satoru Iwata speaks about the company's business strategy in Tokyo on Thursday.  Iwata will slash his salary in half after announcing a 30 percent dive in nine-month profit on weak demand for its new Wii U video game console as gamers are enticed by cheap, downloadable games for mobiles.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Damage control: Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc. investors gather Thursday for an extraordinary general shareholders' meeting in Minato Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/30/business/corporate-business/sky-perfect-jsat-plans-all-japan-channel-in-indonesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-30T23:55:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tuned in: Facing reporters Thursday in Tokyo to announce plans to launch an all-Japan channel next month in Indonesia are (from left) J. League Chairman Kazumi Ohigashi, SKY Perfect JSAT President Shinji Takada and Ventforet Kofu's Indonesian forward Irfan Bachdim.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-30T23:57:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sentenced to die: Matiur Rahman Nizami, head of Bangladesh's main Islamist opposition party, enters a prison van outside a court in Chittagong on Thursday after he was sentenced to death on charges of smuggling weapons to a rebel group in neighboring India.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/30/business/corporate-business/toyota-looks-to-log-record-group-operating-profit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-30T23:59:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Selling briskly: A Toyota badge shines at Toyota Motor Corp.'s showroom in Tokyo last August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/30/national/scholar-quits-nhk-over-nuclear-power-hush-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-31T10:44:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Disturbing images: Visitors look at some of the manga depicting wartime sexual slavery being exhibited at an international comic book festival in Angouleme, France.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/31/national/grand-shrine-izumo-taisha-drew-record-8-million-visitors-in-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-31T19:59:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-31T19:59:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Originals: Card games created by Seiji Kanai, including the award-winning Love Letter, are displayed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/31/business/economy-business/deflation-nearing-end-2013-data-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-31T20:32:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-31T20:41:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-31T20:41:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-31T21:06:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-31T21:09:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-31T21:10:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-31T21:10:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-31T21:11:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-31T21:11:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/31/national/hay-fever-season-hits-kanto-earlier-than-usual/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-31T21:25:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pollen protection: Pedestrians wear face masks in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/31/national/swiss-festival-to-mark-150-years-of-ties-with-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-31T21:26:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/31/national/crime-legal/tokudas-sister-stern-pleads-guilty-to-illegally-aiding-election-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-31T22:49:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/31/national/japan-russia-hold-high-level-meeting-on-isle-dispute/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-31T22:52:45+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
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		<lastmod>2014-01-31T22:57:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rays of hope: SoftBank Yaita Solar Park, operated by SB Energy Corp., a unit of SoftBank Corp., is catching rays last August in Yaita, Tochigi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/31/national/politics-diplomacy/diet-grills-nhk-boss-on-remarks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-01-31T23:08:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p1 diet-z 20140201]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New NHK President Katsuo Momii (left) attends a Lower House budgetary on Friday. Sitting next to him is Kenichiro Hamada, NHK’s Chairman of the Board of Governors, who was also summoned to the session. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/01/national/u-s-could-change-military-posture-if-china-sets-up-second-adiz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-01T12:34:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Face of the nation: People's Liberation Army soldiers are seen during a July 2011 media tour in Beijing.BLOOMBERG]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/31/business/corporate-business/tepco-logs-first-black-ink-since-nuclear-crisis-started/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-01T18:23:07+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/01/business/corporate-business/renesas-to-exit-lcd-chip-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-01T23:20:15+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/01/national/media-national/for-japans-foreign-residents-the-little-things-make-such-a-big-difference/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-01T23:43:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20140202bja.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[No pushover: Osunaarashi (right) was inspired to come to Japan after being bested in the ring seven times by an opponent half his size.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/01/national/media-national/paternity-testing-opens-up-a-world-of-hurt-for-families-and-family-courts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-01T23:44:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20140202pba.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Who's the daddy?: With the procedure now costing as little as ¥30,000, more and more  Japanese women — and, increasingly, men — are carrying out DNA testing to prove or disprove paternity.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-01T23:45:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No end in sight: Philippine soldiers fire 105mm howitzer canons toward rebels during a clash near Rajah Buayan, Maguindanao province, on Jan 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/01/national/media-national/war-against-stalkers-broadens-its-aims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-01T23:55:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Game-changers: Women's rights campaigners Ikumi Yoshimatsu, a former Miss International (left), and Akie Abe, wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. photo courtesy of I.Y.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/02/national/politics-diplomacy/hashimoto-to-quit-seek-new-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-02T00:26:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/02/national/official-found-dead-off-kyushu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-02T00:26:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mystery find: A dinghy in which the body of a Cabinet Office staffer was spotted sits in a breakwater Jan. 18 near Kitakyushu.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/02/world/melting-arctic-ice-brings-hope-to-russian-city/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-02T20:59:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On thin ice: An iceberg melts in Kulusuk, Greenland, near the Arctic Circle, in August 2005. Over the next 30 years climate change is likely to open up a major polar shipping route between the Pacific and Atlantic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/02/business/tech/should-we-be-scared-by-the-rise-of-zuck/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-02T21:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Net gains: Despite speculation that Facebook's exponential growth has plateaued, revenues show that the social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg remains an Internet behemoth that could ultimately end up "owning the world's social graph."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/02/world/offbeat-world/snowden-nominated-for-nobel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-02T21:21:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/02/national/russia-agrees-to-promote-talks-on-settling-northern-territories-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-02T21:34:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/thai-election-ends-peacefully-results-face-protester-delay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-02T23:22:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Disenfranchised: Thai people unable to cast votes in their district display their national identification cards and shout slogans as Thai police officers (not shown) secure and block a street leading to a polling station occupied by Thai anti-government protesters (not shown) in Bangkok on Sunday.AFP-JIJI]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/02/national/miyazaki-wins-annie-award-for-kaze-tachinu-screenplay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-02T23:32:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/02/national/politics-diplomacy/nagasaki-gov-nakamura-wins-re-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-02T23:33:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Victory: Nagasaki Gov. Hodo Nakamura celebrates after winning a second four-year term in the gubernatorial election Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/02/national/transformational-akihabara-has-its-finger-on-the-pulse-of-pop-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-02T23:34:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Full steam ahead: The all-female pop idol group Steam Girls dances at the Pasela Resorts Akiba entertainment complex in Tokyo's Akihabara district on Jan. 18.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/02/national/ministry-official-knocks-down-barriers-to-overseas-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-02T23:41:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meeting needs and changing perceptions: Chikara Funabashi, in charge of promoting study abroad programs at the education ministry, is interviewed on Jan. 17 at the ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/02/national/momiis-rise-tests-nhks-reputation/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-05T20:48:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High-riser: A worker walks past the Parkhouse Grand Minamiaoyama Takagicho residential building being developed by a unit of Mitsubishi Estate Co. in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mamoru Samuragochi kyodo]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For sale:  The Sony Corp. logo adorns a Vaio Pro Ultrabook laptop computer during a product launch on June 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/05/national/crime-legal/cultist-says-hirata-unaware-of-bomb/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In self-defense: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses the LDP's annual convention in Tokyo on Jan. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/05/national/nhk-governors-reveal-rightist-views/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michiko Hasegawa kyodo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/05/business/corporate-business/nissan-releases-all-new-teana/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new car: Nissan Motor Co.'s new Teana sedan is displayed at the company's headquarters in Yokohama on Jan. 20.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heavy traffic: Mirage vehicles are displayed outside the Mitsubishi Motors Corp. headquarters in Tokyo last April 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/05/national/politics-diplomacy/tamogami-finds-right-wing-niche/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brass tacks: Tokyo gubernatorial candidate Toshio Tamogami, also a former Air Self-Defense Force general, speaks during a recent news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/05/business/economy-business/japan-switzerland-sign-open-skies-accord/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Urban renewal: Renovation of the Rest House in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park is to get under way ahead of the 70th anniversary in 2015 of the atomic bombing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp. President and CEO Kazuo Hirai faces the media during a news conference at the Sony headquarters in Tokyo Thursday. Sony is in talks to sell its troubled personal computer business and Thursday lowered its earnings forecast for the business year ending March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/06/national/crime-legal/swindlers-made-off-with-a-record-48-69-billion-in-2013-npa-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-06T23:52:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/06/national/switzerland-offers-to-facilitate-japan-north-korea-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-06T23:53:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Didier Burkhalter kyodo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/06/national/activists-fear-gubernatorial-race-standoff-could-split-anti-nuclear-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-06T23:59:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking it to the public: Four major candidates running for Tokyo governor debate their policies in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Social hub: Shibuya Expert, a new Facebook page detailing events and shopping information in Tokyo's Shibuya district, is available in five languages.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rebound: A man walks past a price quotation board displaying the Nikkei stock average in front of a securities company in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under the microscope: Kazuo Hirai, president and chief executive officer of Sony Corp., reacts during a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Exiting: Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto (left) submits his resignation Friday to Yoshinobu Kinoshita, head of the municipal assembly.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/07/national/health-minister-looks-to-bolster-hospital-translation-services/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inn-coming: The Ritz-Carlton Kyoto hotel opened in Kyoto's Nakagyo Ward on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/07/national/politics-diplomacy/dpj-execs-denial-of-nanjing-stands-2/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jin Matsubara kyodo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/07/national/building-block-creator-seeks-to-spur-kids-creativity/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All smiles: Kanto Miyaji, president of Xiao-All Japan Co., demonstrates the company's Shall-Blocks on Jan. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/08/national/heavy-snow-expected-across-much-of-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-08T19:34:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/08/national/politics-diplomacy/osaka-to-elect-new-mayor-on-march-23/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-08T19:53:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/08/national/tepco-no-1-plant-readings-probably-too-low/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-08T20:12:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/08/national/japan-decides-to-skip-sovereignty-recovery-ceremony-this-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-08T23:49:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/08/national/media-national/nhk-drama-takes-a-wild-stab-at-a-dying-art/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-09T00:36:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20140209pbaa.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Die another day: Seasoned kirare-yaku Seizo Fukumoto demonstrates the venerable art of being put to the sword for a historical drama show at Toei Kyoto Studio Park in 2006.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/08/national/murakami-apologizes-to-hokkaido-town-hurt-by-litterbug-depiction/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/08/national/politics-diplomacy/candidates-make-final-pitches-in-tokyo-gubernatorial-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-09T05:58:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20140209x1election]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gubernatorial candidates — former health minister Yoichi Masuzoe, former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, former Air Self-Defense Force chief Toshio Tamogami, 65, and Kenji Utsunomiya, 67, the former head of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations — make their final campaign speeches in a snow-covered Tokyo Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/08/national/media-national/promises-of-taboo-topics-rarely-live-up-to-the-billing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-09T14:12:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20140209bja.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Don't get your hopes up: A "mook" — a cross between a magazine and a book — titled "A History of Taboo Incidents in Japan, Vol. 2," published in 2007 by Takarajima-sha, tempts readers with 20 "taboo" topics.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/09/world/in-sochi-a-backlash-against-the-backlash-emerges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-09T19:55:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Proud people: A member of a Russian honor guard listens to the Olympic anthem during a welcome ceremony for the German Olympic team at the Mountain Olympic Village prior to the 2014 Winter Olympics on Wednesday in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/09/world/sex-and-single-mindedness-the-wendy-deng-story/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-09T19:59:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Power player?: News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch and his wife at the time, Wendi Deng, arrive for a meeting of media moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho, in July 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/09/world/a-glance-at-the-worlds-major-drought-hot-spots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-09T20:08:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-09T20:48:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Up to standard: Filet-O-Fish sandwiches sold at McDonald's in 41 Western countries bear the MSC label.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/09/national/private-parking-lots-find-mass-niche/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-09T20:54:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Matchmaker: Akiko Nishiura, the president of Nokisaki Inc., poses on Jan. 7. Her Tokyo-based company connects individuals looking for parking spots near popular destinations with people who have open parking space available at homes, businesses or other places.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/09/world/water-shortages-leaving-world-high-and-dry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-09T21:01:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-water-a-20140210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Left out to dry: A doll lies in a hole in the cracked dry soil of Tegucigalpa's Los Laureles Dam last May. Last year tied for the sixth hottest on record, confirming that Earth's climate is in the grip of long-term warming, the U.N.'s weather agency said earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/09/national/politics-diplomacy/putins-fall-visit-viewed-as-step-to-peace-treaty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-09T21:11:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-abe-russia-a-20140210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Comrades: Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in Sochi, Russia, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/09/national/politics-diplomacy/masuzoe-vows-to-make-tokyo-tops-for-residents-of-all-ages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-09T22:27:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/09/national/u-s-raps-board-members-remark-on-tokyo-tribunal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-10T00:03:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-10T09:13:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-10T09:15:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Evidence: The covers of two kabuki review books are shown above a depiction of a scene from "Yakusha Keikonou."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/31/national/hida-lacquer-artisans-seek-successors-to-preserve-technique/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-10T09:17:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Endangered expertise: Yoshiro Kobora carves lines into a board in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/07/national/female-scientists-push-for-breakthrough-in-equality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-10T09:20:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-10T12:23:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sleek design: Yasuki Kawashima of NEC Lighting Ltd. shows off an OLED desk lamp.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/10/national/people-living-near-nuclear-plants-voice-hope-caution-over-masuzoe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-10T20:11:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-10T20:47:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[By proxy: A boy casts a ballot for his grandmother Sunday in Tokyo for the gubernatorial election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/09/national/politics-diplomacy/comprehensive-agenda-anti-nuclear-failures-ensured-masuzoe-victory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-10T20:47:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/10/business/bankruptcies-fell-7-5-last-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-10T21:27:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-10T21:27:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-10T21:29:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Youthful promise: Five-year-old Yuna Kodama, who was born without her left arm below the elbow, practices the violin with a myoelectric prosthesis in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/10/business/corporate-business/ntt-may-be-allowed-to-discount-combined-services/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-10T21:37:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-10T21:37:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-10T21:37:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-10T23:42:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The main ingredients: A Sato Holdings official displays a bar code system that can display multilingual information on Japanese food products recently at Iwate Ginza Plaza in Tokyo's Ginza district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/10/business/corporate-business/sony-suffering-seen-as-prelude-to-loeb-inspired-revamp/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Considering the options: Visitors view Sony Corp. products at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Feb. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/10/national/politics-diplomacy/tamogami-finds-some-support-in-younger-generation/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Caroline Kennedy kyodo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/11/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-adviser-iijima-held-secret-north-korean-talks-in-dalian-in-october/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/10/national/student-seeks-japan-russia-isle-thaw/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shared interest: Russian "cosplayers" appear in a photo book that Nishida released as a free smartphone app in February 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/10/national/politics-diplomacy/masuzoe-scores-victory-in-tokyo-gubernatorial-race-2/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Victorious: Ex-health minister Yoichi Masuzoe leads a banzai cheer at his campaign headquarters in Shinjuku on Sunday as exit polls reported that he was set to win the Tokyo gubernatorial election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/11/national/me-time-services-for-solo-customers-flourishing/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/11/national/shrapnel-in-leg-leyte-mans-war-memento/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-11T19:43:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Walking wounded: Alejandro Devaras, 80, talks about his experiences during World War II in Tacloban on the central Philippine island of Leyte in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/11/business/corporate-business/toyota-plant-closures-put-paid-to-aussie-industry/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-toyota-a-20140212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the chopping block: Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda addresses a news conference at the Altona Toyota manufacturing plant in Melbourne on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/11/national/science-health/yamanaka-takes-issue-with-claims-stap-cells-are-safer-than-ips-option/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-11T20:13:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/p2-ips-a-20140212.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-ips-a-20140212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lecture: Scientist Shinya Yamanaka holds a news conference in Kyoto on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/11/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-adviser-visited-dalian-for-possible-north-contact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-11T20:16:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/11/national/okinawa-osprey-training-can-be-cut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-11T20:20:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/11/national/politics-diplomacy/kennedy-visits-okinawa-to-meet-local-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-11T23:07:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/w3-kennedy-a-20140212-e1392127585786.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-kennedy-a-20140212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Goodwill tour: U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy arrives Tuesday at Naha Airport in Okinawa.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/11/national/many-foreigners-in-fukushima-fled-after-crisis-news-reporting-questioned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-11T23:09:23+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/11/national/politics-diplomacy/weapons-export-ban-under-siege/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-11T23:09:32+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/11/business/tech/record-12-8-billion-cyberattacks-detected-in-japan-last-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-11T23:09:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/w1-t4-cyber-a-20140212.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w1-t4-cyber-a-20140212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cyberwarriors: Attendees work on computers as they participate in a "capture the flag" competition during the SECCON 2013 computer security contest in Yokohama last August. A government-backed technology institute detected 12.8 billion cyberattacks in Japan last year — the most since surveys began in 2005.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/national/police-gear-up-to-search-jr-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T05:01:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/RELEASE-0500-a.m.-w3-jrraid-a-20140212.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[RELEASE 0500 a.m. w3 jrraid-a 20140212]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police target: The head office of Hokkaido Railway Co. in Sapporo was to be searched by investigators on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/11/national/california-law-flusters-sushi-chefs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T07:22:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/p3-sushi-a-20140212.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-sushi-a-20140212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Losing touch: Toshiaki Toyoshima (left), owner of Sushi Gen, watches one of his chefs make sushi while wearing gloves at his Los Angeles restaurant Feb. 4.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/national/okinawa-papers-tie-kennedys-taiji-dolphin-hunt-tweet-to-futenma-move/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T12:31:38+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/business/u-s-approves-further-lng-exports-to-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T12:35:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/business/suds-sales-up-at-asahi-sapporo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T20:32:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/national/china-captain-faces-10-collision-suit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T20:33:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/national/u-k-museum-to-fix-kamikaze-plane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T20:33:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/national/entrepreneur-urges-mindset-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T20:39:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/p3-entrepreneur-a-20140213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-entrepreneur-a-20140213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fostering innovation: Hiroyuki Fujita, a U.S.-based entrepreneur, speaks during an interview in Tokyo in October.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/national/masuzoe-eyes-visit-to-sochi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T20:40:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/national/abe-exploiting-window-for-biggest-defense-change-since-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T20:47:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/p3-abe-a-20140213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-abe-a-20140213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laying down the law: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a policy speech in the Lower House on Jan. 24 to kick off the current legislative session.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/business/further-boj-easing-steps-unnecessary-imf-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T20:50:51+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/business/economy-business/private-sector-machinery-orders-tumbled-15-7-in-december/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T20:52:14+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/business/corporate-business/boeing-woos-ana-after-jal-chooses-airbus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T21:05:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/p6-boeing-a-20140213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p6-boeing-a-20140213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hard sell: Models of the 787-10X Dreamliner are displayed at Boeing Co.'s booth at the Singapore Airshow on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/national/press-freedom-ranking-falters-due-to-secrecy-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T21:20:16+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/national/tokyo-to-seek-truth-about-alleged-lax-punishment-of-u-s-forces-sex-crimes-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T22:36:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/national/japans-elderly-reach-for-the-joys-of-romance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T23:30:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/p3-romance-a-20140213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-romance-a-20140213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Late-life love: Gaku Yamamoto (left) and Kazuko Yoshiyuki play a gray-haired couple in the movie "San San" ("A Sparkle of Life").]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/national/no-reactor-safety-reviews-to-be-completed-by-end-of-march-nra-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-12T23:49:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/national/crime-legal/13-guam-rampage-marked-by-grief-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T12:37:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/p2-guam-a-20140213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-guam-a-20140213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scene of the crime: Police secure the scene after Chad Ryan De Soto, then 21, drove a Toyota car through a crowd of people in Guam's shopping district on Feb. 12, 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/national/crime-legal/accused-hacker-im-innocent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T13:04:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/12/national/politics-diplomacy/masuzoe-plays-down-tokyo-nuclear-role/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T14:16:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/p2-masuzoe-a-20140213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-masuzoe-a-20140213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly minted: Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe fields a question from reporters during his inaugural news conference Wednesday at the metropolitan government office in Shinjuku Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/crime-legal/japan-files-damages-suit-against-chinese-captain-over-2010-collision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T14:44:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/business/skymark-predicts-profit-in-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T22:20:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/business/beer-shipments-rose-9-5-in-january/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T22:21:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/business/toshiba-to-update-mie-chip-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T22:21:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/business/corporate-business/docomo-service-keeps-tabs-on-dogs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T22:21:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-docomo-a-20140214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dog tracker: NTT Docomo Inc. announces in Tokyo a new service for dog owners that the company says will let them monitor their pets' health and location by smartphone.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/u-s-envoy-kennedy-visits-planned-air-base-location/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T23:35:57+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/business/economy-business/sales-tax-hike-to-10-may-be-delayed-if-economy-stalls-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T23:35:59+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/business/corporate-business/topvalu-prices-will-not-go-up-aeon-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T23:36:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/business/economy-business/wholesale-prices-gain-for-10th-month-straight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T23:36:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/director-pulls-airin-film-alleges-osaka-censorship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T23:37:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/abe-must-regain-obamas-trust-to-repair-ties-with-washington/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T23:37:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/crime-legal/another-tokuda-sister-cops-to-poll-violation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T23:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/south-korean-becomes-first-foreign-female-shikoku-pilgrimage-guide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T23:45:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-guide-a-20140214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Choi Sang-hee  kyodo]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/researchers-find-key-alzheimers-protein/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T23:46:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-alzheimers-a-20140214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[After, before: This undated image by Merck &amp; Co. compares cross sections of a brain damaged by advanced Alzheimer's disease with a normal brain (right).]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/u-s-henro-tell-story-of-shikoku-temple-trek/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-13T23:47:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/p3-shikoku-a-20140214.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-shikoku-a-20140214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pilgrims: Americans Chelsea Reidy (left) and Elayna Snyder stop for a break during their pilgrimage by bicycle to 88 Buddhist temples on Shikoku in September 2012.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/residents-of-fukushima-town-reject-governments-waste-storage-plans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T00:40:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/crime-legal/lawyer-challenges-secrets-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T00:40:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/politics-diplomacy/obama-to-make-asia-trip-including-japan-s-korea-in-april/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T00:46:42+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/man-admits-slaying-teen-girlfriend/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T00:48:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-murder-a-20140214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Off-limits: A police officer stands watch near the scene where a man allegedly stabbed a 17-year-old girl to death in Hachioji, Tokyo, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/job-hunters-no-ot-pay-a-key-trait-of-black-companies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T00:49:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/politics-diplomacy/nago-mayor-remains-defiant-over-futenma-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T00:50:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/p2-inamine-a-20140214.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-inamine-a-20140214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[No caving: Susumu Inamine, re-elected last month on an anti-U.S. base platform as mayor of Nago, Okinawa, speaks Thursday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/gsdf-hunkers-down-in-sudan-compound/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T00:52:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-sudan-a-20140214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On a mission: Ground Self-Defense Force vehicles under a U.N. peacekeeping mission pass South Sudanese refugees in Juba on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/business/corporate-business/toyota-recalls-persist-as-most-prius-hybrids-need-fix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T00:52:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-toyota-a-20140214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rolling along: The Toyota Motor Corp. logo adorns the wheel of a Harrier crossover sport utility vehicle on display in the company's main building in Tokyo on Feb. 4.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/national/chinese-students-put-shiga-residents-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T19:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/p3-chubu-a-20140215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-chubu-a-20140215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meet the neighbors: Chinese exchange students Yin Yong Ming (center) and Wang Dan (right) interview a resident of Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, in fluent Japanese.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/national/japan-to-hike-africa-oda-offerings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T19:01:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/business/toyota-city-sees-huge-tax-windfall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T19:49:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/business/goodyear-sumitomo-split-on-tires/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T19:49:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/business/corporate-business/kirin-looks-to-hike-stake-in-san-miguel-brewery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T20:18:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Have a cold one: A bartender fills a glass with Kirin Holdings Co.'s Heartland beer at a bar in the Roppongi Hills complex in Tokyo on April 17, 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/business/peach-stepping-up-efforts-to-hire-pilots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T20:19:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Earning his wings: Ryoji Fujii (right), a rookie pilot for Peach Aviation, prepares to fly a jet under the tutelage of a qualified captain at Kansai International Airport last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/business/wind-lobby-raps-environment-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T20:19:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-14T20:20:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-14T20:20:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-14T20:48:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shimane's take: This book on Takeshima published by the Shimane Prefectural Government was released Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/national/foreign-culinary-students-can-stay-longer-after-graduation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T20:54:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-14T20:55:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/national/masuzoe-announces-public-private-fund-to-boost-renewable-energy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T21:03:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/national/politics-diplomacy/jcp-wont-field-candidate-in-osaka-mayoral-election-hoping-to-embarrass-hashimoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T21:03:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/national/lawyer-group-charges-abe-with-constitutional-ignorance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-14T23:51:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/15/national/hyakutas-nanjing-denial-prompts-chilly-response-from-u-s-embassy-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-15T03:03:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/15/national/trains-collide-in-kawasaki-injure-20-passengers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-15T04:36:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/15/business/corporate-business/rakuten-acquires-viber-web-phonemessaging-service-for-900-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-15T06:30:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/national/another-snow-storm-hits-tokyo-wide-areas-of-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-15T14:23:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Here we go again: Students walk by the Diet building as snow falls in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/15/business/sure-winners-in-2020-tokyo-olympics-gangsters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-15T18:41:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/national/latest-snowstorm-in-japan-claims-two-lives-injures-over-550/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-15T22:44:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Winter wonderland: Students walk under snow-covered trees in a park in Tokyo on Friday. The metropolitan area was expecting as much as 10 cm of snow.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/15/national/media-national/samuragochi-scandal-shows-that-tin-eared-classical-music-fans-can-be-suckers-for-stories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-15T23:12:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pulped fiction: The February issue of Katei Gaho (Home Illustrated) features an interview with Mamoru Samuragochi (right) and a CD including music falsely credited to the composer. Distribution was halted after Takashi Niigaki claimed that he had written many of Samuragochi's scores.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/15/national/science-health/stem-cell-leap-defied-japanese-norms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-15T23:27:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruko Obokata]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Just another cog in the wheel: Employees have told reporters of oppressive conditions at the Aqlifoods factory in Oizumi, Gunma Prefecture (seen above in 2012) where worker Toshiki Abe is suspected of poisoning frozen foods that sickened hundreds.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-16T01:02:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-16T17:03:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[snowkyo]]></image:title>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-16T18:02:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/16/national/china-coast-guard-shadows-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-16T19:37:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/16/national/used-home-sales-in-tokyo-hit-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-16T19:37:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-16T19:44:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Searching for answers: Douglas Turnbull, a professor of neurology at Newcastle University, hopes to find a cure for mitochondrial disease.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/16/business/tech/web-pioneers-try-to-transform-tv/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-16T19:47:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Net gain: Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright are seen this image from "House of Cards."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-16T19:53:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/16/business/tpp-talks-hung-up-on-farm-produce-autos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-16T19:53:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crossing the divide: Akira Amari, minister in charge of TPP negotiations, speaks to reporters in Washington after talks with the U.S. trade representative on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/16/national/tokyo-set-to-approve-u-n-global-arms-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-16T20:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-16T20:03:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/16/national/over-half-in-osaka-question-hashimoto-re-election-bid-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-16T22:31:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-16T22:34:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-16T22:41:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Corp. founder and President Masayoshi Son announces the company's financial results at a press briefing in Tokyo in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/16/national/local-startup-softbank-on-course-to-become-global-player/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-16T22:41:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Talk is cheap: A passer-by chats on her mobile phone in front of a SoftBank store in Tokyo last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/16/world/science-health-world/svante-paabo-prehistoric-sleuth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-16T22:47:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Window into the past: Svante Paabo launched his career in ancient forensics in 1982.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/16/national/lack-of-bids-threatening-head-head/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T08:23:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-17T10:40:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Based on Tokizawa's translation, Cuba-born American author Nilo Cruz's play "Anna in the Tropics" was premiered in Japan last September by the Bungakuza theater company with an all-Japanese cast, including Tomoya Hoshi as Juan Julian (left) and Momoko Kurita as Marela.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/16/national/haru-kuroki-scoops-best-actress-award-at-64th-berlin-film-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T11:58:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kudos: Actress Haru Kuroki receives the Silver Bear for best actress at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday, for her part in director Yoji Yamada's"The Little House." The Berlinale, Europe's first major film festival of the year, ended Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/national/drift-rightward-has-been-building-for-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T16:36:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pilgrims' progress: Model Junko Amo (left) and author Yuko Sanami visit Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/17/national/hokkaido-town-opens-ice-hotel-with-wet-bar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T19:27:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hidenobu Nakaya, who designed Japan's first hotel made of ice, poses in front of the Ice Hills Hotel in Tobetsu, Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/17/business/december-industrial-output-up-0-9/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T20:30:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/17/business/thermal-power-generation-sets-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T20:30:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-02-17T20:49:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/17/business/tpp-trade-chiefs-resume-talks-in-singapore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T20:52:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/17/national/crime-legal/provide-details-on-hangings-or-halt-them-ex-lay-judges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T23:42:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/17/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-put-japan-on-back-foot-in-global-pr-war-with-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T23:43:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bows beside a Shinto priest as he visits war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Dec. 26.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/17/business/economy-business/gdp-growth-sags-below-forecasts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T23:43:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/17/reference/games-organizing-committee-clock-is-ticking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-02-17T23:50:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiro Mori, former prime minister and the president of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, speaks at a reception at the 2014 JOC Japan House in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 10.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dietmar Kielnhofer]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chad Ryan De Soto appears for arraignment in the Superior Court of Guam on Feb. 27, 2013.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Michael Kirby]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Retired Australian judge Michael Kirby, chairperson of the commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, shows the commission's report during a press conference at the United Nations in Geneva.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Initiative: Members of the Society of Wives of Arab Ambassadors, led by Chairwoman Shifa Haddad, wife of the Ambassador of Jordan (second from right), prepare to send the first shipment of humanitarian donations to Syrian refugee camps in Jordan on Feb. 6 at the Embassy of Kuwait in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Models show off "kawaii" (cute) Japanese products in front of a vending machine Friday in Singapore. Fashion brand and retailer Satisfaction Guaranteed began selling the products last weekend.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Oe, Japan's deputy chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, walks with acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Wendy Cutler before their talks in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Documenting the damage: Photographers take shots at Motosumiyoshi Station in Kawasaki after two trains collided Saturday on the Tokyu Toyoko Line.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of the Telangana Rastra Samithi party shout slogans in Hyderabad, India, on Tuesday to celebrate the planned creation of the state of Telangana. Lawmakers in the lower house voted to pass a controversial bill creating what will be India's 29th state in New Delhi earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Masked members of Pussy Riot leave a police station in Adler during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic]]></image:title>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Copies of the new 2014 annual Michelin restaurant guide are presented in Paris]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Copies of the new 2014 annual Michelin restaurant guide are presented Monday during the announcement of the newly promoted chefs in Paris.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A file photo from March 16, 1954, shows officials measuring radiation levels of a tuna that had been brought to the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo from the Fukuryu Maru No. 5.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volodymyr Parasiuk delivers an impassioned speech to a crowd of protesters as opposition leader Vitali Klitschko (left) looks on during a rally in Kiev on Friday night.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[App icons for Line Corp.'s Internet messaging and calling service, controlled by Naver Corp., are displayed in this arranged photograph on an Apple iPhone 5s in Hong Kong on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/26/national/politics-diplomacy/cracks-may-be-emerging-between-ldp-new-komeito/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives of Chinese citizens forced into wartime labor for Japanese companies walk to the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court on Wednesday to file a lawsuit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[A model and a photograph of John Rabe, sometimes call "China's Schindler",  are seen in a museum, during a reporting trip in Nanjing]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model and a photograph of John Rabe, sometimes call "China's Schindler," are seen in a museum, during a reporting trip in Nanjing, Jiangsu province on Feb. 19, 2014. Rabe, a long-time resident of China from Germany, was head of the International Safety Zone in Nanjing during the December 1937 Nanjing Massacre and he is praised for having helped save the lives of more than 200,000 people who took refuge in the zone.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoko Okitsu, a researcher at the Suntory Global Innovation Center in Shimamoto, Osaka Prefecture, wants to develop the world's first deep-blue rose.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bronze statue of a girl in traditional Korean clothing, dedicated to the "comfort women" forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese military, is unveiled in Glendale Central park near Los Angeles last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/27/national/zushi-bans-offensive-beach-activities/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man holds a Ukrainian flag in Kiev on Wednesday as interim pro-Western leaders worked out a new Cabinet in the splintered nation.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ukraine's fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych gives a news conference in Rostov-on-Don, his first public appearance since fleeing his country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/28/business/government-will-finally-study-bitcoins-aso/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/01/business/financial-markets/bitcoin-believers-unfazed-by-losses-in-mt-gox-collapse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-01T12:34:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Models pose during the opening ceremony of Hong Kong's first bitcoin retail shop Friday. Bitcoin was invented in 2009 in the wake of the global financial crisis by a computer guru using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. Unlike other currencies, it does not have the backing of a central bank or government.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/01/business/economy-business/economic-figures-reveal-more-than-you-see/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-01T21:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ukraine's president at the time, Viktor Yanukovych (right), is pictured with his eldest son, Oleksandr, in April 2010.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All by myself: Ohitorisama (singles) culture is booming in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Editorial staff from the daily Ming Pao hold the front page of their newspaper with a headline about former editor Kevin Lau, who was assaulted and injured during a protest outside the Ming Pao's offices in Hong Kong on Thursday. The former editor of the Hong Kong newspaper whose abrupt dismissal in January sparked protests over press freedom is in critical condition after being hacked Wednesday by an assailant with a meat cleaver, police said.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Orthodox priests stand with armed men, thought to be Russian troops, blocking a Ukrainian frontier guard base in Balaklava, near the Crimean port of Sevastopol, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-03T00:15:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shops selling kitchen utensils and restaurant equipment line a street in the district, which is especially popular with tourists visiting nearby Ueno and Asakusa.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/02/business/underwater-gold-rush-spurs-fears-of-ocean-calamity/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Race for resources: A Japan Coast Guard patrol ship (right) confronts a China Coast Guard boat in Japanese territorial waters near Uotsuri, one of the five main islands in the Japanese-controlled Senkaku group, in the resource-rich East China Sea last September.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeyuki Goto, then senior vice minister of justice, receives a request on Feb. 8, 2013, to revise the juvenile law from Makoto Ito (left), chairman of the legislative council of the Justice Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/04/national/keio-university-displays-einsteins-handwritten-documents-on-japan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manuscripts on Japan written by Albert Einstein during a visit here in 1922 are on display at Keio University in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/04/national/science-health/robots-challenged-to-pass-todai-examination/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Noriko Arai, a mathematician at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, heads a project to develop a robot that can pass entrance exams for the University of Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin (center), Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (left) and Anatoly Sidorov, the commander of the Western Military District, walk upon arrival to watch military exercise near St. Petersburg, Russia, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/04/national/american-actress-first-non-japanese-tapped-for-nhk-series-lead/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[American Charlotte Kate Fox speaks at a news conference Tuesday in Tokyo about the new NHK drama "Massan," in which she will play a leading role, as actor Tetsuji Tamayama looks on.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/04/national/students-seek-out-bikini-fukushima-parallels/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiko Takahashi (right) and Kai Sato get behind a video camera to practice their interviewing skills on Feb. 8 at Fukushima University ahead of their March visit to the Marshall Islands.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/04/national/unesco-listing-sought-for-japanese-pow-records/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A drawing made by a prisoner of war detained in the Soviet Union is exhibited Tuesday at the Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum in the city of Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-04T23:17:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants scoop and carry snow in an international competition on snow shoveling held in Otaru, Hokkaido, in January.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama has been assailed for his handling of the Ukrainian crisis by Republicans, including his rival in the 2008 presidential election, Sen. John McCain.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arik Kleinstein (left), a former member of Unit 8200 of the Israeli Intelligence Corps, speaks during an Israeli investment seminar in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logos of Panasonic Corp. and the company's Toughpad tablet are displayed prior to the unveiling event for the product in Tokyo on Feb. 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-04T23:39:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riot police stand guard inside the regional state administration building in the eastern industrial city of Donetsk on Tuesday, a day after it was occupied by some 300 pro-Russian demonstrators.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meet in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 8.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A paramilitary policeman stands guard in front of the giant portrait of late Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong at the main entrance to the Forbidden City in Beijing on Feb. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-05T12:22:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigators examine the blood-stained site of a stabbing in the city of Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-05T16:33:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-05T20:47:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-05T20:47:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-05T20:53:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiyo Hashiura makes "takoyaki" octopus balls in her shop in Yuriage, Miyagi Prefecture, in a photo taken prior to the March 2011 tsunami that claimed her life.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-Russian soldier stands outside the headquarters of the Ukrainian Navy in the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/05/business/economy-business/tokyo-firms-unsure-of-tax-hike-impact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-05T21:55:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-05T21:56:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-05T22:01:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-05T22:02:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-05T22:09:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-06T01:03:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-06T01:03:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-06T21:32:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-06T21:32:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-06T21:53:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-06T21:53:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A giant image of Hugo Chavez hangs on the side of a building in Caracas on Wednesday, the first anniversary of the Venezuelan president's death. The event was marked after a month of anti-government protests in which 18 people have died.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Torvosaurus gurneyi is depicted in this illustration. Two scientists in Portugal said Wednesday they have identified it as the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever found in Europe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/06/national/crime-legal/chiba-man-arrested-for-kashiwa-street-killing/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiju Takei, suspected of going on a lethal rampage, shouts at reporters as he is led down the stairs of his apartment building in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on Wednesday night.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A collage shows tanks containing radioactive water (far right) and plant facilities where Tokyo Electric Power Co. has committed management blunders, while Tepco President Naomi Hirose bows in apology during a news conference.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stuart Farrell, managing director of Harley-Davidson Japan, rides on the company's Tri Glide three-wheel motorcycle in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/12/national/chiba-city-asks-dates-to-register-their-love/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-12T22:35:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-love-a-20140313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The city of Nagareyama, Chiba Prefecture, offers residents an opportunity to officially declare their love through "love registration forms."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/12/national/abe-pitches-trilateral-meet-to-kick-start-chilly-ties-with-seoul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-12T22:36:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki arrives at Seoul's Gimpo Airport on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/12/business/economy-business/key-firms-agree-to-hike-pay-scales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-12T23:02:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A staff member at the Tokyo headquarters of the Japan Council of Metalworkers' Unions records wage-hike agreements between labor and management Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/12/national/jaczko-recalls-chaos-of-fukushima-early-days/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-12T23:24:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-jaczko-a-20140313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gregory Jaczko, former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is interviewed Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/12/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-rushing-to-revise-ban-on-arms-exports-but-komeito-remains-wary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-12T23:24:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-12T23:24:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-13T01:33:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-nuclear activists stage a protest surrounded by members of the media Tuesday in front of the Japanese Consulate General in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/national/man-nabbed-for-illegally-entering-bookshop-hit-by-anne-frank-vandalism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T12:39:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A copy of "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank was vandalized at a public library in Tokyo in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/national/politics-diplomacy/s-korea-japan-in-high-level-talks-agree-to-coordinate-on-n-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T12:47:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/national/suicides-tied-to-2011-disaster-continue-with-rate-in-fukushima-rising/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T12:50:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-13T16:15:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w2-cia-a-20140314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, leaves the chamber Tuesday after saying that the CIA's improper search of a computer network established for Congress has been referred to the Justice Department.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-13T16:30:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w2-ukraine-a-20140314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The statue of Lenin is seen at sunset on Lenin's Square in downtown Simferopol on Wednesday. Russia will mirror any visa sanctions the European Union imposes on its lawmakers over the crisis in Ukraine, a senior parliamentarian said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/12/national/child-smartphone-users-disturbingly-open-to-strangers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T18:06:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-13T21:32:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-13T21:32:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-13T21:32:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/business/u-s-fails-to-get-japan-to-budge-on-tariffs-for-sacred-produce-items/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T21:45:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/national/small-merchants-embrace-mobile-payment-services/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T21:45:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/business/economy-business/machinery-orders-up-13-4/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T21:50:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heavy machinery is seen at a Tokyo construction site Thursday. Core machinery orders rose in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/national/journalist-shines-light-on-suffering/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T21:52:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photograph from a book published last month by freelance photographer Noriko Hayashi shows a 20-year-old college student in September 2012 being kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan for a forced marriage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/national/discuss-death-penalty-more-u-k-envoy-urges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T21:53:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/world/crime-legal-world/top-court-case-highlights-u-s-rift-over-sex-science/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T21:54:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p5-contra-a-20140314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foes of an abortion bill circulate in the Texas state capitol as a committee held hearings last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/national/music-producer-akimoto-others-eyed-for-tokyo-olympic-executive-board/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T22:13:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-13T22:35:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-13T22:35:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/world/crime-legal-world/manson-family-killer-may-go-free/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T22:36:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/national/crime-legal/man-asserts-death-wish-in-basuke-threats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T23:38:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/national/crime-legal/man-held-in-toshiba-tech-leak-to-hynix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T23:39:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/business/corporate-business/air-france-to-start-haneda-paris-run/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T23:39:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Air France-KLM Group Executive Vice President Patrick Alexandre (second from left) poses after a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/national/disaster-hit-school-sees-off-first-grads-in-three-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T23:41:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p2-graduation-a-20140314.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsuhide Yoshida receives his graduation certificate during the commencement ceremony at Katsurao Junior High School in Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Thursday. His fellow graduate, Daisuke Sato, is seated in the front row, third from the left.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/business/corporate-business/seven-i-welcomes-1219-recruits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T23:41:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New employees practice sign language Thursday at Seven &amp; I Holdings Co.'s annual welcoming ceremony in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/business/corporate-business/31-companies-join-tokyo-job-fair-for-saudi-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T23:43:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-biz-saudi-z-20140314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Personnel representatives from Japanese companies talk with Saudi Arabian students at a job fair organized by the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Tokyo Thursday. It is rare for an embassy to help its own citizens find jobs while they are in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-n-details-how-north-sidestepping-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-13T23:43:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p1-nkorea-a-20140314.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-nkorea-a-20140314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un claps during the first contest of the Korean People's Army art squads at an undisclosed place and date in this official photo released Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/13/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-north-korea-red-cross-talks-slated-for-next-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-14T14:30:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/14/national/tokyo-cuts-co-emissions-but-hoards-credits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-14T20:03:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-co2-a-20140315.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An underground electricity-heat cogeneration system that is used to power the Roppongi Hills commercial complex in Tokyo is seen in an undated photo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/14/national/over-35-of-displaced-miyagi-residents-may-never-return-home-poll-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-14T20:03:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-14T20:05:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Minoru Ishikawa (center), an adviser to automobile equipment maker Shinmei Industry Co., teaches students how to affix a door to an old Toyota Publica car during a class in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-14T20:48:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-Russian "military forces of the autonomous republic of Crimea" attend their swearing-in ceremony at the military enlistment complex in Simferopol, Ukraine, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-14T21:18:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-14T21:18:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman scoops up water from a riverbed in Kenya's drought-stricken Turkana region Thursday after the first downpour in 12 months. A continent plagued by humanitarian crises is increasingly drawing the West's attention for security reasons.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/14/business/cabinet-oks-bill-that-would-push-crowdfunding/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers weld the chassis of a Honda Fit vehicle on the production line after the opening ceremony at Honda Motor Co.'s new plant in Celaya, Mexico, on Feb. 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/14/business/panasonic-retakes-top-spot-in-patents/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/14/business/economy-business/stubborn-exports-capital-spending-worry-some-boj-policymakers/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/14/national/politics-diplomacy/lithuania-wont-recognize-crimea-referendum-envoy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-14T22:07:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius is interviewed in Tokyo on Thursday by The Japan Times.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/14/world/science-health-world/fossil-of-ancient-whale-sheds-light-on-how-cetacean-sonar-developed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-14T22:44:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A humpback whale's skeleton, placed as a memorial in 1972 by French researcher and scientist Jacques Cousteau, lies in front of the Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/14/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-may-boost-immigrant-numbers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-14T22:55:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/14/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-kono-sex-slave-apology-stands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-14T23:36:55+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/14/national/u-s-okinawa-base-soil-to-be-checked/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-15T07:39:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/14/national/olympic-credibility-under-threat-in-wake-of-soccer-fans-xenophobic-banner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-15T09:36:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/west-prepares-sanctions-as-russia-presses-on-with-crimea-takeover/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-15T12:31:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (left) and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stand together before a meeting at Winfield House in London on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/14/world/radar-data-suggests-missing-malaysia-plane-deliberately-flown-way-off-course/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-15T12:33:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-malay-z-20140315.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Muslims offer Friday prayers during a special prayer session for passengers of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport mosque in Sepang. The needle-in-a-haystack hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner spread to the vast Indian Ocean after the White House cited "new information" that it might have flown for hours after vanishing nearly seven days ago.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/15/national/science-health/historical-ifs-and-weathers-or-not/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-15T18:25:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/fe20140316rha.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fe20140316rha.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Blown away: "Moko shurai (Mongol Invasion),"an 1847 sumi-e (ink painting) by Kikuchi Yoosai,shows Japan's 1281 salvation by a typhoon.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/15/national/trade-deals-trump-sex-slave-issue-for-osakans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-15T19:50:14+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/15/business/tech/why-criminals-love-bitcoins-so/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-15T19:56:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-bitcoin-a-20140316.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The hand of a founder of the joint venture Tembusu Terminals, Andras Kristof, is shown as he speaks to reporters after launching the first bitcoin vending machine at a pub in Singapore on Feb. 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/15/business/companies-look-to-teenage-girls-for-product-ideas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-15T20:08:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p2-girls-a-20140316.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-girls-a-20140316.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takagi Gakuen Girls' High School students pose with Cheerio ice cream, which they developed with Morinaga Milk Industry Co., in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/15/national/media-national/olympics-highlight-the-need-for-foreign-blue-collar-laborers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-15T20:17:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20140316pba.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The build up to 2020: A computer-generated image of the original plan for a new Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. With so much construction ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, companies have asked for a change in immigration law to allow foreign workers to relieve the nation's shortage of blue-collar labor.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/15/national/media-national/japans-future-may-be-stunted-by-its-past/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-15T20:20:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/fd20140316bja.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20140316bja.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Right in public: Nationalist demonstrators march near the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2013. Nationalist ideas on the Web, known as Netto-uyo (internet ultra-rightist) screeds, are now reaching more of the ordinary Japanese public, including women that Shukan Gendai magazine call "Netto-uyo housewives."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/15/national/south-korea-encouraged-by-abe-vow-to-leave-sex-slave-apology-alone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-15T23:08:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Park Geun-hye addresses a joint commissioning ceremony for 5,860 new officers from the army, navy, air force and marines at military headquarters in Gyeryong, south of Seoul, on March 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/16/national/japan-eyes-four-way-talks-on-nuclear-terror/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-16T21:07:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/16/national/new-and-improved-radiation-detectors-headed-for-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-16T21:07:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/16/world/science-health-world/blood-test-detects-brain-injuries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-16T21:09:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/16/world/science-health-world/did-climate-or-man-kill-off-megafauna/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-16T21:44:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woolly mammoth skeleton is displayed at Christie's auction house in Paris.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/ukraine-russia-agree-short-truce-as-crimea-referendum-gets-under-way/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-16T23:47:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-s1-crimea-a-20140317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman casting her vote at a polling station in Crimea, southern Ukraine, on Sunday in a referendum on breaking away from Ukraine and joining Russia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/16/world/will-the-fate-of-flight-mh370-ever-be-known/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-16T23:58:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p4-crash-a-20140317.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p4 crash-a 20140317]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/national/nonnuclear-states-to-call-on-china-to-join-u-s-russia-arms-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T02:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/16/world/what-we-know-and-whats-still-speculation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T11:22:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/16/national/science-health/just-stap-it-obokata-to-withdraw-her-thesis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T11:22:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-03-17T11:24:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monk lights candles for family members of passengers of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 at a special prayer meeting Saturday in Subang Jaya, outside Kuala Lumpur.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/16/national/politics-diplomacy/projected-re-election-to-make-ishikawas-tanimoto-longest-serving-governor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T12:47:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ishikawa Gov. Masanori Tanimoto, who appeared assured of a sixth four-year term in Sunday's gubernatorial election, leads supporters in a lusty cry of "Banzai!" in Kanazawa.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/16/business/mizuho-caught-up-in-suits-against-mt-gox/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T15:11:05+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/business/tech/impoverished-haiti-manufacturing-its-own-android-tablet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T16:52:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artist Richard Josue uses a Surtab tablet, an Android-based tablet assembled in Haiti from imported components, along a sidewalk in Port-au-Prince on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/national/tokyo-on-horns-of-dilemma-responding-to-ukraine-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T22:17:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/national/body-found-in-sea-off-java-may-be-that-of-missing-japanese-woman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T22:17:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/business/smart-electricity-meters-in-offing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T22:19:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/business/mitsubishi-estate-to-repair-defect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T22:19:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/national/china-called-on-to-join-nuke-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T22:19:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/world/timbuktu-begins-rebuilding-tombs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T22:20:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/business/corporate-business/hartford-financial-services-said-close-to-selling-its-japan-unit-to-orix-corp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T22:47:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/national/city-preserves-500-asian-films/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T22:47:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/world/u-s-navy-seals-seize-tanker-from-libyan-rebels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T22:47:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/national/emperor-greets-vietnamese-president-ahead-of-bilateral-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-17T22:47:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/business/corporate-business/nikon-to-fix-camera-flaws-cited-by-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-18T00:16:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man tries out a Nikon D600 digital camera at the CP+ Camera and Photo Imaging Show in Yokohama last year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/national/british-luxury-liner-qe3-docks-in-yokohama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-18T00:17:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The luxury liner Queen Elizabeth, which docked in the port of Yokohama on Sunday night, is seen Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/reference/after-school-clubs-falling-short-as-more-moms-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-18T00:19:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children attend an English-language lesson last Wednesday at the Chitose Karasuyama branch of the Kids Duo nationwide after-school care chain in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/national/government-may-put-off-decision-on-collective-self-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-18T00:25:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-w1-collective-a-20140318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force troops take part in Iron Fist 2014 with U.S. Marines at Camp Pendleton, California, on Feb. 6.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/national/ueno-zoo-to-put-panda-pair-back-on-view-after-failed-mating-attempt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-18T02:18:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w2-panda-a-20140318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Female giant panda Shin Shin (left) and male Ri Ri are placed near each other to gauge their interest in mating at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo last Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/national/sincere-steps-needed-for-seoul-tokyo-meet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-18T03:58:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/18/asia-pacific/planning-could-hold-key-to-disappearance-of-flight-mh370/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-18T12:32:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w1-s1-malplan-a-20140319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model poses for pictures during an art performance in support of the passengers of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 at the departure hall of Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/18/world/science-health-world/gravitational-waves-following-universes-expansion-after-big-bang-seen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-18T12:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w1-s2-bigbang-a-20140319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 10-meter-wide South Pole telescope and the BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) telescope at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is seen against the night sky with the Milky Way in August 2008.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/national/tokyo-olympic-organizing-committee-gets-28-new-members-including-seven-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-18T13:51:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/18/national/government-industry-bodies-take-part-in-first-broad-cybersecurity-drill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-03-18T14:09:37+09:00</lastmod>
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