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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams takes a drink before a news conference in Belfast on Sunday following his release from Antrim police station, where he was detained for questioning over a 1972 murder.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-05T16:10:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. Eric Swalwell D-Calif, holds a news conference at the San Jose International Airport on Friday in San Jose, California. Almost two weeks after a California teen survived a stowaway flight in a jet wheel well to Hawaii, Swalwell did his own perimeter tour of San Jose International Airport where authorities have yet to say if they know where their security was breached.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-05T21:40:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-05T21:40:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-05T21:40:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-05T21:41:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-05T21:41:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-05T21:48:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-05T21:48:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/05/national/politics-diplomacy/african-nations-assured-of-continued-flow-of-aid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-05T21:49:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-05T23:45:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/05/business/ordinary-billionaire-behind-canal-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-05T23:58:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wang Jing gives an interview at Beijing Xinwei Telecom's offices in Beijing in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/05/world/politics-diplomacy-world/ukraine-moves-special-forces-wayward-odessa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-05T23:59:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-ukraine-sf-a-20140506.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ukrainian National Guard soldiers guard a checkpoint outside of Slovyansk in eastern Ukraine on Sunday. Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said in a statement on his Facebook page that an "antiterrorist operation" was being executed in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, the latest flashpoint for unrest.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/05/reference/silk-mill-took-japan-global-level/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T00:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists flock to Tomioka Silk Mill in Tomioka, Gunma Prefecture, on April 26, the day after the facility was recommended for listing as a UNESCO World Heritage site.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/05/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-france-join-hands-defense-equipment-fast-breeder-reactors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T00:02:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) speaks alongside French President Francois Hollande at a joint press conference Monday at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/05/national/novelist-watanabe-flair-affairs-dies-80/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T00:02:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-watanabe-a-20140506.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junichi Watanabe]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/06/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-african-nations-renew-vow-join-hands-developing-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T17:56:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w2-t3-africaide-a-20140507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speaks Monday during the First TICAD V Ministerial Meeting in Cameroon's capital of Yaounde.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/06/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-to-work-with-france-on-future-fast-breeder-atomic-reactor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T18:04:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/06/world/crime-legal-world/x-men-director-bryan-singer-sued-in-second-teen-sex-abuse-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T18:46:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeff Herman, attorney for the anonymous victim in the allegation of child sexual abuse by Hollywood executives, displays a photograph during a news conference in Beverly Hills, California, on Monday. Herman said the photograph shows (from left) the alleged victim (blacked out), director Bryan Singer, entertainment industry executive Gary Goddard and actor Frank Langella at a Superman 2 after party in London.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/06/world/white-house-to-unveil-dire-climate-warning-in-new-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T19:21:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w2-s3-climate-a-20140507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This March 13 photo shows cracks in the dry bed of the Stevens Creek Reservoir in Cupertino, California. The Obama administration is more certain than ever that global warming is changing Americans' daily lives and will worsen — conclusions that scientists will detail in a massive federal report to be released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/06/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-meets-most-conditions-for-vital-eu-trade-talks-documents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T19:30:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Francois Hollande, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, arrive for a state dinner at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/06/business/u-s-singapore-reach-agreement-on-tax-evasion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T19:41:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/06/world/science-health-world/genome-scientist-craig-venter-in-deal-to-make-humanized-pig-organs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T19:55:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Genetic researcher J. Craig Venter is pictured in his office in La Jolla, California, on March 7.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/09/11/national/social-issues/assemblywoman-puts-sex-on-the-agenda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T20:57:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kanako Otsuji]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/08/14/national/history/japans-unsung-role-in-indias-struggle-for-independence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T21:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20110814x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unlike minds: Mahatma Gandhi (left), the leading pacifist campaigner for Indian independence, speaks to the decidedly non-pacifist Subhas Chandra Bose in Haripura during the annual meeting of the Indian National Congress held there in 1938, when Bose was the organization's president.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/08/14/national/history/film-mines-rich-seams-of-history/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T21:03:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20110814x2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ruined lives: This still from "Echoes from the Miike Mine" shows a wife caring for her husband, who suffered severe brain damage in the fatal 1963 explosion at the mine.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/15/national/utility-and-opponents-lock-horns-over-planned-n-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T21:14:14+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/15/national/authors-fiction-turns-horribly-real/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T21:18:04+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/03/27/national/survivors-strive-to-start-picking-up-the-pieces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T21:21:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20110327x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Where to start?: Isamu Higuchi and his wife, Rie, pick through the remains of their home in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, that was smashed to bits by the March 11 tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/03/20/national/nothing-can-prepare-you-to-witness-this/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T21:26:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20110320x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Testaments: Two people hauling a few possessions with them up the hill out of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, are the only signs of life two days after the March 11 tsunami that has left around 10,000 of the town's 17,666 residents missing.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/02/27/%news_category%/nationalism-and-its-discontents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T21:38:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fl20110227x1c.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20110227x1c.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Still waters: On a rare clear day the rivers snaking through central Chengdu afford delightful views, but the waters are heavily polluted, as is the city's air.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/02/27/asia-pacific/minding-the-gaps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T21:47:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fl20110227x3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20110227x3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Up, up and away: The soaring skyline of Chongqing is now two hours by rail from Chengdu, not the 12 hours it used to take. However, the grim villages of smoky hovels passed en route underscore China's immense urban/rural divide.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/02/27/asia-pacific/history-museum-takes-no-prisoners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T21:47:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fl20110227x2b.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20110227x2b.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hate figure: A wartime U.S. poster at the Jianchuan Museum Cluster outside Chengdu, where five of the 13 halls cover Japan's wartime depredations.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/02/13/national/history/japans-first-pop-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T21:47:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fl20110213x1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20110213x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Godmother of pop: Izumo no Okuni in full flamboyant cross-dressed regalia. Her dances and pantomimes on the banks of the Kamo River in Kyoto with the troupe she trained gave rise to kabuki and to Japan's first-ever pop culture worthy of the name.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/06/national/captain-boat-carrying-japanese-bali-diving-accident-goes-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T22:46:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-balidiving-a-20140507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Agustinus Brata Kusuma, the captain of a dive boat, is shown on Feb. 20 after being detained by Bali police in connection with a scuba diving accident that left two Japanese women dead.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/06/national/rush-returning-golden-week-travelers-peaks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T23:24:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/w3-gwtravelers-a-20140507.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-gwtravelers-a-20140507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vacationers crowd the international arrival lobby of Narita airport Monday, the day before the end of Golden Week.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/06/business/abe-says-oecd-should-promote-fair-international-trade-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T23:25:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/w3-oecdabe-a-20140507.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-oecdabe-a-20140507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses the OECD assembly in Paris on Tuesday during his six-nation European tour for trade and security talks.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/06/national/two-climbers-die-exposure-others-rescued-japan-alps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T23:26:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-climbers-z-20140507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Nagano Prefectural Police rescue squad on a helicopter lift an unidentified climber from Mount Hotaka on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/06/national/japanese-donate-100000-for-welfare-of-nepalese-sherpas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-06T23:29:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w2-t2-sherpaide-a-20140507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alpinist Ken Noguchi gives a news conference in Katmandu on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/05/national/japanese-delegation-set-to-meet-chinese-high-official-zhang/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-07T12:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-to-send-team-in-response-to-nigeria-schoolgirls-mass-kidnapping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-07T12:15:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/w1-usnigeria-a-20140508.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w1-usnigeria-a-20140508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the mothers of missing schoolgirls wipes her tears during a rally by civil society groups pressing for the release of the girls in Abuja on Tuesday. More than 200 schoolgirls were abducted three weeks ago by Boko Haram Islamists.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/nato-commander-says-permanent-troops-in-eastern-europe-possible/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An electronics store displays video games for Nintendo Co.'s Wii, Wii U and 3DS machines and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s PlayStation consoles in Osaka last week.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy give a press conference on Wednesday at the EU Headquarters in Brussels following the summit meeting between the European Union and Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ikuo Kabashima kyodo]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-08T23:59:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kanagawa police on Thursday display two guns (yellow and blue) created with a 3-D printer that can fire real bullets. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsuneko Sasamoto poses at her photo exhibition in the Japan Newspaper Museum, Yokohama, on April 5.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p20 bij-a 20140322]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[His story: Tony Marano, aka “Texas Oyaji,” gives his forthright take on the sex-slave issue in a clip from YouTube.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-09T13:50:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Henry S. Stokes, former Tokyo bureau chief for The New York Times and author of the best-selling book "Eikokujin Kisha Ga Mita Rengokoku Sensho Shikan no Kyomou" ("Falsehoods of the Allied Nations' Victorious View of History, as Seen by a British Journalist"), speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-09T19:43:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Turkey Media Backlash]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters display a banner depicting Turkish media as the three wise monkeys, who see no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil, outside the Haber Turk TV channel in Istanbul in June 2013. A man who appeared on a Turkish TV dating show this week in search of a new partner shocked the audience by revealing he had murdered his former wife and an ex-lover. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The building of the Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space, which is the world's first purpose-built commercial space base and is operated by Spaceport America, stands near the New Mexico town of Truth or Consequences on May 1.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar (right) and President Salva Kiir hold a priest's hands as they pray before signing a peace agreement in Addis Ababa on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The DEKA Arm System, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved for amputees, can perform multiple simultaneous movements.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ingenious method: Darwin's finch nestlings on the Galapagos Islands face a deadly parasitic threat. Researchers have found a way to protect the birds from fly maggots by offering the birds insecticide-treated cotton for incorporation into their nests.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Barack Obama speaks on renewable energy at a Wal-Mart store in Mountain View, California, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Enrique Roman-Morey]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Koizumi, who heads the life-care devices research group at NTT Microsystem Integration Laboratories, shows off a hitoe shirt that can measure heart rates and take electrocardiograms, in Tokyo on April 14.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two Qianzhousaurus sinensis hunt in this illustration.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/11/national/physicist-leads-effort-image-melted-cores/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruo Miyadera]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/10/business/industry-4-0-germany-rethinks-manufacturing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-11T22:12:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-11T22:12:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/14/business/leaders-from-outside-box-could-ignite-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-11T22:15:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-11T23:18:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/11/national/japan-track-visa-free-visitors-russian-held-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-11T23:31:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-11T23:36:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-12T12:20:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of an election committee count ballots after voting closed at a polling station in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Sunday. Voters in two rebel Ukrainian regions cast ballots Sunday on whether to declare their areas sovereign republics, a move denounced by the central government and likely to deepen the turmoil in the largely Russian-speaking east.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-12T12:31:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-12T12:58:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Dalai Lama visits the Nobel Peace Center, where a picture of Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo hangs as part of an exhibition, in Oslo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-12T21:16:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-12T21:16:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[First lady Akie Abe (center) attends a fundraiser for the Asian University for Women Support Foundation at Sogetsu Hall in Tokyo on April 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/12/national/high-court-backs-sale-of-chongryons-hq/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-12T23:26:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-12T23:26:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/12/national/gourmet-comic-stokes-fukushima-ire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-12T23:34:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A real-life character portrayed in the manga "Oishinbo" (left, below) claims that about 800 residents living near an incinerator in the city of Osaka have exhibited symptoms of illnesses caused by radioactive fallout from the meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. The plant incinerated 3/11 debris from Iwate Prefecture, to the north of Fukushima.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A local woman welcomes armed pro-Russia militiamen marching toward a polling station during a referendum on self-rule in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/12/national/researcher-wont-retract-stap-cell-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-12T23:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruko Obokata kyodo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/12/national/man-held-starting-huge-fire-negligence/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fire-scarred forest is seen in Ako, Hyogo Prefecture, on Monday morning after smoldering charcoal was thrown into a forest Sunday afternoon following a private barbecue at a man's house, setting off the conflagration.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/12/national/book-whistleblower-snowden-details-u-s-spying-japan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Glenn Greenwald's new book includes details about the U.S. spying on Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/12/national/politics-diplomacy/sdf-may-get-broader-anti-piracy-powers/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-12T23:55:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/13/world/west-antarctic-glacier-thaw-now-irreversible-study-finds/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An undated handout photo provided by NASA shows the Thwaites Glacier in western Antarctica. Two new studies indicate that part of the huge West Antarctic ice sheet is beginning an "unstoppable" slow collapse, while alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rises than they had previously estimated.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers inspect vehicles on the way to Haneda International Airport in Tokyo on April 22, the day before U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Fiat Abarth appears at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in 2012. Imports are on a streak in Japan, which has been called the "most closed market in the world."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[India's main opposition and Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi addresses a political rally in Robertsganj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-Russian activists rally in eastern Ukraine's Luhansk region Monday, following a referendum that asked residents if they supported independence from the country. The United States and other nations condemned the poll as unconstitutional, but Moscow said it would "respect" the outcome of the vote.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Amari, minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, answers questions from reporters at the prime minister's official residence on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Outside the Diet building Tuesday, activists form a human chain in solidarity against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's shortcut plan to reinterpret the Constitution to allow Japan to legally exercise the right to collective self-defense.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 1.5 sq.-inch (3.8 sq.-cm) microfilm Bible that flew around the moon is seen in a picture from Heritage Auctions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/16/asia-pacific/offbeat-asia-pacific/aging-crowded-china-instigates-funereal-revolution-burial-at-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-16T21:52:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p4-ashes-z-20140517.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man scatters the ashes of his parents and grandmother into the ocean during a burial ceremony off Shanghai on May 10. Faced with an aging population, soaring property prices and increasingly scarce land, the Chinese government has been trying for years to convince more people to break with tradition and bury loved ones at sea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/16/national/science-health/teen-female-athletes-suffering-stress-fractures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-16T22:32:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/16/national/politics-diplomacy/cabinet-law-office-shake-slow-abes-military-drive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-16T22:37:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Komatsu]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/16/national/miniature-underground-ice-wall-shown-off-at-fukushima-no-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-16T23:45:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A representative of Kajima Corp. (right) explains the experimental system used to enclose a 10-sq.-meter patch of ground with walls of frozen earth to prevent groundwater from entering.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/16/national/tokyo-sets-up-panel-to-map-out-blueprint-for-hydrogen-energy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-16T23:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-17T00:08:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/16/national/population-fixes-have-anti-foreign-bias-official-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-17T07:39:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hidenori Sakanaka kyodo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/17/national/revealed-n-korea-hideout-of-red-army-faction-fugitives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-17T12:14:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An apartment building is seen in a village outside Pyongyang where four surviving former Red Army Faction hijackers are believed to be living. The men hijacked a Japan Airlines airplane on an internal flight in 1970 and defected to North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-17T12:14:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An alleged Chinese land reclamation project on what is internationally recognized as the Johnson Reef in the South China Sea is seen in this undated photo. The Philippines warned on Wednesday that China may be building an airstrip on the reef, boosting its claim to most of the strategic waters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/17/business/corporate-business/gm-slapped-with-35-million-fine-for-delayed-response-to-faulty-ignitions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-17T12:14:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announces that General Motors will be fined a record $35 million in civil penalties as a result of the automaker's failure to report a safety defect in one of its automobiles, at the Department of Transportation in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/huge-expectations-indias-modi-wariness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-17T12:26:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indians take photographs of a portrait of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Narendra Modi made with colored powder and surrounded by rose petals at the party offices in Gandhinagar, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/17/national/history/wrong-judge-early-imperialist-japan-harshly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-17T22:44:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/17/national/media-national/japan-back-small-business-isnt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-17T22:56:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man with a plan: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/dying-democracy-1980-gwangju-uprising-transformed-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-17T23:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brutal crackdown: A South Korean soldier clubs a man arrested during anti-government protests in Gwangju on May 20, 1980.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/commemorating-national-trauma-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-17T22:58:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cold comfort: A statue has been erected across from the Japanese Embassy in Seoul to honor the "comfort women" who were recruited to serve in wartime military brothels during the 1930s and '40s.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/17/national/media-national/fix-population-problem-helping-families/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-17T22:54:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-brasor-media-mix-a-20140518.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stay healthy: Elderly residents of Kochi take part in exercises. The population in many parts of Japan is aging and shrinking.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/17/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/xinjiang-attack-suspects-arrested/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-17T21:58:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-17T21:59:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-17T22:48:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-17T23:17:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester voices his opposition to reinterpreting Article 9 of the Constitution in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/17/national/pop-duos-aska-held-drug-possession-charge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-17T23:21:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aska]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/17/national/casino-bill-tough-to-pass-in-current-diet-session/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-17T23:21:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-17T23:21:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/17/national/why-kansais-corporate-captains-are-trumpeting-tpp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-18T00:02:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-18T16:27:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-18T16:55:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester marches in a demonstration against China in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Army Air Forces Capt. William D. Whitson (left) watches as Bruce Bairnsfather, official cartoonist to the American forces in Europe, adds the finishing touches to a painting of his World War I character "Old Bill" to a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber of the same name in April 1943.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 6-meter-tall statue of Godzilla towers over visitors after it was unveiled in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, on May 9, ahead of the release of the latest Hollywood reboot of the classic monster movie.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/18/national/carmakers-to-share-engine-research/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-18T21:12:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-05-18T21:12:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bharatiya Janata Party supporters celebrate in Gauhati, India, on Friday as early election results indicated a landslide victory.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/18/national/social-issues/japans-working-poor-left-behind-abenomics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-18T21:29:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ririko Saito and her 11-year-old daughter, Yumi, eat dinner together, one of only two meals they have each day to keep household costs low, at their apartment in Tokyo on Wednesday. She is one of a growing army of working poor in a society that continues to pride itself on being egalitarian, despite a decades-long rise in poverty.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-china-trade-chiefs-hold-first-talks-since-isles-flare/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-18T21:36:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/18/world/britains-richest-wealthier-ever-study-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-18T21:50:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emma Watson]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/18/national/seeds-change-rice-growing-country/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-18T22:01:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Minamisoma Council on Farming Revitalization gather on April 22 to receive their share of biodiesel fuel produced from sunflower seeds.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/18/national/politics-diplomacy/nyc-nago-mayor-reiterates-opposition-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-18T22:04:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Susumu Inamine, mayor of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, addresses a gathering in New York on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/18/national/48-1-of-public-opposes-legalizing-use-of-collective-self-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-18T22:49:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/18/world/social-issues-world/women-top-likely-fired/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-05-18T23:19:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wait for cabs across the street from The New York Times building in New York on Wednesday. The Times announced last week that Executive Editor Jill Abramson was being replaced by Managing Editor Dean Baquet after 2½ years on the job.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/18/business/apec-pushes-road-map-yearend-new-asia-pacific-free-trade-zone/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker unloads iron ore in Qingdao, China, on Thursday. A two-day meeting of APEC trade ministers hosted by the city ended Sunday with an agreement to draft a road map for creating a new free trade area in the region, possibly by the end of the year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yusuke Katayama testifies Thursday at the Tokyo District Court.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thai soldiers run to stand guard after Thai Army Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha met with anti-government and pro-government leaders at the Army Club in Bangkok on Thursday. Thailand's army chief announced in an address to the nation the same day that the armed forces were seizing power after months of deadly political turmoil.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 10 to 15 hectares of the Shinagawa rail yard will undergo redevelopment.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko walks past Russian President Vladimir Putin during an international D-Day commemoration ceremony on the beach of Ouistreham, France, on Friday. Celebrations were held the same day to mark the 70th anniversary of the World War II Allied landings in Normandy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rose petals dropped by helicopters fall around the Statue of Liberty in New York on Friday. The event was organized by the organization The French Will Never Forget to mark the 70th anniversary of World War II's D-Day landings.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pat Cline (left) and Patty McKenzie look at each other during their wedding at the Milwaukee County Courthouse on Friday. Same-sex couples began getting married in Wisconsin on Friday shortly after a federal judge struck down the state's gay marriage ban and despite confusion over the effect of the ruling.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This file photo from September 2006 shows a column of military tanks guarding a highway in suburban Bangkok as the military tightened its grip on power two days after a bloodless coup. The last time Thailand had a coup, in 2006, the stock market crashed when the kingdom imposed draconian capital controls. This time around, investors hope the generals have learned their lesson.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[FIFA President Sepp Blatter gestures next to the World Cup trophy after a media conference in Sao Paulo]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[FIFA President Sepp Blatter gestures next to the World Cup trophy after a media conference in Sao Paulo on Thursday. The 2014 World Cup will be held in 12 cities in Brazil from June 12 to July 13.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[National Front leader Marine Le Pen, shown in a file photo, last month led the French far-right party to its first victory ever in a nationwide election.MARIE-LAN NGUYEN]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian children pose with their toy weapons in the divided city of Aleppo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshio Sugiyama, head of a nonprofit group that donates used shoes to children in Cote d'Ivoire, sorts through a pile of athletic shoes in April. He said the group will cheer for both Japan and Cote d'Ivoire when the two teams meet in the World Cup in Brazil this weekend.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrians inspect an unexploded barrel bomb packed with explosives in January after a regime helicopter dropped it on a street in the city of Aleppo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-11T23:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ukrainian special forces fire their weapons during training in Kharkiv on Friday. As the crisis in the country festers, the United States is quietly considering deploying more of its own special forces to Eastern Europe.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-11T23:26:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-11T23:27:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-11T23:49:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former wartime "comfort women" from South Korea and the Philippines hold a news conference on June 2 in Tokyo, following a rally.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-11T23:57:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A committee of outside experts will call for a change in top management at the state-affiliated Riken institute in the wake of the STAP scandal, which centered on researcher Haruko Obokata.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the media visits the suppression chamber area in the basement of reactor 5 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on March 10.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image taken from video uploaded Wednesday by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant purportedly shows militants from the group gathering at an undisclosed location in Iraq's Nineveh province.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-12T12:19:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A participant attends a rally in Moscow on Wednesday in support of pro-Russian residents of Ukraine's eastern regions as well as the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donbass and Luhansk.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-12T12:32:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents of a favela in Rio de Janeiro play street soccer in front of a mural of Argentine national team lynchpin Lionel Messi (left) and Brazilian star Neymar. The FIFA World Cup kicks off Thursday in Brazil.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The V-Sido Connect microcomputer board is displayed at SoftBank's headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Following his defeat in the Virginia primary Tuesday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor tells reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday that he intends to resign his leadership post at the end of July. Cantor lost to tea party challenger David Brat, who campaigned on a platform of opposition to loosening immigration laws.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-12T20:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man waits outside a McDonald's outlet in central Hong Kong. McDonald's global sales at established restaurants grew 2.5 percent in Asia, the company said Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-12T21:21:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-12T21:21:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-12T21:21:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-12T21:31:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-12T21:31:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/12/national/japanese-eel-added-international-threatened-species-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-12T21:50:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/12/national/red-list-tag-may-keep-eel-off-menus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-12T21:50:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-12T22:06:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-12T23:55:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist's illustration of Metaspriggina, which lived over 500 million years ago during the Cambrian period, is shown in this handout image. The tiny jawless fish is providing scientists with a treasure-trove of information about the very dawn of vertebrate life on Earth.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/12/national/politics-diplomacy/chinese-fighter-jets-fly-close-japanese-planes-officials-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-12T23:56:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Chinese Su-27 fighter flew close to Self-Defense Forces planes on Wednesday, according to the Defense Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/12/national/sweet-jobs-offered-athletes-star-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-12T23:58:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former competitive swimmer Haruka Ueda (right) talks with her colleagues at Kikkoman Corp. in Tokyo's Minato Ward on April 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/12/national/fukui-neighbors-agree-on-disaster-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-13T00:18:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/12/national/social-issues/interns-abused-labor-crisis-grows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-13T11:43:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Villagers gather around the bodies of two girls found murdered and hanging from a tree in Uttar Pradesh, India, after they were allegedly gang-raped by four local men, two of whom are police officers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday to testify before the House Armed Services Committee about the Obama administration's prisoner swap with the Afghan Taliban.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/national/crime-legal/court-nixes-lawsuit-nhk-using-foreign-words/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-13T12:28:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-13T12:30:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Iraqi security officer stands guard in the southern city of Najaf on Thursday as civilians volunteer to help government forces battle jihadists in northern Iraq.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/world/brazil-wins-comes-alive-world-cup-despite-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-13T12:43:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tourist in Rio de Janeiro has Brazil's Christian heritage in view, an emblem of which is the statue of Christ the Redeemer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/world/science-health-world/mystery-pig-virus-origins-sparks-concern/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-14T22:32:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[P20 pig-a 20140615]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pig out: Scientists estimate the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus has wiped out 10 percent of the U.S. pig population.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/national/media-national/vietnam-seen-potential-role-model-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-14T22:48:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Selling pride: Vietnam flags and badges are displayed at a tourist shop in Hanoi, where the territorial dispute over the Paracel Islands has stoked heated anti-Chinese demonstrations.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-14T22:50:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Up and at 'em: Workers stretch before starting their day in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/national/science-health/hormone-behind-mans-best-friend/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Puppy love: Researchers believe that the hormone oxytocin is what causes dogs to bond with humans — and indeed with each other.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/national/when-kids-see-red-over-eating-greens/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boy tries vegetables in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, on May 11 during a course by the Japan Vegetable Sommelier Association.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/business/pazudora-seeks-broader-audience/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/business/energy-panels-plan-talks-on-new-mix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-13T21:07:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/business/financial-markets/boj-holds-course-as-analysts-delay-action-calls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-13T21:08:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda holds a news conference at the central bank on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/business/economy-business/abe-to-cut-business-tax-but-mum-on-how/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-13T21:09:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announces his decision Friday to push for a lower corporate tax rate.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/business/corporate-business/rakuten-rakes-in-%c2%a530-billion-for-first-bond-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-13T21:13:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-13T21:13:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Books and booze come together at Mori no Toshoshitsu, a literary-themed bar expected to open next month in Tokyo's Shibuya district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/asia-pacific/south-korea-ferry-boss-eludes-nationwide-manhunt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-13T22:16:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mourners' messages are seen on origami ships laid out at a memorial for victims of the Sewol ferry disaster in Seoul on May 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/world/science-health-world/scientists-categorize-dinosaurs-cold-blooded-warm-blooded/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-13T22:16:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 41-foot-long Tyrannosaurus rex, discovered near Faith, South Dakota, and dating from 67 million years ago, is displayed at the Field Museum in Chicago. On the question of whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded like mammals or cold blooded like reptiles, scientists said Thursday the giant creatures were in fact mesotherms: somewhere in between.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/business/canadas-cannabis-growers-see-multibillion-dollar-market-in-weed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-13T22:30:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-13T22:50:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech to his conservative Liberal Democratic Party at its annual convention in Tokyo on Jan. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/national/social-issues/600-school-students-gid-pioneering-survey-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-13T22:51:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-13T23:21:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeshi Koizumi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/national/crime-legal/line-accounts-may-have-been-compromised-company-warns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-13T23:21:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-13T23:23:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hisham El-Zimaity]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/national/politics-diplomacy/details-of-ja-zenchu-reform-left-unclear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-13T23:24:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-13T23:32:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Maidan" self-defense activists and activists of the Ukrainian ultra-nationalist Right Sector party shout slogans as they storm the Kiev City Prosecutors' office on Friday. The protesters stormed the building demanding the city prosecutors' resignation and a purge of prosecutors who took part in the repressions of the anti-government protests on Kiev's Independence Square.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-14T00:08:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Komeito Secretary-General Yoshihisa Inoue, Vice President Kazuo Kitagawa, and Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Masahiko Komura and Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba (front, left to right) sit for coalition talks on collective self-defense on Friday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/national/riken-reform-panel-urges-penalties-obokata-supervisors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-14T01:32:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teruo Kishi (second from left), head of an outside panel set up to review the embattled Riken research institute, addresses the media at Thursday evening in Tokyo about its proposals for preventing research misconduct after an incident involving stem cell researcher Haruko Obokata.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/national/science-health/adviser-riken-unit-quit-stap-controversy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-14T12:41:14+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/world/science-health-world/deep-underground-water-water-everywhere-but-not-a-drop-to-drink/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-14T12:45:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w1-s3-waterdown-a-20140615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cross section of the Earth's interior shows where scientists think massive amounts of water may exist deep beneath the planet's surface, trapped in a rocky layer of the mantle at depths between 410 km and 660 km. But do not expect to quench your thirst down there. The water is not liquid, or in any other familiar form like ice or vapor. It is locked inside the molecular structure of minerals called ringwoodite and wadsleyite in mantle rock that possesses the remarkable ability to absorb water like a sponge.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-14T13:05:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese People's Liberation Army soldier adjusts the hat of an honor guard member as they prepare to welcome visiting Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday. Beijing said Friday that it will never send military forces to the scene of an ugly spat with Vietnam over an oil rig in the South China Sea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/iraqs-top-shiite-cleric-issues-call-to-fight-jihadist-rebels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-14T13:10:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image taken from a militant website on June 11 shows fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria waving their flag after allegedly seizing an Iraqi Army checkpoint in the northern province of Salahuddin.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/world/crime-legal-world/canadas-top-court-bolsters-internet-privacy-protection/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-14T16:46:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-14T20:45:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama talks about his administration's response to an insurgency's growing foothold in Iraq on Friday on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/business/economy-business/noda-says-abe-buying-into-voodoo-economics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-14T21:20:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/world/china-ready-settle-indian-border-dispute/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-14T21:21:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) listens to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a meeting in New Delhi on June 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/national/pritzker-winning-architect-ban-sticks-disaster-areas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-14T23:58:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Ban]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/national/whaling-catch-sinks-new-low/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-14T23:58:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/national/activists-seek-end-to-sexual-violence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-14T23:58:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-14T23:58:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Brazilian flag covers the base of the "Christ the Redeemer" statue in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/national/photog-returns-home-chronicle-fukushima/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Photographer Tadao Mitome shows off his photo book, "3/11 Fukushima: Hibaku no Bokujo" ("Stock Farm Exposed to Radiation"), during a recent interview.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-15T00:34:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-15T00:34:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/national/fans-brazil-face-high-crime-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-15T00:35:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Japan's national soccer team have been warned to keep personal belongings close at hand in Brazil.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/national/crime-legal/doctor-admits-trying-murder-dialysis-patient-impulse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-15T08:52:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenjiro Hashizume leaves Machida Police Station on Friday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/13/world/insurgents-seize-two-more-iraqi-towns-obama-threatens-airstrikes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-15T09:03:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Iraqi Kurdish security guard waits to check the ID cards of Iraqi families fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province as they gather at a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski kalak in the autonomous Kurdistan region, on Wednesday. Since the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) began its spectacular assault in Mosul late on June 9, militants have captured a large stretch of northern and north-central Iraq, prompting as many as half a million people to flee their homes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/national/is-rational-toru-hashimoto-acting-irrationally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-15T13:15:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-15T16:12:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Navy X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator conducts a touch-and-go landing in May 2013 on the flight deck of the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean. The Pentagon said Saturday that Washington has ordered a carrier into the Persian Gulf in response to the crisis in Iraq.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/isis-leader-fights-supplant-al-zawahri-worlds-deadliest-terrorist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-15T20:42:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image grab taken from a video uploaded on June 8 by the jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria allegedly shows militants driving in vehicles near the central Iraqi city of Tikrit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/15/national/jet-stream-presaged-311-scientist-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-15T21:10:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/15/national/tohoku-shaken-by-level-4-earthquake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-15T21:14:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/iraq-military-meltdown-blamed-graft-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-15T21:14:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iraqi security forces in the southern city of Najaf receive volunteers Sunday to help resist an advance by Islamist militants. Residents of Najaf are mostly Shia, and the rebels Sunni.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Geoff Stone, also auditioning, demonstrated his stage technique with a crack pipe.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This artifact from the Qing Dynasty, which resembles a piece of stewed pork — a Chinese delicacy — will be shown at the Kyushu National Museum in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, for two weeks later this year. It will be on loan from the National Palace Museum in Taipei.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kurdish security personnel detain a suspected militant from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria insurgent group outside Kirkuk, Iraq, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoyuki Takeuchi's Kobe-inspired ink blends have proven popular in Japan and enjoy a cult following around the world, with pen enthusiasts discussing their subtle hues on the Internet.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Kaijin Sukereton Hakase," a comic book owned by the University of Maryland, was recently confirmed as the debut work of science fiction novelist Sakyo Komatsu.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-18T21:17:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Charlie Furusho]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-18T21:22:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gerhard Cromme (left), chairman of the Siemens supervisory board, Mitsubishi Heavy CEO Shunichi Miyanaga and Siemens Chairman and CEO Joe Kaeser leave the Elysee Palace in Paris after a meeting with President Francois Hollande on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese People's Liberation Army soldier uses a string to ensure that soldiers, making up an honor guard, stand in a straight line before a ceremony in Beijing on June 12.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chad De Soto, facing multiple counts of aggravated homicide and attempted murder in a 2013 rampage, listens to his lawyer Monday in a Guam courtroom.]]></image:caption>
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