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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singer Alama Kante, who had throat surgery under medical hypnosis, hangs out in Paris on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/19/world/science-health-world/spiders-across-world-taste-fish-scientists-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-19T22:13:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-19T23:49:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Fukuoka Prefectural Police on April 11 raid a pawn shop in Chikugo, Fukuoka Prefecture, run by a couple suspected of killing a former employee.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-19T23:49:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp. shareholders arrive for the loss-making company's annual general meeting in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/19/national/fukushima-evacuees-seek-end-limbo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-19T23:51:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuya Kamoshita, who fled Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, submits a petition to the Cabinet Office on April 25, demanding help tailored to the needs of nuclear evacuees. It was signed by 16,000 fellow evacuees.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/19/business/corporate-business/jbic-ready-fund-mhi-siemens-bid-alstom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-19T23:52:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shunichi Miyanaga, chief executive officer of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and Joe Kaeser, CEO of Siemens, hold a news conference in Paris on Tuesday to announce a joint bid for Alstom SA.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/19/national/ishihara-backtracks-kickbacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-19T23:52:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/19/business/economy-business/abes-third-arrow-misses-mark/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-20T00:16:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/19/national/nakaima-drop-call-kick-u-s-air-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-20T00:17:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma is situated in densely populated Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-20T11:16:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A column of smoke rises from an oil refinery in Beiji, 200 km north of Baghdad, on Thursday amid fierce fighting at the key facility between Iraqi forces and militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-20T12:05:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spores and vegetative cells of Bacillus anthracis that cause anthrax are seen under the microscope is this image. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that as many as 75 scientists in federal government laboratories in Atlanta may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/19/national/politics-diplomacy/s-korea-plans-live-fire-drill-near-takeshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-20T12:39:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[These disputed rocks off Shimane Prefecture are claimed by Japan but controlled by South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-20T12:56:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sonia Reed, her husband and their three children at home in the United States in 1958. Reed escaped from Nazi persecution via Japan by using a transit visa issued by Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara in 1940.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-republicans-elevate-ally-boehner-2-job-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-20T15:21:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly elected House Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks during a news conference following Republican leadership elections in Washington on Thursday. Behind him is Speaker of the House John Boehner. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's loss in a Republican primary election sparked an unexpected Republican leadership shift.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-20T19:24:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is led by a Shinto priest as he visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Dec. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-20T19:24:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pickles are made at Kayatsu Shrine.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-20T21:11:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-20T21:31:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A marijuana plant is inspected at Tweed Marijuana Inc. in Ontario on March 19. The medical marijuana market in Canada is regulated far less heavily than in the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/20/world/science-health-world/insurers-balk-at-cost-as-gene-tests-unlock-medical-mysteries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-20T21:39:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Molecular genetics specialist Jaime Wendt inspects a DNA slide at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee on May 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-20T21:48:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-20T21:49:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-20T21:50:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda attends a news conference on June 13 at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/20/national/japanese-village-approves-exercises-involving-osprey-aircraft/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This satellite image provided by the defense research group IHS Jane's shows the Indian Rare Metals Plant near Mysore in the southern Indian state of Karnataka on June 16.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[European Leaders Gather For Two Day Summit]]></image:title>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-24T22:03:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/25/national/kyushu-univ-univ-of-maryland-tie-up-on-cybersecurity-study/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Srabani Roy Choudhury (right), an associate professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, discusses the changing consumer trends in India during a symposium held Jan. 19 at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo, while other panelists Mathew Joseph (center) and Pinaki Dasgupta listen.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Chang Kyoon (right) from The Chosun Ilbo daily speaks while Jang Gyeong Duk (left) of the Maeil Business Newspaper and Lee Chul Ho from the JoongAng Ilbo listen during a Feb. 10 symposium in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuhiro Goto]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leonard Lim from The Straits Times discusses Singapore's economic outlook as Andi Haswidi of The Jakarta Post looks on during a March 16 symposium held at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Li Yuchuan (right), Tokyo bureau chief of the Beijing Daily, speaks during the Aug. 29 symposium at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo, while Liu Jie (left), a professor at Waseda University's Faculty of Social Sciences, and Shinichiro Kanno, an adviser to Mizuho Corporate Bank, listen.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuji Miyamoto, a former Japanese ambassador to China, speaks on Japan-China relations during a symposium held April 22 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ambrose Evans-Pritchard]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daniel P. Aldrich]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalists from Britain (from left) Simon Nixon, Phillip Inman, Martin Sandbu and Jeremy Warner discuss economic challenges for Japan and the United Kingdom during a symposium at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo on June 24.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Evan Mederios]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British journalists taking part in a Sept. 14 symposium at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo — (from left) Chris Giles, Philip Aldrick, Dominic Lawson, Ian King and Andy Davis — discuss challenges facing mature economies including the U.K. and Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[James Dorn and Albert Keidel (bottom) discuss changes in Chinese economic system and their implications from Japan and the United States, during the Oct. 28 symposium at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eric Heginbotham and Derek Mitchell (bottom)]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adam Goldberg (left) and Joshua Galper from Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe LLP discuss U.S. politics during a Feb. 17 seminar at the Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20110226d1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. think tank experts — (from left) Michael Auslin, Michele Dunne, Drew Thompson, (below) Mark Calabria and Gary Hufbauer — discuss foreign, security and economic challenges facing Japan and the United States during a Jan. 28 symposium at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Asaba]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Franz Waldenberger (right) discusses the issue of business leader development process while other panelists (from left) Shigeki Egami, Hitoshi Yamanishi and Sakie Tachibana-Fukushima listen during the March 11 symposium at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshihiko Kinoshita of Waseda University discusses Asian companies' competitiveness during a keynote speech at the April 12 symposium at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Charles Wolf Jr. from Pardee Rand Graduate School addresses a May 31 symposium at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Strobe Talbott]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bruce Klingner (left) of the Heritage Foundation discusses Japan-U.S. relations while Meredith Broadbent from the Center for Strategic and International Studies listens during the symposium.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trinh Thanh Thuy]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thanong Khanthong (right) of The Nation newspaper speaks about regional cooperation in East Asia during the Oct. 30 symposium at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo, while Dennis Chan from The Straits Times listens.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kavi Chongkittavorn (center) of The Nation daily in Thailand discusses Japan's relations with Southeast Asia during the Oct. 15 symposium at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo while Susan Long (left) of The Straits Times and Hoang Nhu Hoa of Viet Nam News listen.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Murata]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[James Bartis]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peter Ogden]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christian Egenhofer]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eiji Ogawa]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shyam Sunder (right) from Yale University School of Management speaks while other panelists Gautam Ahuja (left) and Melissa Schilling listen during the May 29 symposium in Tokyo on the global economic crisis.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoichiro Suzuki]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rolf Kroker of Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Koln speaks during the June 17 symposium at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo. SATOKO KAWSAKI PHOTO]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Edward Steinfeld (right) and George Gilboy discuss China's economic, social and political changes during the Jan. 23 symposium.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takashi Shiraishi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keio University professor Fukunari Kimura (left) speaks at the March 24 symposium at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuichiro Yamagata]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A panel of professors from U.S. business schools discusses the possibilities of and impediments to Japan's economic reform during a symposium at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo on June 3: (from left) Theodore Marmor, James Hosek, Charles Calomiris, Benjamin Hermalin and Andrew Bernard.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dominique Meda (left), a researcher at the National Research Center for Employment in France, responds to a question while her co-panelists Kumiko Bando (center) and Fusako Utsumi listen during the Oct. 31 symposium.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroki Sato (right), a University of Tokyo professor, speaks during the Oct. 18 symposium while his co-panelists -- (from left) Atsuko Muraki, Haruna Okada and Kiyoshi Ueda -- listen.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenzaburo Mogi, vice chairman of Kikkoman Corp., delivers a keynote speech at the Oct. 18 symposium on population issues at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shandre Thangavelu from Singapore answers a question from the audience as fellow panelists listen at an ASEAN symposium in Tokyo on Feb. 27.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Franz Waldenberger, a professor of Japanese Economy at the Japan center and Munich School of Management at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, speaks during a symposium on global human resources strategy in Tokyo on March 7.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-life protesters rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Thursday as the court deliberated on a Massachusetts law that mandated a no-protest buffer zone around abortion clinics.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kansai International Airport (above) and Osaka International Airport are shown in October 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-30T00:29:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures at a news conference to announce his government's revamped "third arrow" growth strategy at his official residence in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-30T07:18:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the verge of a historic agreement to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense, an unidentified man in a black suit addresses hundreds of people near busy JR Shinjuku Station in Tokyo before lighting himself on fire Sunday in a shocking self-immolation rarely seen in the capital. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/30/national/most-japanese-voters-oppose-security-shift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-30T12:12:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-30T14:24:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kodansha Ltd. publishes Rikejo magazine designated to help female science majors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/30/national/examining-womens-roles-japans-corporate-structure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-30T14:36:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panelists and a moderator (center) pose before their discussion on Japanese female science majors and their career at The Japan Times' office building in Tokyo on June 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/28/national/red-cross-nurse-juggles-aid-safety-iraq/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-30T17:12:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chiyuki Yoshida]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/30/national/dealers-hedge-their-bets-on-abes-casino-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-30T20:31:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Casino School employee in Tokyo deals cards on a blackjack table on June 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-30T20:32:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sketch of the station slated to be built between Shinagawa and Tamachi, and the surrounding area,]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/islamic-state-crucifies-eight-rival-fighters-in-syria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-30T20:33:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-30T20:36:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Petro Poroshenko]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/30/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/china-suffers-karoshi-as-white-collar-workers-die-from-overwork/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-30T20:46:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong's ANXBTC store, operated by the ANX Bitcoin exchange, seen in February. Long the purview of Japan, China, too, is now facing an epidemic of overwork, with a reported 600,000 or so dying as a result of it every year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/30/world/north-ousts-chief-of-ties-with-south/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-30T21:13:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-30T21:19:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Oe, Japan's deputy chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks, shakes hands with acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Wendy Cutler before their meeting in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-30T21:19:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-30T21:21:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mie Kurosaka, a Rakuten Inc. executive officer, is interviewed in Tokyo on June 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-30T21:30:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/30/national/science-health/nature-journal-to-retract-controversial-stap-cell-papers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-06-30T21:31:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-30T21:35:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Materials Corp.'s blast-hit silicon plant in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, was reopened on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-30T21:37:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-30T21:37:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A warm-water foot bath will be available on a special bullet train on the Yamagata Shinkansen Line starting July 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-30T22:21:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-30T23:19:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-06-30T23:51:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-01T06:02:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-01T07:20:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former editor of the News of the World Andy Coulson arrives at the Old Bailey courthouse in Londonn on Monday. British Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-media chief Coulson will face a re-trial over whether he sanctioned illegal payments to a public official while editing a Rupert Murdoch tabloid, prosecutors said Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-01T08:38:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoko Kikuchi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/30/national/tour-bus-offers-solution-to-foreign-tourists-gripes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-01T10:28:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-bus-a-20140701.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Visit Shibuya bus will give free English-language tours of Tokyo in July and August while providing free, roving Wi-Fi at the same time.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/30/national/politics-diplomacy/norths-missiles-may-sent-different-message/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-01T10:28:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-01T12:39:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/01/business/financial-markets/worlds-oldest-population-drives-asian-bonds-quest-yield/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-01T13:16:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-01T15:57:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rome's Trevi Fountain, built by Italian architect Nicola Salvi at Palazzo Poli in 1735, undergoes a €2.2 million ($3 million) restoration project sponsored by Italian fashion house Fendi that is expected to take a year and a half to complete.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-01T17:18:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-01T17:49:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of Doctors Without Borders puts on protective gear in the isolation ward of the Donka Hospital, where people infected with the Ebola virus are being treated, Saturday in Conakry, Guinea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-01T17:56:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yanagawa High School, a private girls school in Yanagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture, canceled all classes Monday after 26 students fell ill in an apparent group panic attack.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-01T19:11:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese flag is raised by People's Liberation Army soldiers at the handover ceremony in Hong Kong on July 1, 1997. Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty after 156 years of British colonial rule 17 years ago today.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers carve up the carcass of a Baird's beaked whale while elementary school students gather to watch at Wada port in Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman from an elite unit of female Kurdish Peshmerga fighters trains in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles (260 km) northeast of Baghdad, on July 3. Some Kurdish women living in northern Iraq are training to be Peshmerga, as the self-ruled Kurdish region's militia is known, to fight against the imminent threat of Islamic militants and to protect their land.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A container is loaded onto a cargo ship at a Tokyo pier on Tuesday. Japan recorded a current account surplus for the fourth straight month in May.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideshi Tokuchi (left), head of Defense Policy Bureau, will reportedly take the new post of vice defense minister for international affairs, while Tetsuro Kuroe (right) will succeed Tokuchi.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saipan police divers search Tuesday for missing Japanese sisters Natsuki and Chinatsu Yamada near the island's Wing Beach.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image from Twitter purportedly shows an Islamic State militant. The winter clothing suggests the photo predates the current offensive in Iraq.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The July 3 edition of the Chinese newspaper Chongqing Youth News includes an illustration apparently threatening Hiroshima and Nagasaki with renewed nuclear destruction.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideo Sawada, president of Huis Ten Bosch Co., is interviewed in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/world/37-5-million-auto-recalls-break-single-year-u-s-record-six-months-go/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T05:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/world/moscow-accuses-u-s-kidnapping-accused-russian-hacker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T05:38:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/business/financial-markets/japan-may-act-weaken-yen-pierpont/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T05:54:57+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/08/national/japan-battens-down-as-intense-typhoon-approaches/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T08:20:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-s1-typhoon-new-a-20140709.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 500,000 people were urged to evacuate their homes as Typhoon Neoguri approached Okinawa on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/08/national/tv-news-english-subtitles-panel-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T08:42:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-tells-hospitals-not-to-deny-emergency-care-to-the-poor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T15:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/world/crime-legal-world/first-legal-pot-shops-open-in-washington-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T15:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/world/harry-potter-returns-in-new-j-k-rowling-short-story/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T15:01:49+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/national/cool-japan-academies-to-open-across-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T16:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsuguhiko Kadokawa (second from right), chairman of publishing giant Kadokawa Corp., poses during a news conference in Tokyo on July 2. The company announced plans to push knowledge of key animation and design skills in Asia via the launch of several Cool Japan academies, the first of which will open in Taiwan and Singapore later this year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/national/dont-forget-minamata-disease-say-lobbyists-organizing-major-lecture-series/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T16:28:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-minamata-a-20140710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The lectures included this one on July 3, by Sadao Togashi, emeritus law professor at Kumamoto University. The series runs for three months.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/business/corporate-business/goldmans-japan-ma-chief-sees-hunger-deals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T17:36:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobutada Saji (right), chairman and chief executive officer of Suntory Holdings Ltd., shakes hands with Matt Shattock, chief executive officer of Beam Suntory Inc., while holding bottles of spirits made by the companies, during a photo session in Tokyo on May 15.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/national/tsunami-hit-town-releases-new-disaster-prep-map/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T17:37:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-otsuchi-a-20140710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Otsuchi Municipal Government's latest disaster evacuation map includes information to help residents prepare for a major tsunami, including evacuation sites and their distance above sea level.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/business/corporate-business/universal-studios-looking-return-tse-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T17:52:39+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/business/business-climate-ever-changing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T18:22:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panelists answer questions at a symposium titled "Corporate Competitiveness from the International Viewpoint," organized by the Keizai Koho Center in Tokyo on May 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/08/national/crime-legal/japanese-high-court-upholds-ruling-anti-korean-activists-hate-speech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T18:34:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/national/high-rate-hepatitis-e-chugoku-boars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T19:06:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gibier-a-20140710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officials capture a wild boar on March 26 in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward after a two-hour chase. Forty-two percent of wild boars caught in the Chugoku region between 2009 and 2011 were found to be infected with the hepatitis E virus, while no wild boars caught in the Kinki region, including Kyoto, were found to be infected.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/business/corporate-business/chinas-hottest-app-inspired-devotion-japanese-manga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T21:13:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/b-chinaapp-a-20140710.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinaapp-a-20140710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Screenshots of MYOTee, China's hottest smartphone app inspired by Japanese manga, are shown at Google's Android app store.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/business/corporate-business/yahoo-cyberattacks-reveal-gaping-holes-japan-inc-s-hacking-shield/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T21:13:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-yahoo-a-20140710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man browses the Yahoo Japan Corp. portal site at an office in Tokyo in March. After a series of hacks on targets including Yahoo, the government plans to pass a law in the fall to beef up cybersecurity in the world's third-largest economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/national/science-health/tokyo-firm-launch-dna-testing-service-cancer-conditions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T21:17:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-dna-a-20140710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[DeNA Life Science Inc. researchers will sequence DNA at this lab at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Medical Science when Mycode launches in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-09T21:48:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiite Muslim volunteers march in Baghdad on Wednesday as they join the Iraqi army to fight against jihadist militants.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-09T22:44:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jean-Baptise de Franssu (left), new president of the Vatican bank, and outgoing President Ernst Von Freyberg pose during a news conference at the Vatican on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/national/benesse-data-leak-may-affect-20-million-customers-including-children/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T23:04:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Benesse Holdings Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Eiko Harada speaks about the company's massive data leak, during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/national/politics-diplomacy/msdf-officer-to-take-up-post-at-key-pentagon-naval-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T23:05:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/n-defense-a-20140710.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-defense-a-20140710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 11 to testify before the House Armed Services Committee.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/national/crime-legal/ministry-panel-backpedals-promise-revamp-justice-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T23:05:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-09T23:09:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An air force fighter jet flies over the headquarters of the Ukrainian forces near Izyum in the northeast Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/candidates-indonesia-election-claim-victory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-09T23:10:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-indo-z-20140710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indonesian presidential candidates Prabowo Subianto (right) and Jakarta Gov. Joko Widodo shared a light moment June 1 prior to drawing the electoral number that would represent them in the presidential election.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/business/financial-markets/fed-advances-discussion-strategy-exit-loose-policy-fomc-minutes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T03:48:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/world/china-plans-steps-promote-judicial-independence-xinhua-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T04:03:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/obama-perry-texas-talks-fraught-migrant-children-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T08:06:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/world/kiev-warns-pro-russian-separatists-of-plan-to-retake-territory-in-east/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T08:44:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Part of a mortar shell is seen in front of a sign that reads "Slovyansk," after heavy fighting between pro-Russian fighters and Ukrainian government troops just outside the eastern city on Wednesday. The rebels fled Slovyansk, a former stronghold, over the weekend after Kiev troops mounted an offensive, leaving behind a city heavily damaged by fighting and riven by vehemently differing views about its future.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/national/crime-legal/underworld-suspect-kills-self-clinic-amid-standoff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T11:30:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/national/japan-host-dementia-conference/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T13:24:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/business/shale-oil-push-u-s-past-russia-saudi-arabia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T14:59:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oil workers drill in shale deposits in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in 2010.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-10T15:07:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/national/japans-massive-pachinko-pinball-industry-bets-casinos-amid-popularity-decline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T15:45:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pachinko parlors are a common sight in Japanese cities, but they operate in a legal gray zone. As Japan prepares to legalize casinos, pachinko companies see a big new market and a chance to improve their image.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/business/japans-airlines-use-biofuels-power-planes-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T16:08:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/asia-pacific/north-korean-nuclear-missile-expert-dies-missiles-fired/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T16:18:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Retired North Korean Gen. Jon Pyong Ho]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/business/economy-business/may-machinery-orders-plunge-record-19-5/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T16:19:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heavy machinery is silhouetted against the skyline on a construction site at dusk in the Toyosu area of Tokyo, on May 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/world/science-health-world/research-shows-gulf-mexico-oil-spill-caused-lesions-fish/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T16:50:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/world/crime-legal-world/former-new-orleans-mayor-nagin-gets-10-years-corruption-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T16:51:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin leaves court after being sentenced to 10 years in New Orleans on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/business/utilities-seen-selling-bonds-eye-reactor-restarts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T16:58:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-10T17:08:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/business/economy-business/energy-costs-push-wholesale-prices-up-4-6-in-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T17:08:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/world/seized-nuclear-material-in-iraq-low-grade-iaea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T17:08:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/national/fukushima-farmer-takes-tepco-wifes-suicide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T17:12:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mikio Watanabe's house in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, remains in an exclusion zone and all he can do is maintain it during short visits. Being unemployed and forced to live elsewhere was too much for his wife, who burned herself to death during what she thought would be their final stay at the house.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/national/nippon-ishin-yui-no-to-form-second-largest-opposition-bloc-in-lower-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-10T17:24:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-10T17:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tom Hiddleston (left) and Chris Hemsworth star as the godly Norse brothers Loki and Thor in "Thor: The Dark World."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-10T23:30:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg (right) chuckles as Prime Minister David Cameron addresses a joint news conference on emergency surveillance laws at 10 Downing Street in London on Thursday. Britain said it would rush through emergency legislation to force telecommunications companies to retain customer data for a year to protect national security.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruo Inoue, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Nicos Co., is betting that Japan will increasingly ditch cash for electronic money toward the Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. Hannah Gay, a pediatric HIV specialist at the University of Mississippi, has been treating a girl born with the AIDS virus. Doctors and officials at the National Institutes of Health said new tests show the child is no longer in remission despite earlier indications she had been cured.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasushi Kudo (right), head of Genron NPO, holds a news conference in Seoul on Thursday along with officials of the East Asia Institute think tank.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Politics 101: Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto speaks at the entrance ceremony at Ishin Seijijuku, the training school for his policy group Osaka Ishin no Kai (One Osaka), in Kita Ward, Osaka, on June 23.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 2015 Acura TLX luxury sport sedan is unveiled at the 2014 New York Auto Show in New York on April 16. The revised TLX is critical to reversing a drop in premium Acura car deliveries that kept record U.S. sales out of Honda Motor Co.'s reach last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-11T18:06:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's beloved blue robotic cat aims to win American affections in TV appearances that began Monday. The launch included a screening on Saturday in a theater in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Figurines from the "One Piece" manga are lined up Thursday for an exhibition in Seoul at the government-run War Memorial of Korea, which subsequently canceled the event.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A selection of dailies on July 2 show headlines reporting the Cabinet decision to effectively lift Japan's self-imposed ban on exercising the right to collective self-defense.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Student leader Riku Sato (third from left) speaks Friday during a news conference at the education ministry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/11/national/public-asked-to-help-build-moving-giant-gundam/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A life-sized Gundam figure stands in Tokyo's Odaiba district, seen here at an event on Aug. 21, 2009, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the animated TV series.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-12T13:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-12T14:01:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An elite unit of female Kurdish peshmerga fighters trains in Sulaimaniyah, 260 km northeast of Baghdad, on July 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/12/national/media-national/health-care-system-needs-new-diagnosis/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Is there a doctor in the house? Prime Minister Shinzo Abe inspects the operating room at Keio University Hospital in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/12/national/politics-diplomacy/defense-pact-to-reflect-sdf-shift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-12T23:21:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cho Myung-ja, 76, describes her life as a prostitute serving U.S. military personnel stationed in South Korea, in her room in a shack outside Camp Humphreys, a U.S. military garrison, in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Enjoy the silence: After the hustle of a long day at work, people hope for the kind of silence you may find at Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters in the Tokyo area are a gold mine of information for market research companies.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Molecular biologist and writer Shinichi Fukuoka poses at Rockefeller University in New York on July 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-17T17:09:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Orix Corp. makes its headquarters in the World Trade Center in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. said Wednesday it had offered $80 billion to buy Time Warner Inc. — a move that would unite two of the world's most powerful media conglomerates. Reuters]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flanked by models, Ymobile Corp. President Eric Gan shows off the fledgling company's first smartphones at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-18T08:43:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hikers crowd a trail Friday in the Osugidani Valley of Mie Prefecture after it reopened to the public for the first time in 10 years after being ravaged by a typhoon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/10/national/philippines-publicly-thanks-japan-other-nations-for-typhoon-haiyan-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T03:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/26/national/tsunami-hit-city-shares-recovery-tips-with-typhoon-hit-philippines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T03:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/25/national/ngo-vows-to-keeping-giving-medical-assistance-to-typhoon-hit-philippines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T03:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/05/national/philippine-foundation-assists-typhoon-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T03:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Building blocks: Fe Gulmatico teaches a preschool class at Sanayan ng Batang Nanambakan Center, a development center for former child scavengers, in Tondo, Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/30/national/media-national/philippines-typhoon-coverage-skirts-over-tales-of-the-men-who-abandoned-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T03:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Starting again: Masakatsu Takeuchi, 75, wells up as he reports at a liaison office set up by the Japanese foreign ministry for its citizens in Tacloban, the Philippine city that has become synonymous with the devastation wrought by Typhoon Haiyan. Takeuchi owned a house and ran a beauty salon in a neighboring town with his 42-year-old Filipino wife. Both buildings were leveled by the storm but his wife and children were unharmed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/world/science-health-world/mini-hedgehog-tiny-tapir-fossils-found-canada/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T22:30:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p20-hedgehog-a-20140720.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Herbivore: An ancient relative of modern tapirs called Heptodon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/national/science-health/chimps-inherit-intelligence-prove-humans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T22:48:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p21-hooper-chimp-intelligence-a-20140720.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wild intellect: A chimpanzee seated at a typewriter, presumably typing out the complete works of Shakespeare. The theory that human intelligence is partly based on genetics is controversial, but studies on chimps may make for a less emotionally charged debate.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/national/history/leaving-world-gain-freedom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T22:38:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/national/media-national/politician-nonomura-weeps-world-laughs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T22:54:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-schreiber-big-in-japan-a-20140720.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cry me a river: Hyogo Prefecture politician Ryutaro Nonomura cries while apologizing for misuse of taxpayer's money made international headlines.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/national/media-national/murky-call-hardball-interview-chief-cabinet-secretary-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T22:52:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the hot seat: Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a news conference in Tokyo in 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/iran-can-tap-2-8-billion-during-extended-atomic-talks-but-most-sanctions-stay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T14:01:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-iran-a-20140720.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (right) and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif leave a news conference in Vienna on Friday. Iran and six world powers have agreed to a four-month extension of negotiations on a nuclear deal with Tehran after failing to meet a July 20 deadline due to "significant gaps" between the two sides, the European Union and Iran said Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-n-aviation-body-says-not-our-job-to-warn-about-conflict-zones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T14:01:14+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/national/politics-diplomacy/nakaima-wants-third-term-at-okinawas-helm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T17:37:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/world/plane-disaster-wake-call-europe-obama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T17:41:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-Russian separatist holds up a stuffed toy found at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines' Flight MH17 near the settlement of Grabovo, in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/18/national/crime-legal/ecc-linked-to-benesse-data-theft/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T17:56:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/18/national/social-issues/top-court-rules-non-japanese-residents-ineligible-welfare-benefits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-19T17:56:50+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/national/foreign-visitor-stays-in-japan-spiked-27-in-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T00:08:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/national/narita-airport-to-open-first-capsule-hotel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T00:25:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-capsule-a-20140720.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new hotel called nine hours will open at Narita International Airport on Sunday, allowing budget travelers to sleep on the cheap in stacked containers slightly larger than a coffin.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/national/time-for-legislation-to-prevent-spread-of-hate-speech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T00:29:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korean-court-orders-canceled-one-piece-exhibit-to-be-held/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T00:30:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Figurines from the "One Piece" manga are lined up July 10 for an exhibition at the government-run War Memorial of Korea in Seoul. The event was canceled, but Friday a South Korean court ruled it should be held.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/national/in-a-first-japanese-violinist-clinches-international-bach-contest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T00:30:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiji Okamoto]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/business/economy-business/auto-talks-with-u-s-stumble-through-crucial-stage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T00:31:44+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/20/world/iraqs-ancient-christian-population-of-mosul-flees-isil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T16:58:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/20/world/snowden-seeks-to-develop-anti-surveillance-technologies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T16:59:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/20/national/new-radiation-measurement-method-spreads-confusion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T18:48:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/20/world/malaysian-lottery-outlets-halt-hot-bets-mh17-related-numbers-newspaper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T18:48:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/20/national/social-issues/nearly-400-children-abandoned-in-japan-since-2011-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T18:50:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/20/world/ukraine-rebels-argue-over-access-to-downed-airliner-site-europeans-give-putin-last-chance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T19:16:45+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/20/national/politics-diplomacy/aspect-of-futenma-base-relocation-in-okinawa-hidden-from-public-u-s-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T21:23:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An aerial photo taken in February shows the Henoko district of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, where U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma will be relocated.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/20/national/few-nibbles-so-far-on-sweet-visa-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T21:24:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-spotlight-side-a-20140721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Immigration Bureau under the Justice Ministry, which is headed by Sadakazu Tanigaki, plans to bring in more highly skilled foreign workers by giving them a new visa status with a broadened roster of privileges.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/20/world/analysis-worldwide-legal-claims-await-malaysia-airlines-mh17/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T21:33:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take part in a special prayer for the victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/20/world/bodies-rained-ukraine-village-plane-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T21:33:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mh17groundview-a-20140720.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A body lies in a field of wheet a day after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, carrying 298 people, crashed near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held east Ukraine, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/20/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-expected-ax-half-ministers-upcoming-cabinet-reshuffle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T23:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/20/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-vows-dialogue-putin-taking-softer-line-west-ukraine-jet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-20T23:03:51+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/20/national/osaka-zone-a-litmus-test-of-foreign-worker-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-21T12:32:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/n-spotlight-main-c-20140721.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[PHILS WORKERS]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filipino migrant workers gather at the HSBC building in Hong Kong. Japan, like Hong Kong, is considering bringing in foreign domestic laborers by setting up a specially designated zone in Kansai to accept them on an experimental basis.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/21/world/science-health-world/45-years-after-apollo-u-s-split-on-lunar-landings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-21T13:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin carries scientific experiments to a deployment site south of the lunar module Eagle during the Apollo 11 mission in this July 20, 1969, photo provided by NASA.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/21/world/bosnia-buries-284-war-victims-unearthed-from-gruesome-death-pit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-21T14:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Muslim woman cries near the casket of her relative in the village of Kozarac, Bosnia, before a reburial of 284 newly identified bodies that were put to rest in several local cemeteries Sunday. The majority of the 284 bodies were excavated from a mass grave in the village of Tomasica in 2013 and identified as those belonging to Bosnian non-Serbs that went missing in 1992, only to be found buried in several mass grave locations years after the war ended.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/21/national/politics-diplomacy/new-subsidies-eyed-for-hosts-of-u-s-bases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-21T21:47:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/21/reference/selective-consumption-tax-weighed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-21T23:27:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Banners declaring prices will be kept the same are displayed at a supermarket in Koto Ward, Tokyo, on April 1 this year, the day the consumption tax was raised to 8 percent.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/21/national/irish-college-confers-ph-d-retired-professor-81/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-21T23:29:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-professor-a-20140722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshio Oro]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/21/business/corporate-business/sk-hynix-says-toshiba-wants-%c2%a5109-billion-in-flash-memory-lawsuit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-21T23:31:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/21/asia-pacific/china-ship-spies-u-s-led-naval-drills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-21T23:31:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Navy San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage, the littoral combat ship USS Coronado, the joint high speed vessel USNS Millinocket and the Military Sealift Command mobile-landing platform USNS Montford Point take part in the U.S.-led Rimpac naval drills July 11 off the coast of Southern California.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-presses-case-against-russia-on-downed-jet-as-horror-deepens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-22T02:04:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman looks at a refrigerated train loaded with the bodies of victims downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Sunday in Torez, eastern Ukraine. Armed pro-Russian separatists forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the crash site and had them loaded Sunday onto refrigerated train cars bound for a rebel-held city, Ukrainian officials and monitors said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/21/national/politics-diplomacy/kiev-ambassador-japan-calls-russia-act-like-responsible-global-power/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The bitFlyer website allows anyone with a Japanese bank account to buy and sell bitcoins.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Palestinian woman pauses amid wrecked buildings in the northern district of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip during an humanitarian truce amid fighting between Hamas and Israeli forces Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/26/national/social-issues/japanese-manga-one-piece-exhibition-opens-south-korea-court-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-27T12:42:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors take pictures of characters from the popular Japanese manga series "One Piece" at an exhibition at the War Memorial of Korea on Saturday in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-27T12:42:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-27T13:30:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Francis]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-27T13:31:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Retired Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight Yohei Kono, who played a major role in the early 1990s helping Japan confront its wartime past, says the nation has failed to sufficiently atone for its actions in World War II.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-27T14:22:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Grand Bench of the Supreme Court convenes in July 2013 over a contested Civil Code provision. Last week, the court ruled that permanent foreign residents are ineligible to claim welfare payments.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-27T14:51:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-27T15:55:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke billows from an area near Tripoli's international airport during fighting between rival factions on Thursday. The United States evacuated its embassy staff under air cover from Libya on Saturday because they faced a "real risk" from the fierce fighting around the airport, Secretary of State John Kerry said.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-27T16:53:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-27T17:39:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-27T20:33:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees work on a production line prior to a raid by officers from the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration at the Husi Food factory in Shanghai on July 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-27T21:37:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke rises after what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on Sunday. Hamas militants agreed to a 24-hour humanitarian truce in its conflict in the Gaza Strip, the group's spokesman said, while Israel called off its own 24-hour truce earlier in the day after Hamas fired a volley of rockets into southern and central Israel.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-27T21:38:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman takes a photograph of wreckage at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 near the village of Hrabove, in the Donetsk region, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-28T03:01:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cmdr. Fu Bengsheng from China's People's Liberation Army performs cupping therapy on a PLA sailor as U.S. Navy sailors observe while aboard the PLA ship Peace Ark during the multi-national military exercise RIMPAC in Honolulu, Hawaii on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/28/business/financial-markets/bofa-sees-china-hand-belgian-treasury-binge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T03:22:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-28T07:07:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Black smoke is seen in the vicinity of Camp Thunderbolt, after clashes between militants, former rebel fighters and government forces in Benghazi on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/28/national/japan-colombia-cooperate-natural-resource-development/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T07:35:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-28T07:44:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/27/national/self-defense-less-collective-local-level/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T08:17:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Citizens opposed to joint Japan-U.S. military drills involving the MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft in Shiga Prefecture march in the city of Takashima on Sept. 29 last year. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/26/national/history/japans-baptism-of-fire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T11:04:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/28/national/crime-legal/japan-plans-campaign-curb-manga-anime-copyright-violations-abroad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T13:49:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/27/national/rolas-dad-arrested-alleged-health-fraud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T13:50:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rola]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/28/world/massachusetts-monks-tap-ancient-brewing-tradition-to-sustain-aging-members/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T14:15:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Father Isaac Keeley discusses the new facility where he and his fellow Trappist monks brew ale at Saint Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, on July 22. Tucked off a two-lane highway in a hilly, wooded area, the group has embraced a centuries-old tradition that they hope can sustain their aging members in a world of rapidly rising health costs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/28/world/china-adds-east-china-sea-drills-spate-muscle-flexing-exercises/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T14:36:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sailors from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) run after unhooking a U.S. Navy UH60 Seahawk as it prepares to take off from the PLA ship Peace Ark during multinational RIMPAC military drills in Honolulu, Hawaii, on July 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/28/asia-pacific/china-keeps-fishing-fleet-connected-in-disputed-waters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T15:05:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fisherman jumps from his damaged fishing boat on the island of Ly Son, in Vietnam’s central Quang Ngai province, on July 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/28/national/590-filipinas-not-covered-by-fta-came-to-japan-to-work-as-caregivers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T15:36:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-28T16:26:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/28/national/paternity-blues-social-hurdles-still-high-japanese-men-seeking-hands-fatherhood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T16:30:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joji Sugiyama walks with his eldest daughter in their Tokyo neighborhood June 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/28/national/china-run-exports-endangered-european-eel-early-next-year/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The European eel is protected by international treaty.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/28/national/indian-student-writes-introductory-book-on-japan-for-compatriots/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Archna Sharma, in New Delhi last week, holds a copy of her book, "Meri Japan Yatra" ("My Japan Trip"), which she wrote to help her fellow Indians visiting Japan for the first time.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/28/world/xinjiang-extremists-may-have-joined-iraq-conflict-china-envoy-says/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2014-07-28T18:09:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga greets Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/28/national/taiwan-first-lady-attend-exhibit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T18:50:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/pushing-locals-aside-russians-take-top-rebel-posts-east-ukraine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T18:51:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vladimir Antyufeyev]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/28/business/corporate-business/nissan-profit-beats-estimates-gains-china-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T19:05:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co., holds a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on July 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/28/business/corporate-business/japan-asia-group-to-build-20-megawatt-solar-station-in-miyagi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T19:29:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/27/national/sasebo-teen-held-allegedly-killing-high-school-friend/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-07-28T20:26:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators enter the apartment building Sunday where 15-year-old Aiwa Matsuo was killed a day earlier in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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