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		<lastmod>2014-09-10T16:43:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Kurdish peshmerga fighter holds a rocket-propelled grenade launcher as he takes up position in an area overlooking the Iraqi village of Baretle (background), which is controlled by the Islamic State, on Monday in Khazir, on the edge of Mosul.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-10T17:26:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A chemical plant stands in Kawasaki in September 2012. Core private-sector machinery orders in July rose 3.5 percent from the previous month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-10T17:48:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-10T18:20:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-10T19:29:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-10T21:29:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/10/business/corporate-business/benesse-to-revamp-data-security-after-massive-data-leak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-10T22:14:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-10T22:48:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-10T22:49:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-10T23:59:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga announces he will run in the Okinawa gubernatorial election at the Naha Municipal Assembly on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-10T23:59:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-11T03:11:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-11T05:45:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-11T05:59:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-11T08:09:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-11T08:33:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/11/national/rain-lashes-northern-areas-low-rolls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-11T08:34:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-11T13:23:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/10/national/anti-mosquito-products-flying-shelves-amid-dengue-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-11T13:25:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model wears mosquito-repelling arm covers and a scarf, customized with her own flower ornament, by Clever, a company based in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/10/national/torch-runner-from-1964-tokyo-olympics-dies-at-69/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-11T14:43:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshinori Sakai, who ran the final leg of the torch relay for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, lights the Olympic torch at National Stadium in Shinjuku Ward in October 1964.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-11T16:37:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/11/national/edible-tableware-served-waste-reduction-bid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-11T16:59:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsuhiko Sakakibara, senior managing director of Marushige Seika K.K., displays the company's edible e-tray tableware at a factory in Hekinan, Aichi Prefecture, in July. The orange tray on the left tastes like shrimp crackers and the purple one on the right tastes like sweet potatoes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/11/business/nissan-becomes-first-japanese-automaker-sell-electric-cars-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-11T18:22:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/11/national/tokyo-lodged-protest-march-2011-u-n-report-saying-fukushima-plant-control/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-11T19:14:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/11/national/science-health/yoyogi-mosquitoes-still-carrying-dengue-virus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-11T19:47:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/11/national/grieving-friends-family-remember-tsunami-victims-3%c2%bd-years-later/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-11T19:50:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinichi Sanjo prays at a cenotaph at tsunami-hit Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/11/national/meteorological-agency-cancels-last-alerts-rain-swept-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-11T19:50:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A road is covered Thursday morning in mud and fallen trees after torrential rain triggered a mudslide in Tomakomai, Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/11/national/politics-diplomacy/putin-meets-former-prime-minister-mori-is-given-letter-from-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-11T20:43:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori speaks to reporters after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/11/national/crime-legal/cybercrime-queries-hit-record-high-as-police-confirm-new-online-banking-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-11T20:43:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/scotch-whisky-makers-say-single-malt-is-best-in-a-single-country/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-11T20:43:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee checks a cask of Chivas Regal blended Scotch whisky at Pernod Ricard SA's Strathisla distillery in Keith, Scotland, on Aug. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/11/national/japanese-youths-becoming-less-engaged-u-s-observers-warn/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:34:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/scotlands-pro-independence-leader-steamrolls-final-tv-debate-before-referendum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:34:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/25/world/final-tv-showdown-in-scotlands-independence-debate-looms-before-september-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:34:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-scottv-a-20140826.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A demonstrator carries a sign during a pro-independence march in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 15. A Sept. 18 referendum is soon to determine whether Scotland becomes independent of the United Kingdom.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/polls-show-scotlands-independence-camp-gaining-ahead-referendum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:34:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:34:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers fold a hand-sewn Union flag (left) and a Scottish St. Andrew's or Saltire flag after they were made at Specialised Canvas Services, Ltd., in Chesham, northwest of London, on Aug. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/06/world/scotland-pro-independence-leader-flunks-tv-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:34:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-scots-a-20140807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scotland's first minister, Alex Salmond (left), takes part in a televised debate with Britain's former treasury chief and leader of the pro-Union Better Together campaign, Alistair Darling, ahead of a referendum on Scottish independence, in Glasgow on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/scotland-decides-scots-get-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:34:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/scotland-touted-as-future-eu-member/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:34:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:34:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fit for a king: Scotland's Drumlanrig Castle, the family home of Richard Scott, the 10th Duke of Buccleuch. Scott owns 97,124 hectares of land worth between £800 million and £1 billion, making him the United Kingdom's largest private landowner.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[free school]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kilquhanity House School in southwestern Scotland sits closed, but educator Shinichiro Hori (inset) plans to reopen it in a few years.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[News photo]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:34:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien addresses a pro-Canada "no" rally in his hometown riding of Shawinigan, Quebec, on Oct. 6, 1995.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/silent-europe-aghast-at-possible-breakup-of-u-k/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:34:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-scoteuro-a-20140915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond speaks during a news conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Thursday, ahead of the referendum on the country's independence.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:34:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:37:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles cheer as competitors participate in a sack race at the Braemar Gathering in Braemar, Scotland, on Sept. 1, 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:37:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-scotpoll-a-20140819.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-independence supporter wearing a kilt and holding the Scottish flag attends a rally in Edinburgh last September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/support-for-scottish-independence-drops-after-tv-debate-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:37:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:37:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-16T21:37:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-scotland-a-20140807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers fold a hand-sewn British Union flag (left) and a Scottish St. Andrew's or Saltire flag, after completion at the Flagmakers workshop, a unit of Specialised Canvas Services Ltd., in Chesham, U.K., on Friday. A poll of 1,979 voters from across Britain for Sunday newspaper the Observer found 54 percent said they thought Scotland would vote to remain a part of the U.K. and 27 percent that the vote would be in favor of independence.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-16T22:28:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-16T22:33:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer stands guard at Nagura Elementary School in Nagata Ward, Kobe, on Tuesday. Mirei Ikuta, a first-grade student at the school, has been missing since Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-17T03:47:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman attends a demonstration in Abuja on Sept. 11 calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok. More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped from the school in Nigeria's north-eastern state of Borno on April 14. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the act.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/17/world/offbeat-world/daredevil-nik-wallenda-walk-portion-chicago-skyline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-17T04:39:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-17T08:03:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-17T11:48:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tombstone-a-20140917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Jianxing, a 50-year-old gravestone business owner and designer, stands in front of tombstones at his company showroom in Ibaraki Prefecture last Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/17/world/science-health-world/forensics-suggest-king-richard-iii-was-killed-by-two-blows-to-his-bare-head/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-17T14:01:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-richard-a-20140918.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Project osteologist Jo Appleby points out damage to a skull, believed to be that of King Richard III, during a news conference in Leicester, central England, on Feb. 4, 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-17T14:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Indian tourist being evacuated is lifted into a helicopter in Srinagar, India, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/17/business/financial-markets/sakakibara-sees-yen-at-110-per-dollar-hurting-japanese-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-17T14:40:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-17T16:39:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-17T17:19:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The village of Sakitsu in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, where Christians practiced their faith despite a ban in the 17th century, is one of several Christian sites the government will put forward this month as candidates for a 2016 UNESCO World Heritage listing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/17/national/social-issues/shigeru-ban-311-born-charity-receive-asia-game-changer-awards/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Ban]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiro Mori]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/17/world/san-francisco-puts-earthquake-warning-signs-buildings/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-17T18:35:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fans at public viewings across Japan — from a tennis-themed bar in Tokyo to a public facility in Shimane, Mie Prefecture — experience the brief thrill of a possible victory but mostly the agony of defeat as Kei Nishikori attempted in vain to capture his first Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/17/business/economy-business/osaka-business-chiefs-warn-kuroda-that-yen-is-falling-too-far/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-17T19:03:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-17T20:18:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-17T20:19:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-17T20:20:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers wait on a platform at Tokyo Station for bullet train service to resume on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/17/national/crime-legal/court-set-rule-mans-suit-google-unit-search-results-using-name/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-17T22:11:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-17T22:13:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-asahifocus-a-20140918.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A slew of erroneous articles in the Asahi Shimbun, a quieting of liberal views and an absence of strong political opposition could create a tailwind for conservatives such as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/17/business/corporate-business/sony-hikes-expected-annual-loss-smartphone-business-falters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-17T23:32:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-17T23:36:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Park Geun-hye]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/17/business/corporate-business/softbanks-son-dethrones-uniqlos-yanai-as-japans-richest-person/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-17T23:36:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers at Fukushima No. 1 scribbled details of the venting operations for reactor 1 on March 12, 2011, in this photo provided by a Tepco employee.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo provided by a Tokyo Electric Power Co. employee, workers await instructions in the control room for reactors 1 and 2 at Fukushima No. 1 power plant on March 12, 2011, right after an explosion ripped through the building housing the No. 1 reactor.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/24/national/robot-team-turns-dreams-to-reality-with-skeletonics/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/23/national/tepco-plea-evacuate-enraged-kan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Naoto Kan discusses nuclear emergency measures at a news conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2011.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Amari, minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative, and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman get together Tuesday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/24/national/nurses-photo-exhibits-give-glimpse-of-life-in-syria/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Francois Hollande meets Wednesday with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during the 69th United Nations General Assembly in New York.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sadayuki Sakakibara (left), head of Japan's most influential business lobby, Keidanren, talks with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang on Wednesday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-26T04:52:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-26T09:31:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-26T11:46:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sayaka Osakabe displays medical records showing ultrasound images of her 7-week old twin babies, in her home in Kawasaki on Sept. 11.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama looks toward Attorney General Eric Holder as they attend the National Peace Officers Memorial Service at the Capitol in Washington, in May. Holder announced his resignation at the White House on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Catalonian separatists hold placards representing the Nov. 9 independence referendum in front of Generalitat Palace before Catalonia President Artur Mas signed a decree Saturday calling for the vote, in Barcelona.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[University of Rochester Ph.D. student Joseph Choi demonstrates a cloaking device using four lenses in Rochester, New York on Sept. 11.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takako Doi raises her hand in triumph after becoming leader of the predecessor to the Social Democratic Party in September 1986 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kumiko Zushi, a product developer at Kirin Beverage Co., holds a bottle of "Sparkling Water," inspired by a popular Moroccan soft drink, she helped developed.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Although still in shock over the slaying of first-grader Mirei Ikuta, students at Kobe's Nakura Elementary School practice Monday for their upcoming sports day.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (left) and Morihiro Hosokawa stand on the stage at the "No Nukes 2014" rock festival, organized by Ryuichi Sakamoto, on Monday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-30T19:32:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/30/national/politics-diplomacy/economic-benefits-has-china-south-korea-reconsidering-strained-ties-with-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-30T19:34:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-hye are seen during a meeting in the Hague in late March. A series of behind-the-scenes diplomatic efforts by all three sides in recent months have increased Abe's chances of long-awaited summits with Park and Chinese President Xi Jinping.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/30/national/u-s-nuclear-concerns-sidelined-plutonium-plans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-30T19:35:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz addresses a news conference at the International Atomic Energy Agency headquarters in Vienna on Sept. 22.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wrapped in plastic to shield himself from pepper spray, a student protester stands behind a makeshift barrier blocking main streets in the central business district of Hong Kong on late Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/30/asia-pacific/chinese-receive-limited-coverage-of-illegal-hong-kong-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-30T21:14:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/30/national/government-to-require-companies-develop-plans-to-hire-promote-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-30T21:37:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-09-30T23:04:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/30/business/corporate-business/sumitomo-shares-plunge-after-reporting-1-8-billion-in-shale-and-coal-losses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-30T23:24:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/30/national/ontake-rescuers-recount-helplessness-face-surreal-scene-ash-victims-buried-alive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-30T23:30:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Self-Defense Forces personnel deploy Monday near the peak of Mount Ontake. The mission was suspended Tuesday morning amid a rise in volcanic tremors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/30/business/economy-business/output-unexpectedly-falls-as-retail-sales-gain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-30T23:31:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-output-a-20141001.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee inspects packets of Tamago Boro egg biscuits on the production line at Takeda Confectionery Co.'s factory in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, in August. Japan's industrial production declined 1.5 percent in August from July as manufacturers have been cutting output to reduce inventories that in August reached the highest level since February 2009.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/30/asia-pacific/u-s-takes-cautious-line-response-hong-kong-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-09-30T23:31:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cameraman monitors pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters turned parts of the city into a massive street party on Monday night, with the mood turning festive just a day after riot police fired tear gas in ugly clashes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/01/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-lawmakers-lambaste-secret-service-boss-white-house-breach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-01T03:49:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secret Service Director Julia Pierson testifies on Capitol Hill on Tuesday before the House Oversight Committee as it examines details surrounding a security breach at the White House when a man climbed over a fence, sprinted across the north lawn and dashed deep into the executive mansion before finally being subdued.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/01/national/chinese-ship-sinks-shimane-nine-reported-missing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-01T05:33:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/01/business/four-utilities-stop-signing-contracts-purchasing-renewable-energy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-01T07:58:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/30/national/crime-legal/japan-begins-soul-searching-crimes-unsupervised-children/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-01T07:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With a police officer standing guard, parents escort their children and other pupils to Nagura Elementary School in Kobe on Sept. 17, after 6-year-old Mirei Ikuta went missing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/30/national/rescue-teams-suspend-search-on-mount-ontake-as-tremors-worsen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-01T08:24:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bodies are laid out on the ground near the top of Mount Ontake on Tuesday morning after rescue operations were halted due to dangers from volcanic tremors and fumes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/01/world/social-issues-world/iranian-prisoner-executed-for-heresy-rights-group-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-01T12:10:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-01T13:34:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some climbers pay the voluntary ¥1,000 fee at the fifth station on Mount Fuji's Yoshida route in Yamanashi Prefecture on Sept. 13, the day before the climbing season ended.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/01/business/corporate-business/publisher-kadokawa-internet-firm-dwango-complete-merger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-01T15:22:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Japan leader Banri Kaieda takes the podium Tuesday during a debate in the Diet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/01/national/japan-ranks-ninth-in-global-pensioner-survey/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An elderly man exercises in Tokyo in September 2012. According to a recent global tally, the nation's retirees enjoy some of the highest standards of living in the world.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/01/national/popcorn-professor-traces-origins-of-pon-gashi-snacks-to-promote-peace/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshihiro Wada, a professor of business history at Ehime University, makes rice "pon-gashi" with a Japanese-style pressure cooker on campus in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/01/national/1970-hijackers-living-in-north-korea-to-start-posting-on-twitter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-01T16:27:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-01T16:47:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors take in bamboo art at Beppu Art Museum in Oita Prefecture in August, ahead of an exhibition of similar artwork at the Japanese American Cultural &amp; Community Center in Los Angeles.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/01/national/visa-requirements-eased-indonesia-philippines-vietnam/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artist Yayoi Kusama launches an exhibition at Tate Modern, a museum in London, on Feb. 7, 2012. Works by Kusama are fetching as much as ¥8 million amid Japan’s resurgent art market.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/01/national/osaka-mayor-prepares-tackle-anti-korean-group-zaitokukai/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumihiro Araki, deputy director of the Railway Museum in the city of Saitama, sits Sept. 25 in a Model 0 bullet train, the type that ran the rails between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy demonstrators display placards as they gather near a ceremony marking China's 65th National Day in Hong Kong on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuo Suzuki spoke of his grief Wednesday at a Matsumoto hospital, saying he could have saved three lives.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yuko Obuchi (2nd L) attends the lower house of parliament in Tokyo]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Industry minister Yuko Obuchi (second from left) attends a Lower House session Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Corp. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son stands in front of a screen showing a picture of Nikesh Arora, SoftBank Internet and Media Inc.'s CEO, at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/03/national/new-radiation-scrubber-begins-cleaning-water-at-fukushima-plant/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-03T23:30:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters engaged in search operations pause Thursday in Otaki, Nagano Prefecture. Rescue crews have repeatedly suspended operations amid volatile conditions on the summit, including rain that is posing a risk of ash-triggered mudslides.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee arranges a sign at the frozen food section of an Aeon Co. supermarket in Chiba on March 31, the eve of the first consumption tax hike since 1997.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Shelley Dufresne and Rachel Respess seen in undated photos released by the Kenner Police Department in Kenner, Louisiana]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rachel Respess (lef) and Shelley Dufresne are seen in a combination of undated photos released by the Kenner Police Department in Kenner, Louisiana.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Briton Alan Henning, shown in a family photo, was executed by the Islamic State group in a video posted online Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-democracy protester (center) bleeding from his month is escorted by police after being beaten by anti-Occupy Central protesters in Hong Kong's Mong Kok shopping district Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Monica Matsuda encourages students to study, at Komei Junior High School in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/04/business/economy-business/u-s-jobless-rate-at-six-year-low-as-september-hiring-rate-accelerated/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Barack Obama, during a visit to Millennium Steel Service in Princeton, Indiana, on Friday, discusses the nation's economy as part of Manufacturing Day. Boosted by the lowest jobless rate in six years, the president heralded September's hiring rate as the longest uninterrupted stretch of private sector job growth in U.S. history and boasted the country is surpassing combined job creation in other advanced economies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/04/world/science-health-world/ancient-pits-reveal-origin-peach-domestication/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pie in the sky: A farmer picks peaches at the Dry Creek Peach and Produce farm in Healdsburg, California.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Run for your life: Joggers participate in a parkrun at southwestern London’s Bushy Park in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/04/business/china-handles-hong-kong-will-influence-region/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-04T13:53:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dutch King Willem-Alexander speaks to the Japanese media in the Hague on Friday ahead of his visit here later this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-04T16:18:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-04T17:17:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-04T19:32:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives of Japanese who died around the end of the war in what is now North Korea pray in a graveyard in a Pyongyang suburb during their visit to the country in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/04/national/crime-legal/dead-newborn-left-in-kumamoto-baby-hatch-mom-arrested/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-04T21:05:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A "baby hatch" built into the wall of Jikei Hospital in the city of Kumamoto is seen Saturday morning. A 31-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of leaving the dead body of her newborn son in it.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/04/asia-pacific/malaysia-discovers-155-uighurs-crammed-into-two-apartments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-04T21:24:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-04T21:25:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This February 2008 photo released by U.S. researchers shows the empty inner structure of a cooling tower at the Nyongbyon nuclear center, also known as Yongbyon, in North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-04T22:56:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/04/national/media-national/unburdening-oneself-lifes-possessions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-05T00:26:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dearly departed: A man opens a suitcase containing the belongings of his late wife and daughter. Dealing with the material objects that the dead leave behind is a delicate matter.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-05T00:27:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Xi Jinping toasts present and past Chinese leaders during a National Day reception in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-05T11:33:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-05T12:47:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman protests the Cabinet's move to reinterpret the Constitution to allow the use of collective self-defense to help allies under attack, in Tokyo on July 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-05T13:22:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scholarism founder and protest leader Joshua Wong (center) and other demonstrators chant slogans during a flag-raising ceremony in Hong Kong on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/05/world/islamic-state-group-continues-pound-key-syrian-border-town/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-05T13:54:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish troops patrol the border with Syria near the city of Sanliurfa on Saturday. Kurdish fighters supported by U.S.-led airstrikes held back jihadis attacking the dusty Syrian border town of Kobani on the frontier with Turkey, a key battleground between the Islamic State group and their opponents.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/05/world/science-health-world/ancient-oregon-caves-may-upend-understanding-of-humans-in-the-americas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-05T14:17:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[University of Oregon archaeologist Dennis Jenkins poses for a photo in a cave outside Paisley, Oregon, where excavations unearthed fossilized human feces that has been found to date from 14,300 years ago, on July 23, 2008.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/01/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/activist-hong-kong-academics-allege-death-threats-intimidation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-05T16:51:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A demonstrator for democracy holds an umbrella for a police officer in Hong Kong on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/05/national/japan-u-s-consider-deploying-ospreys-at-yokota-air-base-in-tokyo/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An MV-22 Osprey launches from the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island on Aug. 16 in this photo provided by the U.S. Navy. A crewman was killed when one of the tilt-rotor aircraft lost power shortly after takeoff last month, the first American fatality in ongoing military operations against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech at the opening session of the annual Science and Technology in Society Forum in Kyoto on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-05T19:24:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester writes a message during a rally outside the Central Government Offices in Hong Kong on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-05T20:26:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A placard for United Kingdom Independence Party candidate Douglas Carswell is seen in a garden in Frinton-on-Sea, southeast England, on Friday. The coastal resort of Clacton-on-Sea could trigger a sea change in British politics on Thursday by voting UKIP into parliament for the first time. Carswell, the quiet seaside town’s sitting member of parliament since 2005, recently defected from Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party to the populist United Kingdom Independence Party.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying (left) toasts with Maj. Gen. Tan Benhong, commander of the Chinese People's Liberation Army garrison in the city, during a reception held at the Central Barracks to celebrate the 87th anniversary of the founding of the PLA on July 31.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[As fighting intensified between Syrian Kurds and Islamic State militants on Sunday, Kurdish refugees board a truck near Suruc, Turkey, following their arrival from the Syrian border town of Kobani.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past a mural of a Muslim woman painted on a wall in an inner-city suburb of Sydney on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-07T02:58:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish forces on the outskirts of Suruc secure the border with Syria as militants with the Islamic State group are seen after placing their group's flag on a hilltop at the eastern side of the town of Kobani, Syria, (background), where fighting intensified Monday between Syrian Kurds and the jihadists.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato listens to a question during a news conference Monday in Madrid on the first reported incident of Ebola transmission outside of Africa. A Spanish nurse who treated a missionary for the disease at a Madrid hospital tested positive for the virus, Mato said Monday. The female nurse was part of the medical team that treated a 69-year-old Spanish priest who died in a hospital last month after being flown back from Sierra Leone, where he was posted.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Plaintiffs Kody Partridge and her wife Laurie Wood, Derek Kitchen and his partner Moudi Sbeity attend a same-sex marriage rally in Salt Lake City, Utah]]></image:title>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-democracy protester with a shield made to resemble the one wielded by comic book character Captain America takes part in a demonstration in the Hong Kong's Mongkok district Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jiejin Qiu, who is six months pregnant with her first baby, poses underwater during a photo shoot at a local wedding photo studio in Shanghai on Sunday. China, the world's most populous country with nearly 1.4 billion people, has claimed that the country's one-child policy has averted 400 million births since 1980, saving scarce food resources and helping to pull families out of poverty. But late last year, China said it will allow millions of families to have two children, part of a plan to raise fertility rates and ease the financial burden on a rapidly aging population.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The website of I-Can Corp. displays a virtual cemetery visit service, with illustrations of a scoop, incense sticks, a bouquet of flowers and other items that users can choose online as they "visit" on the screen.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Shinnyo-en cemetery in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, is now full. Last year it created a more compact burial area at the site, but it, too, is now fully booked.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/01/09/national/settlement-in-blue-led-patent-suit-could-reach-1-5-billion-yen/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shuji Nakamura]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-07T19:26:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ho Jong Man, leader of Chongryon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan), arrives at Beijing Airport on Tuesday after a one-month visit to North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7 notebook-a 20141008]]></image:title>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[20141008 ping-pong]]></image:title>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shuji Nakamura (left) smiles Friday afternoon as he emerges from the Tokyo District Court.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Rev. Jesse Jackson walks with Nowai Korkoyah, the mother of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with Ebola on U.S. soil, in Dallas on Tuesday. Duncan remains in critical condition, he is on a ventilator and receiving kidney dialysis, the Dallas hospital treating him said on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/07/national/science-health/waseda-strip-obokata-doctorate-unless-corrects-dissertation/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-08T08:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[4K TVs such as these by Panasonic Corp. offer a dazzling sight at the CEATEC exhibition at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture on Tuesday. The show runs through Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-08T13:58:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-08T14:48:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nasser bin Hamad al-Khalifa]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takatoshi Ito of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies speaks at the Bloomberg Government Pension Investment Fund Conference in Tokyo on Aug. 5.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kurdish supporters demonstrate in front of Rome's Colosseum on Wednesday. The activists are demanding more help for the besieged Kurdish forces struggling to hold onto the Syrian town of Kobani. Jihadists fighting to take the strategic town advanced into the outskirts despite intensified U.S.-led airstrikes, as deadly protests over the fate of its Kurdish residents shook neighboring Turkey.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-09T09:02:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-09T12:55:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Images of the control room where Ide worked, photographed on March 11, 2011, shortly after the earthquake and tsunami. The upper image is the unlit No. 5 control area, while the lower image shows the fully functioning No. 6 command space.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/08/business/tech/looking-something-special-gaze-tracking-tech-knows-answer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-09T13:29:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Fujitsu c]]></image:title>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-09T13:43:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This combination of images released Tuesday by the FBI shows an English-speaking individual who appears in a propaganda video released in September by the Islamic State. The FBI is seeking information on the man, whose face is obscured by a mask and alternates seamlessly between English and Arabic in pro-Islamic State pronouncements intended to appeal to a Western audience. Dressed in desert camouflage and wearing a shoulder holster, the masked man can be seen standing in front of purported prisoners as they dig their own graves and then later presiding over their executions. The man has what is believed to be a North American accent.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/08/national/new-japan-u-s-defense-guidelines-will-stress-global-reach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-09T14:24:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-09T17:07:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-09T17:28:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-09T17:30:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuaki Kato, president and CEO of Denso Corp., speaks at the Tokyo Motor Show in Chiba in 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/09/business/economy-business/kuroda-says-many-options-available-increased-easing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-09T17:30:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda walks into a news conference at BOJ headquarters in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/09/business/economy-business/august-machinery-orders-bounce-back-plunge-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-09T17:50:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Blades for a gas-fired turbine, manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., are seen at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kawasaki thermal power station in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/09/national/abe-may-meet-putin-for-informal-talks-next-week-in-italy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-09T18:04:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-09T18:30:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe waves to the audience Sunday in Kyoto after the opening session of the annual meeting of the Science and Technology in Society Forum.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/09/national/crime-legal/parents-in-shiga-held-for-keeping-8-year-old-son-chained-to-pillar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-09T21:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-09T21:35:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masao Uchibori]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/09/national/japan-needs-national-debate-nuclear-risks-ex-u-s-regulator-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-09T21:35:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-09T21:38:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Shuji Nakamura 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan-born U.S. citizen Shuji Nakamura laughs as he listens to speakers at a news conference at SORAA, the company he co-founded, a day after winning the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics, in Fremont, Calif., Oct. 8, 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/09/national/science-health/japanese-tourist-in-india-does-not-have-ebola-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T00:46:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-10T00:46:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The remains of a truck swept away by tsunami rests in the large equipment entrance of the No. 4 reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 plant in March 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/09/national/crime-legal/asbestos-victims-win-landmark-legal-battle-as-state-faulted-for-poor-ventilation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T00:49:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/10/world/science-health-world/airline-cleanup-crews-walk-job-laguardia-ebola-concerns-insufficient-protection/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T03:38:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/10/business/economy-business/drop-u-s-jobless-claims-points-labor-market-strength/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T05:53:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/10/world/science-health-world/macedonia-checking-ebola-briton-dies-hotel-sealed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T06:08:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Public Health Center vehicle is parked in front of the hotel where a 58-year-old man was taken to a hospital and died of severe internal bleeding shortly afterward in Skopje on Thursday. Tests will be carried out on the body of the British business traveler to see if he had the Ebola virus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/10/world/airstrikes-dont-stop-islamic-state-taking-wide-area-syrian-town/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T09:18:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-10T10:02:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Yubi Navi b]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NTT Docomo's Yubi Navi mobile navigation device is demonstrated at the ongoing CEATEC trade show.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/10/national/crime-legal/bus-driver-arrested-allegedly-taking-stimulant-chiba-osaka-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T11:15:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/09/national/remembering-fukushima-plant-chief-helped-prevent-catastrophe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T13:53:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masao Yoshida addresses his colleagues after resigning as chief of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, at the plant's emergency response headquarters on Dec. 9, 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/10/world/hawaii-boy-survives-six-story-fall-down-trash-chute/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T14:50:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-10T16:15:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-10T18:08:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man fishes near Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear plant in May 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/09/business/corporate-business/messaging-firm-line-offer-pay-taxi-food-delivery-services/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T18:10:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/10/business/hitachi-wins-deal-to-supply-train-cars-to-dutch-company-abellio/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T18:22:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitachi's AT-200 train car is designed to be easily adaptable to fit the needs of different railways. Dutch operator Abellio has ordered units like those pictured here for a franchise it operates in Scotland.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-10T18:25:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A candidate campaigns in a square for the Tokyo gubernatorial election in March 2011. His campaign sash has been electronically blurred on purpose.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/10/national/crime-legal/abe-administration-drafts-money-laundering-bills-pressure-global-watchdog/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T21:08:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-10T21:09:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Wrapped in a happy, rainbow-colored light," by Momoe Fritz, wife of Micronesian ambassador, won the Grand Prize in the Japan Through Diplomats' Eyes 2014 photographic competition on Thursday. The annual contest draws entries from foreign diplomatic staff stationed in Japan and their families. The compelling images can be seen through Wednesday at Hills Cafe at Tokyo's Roppongi Hills. They will tour to other cities, including Kobe and Hokkaido, later this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/10/national/abes-cabinet-issues-list-of-projects-to-help-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T21:21:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe inspects an after-school program in Yokohama on May 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/10/business/japanese-bankers-mull-extending-hours-money-transfers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T21:21:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer uses an ATM in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/09/business/tech/toshiba-glass-sets-sights-slightly-subtle-wearable-tech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T23:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[20141009 Toshiba glass b]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model shows off a prototype of Toshiba Glass, the company's new entry into the wearable tech market, at CEATEC 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/10/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-to-skip-fall-visit-to-yasukuni-while-setting-up-summits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T23:21:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/10/national/1964-olympic-caldron-removed-from-tokyo-stadium-for-display-in-tsunami-city/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T23:58:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-torch-a-20141011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 1964 Tokyo Olympics caldron was removed by crane from the National Stadium in the capital on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/10/business/cool-japan-fund-shippers-team-up-on-cold-storage-facility-in-vietnam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T23:59:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cargo ships of Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. (rear) and T.S. Lines navigate through Tokyo Bay in August 2013. Kawasaki Kisen, known as K-line, is taking the Cool Japan export drive literally by helping to build a $15 million refrigerated storage facility in Vietnam.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/10/business/corporate-business/moodys-boosts-nomura-credit-rating-for-first-time-since-2005/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-10T23:59:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-10T23:59:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-11T00:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuki Oyama (right), who sustained a serious brain injury in a motorcycle accident, cooks up "gyoza" (dumplings) as part of his recovery regime at Challenge House Mirai Aichi in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Self-Defense Forces troops search for missing climbers Tuesday near the summit of Mount Ontake, the site of Japan's worst volcanic disaster in nearly 90 years.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filipino Hilaria Bustamante, a former "comfort woman," shows a letter of apology she received from former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, on Oct. 2 in Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/12/world/science-health-world/rattlesnake-repertoire-boosts-snakelike-robots-skills/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sidewinder rattlesnake robot is pictured in this photo provided by researcher Chaohui Gong.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/12/national/one-third-of-monitoring-cameras-at-monju-reactor-found-to-be-broken/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-12T20:04:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/12/national/japan-rises-challenge-becoming-hydrogen-society/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda Motor Co. displays a hydrogen station at CEATEC, Japan's biggest electronics and IT trade show, at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/12/national/one-body-recovered-mount-ontake-raising-volcanic-blasts-death-toll-56/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[JSDF soldiers conduct rescue operations near the peak of the Mount Ontake, which erupted September 27, 2014 and straddles Nagano and Gifu prefectures, central Japan]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force troops search for bodies on Mount Ontake last week. The effort continued Sunday for seven people still missing after the volcano erupted Sept. 27, killing at least 56.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/12/national/chongryon-leader-ho-failed-meet-kim-jong-un-n-korea-trip/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-12T22:56:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-13T02:38:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Javier Limon Romero, the husband of Spanish nurse Teresa Romero Ramos, 44, who contracted Ebola, leans out of his window in an isolation ward on the fifth floor of Madrid's Carlos III Hospital on Sunday. Teresa Romero was conscious and sitting unaided on Saturday, as three more people joined 12 others hospitalized in Madrid to be monitored for signs of the deadly disease.  None of the 15 others still under observation has been diagnosed with Ebola so far, though the Spanish government is under fire for its handling both of Romero's case and the threat of a wider outbreak of the disease.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/13/world/crime-legal-world/record-bust-cambodia-signals-thai-dollar-counterfeiting-boom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-13T20:23:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Battambang police chief Brig. Gen. Sar Theth poses with notes from a seized haul of $7.16 million in counterfeit hundred-dollar bills, in Battambang, Cambodia, on Sept. 30. Cambodian police seized the fake notes on Sept. 19 near the border with Thailand, the largest seizure of fake U.S. notes in Southeast Asia for about a decade and the biggest ever in Cambodia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/13/world/science-health-world/liberia-health-workers-poised-start-indefinite-strike-ebola-efforts-jeopardy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-13T20:24:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Striking health care personnel spokesman Alphonso Wesseh poses Saturday outside the recently opened Ebola Island Clinic in Monrovia. Health workers started a strike on Oct. 6 to obtain a hazard pay increase, which had been announced by the government. The Island Clinic, Liberia's largest government Ebola treatment center, is run by the World Health Organization and opened in September. The nation's health workers are threatening an indefinite strike.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Not going away: A statue of a seated young Korean girl symbolizing the "comfort women" is set up in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul in December 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-15T20:19:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue workers head to the peak of Mount Ontake on Wednesday morning for another search, which was called off again amid further rain.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/15/national/politics-diplomacy/web-page-on-comfort-women-donations-taken-down-by-foreign-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-15T20:36:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Yamada]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/15/national/politics-diplomacy/veteran-japanese-diplomat-sent-china-secret-mission/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-15T21:00:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-15T22:43:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-15T23:38:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police confront pro-democracy protesters outside the central government offices in Hong Kong on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-15T23:40:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/15/national/japan-urged-introduce-competition-purchase-renewable-energy-eye-low-cost-solar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-15T23:43:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenji Yamaji, head of a subcommittee on new energy under the industry ministry's Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy, is interviewed in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/15/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-obama-pledge-to-cooperate-on-ebola-and-in-breaking-tpp-deadlock/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-15T23:49:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe and Barack Obama]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/world/pulitzer-prize-winners-among-national-book-award-finalists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T07:12:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/15/national/raising-children-swedish-style/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T13:15:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-embassy-avenue-sweden-a-20141016.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Minister Counsellor Victoria Forslund Bellas of the Swedish Embassy cuts the traditional Swedish princess cake on Oct. 11 during the Sweden Kids Week event.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/business/tech/u2s-bono-says-oops-for-itunes-album-download/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T13:40:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/world/crime-legal-world/fbi-warns-u-s-businesses-cyberattacks-blames-beijing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T13:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/business/eu-exclude-japan-railway-government-procurement-rule-diplomatic-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T13:42:59+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/world/michael-jackson-tops-forbes-list-of-highest-earning-dead-celebrities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T14:11:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-16T14:38:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kangaroos-a-20141017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A big-bodied, short-faced kangaroo called a sthenurine lived in Australia from 13 million until 30,000 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/03/national/politics-diplomacy/cabinet-reshuffle-aims-boost-gender-equality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T14:44:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Midori Matsushima]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-likely-set-to-expel-disgraced-security-chief-from-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T15:36:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-blocks-bbc-website-as-hong-kong-tensions-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T15:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/world/eu-china-agree-step-cooperation-terrorism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T16:49:40+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/national/first-anniversary-fatal-izu-oshima-mudslides-marked/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T19:21:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/15/business/tech/japan-robot-week-mechanical-barista-treats-visitors-coffee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T19:23:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/national/limits-casino-entry-japanese-mulled-pass-legalization-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T19:49:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-casino-a-20141017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee works the roulette wheel at the Japan Casino School in Tokyo in June.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/national/japan-is-scrambling-jets-more-often-as-russia-tests-nations-defenses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T21:36:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/business/corporate-business/recruit-jumps-trading-debut-%c2%a5197-billion-ipo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T21:52:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-recruit-a-20141017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masumi Minegishi, president and chief executive officer of Recruit Holdings Co., hits the bell during a ceremony Thursday for the firm's listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/15/business/tech/japan-robot-week-offers-new-approaches-nursing-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T22:38:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/b-robot-a-20141016.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-robot-a-20141016.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomy Co.'s new Robi jr. prototype is unveiled during Japan Robot Week 2014 on Wednesday at Tokyo Big Sight. It has speech recognition and a vocabulary of 1,000 Japanese phrases.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-woos-business-leaders-italy-ahead-asem-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T23:08:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-asem-a-20141017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gives a speech to a group of business leaders Thursday in Milan ahead of a two-day summit of the Asia-Europe Meeting, or ASEM, through Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/national/social-issues/naturalize-get-party-tells-jobless-foreigners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-16T23:56:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/n-welfare-side-a-20141017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-welfare-side-a-20141017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumiki Sakurauchi]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/business/economy-business/u-s-treasury-report-calls-out-abenomics-for-failings-on-reform-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T00:01:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/business/tech/lockheeds-skunk-works-developing-truck-size-fusion-reactor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T00:01:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/b-skunk-a-20141017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-skunk-a-20141017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tom McGuire stands next to the compact fusion reactor experiment inside his lab at the Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, in this undated handout photo provided by Lockheed Martin. Lockheed said Wednesday that it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready for use in a decade. McGuire, who heads the project, said he and a small team had been working on fusion energy at Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works for about four years, but were now going public to find potential partners in industry and government for their work.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/17/world/science-health-world/nurse-fever-admitted-french-hospital-ebola-fears-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T03:17:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-frenchnurse-a-20141018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The military Hospital Begin in Saint-Mande, eastern Paris, on Thursday admitted a nurse suspected of having caught the Ebola virus through contact with an infected humanitarian worker, French media said. The woman, suffering from a high fever, was transferred under high security from her home in the Hauts de Seine region of greater Paris to the hospital outside the capital, Le Parisien daily said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/17/world/hurricane-gonzalo-regains-strength-en-route-bermuda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T04:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-gonzalo-a-20141018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hurricane Gonzalo is seen over the Atlantic Ocean by NOAA's GOES satellite at 11:45 EDT Thursday, when it regained strength, again reaching Category 4, as it swirled toward Bermuda, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/17/world/science-health-world/test-ebola-preparedness-coite-divoire-mali/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T04:18:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/17/world/science-health-world/priest-air-passenger-among-six-hospitalised-spain-ebola-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T04:47:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-spainbola-a-20141018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emergency crews stand next to a plane carrying 163 people at the Madrid Airport on Thursday. The Air France plane was isolated at the airport because of a suspected Ebola case after a passenger was reported to have a fever and shivers, officials said. The passenger, who had traveled from Lagos, Nigeria, was taken by ambulance to an unspecified hospital in Madrid but the rest of the passengers were allowed to leave the plane as normal, Air France said in a statement.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/justice-minister-draws-opposition-flak-paper-fans-constituents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T07:41:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/17/national/crime-legal/apparent-sexual-harassment-proves-school-vice-principals-undoing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T08:11:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/national/history/government-requests-revision-of-1996-u-n-sex-slave-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T10:32:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-aussie-defense-chiefs-hold-powwow-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T10:53:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Defense Minister David Johnston and Japanese counterpart Akinori Eto review an honor guard before their talks at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/17/national/biohazard-facilities-japan-can-handle-ebola-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T10:59:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ebola-a-20141017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health care worker speaks to children recovering from Ebola at a treatment center in the Hastings area of Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/17/world/australian-gets-spider-removed-from-stomach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T13:09:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/17/national/welfare-rollback-underway-ruling-empowers-xenophobes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T13:20:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-welfare-main-b-20141017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hisao Seto, a lawyer representing an 82-year-old ethnic Chinese permanent resident of Oita, addresses reporters in Tokyo on July 18 after the Supreme Court ruled that permanent foreign residents are ineligible for welfare benefits.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/17/world/science-health-world/scientists-are-divided-on-the-womens-question-thats-often-left-unasked/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T15:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-17T15:41:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-coffeerobot-a-20141016.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kawada Industries Inc.'s industrial robot Nextage serves coffee to visitors during the Japan Robot Week exhibition at Tokyo Big Sight in the Odaiba district.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/reconstruction-chief-takeshita-tops-wealth-rankings-of-12-new-ministers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T18:40:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/17/national/fukushima-food-safety-debated-london-art-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T19:25:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/justice-minister-red-faced-alleged-election-law-violation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T20:06:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-uchiwa-a-20141018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lawmaker brandishes one of Justice Minister Midori Matsushima's contentious "uchiwa" (fans) on Oct. 7 at an Upper House committee meeting.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/17/business/corporate-business/tokyo-nagoya-maglev-line-go-government-tells-jr-tokai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-17T20:59:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) meets with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (left) at the Kremlin in Moscow on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trade and industry minister Yuko Obuchi (second from left) leaves her office in Tokyo on Saturday. On Monday she is expected to hand Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a letter of resignation concerning the alleged misuse of political funds.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Indian right-wing Hindu party Shiv Sena celebrate outside their party office in Mumbai on Sunday after learning the initial results of the election in Maharashtra State. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nationalist party made large gains in two state elections, in an endorsement that will encourage him to step up the pace of economic reforms.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-21T07:46:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians pass restaurants in Tokyo last week. The Cabinet Office says the sales tax hike in April continues to hit consumer spending and industrial production.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former IBM engineer Toru Takeshita explains at his Tokyo home how he helped build a computer network that quickly reported results in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Bharatiya Janata Party supporter holds sweets before a portrait of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mumbai on Sunday. In a bid to keep control over messages and interviews, Modi has retained state media Doordarshan News and All India Radio, prompting complaints from private news outlets. Modi has yet to give an interview to Indian media since taking office.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-21T22:15:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/20/national/aomori-group-cooks-victory-ninth-b-1-grand-prix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-21T22:18:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Towada Barayaki Seminar, a group from Towada, Aomori Prefecture, celebrate their victory in the ninth B-1 Grand Prix food contest at a ceremony Sunday in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/22/world/science-health-world/india-step-travel-surveillance-stop-ebola-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T04:14:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-22T05:41:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in front of a Service Canada building where a suspected Islamic militant deliberately ran over two soldiers with his car, in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, on Tuesday. The Canadian man who rammed the two soldiers, killing one of them, converted to Islam last year and was among 90 people being tracked by Canadian police on suspicion of taking part in militant activities abroad or planning to do so.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-22T05:56:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The remains apparently of four infants were found in various states of decomposition in this storage facility in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Monday, police said on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/22/world/syria-air-force-strikes-200-times-36-hours-monitor-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T06:20:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2014-10-22T06:21:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/21/national/social-issues/osaka-mayor-engages-shouting-match-head-anti-korean-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T09:34:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto (left) and Makoto Sakurai, head of Zaitokukai, a group known for hate speech against Koreans, engage in a debate in Osaka City Hall on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/national/japanese-golfer-tests-pyongyangs-links-check-dictators-legendary-score/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T10:53:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuaki Kasahara holds a photo of himself taken in Pyongyang during an interview with The Japan Times in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Sept. 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/22/national/crime-legal/thai-couple-held-missing-japanese-man-bangkok/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T13:03:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/21/national/japan-orders-travelers-from-ebola-nations-to-report-twice-daily/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T13:42:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse attends an isolation chamber demonstration for infectious diseases at a German military medical center in Koblenz on Oct. 16. Travelers to Japan from Ebola-infected nations are now required to report to health officials twice a day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/21/national/politics-diplomacy/baseball-mahjong-lawmakers-use-broad-range-gimmicks-court-voters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T14:34:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuko Obuchi arrives at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office on Monday before resigning as trade chief. Midori Matsushima quit as justice minister the same day over a different scandal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/22/national/after-years-spent-chasing-money-workaholic-answers-buddhist-call/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T14:49:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buddhist monk Norio Miura chats with a female resident in her 90s at a home for the elderly in Osaka on June 5. Miura serves as director general of an NPO that runs the facility.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/22/world/science-health-world/brazil-puts-giant-swath-of-rain-forest-under-federal-safeguard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T15:08:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/22/business/corporate-business/jr-west-opening-prayer-rooms-osaka-station/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T15:37:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model shows a prayer room, designed primarily for Muslims but open to all religions, that West Japan Railway Co. is opening Wednesday in Osaka Station.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/22/world/u-k-politicians-fall-back-on-tough-talk-as-de-radicalization-efforts-flounder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T16:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kurds observe the Syrian town of Kobani from the Turkish border on Saturday as militants from the Islamic State group continued a ferocious assault on the town. The extremist group has attracted growing numbers of recruits from the West, and Britain, which has tried and failed to prevent young Muslims from becoming radicalized, may have lessons for other countries.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/22/national/u-s-japan-conduct-joint-military-drill-island-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T16:34:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/22/national/abduction-delegation-to-meet-north-korean-officials-in-pyongyang-on-tuesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T16:49:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/22/national/crime-legal/body-parts-thai-canal-may-missing-japanese-man/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T17:43:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/22/national/another-japanese-man-planned-to-join-islamic-state-in-syria-police-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2014-10-22T17:44:22+09:00</lastmod>
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