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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Doves are released at Nagasaki's Peace Park on Tuesday as the city marked the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombing by the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-09T22:25:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Display Inc. Chief Executive Mitsuru Homma (center) and other executives hold an earnings briefing in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks to the Detroit Economic Club in the city on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/09/business/corporate-business/mcdonalds-japan-returned-profitability-january-june-half/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-09T23:47:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[After a rough 2015, McDonald's Japan scored big profits in the first half of this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-09T23:51:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeharu Ihara, 8 (left), Chisato Ihara, 6 (center), and Yuki Ihara, 37, of Chofu, western Tokyo, watch an Olympic swimming event at the public viewing area in Tokyo's Ueno Park on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-09T23:52:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gov. Yuriko Koike is interviewed Monday at her office in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building in Shinjuku Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/10/business/glitch-plagued-delta-scrubs-500-flights-worldwide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-10T07:05:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-10T07:07:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri flashes the victory sign as he arrives at the Imam Khomini Airport in Tehran in 2010.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-10T07:14:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction is seen on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly islands, in the disputed South China Sea in a June 3 satellite image released by the Asian Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to Reuters on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-10T10:44:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A general view shows rising smoke from a Syrian regime controlled cement factory, in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-10T11:20:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The data recorder from the sunken wreckage of the freighter El Faro rests in fresh water on the USNS Apache after being recovered in the Atlantic Ocean in a handout picture released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-10T13:24:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-10T13:52:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Fuji and Lake Kawaguchiko are seen on a summer day. Japan celebrates Mountain Day, the newest public holiday, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students take a coding class at the First Code Academy in Hong Kong last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-10T14:25:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish special forces police officers stand guard as people wave national flags on Sunday during a rally in Istanbul against the July 15 failed military coup.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-10T15:36:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents protest plans to deploy an advanced U.S. anti-missile unit in Seongju, South Korea, on July 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-10T15:44:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uotsuri (top), Minamikojima (bottom) and Kitakojima, part of the Senkaku Islands, are seen in the East China Sea in 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/10/national/municipal-volunteer-fire-brigades-taking-non-japanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-10T16:29:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bhushan Hastak, a member of a municipal volunteer fire corps, poses for a photo in Misato, Miyagi Prefecture, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/10/business/economy-business/japanese-wholesale-prices-slump-3-9-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-10T16:33:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopper pays at a supermarket in Tokyo. Wholesale prices were sharply down in July, on the strong yen and cheaper commodities.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-10T16:49:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A China Coast Guard ship is seen crossing the path of a Vietnam Marine Guard vessel in the South China Sea, about 210 km off the Vietnamese coast, in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/10/business/tech/games-industry-unlikely-try-clone-pokemon-go/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-10T17:19:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Performers dressed as Pokemon character Pikachu prepare for a parade in Yokohama on August 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/10/business/economy-business/japans-june-core-machinery-orders-log-first-rise-three-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-10T17:29:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A chemical plant is seen in the industrial area of Kawasaki. Machinery orders in June marked a rebound from two straight months of decline.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/10/national/japans-disaster-hit-regions-look-pokemon-go-draw-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-10T17:41:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (right) and counterpart Yun Byung-se are seen July 25. They spoke by phone Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations Koro Bessho (right) is awarded South Korea's top diplomatic medal at Seoul's mission to the U.N. in New York on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Hyong Chol, head of the National House of Class Education, a new anti-U.S. and anti-Japanese education facility in Pyongyang, explains the articles on display on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At the front entrance of the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque in the Ozone Park section of Queens, New York, a police sketch of a suspect believed to have shot the mosque's Imam is displayed by members of the mosque Sunday, a day after 55-year-old Imam Maulama Akonjee and his 64-year-old associate, Thara Uddin, were shot in the back of the head after they left the mosque following afternoon prayers Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Xi Jinping (left), China's vice president at the time, shakes hands with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore in November 2010.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A spiral escalator installed in a Shanghai department store by Mitsubishi Electric Corp. is shown in this handout image.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ikata nuclear plant in Ehime Prefecture began generating electricity Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stock tickers are displayed on the trading floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Thanks to increases in ETF purchases, the Bank of Japan has been prominently boosting its presence in the nation's stock market.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commander of U.S. Pacific Command Adm. Harry Harris speaks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a courtesy call at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on July 26.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar gestures in 2014 while speaking in support of the re-election of now-former U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, in Denver. The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign announced Tuesday that Salazar, a former Colorado senator, would chair her White House transition team.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures to Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, Jr. as he visits the Milwaukee County War Memorial Center on a campaign stop in Milwaukee Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester burns the national flag of China during an anti-Syrian regime protest in front of the Arab League headquarters in Cairo in October 2011.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Long March-2D rocket carrying the world's first quantum satellite lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwestern China, early Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-17T19:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama observes a moment of silence at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park's cenotaph on May 27, nearly 71 years after the city's destruction.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-17T19:03:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-17T19:14:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Foreign Ministry website lists detailed information on Chinese vessels that it claims have intruded into Japanese waters around the Senkaku Islands recently.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-17T21:27:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-17T21:28:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-17T23:55:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-17T23:57:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-18T06:46:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-18T10:24:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-18T10:56:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk through a street in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-18T10:57:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-18T11:06:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump listens during a round table discussion on security at Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-18T15:02:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean officials inspect unused fuel rods in a warehouse at North Korea's Nyongbyon nuclear complex on Jan. 16, 2009.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Motors Corp. executives bow in apology during a news conference in April over a fuel economy scandal.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-18T16:22:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-18T16:50:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NEC Corp. has developed a technology to make plastic that looks like traditional Japanese lacquerware.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-18T17:00:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attend the ceremony at Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo on Monday to mark 71 years since the end of World War II.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Renho, a candidate running for president of the Democratic Party, the nation's largest opposition force, poses in front of her poster during an interview in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-18T17:32:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-18T20:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A robot collects dirty dishes at Chilli Padi Nonya Cafe in Singapore on July 6.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Aeon Mall, seen on Aug. 16, opened in central Phnom Penh in 2014. A second is expected to be completed by 2018 in a northern suburb.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives of people slain in alleged drug-related cases testify at a Senate hearing investigating the killings, in Pasay city, Manila, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte addresses reporters in the city of Davao, in the south of the country, on Sunday. On Tuesday he said he wants to talk with China and will not raise the issue of disputed territory when he attends a regional summit in Laos next month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The presidential palace.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/summit-seeks-expanded-investment-development/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T12:10:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Kenyatta International Conference Centre]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi, the venue of TICAD VI.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/home-exotic-wildlife-lush-nature/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T12:08:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-ticad-tourism-a-20160826.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mt. Kilimanjaro. ISTOCK/KHANBM52, MGOKALP, MIROSLAV_1, INOSEBRUGH]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/toward-dynamic-japan-africa-partnership/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T12:05:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p5-ticad-kenya-b-20160826.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p5 ticad kenya-b 20160826]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mombasa Port expansion]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/transfer-heavy-industry-critical-future-expansion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T12:04:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p5-ticad-eritrea-b-20160826.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p5 ticad eritrea-b 20160826]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eritrea's capital Asmara]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/expanding-business-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T12:07:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p4-ticad-jetro-b-20160826.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[JETRO hosted an Africa Symposium at TICAD V in Yokohama in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/side-events-offer-variety-business-fairs-symposiums/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T12:06:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rendering of Japan Fair venue for TICAD VI]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/25/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-aide-meet-chinas-top-diplomat-summit-possibilities-g-20/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-25T19:28:20+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/25/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-friendly-maehara-able-find-common-ground-ldp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-25T19:32:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-maehara-a-20160826.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-maehara-a-20160826.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiji Maehara]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/25/national/nagoya-hospital-taps-toyotas-famed-workflow-reduce-staff-errors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-25T19:55:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-hospital-a-20160826.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hospital-a-20160826.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiyuki Kuwabara (second from left), deputy director of Nagoya City West Medical Center, talks with staff on July 1. He introduced ways to avoid mistakes in the pharmacy department after learning how Toyota Motor Corp. product quality control might apply to medicine.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/25/national/crime-legal/police-say-accident-tokushima-japans-first-pokemon-go-related-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-25T19:55:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-pokedeath-a-20160825.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pokedeath-a-20160825.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman plays Nintendo's 'Pokemon Go' game on her smartphone in front of a McDonald's restaurant in Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/25/world/offbeat-world/nigerian-faces-charges-naming-dog-president/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-25T20:05:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari talks with United States Secretary of State John Kerry at the presidential villa in Abuja on Tuesday. Kerry praised Nigeria for its recent gains against Boko Haram Islamists.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/japans-fiscal-2017-budget-requests-look-top-%c2%a5101-trillion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T09:02:22+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/world/crime-legal-world/suit-targets-ruling-blocking-obamas-bid-shield-millions-deportation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T10:27:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-immigration-a-20160827.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People are sworn in at a naturalization ceremony for new U.S. citizens at the WWII Memorial in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/24/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-condemns-north-korea-submarine-missile-test-shows-advances/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T10:54:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-nkmissile-a-20160825.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkmissile-a-20160825]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man watches a television showing footage of an earlier North Korean missile launch, at Incheon Airport, west of Seoul, after North Korea test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/25/business/fukushima-floating-wind-farm-japans-entry-contested-sector/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T11:08:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/b-wind-a-20160826.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wind-a-20160826.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 7-megawatt turbine for a pilot project led by Marubeni Corp. and funded by the government stands at a port in Onahama, Fukushima Prefecture, in June 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/25/national/crime-legal/teen-held-death-16-year-old-buried-saitama-riverbed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T12:17:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/25/business/corporate-business/bank-trio-arranging-%c2%a51-trillion-syndicated-loan-softbanks-acquisition-arm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T12:19:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/b-softbank-a-20160826.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20160826.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son speaks in front of a screen displaying the ARM Holdings Plc logo at a Tokyo news conference on July 28.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/25/business/economy-business/abenomics-loses-shine-japans-shoppers-seek-bargains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T12:24:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-abenomics-a-20160826.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopper browses items at a Tokyo pharmacy in this 2013 file image.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/quakes-floods-put-japan-higher-disaster-risk-list-developed-countries-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T12:31:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/science-health/jaxa-release-kenyas-first-microsatellite-free-iss-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T12:34:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/unique-chance-open-dialogue-african-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T12:39:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p2-ticad-gaiyou-a-20160826.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p2 ticad gaiyou-a 20160826]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[TICAD V was held in Yokohama in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/25/national/politics-diplomacy/norths-nuclear-arsenal-progressing-likely-within-striking-range-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T12:41:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-missile-a-20160826.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-missile-a-20160826.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea fires a ballistic missile from a submarine in April.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/japan-sri-lanka-exploring-port-infrastructure-deals-counter-reliance-china-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T14:10:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/world/iraq-defense-minister-fired-mosul-battle-looms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T14:59:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/f-obeidi-a-20160827.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-obeidi-a-20160827.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Khaled al-Obeidi]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/eye-china-japan-offers-%c2%a5100-billion-infrastructure-projects-myanmar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T15:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/world/science-health-world/coastal-land-expands-construction-outpaces-sea-level-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T15:32:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-reclamation-a-20160827.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An excavator works at a land reclamation project at the Colombo Port City construction site, which is backed by Chinese investment, in the Sri Lankan capital on Aug. 9.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/25/world/italian-quake-toll-nears-250-rescuers-struggle-find-survivors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T15:52:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-Italy-toll-a-20160826.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers search through debris of houses in Pescara del Tronto, Italy, on Wednesday following a magnitude-6.2 earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/world/offbeat-world/nebraska-man-boxer-shorts-jumps-fence-crashes-pickup-plane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T16:35:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/crime-legal/four-held-black-market-sales-prescription-medicines-chinese-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T16:59:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/world/dont-count-technology-save-disaster-planning-better-researchers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T17:02:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-26T17:02:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/foreign-tourists-flocking-fuji-soak-sunrise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T17:11:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of a climbing tour takes a commemorative photo of herself at the summit of Mount Fuji as the sun rises on July 21.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/crime-legal/second-deadly-road-accident-linked-pokemon-go-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T17:14:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pokemon-z-20160827.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NPA figures on Tuesday showed that there were 79 bicycle and car accidents linked to playing "Pokemon Go" since the game's release in the country on July 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/fukui-restaurants-experiment-with-preparing-seafood-customarily-destined-for-discard-bin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T17:23:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-fish-a-20160827.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fish-a-20160827.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshikazu Watanabe, a restaurant owner in the city of Fukui, displays a bowl of fish gyoza (dumplings) with demiglace sauce, one of the otomashii don inventions on his menu.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/25/business/corporate-business/ana-cancels-dreamliner-flights-engine-trouble-warns-scrubbed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T17:48:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing 787 Dreamliner owned by All Nippon Airways Co. taxies at Haneda airport in Tokyo last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/business/corporate-business/%c2%a5130-billion-war-chest-line-hunts-acquisitions-jazz-content-technology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T18:41:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeshi Idezawa]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-26T18:49:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mellon departs Honolulu in April 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/business/corporate-business/japan-trustee-services-bank-sues-toshiba-%c2%a512-billion-accounting-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T18:51:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/myanmar-army-chief-reshuffles-officers-promotes-intelligence-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T18:54:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/business/corporate-business/apple-plans-iphone-tap-pay-system-japans-trains-buses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T19:00:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-iphone-a-20160827.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer tries out an Apple iPhone 6s Plus smartphone at a SoftBank store in Tokyo on July 26.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/business/tech/thai-society-learns-cope-pokemon-go-fever/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-08-26T19:06:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso (center) addresses the Group of Seven finance chiefs at their meeting in Sendai on May 20. How to cooperate on halting cross-border transactions related to terrorism was one of the issues discussed there.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New data shows a third of bitcoin trading platforms have been hacked, and nearly half have closed in the half dozen years since they burst on the scene.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-08-31T21:23:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[As most of the 6,250 Circle K Sunkus stores operated by Uny are set to be renamed FamilyMart following the merger.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Capital spending by Japanese companies increased 3.1 percent in the April to June period from a year earlier.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Otto Warmbier is escorted at North Korea's Supreme Court on March 16, when he was sentenced to 15 years in prison]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/01/national/japan-carries-major-quake-drill-anniversary-1923-temblor/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters airlift a person in the city of Saitama during one of the nationwide disaster drills held Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/31/national/jtb-panasonic-yamato-eye-paperless-luggage-transport-service-for-tourists/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists won't have to carry their suitcases while traveling in Japan anymore under an upcoming service that requires their precise itinerary details be submitted for conversion into barcodes in advance.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/01/business/corporate-business/giant-singapore-store-symbol-uniqlos-push-southeast-asia/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Browsers visit a newly opened Fast Retailing Co. concept store in Shanghai on Sept. 27, 2015.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin while visiting an oceanarium on Russky Island, Russia, on Saturday.         POOL / via AP]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A paper crane folded by U.S. President Barack Obama in Hiroshima in May is displayed at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum .]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[King of the monsters: Godzilla received a special award for his role in helping tourism in Shinjuku after a model of the monster's head was erected in Tokyo's Kabukicho district.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marissa Mayer stands to collect a $44 million severance package if she leaves after Verizon completes its purchase of the once-mighty internet company.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's core private-sector machinery orders rose for the second consecutive month in July.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's discarded electronics are considered "urban mines" because of the precious metals their parts contain.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-14T18:47:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cuban President Raul Castro holds a news conference in Havana in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-14T19:04:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[TransferWise Ltd. CEO Taavet Hinrikus (left) shakes hand with Kazuma Ochi, who heads the Japan office, during a news conference Sept. 7 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-14T19:04:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-14T20:57:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyama municipal assemblymen Ichiro Takata (left) and Tsuneki Hariyama discuss dubious spending at a press conference in Toyama Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/14/business/japan-business-leaders-visit-china-hope-warming-frosty-economic-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-14T21:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-14T21:04:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-14T21:46:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Tomomi Inada speaks during a news conference after a National Security Council (NSC) meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other ministers at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/14/national/japan-china-hold-maritime-talks-amid-senkaku-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-14T22:07:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-14T23:54:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T07:48:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children ride in carts near damaged buildings during the third day of Eid al-Adha in the rebel controlled city of Idlib, Syria, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T11:01:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T11:14:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T11:21:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emi Takeuchi leaves the Sakura Police Station in Chiba Prefecture Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T12:30:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiff Tsutae Takai speaks at a news conference after a court ruling on Wednesday in Nagoya as fellow plaintiff Toshio Mori looks on.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/15/world/builders-go-back-time-construct-castle-medieval-way/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-15T14:23:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chateau de Guedelon undergoes construction near Treigny in the Burgundy region of France on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/14/national/pew-poll-finds-80-japanese-fear-possible-clash-china-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-15T15:22:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese demonstrators hold national flags while marching on a street during a protest against Japan in Chengdu, China, in September 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/14/national/japanese-steel-french-nuclear-facilities-found-high-impurity-level/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-15T16:59:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T17:40:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T17:44:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T17:45:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/15/national/wild-forest-area-northern-okinawa-designated-33rd-national-park/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-15T18:37:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The evergreen forest region of Yanbaru in northern Okinawa was designated a national park on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/15/business/corporate-business/7-elevens-new-boss-bides-time-turnaround-stock-falls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-15T18:38:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Since Seven &amp; I Holdings Co. President Ryuichi Isaka took over on May 26, the company's shares have fallen 7 percent.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T18:38:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fisherman holds shrimp that were caught with a net near Dautillos, Mexico, on Sept. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/15/business/corporate-business/tse-approves-listing-jr-kyushu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-15T19:08:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/15/national/justice-ministry-says-taiwanese-japan-not-subject-chinese-law-citizenship-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-15T20:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/15/business/tech/tokyo-game-show-virtual-technology-highest-scorer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-15T20:22:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[JAPAN-IT-INTERNET-GAMES]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[From the latest titles to VR and cosplay, the Tokyo Game Show has been in Japan’s corner for 20 years]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/15/business/signs-graying-japan-pensioners-gym-shortage-denture-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-15T20:29:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The changes go far deeper than higher social welfare costs and a shortage of working-age people.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T20:30:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Group of Seven Ise-Shima summit, held on this picturesque peninsula in Mie Prefecture in May, may have given a significant boost to the economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/15/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-considers-majority-stake-lawson-shift-away-commodities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-15T20:32:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Corp. is considering raising its stake in Lawson Inc. to make it a subsidiary.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T20:33:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Displaced South Sudanese line up for food at a U.N. camp in Juba on July 25. The U.N. says hunger in South Sudan is at "unprecedented" levels, affecting nearly 5 million people.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T20:33:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A captive Hawaiian crow carries a stick tool to a log with food hidden in holes.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T21:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T21:01:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T21:05:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T21:21:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T21:40:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko wave to the public during their recent visit to Yamagata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-15T21:55:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-16T08:40:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-16T14:11:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Rodrigo Duterte (in white shirt) is seen with Philippine Army Scout Rangers on Thursday at their headquarters at Camp Tecson, north of Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-16T14:12:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia hold a cardboard cutout of party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky at a rally in Moscow on Thursday. The party seeks a minimum wage equivalent to about $300 a month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/16/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/asia-female-entrepreneurs-steer-business-toward-social-work-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-16T15:04:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/16/world/science-health-world/color-cute-bristly-dinosaur-deciphered/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-16T15:05:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-psittacosaurus-a-20160917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist's illustration of Psittacosaurus, a little dinosaur with a parrot-like beak and bristles on its tail that roamed thick forests in China about 120 million years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/16/national/crime-legal/japanese-police-tape-interrogations-suspects-facing-lay-judge-trials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-16T15:43:26+09:00</lastmod>
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