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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Tomomi Inada talks with Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga at the Okinawa Prefectural Government office in Naha on Saturday during her first visit to the prefecture since assuming the post.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tracking devastation: This map shows the tracks of tropical cyclones in the 2016 Pacific typhoon season up until Sept. 20. Points show the location of each storm at six-hour intervals.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-25T10:36:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Girls’ night out: Fans of South Korean pop group Girls’ Generation attend one of their concerts in Tokyo in 2010.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. NakaMats, the alias of inventor Yoshiro Nakamatsu, holds a white cardboard box that contains a wig with a built-in sword for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, in New York on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-25T13:43:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Cuban President Raul Castro meet at Havana's Revolution Palace on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/25/national/osaka-firms-hand-sanitizer-key-dispensing-disease-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-25T15:07:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse uses alcohol-based liquid hand disinfectant at a Uganda hospital.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-25T15:26:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A statue symbolizing the so-called comfort women who were forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels is seen Wednesday in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-25T17:46:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-25T18:46:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-25T18:46:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/25/world/probe-leaked-u-s-nsa-hacking-tools-examines-operatives-mistake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-25T20:03:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators have not ruled out the possibility that a former NSA employee deliberately left hacking tools exposed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/25/national/politics-diplomacy/new-website-help-track-diet-members-money-trails/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-25T20:37:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-25T23:07:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prefectures like Hyogo — and even cities like Kyoto and Nara — are taking steps to reduce the number of vacant houses there, including through financial assistance.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/25/national/politics-diplomacy/diet-opens-emboldened-abe-sets-sights-constitutional-revision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-26T09:01:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during an interview in New York on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-26T10:47:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police forensic experts examine the scene in central Budapest Sunday after an explosion of yet unknown origin occured in a shop late Saturday night. According to an expert, apparently a home made bomb went off in front of the shop. The explosion injured two patrolling policemen.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-26T10:55:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-26T10:57:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-26T13:14:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/25/national/aichi-middle-school-student-youngest-ever-shogi-pro/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-26T13:53:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sota Fujii, a second-year junior high school student from Aichi Prefecture, will become the youngest professional shogi player ever on Oct. 1 at the age of 14 years and 2 months.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-26T14:10:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated photo, released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on Sept. 13, shows people at a rally held in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square celebrating the success of the country's recent nuclear test.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-26T14:57:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-26T14:58:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/24/national/g-7-transport-chiefs-vow-take-lead-promoting-self-driving-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-26T15:09:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Transport minister Keiichi Ishii speaks during a meeting of the transport ministers from Group of Seven industrialized countries in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/26/national/record-1658-people-take-part-kumamoto-prefecture-pinky-swear-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-26T15:13:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants taking part in a pinky swearing event held in the Amakusa area of Kumamoto Prefecture on Sunday raise their arms with their little fingers entwined.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/16/national/anime-manga-play-bigger-role-luring-tourists-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-26T17:37:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hyogo Prefecture's government used this booth at the Hong Kong Book Fair 2016 to promote its anime locations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/26/business/economy-business/companies-households-continue-thwart-boj-hoarding-piles-cash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-26T17:45:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/26/business/economy-business/kuroda-repeats-ready-ease-conditions-right/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-26T17:49:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/26/asia-pacific/u-s-south-korea-conduct-joint-naval-exercises-sea-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-26T17:51:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man watches a television news showing file footage of a North Korean missile launch at Incheon airport, west of Seoul, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/26/business/deserted-yubari-tries-creating-new-population-nucleus-test-case-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-26T18:10:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An abandoned building stands at the Coal History Village in the town of Yubari, Hokkaido, on July 21. The bankrupt former mining town is urging its shrunken population to resettle toward its center.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/26/business/utility-venture-promote-cheaper-electricity-payments-via-bitcoin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-26T19:38:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bitcoin startup ResuPress Inc. hopes its foray into the electricity business will lead to greater use of the cryptocurrency.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/26/national/politics-diplomacy/influential-former-chinese-foreign-minister-tang-meets-kishida-amid-chilly-ties-beijing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-26T19:41:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tang Jiaxuan]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Monju plant in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, is seen in this file photo from January. Its scrapping will leave a massive plutonium stockpile that cannot be reduced quickly.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-28T17:52:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-28T18:25:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-28T18:32:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-28T18:44:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A total of 248,461 people climbed Mount Fuji this season.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-28T18:53:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoichi Takahashi, who runs Oguchi Hospital in Yokohama, speaks to reporters on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-28T19:17:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-28T19:26:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-28T20:45:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike delivers her first policy speech at the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-28T20:47:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Sogo department store in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, holds a closing down sale on Sept. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/28/national/costs-scrutinizing-panel-looks-pare-three-2020-tokyo-olympics-venues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-28T21:42:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ariake Arena, the designated site for volleyball during the 2020 Olympics, is one of three facilities that are reported to be under review. In 2014, officials tore up plans to build new venues for basketball, badminton and sailing.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-28T21:42:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party leader Renho speaks at the Diet's Upper House on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-28T22:29:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T10:27:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Argentine President Mauricio Macri talks about new poverty numbers released by the National Institute of Statistics and Census, INDEC, during a press conference in Buenos Aires Wednesday. Macri claimed that the previous administration underreported the country's poverty rates.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T11:35:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign and local tourists pose Wednesday for photographs with park rangers as they evacuate from Sembalun near the Barujari volcano in the Gunung Rinjani National Park. Hundreds of tourists including many foreigners have fled a volcanic eruption at a popular Indonesian hiking destination, an official said, but expressed fears some may have stayed behind to document the natural wonder.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/29/business/california-freezes-business-wells-fargo-massive-client-fraud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-29T11:37:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers await entry at a branch of Wells Fargo in Alhambra, California, Wednesday. Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf will forgo $41 million in compensation, the bank's board of directors announced Tuesday, as punishment for a bogus accounts scandal that has rocked the company.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/28/national/crime-legal/fukuoka-court-rules-state-cant-order-taxi-firm-blue-zoo-raise-fares/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-29T13:10:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T13:36:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors wait to enter the Museum of Natural History in Pyongyang on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T14:22:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T14:37:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koban in the city of Kyoto will have lists of destinations, which smartphones can translate into locations on a map.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T15:26:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T15:43:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T15:44:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T15:55:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T15:56:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong speaks at a joint news conference with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T16:38:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T16:52:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T16:53:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue workers gather outside Seibu Railway's Takadanobaba Station in Tokyo after people on a train platform complained about a stingy odor. Nine people sustained light injuries to their throats and eyes.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T18:20:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Confiscated items bearing the logo for Tokyo's campaign to host the 2020 Olympic Games are shown to the media Wednesday at Shinagawa Police Station in Tokyo. A U.S. language teacher has been arrested over suspected trademark infringement.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/29/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-offers-condolences-israel-peres-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-29T18:22:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T18:26:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T19:03:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T21:32:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-29T23:42:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks at a meeting held to discuss the fate of three Tokyo 2020 Olympic venues.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/29/national/politics-diplomacy/busy-2017-schedule-fuels-rumors-snap-lower-house-election-january/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prepares to speak in the Lower House of the Diet on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/29/national/osaka-readying-bid-2025-world-expo/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/29/national/japan-posts-videos-prepare-citizens-next-big-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-30T04:17:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators now suspect that the recent murders of two patients at Oguchi Hospital in Yokohama may have been done by someone connected to the facility. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bills to enable Emperor Akihito to abdicate may be drafted by bipartisan lawmakers rather than the government, in a bid to reflect a broader cross-section of the Japanese people.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Government data revealed Friday shows Japan's consumption remains weak.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/30/business/financial-markets/japan-fund-managers-add-stocks-september-trim-bonds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-30T18:30:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-30T18:31:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-30T19:08:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-30T19:21:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-30T19:23:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The steep Tojinbo cliffs in Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, are one of Japan's most notorious suicide spots, but recently the area has become popular with "Pokemon Go" players.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/30/national/politics-diplomacy/kishida-says-japan-will-not-take-extra-steps-comfort-women-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-30T19:31:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/30/national/no-margin-delay-starting-pistol-fired-olympics-stadium/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-09-30T20:12:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-09-30T23:08:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers are seen at the new Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market on Sept. 27, known as Toyosu market, which will take over from the famous Tsukiji market.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-01T13:16:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-01T13:18:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yamaguchi Gov. Tsugumasa Muraoka wears a so-called pregnancy vest in this screen shot from the video "The Governor is a Pregnant Woman."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-01T14:16:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-01T14:19:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-01T15:14:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-01T15:33:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A satellite image taken Sept. 24 shows new components in the storage yard of North Korea's main Sinpo South Shipyard. Experts believe they could be intended for a new submarine.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-01T15:35:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-01T18:10:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing 787 Dreamliner flown by All Nippon Airways lands at Haneda airport in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-01T20:32:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-01T21:59:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Coates]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/01/national/kyoto-designer-weaves-chocolate-dyed-kimono-honor-150-years-japanese-italian-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-01T22:12:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Designer Nobuaki Tomita shows off kimono dyed with chocolate at his workshop in Kyoto last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/01/national/japan-india-look-ink-civil-nuclear-pact-november-meeting/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at a two day conference on India sanitation in New Delhi on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-01T23:07:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unconsummated love: A Tokyo couple looks over at the lights of Rainbow Bridge.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[War of work: ANA Holdings President Shinya Katanozaka has repeatedly turned to Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" for guidance throughout his career.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano (left) and Prince Albert II of Monaco arrive at a sideline event of the IAEA general conference in Vienna on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-05T10:46:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-05T12:02:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government has a strategy to utilize robot technology in the face of an aging population and infrastructure issues.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 1920s-built dormitory for high-ranking Japanese civil servants in Taipei has been renovated into the restaurant Leputing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyushu Railway Co.'s share sale is promising investors dividend returns that would beat most of the nation's stocks.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michel Temer]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/05/world/yahoo-secretly-scanned-incoming-emails-u-s-intelligence-sources-say/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diane James]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-07T20:03:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoto Anzue and service dog Dante pose last month in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/tokyo-watches-north-korea-nuclear-test-ahead-workers-party-anniversary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-07T21:44:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activity is seen at one of three tunnel entrances at North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site in this Oct. 1 image.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars pass on the Bayshore Route of the Shuto Expressway in Tokyo. Only 20 countries have executed prisoners so far this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/07/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-u-s-sign-pact-limiting-sofa-coverage-civilian-component-base-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-07T21:45:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-07T22:53:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akihiko Sakaki, a former operator of Keiyu Farm in Hokkaido whose sign is seen here, was sentenced Friday to one year in prison, suspended for four years, for shooting dead two horses in February.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haitians carry a coffin containing a pregnant victim of Hurricane Matthew in Jeremie on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nicolas Maduro]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-08T14:54:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-08T19:52:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a meeting in May at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi, Russia.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thousands show their appreciation to Rio de Janeiro Olympics and Paralympics medalists during a parade in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-08T21:13:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-08T22:50:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-08T21:56:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (second from right) smiles as he meets Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (far left) prior to their meeting on Saturday in Naha.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/08/national/media-national/seeking-remedies-maladies-new-old-absurd/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-08T23:05:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-schreiber-illness-a-20161009.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The young and infirm: According to Japan's weekly magazines, a rash of illnesses is affecting more than just the elderly.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[House Speaker Paul Ryan addresses a local Republican event at the Walworth County Fairgrounds in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-09T13:40:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton delivers an economic speech during a campaign stop in Toledo, Ohio, last Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-09T13:40:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a Women for Hillary fundraiser at the Hyatt Regency in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-09T15:49:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-09T15:49:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-09T20:33:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-09T23:35:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-09T23:35:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Tomomi Inada listens as the head of the Ground Self-Defense Force contingent speaks in Juba, South Sudan, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[First Cabin Tsukiji in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, a budget hotel renovated by Japanese property developer B-lot Co., is now owned by a Hong Kong investor.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-09T23:55:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robusta coffee beans ripen at an experimental plantation in Turrialba, Costa Rica, on Aug. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-10T06:01:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-10T06:37:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trade minister Hiroshige Seko greets economic policymakers from the Saudi Arabian government after their meeting in Riyadh on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-10T09:36:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A trailer truck is seen being removed Saturday evening after it hit people taking part in a festival in Kanonji, Kagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/09/business/tech/virtual-reality-helps-treat-phantom-pain-letting-missing-injured-limbs-move/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-10T13:37:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A patient tries out a virtual reality therapy to alleviate phantom limb pain in December 2014 at the University of Tokyo Hospital.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satellite imagery taken Oct. 1 shows crates on the launchpad next to the gantry tower and vehicles near the fuel and oxidizer buildings at the Sohae satellite launching station in North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-10T17:36:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Policemen stand in front of a residential building in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, on Saturday. Police found several hundred grams of "explosive materials" in the east German apartment of a Syrian man suspected of planning a terrorist attack, and arrested three people connected to him. The suspect, 22-year-old Syrian refugee Jaber Albakr, who was later captured, could have had "an Islamist motive," sources close to the police said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/29/business/tech/spotify-launches-japan-nation-streamers-struggled/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-10T19:13:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-spotify-a-20160930.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daniel Ek, founder and CEO of music streaming giant Spotify, launches the service in Japan on Thursday. He appeared at a news conference in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/10/world/social-issues-world/france-demands-britain-take-migrant-children-stranded-refugee-camp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-10T21:59:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A migrant walks through the "Jungle" migrant camp outside the northern French port city of Calais on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/10/business/economy-business/kuroda-signals-boj-may-delay-reaching-2-percent-inflation-target-2018/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Maritime Self-Defense Force ship and helicopter search for a North Korean ballistic missile that fell in Japan's exclusive economic zone in the Sea of Japan off Akita Prefecture Aug. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/12/national/social-issues/japans-working-moms-struggle-keep-careers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-12T20:13:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mothers work in an office next to a nursery room for their children in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-12T20:53:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during a meeting with banana production businessmen in Davao city, in the southern Philippines, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-12T20:55:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean defector talks on the phone during an interview in Seoul on Sept. 26. He requested that his face and name be withheld.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-12T20:56:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Pyongyang square hosts a rally in celebration of a recent nuclear test, in this undated photo released on Sept. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-12T21:15:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Tokyo District Court ruling that threw out a bid by a female teacher to use her maiden name for work has been slammed as being out of touch with the needs of working women.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/12/world/lawyers-paris-attacker-resign-chalk-silence-constant-surveillance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-12T22:11:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-12T22:30:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gen. Robert Neller (left), commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, and Defense Minister Tomomi Inada shake hands in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/12/national/power-blackout-hits-350000-tokyo-homes-brings-trains-halt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-13T11:55:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Black smoke billows from a Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc. facility in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, in this photo posted by Twitter user Watson_Yuki on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-13T12:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he speaks at the 8th annual VTB Capital "Russia Calling!" Investment Forum in in Moscow on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/13/world/britain-france-seek-eu-sanctions-syria-russia-aleppo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-13T14:48:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrians walk over rubble following airstrikes on the rebel-held Fardous neighborhood of the northern embattled Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/13/national/see-art-treasures-restored-kanazawa-studio/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-13T14:54:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Restoration workers restore a hanging scroll at the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art in Kanazawa in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/13/business/corporate-business/apple-ceo-cook-visits-nintendo-headquarters-kyoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-13T15:58:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tim Cook]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/13/national/japanese-cafe-flips-burgers-contest-inspired-u-s-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-13T15:59:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[J.S. Burgers Cafe chef Yasuhito Fukui prepares Mr. and Mrs. burgers featuring U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in Tokyo on Oct. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/dutch-may-allow-assisted-suicide-feel-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-13T17:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-13T18:05:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Self-Defense Forces officer stands guard in front of P-3C patrol aircraft belonging to the Maritime Self-Defense Force in Djibouti in August 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/13/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/singapore-comes-pressure-female-genital-cutting-babies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-13T18:40:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-13T21:20:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmakers Ichiro Ozawa (left) and Taro Yamamoto announce their party's name change in Tokyo on Wednesday. It will now be known as the Liberal Party.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/13/national/shizuoka-noodle-restaurant-accidentally-serves-ramen-containing-severed-fingertip-staff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-13T21:20:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/n-ramen-z-20161014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ramen-z-20161014]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A ramen noodle restaurant in the city of Shizuoka accidentally served a bowl of ramen that apparently contained the fingertip of a part-time worker who cut one of her digits when slicing barbecued pork.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/13/national/japan-trial-raising-highway-speed-limit-110-kph/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-13T21:40:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-highways-z-20161014]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The National Police Agency said Thursday it will raise the speed limit on sections of two expressways to 110 kph, up from the current 100 kph. The aim is to lift the speed limit eventually to 120 kph.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/13/national/aging-h-bomb-victim-petitioning-memorial-tsukiji/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-13T21:43:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tuna-a-20161014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The stone currently stands beside a Tokyo museum where the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 is on display. The tuna boat and its crew were contaminated with radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/13/national/government-calls-tourism-industry-promote-tours-russian-far-east/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-13T21:45:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fareast-a-20161014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People visit a fair displaying Japanese products at a supermarket in Vladivostok, Russia, in November 2015. Japan's tourism industry is being urged to promote sightseeing trips to the Russian Far East.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/13/business/tech/samsungs-latest-invention-fireproof-box-note-7-returns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-13T21:46:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/b-samsungbox-z-20161014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Samsung-After Note 7]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Sept. 8, 2016, photo, shows a damaged Samsung Galaxy Note 7, in Marion, Ill., belonging to Joni Gantz Barwick, who was woken up at 3 a.m. by smoke and sparks from her Galaxy Note 7. Her nightstand and bed sheets were burnt. Consumers from Shanghai to New York are left wondering about Samsung's smartphone brand after the South Korean tech giant recalled the devices, and then recalled their replacements as well.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-13T21:46:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kirin Holdings Co. agreed to acquire a minority stake in Brooklyn Brewery.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-13T21:46:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians pass the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-13T22:10:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Idemitsu Kosan Co. logo is displayed atop one of the company's gasoline stations in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-13T22:16:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda (left) and Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman and CEO Osamu Suzuki attend a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-13T22:16:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A rendering shows how the proposed facility in Tokyo Bay for the rowing and canoe sprint events might have looked.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-13T22:22:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses a committee meeting in the Upper House on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-13T23:56:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-14T12:07:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actor Takayuki Yamada shows off a PlayStation VR headset during a launch at the Sony Store in Tokyo's Ginza district Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/13/national/science-health/health-ministry-unveils-draft-proposal-crack-secondhand-smoke-ahead-2020-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-14T12:18:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan plans to ban smoking in more places and impose penalties.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-14T13:42:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-thaiking-z-20161014]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thailand's Royal Palace said on Thursday that King Bhumibol Adulyadej, seen here in June 2006 during celebrations of the 60th anniversary of his accession to the throne, has died at age 88.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-14T14:11:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. troops aboard a truck pass a Philippine armored personnel carrier that got stuck in mud during a joint amphibious landing exercise north of Manila on Monday. A U.S. Marine Corps officer later said helping to pull out vehicles offers valuable interoperability training.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/13/national/china-brushes-off-japans-protest-maritime-gas-exploration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-14T15:23:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-14T15:50:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-14T16:47:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/16/asia-pacific/xi-putin-bromance-becomes-security-bond/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-16T23:27:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their meeting in Benaulim, in the western state of Goa, India, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/16/national/vision-impared-40-year-old-man-killed-express-train-falling-onto-tracks-osaka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-16T23:37:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-16T23:41:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-reagan-a-20161017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture-based USS Ronald Reagan steams in formation with ships from the U.S. Navy's Carrier Strike Group Five and the Republic of Korea's Navy during the Invincible Spirit drills in waters off the Korean Peninsula on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/16/national/hoping-get-fathers-involved-child-rearing-japan-allow-liquid-baby-formula-sold/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T15:24:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/national/crime-legal/two-men-deny-dangerous-driving-fatal-hokkaido-accident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T17:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives of a family devastated by a fatal car crash last year enter the Sapporo District Court on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/chinese-official-hoarded-cash-convicted-graft/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T17:15:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/anti-nuclear-candidate-yoneyama-leading-niigata-gubernatorial-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T17:55:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryuichi Yoneyama (center), a medical doctor who advocates anti-nuclear policies, raises his hands as supporters shout "banzai" after he was assured of winning Sunday's gubernatorial election in Niigata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-may-speed-missile-defense-upgrades-wake-north-korean-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T17:59:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Models of Lockheed Martin's PAC-3, PAC-3 MSE and THAAD missiles are displayed at the Japan Aerospace 2016 air show in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/duterte-visit-beijing-likely-heavy-business-talks-light-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T18:03:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte shakes hands with Philippine nationals living in Brunei after delivering a speech during an official visit to the country Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-denies-reported-plan-jointly-administer-russian-held-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T19:43:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-17T19:55:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-terminal-a-20161018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The health ministry will encourage elderly patients with terminal illness to share their end-of-life wishes with their doctors, so that paramedics know whether to attempt resuscitation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-sends-ritual-offering-yasukuni-shrine-name-prime-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T19:55:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masakaki tree offerings sent by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Lower House President Chuichi Date are displayed at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/reference/abe-putin-summit-open-door-isle-row-solution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T20:02:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20161018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo provided by a resident of the Russian-held island of Etorofu shows people celebrating Victory over Japan Day in the town of Kurilsk, known as Shana in Japan, on Sept. 2.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/national/2014-death-overworked-filipino-trainee-recognized-karoshi-labor-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T20:03:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/setback-operator-worlds-largest-atomic-plant-anti-nuclear-doctor-elected-niigata-governor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T20:03:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/national/crime-legal/licensed-tottori-hemp-grower-busted-allegedly-possessing-pot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T20:03:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/national/crime-legal/police-surveillance-peeping-toms-among-kyotos-camera-toting-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T21:06:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiyomizu Temple amid autumn leaves is illuminated last November in the city of Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/thai-kings-death-reportedly-wont-delay-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T21:42:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/national/imperial-abdication-committee-holds-first-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T22:27:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abdication-a-20161018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attend a government-sponsored event marking the end of World War II on Aug. 15 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/asia-pacific/icc-warns-duterte-crimes-humanity-critics-begin-speaking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T22:42:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/f-duterte-crimes-a-20161018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-duterte-crimes-a-20161018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives grieve at the funeral Saturday of Reynaldo Agregado, who was killed in a police anti-drugs operation in Manila. Lawmakers, lawyers and church officials have begun to speak up after more than 3,000 deaths, many of them suspected extrajudicial killings.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/republican-presidential-candidates-son-law-held-talks-set-trump-tv-network-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T23:22:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/business/tech/apples-switch-oled-screens-make-break-japanese-suppliers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T23:45:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/b-apple-a-20161018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-apple-a-20161018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple Inc. plans to adopt a crisp organic LED display in its next iPhone. It needs Japanese suppliers to create its stockpile.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/business/economy-business/boj-downgrades-tokai-upgrades-chugoku-kyushu-okinawa-report-regional-economies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-17T23:45:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/b-bojbranch-a-20161018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bojbranch-a-20161018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda appears tense during a quarterly meeting of the central bank's branch managers in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/08/business/new-pension-ceiling-meant-help-low-paid-workers-may-hit-housewives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T12:20:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/p7-yen4living-a-20161009.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-yen4living-a-20161009.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Collateral damage: A lowering of the eligibility cap for the kōsei nenkin pension plan leaves housewives working part-time with a choice: cut their hours to stay below the new ¥1.06 million-a-year ceiling or work more to offset payments they will now have to make into the pension system.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/world/kremlin-funded-rt-television-says-u-k-bank-closing-accounts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T13:28:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/16/national/plan-cut-historic-trees-tokyos-chiyoda-ward-faces-local-opposition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T13:52:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/n-trees-b-20161017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trees-b-20161017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trees dot Kanda Keisatsu Street in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Oct. 12.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/01/national/crime-legal/body-missing-japanese-woman-found-vancouver-search-missing-japanese-woman-comes-grisly-end-vancouver/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T15:03:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/n-body-b-20161002.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-body-b-20161002.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese woman prays for Natsumi Kogawa on Friday in front of a vacant historic mansion in Vancouver where her body was found. A 48-year-old Canadian man of no fixed address has been taken into custody in connection with her death.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-norway-agree-cooperate-whaling-arctic-research/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T17:04:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/asia-pacific/malaysia-alert-mosul-offensive-stokes-fears-militant-influx/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T17:31:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/national/dentsu-units-probed-labor-authorities-employees-suicide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T17:48:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dentsu-a-20161019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dentsu East Japan Inc., located in Minato Ward, Tokyo, is one of five Dentsu subsidiaries being probed for possible labor law violations.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/business/corporate-business/jr-kyushu-shares-inch-upward-ahead-ipo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T18:01:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/americans-philippines-jittery-duterte-rails-united-states/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T18:10:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/f-usphil-a-20161019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usphil-a-20161019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Marines roll the American flag after the PHIBLEX Philippines-U.S. amphibious landing exercise closing ceremony in Taguig city, Metro Manila, on Oct. 11.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/national/tougher-rules-sought-charter-buses-based-fatal-nagano-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T18:11:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/national/politics-diplomacy/court-rules-july-upper-house-election-constitutional/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T18:15:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/n-votes-a-20161019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-votes-a-20161019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers head Tuesday to the Takamatsu High Court in Kagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/business/economy-business/japan-inc-unimpressed-bojs-latest-attempt-spur-growth-poll-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T18:34:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/b-bojpoll-a-20161019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bojpoll-a-20161019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan's recent shift of monetary policy has left Japanese firms unimpressed, a poll shows.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-north-korean-students-forge-bonds-rare-meeting-remain-apart-nuclear-weapons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T19:21:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/n-students-a-20161019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-students-a-20161019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese and North Korean university students, including University of Tokyo senior Mirei Jinguji (right), meet in Pyongyang in August.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/17/national/crime-legal/lawsuit-seeking-invalidate-july-upper-house-election-nixed-second-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T19:24:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/national/international-forum-sports-art-business-kicks-off-kyoto-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T19:39:25+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/asia-pacific/north-korean-top-diplomat-spotted-beijing-possibly-en-route-informal-talks-row-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T19:40:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/business/casino-legalization-sight-abe-makes-political-gains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T19:53:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-casino-a-20161019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With the Liberal Democratic Party's dominance in the Diet, pro-casino lawmakers hope bills to legalize casinos will advance during this legislative session. Public opinion opposes casinos largely because of the risks of gambling addiction.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/asia-pacific/duterte-praises-chinas-good-sound-policies-pivotal-visit-begins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T19:56:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/f-duterte-china-b-20161019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-duterte-china-b-20161019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rodrigo Duterte]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/national/wedding-costs-japan-reach-record-high-second-straight-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-18T22:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/n-wedding-a-20161019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wedding-a-20161019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The average cost of wedding ceremonies and receptions hit an all-time high in fiscal 2015.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Conde Nast Traveler highlighted Tokyo's variety — encompassing modern skyscrapers and historic temples and shrines.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of breaking into this home in Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture, killing a father and injuring his three children.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward says it will work to save 37 trees lining Kanda Keisatsu Street, reversing an earlier plan to cut them down.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dentsu Inc. is lowering its overtime limit after the labor ministry inspected the firm and its five subsidiaries, including Dentsu East Japan Inc. in Tokyo's Minato Ward, in the wake of a staff member's suicide.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach (left) and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Organizing Committee President Yoshiro Mori chat prior to a press briefing in Tokyo on Oct. 19.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets scientists and technicians in the field of research into nuclear weapons in this undated photo released in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-20T13:43:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton begin their third and final 2016 presidential campaign debate in Las Vegas]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton begin their third and final 2016 presidential campaign debate at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-20T14:56:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-20T16:23:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Challenergy Inc.'s wind turbine is intended to be more resilient to wind than traditional machines that use large propellers.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-20T16:57:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Phil Buck, an American explorer, will captain the Viracocha III.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-20T17:29:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-20T17:40:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-20T17:52:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Part of Yodogawa Ward in Osaka. The ward has been implementing measures to help LGBT people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/20/national/new-vr-service-lets-travel-shop-overseas-without-leaving-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-20T18:08:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model demonstrates real-time VR travel on Thursday in Tokyo's Roppongi district.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mizuho Financial Group Inc. is seeking to take a larger piece of Japan's brokerage business.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-20T18:22:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Empress Michiko]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-20T21:17:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-21T06:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-21T16:07:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear power plant stands in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, in October 2014.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra takes part in Songkran festival celebrations with opposition Puea Thai party members at the party's headquarters in Bangkok in April 2016.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This illustration shows the fish called Qilinyu, which lived 423 million years ago during the Silurian Period.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmakers belonging to the main opposition Democratic Party and the Japanese Communist Party walk out Friday in protest before the House of Representatives' special committee on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact began debating it.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The gold and silver versions of the Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry are shaped like the hand guard of a Japanese sword.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-24T17:55:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan posted a trade surplus of ¥2.46 trillion in the first half from April to September.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan launch of music-streaming service Spotify last month has industry experts wondering whether the nation's music lovers will abandon CDs and other physical formats and embrace the growing shift toward digital.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masami Takahashi, president of Japan at Uber Technologies Inc., speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Sept. 13. Uber is finding modest success in the small coastal town of Tangocho, once known for supplying fabric to kimono tailors in the ancient capital of Kyoto, a three-hour bus ride away.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-24T19:20:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-24T21:25:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shibuya Cast is scheduled to open in 2017 on the north side of Shibuya Station.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-24T23:48:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T10:09:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T11:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T11:26:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T11:46:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T13:26:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T13:55:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sea Plaza Kamaishi in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture. The city in Japan's tsunami-ravaged northeast is scheduled to host matches for the Rugby World Cup in 2019 and aims to host more tourists.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T14:02:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T14:38:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T14:42:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T14:44:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials and businesses are trying to get inbound tourists to spend more time and money on regional tourism destinations, including the village of Shirakawa, Gifu Prefecture, famed for traditional thatched-roof homes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/25/national/swimming-federation-chief-pushes-koike-build-new-aquatics-center-tokyo-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-25T15:29:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T16:09:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in an economic forum in Tokyo hosted by Keidanren during his two-day visit to Japan in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T16:28:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T16:33:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T16:40:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T16:43:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T16:50:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T17:13:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine security forces take a part in a drug raid in Manila earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T17:14:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents of Kurayoshi, Tottori Prefecture, bring household items damaged by last week's earthquake to a temporary disposal site on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/25/national/crime-legal/former-actress-saya-takagi-arrested-okinawa-isle-drugs-raid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-25T17:22:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T18:03:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Part of the Kumano Kodo. UNESCO originally designated the majority of these routes as World Heritage sites in 2004.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T18:38:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Toyota Motor Corp. Lexus LC 500 vehicle is displayed at the 2016 North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January. Toyota and Lexus brands held their lead atop Consumer Reports' annual reliability rankings.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T18:41:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-25T18:46:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers rush an injured person to a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, late Monday after gunmen attacked a police training center in Pakistan's restive southwestern Baluchistan province.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-26T12:39:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-26T14:39:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-26T14:59:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-26T15:17:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keitaro Saga, who was arrested Tuesday in connection with the killing of his ex-girlfriend, leaves the Meguro Police Station in Tokyo in a police car Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-26T15:54:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-26T16:22:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Decatur guided-missile destroyer operates in the South China Sea on Oct. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/26/national/crime-legal/suit-seeking-void-july-upper-house-election-vote-gap-nixed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-26T16:28:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-26T16:46:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakai municipal officials explain the case of a missing boy Tuesday at the government office in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-26T18:01:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naruatsu Baba, president and chief executive officer of Colopl Inc., poses for a photograph in Tokyo on Oct. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/26/business/economic-deals-china-duterte-assures-japanese-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-26T19:33:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-26T19:35:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist's impression shows how the inside of the new Ginza Six shopping complex in Tokyo's Ginza district will look.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-27T03:42:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-27T04:02:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-27T04:04:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-27T07:13:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-27T07:26:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/27/business/taiwan-looks-ease-fukushima-linked-curbs-japan-food-products/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-27T07:46:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-27T09:38:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a speech at the Philippine Economic Forum in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-27T09:39:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-27T10:08:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/26/national/social-issues/japan-slips-10-notches-111th-wef-gender-equality-rankings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-27T12:43:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The WEF said Japan had done little to make more use of its female talent since its ranking at 101st last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-27T15:18:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidates Republican Sen. Pat Toomey and Democrat Katie McGinty take part in a debate at Temple University in Philadelphia Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-27T15:30:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saburo Kawabuchi, head of the Alliance of Japan Top Leagues, speaks at a news conference Wednesday in Tokyo about the construction of the Ariake Arena volleyball venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-27T16:06:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-27T16:13:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Western-style painting depicting Nihombashi may have been done by the ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai, experts say.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/27/national/shibuya-readies-halloween-party-throngs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-27T16:17:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A large crowd of revelers mill about in Hachiko Square in front of JR Shibuya Station in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-27T16:37:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-27T16:37:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers install solar panels on the roof of a home in Scripps Ranch, northeastern San Diego, on Oct. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/27/business/financial-markets/japans-market-eager-hints-bojs-next-move/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-27T17:21:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan headquarters stands in Tokyo. Financial market participants have been anxious to get more hints on what the BOJ will do next to spur inflation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/22/business/shocking-blog-post-forces-debate-financial-drain-dialysis-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-27T17:21:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pit stop: A patient receives dialysis at a clinic in Kumamoto. For the average patient in Japan, dialysis treatment costs ¥400,000 a month, almost all  of which is covered by the government.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/27/national/japan-u-s-south-korea-agree-put-pressure-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-27T17:32:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-10-27T18:01:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman poses next to Line Corp. signage as a man takes a photo in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/27/national/decorated-apples-sent-off-france/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-10-27T18:19:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apples are decorated with images, including of the Mona Lisa, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and French President Francois Hollande.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan remains the 10th most populous nation. However, among the top 20 countries, it was the only one whose population declined between 2010 and 2015.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peter Thiel, PayPal founder-turned-venture-capitalist, discusses his support for U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, at the National Press Club in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/31/reference/bright-side-dark-japans-university-beauty-contests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-01T12:03:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot from the Miss Colle web portal for university beauty contests shows plenty of ads from corporate sponsors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/01/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-stops-philippines-rifle-sale-senate-opposition/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Huang Rulun]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/01/asia-pacific/china-debuts-j-20-stealth-fighter-zhuhai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-01T13:57:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping listens to French Minister for Foreign Affairs Jean-Marc Ayrault during their meeting in Beijing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/01/national/social-issues/marriage-shy-japanese-turning-temple-priests-help-matchmaking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-01T14:13:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men and women looking for spouses attend a matchmaking event at Tenryuin Temple in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Oct. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-01T15:45:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-01T16:11:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-01T17:36:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/01/national/tokyos-last-streetcar-line-still-rolling-strong-after-105-years-in-operation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-01T17:50:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Toei Arakawa Line streetcar passes by Asukayama Park in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Oct. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/01/business/corporate-business/shiseido-establish-joint-venture-operate-child-care-centers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-01T17:57:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahiko Uotani]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/01/business/corporate-business/road-recovery-sharp-sees-first-operating-profit-three-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-01T17:59:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-01T18:01:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-01T18:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/01/national/frequent-visitors-can-now-use-automated-immigration-gates-airports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-01T18:09:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Frequent visitors to Japan with proper qualifications will be allowed to use automated gates in major airports to skip the long lines at immigration control.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/01/business/economy-business/japan-demands-talks-u-k-government-brexit-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-01T18:10:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to Tennoji Zoo in the city of Osaka pet Masahiro, a rooster who has survived the threat of being another animal's food three times, in mid-October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/01/national/politics-diplomacy/suu-kyi-visits-japan-amid-concerns-plight-rohingya-minority/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-01T20:27:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at the airport in New Delhi on Oct. 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/01/national/unesco-panel-recommends-adding-33-japan-festivals-heritage-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-01T20:40:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials of the city of Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, rejoice Monday night after a UNESCO preliminary review panel recommended adding 33 traditional festivals in Japan to the Intangible Cultural Heritage list. Chichibu's float and shrine dance festival is among the recommended festivals.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/01/business/economy-business/major-setback-abenomics-boj-gives-hitting-inflation-target-kuroda-term/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-01T21:18:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/31/national/halloween-japan-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-01T21:48:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shibuya was Halloween central in Tokyo Friday night as thousands of people in costumes gathered and posed for the cameras.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/01/national/peshmerga-holding-japanese-journalist-kosuke-tsuneoka-iraq/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-01T22:38:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kosuke Tsuneoka]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-01T23:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-01T23:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-02T04:21:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-02T04:22:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-02T04:23:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-02T04:25:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of Russia's upper house, heads for a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-02T07:46:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-02T08:05:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Izumi Nakamitsu]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-02T11:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-02T11:02:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A helicopter carrying Cabinet ministers of Nepal flies past a glacial lake in Kalapathar, a flat area at an altitude of 17,192 feet (5,250 meters) next to Everest base camp, in 2009. Army soldiers and local villagers have finished digging through rocks and boulders to drain another glacial lake just south of Mount Everest, bringing the water to a safe level and possibly preventing an outburst that could have flooded several villages, officials said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-02T12:28:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Shinjuku Nomura Building in Tokyo has recently been fitted with a vibration control system to help it survive earthquakes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/01/national/officials-changed-plans-tsukiji-market-replacement-site-tracked/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-02T14:20:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-02T14:33:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buildings damaged by a fire that gutted a karaoke bar in Hanoi, killing 13 people, are seen on Wednesday, a day after the deadly blaze started.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/02/business/new-utilities-may-chip-fukushima-compensation-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-02T15:18:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-02T15:19:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/02/asia-pacific/pyongyang-preparing-another-missile-launch-within-next-three-days-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-02T15:56:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/02/national/trilingual-students-big-hit-tour-guides-hakodate-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-02T16:22:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zhu Yanhui (far right), a Chinese student studying at Hokkaido University, provides commentary in Chinese, English and Japanese on Oct. 10 for a crowded tour by Hakodate Bus Corp. to the top of Mount Hakodate in Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/02/national/japans-soccer-team-return-training-camp-used-fukushima-cleanup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-02T16:48:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The J-Village facility in Hirono, Fukushima Prefecture, used as the base for the cleanup of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, is to be fully reopened as a soccer training facility.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-02T16:51:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks past a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in Yuzhno-Kurilsk, the main settlement on the island of Kunashiri, part of the Japanese-claimed Northern Territories, in mid-September.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-02T16:55:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean protesters wear masks of President Park and her confidante at a rally in downtown Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Japan Kanko Co.'s Cabana hotel in the city of Osaka is among a new breed of capsule hotels that are reaching out for a broader range of guests.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kuomintang Chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu shake hands as they pose for photographers during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi attends an event marking the 69th anniversary of Martyrs' Day at the Martyrs' Mausoleum dedicated to fallen independence heroes in Yangon in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-02T21:51:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement stage a sit-in in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on Wednesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/02/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-extends-%c2%a540-billion-aid-deal-myanmar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-02T23:01:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[De facto Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to people from Myanmar who are living in Japan on Wednesday morning at a Tokyo hotel.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/03/world/temblors-reshaping-lowering-landscape-central-italy-mountains/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A general view shows the village of Castelluccio and the Monte Vettore on Wednesday, three days after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit central Italy. Satellite images found that Sunday's temblor deformed the landscape over 130 sq. km (50 sq. miles), the Italian National Research Council said in a statement. The biggest displacement was in the Castelluccio region, near the small town of Norcia, which lay only 6 km (3.7 miles) from the epicenter, it said. The ground in this region was pushed up or sank by up to 70 cm.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-03T10:56:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-03T12:52:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fishermen, just returned from fishing in the disputed Scarborough Shoal, unload fish from a boat in the Philippines port of Subic on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-03T12:57:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-03T13:25:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign students attend a job fair in Tokyo in August 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-03T14:50:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-03T15:01:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-03T16:26:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-03T17:07:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-03T22:26:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-03T23:40:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi receives an honorary doctorate from Kyoto University President Juichi Yamagiwa at its campus in the city of Kyoto on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman looks on Thursday in Paris near to the Stalingrad metro station, one of several camps sprouting up around the French capital. Less than 300 km from the recently demolished "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais, around 2,000 migrants are living in similar conditions on the streets of Paris.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police conduct an investigation at an apartment building in Tokyo's Nakano Ward where a woman was fatally stabbed early Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former “comfort women” and supporters gather in Seoul to announce they cannot accept the agreement reached between Japan and South Korea last year to settle the issue once and for all. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Overworked and unsupported: After Japan's economy tanked in the mid-1990s, cost-cutting took precedence over the mental and physical health of employees.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trade minister Hiroshige Seko (right) meets with Russian Far East development minister Alexander Galushka in Moscow Friday. The two ministers agreed to promote economic cooperation in Russia's Far East.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nikon Corp. is reportedly considering slashing some 1,000 domestic jobs as part of efforts to restructure its chip and camera business.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A painted sign in the window of a Honda dealership in Detroit shows the frustration of voters who did not support Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenji Kimura, the Japan Volleyball Association president, and former Olympian Katsumi Chiba hold a petition at a Tokyo news conference on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[American residents in Japan watch U.S. presidential election results at The Pink Cow, a bar in Tokyo's Roppongi district, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handout picture provided by the office of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shows him meeting with a member of his Cabinet in Tehran on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign protesting a recent North Carolina law restricting transgender bathroom access adorns the bathroom stalls at the 21C Museum Hotel in Durham, North Carolina, in May.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[BuzzFeed Japan Editor-in-Chief Daisuke Furuta is interviewed Oct. 12 in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-10T16:16:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[People gather in protest to the election of Republican Donald Trump as the president of the United States in Seattle]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather in protest to the election of Republican Donald Trump as U.S. president in Seattle, Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-10T16:40:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nancy Liu watches her husband, John (center), as he is helped by a Chinese translator at a polling station in Queens, New York, on Tuesday. Born in Taiwan, John and Nancy immigrated to the United States 38 years ago, and they voted for the first time in an American election this week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/09/national/family-japanese-abducted-north-korea-express-hope-fear-trumps-victory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-10T17:10:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeo Iizuka, center, head of a group representing the families of Japanese abducted by North Korea, speaks at a gathering in Tokyo last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-10T17:37:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children participate in a video shoot to introduce Masaki Art Museum, one of the attractions in Tadaoka, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-10T17:43:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-10T18:33:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The majority of toilets in Japanese schools are of the squat variety, a survey has found.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-10T18:38:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Machinery orders fell a seasonally adjusted 3.3 percent in September from the previous month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-10T19:31:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kosuke Tsuneoka, a freelance journalist who was detained by authorities in Iraq, holds a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-10T21:49:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Hillary supporter waits for the final results at an election rally in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-10T22:11:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-10T22:14:10+09:00</lastmod>
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