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		<lastmod>2016-11-10T22:33:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The front pages of Japanese newspapers Thursday morning herald the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese employees of a foreign exchange trading company work in Tokyo on Wednesday, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is seen on television screens delivering his victory speech.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-11T03:50:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lt. Gen. Jerry Martinez, commander of U.S. forces in Japan, shakes hands with Katsutoshi Kawano, chief of the Self-Defense Forces' Joint Staff, after a joint news conference at the U.S. military base in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-11T03:52:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-11T08:33:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-11T13:50:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-11T13:54:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-11T13:56:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coal miners wave signs as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a May rally in Charleston, West Virginia. Trump's election could signal the end of many of President Barack Obama's signature environmental initiatives. Trump has said he loathes regulation and wants to use more coal and expand offshore drilling and hydraulic fracturing.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-11T14:07:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laotian female entrepreneurs, workers and students pose for a photo in Tokyo on Oct. 31 after finishing their visit to the Hachinohe area in Aomori Prefecture to observe local industries.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/10/national/japanese-americans-japanese-u-s-concerned-trumps-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T15:17:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton watch and wait at her election night rally in New York on Nov. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/russian-hackers-accused-post-election-attacks-u-s-think-tanks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T15:23:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/world/crime-legal-world/judge-slammed-trump-rejects-bid-bar-campaign-claims-fraud-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T15:40:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated photo provided by the U.S. District Court shows Judge Gonzalo Curiel. Trump is scheduled to go on trial this month in a class-action lawsuit against him and his now-defunct Trump University, potentially taking the witness stand weeks before his inauguration as president of the United States. U.S. District Judge Curiel, the Indiana-born jurist who was accused of bias by Trump during the campaign for his Mexican heritage, will hold a hearing Thursday on jury instructions and what evidence to allow at trial.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/business/economy-business/japans-wholesale-prices-drop-2-7-october-19th-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T16:53:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-11T17:38:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/business/robotic-dinosaur-replicas-stomp-tokyo-ahead-planned-park/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T17:40:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On-Art Corp. CEO Kazuya Kanemaru performs with his company's 8-meter-tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot TRX03 during its demonstration in Tokyo Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/national/trumps-jab-base-hosting-costs-raises-worries-security-alliance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T17:46:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/hillary-clintons-white-voters-melted-away/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T17:53:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Retired steel workers Mike Pron (left to right) Jim McAndrew, Charlie Kelly, Joe Gonda and Ken Rayden play poker in a union hall in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on Thursday. Among the five, all life-long Democrats, only three cast ballots for Clinton.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trumps-business-empire-poses-unprecedented-potential-conflicts-interest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T17:56:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President-elect Donald Trump, wife Melania, Vice President-elect Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan, speak with reporters after their meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/business/abe-eyes-india-cement-high-speed-rail-dominance-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T18:23:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) E5 series Shinkansen bullet train departs from Tokyo Station in Tokyo in May 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/business/tech/robo-adviser-startup-eyes-japanese-millennials-spare-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T18:23:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/national/trump-masks-books-suddenly-turn-popular/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T18:25:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump masks are selling well in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/national/london-paralympics-organizer-says-tokyo-must-get-grip-budget-find-balance-old-new-venues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T18:32:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chris Holmes]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/national/rare-pokemon-helping-tohoku-quake-zones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T19:06:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen shot from the official Twitter account of "Pokemon Go" shows an announcement stating that players will be able to find the rare Lapras character apperaing near the coasts of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures through Nov. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/national/crime-legal/two-men-get-23-years-fatal-2015-street-race-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T19:14:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/national/harry-potter-cursed-child-latest-potter-series-hits-bookstores-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T19:15:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Costumed fans hold copies of the Japanese translation of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," at a bookstore in Hachioji, Tokyo, early Friday right after the eighth tale in the fantasy series was released.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/national/crime-legal/crime-postwar-low-2015-white-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T21:48:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to the Justice Ministry report, the number of crimes sank 9.4 percent to 1.09 million compared with the previous year, stretching the downtrend to 13 consecutive years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/national/crime-legal/burgler-kyushu-slayings-hanged/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T21:49:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/national/politics-diplomacy/nuclear-pacts-future-emerge-abe-trump-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T22:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Troops from the Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military carry out a joint exercise on Ukibaru Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-china-ministerial-meet-may-fail-materialize-year-end/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-11T22:55:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-india-sign-civil-pact-nuclear-power-reassurances-modi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-12T11:17:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold a news conference at Abe's office in Tokyo Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/12/business/economy-business/u-s-joined-china-led-aiib-trump-adviser/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-12T13:13:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/12/business/economy-business/perus-leader-suggests-replacing-tpp-new-trade-deal-excludes-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-12T13:42:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedro Pablo Kuczynski]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-assails-u-s-protesters-praises-passion-hours-later/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-12T13:45:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman protests the election of Republican Donald Trump as U.S. president in Philadelphia on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/12/business/economy-business/obama-administration-suspends-tpp-approval-bid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-12T13:53:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/12/national/moderate-quake-hits-northeastern-japan-no-tsunami-warning-issued/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-12T14:22:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/12/business/corporate-business/rk-trading-opens-steel-factory-yangon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-12T15:29:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/12/national/media-national/south-sudan-japan-tale-love-civil-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-12T22:52:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No stability: U.N. vehicles pass displaced people walking toward a camp in Malakal, South Sudan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/12/business/japans-laundromat-bubble-shows-no-sign-bursting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-12T19:04:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[My beautiful laundrette: Seemingly defying demographic reality, the number of coin laundries in Japan has grown by 60 percent over the past 20 years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/12/national/politics-diplomacy/can-prime-minister-abe-u-s-president-elect-trump-unite-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-12T19:24:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President-elect Donald Trump walks with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/12/national/politics-diplomacy/modi-inspects-bullet-train-plant-agreeing-shinkansen-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-12T19:27:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-modikobe-a-20161113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe make a toast during a luncheon Saturday in Kobe. Modi visited the city to inspect a plant assembling shinkansen bullet trains.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/12/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-india-pact-puts-economic-gain-disarmament-critics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-12T19:28:10+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/12/national/politics-diplomacy/pakistan-raps-called-japans-discriminatory-nuclear-deal-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-12T20:19:14+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-places-family-members-loyal-advisers-transition-team-pence-demotes-christie/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-13T05:20:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clockwise, from top left: Ben Carson, Newt Gingrich, Jeff Sessions, Michael Flynn, Chris Christie  and Rudy Giuliani have all been named to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team as vice chairs.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/12/world/science-health-world/research-quantifies-genetic-damage-caused-smoking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-13T05:34:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/13/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/south-korean-prosecutors-question-president-week-political-scandal-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-13T17:08:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/f-skpark-a-20161114.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-skpark-a-20161114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters stand before police during an anti-government rally in the Gwanghwamun area of central Seoul on Saturday demanding the resignation of scandal-hit President Park Geun-hye.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/britains-brexit-firebrand-farage-meets-trump-new-york/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-13T18:54:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/f-trumpfarage-a-20161114.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpfarage-a-20161114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage gets on an elevator at Trump Tower on Saturday in New York.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/13/business/economy-business/majority-japanese-believe-nations-economy-tanking-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-13T20:01:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/b-economy-a-20161114.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-economy-a-20161114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to a joint survey by local newspapers, a majority of Japanese think the country's economy is worsening.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/tweeter-chief-trump-says-may-not-stop-social-media-use-white-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-13T20:36:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/world/crime-legal-world/trump-seeks-delay-trial-university-fraud-suits-inauguration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T06:21:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/f-trumpu-a-20161115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpu-a-20161115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump listens as Michael Sexton introduces him at a 2005 news conference in New York, where he announced the establishment of Trump University. Trump is scheduled to go on trial this month in a class-action lawsuit against him and his now-defunct Trump University, potentially taking the witness stand weeks before his inauguration as president of the United States.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/national/science-health/supermoon-looms-monday-night-overcast-may-dampen-japans-view/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T07:38:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-supermoon-a-20161115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A supermoon is seen against a Ferris Wheel in Kasai Seaside Park in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward on Sept. 28, 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/13/national/politics-diplomacy/meeting-trump-abe-aims-underscore-importance-japan-u-s-alliance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T15:05:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-abetrump-a-20161114.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abetrump-a-20161114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President-elect Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, walk with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-looking-fast-ways-quit-global-climate-deal-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T15:09:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/national/jaxa-oriented-home-stay-program-brightens-future-tanegashima-town/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T15:14:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-space-a-20161115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-space-a-20161115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aerospace home-stay participant Sora Masada (left) chats with a student in the town of Minamitane, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Oct. 3.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/13/national/politics-diplomacy/visit-u-s-defense-chief-finalize-immunity-pact-come-early-next-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T15:16:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-ashcarter-a-20161114.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ashcarter-a-20161114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ash Carter]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/13/national/sdf-coast-guard-police-hold-drill-fend-off-armed-fishermen-illegal-island-landing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T15:43:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-drill-a-20161114.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drill-a-20161114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea are seen from the air in 2012. The Self-Defense Forces, Coast Guard and police conducted a joint drill last week to fend off illegal entry of armed fishermen on a remote island.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/13/national/politics-diplomacy/amid-growing-china-ties-malaysian-leader-najib-make-three-day-visit-japan-tuesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T16:50:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-malaysia-a-20161114.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-malaysia-a-20161114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe chats with Malaysian leader Najib Razak in November 2015 in Kuala Lumpur.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/business/economy-business/kuroda-turns-cautiously-optimistic-inflation-target/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T17:57:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/b-boj-a-20161115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20161115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/national/nagoya-finds-no-thing-bad-publicity-survey-deems-unpopular/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T18:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-chubu-a-20161115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20161115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagoya has a popularity problem that magazines have only been too happy to oblige.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/13/national/government-open-off-limit-area-introduce-beautification-measures-draw-foreign-tourists-national-parks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T18:04:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-tourism-a-20161114.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tourism-a-20161114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Mashu Maru sightseeing boat sails on Lake Akan in Hokkaido in April.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/13/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-south-korea-hold-intelligence-sharing-talks-monday-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T18:15:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/anti-trump-protests-continue-fifth-day-across-u-s-cities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T18:46:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two girls hold up signs while riding in a stroller during an anti-Trump march through San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/business/iranian-police-deny-license-plates-owners-u-s-made-cars-including-japanese-german-makes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T20:05:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/b-irancars-a-20161115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-irancars-a-20161115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese car produced in the United States is displayed at an auto dealership in Tehran on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/business/tech/japanese-engineer-sees-evolution-guiding-next-wave-robotics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T20:12:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-tech-a-20161115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tech-a-20161115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chuo University engineering Taro Nakamura engineering poses with his "earthworm robot" during a festival on Nov. 6 on the university's Bunkyo Ward campus in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/national/disaster-preparedness-drill-held-nuclear-power-plant-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T20:34:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-nukedrill-a-20161114.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers spray water during a disaster drill Sunday at the Tomari nuclear power plant in Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/national/politics-diplomacy/ahead-u-s-visit-abe-says-hopes-build-relationship-mutual-trust-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T20:35:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-abediet-a-20161115.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a special Upper House committee meeting Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korean-opposition-threatens-sack-defense-chief-japan-intelligence-sharing-pact-signed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-14T20:36:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/national/china-worried-japans-bid-add-remote-islands-unesco-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T03:38:27+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/business/financial-markets/traders-said-planning-supercharged-chicago-tokyo-data-network/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T04:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/national/politics-diplomacy/russia-cool-restart-peace-treaty-talks-japan-ahead-putin-visit-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T06:08:00+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/asia-pacific/new-zealand-airlifts-tourists-quake-hit-town/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T08:24:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/f-kiwis-a-20161116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kiwis-a-20161116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stranded tourists gather Monday at a park in Kaikoura following an earthquake in New Zealand.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/13/national/utilities-restored-five-days-huge-sinkhole-wreaked-havoc-fukuoka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T14:26:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-sinkhole-b-20161114.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sinkhole-b-20161114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tarps protect the work site at a huge sinkhole in the city of Fukuoka to protect it from rain Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/national/4300-temporary-homes-completed-quake-hit-kumamoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T14:44:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kumamoto-a-20161115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Temporary barrier-free houses in Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, are shown to the media Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/national/two-tokyo-pedestrians-killed-accident-involving-elderly-driver/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T14:45:17+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/national/politics-diplomacy/panel-divided-second-meeting-mull-emperors-possible-abdication/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T17:04:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-emperor-a-20161116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20161116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A government panel examining whether to allow 82-year-old Emperor Akihito to abdicate holds its fourth meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/national/politics-diplomacy/eying-china-abe-german-president-pledge-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T17:05:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-abegerman-a-20161116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abegerman-a-20161116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[German President Joachim Gauck and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meet in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/national/social-issues/university-lecturer-adhd-pushes-software-students-developmental-disorders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T17:05:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-adhd-a-20161116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-adhd-a-20161116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takanobu Kameda, who helps university students with development disorders, lectures on job-hunting at Setsunan University in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/business/corporate-business/sofi-expands-life-insurance-deal-protective-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T17:08:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/business/abe-meet-colombian-president-apec-sidelines-peru-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T17:11:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-insists-never-said-japan-south-korea-go-nuclear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T17:16:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President-elect Donald Trump appears on a TV in Seoul on Nov. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/national/fukuoka-street-reopens-week-massive-sinkhole-appeared/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T19:18:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A huge sinkhole opens up beneath a street near JR Hakata Station in the city of Fukuoka on Nov. 8, and then the area reopens to people and vehicles Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/asia-pacific/myanmar-army-says-86-killed-fighting-countrys-northwest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T19:37:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-15T20:12:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning cruises for a test in the sea in May 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/business/economy-business/abe-ponders-whether-follow-trumps-lead-fiscal-stimulus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T20:13:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-15T20:13:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures while delivering a speech during the 80th National Bureau of Investigation founding anniversary at its headquarters in Manila on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/national/criminal-complaint-filed-death-doctor-police-custody/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T20:14:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-15T20:56:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Richard Li]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-cabinet-approves-muscular-sdf-peacekeeping-role/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T23:27:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force personnel practice rescuing U.N. workers ahead of their deployment to South Sudan during a training session in Iwate Prefecture last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/national/crime-legal/japans-permanent-residency-rules-may-loosened-lure-global-talent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T23:27:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-visa-z-20161116]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture of a generic residence card. Under a proposed system, certain workers will be able to submit a fast-tracked application for permanent residency.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/national/man-allegedly-killed-woman-simulate-video-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T23:28:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/national/algerian-envoy-says-japan-peacekeeping-mission-south-sudan-essential-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-15T23:45:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Algerian Ambassador Mohamed El Amine Bencherif]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/business/economy-business/abe-warns-tpp-impasse-shift-focus-china-inclusive-trade-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T00:25:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/national/science-health/japan-launch-satellite-dec-20-explore-van-allen-radiation-belt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T03:42:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/national/crime-legal/japanese-former-actress-indicted-marijuana-possession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T03:44:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saya Takagi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-study-measures-prevent-accidents-linked-pokemon-go/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T03:46:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-16T06:28:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image grab taken from a video footage made available on the Russian Defense Ministry's official website on Tuesday reportedly shows a jet taking off from the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean off the Syrian coast during a strike against Islamic State positions in Syria.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/national/u-s-forces-tell-tokyo-week-largest-okinawa-land-handover-since-1972-reversion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T06:31:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/world/science-health-world/1-1-billion-people-high-blood-pressure-poor-suffer-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T10:16:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-16T10:19:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-okishooting-a-20161117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This still image taken from an aerial video provided by KWTV shows police responding to a shooting at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City on Tuesday. Police say the airport has been closed following the shooting there. Airport spokeswoman Karen Carney says all operations are suspended.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/business/new-condo-supply-slips-tokyo-area-surges-around-osaka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T11:01:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/national/crime-legal/bangladesh-court-charges-seven-banned-islamist-group-slaying-japanese-farmer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T14:20:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-dhaka-a-20161117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dhaka-a-20161117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bangladeshi police stand guard Tuesday in front of the entrance to the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka, where Islamist extremists killed 22 hostages, mostly foreigners. Police have handed the Holey Artisan Bakery back to its owners after completing a four-month investigation into the siege by extremists linked to the Islamic State group. The owner of the Bangladeshi restaurant said he would turn the building into a home for his family and reopen the eatery elsewhere.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/world/kerry-announces-yemen-cease-fire-objections-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T15:08:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/business/economy-business/boj-inflation-goal-still-optimistic-doesnt-include-trump-factor-ex-exec/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T15:21:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/business/financial-markets/battered-yen-faces-new-reality-trump-reflationary-pressure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T16:17:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Computer screens in a Tokyo trading room show the yen surging to the 101 range to the dollar Nov. 9 on news reports Donald Trump was winning the U.S. Presidential race.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/national/russian-minister-held-corruption-japan-relations-impacted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T17:16:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-russiabribe-a-20161116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-russiabribe-a-20161116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian Economic Development Minister Alexey Ulyukayev shakes hands with Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko in Moscow on Nov. 3.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/business/corporate-business/nintendo-release-first-iphone-mario-game-dec-15/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T18:22:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mario-a-20161117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A statue of Nintendo Co.'s video-game character Mario is seen at the Nintendo Game Front showroom in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/national/crime-legal/acting-arrested-dads-tip-police-find-childs-buried-corpse-osaka-river/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T19:04:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-missingboy-a-20161117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-missingboy-a-20161117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigate a site in the mountains of the village of Chihayaakasaka, Osaka Prefecture, where the body of a small boy was found Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/national/politics-diplomacy/diet-panel-reopens-talks-constitutional-revision-first-time-since-february/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T19:07:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/business/tech/hitachi-develops-japans-first-lensless-camera-technology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T19:20:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/b-lensless-a-20161116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-lensless-a-20161116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Hitachi Ltd. camera prototype does not have a lens.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-looks-bush-era-new-head-u-s-environmental-agency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T19:58:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/f-eparip-a-20161117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-eparip-a-20161117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Following Donald Trump's election as president of the United States, the Sierra Club, a leading environmental organization, has moved to feature him in its fundraising appeals, as shown on its website on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/national/malaysia-leader-abe-talk-shop-tpp-south-china-sea-bullet-trains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T20:07:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-malaysia-a-20161117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (right), accompanied by his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, reviews a guard of honor prior to their meeting in Tokyo Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/little-known-republican-becomes-trump-liaison-congress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T20:40:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/f-collins-a-20161117.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chris Collins]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/national/social-issues/asylum-seekers-trapped-limbo-japan-keeps-door-closed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T20:50:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-refugee-a-20161117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Civilians walk past damaged buildings in the rebel-held area of Old Aleppo, Syria, on Monday. Of 7,586 applications from Syrians for refugee status in Japan in 2015, only 27 were granted.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/national/japan-government-panel-halves-price-cancer-drug-opdivo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T21:46:37+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/national/record-number-foreign-students-find-work-graduating-japanese-universities-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T21:46:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/national/trump-finds-supporter-fellow-dictator-hashimoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T21:52:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-hashimoto-a-20161117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hashimoto-a-20161117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toru Hashimoto]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/national/japans-nuclear-watchdog-let-third-reactor-run-beyond-40-year-limit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-16T23:03:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-mihama-a-20161117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mihama-a-20161117]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/national/survey-indicates-80-percent-japans-single-working-people-spend-time-off-alone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-17T04:15:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-single-a-20161117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Around 80 percent of surveyed single working people in Japan often spend their days off by their lonesome.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/16/national/crime-legal/japanese-national-found-dead-pakistan-hotel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-17T04:18:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/17/national/japan-among-worst-performers-fighting-climate-change-germanwatch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-17T07:32:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/17/business/abe-urges-japan-inc-hike-pay-scales-fourth-straight-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-17T07:36:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/17/national/politics-diplomacy/hiroshima-nagasaki-mayors-want-trump-visit-bombed-cities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-17T07:59:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/17/national/social-issues/yokohama-mayor-wants-school-board-probe-failed-help-bullied-fukushima-evacuee-boy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-17T08:16:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/17/world/nixons-pentagon-chief-melvin-laird-vietnamization-advocate-dies-94/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-17T11:28:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/f-laird-a-20161118.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-laird-a-20161118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this 1992 file photo, former Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Laird, defense secretary under Richard Nixon who helped engineer withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, has died.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/17/world/social-issues-world/lawyers-get-board-u-s-lgbt-ranks-rush-legally-change-gender-amid-trump-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-17T11:46:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey shows just over half of Japanese firms are reviewing rules governing working hours.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From 1970 through 2014, Japan had the lowest productivity-per-hour of any Group of Seven nation, according to a report from the Japan Productivity Center.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-17T22:21:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic Corp.'s new megaphone features automatic translation of Japanese into English, Chinese and Korean.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-17T22:29:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German police guard Frankfurt's airport on March 23, a day after suicide attacks at Brussels Airport.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-18T03:38:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Post will begin taking orders Monday for gold plates celebrating Ichiro's 3,000th hit in the U.S. Major Leagues.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump's election win has given BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda room to breathe, as the yen is on the fall.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-18T17:16:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two whaling ships leave the port in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Friday to conduct so-called research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/18/national/crime-legal/three-bodies-found-gifu-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-18T17:20:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police investigation is ongoing Friday into the cause of death of three people found in a home in the city of Gifu.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-18T17:21:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rio de Janeiro Gov. Sergio Cabral celebrates during a news conference following the signing of the host city contract after Rio de Janeiro was announced as the winning city bid for the 2016 Olympic Games at the 121st IOC session in Copenhagen on Oct. 2, 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-18T17:45:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers try out Apple Inc.'s iPhone 7 smartphones at the company's store in Tokyo's Ginza district on Sept. 27.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Airbus Chief Operating Officer Fabrice Bregier (left) shakes hands with Peach Aviation CEO Shinichi Inoue at a joint news conference in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-18T18:04:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida during a bilateral meeting at the APEC Ministers Meetings in Lima on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/17/national/japans-top-buzzword-candidates-for-2016-range-from-pikotaro-to-the-trump-phenomenon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-18T18:33:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Pikotaro]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prior to a news conference, Pikotaro performs "PPAP" at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan on Oct. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-18T19:13:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Sudanese women stand outside a U.N. Refugee Agency site distributing soap, blankets and other items in Yei on Monday. The formerly peaceful town, surrounded by farms, was once a beacon of co-existence but is now the center of the country's renewed civil war, gripped by a wave of killings among dozens of ethnic groups.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The president of the World Baseball Softball Confederation Ricardo Fraccari at press conference in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/18/business/apec-vows-promote-free-trade-protectionism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-18T21:24:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-18T22:57:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-19T10:59:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A golden pheasant with golden feathers said to resemble the hairstyle of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is seen at Hangzhou Safari Park in Hangzhou, China, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-19T11:11:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-19T12:10:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/18/national/nagoya-warns-castle-tower-collapse-strong-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-19T13:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials place a sign warning on Friday in the city of Nagoya saying that the main building at Nagoya Castle could collapse in strong earthquakes.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-19T15:28:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-19T15:29:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satellite imagery released Tuesday by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank show Vietnam-held Spratly Island in the disputed South China Sea.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[American soldiers hold the South Korean and U.S. flags before a joint ceremony at a U.S. Army base in Uijeongbu, just north of Seoul, in June 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/19/national/history/vileness-quality-repugnant-evil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-19T22:02:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-19T22:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Forging ties: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prepares to address reporters following a meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/19/national/science-health/manipulating-brain-hasten-learning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-19T22:12:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sultan of swing: Ichiro Suzuki recalls hitting around 500 pitches per day as a child.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-19T19:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meeting the new guy: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (third from the left) meets with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (second from the left) in New York, as Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump (right) looks on.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/19/national/informed-public-project-seeks-environmental-justice-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-19T22:28:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Above right: Informed-Public Project founder Masami Kawamura outlines contamination to a group of environmentalists in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-19T20:02:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe poses for a photograph with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in New York on Nov. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-19T20:03:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mage Island could host an SDF base for disaster training and a site for U.S. military aircraft training.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukimi Takahashi, the mother of Dentsu employee Matsuri Takahashi, who committed suicide last December, speaks at a symposium on overwork in Tokyo on Nov. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-19T21:51:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In poverty?: Some Japanese people believe a person isn't really poor unless they wear shabby clothes and live on the street.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-19T23:04:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-19T23:28:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-20T12:22:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this image made from a video provided by Hamilton LLC, actor Brandon Victor Dixon, who plays Aaron Burr, America's third vice president, in "Hamilton" speaks from the stage after the curtain call in New York on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a statement before a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday in Lima.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees listen to a speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping shown on a screen during the opening ceremony of the third annual World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/senior-u-s-officials-recommend-removal-nsa-director-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-20T16:06:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[National Security Agency Director Admiral Michael Rogers participates in a session at the Intelligence and National Security Summit in Washington on Sept. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/20/national/politics-diplomacy/russia-friendly-trump-likely-give-abe-leeway-putin-negotiations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-20T20:52:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/19/national/contamination-documents-reveal-three-u-s-bases-okinawa-slow-disclose-environmental-accidents/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tochigi Gov. Tomikazu Fukuda celebrates his re-election Sunday evening in Utsunomiya.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeho Kitamoto and her four children are forcibly relocated along with others from Bainbridge Island, Washington, in March 1942 as part of the U.S. government's internment of people with Japanese ancestry.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-21T19:23:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People try out KDDI's virtual traveling service on Nov. 2 in Tokyo. Wearing headsets, the two people are vicariously exploring Manly Beach, Australia, in real time, seeing what a travel agent sees on the screen around them.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Fuji is capped with ice and snow Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/21/business/boj-policymaker-concerned-trumps-effect-markets/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-21T19:46:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-21T19:49:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a news conference in Lima on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-21T20:17:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeyoshi Sata, head of the Hospital of the University of Occupational and Environmental Health in Fukuoka Prefecture, briefs reporters in October about holes found in IV bags. The hospital revealed a similar incident occurred Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/taiwan-sees-exchange-chinas-leader-apec-positive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-21T21:29:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People hold on to paper lanterns to mark the annual Yi Peng festival in the popular tourist city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand on Nov. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/21/national/politics-diplomacy/powerful-japanese-lawmaker-urges-re-evaluation-u-s-relationship-trump-taking-office/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-21T23:40:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Ishiba]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/21/national/crime-legal/two-temples-one-shrine-nara-vandalized-liquid/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Shinto shrine in the city of Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, was vandalized with a colorless liquid Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/21/business/chinas-anbang-reportedly-may-buy-2-3-billion-japanese-property-blackstone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-22T04:25:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/21/national/politics-diplomacy/okinawa-minister-returns-payments-tickets-fundraiser/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-22T04:27:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yosuke Tsuruho]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/21/national/japanese-man-indicted-china-alleged-national-security-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-22T04:29:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/cabinet-hopefuls-kept-guessing-parade-trump-high-nyc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-22T12:15:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trump-a-20161123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach holds a stack of papers as he prepares to meet with President-elect Donald Trump at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse Sunday in Bedminster, New Jersey. Kobach, a immigration adviser to rump and a possible candidate for a top government post, wants to make some changes at the Homeland Security Department, including reinstituting a registration system for certain immigrants.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-23T18:02:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-23T18:21:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-23T18:23:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump appears at a campaign roundtable event in Manchester, New Hampshire in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-23T19:49:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-23T19:49:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (left) announces his intention Tuesday at the prefecture's headquarters to cooperate with Nagasaki University to set up a laboratory to handle deadly pathogens.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-23T21:55:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T06:53:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T10:12:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T11:05:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T11:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T14:13:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[2016 is being called the dawn of the virtual reality era.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T15:35:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T15:43:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T15:44:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T15:48:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T15:54:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T16:05:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T16:14:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T16:20:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo shows a soft, skin-mounted microfluidic device for the capture, collection and analysis of sweat.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T16:37:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/24/national/social-issues/fukushima-evacuee-bullied-yokohama-classmates-issues-appeal-suicide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-24T16:52:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T16:57:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-24T17:30:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp., explains at a Tokyo symposium in September that clean energy may become a cheaper power source than coal if countries in Asia are connected by grids and undersea cables.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/24/business/tech/toyota-expects-improve-ev-batteries-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-24T17:32:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. is looking to develop a new advanced battery to drive its electric vehicles.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seongnam Mayor Lee Jae-myung poses following an interview on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young Japanese today prefer security and show little of the "animal spirit" needed to help realize Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's vision of a "great entrepreneurial nation," experts say.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Central Americans and Mexicans line up to apply for U.S. asylum Thursday at a crossing in Tijuana, Mexico.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/world/science-health-world/gut-microbes-may-play-role-yo-yo-dieting-obesity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-25T15:41:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-25T15:45:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/24/national/u-n-rights-expert-vows-efforts-resolve-n-korea-abduction-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-25T15:52:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea Tomas Ojea Quintana speaks with Katsunobu Kato, minister in charge of the abduction issue, at the Cabinet Office in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/business/swiss-vote-ending-nuclear-power-raises-prospect-fossil-fuels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-25T16:26:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-25T16:30:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syahri Rochmat (left), a 24-year-old railway worker from Indonesia, and Shota Noda, a 21-year-old college student from Yokohama, are all smiles in Japan in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/business/corporate-business/electronics-firm-elecom-exits-india-four-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-25T17:18:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-25T17:26:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump for the first time in New York on Nov. 17.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/national/msdf-chief-hot-water-alleged-interference-chopper-contract-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-25T17:27:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomohisa Takei]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/business/corporate-business/japan-display-said-close-securing-%c2%a5100-billion-bailout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-25T17:32:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/24/national/meteorological-agency-warns-overnight-snowfall-cause-transportation-delays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-25T17:36:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Snow falling at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/business/economy-business/retailers-turn-deaf-ear-kurodas-inflation-pledge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-25T17:53:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stores as diverse as supermarket operator Aeon, Mister Donut and Wal-Mart have all announced price cuts since BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's inflation pledge.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/business/companies-bet-sea-change-tidal-power-indonesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-25T17:59:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past a model of a marine turbine for generating electricity at an infrastructure expo in Jakarta on Nov. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/business/ldp-agrees-unify-tax-rates-beer-similar-alcoholic-drinks/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Currently, different tax rates are levied on beer and beer-like drinks.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-25T18:17:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government's push to raise wages may be forcing many people to work less.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/national/crime-legal/graduate-student-charged-fatal-stabbing-nakano-woman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-25T18:23:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-25T18:35:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visiting Lesotho King Letsie III shakes hands with Michio Umemoto, the leader of nonprofit group Stone for Peace Association of Hiroshima, after receiving a paving stone that survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing at a ceremony Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/business/worlds-biggest-pension-fund-gains-%c2%a52-4-trillion-stocks-rally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-25T19:09:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/national/crime-legal/drug-unit-busts-22-members-alleged-nagano-pot-communities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-25T21:27:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/national/koike-cuts-pay-secret-tsukiji-planners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-26T11:04:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-11-26T11:22:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/national/crime-legal/couple-caught-driving-around-dead-boy-trunk-likely-received-child-care-allowances/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-26T12:41:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rena Suzuki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/national/crime-legal/sagamihara-care-facility-failed-share-info-massacre-panel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-26T12:41:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Floral tributes are seen in front of Tsukui Yamayuri En in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sept. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/national/sailor-moon-condoms-combat-syphilis-heroines-fans-flustered-age-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-26T12:41:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sailor Moon heroine Usagi Tsukino is championing the government's campaign against sexually transmitted diseases.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/national/santa-trump-plays-pokemon-go-kobe-museum-christmas-display/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-26T13:24:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Figures of newsmakers, including Donald Trump and Yuriko Koike, are exhibited for Christmas on the roof of the Uroko no Ie museum in the historic Kitano district of Kobe Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/26/asia-pacific/chinese-academics-say-trump-will-pursue-regional-hegemony-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-26T13:34:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satellite images taken on Feb. 14 and Feb. 3 of Chinese-controlled Woody Island in the South China Sea show the apparent deployment of surface-to-air missiles.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/26/asia-pacific/u-n-close-sanctions-deal-slash-north-korean-export-earnings-diplomats-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-26T14:17:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un takes part in a photo session with participants in the Sixth Congress of the Democratic Women's Union of Korea in this undated photo released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/26/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-china-hold-first-bilateral-security-talks-since-march-2015-monday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-26T16:03:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/26/national/national-stadiums-groundbreaking-ceremony-set-dec-11-work-start-earlier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-26T16:37:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/cuban-revolutionary-leader-fidel-castro-dead-90/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-26T17:06:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cuban rebel leader Fidel Castro (center), surrounded by the members of his leftist guerrilla movement, waves from a jeep entering Havana after his victory over the forces of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in January 1959. Castro died late Friday at the age of 90.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/national/politics-diplomacy/ruling-bloc-rams-pension-cutting-bill-committee-making-diet-passage-likely/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-26T21:43:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opposition lawmakers harangue Hideki Niwa (seated), chairman of the Lower House health, labor and welfare committee, at a session Friday before the ruling block rammed a pension bill through the panel without their consent.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/26/national/media-national/hand-keys-getting-japans-elderly-drivers-off-road/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-26T23:30:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Danger zones: Vehicles moving along a Shizuoka Prefecture expressway leave trails of light.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/26/national/media-national/hopes-stopping-tokyo-2020-fading/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-26T23:33:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Into the shadows: A woman is silhouetted against a monitor showing Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic emblems during the Olympic and Paralympic flag-raising ceremony at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in Tokyo on Sept. 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/26/national/new-road-fukuoka-sinkhole-slumps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-26T23:45:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman crosses a new road built over a recently filled-in sinkhole in downtown Fukuoka on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/26/national/china-sends-fighter-jets-bombers-sensitive-strait-south-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-26T23:54:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/26/world/pope-francis-grieves-prays-late-atheist-revolutionary-leader/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-27T00:06:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/26/national/japanese-defense-ministry-launch-first-communications-satellite-january/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-27T01:27:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/27/national/politics-diplomacy/kansai-firms-concerned-asian-markets-trumps-tpp-pullout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-27T14:05:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kansaiside-a-20161128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The election of Donald Trump as U.S. president will have little impact on the economy in Kansai, where merchants are more concerned about problems in neighboring countries.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trumps-tough-talk-castro-cuba-shows-big-shift-obama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-27T15:18:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A person in a Donald Trump mask holds a sign reading, "The rat dies" in Spanish on Saturday during a celebration in Miami of the death of longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/26/business/burn-aging-japans-growing-numbers-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-27T18:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-yen4living-a-20161127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Burning issue: Bearers carry a body into a crematorium in Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture. Cremation accounts for almost 100 percent of all body disposal in Japan, the highest rate in the world.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/27/world/offbeat-world/haute-cuisine-santa-serves-sleigh-borne-dinner-sky/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-27T19:04:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-santasleigh-a-20161128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Santa in the Sky," a decorated dining platform lifted by a crane, appears to fly over Brussels on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/27/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-cabinet-support-rate-surges-60-7/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-27T23:24:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/27/business/japan-plans-supercomputer-leap-technology-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-27T23:26:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/27/national/fukushima-aftershock-renews-public-concern-restarting-kansais-aging-nuclear-reactors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-11-27T23:29:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gakugei University President Toshisada Deguchi (center) apologizes Tuesday over the mishandling of a bullying case in an affiliated high school.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The average scores of Japanese elementary and junior high school students in mathematics and science saw improvements in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-06T22:32:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's economy is backed by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's promise to fire up American growth, the weaker yen and rising oil prices.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan and the United States are reportedly arranging a meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President-elect Donald Trump around January 27.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kikuo Iwata]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iraqi army forces fire toward Islamic State militant positions in Mosul from the outskirts of Bartila, Iraq, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. Ryan Zinke arrives for a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-14T19:26:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A severely damaged MV-22 Osprey aircraft lies on a reef near the coast of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-14T19:33:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-14T19:45:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President-elect Donald Trump smiles during a rally at DeltaPlex Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/14/business/tech/tokyo-arcade-looks-vr-highlight-high-end-tech-boost-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-12-14T20:30:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man tries a virtual reality game called "Dive Hard" in which the player scales a skyscraper and fights robots at a media preview of new VR arcade in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/14/national/osprey-crash-landing-angers-okinawans-sparks-nationwide-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-12-14T20:31:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People protest at the gate of Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa, on Wednesday, after Tuesday's MV-22 Osprey aircraft crash near Nago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/14/business/corporate-business/line-seeks-shake-messaging-business-spur-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-12-14T20:45:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-14T20:46:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many of the people interviewed in Tokyo expressed reservations about the casino bill, echoing the views of some opposition lawmakers.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-14T21:08:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Coast Guard patrol boat and a helicopter search for the capsized Daifuku Maru and its crew off the coast of Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-15T04:31:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer leaves Trump Tower in New York on Nov. 13.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Environmentalists are concerned that Tuesday's ditching of a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey off Okinawa may affect endagngered dugongs inhabiting the area. Defense Ministry/ VIA KYODO]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo (right) and the Rev. Robert Reyes participate in a protest against alleged extrajudicial killings in Manila on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-15T14:41:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Issei Iimura (left), who expects to finish university next spring, chats on June 30 with Shotaro Nieda, who will mentor him at Asatsu-DK Inc.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-15T15:41:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo taken on Oct. 7, 2015 shows Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson during the 2015 Oil and Money conference in central London.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/15/business/bank-japan-tries-financial-education-mound-money-failed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-12-15T16:18:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seijiro Katsura, a 44-year-old office worker, checks market rates for investment opportunities using his smartphone at his home in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/15/national/politics-diplomacy/rebuilding-u-s-barracks-restarts-okinawa-nine-month-hiatus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-12-15T17:12:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-15T17:31:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The gasoline-powered (right) and hybrid versions of Toyota Motor Corp.'s new C-HR compact sport utility vehicle are displayed in a parking lot at a media event ahead of the sales launch in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/15/world/science-health-world/undersea-mystery-genetic-secrets-seahorse-unveiled/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-12-15T17:31:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seahorses are "one of the examples of the exuberance of evolution."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-15T17:32:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SDF members use noise-emitting devices to frighten rioters at a drill simulating the protection of Japanese citizens in Gunma Prefecture on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/15/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-legalizes-casino-gambling-despite-final-stalling-tactics-opposition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-12-15T19:14:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-15T20:26:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Komeito chief Natsuo Yamaguchi votes against the controversial casino bill during the Upper House plenary session Wednesday. Despite being part of the ruling coalition, Komeito left the decision to each of its members.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-15T21:46:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo Co., creator of the popular Super Mario character, makes a surprise appearance at Apple Inc.'s press event in San Francisco in September to announce the launch of a "Super Mario" game for smartphones.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-15T21:49:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative says this satellite image appears to show anti-aircraft guns and close-in weapons systems on the artificial island of Johnson Reef in the South China Sea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/15/national/body-found-near-sunken-fishing-boat-off-shimane-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-12-15T22:43:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-15T22:58:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-16T05:00:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-16T06:14:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-16T10:55:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-16T12:35:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This artist rendering by NASA shows the Dawn spacecraft orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres. New findings presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting on Thursday show that ice can exist in permanently shadowed craters on Ceres and is widespread below the surface. Dawn has been studying Ceres since 2015 after a stop at the asteroid Vesta.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/15/national/politics-diplomacy/putin-tops-forbes-powerful-people-list-fourth-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-12-16T15:06:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks in front of a sign board on Thursday that reads "Welcome to the Japan-Russia summit meeting" near the summit's venue in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/16/national/race-complaint-lodged-comfort-women-statue-australian-church/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A statue commemorating Korean "comfort women" is pictured at a Sydney church on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/16/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/lost-lives-chinas-invisible-children-fight-recover-missed-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-12-16T15:22:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese couple pose with their son, their only child, in December 2013, before China eased family planning restrictions to allow couples to have two children.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/16/world/fall-aleppo-puts-iran-cusp-shiite-crescent-influence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-12-16T16:51:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mourners carry the coffins of four militia members of a Shiite group, the Nujaba movement of Islamic Resistance, in the Shiite holy city of Najaf in Iraq in December 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/16/business/economy-business/japan-issue-%c2%a51-8-trillion-bonds-make-tax-shortfall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2016-12-16T17:10:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-21T16:19:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-21T17:12:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kwansei Gakuin University Vice President Takahiro Shinyo]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keio University will launch a global legal practice LL.M.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/19/national/rikkyo-aims-foster-international-liberal-arts/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rikkyo University will launch its Global Liberal Arts Program in April.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A ceremony was held to commemorate the Refugee Higher Education Program Agreement between Sophia University and the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/19/national/globalization-efforts-aim-foster-international-mindsets/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: Kiho Takada, born and raised in Malaysia, and Amilcar Ortiz from Guatemala are students at the Global Business Program (GBP) in the Faculty of Business Administration and the Sustainability Co-creation Programme (SCOPE) in the Faculty of Sustainability Studies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/19/national/comments-workers-international-organizations/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masataka Fujita, secretary-general of the ASEAN-Japan Centre]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Student Ambassadors promote OECD awareness at their universities.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The panel of experts were specifically tasked by the government with finding ways companies can help facilitate the marriages of employees.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-21T17:43:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-21T18:51:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An airport security guard masked against heavy smog stands on duty at Beijing's international airport Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Industry minister Hiroshige Seko (right) speaks to Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa (foreground) about the fate of the Monju fast-breeder reactor on Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Russian businessmen in the Kremlin in Moscow Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-22T09:31:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-22T11:47:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Exploited workers?: An employee folds clothing in a Uniqlo store.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-22T14:22:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-22T14:27:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-22T15:24:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-22T15:25:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-22T15:27:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-22T16:42:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-22T16:43:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-22T16:44:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-22T17:55:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of newborn babies in Japan slipped below 1 million for the first time ever in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Securing stable tax revenues is seen as a top priority at a time when the nation's aging population is expected to increase already ballooning social security expenses in the years ahead.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-24T13:15:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the U.N. Security Council vote on an arms embargo and sanctions against the government of South Sudan on Friday in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-24T22:48:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Remember the dead: The USS Arizona Memorial, which Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit in late December, may have been visited by former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita on a trip to Hawaii in June 1988.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-24T20:48:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The front page of Hawaii Hochi newspaper published on Oct. 30, 1956, reported on the visit of then-Japanese Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama to Pearl Harbor the day before.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2016-12-24T20:50:03+09:00</lastmod>
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