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		<lastmod>2017-02-08T15:02:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-08T15:26:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-08T15:35:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suzuki Motors Corp. is considering expanding its ties with Toyota.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during their meeting at the Great Hall of the People, on the sidelines of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings in Beijing in November 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-08T19:46:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The yen is likely to be sensitive to any further criticism of Japan's monetary policy during Trump's meeting with Abe at the White House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsutoshi Kaneda]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Late last month, Sharp parent Foxconn revealed a U.S. investment plan worth ¥800 billion.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-08T21:13:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kasumigaseki Country Club, slated to host golf at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has been under fire for not allowing women to become full members or play on Sundays.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The health ministry may allow smoking in small bars, clubs and restaurants as exceptions to a smoking ban.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya sit in their house at the Balukhali Makeshift Refugee Camp on Wednesday in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/world/cyberexperts-arrest-silences-russian-contacts-western-crime-fighters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-09T14:10:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-09T14:34:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Tanasak Patimapragorn delivers a speech during the 100-day Merit-making Grand Ceremony for His Majesty the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Saturday at The Royal Grand Hall of Buddhism at the Nenbutsushu Sampozan Muryojuji Head Temple in Kato, Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/national/businesses-await-japans-new-era-name-emperors-abdication-looms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-09T15:27:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Calendar table photo]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Calendar-makers will likely be forced to change the Emperor's Birthday national holiday to reflect the new emperor's date of birth while the current Dec. 23 holiday may be renamed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/national/okinawa-debuts-designated-driver-service-covering-u-s-forces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-09T15:28:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsuyoshi Arasaki stands besides a car from his designated driver service company in the city of Okinawa on Jan. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-09T15:52:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sexcrime-z-20170209.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A number of young women have reported being coerced into performing sex acts after signing contracts with talent agencies, according to a government survey.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/business/corporate-business/carlsberg-said-weigh-bid-1-2-billion-tsingtao-stake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-09T16:22:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-09T16:38:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past the World Trade Center Building, which houses the Orix Corp. headquarters, in Tokyo's Minato Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/business/kansai-leaders-say-trump-must-taken-seriously-not-always-literally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-09T17:21:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The annual Kansai Economic Seminar kicked off Thursday in the city of Kyoto, with this year's discussion focusing on economic issues related to U.S. President Donald Trump and Britain's exit from the European Union.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/business/financial-markets/boj-maintain-powerful-easing-2-inflation-deputy-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-09T17:34:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/national/u-s-expert-decries-misleading-fukushima-reports-soaring-radiation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-09T17:34:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/business/nomura-bets-startup-help-japans-smokers-kick-habit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-09T18:39:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-smokers-a-20170210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nomura Holdings Inc. and Keio University are investing in CureApp Inc., a startup that develops mobile applications to treat ailments including tobacco addiction.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/national/rural-japans-folk-traditions-fading-residents-age/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-09T18:40:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nagahama deer dance preservation group in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, performs a traditional dance in this undated photo. The traditional dance is struggling to attract younger followers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/asia-pacific/pyongyang-using-refined-tactics-duck-sanctions-large-scale-u-n-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-09T18:53:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cook from the Haebangsan hotel performs a sandwich-making demonstration Tuesday during the National Cooking Competition in Pyongyang.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/national/democratic-party-demands-inada-quit-obfuscating-fighting-south-sudan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-09T20:56:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Tomomi Inada attends the Lower House budget committee in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-09T20:57:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasutaka Tsurumoto leaves a police station in Yamagata on Tuesday to be handed to prosecutors on rape charges.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-09T20:59:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A doctor at the Kanagawa Children's Medical Center in Yokohama examines the cardiac condition of a fetus through echography in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/business/corporate-business/mcdonalds-japan-bounces-back-%c2%a55-37-billion-profit-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-09T22:52:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mcjapan-a-20170210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan) has returned to profitability after years of slumping sales.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/business/corporate-business/takata-plans-book-%c2%a5107-5-billion-special-loss-april-december-period/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-10T04:11:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/10/business/conway-seen-violating-ethics-law-pitching-ivankas-goods-white-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-10T06:22:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This frame grab from video provided by Fox News shows White House adviser Kellyanne during her interview with "Fox News Fox and Friends" Thursday, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. Conway defended Ivanka Trump's fashion company, telling Fox News that Trump is a "successful businesswoman" and people should give the company their business.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/10/world/social-issues-world/malaysian-ship-bearing-aid-rohingya-docks-yangon-amid-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-10T08:35:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A diplomat's limousine carrying Malaysian dignitaries passes an anti-Rohingya hard-line Buddhist group, together with Buddhist monks, rallying outside Yangon's Thilawa port as the Malaysian ship carrying relief aid for the Rohingya Muslim minority arrives on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-10T10:27:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazilian marines patrol a street in Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/10/business/economy-business/trump-trumpets-phenomenal-tax-announcement-divulges-no-specifics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-10T10:50:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-10T10:51:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a Security Council meeting in Moscow Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-10T13:17:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-10T13:18:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-10T13:19:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-10T13:55:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer uses his Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Note 7 as he waits for an exchange at the company's headquarters in Seoul on Oct. 13.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Representatives of various National Olympic Committees are given tours of 26 Olympic venues, including Ajinomoto Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/10/business/chinas-exports-imports-rose-january-trade-gap-u-s-eased-preliminary-data-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-10T14:15:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The border fence between Mexico and the United States runs near Calexico, California, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past an electronic stock board on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-10T18:36:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heavy snowfall in front of Tottori Station on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-10T18:39:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos is locked in a van that is stopped in the street by protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Wednesday in Phoenix, Arizona. Apparently fearing her deportation, activists blocked the gates surrounding the office near central Phoenix in what the Arizona Republic says was an effort to block several vans and a bus inside from leaving.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-10T19:21:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, arrive at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/national/politics-diplomacy/can-golf-diplomacy-help-abe-score-win-win-trade-defense/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives at his office in Tokyo Thursday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/10/national/emperor-empress-meet-vietnamese-wives-children-wwii-soldiers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-10T21:52:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese H-6K bomber patrols islands and reefs in the South China Sea in this undated photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/appeals-court-tells-trump-wont-back-noah-feldman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-10T22:49:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks up the steps of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals building in San Francisco on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/10/national/social-issues/sexlessness-among-married-japanese-couples-on-the-rise-survey/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The results of a nationwide survey Friday found that nearly half of married couples in Japan have not made love for an extended period of time.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/10/national/crime-legal/justice-minister-consults-panel-lower-age-criminal-adulthood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-11T09:07:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-11T14:22:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iyo Matsumoto(left) and Yu Hayami.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-11T14:32:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akio Nitori, chairman and chief executive officer of Nitori Holdings Co., is interviewed at a Nitori Co. store in Tokyo earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/10/business/tech/japan-makes-big-push-for-hydrogen-fuel-cells-scorned-by-elon-musk-as-impractical/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-11T14:33:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A hydrogen tank for Toyota Motor Corp.'s Mirai fuel cell vehicle is displayed at the company's showroom in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-11T15:01:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beachgoers relax on Sydney's Bondi Beach on February on Saturday. Thousands of people flocked to Sydney's beaches to cool off, prompting warnings from lifeguards to stay close to shore and take precautions against the sun.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-11T15:04:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-11T15:05:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/11/national/japanese-researchers-recipients-%c2%a5880-million-u-s-military-funding-since-2007/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-11T15:51:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-11T16:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abdisellam Hassen Ahmed, a Somali refugee who had been stuck in limbo after President Donald Trump banned refugees from entering the U.S., kisses his wife, Nimo Hashi, after arriving at Salt Lake International Airport on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/10/national/politics-diplomacy/business-leaders-critical-abes-overtures-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-11T16:07:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talks to the media after his first meeting with then U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in New York on Nov. 17, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/china-wins-early-concession-trump-many-battles-remain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-11T16:08:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses the guests during a gift handover ceremony at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on Jan. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-11T16:10:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filipinos visit Nagoya's Oasis 21 complex for shopping, tourism and the arts in January 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/names-deported-u-s-wont-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-11T16:11:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-11T16:33:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People who want the Ground Self-Defense Force to withdraw from the U.N. peacekeeping mission amid deteriorating security conditions in war-ravaged South Sudan protest in front of the Diet on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/11/national/crime-legal/canadian-linked-japanese-womans-death-vancouver-charged-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-11T16:57:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/11/national/tanker-runs-aground-kagoshima-no-injuries-reported/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-11T21:15:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Sagan, a 5,404-ton Panamanian-registered tanker, is shown stuck on an island in Kagoshima Prefecture on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/11/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-trump-agree-discuss-bilateral-trade-framework/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-11T21:43:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is greeted by U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of their joint news conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/first-ladies-akie-melania-show-independent-streaks-likely-poles-apart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-11T21:45:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump accompany Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, as they arrive at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/11/national/heavy-snow-leaves-man-dead-train-stranded-along-sea-japan-coast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-11T22:15:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man clears away snow in the city of Tottori on Saturday morning as a stranded train on the Sanin Line is seen behind him.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/11/national/law-professor-proposes-japan-switch-republicanism-end-discrimination-posed-emperor-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-11T22:25:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/11/national/media-national/foreign-workers-stay-go/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-11T23:03:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p19-brasor-immigration-a-20170212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic advantage: Former Ambassador to Switzerland Takaji Kunimatsu is impressed by the European nation's approach to immigration. The Swiss government spends money on language lessons and vocational training in fields that benefit the country. When immigrants break the law, they are subject to deportation.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/11/national/media-national/defiant-apa-paints-target-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-12T11:56:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Damaged brand: Chinese residents in Japan march in protest against the Japanese hotel chain Apa in Tokyo on Feb. 5. The sign says "Boycott Apa hotels."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/11/business/resorting-adoption-avoid-inheritance-tax/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-12T13:35:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-brasor-inheritance-a-20170212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Money talks: Revisions to legislation that came into effect in 2015 have made a larger population subject to inheritance tax.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-13T07:11:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-13T10:31:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Hashimoto, a 45-year-old elementary school teacher in Tokyo, is taken to the public prosecutor's office Thursday after his arrest.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-13T12:35:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine National Police chief Gen. Ronald dela Rosa listens to a policeman's testimony in Manila, on Jan. 26 during a senate investigation into the death of South Korean businessman Jee Ick-joo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-13T14:08:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin makes his annual New Year's address to the nation in Moscow.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-13T14:08:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Frank-Walter Steinmeier and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend mass at St. Hedwigs Cathedral in Berlin on Sunday ahead of his election as Germany's new president.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-13T14:38:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Hee-jung, a candidate for the upcoming South Korean presidential election, attends a debate in Seoul on Feb. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-13T14:52:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe points to a reporter during a joint new conference with U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-13T15:27:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aichi Prefectural Police Officer Maiko Sato speaks about traffic safety in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/13/business/economy-business/trump-abe-rapport-wont-stop-yen-passing-100-jpmorgan-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-13T17:25:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/13/business/economy-business/deja-vu-currency-traders-forced-brush-trade-data-skills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-13T17:26:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-13T19:01:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-13T19:34:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A robot with a high-pressure spray removes paint and cable debris in the primary containment vessel of the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/12/national/sailor-missing-falling-sea-minesweeper-off-kochi-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-13T19:55:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-13T20:15:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up while walking to Marine One with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/13/national/aichi-teacher-draws-blame-following-student-suicide-sports-accident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-13T20:36:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo of Toshiba is pictured on its flash memory factory in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture. The firm is expected to announce a massive write-down on its nuclear reactor business on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman drinks a cocktail with whipped cream containing internal fluids juice from water bugs at a bar in central Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/15/national/cervix-vaccine-issues-trigger-health-notice/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speaking out: Mika Matsufuji (center), who represents a parents' association of cervical cancer vaccination victims, answers reporters' questions Friday at the health ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Rodong Sinmun, a North Korean newspaper, shows photos Monday of what it said was a Pukguksong-2 missile launch the day before.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police raid the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine hospital in the city of Kyoto on Tuesday in relation to the alleged forging of a medical certificate for a crime syndicate member.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during their meeting at the White House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Niigata Minamata disease victims protest in front of the health ministry building in Tokyo in May 1970.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A quarantine researcher inspects a chicken at a poultry farm in Xiangyang, China, on Feb. 3.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Utinan Won, 17, who was born and raised in Japan as the son of Thai overstayers, is interviewed at a welfare facility in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Jan. 28.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Who's the boss?: NHK has adopted a reality show called "Undercover Boss," which was created in 2009 by English TV producer Stephen Lambert.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Quick draw: The martial art of iaido puts emphasis on being aware of one's surroundings and psychologically primed for action.                        			 IStock]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to the OECD Health Statistics 2016 database released in June, Japan's total health spending accounted for 11.2 percent of its GDP in 2015, ranking third out of 35 OECD members and trailing only the U.S. and Switzerland.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Experts say today's senior citizens are much fitter than past generations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/20/national/temperatures-may-high-tokyo-2020-olympics-venues-last-summers-readings-indicate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-20T14:42:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-20T14:43:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a survey of Japanese who have received medical overseas, 24.2 percent said Japan’s health care system was “much better” than the system in the country they cited, while another 24.2 percent said they felt Japan’s system was “slightly worse.”]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-20T15:35:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Self-Defense Forces members guide students and teachers from a local Japanese school to a transport plane during a rescue drill at the Royal Thai Navy's Utapao Airfield, southeast of Bangkok, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-20T16:21:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-20T16:39:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-20T17:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Utah's Republican governor has opposed protecting the iconic Bears Ears buttes in the Four Corners region.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-20T19:34:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks to the media during his daily briefing in the White House on Feb. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-20T19:34:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cancer patient Kodai Nakamura (right) discusses his disease with participants at an exchange event on Feb. 11 in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/20/national/quake-sway-alerts-skyscrapers-added-emergency-warning-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-20T19:34:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Meteorological Agency plans to add alerts for so-called long-period ground motion that causes tall buildings to sway to its emergency warning system.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-20T20:17:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Four of the major political parties in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly have agreed to set up a powerful committee to examine the botched relocation of the Tsukiji fish market to the Toyosu district, show here in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-20T20:20:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomohiro Iwazaki]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-20T20:21:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-20T21:27:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-20T21:27:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Containers are seen at an industrial port in Yokohama last month. Imports increased more than exports last month on rising commodity prices.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-20T22:42:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This heartbeat sensor can detect stress in dogs, researchers at Osaka Prefecture University say.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-20T22:43:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/20/national/crime-legal/failed-genital-surgery-triggered-yakuza-attack-nurse-prosecutors-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-21T06:02:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-21T06:32:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-21T08:34:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-21T08:38:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-21T12:18:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some companies are setting an interval of at least eight hours between workers' shifts to promote a better work-life balance and increase productivity.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/17/national/osaka-preschool-scrutinized-passing-slurs-koreans-chinese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-21T13:19:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handwritten letter distributed to a parent by the deputy principal of Tsukamoto Kindergarten in February last year says, "I don't discriminate. But in my mind, I hate Koreans and Chinese."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-21T13:49:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Company personnel managers gather in Tokyo last November to discuss issues related to employee relocations.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-21T14:51:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-21T14:56:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic Corp. is looking to sell off its homebuilding subsidiary PanaHome Corp.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/21/business/corporate-business/toshiba-seeking-least-%c2%a51-trillion-chip-unit-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-21T15:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-21T16:28:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee inspects solar panels in the village of Dharnai, in India's Bihar state, in July 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/21/national/university-disciplines-teacher-made-discriminatory-remark-fukushima-student-glowing-dark/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-21T18:54:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-21T18:59:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An asylum seeker from Senegal who claims to be a victim of political persecution at home takes a free Japanese-language lesson at a Tokyo church on Feb. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-21T19:49:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[KDDI Corp. will launch a service to let people know how many bathroom cubicles are occupied by using a smartphone-connected service.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-21T19:58:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arriving passengers line up at immigration counters in Narita International Airport. The number of applicants for refugee status in Japan hit a record high in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-21T21:31:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-21T21:33:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[University of Tokyo Hospital in Bunkyo Ward has been selected as one of 28 hospitals friendly to non-Japanese visitors by a government-backed entity.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-22T04:06:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-22T10:40:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Artemenko speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in Kiev Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/22/national/crime-legal/man-72-slashes-stomach-wounds-cop-entrance-mpd-headquarters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-02-22T12:51:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An entrance to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police headquarters is cordoned off after a man slashed his stomach on Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-02-22T14:19:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-02T13:54:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Odakyu Electric Railway Co. staff pose with the company's new luxury Romancecar EXE express train in Tokyo's Shinjuku Station on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese military police take an oath against terrorism on Monday in Hetian, in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-02T16:02:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators enter Askul Corp.'s warehouse in the town of Miyoshi, Saitama Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/02/business/u-s-vice-president-pences-visit-japan-may-set-mid-april/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-02T16:42:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, pictured in Washington on Monday, is set to visit Japan for economic talks in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/02/business/u-s-negotiate-new-better-trade-deals-key-economies-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-02T17:06:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-02T17:22:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Terry Gou]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-02T19:36:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-02T19:38:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-02T20:44:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-02T20:46:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T00:15:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T09:51:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T10:10:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasunori Kagoike]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T10:42:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A damaged car is seen Thursday after an explosive disposal robot unit examined the vehicle. Police stopped the driver, known by authorities for radicalism, for initially failing to stop at a traffic light and subsequently discovered two gas cylinders within the rear of the vehicle. The man was arrested.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T14:08:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The website of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows Calvin Ayre, who is reportedly working with alleged bitcoin creator Craig Wright, as wanted for illegal gambling and money laundering on Jan. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T14:39:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nguyen Thi Xuan, 93, greets Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at a hotel in Hanoi on Thursday during an event held for the wives and offspring of Japanese war veterans who stayed in Vietnam after World War II.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T14:49:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T14:58:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese trainee Tang Xili uses a laptop computer in her room at a shelter managed by a local labor union in Hashima, Gifu Prefecture, in January last year. Japan has been heavily criticized for exploiting foreign trainees as cheap labor.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/03/world/science-health-world/scientists-create-first-artificial-mouse-embryo-stem-cells/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-03T15:09:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/03/world/science-health-world/ancient-tree-cultivation-shaped-amazon-landscape-researchers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-03T15:39:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cacao, the source of chocolate, is one of the species domesticated in the Amazon long ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/03/national/science-health/japan-consumer-center-warns-burn-dangers-beauty-salons-use-ultrasound-device/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-03T16:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/03/business/bill-toughen-punishment-fuel-data-falsification-gets-ok-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-03T16:40:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Motors Corp., as well as Suzuki Motor Corp., were found to have engaged in false reporting of fuel-economy data.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T16:43:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T17:06:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takaji Kunimatsu, former chief of the National Police Agency and now head of the nonprofit Outlook Foundation, says Japan needs to accept more foreign nationals as long-term residents and help them settle here.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T18:24:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Security personnel bring Shaikh Mohammad Abul Kashem in front of media on Friday in Dhaka after his arrest on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T18:27:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T18:55:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T19:07:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T19:11:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-03T20:55:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shintaro Ishihara]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/03/national/supporters-stage-new-york-rally-demanding-japan-release-okinawa-anti-base-activist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-03T20:57:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/03/national/visitors-hotel-stays-japan-climb-record-71-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-03T22:52:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Snow-covered ryokan (traditional inns) stand in the Ginzan Onsen hot spring resort in Yamagata Prefecture. The estimated number of hotel stays by visitors to Japan hit a record 70.88 million in 2016, according to the Japan Tourism Agency.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/03/business/rcep-envoys-make-progress-trade-deal-kobe-complexity-threatens-timeline/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-04T01:45:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A drone confiscated from a man who allegedly flew it in a prohibited area in Kitakyushu is shown to the media Friday at a police station in the city.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/04/national/politics-diplomacy/chinese-envoy-accuses-japan-u-s-treating-beijing-enemy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-04T12:26:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/04/business/u-k-wont-legally-bound-pay-eu-budget-no-exit-deal-reached-says-report-lawmakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-04T13:10:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-04T13:13:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An undocumented immigrant family from Guatemala talks to a volunteer in January after arriving at Annunciation House, an organization that provides shelter to immigrants and refugees, in El Paso, Texas.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen addresses the Executives' Club of Chicago on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Driving tough trade deals: Although Japan exports cars overseas, such as these awaiting shipment at Yokohama Port, motor journalist Mitsuhiro Kunisawa says that most similar cars bought in America are actually made in the United States by subsidiaries of Japanese companies.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Syrian government forces MiG-23 "Flogger" fighter plane flying over the city of Ayn Tarma in the Ghouta area, a rebel stronghold east of Damascus, on Feb. 25. A Syrian military aircraft reportedly crashed Saturday in the vicinity of the Syrian-Turkish border near Hatay province, the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency said, as Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on its part confirmed "a loss of communication with a military aircraft conducting reconaissance near the Turkish border."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-06T11:50:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-06T11:53:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-U.S. President Barack Obama greets President-elect Donald Trump at inauguration ceremonies swearing in Trump as president at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-07T12:36:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-07T13:25:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-07T13:41:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-07T14:24:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-07T15:38:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters march against U.S. President Donald Trump outside the Russian Embassy in Washington on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-07T21:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-07T21:01:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-07T21:10:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People march through the city of Fukushima in December to protest the impending end of housing subsidies for those who fled the nuclear disaster from areas other than the government-designated evacuation zones.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-07T21:11:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carrie Lam]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/07/business/corporate-business/yamato-hike-delivery-rates-first-time-27-years/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yamato Transport Co. says that in order to maintain service quality, it has to raise delivery fees.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-07T21:51:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/07/national/influential-science-group-votes-no-increased-military-research-academic-institutions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-07T21:51:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-07T22:15:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-07T23:20:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/20/national/embattled-osaka-kindergarten-chief-apologizes-denigrating-koreans-chinese/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-08T13:15:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Midori Matsushima]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/national/grief-victims-mental-care-specialists-reach-fukushima-evacuees/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May talks with students at King's College London Mathematics School in London in this file photo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroto Saikawa, Nissan Motor Co.'s co-chief, is interviewed in Geneva on Tuesday. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/kim-jong-un-seen-trying-taunt-trump-ratchets-tensions-across-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-08T16:37:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A ballistic missile drill is conducted by the North Korean military in this undated photo released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/business/economy-business/fourth-quarter-gdp-revised-capital-expenditure-rises-steadily/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-08T16:38:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-gdp-a-20170309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A stronger pace of growth will be a boon to the government as policymakers target expansion and productivity.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-fell-rank-163rd-193-nations-female-representation-parliaments-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-08T16:56:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-womenpolitics-a-20170309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Inter-Pariliamentary Union's report says Japan ranked 163rd in terms of women's participation in national politics among 193 countries last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/asia-pacific/china-says-first-draft-south-china-sea-code-conduct-ready/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-08T16:57:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gestures during a news conference on the sidelines of the National People's Congress in Beijing on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/business/three-arrested-unauthorized-export-china-carbon-fiber-making-equipment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-08T17:44:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/national/crime-legal/ban-mannequin-flash-mob-overturned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-08T18:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/business/economy-business/japans-current-account-surplus-shrinks-january-trade-deficit-widens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-08T18:02:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/national/japans-border-islands-get-%c2%a55-billion-boon-tourism-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-08T19:44:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/national/tohokus-pacific-coast-rising-sinking-2011-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-08T19:52:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waves are seen at an area damaged by the March 2011 tsunami in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 28. The surface level of the Pacific coastline in eastern Tohoku has been rising since sinking after the quake.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/24/national/politics-diplomacy/akie-abes-message-pulled-website-school-tied-questionable-land-deal-ethnic-slurs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-08T20:04:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-akie-a-20170225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, exit Air Force One after arriving in Florida with U.S. President Donald Trump on Feb. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/national/social-issues/japan-female-lawmakers-short-supply-annual-global-survey-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-08T21:38:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants call for women's rights and solutions to harassment during an International Women's Day march in Tokyo's Aoyama district on Wednesday. A total of 200 people took part in the event, according to police.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-lawmakers-draw-battle-lines-health-ministrys-anti-tobacco-crusade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-08T21:38:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/national/abuse-foreign-trainees-spiked-2016-immigration-bureau/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-08T22:35:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/national/disaster-drill-foreigners-mind-held-major-tokyo-tourist-area/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T06:35:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An earthquake evacuation drill that included foreign students was held in Tokyo's Asakusa tourist district Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/national/iaea-board-backs-incumbent-amano-third-term/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T08:22:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano addresses a news conference after a board of governors meeting at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/asia-pacific/u-n-security-council-holds-emergency-talks-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T12:36:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-urges-s-korea-prevent-erecting-statue-representing-wartime-workers-planned-consulate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T12:40:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/national/crime-legal/driver-gets-3-year-term-killing-boy-playing-pokemon-go/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T14:43:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/n-pokedeath-a-20170309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pokedeath-a-20170309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takatoshi Noritake, who lost his 9-year-old son Keita in an traffic accident caused by a truck driver playing the smartphone game "Pokemon Go," faces the media at a news conference Wednesday in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, after the driver was sentenced to three years in prison.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/asia-pacific/even-thaad-defense-north-korea-missile-barrage-poses-threat-south-korea-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T14:51:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/f-thanad-a-20170310.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-thanad-a-20170310.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters rally against deploying the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system outside the Defense Ministry in Seoul on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/national/taiwan-auto-parts-firm-leads-way-okinawa-business-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T16:04:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/n-okinawabeat-a-20170310.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawabeat-a-20170310.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon Hishiyama President Johnnie Lin briefs representatives of Taiwanese companies in the Okinawa city of Uruma in February.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/national/politics-diplomacy/lawmaker-piggybacked-puddle-hot-water/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T16:26:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/n-boots-a-20170310.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-boots-a-20170310.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shunsuke Mutai]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/business/corporate-business/japan-post-mulls-seeking-parcel-delivery-fee-hike-large-clients/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T17:05:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/b-jpost-a-20170309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jpost-a-20170309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Post Co. is reportedly considering trying to negotiate a hike in the parcel delivery fees it charges large clients due to a surge in online shopping.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/asia-pacific/china-developing-stealth-drones-evade-anti-aircraft-missiles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T17:18:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/business/corporate-business/toyota-may-delay-u-k-investment-decision-brexit-terms-clear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T17:28:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toyota-b-20170310.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors walk near a Toyota Motor Corp. Auris sedan displayed in the company's showroom in Tokyo on Feb. 8, 2011. The automaker is mulling future production of the new Auris in the U.K.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/business/economy-business/japans-real-wages-flat-january-nominal-wages-fourth-straight-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T17:39:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/18/asia-pacific/hina-suspend-imports-coal-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T18:29:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/f-chinacoal-a-20170219.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinacoal-a-20170219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People in Pyongyang watch a public broadcast on Feb. 13 about the launch of a surface-to-surface medium long-range Pukguksong-2 ballistic missile last week.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/national/japan-will-deliver-big-tokyo-2020-cultural-olympiad-london-games-official-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T18:29:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/n-cultural-b-20170310.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Negicco, a local idol group in the city of Niigata, perform at an event leading up to the Tokyo 2020 Cultural Olympiad, which kicked off last October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/world/contractors-likely-behind-cia-leak-u-s-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T18:35:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/business/aeon-launch-tourism-venture-aimed-helping-japans-quake-hit-tohoku-region/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T18:45:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tourism-a-20170310.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aeon Co. will launch a new business offering tourism and other activities in disaster-affected Tohoku areas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/national/tepcos-biggest-hurdle-remove-melted-fuel-crippled-fukushima-reactors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T19:26:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tepco's scorpion-shaped robot.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korean-missile-splashdown-closest-far-japans-mainland-government-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T20:28:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/n-sugank-a-20170310.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sugank-a-20170310.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/national/crime-legal/japan-child-abuse-pornography-cases-hit-record-highs-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T20:32:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/national/crime-legal/chiba-agency-pair-arrested-arranging-babys-adoption-profit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T20:34:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/national/moritomo-gakuen-faces-fraud-claims-call-diet-testimony-grows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-09T22:20:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasunori Kagoike]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/business/tech/nintendo-counting-high-praise-zelda-fuel-switch-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-10T12:09:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A scene from the video game "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/10/national/tsunami-hit-rikuzentakata-turns-home-stay-program-bolster-tourism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-10T15:11:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nepalese and Vietnamese students studying in Japan pose with their host parents after attending a three-day home-stay program in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/10/national/tepco-send-robot-fukushima-reactor-1-bid-find-melted-fuel-collect-samples/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-10T15:27:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/national/crime-legal/patent-authority-rules-nintendo-lets-go-kart-firm-keep-maricar-trademark/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-10T15:44:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists ride rented MariCar go-karts in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Feb. 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/10/asia-pacific/chinese-airlines-cut-routes-south-korea-amid-political-standoff-anti-missile-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-10T15:45:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/10/national/politics-diplomacy/parliamentary-vice-minister-replaced-following-puddle-piggyback-joke/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-10T16:17:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/n-gaffe-a-20170311.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shunsuke Mutai]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/10/business/corporate-business/toyota-suzuki-chiefs-talk-business-modi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-10T16:22:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/10/asia-pacific/china-stealth-jet-enters-service-navy-building-first-class-fleet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-10T16:45:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/10/national/social-issues/six-years-fukushima-child-evacuees-face-menace-school-bullies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-10T17:26:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuya Kamoshita, leader of an evacuees' rights group, says child evacuees are prone to bullying but that efforts to tackle the problem have fallen short.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/10/national/msdf-u-s-navy-conducting-joint-drill-east-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-10T17:27:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/10/business/corporate-business/concerns-emerge-guarantee-toshibas-u-s-nuclear-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-10T17:30:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction work is underway at the Vogtle nuclear plant in Waynesboro, Georgia, in August 2013. Toshiba Corp.'s reported plan to put its nuclear subsidiary Westinghouse Electric Co. through the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process in the U.S. has raised concerns over a potential financial burden on American taxpayers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/10/business/japan-firm-unafraid-take-risks-growing-renewable-energy-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-10T17:38:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ken Isono, founder of renewable energy venture Shizen Energy Inc., talks about his company's business strategy on March 1 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/10/national/nuclear-energy-industry-lacks-new-talent-fukushima-fallout-turns-off-graduates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-10T17:44:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nuclear businesses have seen a serious shortage of human resources since the March 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/10/national/tsukiji-fiasco-heads-powerful-investigative-committee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-10T18:36:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shintaro Ishihara]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-10T20:14:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer works in a rice field in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on July 8, 2015. The Trump administration is likely to focus on the auto and agricultural sectors in an upcoming economic dialogue with Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/11/business/ross-says-trade-deal-japan-high-priority-trump-administration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-11T12:11:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-11T12:11:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian opposition activist Ildar Dadin, 34, displays a banner reading "Freedom for Dadin" during a media interview in Moscow on March 3.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasunori Kagoike speaks to reporters on Thursday in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-11T15:13:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists view a traditional machiya townhouse in Kyoto's Shimogyo Ward last month. A boom in overseas visitors has helped make Japan the fastest-growing market for home-sharing company Airbnb Inc.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/11/national/check-finds-tepco-paid-6-fukushima-disaster-compensation/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-11T16:12:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-11T16:37:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-11T17:15:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Air Self-Defense Force chief Toshio Tamogami speaks to reporters in March 2016 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-11T22:52:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Learning to love Big Brother again: A customer reads a copy of "1984" at a bookstore in London. In "post-truth" 2017, the dystopian tale George Orwell penned in 1948 is again a best-seller.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-11T20:48:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-11T21:22:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi delivers a lecture on the nation's nuclear energy policy in Sapporo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-11T22:14:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Victims of ransomware are unable to open important files unless they pay perpetrators to obtain a decipher key.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-12T15:54:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Pauline Hanson addresses a One Nation election function in Perth, Western Australia, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Simple gestures: At public engagements, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is often seen holding hands with his wife, Akie, a gesture seen to signify that as Japan's first lady, she has the full support of her husband.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/12/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-cabinets-support-rate-dips-six-points-55-7-amid-ongoing-moritomo-school-scandal-poll/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party President Renho (center) and executives punch the air with their fists as party members watch during its annual convention held in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/12/national/arson-suspect-arrested-three-die-blaze-ehime-home-disabled/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hidamari 3 facility in Matsuno, Ehime Prefecture, is seen Sunday morning after a fire gutted the building earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This combination of pictures created Friday shows U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting about the federal budget in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington last month and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a joint press conference with the Danish Prime Minister at the chancellery in Berlin in 2014. Europe's most powerful leader, Merkel, meets for the first time on Tuesday with Trump, whose arrival in the White House has sent shockwaves across the Atlantic.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-13T13:41:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers stand in formation during a winter training drill in Heihe, in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, in January 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-13T15:41:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-13T17:10:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-13T17:11:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-13T17:50:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe touts Japan's sliding rate of bankruptcies as an economic success, critics point to the side effects of propping up "zombie" firms, such as excess competition leading to downward pressure on prices.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-13T20:36:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-13T21:21:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new app will be introduced to help judge whether calling an ambulance is really necessary.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T12:31:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House advisers Jared Kushner (center) and Steve Bannon (far left) listen as President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T12:45:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T13:19:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T13:26:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T13:51:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a visit to the Harshaw-Trane Parts and Distribution Center in Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T17:37:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Khalid Abdullah Al Hussan, CEO of the Saudi Stock Exchange, and Akira Kiyota, CEO of Japan Exchange Group, Inc., meet Tuesday at the Tokyo Stock Exchange.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T17:41:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T17:53:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T18:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors are used at the Braidwood Generating Station in Braceville, Illinois.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T18:11:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rodrigo Duterte]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese first lady Akie Abe and U.S. first lady Melania Trump feed koi at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Florida on Feb. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T18:15:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T18:16:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T19:19:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The MQ-1C Warrior UAV, an earlier version of General Atomics' MQ-1C Gray Eagle, is seen in August 2005.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nozomi shinkansen, celebrating its 25th anniversary, connects Tokyo and Shin-Osaka 2 hours and 22 minutes.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T20:37:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T20:45:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T21:18:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T21:18:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-14T22:28:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-15T03:33:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite being one of the most crowded metropolises in the world, Tokyo is known for its safety and people's tendency to bring misplaced property, even cash, to the police.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police stand near their vehicles in the southern French town of Grasse on Thursday following a shooting in the Tocqueville high school.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-17T08:17:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arrested drug suspects are cuffed with plastic tie cables following a raid by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) at an informal settlers' community inside the sprawling compound of a public cemetery Thursday in suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila. The drug raid came at a time that a Philippine lawmaker has filed an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte for the thousands of deaths in his anti-drug crackdown and for alleged corruption.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ali Hussein and his children, who fled the drought, stand to be filmed March 7 by a television camera in front of their makeshift hut in a camp for the displaced in Qardho in Somalia's semiautonomous northeastern state of Puntland. Somalia has declared the drought a national disaster, part of what the United Nations calls the largest humanitarian crisis since the world body was founded in 1945, and with animals being central to many the drought threatens their main sources of nutrition and survival.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo taken from video footage, Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma handles a diamond during a meeting with delegates of Kono district, where the gem was found, at the presidential office in Freetown Thursday. A pastor discovered the largest uncut diamond found in more than four decades in this West African country and turned it over to the government, saying he hopes it helps to boost recent development in his impoverished nation.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An arm-shaped robot developed by Shimizu Corp. helps construction workers lift 200-kg steel rods in Chiba Prefecture last August.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-17T13:44:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nihon University Itabashi Hospital has admitted four cases of dosage errors ocurred at the there in 2015 and 2016. One instance resulted in a patient entering cardiac arrest, though he was revived.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-17T13:51:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-17T16:27:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee works at the PeptiDream Inc. laboratory inside the University of Tokyo. PeptiDream is part of a handful of Japanese biotech ventures that have grown into billion-dollar companies.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-17T17:37:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elementary school students in Oga, Akita Prefecture, practice evacuating Friday, during a drill simulating a North Korean missile strike into nearby waters.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc. salesman explains its car insurance products last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-17T19:59:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Tomomi Inada attends a news conference Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rex Tillerson]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasunori Kagoike]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/17/national/muji-shanghai-shops-cleared-unsafe-food-claims-lodged-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-17T22:32:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-17T23:20:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-18T09:52:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Scarborough Shoal lies not far from the Philippines' western coast.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-18T11:53:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumiko Funemoto checks radiation levels at nonprofit group Tarachine's lab in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Jan. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-18T12:17:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Islamic State fighters wave the group's flag from a damaged government fighter jet following the battle for the Tabqa air base, in Raqqa, Syria, in this undated photo posted to the internet in August 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-18T13:19:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-cantorture-a-20170319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abdullah Almalki (center), with Muayyed Nureddin (left) and Ahmad El Maati, speaks during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in October 2007.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-18T16:01:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chey Tae-won]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-18T16:04:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Delfin Lorenzana]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-18T16:08:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-18T23:02:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-18T23:00:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the thick of it: Industry Minister Yosuke Takagi (right) is exploring a variety of options to boost agricultural areas near the crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Charles Darwin]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/18/national/history/evolution-japanese-ego-discovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-18T22:32:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-18T19:40:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Foreign Minister Takeo Akiba (far right) met with Russian counterpart Igor Morgulov (far left) on Saturday to discuss possible joint economic development of the Russian-controlled islands claimed by Japan off Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-19T10:03:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan hit a record high of foreign people living in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Conservative Member of Parliament Jason Kenney speaks following Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Feb. 1, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-19T15:53:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea tests a new high-powered engine at the country's Sohae satellite facility in Dongchang-ri on Saturday in this photo published by the state-run Rodong Sinmun daily Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-19T22:19:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping meets U.S. State of Secretary Rex Tillerson at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwanese cadets march during a ceremony to mark the 92nd anniversary of the Whampoa Military Academy, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, last June.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grating inside the containment vessel of the No. 1 reactor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is seen in this handout image captured by a robot Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/19/national/fukushima-fishermen-fight-release-tainted-water-tritium-standoff-continues/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends the graduation ceremony at the National Defense Academy in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Defense Minister Tomomi Inada attend the graduation ceremony of the National Defense Academy in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[When the Bank of Japan finally hits its inflation target and exits stimulus, it is likely to see huge balance sheet losses.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Francois Hollande (right) and Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, signal their agreement after a press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British American Tobacco’s Glo device has proved popular in its Japan debut, limited to Sendai. A wider release is set for later this year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine officials study Informatix Inc.'s anti-disaster service at the Shizuoka Prefectural Government office in November last year. The system utilizes geographical data and shows information about past natural disasters on a map to help officials work out better evacuation plans.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-23T18:48:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. has delayed its earnings announcement twice while it examines reports of "inappropriate pressure" relating to projects at its Westinghouse unit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Membership in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, headquartered in Beijing, is set to grow to 70 countries.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-23T19:52:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-23T21:01:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo's language immersion facility will target schoolchildren from fifth-grade to high school.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-23T22:50:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Several TV networks broadcast the Diet testimony of Moritomo Gakuen chief Yasunori Kagoike live on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-24T16:34:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-24T16:47:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-24T16:54:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-24T17:31:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-24T17:31:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-24T18:29:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-24T19:58:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-24T20:29:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-24T20:50:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[South Korea Koreas Tension]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean army soldiers shout slogans against the North Korea during a ceremony in Seoul on Friday to commemorate South Korean soldiers killed in three major clashes with North Korea in the West Sea. According to U.S. defense officials, North Korea is now in the final stages of preparing for yet another nuclear test that could come in the next few days.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-24T20:59:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-24T20:59:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-24T21:57:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/24/national/japan-issues-eruption-warning-undersea-volcano-off-aogashima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-24T22:37:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-24T22:40:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-24T22:41:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin and trade minister Hiroshige Seko greet each other before starting talks Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/25/asia-pacific/u-n-document-north-korean-crimes-prosecution-someday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-25T15:48:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/24/national/300000-chickens-doomed-bird-flu-spreads-miyagi-chiba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-25T15:49:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/25/national/double-decker-shinkansen-trains-phased/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-25T18:23:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/25/national/politics-diplomacy/senior-japanese-official-45-years-pays-visit-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-25T22:16:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/25/national/politics-diplomacy/20th-anniversary-abductee-support-group-demands-victms-return-north-korea-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-25T23:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeo Iizuka, whose younger sister, Yaeko Taguchi, was kidnapped in 1978 at age 22, speaks at a gathering held Friday in Tokyo for relatives of people abducted by North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/25/national/politics-diplomacy/matsui-takes-jab-abes-explanations-school-land-scandal-closes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-25T23:03:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Matsui]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-26T14:30:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy Segolene Royal leaves after the Cabinet meeting on March 22 at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/26/world/offbeat-world/200-couples-take-part-thailands-annual-running-brides-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-26T21:09:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sittichai Prasongsin, 27, and Sirada Thamwanna, 29, cross the finish line to win the "Running of the Brides" race at a park in Bangkok on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/26/national/tokyo-push-stronger-missile-defenses-two-plus-two-talks-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-26T21:53:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-26T21:54:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-26T23:29:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong chief executive candidate Carrie Lam smiles during the election on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-26T23:51:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T00:03:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-egg-a-20170327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sachiko Kishimoto, chief of the nonprofit group OD-Net, announces Wednesday in Tokyo that a woman successfully gave birth using an egg from an anonymous donor.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T00:08:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T00:08:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T06:18:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hospital workers move a body cart to the gate of the forensics wing of the Hospital Kuala Lumpur, where the body of Kim Jong Nam is being held, in Kuala Lumpur on March 21. Kim, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was assassinated in Malaysia on Feb. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T07:36:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Would-be immigrants wait to disembark in the port of Catania, Sicily, on March 21 from the ship Aquarius" following a rescue operation in the Mediterranean. The Aquarius, a humanitarian ship run by the NGO SOS Mediterranean and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), said it saved 946 people, including 200 unaccompanied minors rescued after being found drifting on nine wooden and rubber boats.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T09:58:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Political advisor Roger Stone poses for a portrait following an interview in New York City Feb. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/27/national/politics-diplomacy/incumbent-morita-wins-third-four-year-term-chiba-gubernatorial-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-27T12:58:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chiba Gov. Kensaku Morita holds a pair of red fish to celebrate his election victory in the city of Chiba on Sunday evening after voters gave him a third term.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T13:13:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women sit outside a go-go dance bar in Pattaya, Thailand, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/26/national/moritomo-gakuen-scandal-another-history-japans-nationalists-may-wish-rewrite/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-27T13:45:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With its leader Yasunori Kagoike in the middle of land transaction scandal, the opening of Moritomo Gakuen's new elementary school in Osaka Prefecture has been postponed indefinitely.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T14:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers questions during a budget committee session of the House of Councilors at the Parliament in Tokyo on March 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T16:06:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp.'s 2018 Lexus LS500 model sits on stage after being unveiled at the 2017 North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January. Toyota is taking its premium Lexus brand to India.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's newly elected leader, meets current Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying in the city on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/27/national/crime-legal/vietnamese-girl-9-found-apparently-slain-chiba-field-friendly-liked-chat-stunned-neighbors-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-27T19:01:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T19:03:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/26/national/timing-like-finances-everything-osakas-new-rail-links/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-27T19:08:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T19:39:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T19:55:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/27/national/wage-hike-wont-fix-staff-shortfall-day-care-centers-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-27T19:55:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T20:01:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T20:03:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two TC-90 training planes are lined up at a naval base in Cavite province, south of Manila, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (center) takes part in a rally in Nago on Saturday to protest the relocation of a U.S. military base he wants removed from the prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/27/business/corporate-business/discount-travel-agency-tellmeclub-files-bankruptcy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-27T20:35:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chikako Yamada, president of travel agency Tellmeclub, apologizes during a news conference to announce its bankruptcy in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T20:37:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T20:41:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Shiga Prefecture elementary school lavatory sports a colorful renovation.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T22:04:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe chats with Finance Minister Taro Aso before the Upper House Budget Committee session on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T22:35:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An inside view of a shared cell is seen at the East Japan Immigration Center in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, in March 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-27T23:26:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/27/national/government-proposes-reusing-decontaminated-fukushima-soil-landfill/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-28T12:28:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/25/national/kanagawa-turns-blind-eye-violators-smoking-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T12:45:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kanagawa Prefecture introduced Japan's first punitive anti-smoking ordinance in 2010 but hasn't punished anyone yet even though it logs around 1,000 violations per year, sources say.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/national/jr-firms-hone-earthquake-response-systems-for-shinkansen-lines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T14:36:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shinkansen-a-20170329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toki No. 325 derailed in October 2004 when a powerful earthquake rocked the Chuetsu region in Niigata Prefecture. It was the first bullet train derailment in history.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/australia-cancels-vote-ratify-contentious-extradition-treaty-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T15:10:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-oztreaty-a-20170329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull sits with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang as they watch an Australian Football League game at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the Australian capital on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/asia-pacific/north-korea-carried-another-rocket-engine-test-possibly-icbm-u-s-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T15:27:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/f-northtest-b-20170329.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-northtest-b-20170329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Sunday shows the ground jet test of a newly developed high-thrust engine at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground in North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/national/gsdf-steps-preparations-create-u-s-marine-corps-like-force/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T15:31:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gsdf-a-20170329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Col. Ryuji Toyoda, who commands the Ground Self-Defense Force's Western Infantry Regiment, speaks to his soldiers in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/national/crime-legal/vietnamese-girl-may-abducted-way-school-friday-slain-shortly-afterward-police/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T15:33:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/national/social-issues/japanese-men-breaking-silence-infertility-woes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T15:54:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-infertility-a-20170329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Freelance writer Goro Murahashi has written a book about the infertility troubles of husbands in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/business/gastech-conference-kick-off-chiba-next-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T17:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/business/corporate-business/fujitsu-lenovo-delay-pc-business-integration-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T18:54:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/asia-pacific/category-4-cyclone-rips-roofs-cuts-power-aussie-islands-draws-bead-coast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T18:55:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trees are bent Tuesday by strong winds from Cyclone Debbie in Townsville, Australia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/business/congressional-group-vows-boost-ties-japan-despite-tpp-exit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T19:19:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/b-ustpp-a-20170329.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ustpp-a-20170329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democrat Joaquin Castro of Texas, co-chair of the U.S.-Japan Caucus, speaks at a reception at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/business/despite-failed-inflation-target-kuroda-get-new-term-boj-governor-analysts-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T19:19:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/b-kuroda-a-20170329.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kuroda-a-20170329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda pauses during a news conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 31.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/business/corporate-business/mitsuoka-motor-releases-classic-hearse-taiwan-ultimate-final-ride/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T19:19:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/n-hearse-a-20170329.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n hearse-a 20170329]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsuoka Motor Co.’s luxury classic hearse]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/asia-pacific/kim-jong-nams-body-still-malaysia-amid-talk-deal-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T20:36:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/f-kimcorpse-a-20170329.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kimcorpse-a-20170329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The cover of a Chinese magazine featuring a portrait of Kim Jong Nam, the late half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is sold at a Beijing newsstand in February. The headline reads: "Stranger than fiction assassination diary."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/asia-pacific/report-warns-beijings-military-bases-south-china-sea-ready-use/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T20:37:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/f-scsready-a-20170329-e1490694552370.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-scsready-a-20170329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction is shown on Fiery Cross Reef, part of the Spratly Island chain in the disputed South China Sea, in this March 9 satellite image.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/national/police-probe-tochigi-avalanche-deaths-students-looks-instructors-decision-making/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T21:40:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/n-avalanche-a-20170329-e1490692275881.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-avalanche-a-20170329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On Tuesday, the authorities continued their investigation at the site of an avalanche that killed seven high school students and a teacher on Monday in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/national/politics-diplomacy/labor-reform-panel-adopts-final-report-calling-overtime-caps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-28T21:40:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/n-worklife-z-20170329.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-worklife-z-20170329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called the overtime bill "a historic step to change the work-style."]]></image:caption>
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