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		<lastmod>2017-03-29T13:31:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shannon Winckler waits for her shoes to be judged in the National Rotten Sneaker Contest in New York on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-29T14:26:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-29T14:44:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-29T14:52:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-29T15:15:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-29T15:19:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/25/business/reassessing-negative-impact-hosting-2020-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-29T15:29:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Blowing the budget: The estimated cost of hosting the 2020 Olympic Games has skyrocketed since Tokyo won the bid in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/29/national/lower-house-panel-warns-overuse-state-secrecy-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-29T15:35:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/29/national/vision-failing-tsukiji-wholesaler-carries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-29T15:40:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yutaka Kadono, 80, slices tuna at the Tsukiji market last June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-29T16:06:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A construction site is seen in Osaka in the city's Midosuji district in December. Numerous hotels have been constructed in the area recently.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/29/national/science-health/japanese-professor-among-2017-gairdner-medical-prize-laureates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-29T16:18:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Endo]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-29T16:19:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Park Geun-hye addresses South Korea from the presidential Blue House in Seoul in January 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/29/national/social-issues/newly-released-archives-stir-memories-japans-anti-apartheid-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-29T16:33:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newsletters issued by anti-apartheid campaigners in Japan are among the records displayed at Rikkyo University's Research Center for Cooperative Civil Societies in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/29/national/social-issues/workplace-bullying-widespread-fire-departments-survey-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-29T17:50:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/29/national/tochigi-avalanche-teachers-instruction-get-dangerous-mistake-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-29T18:41:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-29T20:17:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi smiles at supporters as she celebrates Thingyan, the water festival for the country's new year, in front of her home in Yangon in April 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/29/asia-pacific/satellite-imagery-shows-north-korea-may-final-stages-nuclear-test-preparations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-29T20:58:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activity at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, seen in commercial satellite imagery taken Saturday, "strongly suggests" that preparations for North Korea's sixth atomic test are entering the final stages, a U.S. think tank has said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/29/national/science-health/elderly-men-dine-alone-die-sooner-study-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-29T21:15:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Research shows that elderly men should eat meals with family and friends in order to maintain their health.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/29/national/plans-scrap-reactors-hold-nra-raises-concerns-nuclear-waste/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-29T21:17:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shunichi Tanaka]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/29/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trumps-policies-trade-climate-u-n-push-china-toward-eu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-29T21:19:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (left), Chinese President Xi Jinping and European Council President Donald Tusk pose before a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-29T21:24:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Setsuko Thurlow, a Japanese atomic bomb survivor, speaks at a conference on nuclear weapons at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/29/business/financial-markets/japanese-south-korean-investors-plow-cash-structured-products/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-29T21:24:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese retail investors are buying potentially risky securities, including "uridashi" notes — securities that pay off if the stock index rises above a preset level on designated days — amid a lack of attractive products.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/business/corporate-business/american-tech-icon-westinghouse-bet-nuclear-lost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T06:22:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia is under construction by Westinghouse Electric Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/business/new-negotiator-head-japans-fta-talks-eu-next-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T06:26:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoichi Suzuki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/national/lead-teacher-doomed-tochigi-mountaineering-excursion-said-instructors-believed-conditions-safe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T09:25:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/28/national/avalanche-risks-may-downplayed-due-pressure-meet-mountain-climbing-licensing-requirements/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T11:57:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers carry the injured to ambulances Monday after a group of high school students and teachers were hit by an avalanche in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/29/national/newly-learned-skills-helped-save-student-mountaineers-deadly-avalanche/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T15:04:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man prays for victims of Monday's avalanche in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, at the entrance of the Nasuonsen Family Ski Resort on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/national/tokyo-police-seek-man-fled-tracks-akabane-station-alleged-groping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T15:05:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-30T16:19:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-putin-summit-eyed-around-april-27-russia-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T16:27:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk past honor guards as they arrive at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on Dec. 16. Abe is reportedly visiting Russia later next month for talks with Putin.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/national/nagoya-castles-concrete-tower-restored-wooden-structure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T16:30:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a national first, Nagoya Castle's main tower, now made of concrete, will be rebuilt with woodwork similar to that used centuries ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/national/households-change-power-suppliers-amid-market-liberalization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T16:30:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-30T16:44:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A participant in a suit-fitting event for sexual-minority students tries on a suit at the Marui store in Tokyo's Yurakucho district in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/national/police-look-build-negligence-case-avalanche-tragedy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T17:02:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-30T17:21:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/national/science-health/smoking-parents-contribute-obesity-children-health-ministry-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T17:52:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/national/grief-weighs-heavily-students-teachers-wake-tochigi-avalanche/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T18:10:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Friends of Yusuke Kaburagi, 17, who was killed in an avalanche earlier this week, attend his funeral in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/national/air-force-deploys-c-2-transport-plane-years-delay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T18:22:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A C-2 transport aircraft is deployed at Miho Air Base in Tottori Prefecture on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/national/old-age-depopulation-decimating-bomb-spared-kitakyushu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T19:25:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kitakyushu's Space World amusement park is scheduled to close at the end of this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/business/corporate-business/bankrupt-travel-agency-tellmeclub-admits-faking-profits-stay-afloat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T19:40:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/asia-pacific/imagery-shows-gathering-north-korean-nuke-test-site-not-seen-since-2013-atomic-blast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T19:45:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean marine watches a TV screen at Seoul Railway Station in the capital reporting about North Korea's nuclear test in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/business/tokyo-japan-inc-trying-assess-brexit-impact-u-k-operations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T20:03:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-brexit-a-20170331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Industry Minister Hiroshie Seko speaks during a meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday with officials from private firms to discuss concerns regarding Britain's plan to leave the European Union.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/national/kansai-electric-employees-owed-%c2%a51-7-billion-overtime-pay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T20:08:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-30T20:08:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shareholders of embattled electronics giant Toshiba Corp. enter an emergency meeting in the city of Chiba on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/national/hiroshima-court-blocks-request-halt-reactor-ehime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T20:09:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-30T20:09:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Izumi Nakamitsu]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/asia-pacific/malaysia-releases-body-kim-jong-nam-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-30T22:36:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A van believed to be carrying the body of Kim Jong-Nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un, leaves the forensics wing of the Hospital Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/business/toyota-four-makers-recall-1-million-cars-japan-takata-air-bags/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-31T03:47:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-recall-a-20170331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Five carmakers are recalling more vehicles in Japan equipped with Takata air bags, bringing the total number of cars recalled in the country over the potentially defective air bag inflators to 18.82 million.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/world/politics-diplomacy-world/flynn-offers-testify-fbi-congress-probe-russia-meddling-gets-immunity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-31T10:16:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-03-31T11:02:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Native Americans and other demonstrators marching to the Federal Building in protest of U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order fast-tracking the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, in Los Angeles in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/business/economy-business/japans-february-industrial-output-rose-2-brisk-auto-production/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-31T16:30:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/business/tech/toyota-lets-ai-loose-hunt-cheaper-fuel-cells/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-31T16:31:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/business/toyota-four-automakers-recall-1-million-vehicles-takata-air-bags/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-31T16:35:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/national/crime-legal/chiba-university-medical-student-found-guilty-gang-rape-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-31T17:18:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/30/national/crime-legal/government-tepco-appeal-case-claiming-negligence-nuclear-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-31T17:25:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/business/financial-markets/spotlight-boj-moves-monetary-policy-market-operations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-31T17:33:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20170401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Since the Bank of Japan began its yield-curve-control program, the market has been focusing on the bond operations only.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/national/seoul-protests-new-teachings-disputed-islets-japans-new-education-guidelines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-31T18:49:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/national/boys-thyroid-cancer-casts-doubt-fukushimas-denials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-31T19:01:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/business/economy-business/joblessness-falls-22-year-low-2-8-february/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-31T20:15:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/business/corporate-business/toshibas-u-s-unit-bankruptcy-dims-japans-nuclear-ambitions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-31T21:40:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba President Satoshi Tsunakawa said on Wednesday the company is now "almost risk-free."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/national/prosecutors-will-probe-subsidies-given-scandal-hit-school-operator/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-31T22:01:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials from the Osaka Prefectural Government enter a kindergarten run by Moritomo Gakuen on Friday morning to investigate the school's dubious receipt of subsidies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/national/starving-talent-yoshinoya-offers-pay-college-tuition-student-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-31T22:04:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshinoya has announced it will pay college tuition for 10 student employees who agree to work at the beef bowl chain for four years or more after graduation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/national/crime-legal/porn-scouts-face-crackdown-forced-sex-scenes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-03-31T23:13:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-01T03:32:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police cordon off the area where the body of 9-year-old Le Thi Nhat Linh was found in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/business/corporate-business/tepco-picks-new-young-leader-kobayakawa-take-reins-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-01T03:40:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tepco-b-20170401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takashi Kawamura]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/01/world/congressional-rollback-internet-privacy-rules-will-template-undoing-net-neutrality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-01T14:05:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-01T14:09:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-01T14:10:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[These photos show U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday in Washington and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Feb. 22 in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/01/national/crime-legal/knife-wielding-man-injures-three-attack-child-care-facility-oita/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-01T14:10:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/national/foreign-students-surge-nearly-15-thanks-lift-vietnam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-01T14:10:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/business/corporate-business/hon-hai-posts-surprise-profit-rise-record-iphone-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-01T14:11:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A turnaround at Sharp Corp. is also contributing to the bottom line of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/01/business/russians-develop-taste-alcohol-free-beer-government-fights-drinking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-01T14:11:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dmitry Shpakov, the president of SUN InBev, the Russian unit of Anheuser-Busch InBev, poses during an interview in Moscow on March 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/01/world/paraguay-rioters-set-fire-congress-secret-senate-re-election-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-01T14:47:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-paraguay-a-20170402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hundreds of demonstrators protesting against the approval of a constitutional amendment for presidential re-election broke into Paraguay's Congress building in Asuncion on Friday, battering down entrances and fences and shattering windows, and started to set fires inside.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/31/national/japans-foreign-residents-sound-off-in-unprecedented-survey-on-discrimination/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-01T14:57:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medium-rise and low-rise residences and office buildings are seen from the first observatory deck of Tokyo Sky Tree in Tokyo October 30, 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/01/business/economy-business/japans-first-outdoor-legoland-park-opens-nagoya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-01T18:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-legoland-a-20170402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children ride a carousel at Legoland Japan in Nagoya on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/01/national/media-national/easter-japan-shows-signs-life-businesses-tap-final-festival-frontier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-01T22:48:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-bij-a-20170402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tapping at the shell: A customer receives ice cream in egg-shaped cups to mark Easter at a Baskin-Robbins store in Tokyo. The market for Easter-related products is growing rapidly, but remains only a fraction of the size of those surrounding Valentine's, Halloween and other Western festivals.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/01/business/jtb-set-launch-11-seat-luxury-tour-bus-service/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-01T21:17:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bus-a-20170402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman tries out a seat in a new luxury tour bus Wednesday in Tokyo. Travel agency JTB Corp. said it will start selling related tours this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/01/business/corporate-business/marking-100-years-fuji-heavy-changes-name-subaru/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-01T21:21:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/01/national/real-cost-fukushima-disaster-will-reach-%c2%a570-trillion-triple-governments-estimate-think-tank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-01T23:04:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukushimacost-a-20170402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Tokyo-based think tank estimates that the complete cost of dealing with the Fukushima disaster could reach ¥70 trillion.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/01/business/corporate-business/toshiba-likely-miss-earnings-deadline-third-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-01T23:04:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Toshiba Corp. logo is seen behind a traffic light at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/01/national/social-issues/japan-sumo-association-queried-racist-taunts-spring-tourney/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-02T16:59:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ozeki Terunofuji defeats Kotoshogiku at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka on March 25.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/02/national/60-new-utilities-object-helping-pay-fukushima-compensation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-02T21:19:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/02/national/seven-prefectures-let-high-school-students-practice-winter-mountaineering-despite-government-ban-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-02T21:19:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/02/world/italy-wins-g-7-backing-u-n-peacekeeping-force-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-02T21:41:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-heritage-a-20170403.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A reproduction of the Arch of Triumph from Palmyra, Syria, is displayed on March 27 in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy. The Islamic State group in 2015 destroyed the arch. Now a symbol of the vulnerability of World Heritage sites, the reproduction was displayed for the Group of Seven gathering in Florence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/02/national/crime-legal/temple-squirter-strikes-unesco-sites-kyoto-nara/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-02T22:16:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stains are seen Saturday at one of the small shrines at Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/flynn-not-disclose-income-russian-companies-white-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T01:28:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-flynn-a-20170403.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House National Security Advisor Michael Flynn walks down the White House colonnade on the way to the joint news conference of President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Feb. 10.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/02/national/icc-chief-lauds-japans-commitment-concerned-court-underrepresented-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T01:43:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-icc-a-20170403.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA['The court has a global mandate, has a global aspiration but it doesn't yet have universal participation in the treaty, and that has a great impact on the effectiveness of the institution.' Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/02/national/politics-diplomacy/taiwan-seeks-agreement-japan-scientific-research-disputed-east-china-sea-waters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T02:12:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/01/national/media-national/anything-makes-japan-unique/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T02:21:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-brasor-mediamix-a-20170402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Not bowing out: When the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Cool Japan project appeared to fail at promoting the nation's anime and manga as cultural assets, METI moved on to omotenashi (Japanese-style hospitality) and wabi-sabi (aesthetics of imperfection).]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/02/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/chaebol-reform-issue-tops-south-korean-presidential-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T03:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-chaebols-a-20170403.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past the logo of Samsung Electronics in Seoul on March 24. With the ouster and arrest of South Korea's Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal, the country's family-run "chaebol" conglomerates are facing calls for a shake-up in their governance.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/02/national/fukushima-battling-tepco-leukemia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T03:02:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-insights-b-20170403.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Expendable": Masaru Ikeda, a former worker at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant,  is suing Tepco for failing to take adequate precautions against radiation exposure. Following his second stint at the stricken plant, Ikeda was diagnosed with leukemia, which labor authorities have said is linked to the radiation he was exposed to at the plant.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/02/national/kanagawa-yamaguchi-aquariums-cut-ties-body-banned-dolphins-caught-taiji-drive-hunts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T14:21:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aquariums-a-20170403.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The controversy over the acquisition of dolphins caught in much-criticized drive hunts off the town of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, has led two aquariums to cancel their memberships with the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/national/geisha-taps-sapporo-businesses-keep-tradition-alive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T15:46:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-geisha-a-20170404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroko Sawada (left) teaches Japanese traditional dance to her students in Sapporo on March 2.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/business/corporate-business/slot-machine-maker-konami-says-japan-casinos-will-need-vegas-style-oversight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T16:14:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/b-casino-a-20170404.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-casino-a-20170404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees walk past the Konami Holdings Corp. booth during the 2016 Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas last September.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/national/crime-legal/miyazaki-triple-killer-seeks-retrial-victims-family-change-heart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T16:33:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/business/koikes-plan-tepco-remove-utility-poles-tokyo-olympian-task/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T16:36:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A web of cables is seen hanging from poles along a street in Hachioji, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/national/treatment-mentally-ill-elusive-japans-medical-prisons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T16:43:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse and a prison guard walk past each other at Okazaki Medical Prison in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/14/national/nankai-trough-mega-quake-leave-1-45-million-households-stranded-report-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T17:04:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/national/social-issues/vietnamese-died-ibaraki-detention-center-killed-stroke-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T17:05:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/business/almost-900000-new-recruits-mark-first-day-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T17:05:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic Corp. President Kazuhiro Tsuga (front row, center) is surrounded by new employees during a welcoming ceremony on their first day of work in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-xi-meeting-likely-agenda-high-level-foreign-affairs-officials-talks-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T19:57:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping are seen at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit last November in Lima.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/national/probe-tochigi-avalanche-likely-delayed-survivors-recover/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T20:21:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-avalanche-a-20170404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People on Monday pray for the victims of last week's avalanche at a ski resort in the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/business/corporate-business/tepcos-newly-appointed-president-vows-revive-business-take-responsibility-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T20:52:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/business/economy-business/bojs-tankan-report-shows-big-manufacturers-sentiment-amid-robust-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T20:52:31+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/national/crime-legal/japans-businesses-warned-funds-transfer-email-fraud-appearing-originate-partner-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T20:52:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/world/least-10-people-may-killed-russia-metro-blast-evacuations-underway-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-03T23:03:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An injured person is helped by emergency services outside Sennaya Ploshchad station, following explosions in two train carriages at metro stations in St. Petersburg, Russia on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/national/glitch-forces-mie-roller-coaster-make-emergency-stop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-04T06:10:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/n-rollercoast-a-20170404.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rollercoast-a-20170404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A roller coaster at Nagashima Spa Land in Mie Prefecture made an emergency stop on Monday due to a techinical glitch.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/national/mom-tochigi-avalanche-victim-relives-sons-final-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-04T10:13:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mother-a-20170404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atsuki Takase poses for a photo apparently taken on March 26, the day before he died in an avalanche in the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/republicans-plan-nuclear-option-democrats-ready-filibuster-gorsuch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-04T10:49:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-filibuster-a-20170405.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-filibuster-a-20170405.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, accompanied by GOP members of the panel, speak to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington Monday after they voted in favor of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch, and to send the nomination to the Senate floor for debate and vote. From left are Sens. John Kennedy, R-La.; Thom Tillis, R-N.C.; John Cornyn, R-Texas; Grassley; Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Ben Sasse, R-Neb.; and Ted Cruz, R-Texas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/02/business/minimalist-hotel-targets-tourists-kansai-international-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-04T12:44:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/b-capsule-a-20170403.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-capsule-a-20170403.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A "first class" guest room at the new minimalist hotel First Cabin Kansai Airport is shown to the media last month at Kansai International Airport in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/world/science-health-world/babies-cry-u-k-canada-italy-less-germany-japan-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-04T13:36:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-BRI-babies-z-20170404.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-babies-z-20170404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The highest levels of colic — defined as crying more than three hours a day for at least three days a week — were found in babies in Britain, Canada and Italy.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/18/national/moritomo-scandal-delivers-education-japanese-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-04T15:49:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/p3-johnston-moritomo-a-20170319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-johnston-moritomo-a-20170319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, have been embroiled in a scandal involving Osaka-based Moritomo Gakuen, a private educational firm with a nationalist bent.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/04/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/hong-kongs-restive-youth-prepare-long-struggle-beijing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-04T15:53:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-hkstruggle-a-20170405.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hkstruggle-a-20170405.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Disqualified lawmakers Yau Wai-ching, 25, (left) and Baggio Leung, 30, pose outside government headquarters in Hong Kong on March 28.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/04/national/crime-legal/vietnamese-girl-murdered-japan-buried-hometown-funeral/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-04T16:27:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture of Le Thi Nhat Linh, a 9-year-old girl whose body was found in Chiba Prefecture on March 26, is carried to a cemetery near her ancestral home in Hung Yen province, Vietnam, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-04T16:29:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-04T17:07:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. leader Donald Trump will meet for the first time at Trump's at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-04T18:08:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Narciso Dumalan, 54, poses with his daughter, Jaica, who is named after the Japan International Cooperation Agency, in the central Philippine city of Ormoc in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-04T18:08:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman with intellectual disabilities takes an order at a cafe in Tokyo on Jan. 19. The cafe is operated by Swan Co., a Yamato Transport Co. subsidiary designated by the government as a company friendly to disabled people.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-04T18:14:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Aug. 25 that the North test-fired a strategic submarine-launched ballistic missile, although it did not say when and where it took place.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/04/business/bankers-unhappy-bonuses-foreign-firms-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-04T18:17:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-04T18:30:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-04T18:37:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-04T18:55:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-04T19:04:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-04T19:10:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Due to its bilateral trade balance with the U.S., Japan finds itself on America's watch list for currency manipulators.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/national/hiroshima-bomb-museum-sees-record-visitors-fiscal-year-following-obama-visit-popular-film/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-04T19:27:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in the city of Hiroshima saw a sharp increase in the fiscal year that ended in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-04T19:45:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-perry-a-20170404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry has urged the U.S., as well as other key nations, to set realistic goals and again engage North Korea diplomatically over its burgeoning nuclear and weapons programs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/04/national/diplomatic-dialogue-paves-way-abe-xi-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-04T20:11:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Takeo Akiba and his Chinese counterpart Kong Xuanyou shake hands at the start of their meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-04T20:14:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor arrives at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on March 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-04T21:34:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Ambassador to South Korea Yasumasa Nagamine faces reporters after meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-04T21:34:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A website called Akieleaks, seen in this screen shot, has posted two speeches by Akie Abe, the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at a scandal-tainted kindergarten in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/04/national/task-force-looks-minimizing-social-cost-casinos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-04T21:35:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A government task force is discussing how best to regulate casinos in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/04/world/st-petersburg-metro-blast-suspect-likely-born-central-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-04T21:42:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-05T11:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Sudanese refugees run toward a supply distribution point after they arrived at their resettlement area at the Imvepi Camp in Northern Uganda Tuesday. Thousands keep on crossing into Uganda as civil war continues across the border in South Sudan, and the surge of more than half a million South Sudanese refugees into Uganda since July has created Africa's largest refugee crisis.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-05T11:02:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Motorists pass a "No I.C.E" protest statement posted on bus stop exterior in Bell Gardens, California, on Tuesday. Southern California's heavily Latino immigrant communities have been gripped by fear of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and deportations as Democrats push for a ban on ICE from courthouses.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/04/national/politics-diplomacy/fukushima-disaster-reconstruction-minister-apologizes-outburst-journalist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-05T11:40:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahiro Imamura, minister in charge of Tohoku reconstruction, apologizes Tuesday for yelling at a freelance journalist during a news conference.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/05/business/tech/kim-dotcom-announces-bitcoin-system-payments-content-uploaders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-05T12:57:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-05T14:14:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A trash dump is seen. Police in Gunma Prefecture are looking for the owner of ¥42.51 million in cash that was found in garbage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/05/national/media-national/ai-will-never-replace-human-interaction-forum-speakers-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-05T14:24:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshikazu Miyake]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/05/world/social-issues-world/new-u-s-spelling-bee-rules-aim-prevent-t-e-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-05T14:27:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/05/asia-pacific/chinese-economic-projects-north-korea-stall-amid-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-05T15:38:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean soldier sits on a bank of the Yalu River just north of Sinuiju on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/04/business/gas-giants-share-opecs-shale-pain-u-s-supply-flows-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-05T15:46:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Royal Dutch Shell logo is displayed at Gastech, the world's biggest expo for the gas industry, in Chiba Prefecture on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/05/business/corporate-business/japan-zero-public-companies-went-bust-2016-critics-say-zombie-firms-hurt-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-05T16:24:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bankruptcies-z-20170406.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The last time not a single Japanese corporate titan went belly up was a four-year stretch 26 years ago, according to a report published this week by research firm Teikoku Databank.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/05/national/emperor-empress-welcome-spains-royal-couple-imperial-palace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-05T17:01:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spanish King Felipe (left) and Queen Letizia (behind King Felipe) are escorted by  Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko during the welcoming ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-05T17:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-05T17:09:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Japanese women's ice hockey team study English at a training camp held in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, on Nov. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/05/national/1-4-japanese-men-still-unmarried-age-50-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-05T17:22:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-marriage-z-20170406.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The new figures are in sharp contrast with a 1970 survey that showed 1.70 percent of men had never married by age 50.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/04/national/university-tokyo-leads-new-japan-ranking-higher-education-institutions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-05T18:02:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-univ-a-20170405.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The University of Tokyo led the nation in a first-ever Japan ranking by the Times Higher Education magazine.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/05/national/vandals-attack-another-temple-oily-liquid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-05T18:42:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A stain is found on a gate designated as an Important Cultural Property at Zojoji Temple in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-05T18:44:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-05T18:49:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-05T18:59:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rodrigo Duterte]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/05/national/crime-legal/scandal-hit-moritomo-gakuen-sued-%c2%a5400-million-alleged-unpaid-construction-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-05T21:15:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fujiwara Kogyo President Koichi Fujiwara speaks during a news conference in Osaka on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/05/national/social-issues/60-sexual-minorities-bullied-school-survey-finds/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz said the forced removal of a passenger on Sunday was a "system failure."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rupert Till, a music technologist from the University of  Huddersfield, has co-developed an app that lets people hear how Stonehenge originally sounded.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kumamoto University graduate Khine Zar Wynn Myint from Myanmar holds an English booklet detailing the experiences of foreign residents during last year's earthquakes.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A “nanocar” made by the National Institute for Materials Science will compete in the world’s first race for molecular vehicles later this month in France.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/13/national/npa-drafts-rules-testing-driverless-cars-public-roads/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives for the opening ceremony for a new residential complex on Ryomyong Street in Pyongyang on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese ramen chain Ippudo opens its first store in Yangon on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/13/national/bilingual-traffic-signs-debut-july/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stop and slow signs will have English translations underneath the Japanese.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People practice Wednesday for an expected parade on Pyongyang's main Kim Il Sung Square set for Saturday, the 105th anniversary of the birth of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-13T23:01:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito indicates his wish to abdicate during a televised announcement in August.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Megumi Igarashi, known by the pseudonym Rokudenashiko (good-for-nothing girl), speaks at a news conference Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[OECD Secretary-General Jose Angel Gurria attends a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Damage caused by the April 2016 earthquakes at Sony's plant in Kumamoto Prefecture is seen in this undated photo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Calbee's pizza-flavored chips were selling for six times their normal price online Friday as people feared they might become unavailable soon.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-14T20:38:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-14T20:38:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-14T20:39:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new device takes a 3-D model of users' feet and juxtaposes this with various shoes, allowing customers to see how the footwear fits.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scriptwriter So Kuramoto believes that Japan's older generation  of TV-industry professionals has been neglected in today's programming.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking for balance: According to sociologist Masahiro Yamada, for a potential husband's income is often an important factor for women considering marriage.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People's reflections are seen on an electronic stock indicator at a securities firm in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two men died Saturday after they were struck by a Keikyu train at this level crossing at Hatcho-nawate Station in Kawasaki.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb is pictured in this undated photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-16T05:47:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is unlikely to raise farm and automobile issues when he meets Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sweeping price cuts announced recently by Aeon Co. and other retailers indicate just how tough it is to eradicate Japan's deflationary malaise despite the improving economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-16T23:41:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The vandalized statue of late Japanese civil engineer Yoichi Hatta, who contributed to Taiwan's development during World War II, is seen in a park in southern Taiwan on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ahn Cheol-soo (center), presidential candidate from South Korea's People's Party, raises his hands with party members during the official kick off of campaigning in Seoul on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-17T17:17:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/17/national/crime-legal/chiba-university-medical-student-gets-three-years-role-gang-rape/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-17T17:40:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-17T18:16:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-17T18:39:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is briefed by Gen. Vincent Brooks, commander of the United Nations Command, U.S. Forces Korea and Combined Forces Command, from Observation Post Ouellette in the demilitarized zone (DMZ), near the border village of Panmunjom, South Korea, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-17T20:10:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The recent scandal over private educational institution Moritomo Gakuen in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, has thrown the spotlight on how private schools are operated in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Asian community organizations demonstrate against United Airlines at Chicago's O'Hare airport on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/10/business/russia-turns-iffy-japan-gas-future-abe-heads-moscow/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alexander Medvedev, deputy chairman of the management committee at Gazprom PJSC, speaks at the Gastech Exhibition and Conference in Chiba last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/03/national/politics-diplomacy/recalled-comfort-women-row-japanese-ambassador-return-south-korea-tuesday/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters on Monday at the ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-18T13:32:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-18T15:04:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-18T15:32:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cybercriminals are offering gamers free virtual prizes as bait to break into corporate networks in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/18/national/change-ethics-textbook-bakeries-arms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-18T15:33:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This ethics textbook for first-graders was changed by publisher Tokyo Shoseki Co. after the education ministry said it didn’t properly teach "respect for tradition and culture."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Matsumoto (front right), a farmer with ALS, rides a combine in a rice paddy in Ogata, Akita Prefecture, in October 2010. His journal was published after his death in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-18T15:34:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-18T15:46:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Goshi Kataoka]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A raft of new skyscrapers will be completed in Tokyo by 2020.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-18T17:13:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[By expanding the campaign period gradually each year toward 2020, the ministry hopes telecommuting will take off in time for the Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-18T17:43:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyoshi Fuketa]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-18T17:45:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-18T20:20:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-18T21:50:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is welcomed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at their meeting at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-18T21:50:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T03:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso greets U.S. Vice President Mike Pence ahead of their economic dialogue at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T05:13:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fully automated register jointly developed by Lawson Inc. and Panasonic Corp. is seen at a convenience store in the city of Moriguchi, Osaka Prefecture, in December last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T05:50:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at his company's annual F8 developer conference Tuesday in San Jose, California.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/18/national/government-looks-double-number-women-serving-sdf-units/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-19T09:55:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T10:45:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture taken Sunday shows a general view of the Monastery of St. Catherine in Egypt's south Sinai, where a policeman was killed and three others wounded on Tuesday when gunmen opened fire on a checkpoint near the monastery, the interior ministry said, in an attack claimed by Islamic State jihadis.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/18/asia-pacific/u-s-aircraft-carrier-strike-group-still-thousands-kilometers-south-korea-photos-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-19T12:15:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-vinson-a-20170419.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier transits the Sunda Strait, the passage between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java, in this photo posted to the U.S. Navy's website Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/britains-may-betting-early-election-will-buy-time-hash-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-19T14:10:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T14:58:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Setsuko Yamabe, who allegedly ran an illegal multimillion-yen pyramid investment scheme and was escaping to Thailand, arrives at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Wednesday. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T15:13:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brown powder, which apparently was curry powder, was found scattered around various locations in Nijo Castle in Kyoto on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T15:56:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artist Megumi Igarashi, known as Rokudenashiko (Good-For-Nothing Girl), holds up a sign in front of the Tokyo High Court last Thursday showing the court's decision finding her guilty of obscenity for distributing 3-D scans of her genitalia.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T16:25:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T18:46:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp Corp. is considering investing in embattled Toshiba Corp.'s memory chip business.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T19:10:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T19:25:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T19:36:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T20:33:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Norishige Kanai]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/19/national/japans-15-year-olds-struggle-life-satisfaction-oecd-survey-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-19T20:41:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Average life satisfaction for Japanese students was 6.8 on a scale of 0 to 10, lower than the OECD average of 7.3.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T20:41:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T21:06:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T22:36:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Innovation Network Corp. of Japan Chairman Toshiyuki Shiga (left) speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-19T23:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Tomomi Inada meets with her Australian counterpart Marise Payne in Tokyo on Wednesday, a day before "two plus two" talks involving the defense and foreign ministers of the two countries.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A still image taken from footage broadcast by the U.K. Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) on April 19, 2017, shows members of parliament taking part in Prime Minister's questions in the House of Commons in London.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T06:15:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A still image taken from a video uploaded by the Syrian Army on Wednesday shows buses carrying rebel fighters and their families leaving the the town of Zabadani, near Damascus.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T08:12:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handout picture released by SERFOR shows wildlife staff liberating some of the 29 endangered Galapagos tortoises from Ecuador intercepted and rescued in Piura, northern Peru, on Wednesday. The tortoises, which were wrapped in tape and carried in a box in the hold of a bus, were being transported for commercialization in the European black market, the National Forest and Wildlife Service (SERFOR) said.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T09:37:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New shopping complex Ginza Six is unveiled to the media on Friday ahead of its launch on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T09:49:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks Wednesday at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T10:30:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The lack of language support at hospitals is impacting the health of foreign residents, experts say. They are calling for more local-level initiatives to make medical interpreters available for non-Japanese patients.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/tillerson-likens-iran-north-korea-threat-accuses-tehran-alarming-provocations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-20T10:39:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks to the media during a shared press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov following theirApril 12 talks in Moscow. In a letter sent late Tuesday to House Speaker Paul Ryan, Tillerson said the administration has undertaken a full review of the agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. "Iran remains a leading state sponsor of terror, through many platforms and methods," Tillerson wrote.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T11:14:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer takes a question during a press briefing at the White House in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T12:42:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ruriko Arai, a war-displaced Japanese woman still living in North Korea, meets with reporters in the eastern coastal city of Hamhung, where she has lived since her teens, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T12:44:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force members returning from a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan arrive at Aomori Airport in Aomori Prefecture on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T14:58:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign students chat in a gymnasium used as an evacuation shelter in Kumamoto on April 17 last year, following a series of powerful earthquakes in the region.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T16:20:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T16:38:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A statue of Japanese civil engineer Yoichi Hatta is found headless at a park in southern Taiwan on Sunday, the day after it was allegedly decapitated by a radical pro-unification activist.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T17:08:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T17:39:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T18:02:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T18:26:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taizo Son, who built his fortune on the hit smartphone game "Puzzle &amp; Dragons," says he decided to relocate to Singapore because the government and regulators there are innovation-minded.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/20/national/saitama-condo-fire-kills-4-year-old-leaves-two-siblings-critical-condition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-20T18:27:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T18:38:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christian Dior Chief Executive Sidney Toledano talks with Princess Takamado at Dior's new flagship store in Ginza Six on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T18:38:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso speaks at Columbia Business School in New York on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T18:43:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cherry tree in full bloom adorns Sannenzaka street in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward. The Japan Tourism Agency said Wednesday that in the first three months of 2017, an estimated 6,537,200 people visited Japan, up 13.6 percent on year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T19:22:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marin Minamiya poses at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T19:22:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiromi Tanaka, 54, says she relies on income from giving private singing lessons to a dwindling number of students, and her mother's pension to make ends meet.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T19:25:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Photographer Yuichi Sugimoto speaks to the media at the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday after the court dismissed his claim that the government's revocation of his passport infringed on his constitutional right to freedom of travel and freedom of the press.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T19:47:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Four North Korean ballistic missiles are launched simultaneously in a drill in this photo released by the official Korean Central News Agency on March 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T19:53:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists and Egyptians look at a huge granite statue of King Ramses II (center) following the completion of the restoration work, hours after the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities revealed the contents of a pharaonic cemetery on the western bank of the Nile in Luxor, south of Cairo, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-20T20:08:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during a meeting with China's National People's Congress Chairman Zhang Dejiang at the Kremlin in Moscow Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/20/national/malaysia-seeks-entice-japanese-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T04:22:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysia's Minister of International Trade and Industry Mustapa Mohamed delivers his keynote address during a Malaysia business seminar in Tokyo on April 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-21T06:19:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Four naked mole-rats are seen in a University of Illinois at Chicago laboratory in an undated photo released Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/world/great-grandson-uses-tech-top-explorer-shackletons-feat-drives-car-across-antarctic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T07:24:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/20/business/economy-business/japan-logged-first-trade-surplus-six-years-fiscal-2016-%c2%a54-trillion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T10:01:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trade-a-20170421.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan posted its first trade surplus in six years, as low oil prices pulled down the value of imports sharply.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-21T10:45:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Defense Secretary Michael Fallon speaks during the official ceremony welcoming the deployment of a multi-national NATO battalion in Tapa, Estonia, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/national/rainforest-wood-breaches-tokyo-green-olympic-vow-activists-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T12:40:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/20/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-australia-move-bolster-defense-ties-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T13:28:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Left to right: Australian Defense Minister Marise Payne, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Defense Minister Tomomi Inada pose before the start of their "two plus two" meeting on Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/20/national/crime-legal/aum-death-row-cultist-u-s-toxicologist-chat-vx-kim-jong-nam-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T14:56:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anthony Tu, a U.S. toxicologist researching incidents involving the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, speaks to reporters Thursday outside the Tokyo Detention House after meeting with death row inmate and ex-Aum follower Tomomasa Nakagawa.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/business/atlantic-salmon-farms-shift-open-seas-trying-shake-off-lice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T14:58:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-salmon-a-20170422.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Norwegian firm Nordlaks plans a 400-meter salmon farm that could withstand open seas, away from coastal areas where fish suffer from marine lice.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-uncovers-environmental-breaches-two-thirds-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T14:59:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/20/national/crime-legal/record-number-minors-fell-prey-social-media-crimes-2016-npa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T15:15:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cybercrime-z-20170421.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Females accounted for 94.8 percent of the victims of sexual crimes through social media, and 86.9 percent of all victims used smartphones.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/20/business/corporate-business/japan-post-seen-taking-giant-loss-toll-holdings-acquisition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T16:58:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/business/financial-markets/aso-mnuchin-agree-currency-handled-finance-chiefs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T17:40:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-asomnu-a-20170422.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Taro Aso meets with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/business/financial-markets/aso-says-g-20-reaffirms-commitment-orderly-currency-movements/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T18:08:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/business/corporate-business/sonys-forecast-profit-underscores-turnaround-preliminary-report-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T18:31:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Hirai]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/business/economy-business/kuroda-says-boj-purchase-pace-continue-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T18:32:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kuroda-a-20170422.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said the bank will continue with very accommodative monetary policy and maintain the current pace of asset purchases for some time.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/business/corporate-business/fujifilm-delay-earnings-release-amid-accounting-probe-transactions-overseas-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T18:33:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fujifilm Holdings Corp. said some of its profits may have been incorrectly declared over the past several years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/world/goodbye-lenin-russian-lawmakers-introduce-law-get-buried/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T18:34:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin (right) is situated near St. Basil's Cathedral on Red Square in central Moscow.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-sends-ritual-tree-offering-yasukuni/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T18:40:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of lawmakers including Liberal Democratic Party member Hidehisa Otsuji are led by a Shinto priest as they visit Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/national/tokyo-olympic-torch-relay-tasked-uniting-disaster-hit-regions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T18:57:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshinori Sakai, who was born in Hiroshima on Aug. 5, 1945, the day the city was bombed, lights the cauldron at the old National Stadium to kick off the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/business/corporate-business/western-digital-makes-case-taking-toshiba-chip-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T20:07:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-21T20:40:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police Thursday investigate the parking lot in Fukuoka's Tenjin district where a man was robbed of ¥384 million.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/national/politics-diplomacy/sex-scandal-topples-influential-ldp-lawmaker-nakagawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T20:40:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/national/scandal-plagued-moritomo-gakuen-applies-bankruptcy-protection/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T21:28:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-moritomo-a-20170422.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moritomo Gakuen in Osaka will try to rebuild its finances after incurring large debts connected with this  elementary school it had hoped to open on discounted state land in Toyonaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/national/crime-legal/aichi-businessman-shot-dead-motorcycle-riding-assailants-manila/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-21T22:24:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/19/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-vice-president-pence-says-north-korea-sword-stands-ready/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T11:33:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Mike Pence waves during a visit to the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier at the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/national/politics-diplomacy/abdication-panel-hands-final-report-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T12:09:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takashi Imai, chairman of the government's expert panel on Emperor Akihito's abdication, submits its final report to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/asia-pacific/colas-cigarettes-north-korea-airline-diversifies-threats-mount-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T12:14:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vendor adjusts drinks at an Air Koryo bar at Pyongyang airport on April 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-will-not-give-exxon-special-permission-drill-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T12:39:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-usexxon-a-20170423.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steven Mnuchin]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/asia-pacific/shadow-chinese-development-philippines-seeks-upgrade-patriots-living-remote-isle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T12:44:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buildings are seen Friday on the Philippines-controlled Thitu Island, also known as Pagasa, in the Spratly chain of islands in the disputed South China Sea.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/world/power-outage-cripples-san-francisco-seven-hours/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T12:50:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists take pictures of an immobile cable car during a power outage in downtown San Francisco on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-court-gives-russian-lawmakers-son-27-years-prison-hacking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T14:28:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/national/salt-left-behind-japanese-man-911-memorial-leads-evacuation-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T15:32:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Skyscraper_Graffiti_19591.jpg-6cac8.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artist Joseph Meloy decorates a window overlooking the footprints of the old World Trade Center twin towers and facing their new replacement on March 30 in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/chinas-first-cargo-spacecraft-docks-orbiting-space-lab/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T15:42:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/national/tepco-eyes-2019-restart-kashiwazaki-kariwa-nuclear-reactors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T15:44:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/national/media-national/documentary-renews-debate-renewable-energy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T22:46:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p19-brasor-renewables-a-20170423.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Politics of power: Hiroyuki Kawai (left) and Tetsunari Iida (center) discuss the economics of renewables with a banker in front of a geothermal apparatus in the town of Tsuchiyu Onsen in Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/national/elderly-saitama-driver-kills-one-injures-four-shopping-mall-traffic-accident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T16:52:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/national/media-national/japan-become-future-cultural-melting-pot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T23:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-bij-a-20170423.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taste of the future: The Japan that former Tokyo Immigration Bureau chief Hidenori Sakanaka envisions might look something like Tokyo's multicultural Shin-Okubo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/business/tellmeclubs-bankruptcy-grounds-discount-travel-services/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T23:04:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hard landing: Tellmeclub President Chikako Yamada apologizes at a news conference in Tokyo on March 27 after revealing that the Tokyo-based travel agency has filed for bankruptcy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/business/economy-business/aso-wary-inking-bilateral-trade-deal-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T17:51:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-aso-a-20170423.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso holds a news conference in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/asia-pacific/u-s-carrier-arrive-sea-japan-within-days-pence-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T18:10:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-carrier-a-20170423.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson prepares for flight operations in the Persian Gulf in December 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/national/lack-proper-facilities-forced-disabled-evacuees-move-shelter-shelter-311/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T19:52:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/national/japans-advice-missile-strike-dont-forget-handkerchief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T19:54:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n missile z 20170423]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An excerpt from Japan's "Protecting Ourselves against Armed Attacks and Terrorism" guide.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/national/six-years-later-workers-fukushima-nuclear-plant-say-can-without-protective-gear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T22:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/n-fukushima-a-20170423.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukushima-a-20170423.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers walk past cherry trees at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on April 14. The plant operator said visitors do not need to wear special protection gear in most parts of the premises as radiation levels have fallen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/world/italian-cyclist-scarponi-killed-road-accident-training/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-22T23:19:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italy's Michele Scarponi smiles at the start of the 14th stage of the Giro d'Italia, Tour of Italy cycling race on May 24, 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/23/national/kansai-leaders-grope-ways-keep-regional-population-stable-amid-projected-slide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-23T14:36:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kansaimain-a-20170424.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demographic projections for the Kansai region show a continued exodus of young people from prefectures other than Osaka to seek employment and other opportunities in Osaka and Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/national/politics-diplomacy/top-diplomats-japan-u-s-south-korea-plan-brainstorming-session-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-23T16:33:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/23/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/chinas-first-unmanned-space-cargo-ship-docks-chinese-space-station/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-23T17:28:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Xucuru chief Marcos Xucuru, pictured in 2007, says that Brazil has for nearly three decades failed its constitutional commitment to set aside land for indigenous people, and that violence against them is continuing to increase.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-24T15:35:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates, and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida shake hands after exchanging memorandums in the Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-25T08:34:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader and candidate for the French 2017 presidential election, poses for a selfie as she leaves the hairdresser in front of her campaign headquarters in Paris Monday, the day after the first round of presidential elections where she ended in second place behind En Marche ! movement candidate.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/24/national/princess-kako-heading-university-leeds-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-25T11:48:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Kako]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/23/national/mothers-who-fled-fukushima-fallout-raise-voices-against-genkai-plant-restart-in-saga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-25T12:25:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mothers who fled to the Itoshima, Fukuoka Prefecture, to escape radiation spewed by the March 2011 core meltdowns in Fukushima Prefecture say they are concerned about the safety of the Genkai nuclear plant in neighboring Saga Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-25T14:53:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Momo President Masato Otsu shows off the company's Otomos smartphone case, which allows parents to set time restrictions for their children.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-25T14:55:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinobu and Takuya Yamato lay flowers April 8 near the collapsed Aso Ohashi Bridge in Minamiaso, Kumamoto Prefecture, where their son is believed to have died in last year's deadly earthquakes.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-25T15:09:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Mercari e-commerce app is shown on a smartphone. The popular marketplace among individuals has banned users from listing currently circulating cash to prevent abuse of the system.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/24/national/sdfs-unique-climate-blamed-personnel-going-awol/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-25T15:25:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Air Self-Defense Force personnel stand guard in front of the Chitose air base in Hokkaido on April 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-25T16:15:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks on as they make statements about North Korea at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Feb. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-25T16:20:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-25T16:47:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/national/politics-diplomacy/foreign-policy-report-tokyo-calls-seoul-uphold-comfort-women-agreement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-25T17:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-25T17:06:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Michigan, an Ohio-class U.S. nuclear-powered submarine, arrives at a naval base in Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/business/deputy-foreign-minister-named-japans-chief-tpp-negotiator/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-25T17:13:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiichi Katakami]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/national/victims-jr-west-derailment-remembered-12-years-tragedy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-25T17:14:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-25T18:34:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beji Sasaki, chairman of Freesia Macross Co., says his bidding war with the $13 billion computer giant Fujitsu Ltd. is just the start of his plan to use takeovers to change Japan's corporate landscape.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/national/maker-line-app-says-disclosed-user-information-criminal-probes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-25T20:11:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/national/crime-legal/dentsu-may-face-prosecution-overwork-suicide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-25T20:57:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/national/six-injured-iron-factory-blast-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-25T21:01:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Black smoke is seen rising from a factory in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on Tuesday in this photo provided by a resident who lives nearby.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/national/japan-begins-construction-work-controversial-new-u-s-base-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-25T21:03:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bagged stones were laid on to the shores of the Henoko area in Okinawa Prefecture on Tuesday as the government began constructing seawalls for a replacement facility for a new U.S. base.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-evasive-report-secret-deal-nsa-mass-surveillance-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-25T21:28:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-25T23:16:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-Brexit campaigners protest outside Irish Government buildings in Dublin, Ireland on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-korea-stages-large-scale-artillery-drill-but-no-nuke-test-as-u-s-submarine-docks-in-south/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-25T23:47:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A meeting to mark the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army is held at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/business/corporate-business/japan-post-book-first-net-loss-since-privatization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-26T04:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Post Holdings Co. President Masatsugu Nagato speaks to the media about the company's financial prospects during a news conference Tuesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/national/japan-u-s-hold-missile-defense-drill-sea-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-26T04:03:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan and the United States held a joint exercise Tuesday involving the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Chokai, shown in this October 2015 photo, and the U.S. guided-missile destroyer Fitzgerald.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-u-s-south-korea-diplomats-discuss-ways-maximize-pressure-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-26T09:49:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joseph Yun (from left), U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, Kenji Kanasugi, director-general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Kim Hong-kyun, special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs at the South Korean Foreign Ministry, join hands before their meeting about North Korean issues at the Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/26/national/politics-diplomacy/seoul-slams-tokyos-claim-takeshima-islets-diplomatic-bluebook/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-26T10:40:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-26T11:06:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement Emmanuel Macron (center) talks with doctors during his visit at the Raymond Poincare hospital in Garches outside Paris Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/national/kagawa-english-language-teachers-use-poster-spread-passion-sanuki-udon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-26T11:39:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeremy Lanig (right) and Gary Wilkinson show off the English infographic poster they created on how to order udon noodles.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/26/national/asahikawa-iron-factory-blast-leaves-one-dead-five-injured/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-26T13:45:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-04-26T14:38:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n shelter-a 20170425]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nuclear shelter with a radiation-blocking air purifier is seen in a showroom of Kobe-based Oribe Seiki Seisakusho in 2011. Sales of shelters and air purifiers have surged in recent weeks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/national/politics-diplomacy/gaffe-prone-tohoku-reconstruction-minister-strikes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-26T15:55:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-imamura-a-20170426.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahiro Imamura, minister in charge of reconstruction of the disaster-hit Tohoku region, intends to resign after he made improper comments on the disaster area on Tuesday, sources said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/26/national/crime-legal/court-orders-removal-mans-private-information-online-phone-book/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-26T16:50:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/26/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-motors-opens-plant-indonesia-looks-synergy-nissan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-26T17:32:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mmc-a-20170427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President and CEO Osamu Masuko (left) and Carlos Ghosn, chairman of both Mitsubishi Motors and Nissan Motor Co., pose for a photo on Tuesday during an opening ceremony for Mitsubishi's new Indonesian plant on the outskirts of Jakarta.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/26/business/corporate-business/mcdonalds-shelves-plans-sell-japan-unit-stake-rebound/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-26T17:52:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mcd-a-20170427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In March, McDonald's Japan said same-store sales rose almost 17 percent from a year ago .]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/internal-u-s-state-department-memo-strengthens-case-stay-paris-climate-accord/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-26T18:07:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-climatememo-a-20170427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-climatememo-a-20170427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks at a breakfast, part of an Earth Day event in Dallas on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/26/business/jr-east-luxury-sleeper-train-japanese-touch-nears-may-1-debut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-26T18:12:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/b-train-a-20170427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-train-a-20170427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The new luxury sleeper train Train Suite Shiki-shima has an observation car that features numerous large windows.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/26/national/pachinko-industry-raises-money-low-income-students-critics-call-marketing-stunt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-26T18:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pachinko-a-20170427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The pachinko industry says its scholarship campaign is aimed at letting students focus on their studies rather than work part time.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruki Murakami]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/28/national/mount-sakurajima-first-major-eruption-nine-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-28T19:20:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Sakurajima's latest eruption is seen from Tarumizu, Kagoshima Prefecture, at 11:02 a.m. on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/28/national/social-issues/half-junior-high-teachers-found-working-risky-levels-overtime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-28T21:01:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/28/national/japans-museums-relaxing-no-photos-policy-keeping-smartphone-realities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-28T21:06:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor to the National Art Center in Tokyo takes a photo of an artwork by contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama on Feb. 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/28/national/japanse-fighter-jets-conduct-joint-drill-u-s-carrier-off-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-28T22:20:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier, the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers Ashigara (left) and Samidare (back) transit the Philippine Sea on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/28/business/economy-business/data-shows-job-availability-best-level-26-years-consumption-tepid-march/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-28T22:29:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/asia-pacific/strong-earthquake-hits-off-philippines-no-major-impact-seen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-29T11:58:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers remove debris from a collapsed house after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit General Santos City on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/world/offbeat-world/virginia-cats-abducted-shaved/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-29T12:42:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/china-deports-u-s-citizen-convicted-espionage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-29T15:49:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/asia-pacific/diplomats-hint-oil-embargo-north-korea-carries-missile-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-29T16:04:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/business/corporate-business/resurgent-sony-projects-%c2%a5500-billion-operating-profit-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-29T16:14:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/national/government-selects-4185-people-spring-honors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-29T17:33:38+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/national/media-national/voter-apathy-can-threaten-democracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-29T23:02:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p19-brasor-mediamix-a-20170430.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deceptive win: Japan Communist Party's Yukari Akaboshi may have won a seat in Toyama, but her popularity over other JCP candidates meant that the party lost two seats in the assembly.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/28/national/two-cities-known-for-ninja-officially-added-to-japan-heritage-list-of-tourism-assets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-29T21:43:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ninja-z-20170429]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two cities known for ninja, Iga in Mie Prefecture and Koka in Shiga Prefecture, have been officially named “Japan Heritage” properties.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/business/corporate-business/yamato-raises-delivery-prices-%c2%a5140-%c2%a5180/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-29T22:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks beneath the black cat signage for Yamato Holdings Co. outside one of its facilities in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/national/japan-expedite-study-adopting-land-based-aegis-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-29T22:02:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aegis-a-20170430.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Aegis-equipped destroyer Chokai, shown in October 2015, carries the same missile defense system it is looking to adopt on land to counter North Korea's missile threat.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/28/national/japan-presses-south-korea-block-statue-plan-honoring-forced-laborers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-29T22:18:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-comfort-a-20170429.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan has urged South Korea to block a plan to build a laborer statue near the famous comfort woman statue in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/duterte-trump-dont-play-kims-hands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-29T23:05:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/national/history/power-politics-japans-popular-political-platforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-29T23:13:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka waves to onlookers at Tokyo's Haneda airport in 1972.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/national/taiji-holds-annual-memorial-service-whales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-29T23:13:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-taiji-a-20170430.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A whale memorial monument is seen during a memorial service for whales in the town of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/business/corporate-business/cost-cutting-keeps-tepco-black-nuclear-redress-taking-toll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-30T00:43:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tepco President Naomi Hirose speaks at a news conference at the utility's headquarters on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-may-hold-talks-brexit-g-7-security-concerns-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-30T00:45:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abemay-a-20170429.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May shows her Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, around the garden at Chequers on Friday. 	          pool / via AP]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-says-no-resuming-six-party-denuclearization-talks-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-30T00:45:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abenorth-a-20170430.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a news conference in London on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/asia-pacific/north-korea-fails-latest-test-ballistic-missile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-30T02:10:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-nktest-a-20170430.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nktest-a-20170430.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (right) speaks with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se following a U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in North Korea at the United Nations in New York on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/29/national/media-national/donald-trumps-first-100-days-count/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-30T10:25:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/p19-schreiber-bij-a-20170430.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p19-schreiber-bij-a-20170430.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Getting too friendly: U.S President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe share a moment aboard the presidential helicopter, as seen in a photograph tweeted by Trump in early February.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/30/asia-pacific/asean-gives-beijing-pass-south-china-sea-dispute-cites-improving-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-30T14:03:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-aseank-a-20170501.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-aseank-a-20170501.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte poses for selfies with journalists after a news conference at the end of the ASEAN summit in Manila on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/30/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-warms-xi-risks-leaving-allies-dry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-30T14:59:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-bromance-a-20170501.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump sits with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a bilateral meeting at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/30/asia-pacific/south-korea-says-u-s-reaffirms-will-pay-thaad-costs-joint-drills-wrap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-30T15:24:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-thaad-a-20170501.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-thaad-a-20170501.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Koreans march against deploying the THAAD missile defense system on Saturday near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/30/business/norway-takes-australia-bid-fulfill-japans-hydrogen-society-dream/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-30T20:46:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/n-hydrogen-a-20170501.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hydrogen-a-20170501.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A passer-by walks in front of a hydrogen station in Tokyo on April 24. The government is betting heavily on hydrogen as a fuel of the future.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/30/national/japanese-divided-revising-article-9-amid-north-korea-threats-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-30T20:47:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/n-constitution-a-20170501.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-constitution-a-20170501.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean special forces soldiers march and shout slogans during a military parade marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of the country's founder, Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang on April 15.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/30/world/u-s-backed-militias-claim-big-advance-islamic-state-syrian-town-tabqa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-30T21:14:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-syriais-a-20170501.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo, taken at the end of March, shows the Tabqa Dam after it was partially recaptured by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces as part of their battle for the Islamic State group's stronghold in nearby Raqqa.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/30/asia-pacific/north-koreas-avoidance-nuclear-test-herald-return-diplomacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-30T21:41:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-nukedip-a-20170501.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nukedip-a-20170501.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean defectors prepare to release balloons carrying leaflets and a banner denouncing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after the country's latest nuclear test, in Paju, South Korea, near the border with the North, in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/30/business/financial-markets/political-risk-scares-away-japanese-investors-french-bonds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-30T21:53:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-frenchbond-a-20170501.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past posters of French presidential election candidates in Paris on Friday. Japanese investors, worried about French political risks, are keeping the country's bonds at arm's length.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/30/national/crime-legal/japanese-pair-arrested-germany-darknet-drug-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-30T22:05:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/30/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-returns-japan-visits-russia-britain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-04-30T22:05:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/national/japan-ngos-want-government-ease-curbs-travel-conflict-areas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-01T06:18:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/world/u-s-soldier-killed-near-mosul-identified-infantry-officer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-01T10:45:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-soldier-a-20170502.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This U.S. Army handout photograph released Sunday shows 1st Lt. Weston C. Lee, 25, of Bluffton, Georgia, an 82nd Airborne Division Paratrooper who was killed Saturday in Iraq when an improvised explosive device detonated during a patrol outside Mosul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-invite-duterte-lining-allies-pyongyang-white-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-01T11:36:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during a news conference after concluding the 30th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Manila Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/world/pentagon-says-u-s-led-fight-islamic-state-forces-killed-350-civilians/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-01T13:11:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, made up of an alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters, splashes water at the Tabqa dam in Syria on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/world/tv-interview-trump-says-china-hacked-democratic-emails/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-01T13:40:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump appears on stage at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/french-voters-skeptical-macron-le-pen-answers-key-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-01T14:16:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron looks at some of the 2,500 photographs of young Jews deported from France during World War II during his visit to the Shoah Memorial in Paris on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/lawmakers-seen-close-deal-1-trillion-spending-plan-keep-u-s-government-running-till-oct-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-01T14:17:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Capitol is seen at dawn in WashingtonApril 4. Top Capitol Hill negotiators are reporting progress toward a long-sought agreement on a massive $1 trillion-plus spending bill that would fund the day-to-day operations of virtually every federal agency through Oct. 1. The House and Senate have until Friday at midnight to pass the measure to avert a government shutdown.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/national/hyogo-womans-quest-fair-trade-coconut-oil-helps-remote-indonesia-island/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-01T14:18:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ai Fujiwara shows a bottle of coconut oil in Kobe that was imported from Kapoposang Island in Indonesia.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-01T14:48:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean national flag flutters as soldiers in tanks salute to leader Kim Jong Un during a military parade in Pyongyang on April 15, the 105th anniversary of the birth of the country's founder, Kim Il Sung.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/business/chinese-investment-australia-surges-11-7-deals-hit-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-01T17:02:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-01T17:12:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-01T17:51:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 486-ton Atakemaru is themed on ships used by samurai feudal lords during the Edo Period.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-01T19:09:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mihama Kankitsu, a citrus producer in Mihama, Mie Prefecture, is increasing production of Ichigi oranges, which can be eaten by scooping the flesh out with a spoon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/business/economy-business/labor-shortage-prompts-grudging-turn-permanent-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-01T21:23:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's longtime shift toward hiring more temporary workers over permanent staff is at a crossroads as the labor market tightens.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/national/gunma-toyama-mountain-climbing-accidents-kill-two-woman-seriously-hurt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-01T22:52:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-02T04:21:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/business/corporate-business/japans-ihi-inaugurates-heavy-concrete-factory-joint-venture-myanmar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-02T04:24:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-02T06:07:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thailand Navy Chief of Staff Adm. Leuchai Ruddis speaks during a news conference in Chonburi, Thailand, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-02T07:10:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buyers negotiate at a booth during an international jewelry trade fair in January in Tokyo. Small and medium-size jewelry makers in Yamanashi Prefecture are expanding their sales in other parts of Asia on the back of growing demand.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/national/tokyo-metro-gets-flack-halting-subway-trains-north-korea-missile-launch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-02T07:49:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen shot of Tokyo Metro's website shows the suspension of all of its subway lines early Saturday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-02T14:20:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marieke Vervoort joins Japanese Paralympians for dinner in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on April 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/national/social-issues/poll-finds-people-guide-dogs-still-suffering-discrimination-new-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-02T15:22:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials of railway operator Keio Corp. participate in a seminar on guide dogs in Tokyo in December. A recent survey has shown many visually impaired people with guide dogs still face discrimination a year after a law to combat it came into effect.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/national/british-train-enthusiasts-journey-japan-tour-rural-rail-lines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-02T15:37:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Japanese Railway Society pose for a photo on the Kumagawa Limited Express between the city of Kumamoto and Hitoyoshi in Kumamoto Prefecture during a trip to explore minor railways in Kyushu in May 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/national/public-backs-permanent-abdication-solution-emperors-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-02T16:01:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attend an event in Tokyo last Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/national/abe-calls-historic-step-toward-amending-constitution-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-02T16:02:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abeconstitution-a-20170502.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a gathering in Tokyo Monday of a cross-party league of lawmakers who favor amending the Constitution, alongside former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/business/tpp-nations-meet-canada-discuss-fate-pact-without-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-02T17:07:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-honored-meet-pyongyang-leader-conditions-right/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-02T17:45:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump are pictured in a combination photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/asia-pacific/north-korea-says-u-s-bomber-flights-push-peninsula-brink-nuclear-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-02T17:46:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pair of U.S. B-1B Lancer bombers soar over Wyoming in this undated file photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/business/aiib-international-banks-welcome-addition-asia-infrastructure-effort-kuroda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-02T17:47:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-adb-a-20170503.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, who previously ran the Asian Development Bank, speaks about infrastructure investment in Asia in Yokohama on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/national/government-release-map-potential-final-nuclear-disposal-sites-summer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-02T20:38:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Solidified nuclear waste mixed with glass is placed in canisters at a reprocessing plant in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, in 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/national/aomori-city-sees-bitcoin-way-attract-overseas-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-02T20:50:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-hirosaki-a-20170503.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cherry blossoms in full bloom are seen Monday at Hirosaki Park in Aomori Prefecture with Hirosaki Castle appearing in the background. The city of Hirosaki is soliciting donations to preserve the park, a popular tourism destination, in bitcoins.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/national/hokkaido-music-fan-crafts-ukuleles-local-sakhalin-spruce/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-02T21:31:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eisuke Miyagi plays a ukulele in Chitose, Hokkaido, made with local wood.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/national/crime-legal/man-drops-suit-seeking-deletion-arrest-history-google/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-02T21:32:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese man has given up a court battle seeking removal of his arrest history from Google Inc.'s search engine, following a Supreme Court decision that dismissed his demand on a separate provisional injunction.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/national/japan-calls-stronger-nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty-amid-north-korea-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-03T03:32:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-npt-a-20170503.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the preparatory committee for the 2020 review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in Vienna on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/national/tokyo-metro-wont-halt-service-north-korean-missiles-without-government-alert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-03T03:33:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-metro-a-20170503.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Metro has decided not to stop trains unless the government's J-Alert emergency advisory system is activated.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/business/corporate-business/western-digital-earnings-show-value-risk-sandisk-purchase/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-03T04:08:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-westerndigital-a-20170503.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Western Digital Corp.'s earnings in the first quarter showed the value of its SanDisk acquisition and how much it has to lose if a partnership with Toshiba is disrupted by the desperation sale of its chip unit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/business/corporate-business/isuzu-double-heavy-truck-production-thailand-boost-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-03T04:13:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trucks-a-20170503.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Isuzu Motors Ltd. is preparing to double its heavy-duty truck production capacity in Thailand this year to increase exports to Southeast Asian markets.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/03/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-ambassador-urges-south-korea-remove-comfort-woman-statues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-03T06:01:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/03/national/13-slightly-hurt-elderly-woman-crashes-car-oita-hospital-lobby/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-03T06:03:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-03T09:49:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May greets European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker outside 10 Downing Street in London on April 4. May acknowledged Tuesday that Brexit "will not be easy," after EU officials accused Britain of underestimating the complexity of the task ahead.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/02/asia-pacific/satellite-evidence-points-north-koreas-ramped-sub-launched-missile-program-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-03T10:36:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new submersible test stand barge, North Korea's second, is seen at the country's Nampo Naval Shipyard on its west coast in a satellite image taken April 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/venezuelas-maduro-tries-chavezs-constitution-tack-bid-delay-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-03T10:57:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activity is seen at North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test facility in this satellite image taken April 25.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Forecasts of gross domestic product growth announced by the Asian Development Bank in its annual Asian Development Outlook 2017]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Port of Yokohama has long attracted people of all ages from around the world.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Fuji can be seen in the background of the Chureito pagoda.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Fuji serves as a backdrop in an evening view of Yokohama icons such as the Landmark Tower and Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro O'Sullivan, executive director of Amnesty International Japan, speaks during a news briefing at the organization's Tokyo headquarters on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasumasa Shibuya]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters demonstrate against revising the Constitution on Wednesday in Tokyo's Ariake district.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis is partially covered by a hat tossed by a faithful as waves to the crowds at the end of a general audience he held in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this  July 5, 2016, image made from video, Alton Sterling is restrained by two Baton Rouge police officers, one holding a gun, outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Moments later, one of the officers shot and killed Sterling, a black man who had been selling CDs outside the store, while he was on the ground. Officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II were placed on administrative leave.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kobe beef refers to meat of Tajima-gyu cows certified by the Kobe Beef Distribution and Promotion Council. Kobe Beef is enjoyed by numerous gourmet celebrities from around the world as a gastronomic experience that is not to be missed when visiting Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secretary of State  Rex Tillerson (second from left) meets with (from left) foreign ministers from Southeast Asia Malaysia Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman, Philippines Acting Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo and Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, at the State Department in Washington Thursday. The group did the "ASEAN handshake" as part of a group photograph.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-05T08:36:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Motorcyclists who work on community transport protest during an operation in the Alemao slum complex after violent clashes between policemen and drug dealers in Rio de Janeiro Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-05T08:38:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A baby is brought onto the Malta-based NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) ship Phoenix during a migrant rescue operation in the central Mediterranean, in international waters off the Libyan coastal town of Sabratha, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-05T10:05:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tama New Town residential development in Tama, Tokyo, represents a prime example of the difficult task that faces the nation. By 2025, 1 in 3 people in the city are expected to be at least 75 years old.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waseda University philosophy Professor Masashiro Morioka has studied the psychology of men with Lolita complex by examining his own fixation with young girls.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adm. Harry Harris, head of the U.S. Pacific Command, addresses the Lowy Institute think tank in Sydney last December.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-06T21:08:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arundhati Bhattacharya]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso speaks to reporters Saturday evening in Yokohama after meeting with his Chinese counterpart in the first bilateral meeting of the countries' finance chiefs in nearly two years.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staying on top: In the 1980s, salarymen were dedicated to their companies, to the point of sacrificing their personal lives.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-07T17:58:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-07T23:49:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito, Princess Aiko and Crown Princess Masako attend a concert in Tokyo’s Toshima Ward on Wednesday. The princess is the Imperial couple’s only child.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-07T23:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Google logo is seen in this file photo. On Sunday China announced plans to further strengthen its control over search engines and online news portals. Under the country's already tight internet controls, popular sites such as Google and Facebook are blocked.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lin Chuan]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya enjoys continued popularity thanks to Shabani, a male gorilla famed for his good looks.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-09T23:26:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paramilitary policemen hold their fists in front of a flag of Communist Party of China as they attend an oath-taking rally to ensure the safety of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), at a military base in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, in November 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-09T23:42:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean presidential candidate Moon Jae-in arrives at his home after visiting his party heaquarters as votes are counted in Seoul on May 9.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean presidential candidate Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Party and his wife, Kim Jung-suk, wave after voting at a junior high school in Seoul on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians in the port city of Incheon, west of Seoul, on Saturday walk past campaign posters showing South Korean presidential candidates.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Presidential candidate Moon Jae-in is surrounded by supporters after attending a ceremony celebrating the birthday of Buddha at Jogye temple in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo, of the People's Party, is greeted by supporters during a campaign event in Goyang, South Korea, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moon Jae-in]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ahn Cheol-soo of South Korea's opposition People's Party speaks after winning the nomination as the party's presidential candidate during its primary in Daejeon on April 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-09T23:42:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moon Jae-in, leader of South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party, celebrates after winning the nomination as the party's presidential candidate during its presidential primary in Seoul on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Candidates from South Korea's Democratic Party — Moon Jae-in (front to back), Choi Sung and Lee Jae-myung — attend an event to throw their hats into the ring for the party's presidential primary in Seoul on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-09T23:43:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vehicle (front left) carrying disgraced South Korean President Park Geun-hye (center, inside car)  leaves the presidential Blue House en route to her private home in Seoul on Sunday evening.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-09T23:43:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean presidential candidate Moon Jae-in from the Democratic Party speaks during a news conference in Seoul on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People march through Tokyo’s Shibuya district on Sunday during the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade. This year’s theme was “Change,” a call to respect everyone as individuals, regardless of sexuality.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s President and CEO Osamu Masuko attends a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-10T03:47:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than ¥85 million in cash has been stolen from a safe at Hiroshima Chuo Police Station.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/10/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-looks-forward-working-moon-hopes-jointly-tackle-north-korea-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-10T06:50:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-10T10:05:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A notorious suicide destination, the Tojinbo cliffs stand out in Sakai, Fukui Prefecture. A suicide prevention group plans to use a drone to better monitor the area.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/09/national/history/japans-little-known-significant-role-world-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-10T10:14:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A World War I-era photograph from Malta's National War Museum shows Imperial Japanese Navy officers sitting on a beach on the island in the Mediterranean Sea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/10/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-macron-vow-fight-protectionism-push-ahead-work-japan-eu-free-trade-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-10T10:14:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-10T13:18:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-10T13:35:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pacific Command chief Adm. Harry Harris]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly willing to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un if Pyongyang ends its nuclear weapons program.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The newly discovered armored dinosaur named Zuul crurivastator, found in northern Montana, is seen in an illustration.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-10T16:29:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rod Rosenstein]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-10T16:40:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoko Chukin Bank, based in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, was reprimanded over shady loans.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp.'s net profit in the year that ended March 31 more than tripled from a year earlier.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-12T10:59:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Somalian President  Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed speaks during a news conference after the 2017 Somalia Conference at Lancaster House in London on  Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/next-fbi-head-trump-weighs-congressman-led-benghazi-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-12T14:53:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-12T15:03:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp.'s President Satoshi Tsunakawa bows during a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-12T15:16:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic, which announced drop in profit in fiscal 2016, is looking to automotive parts like electric car batteries to be a driver of growth.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/12/business/china-led-aiib-head-jin-sees-opportunities-cooperation-adb/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-12T16:50:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jin Liqun]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/14/national/kumamoto-marks-one-year-anniversary-of-deadly-quakes-with-grief-and-resolve/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-12T17:35:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-12T18:48:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-12T18:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese investors may start to rekindle their interest in French sovereign debt after Emmanuel Macron's victory in Sunday's election removed a major political risk factor.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/12/national/girl-1-becomes-japans-youngest-lung-transplant-recipient/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-12T18:49:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Doctors perform lung transplant surgery on a 1-year-old girl at Okayama University Hospital on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/12/national/crime-legal/gifu-driver-gets-30-months-traffic-death-caused-playing-pokemon-go/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-12T19:46:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/12/business/corporate-business/nikon-falls-red-first-time-seven-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-12T19:46:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nikon has been restructuring operations due to sluggish sales of semiconductor production equipment and digital cameras.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/12/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-exec-nikai-attend-beijing-forum-deliver-letter-abe-xi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-12T19:54:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshihiro Nikai]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/12/business/corporate-business/softbank-may-seek-merger-talks-sprint-t-mobile-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-12T23:04:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday. SoftBank is poised to propose to T-Mobile US that the mobile carrier enter merger talks with its U.S. subsidiary Sprint, sources said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/12/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-bid-revise-charter-2020-irks-ldp-veterans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-12T23:31:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Ishiba]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/12/national/crime-legal/train-passenger-detained-groping-allegation-found-dead-fleeing-ueno-station/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-12T23:41:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-13T14:03:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-13T14:03:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump arrives aboard Air Force One at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on May 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-13T14:11:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A flag flies over the Permanent Mission of North Korea in Geneva.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/12/national/foreign-detainees-go-on-hunger-strike-at-tokyo-immigration-bureau/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-13T15:58:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-13T15:59:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman points to the website of the NHS: East and North Hertfordshire notifying users of a problem with its network on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/12/national/science-health/anisakis-infections-raw-fish-rise-health-ministry-warns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-13T16:05:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n anisakis-a 20170613]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anisakis, a parasitic worm found in many species of fish and cephlopods, can cause severe stomach pain.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/13/national/fire-breaks-saitama-amusement-park/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-13T16:06:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fire late Friday at Seibuen in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, burned about 1,000 sq. meters of the amusement park. kyodo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/12/business/japans-potato-chip-shortage-likely-linger-fall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-13T16:11:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's usually robust range of potato chip products is likely to be limited until fall as Hokkaido, the major potato-growing region, recovers from four typhoons that hit it last summer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/12/business/japan-waking-up-to-the-problems-of-sleeping-cash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-13T16:37:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopper holds a bank note at a store in Tokyo's Sugamo district, a popular area among elderly people. Due to the rapidly aging population, it is predicted that the amount of money in sleeping accounts and cash left behind by people who die without heirs will increase.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/13/national/media-national/north-korea-news-simmering-front-back-burners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-13T22:44:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-13T17:25:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-13T23:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bluefin tuna are often caught using seine nets, which traps both young and older fish of a whole shoal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/13/business/economy-business/aso-g-7-peers-stress-free-trade-key-helping-fight-inequality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-13T20:17:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso arrives for the Group of Seven summit of finance ministers on Friday in Bari, Italy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/13/national/u-n-panel-calls-revising-comfort-women-deal-japan-south-korea-include-compensation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-13T20:18:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/13/business/economy-business/government-sends-mixed-signals-idea-japan-joining-china-led-aiib/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-13T20:19:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/13/national/rainy-season-starts-okinawa-amami/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-13T20:19:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-13T23:19:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance chiefs and central bank leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations as well as leaders of international organizations pose at the Norman-Swabian Castle in Bari, Italy, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/13/national/social-issues/fukushima-land-return/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-14T02:35:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The build-up of contaminated bags is slowly changing the landscape of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/13/asia-pacific/senior-north-korean-diplomat-says-country-open-dialogue-u-s-right-conditions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-14T12:51:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Choe Son Hui (left), head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's North America bureau, speaks with an unidentified companion at Beijing's international airport on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/14/business/group-seven-vows-fight-inequality-silent-protectionism-amid-divisions-u-s-stance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-14T12:51:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[IMF head Christine Lagarde and Finance Minister Taro Aso share a laugh ahead of a family photo at the Norman-Swabian Castle in Bari, Italy, during the Group of Seven meeting of finance ministers on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/14/national/fukushima-firms-fairy-feather-silk-gets-hermes-attention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-14T13:12:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This silk textile called "fairy feather" will be used in Hermes scarves later this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/14/asia-pacific/made-north-korea-tougher-sanctions-loom-local-goods-stores/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-14T15:57:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vendor is pictured in a shop in a newly constructed residential complex after its opening ceremony in Ryomyong Street in Pyongyang on April 13.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/13/national/japan-favors-aegis-ashore-thaad-bolster-missile-defenses-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-14T16:53:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-aegis-a-20170514.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aegis-a-20170514.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The deckhouse of an Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System is seen at Deveselu air base in Romania in May 2016.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guy Ryder, director-general of the International Labor Organization, gives an interview at a Tokyo hotel on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Asuka Bijin" ("Asuka Beauties"), an ancient mural depicting beautiful women at the Takamatsuzuka tomb in Nara Prefecture, is shown as it was first discovered in 1972 (left), darkened by mold in a picture taken in 2006 (center), and how it looks today after years of restoration work.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/14/national/social-issues/government-crafts-way-ban-gambling-addicts-casinos-pachinko-parlors/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government and ruling parties reportedly plan to enable pachinko parlors and other gambling facilities to ban the entry of people with serious gambling addiction, as they are poised to approve casino projects in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A painting by North Korean defector Song Byeok is displayed at his first U.K. exhibition in London on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping exits the stage after addressing the "Belt and Road" globalization initiative in Beijing on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Capitalizing on spying tools believed to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, hackers have staged a cyberassault with a self-spreading malware that has infected tens of thousands of computers in nearly 100 countries.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroto Fujii greets a supporter in the city of Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, on Sunday afternoon after he was re-elected mayor.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former residents of the Russian-held islands off Hokkaido depart Monday from Nemuro for Kunashiri Island.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/15/national/nagoya-team-working-robot-help-elderly-drivers-stay-alert-safe/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey showed elderly drivers preferred advice from robots over spouses or friends.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-15T17:06:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Janet Yellen]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/15/business/corporate-business/small-tokyo-firm-olympos-working-re-create-wartime-trainer-aircraft/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-15T17:15:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satoru Shinohe, president of Olympos, a small aircraft-maker known for its unique products, is pictured at his company's base in western Tokyo last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/15/business/economy-business/wholesale-prices-fourth-month-higher-oil-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-15T17:30:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-15T17:42:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-15T18:35:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-15T19:43:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robots work side by side with employees in the assembly line at a factory of Glory Ltd., a manufacturer of automatic change dispensers, in Kazo, Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-15T20:09:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People rally in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sunday against the Futenma base relocation plan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-15T20:16:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new intermediate-range North Korean missile, referred to as the Hwasong-12, is launched Sunday in this photo taken from the front page of the Monday edition of the North's official Rodong Sinmun daily.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-15T20:16:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-15T20:16:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron kisses his wife, Brigitte, during the handover ceremony in Paris on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-15T20:36:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/12/national/siblings-retrace-mothers-escape-holocaust-aided-japanese-diplomat-jtb/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-15T22:19:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sonia Reed, who escaped Nazi-occupied Poland with a transit visa issued by Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, poses with her husband, Curt, and their three children, Deborah, David and Shelley, at  her new home in New York in 1958.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/15/national/gsdf-reconnaissance-plane-vanishes-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-15T22:29:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This file photo from May 2001 shows an LR-2 reconnaissance plane.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/15/national/patriotic-japan-poster-2011-causes-social-media-stir-model-outed-chinese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-15T22:42:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This old poster going viral online says, "I am proud to be a Japanese," but uses a Chinese model.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/15/business/corporate-business/japan-post-logs-%c2%a529-billion-net-loss-first-since-privatization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-15T23:23:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatsugu Nagato]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-16T05:38:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Don Quijote has a new type of restroom in its recently opened flagship store in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/16/world/crime-legal-world/notorious-british-child-killer-moors-murderer-ian-brady-dies-prison-79/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-16T10:56:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[(A combination of handout pictures created in London on Monday shows undated police handout photographs released by Greater Manchester Police of 'Moors murderers' Ian Brady and Myra Hindley Brady has died in high-security hospital at the age of 79, a spokesperson for the NHS trust in Merseyside said on May 15, 2017. Brady along with his then-girlfriend Myra Hindley, who died in prison in 2002, dubbed the Moors murderers, kidnapped and murdered five children in the 1960s and buried at least four of their bodies on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester in northwest England.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-16T12:12:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boats that were repaired in Italy are seen after they were handed over to the Libyan navy at Tripoli naval base Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/14/business/tech/racial-ethnic-hate-speech-thrives-online-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-16T12:53:57+09:00</lastmod>
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