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		<lastmod>2017-05-17T14:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-17T14:52:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-17T16:15:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Gwang-ho speaks during an interview in Yongin, South Korea, on April 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-17T16:15:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than a million people in Japan are believed to have alcohol dependence, but only 6 percent seek professional help.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-17T17:30:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-17T17:43:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Pacific Command chief Adm. Harry Harris answers questions during a speech at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/17/business/economy-business/machinery-orders-rise-march-second-straight-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-17T17:44:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Core machinery orders in Japan rose in March from the previous month, backed by firm demand in the manufacturing sector.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/17/national/princess-mako-komuro-go-series-rituals-wedding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-17T17:45:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/17/national/japanese-rejoice-news-princess-makos-planned-engagement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-17T18:17:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A street TV in Tokyo's Yurakucho area shows news about Princess Mako's expected engagement to Kei Komuro on Tuesday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-17T19:11:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-17T19:24:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/17/asia-pacific/china-deploys-anti-diver-rocket-launchers-man-made-island-south-china-sea-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-17T19:26:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soldiers from China's People's Liberation Army Navy patrol on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands in February 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/17/business/corporate-business/japan-urges-toshiba-western-digital-get-along-chip-spat-flares/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-17T20:16:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba President and CEO Satoshi Tsunakawa attends a news conference in Tokyo on Monday. The government urged the firm and its partner, Western Digital, to cooperate amid an escalating dispute.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/17/national/princess-makos-engagement-likely-renew-debate-female-succession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-17T21:17:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko pose with their family members during a photo session at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/17/national/document-suggests-abe-swayed-deal-construction-friends-school/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-17T21:17:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party lawmaker Yuichiro Tamaki asks questions during a Lower House education committee session Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/17/national/politics-diplomacy/opposition-makes-last-ditch-effort-block-conspiracy-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-17T21:17:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Justice Minister Katsutoshi Kaneda speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Wednesday after opposition parties submitted a no-confidence motion against him.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/17/business/japan-new-zealand-leaders-affirm-commitment-future-tpp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-18T03:38:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his visiting New Zealand counterpart, Bill English, attend a joint news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/18/business/north-korea-uses-japan-banned-ferry-launch-service-vladivostok/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-18T06:13:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/18/national/details-tokyo-2020-olympics-mascot-design-competition-released-monday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-18T08:28:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/18/national/niigata-teams-university-brewers-promote-local-sake-home-abroad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-18T13:23:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shunji Odaira (left), head of the Niigata Sake Brewers Association, Niigata Gov. Ryuichi Yoneyama and Niigata University President Sugata Takahashi sign an agreement to set up a sake course at the university on May 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-18T15:53:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An unveiling ceremony is held Wednesday in Taipei to celebrate the launch of the Taiwan-Japan Relations Association, a semi-official body handling ties with Japan, that was previously called the Association of East Asian Relations. The move has irked China, which claims sovereignty over Taiwan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-18T16:10:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/17/national/science-health/continuing-streak-japan-leads-world-life-expectancy-report-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-18T16:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese women have a life expectancy of 86.8 years while men have a life expectancy of 80.5 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/18/business/indian-cabinet-approves-plans-build-10-reactors-bid-fast-track-nuke-power-quest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-18T16:36:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/18/business/funais-new-tv-models-hit-japanese-stores-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-18T16:53:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/18/business/tpp-enactment-hangs-balance-11-member-ministers-begin-talks-sunday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-18T18:20:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is keen to gain agreement on "high-level rules" agreed on under the TPP, despite the U.S. withdrawing from the pact in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/18/national/shiga-city-offers-spanish-portuguese-classes-children-migrant-families/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-18T18:21:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reiko Kinoshita gives Japanese-Brazilian children a Portuguese lesson in Konan, Shiga Prefecture, on March 4 as part of the city's efforts for them to better communicate with their parents in their native language.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/18/national/fitness-club-curves-japan-champions-food-drives-charities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-18T18:21:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee of fitness club Curves Japan in Tokyo stocks food donated by the club's members. The franchise has been promoting food drives since 2007.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/18/national/science-health/japans-nursing-facilities-using-humanoid-robots-improve-lives-safety-elderly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-18T18:21:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An elderly woman at a nursing home in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, touches a humanoid robot that is remotely controlled by a staff member with a PC in the background.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/18/national/politics-diplomacy/renho-says-abe-resign-kake-education-allegations-prove-true/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/18/national/kabuki-actor-nakamura-shido-lung-cancer-take-hiatus-stage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-18T19:13:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nakamura Shido]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/18/national/violin-teacher-princess-fiance-delights-former-students-passion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-18T19:29:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kei Komuro, Princess Mako's fiance-to-be, is seen playing violin in this New Year's Day card he sent to his violin teacher Junko Yamauchi in 1998.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the newly built Mindulle Notebook Factory in this undated photo released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Justice Minister Katsutoshi Kaneda (right) and other lawmakers stand at the start of a Lower House session Thursday before voting down a no-confidence motion filed against Kaneda for his handling of the contentious conspiracy bill.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[During an address from the presidential palace in Brasilia on Thursday, Brazilian President Michel Temer rejected calls for his resignation.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomoko Takebe has found a boyfriend with an eye to marriage via crowdfunding, an effort that netted more than ¥500,000.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-19T19:18:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women moving to cities and men staying in rural areas to carry on family businesses in agriculture and other industries may explain the increasing rate of unmarried people at age 50.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-19T19:20:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Air Force WC-135 Constant Phoenix, known colloquially as a "nuke sniffer," is refueled by a tanker.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-19T19:25:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The city of Matsumoto will carry out work to strengthen the earthquake resistance of Matsumoto Castle, after a city-commissioned study found it could fall in the event of a major quake.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-19T19:42:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters rally near the Diet building on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-19T20:12:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters rally near the Diet building on Friday as the ruling bloc pushed the controversial conspiracy bill through the Lower House committee.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-19T20:12:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly-hired employees of Japan Airlines pose for photos during an initiation ceremony at a hangar of Haneda airport in Tokyo on April 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-19T20:12:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some Japanese banks are beefing up services to make them more friendly to English-speaking residents.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-19T23:06:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-20T12:25:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Duolingo's recently launched Japanese course is geared toward beginners.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian voters cast their ballots for the presidential election at a polling station in Tehran on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[HQ-9 surface-to-air missiles are seen deployed to China's Hainan Island in the northern part of the South China Sea in satellite imagery taken May 8.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a speech during the 33rd National Convention of the Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary (PCGA) in Davao City on the southern island of Mindanao on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/19/national/tourists-top-10-million-record-pace/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Tourism Agency said on Friday that Japan set a monthly record of 2,578,900 tourists in April,  thanks to Easter Sunday and the cherry blossom season.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/20/national/better-relations-tokyo-use-korean-residents-open-diplomatic-channels-new-south-korean-government/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People watch a TV showing the South Korean presidential race earlier this month in the so-called Korean Town in Osaka's Higashinari Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/20/national/science-health/manufacturers-bet-bright-future-rehab-robot-market/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, seen here at a February news conference in Tokyo, has almost $100 billion to invest in making the next big thing a reality.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/21/asia-pacific/north-koreas-unit-180-cyberwarfare-cell-worries-west/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-22T19:08:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-unit180-a-20170522.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea has been blamed in recent years for a series of online attacks, mostly on financial networks, in the United States, South Korea and over a dozen other countries, with a special cell called Unit 180 likely to have launched some of the most daring and successful strikes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/22/business/japan-wto-chief-reaffirm-commitment-free-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-22T19:55:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roberto Azevedo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/22/business/corporate-business/hitachi-aims-become-leader-thai-elevator-market-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-22T19:55:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-22T19:55:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinya Furunaka (left) and Shunsuke Kido (right) evaluate accessibility for wheelchair users at Suma Beach in Kobe last December.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-22T19:55:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A polar bear and her cub stand next to a causeway bridge leading to an artificial island oil production platform in the Beaufort Sea in Alaska. The animal has long been associated with climate change, but groups are trying to shift focus on to people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/22/national/tokyo-skytree-tallies-fifth-anniversary/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors hold commemorative souvenirs at Tokyo Skytree on Monday as it marked its fifth anniversary. About 26 million people had visited the landmark as of March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-22T22:33:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China has ramped-up its surveillance of foreign organizations and individuals in the name of national security since President Xi Jinping came to power more than four years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/22/national/social-issues/year-enactment-hate-speech-law-xenophobic-rallies-nearly-half/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-22T23:19:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators using derogatory slogans clash with anti-hate speech protesters outside a park in Kawasaki in June 2016.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiko Ikoma, vice chairwoman of the panel in charge of mascot selection for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, holds a sign at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/22/national/crime-legal/several-held-2015-fukuoka-gold-bar-theft/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-22T23:20:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A site near last July's ¥700 million gold bar heist in the city of Fukuoka is shown in this photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-22T23:21:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speak upon Trump's arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on Monday as part of his first trip overseas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-conducts-first-cross-government-tabletop-exercise-north-korea-missile-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T07:09:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-23T07:11:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-23T09:33:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The launch Sunday of North Korea's Pukguksong-2 solid-fueled, medium-range missile is seen in a sequence of photos taken from the Monday edition of the North's official Rodong Sinmun daily.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-23T09:35:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This file photo taken Saturday shows then-FBI Director James Comey during the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Russian actions during the 2016 election campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington. Comey said Monday he has delayed testimony before the House of Representatives.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/national/ground-cracks-form-oita-city-prompting-evacuations-amid-landslide-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T09:44:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cracks are seen in a rice paddy in a district of the city of Bungo Ono, Oita Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/22/reference/art-fallout-japanese-political-gaffe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T10:20:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n fyi-z 20170523]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Politicians Masahiro Imamura, Yoshiro Mori, Taro Aso, Ichiro Ozawa and Shintaro Ishihara have all committed a sin that doomed or tainted their political careers: making gaffes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/22/national/princess-mako-parents-create-stir-museum-visit-ueno/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T11:55:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Mako (left) visits the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo with her parents, Princess Kiko and Prince Akishino, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/22/national/tokyo-police-urge-go-kart-companies-improve-safety/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T11:58:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A go-kart tour winds its way through a public road in the middle of Tokyo last week.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/business/scandal-plagued-fox-news-slapped-harassment-discrimination-suits-u-s-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T12:26:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fox-a-20170524.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this April 19 file photo, a security guard looks out of the the News Corp. headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. Three new lawsuits Monday allege racial discrimination or sexual harassment at Fox News, deepening the network's legal woes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-sets-mideast-vision-backing-arab-strongmen-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T13:19:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump wave as they board Air Force One before leaving Riyadh bound for Israel on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/national/efforts-afoot-turn-abandoned-rural-train-lines-tourist-attractions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T13:21:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists take part in a "mountain rail bike" tour on the abandoned Kamioka Railway in Hida, Gifu Prefecture, in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/business/french-fare-feast-beer-brewed-altitude-surfing-sky/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T13:36:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-23T14:14:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-23T14:16:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People run down stairs as they attempt to exit the Manchester Arena after an explosion in this still image taken from video Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/asia-pacific/chinas-imports-north-korea-sink-100-million-april-coal-ban-bites/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T14:23:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/business/inheritance-tax-avoidance-cheap-mortgages-driving-rental-housing-bubble/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T16:08:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New apartment buildings tower above Tokyo's Kachidoki area. A boom in rental housing construction could be facing collapse thanks to excessive supply and the shrinking population.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/business/japans-agriculture-corporate-attracting-younger-farmers-white-paper-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T16:43:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-23T17:35:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/business/corporate-business/sony-get-groove-back-ceo-kazuo-hirai-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T17:41:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Hirai, president and chief executive officer of Sony Corp., holds a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/national/tokyo-zoo-remove-panda-showing-signs-pregnancy-public-display/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T17:45:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shin Shin, a giant panda at the Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo, has shown signs of pregnancy, the zoo said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/ousted-president-parks-corruption-trial-set-start/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T18:55:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/f-park-a-20170524.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-park-a-20170524.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrives March 30 at the Seoul Central District Court for hearing on a prosecutors' request for her arrest for corruption in Seoul. Handcuffed, her inmate number 503 attached to her clothing, Park begins her corruption trial Tuesday in the same courtroom where a brutal dictator was sentenced to death two decades ago.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/national/politics-diplomacy/top-sdf-officer-warns-north-korea-close-mastering-technology-hitting-japan-nukes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T19:59:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-kawano-a-20170524.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsutoshi Kawano]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/business/corporate-business/with-plans-for-electric-versions-of-its-vehicles-subaru-avoids-reinventing-the-wheel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T20:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuyuki Yoshinaga]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/asia-pacific/symantec-says-highly-likely-north-korea-group-behind-wannacry-ransomware-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T20:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees watch electronic boards to monitor possible ransomware cyberattacks at the Korea Internet and Security Agency in Seoul on May 15. Cybersecurity firm Symantec Corp. said Monday it was "highly likely" that a hacking group affiliated with North Korea was behind this month's "WannaCry" cyberattack.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/05/30/national/foes-give-kimigayo-sarcastic-spin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T20:07:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/national/politics-diplomacy/u-n-rapporteur-takes-tokyo-task-conspiracy-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T21:19:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters shout slogans denouncing the conspiracy bill during a rally in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/national/crime-legal/man-nabbed-hiroshima-may-radical-leftist-wanted-list-45-years-policemans-killing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T22:36:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wanted poster showing Masaaki Osaka is displayed at a station in Chiba Prefecture on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/world/manchester-concert-suicide-attack-prompts-security-rethinks-worldwide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T22:54:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Armed British Police officers stand on duty outside of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, central London on May 23, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/business/economy-business/government-says-labor-investment-reform-key-economic-policy-blueprint/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T22:56:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the government's key economic policy-setting panel gather for a meeting Tuesday at the Prime Minister's Office.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/asia-pacific/south-korea-fires-suspected-drone-border-north-amid-missile-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-23T23:01:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-24T01:31:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The deckhouse of the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System is seen at Deveselu air base in Romania in May 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/national/crime-legal/15-year-old-arrested-forcing-classmate-eat-insect-dog-feces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T03:39:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Higashi-Fushimi Station on Seibu railway's Shinjuku Line was the site of a bullying incident in which a 15-year-old high school boy forced a classmate to eat a grasshopper.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/asia-pacific/north-korea-left-unchecked-inevitable-path-nuclear-icbm-u-s-general/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T06:08:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, accompanied by Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on worldwide threats.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-24T07:54:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-24T07:59:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (left) and ranking member Sen. Mark Warner (right) speak about former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn following a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/business/japan-sees-surge-nations-problematic-anti-dumping-measures-may-violate-wto-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T09:16:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/world/science-health-world/yemen-cholera-cases-since-april-top-35000-deaths-surge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T10:54:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A girl infected with cholera lies on the ground of a hospital room in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen, May 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/23/business/tech/japans-superhuman-sports-games-meld-high-tech-and-athletics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T14:17:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-24T15:12:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/business/economy-business/japan-manufacturers-mood-slips-despite-economic-recovery-survey-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T15:43:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-24T16:47:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank, leaves a news conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on May 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/business/corporate-business/toshiba-may-seek-buyers-westinghouse-starting-fall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T16:48:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-24T18:44:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenyu Adachi, president of Shoko Chukin Bank, receives a business improvement on May 9 at the industry ministry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/business/economy-business/former-fed-chief-bernanke-endorses-bojs-inflation-goal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T18:44:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda and Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, wave during the 2017 BOJ-IMEF Conference at the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/national/multilingual-audio-tourist-guide-app-offered-japans-imperial-sites/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T18:51:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n palace z 20170525]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen shot of the Imperial Palaces Guide app.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/national/politics-diplomacy/dozens-local-governments-across-japan-voice-concerns-conspiracy-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T19:05:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-conspreax-a-20170525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmakers vote on the contentious conspiracy bill during Tuesday's Lower House plenary session.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/national/japanese-residents-manchester-shaken-terrorist-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T19:07:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Ariana Grande fan stands next to tributes left for the victims of an attack on concert goers at Manchester Arena on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-slams-north-korean-leader-madman-nuclear-weapons-call-philippines-duterte/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T19:12:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/f-trumperte-a-20170525.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumperte-a-20170525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rodrigo Duterte]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-retains-private-attorney-russia-probe-source-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T19:13:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/f-kasowitz-a-20170525.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kasowitz-a-20170525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive at Leonardo Da Vinci International airport, near Rome, on Tuesday. Trump is in Italy for a two-day visit, including a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, ahead of a NATO summit in Brussels on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/national/crime-legal/death-row-inmate-convicted-1970s-leftist-serial-bombings-dies-prison/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T19:41:13+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/national/former-lawmaker-finance-chief-kaoru-yosano-dies-78/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T20:25:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yosano-a-20170525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano was known as one of the most knowledgeable policymakers, especially in the area of finance.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/national/politics-diplomacy/former-defense-chief-courts-controversy-questioning-abe-plan-revise-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T22:08:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-ishiba-z-20170525.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n ishiba-z 20170525]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Ishiba]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/asia-pacific/china-says-no-one-bring-chaos-korean-peninsula/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-24T23:18:51+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/25/national/first-japanese-female-civilian-honored-among-fallen-u-n-peacekeepers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-25T09:54:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-peacekeepers-a-20170526.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a ceremony Wednesday to honor fallen peacekeepers at the U.N. headquarters in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/russians-reportedly-discussed-influence-trump-via-aides/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-25T12:38:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trussia-a-20170526.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Manafort of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's staff listens during a discussion on security at Trump Tower in the New York on Aug. 17.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/national/crime-legal/ex-mayor-gets-jail-term-car-crash-killed-3/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-25T14:40:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mayor-a-20170525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hisashi Makita]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/25/business/renewable-energy-growth-continues-powering-jobs-especially-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-25T14:48:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-renewables-a-20170526.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Solar power generation led the growth of the renewable energy industry last year, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency's annual report.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/25/business/corporate-business/sendai-based-upstart-taking-big-osaka-appliance-makers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-25T15:26:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b osaka-a 20170517]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iris Ohyama employee Masahiro Inukai shows off the firm’s home appliances products at its office in the city of Osaka last month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/25/national/revival-seeking-rural-japan-feels-left-casino-plans-favor-major-cities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-25T15:33:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-casino-a-20170526.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Casino development is seen as a potential boon to the gaming industry, given Japan's wealthy population and its proximity to China.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/national/science-health/long-taboo-expert-says-japan-must-examine-male-infertility-amid-falling-birthrate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-25T15:41:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-health-a-20170525.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-health-a-20170525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Research overseas has shown that semen quality has declined over the last several decades.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/24/national/dozen-people-hospitalized-inhaling-noxious-gas-yokohama-food-factory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-25T16:18:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gas-a-20170525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A TV crew shoots video at a food-processing factory in Yokohama on Wednesday where 16 people were sickened by a noxious gas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/25/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-departs-g-7-summit-italy-trip-malta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-25T16:32:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-abesummit-a-20170526.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, board a plane bound for Italy at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/25/national/beloved-doll-licca-chan-keeps-spirits-disaster-hit-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-25T16:44:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-liccachan-a-20170526.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-liccachan-a-20170526.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children gather for an event to mark the 50th anniversary of the debut of Licca-chan, a popular dress-up doll, on May 6 in the town of Ono in Fukushima Prefecture. The doll's production plant has played an important role in the area's reconstruction.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-republican-bill-23-million-people-lose-health-coverage-congressional-budget-office-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-25T16:55:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpcarecbo-z-20170526.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters staging a "die-in" before a town hall meeting with US Representative Tom MacArthur in Willingboro, New Jersey, on May 10.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/25/business/tech/chinas-dji-unveils-499-drone-flies-palm-hand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-25T17:05:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-dji-b-20170526.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Perry, director of strategic partnerships at SZ DJI Technology, pilots the Spark gesture-controlled drone during the company's launch event in New York on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/25/business/china-new-cybersecurity-law-seen-hitting-foreign-firms-hardest/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Skyscrapers stand in twilight in Beijing. Foreign firms operating in China are grappling with rules that may tighten what is already one of the world's most restricted technology regimes.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Izumi Nakamitsu briefs the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday in New York as the new head of disarmament.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-25T18:15:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Electron rocket is shown just before its launch from New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction on Mischief Reef in the disputed South China Sea's Spratly chain is seen in this satellite image from July.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former TV director Toshiko Kanazawa shows an infamous photo of seven men at an inn in Toyama Prefecture. The wartime police used the photo as evidence of a communist conspiracy to torture and falsely convict dozens of people in what became known as the Yokohama Incident.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-26T11:55:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-26T14:58:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/26/national/japan-using-education-add-influence-tap-booming-southeast-asia-markets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-26T15:36:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students from Asian countries participate in a job fair in Tokyo in hopes of high-paying employment opportunities after graduation.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-26T15:44:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Developers of a ground-to-ground medium-to-long range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 arrive in Pyongyang, in this undated photo on May 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-26T15:57:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medium An Chinh gives a Hau Dong performance in Hanoi on March 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/26/business/japans-2016-net-external-assets-rose-second-largest-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-26T17:28:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-26T18:23:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-26T18:36:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyoshi Fuketa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/26/asia-pacific/kims-rocket-stars-trio-behind-north-koreas-missile-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-26T19:27:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un celebrates the test launch of the long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 with Ri Pyong Chol (second from left), Kim Jong Sik (center) and Jang Chang Ha (second from right) in this undated photo released by state media on May 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/26/national/deceased-donor-gives-%c2%a540-million-land-iwate-miyagi-fukushima-prefectures-orphaned-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-26T20:09:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/25/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-proposes-expanding-range-free-education-amending-article-26/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-26T20:43:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ruling Liberal Democratic Party aims to put an expansion to free education on the list of potential constitutional amendments to consider.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/26/national/crime-legal/man-held-setting-fire-bullet-train/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-26T20:43:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reporters gather Friday at a platform in JR Okayama Station, where an elderly man was arrested for allegedly starting a fire inside a shinkansen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/26/business/corporate-business/sharp-projects-first-profit-four-years-foxconns-cost-cuts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-26T23:03:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp plans to report its first net profit in four years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/26/national/meiji-slash-output-karl-limit-snack-western-japan-sales-dwindle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-27T11:43:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meiji Co. will terminate sales of Karl, a corn puff snack with nearly a 50-year history, in eastern Japan starting in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-27T12:34:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-27T12:39:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-27T12:42:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russians walk in a street on Shikotan, one of the disputed islands off Hokkaido where Japan and Russia are looking to launch joint economic ventures.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/27/world/britains-real-life-iron-man-high-hopes-jet-suit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-27T13:02:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inventor Richard Browning of the technology startup Gravity flies in his "Iron Man"-style jet suit at Henstridge airfield in Somerset, England, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives of Coptic Christians who were killed during a bus attack surround coffins during a funeral service at Abu Garnous Cathedral in Minya, Egypt, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/27/world/science-health-world/insecure-storage-nuclear-waste-poses-threat-u-s-scientists-warn/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Greg Abbott]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-29T16:25:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A BITPoint Japan employee demonstrates a bitcoin ATM in Tokyo on Thursday. The firm plans to increase acceptance of the digital currency at more retail outlets nationwide.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Financial institutions have excess reserves at the Bank of Japan, with the level reaching  the highest in 13 months in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-30T00:10:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ikuya Idota of Lixil Group Corp. shows generations of toilets with built-in spray wash displayed at the firm's factory in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/29/national/crime-legal/deceptive-dvd-maker-held-allegedly-coercing-women-making-porn-videos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T00:10:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Items confiscated from Shinichi Kanazawa, the proprietor of an online porn DVD site, are shown to the media Monday at Sonezaki Police Station in the city of Osaka. Kanazawa has been arrested on suspicion of coercing women into performing sex acts in porn videos.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-30T00:11:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former vice education minister Kihei Maekawa speaks at a news conference Thursday about documents concerning a scandal surrounding the government approval of a new veterinary department at a university run by Kake Gakuen.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-30T05:58:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte visits the wake of soldiers killed in Marawi city during fighting with Muslims Maute group militants, in Iligan City, Philippines, Friday. Sources Sunday said Duterte has dropped plans to visit Japan in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-30T10:12:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalists wait in a hall of the Leonardo Business Centre in Kiev on Monday during searches at the Yandex internet company by Kiev security services. Kiev security services said they were conducting searches in the Ukrainian offices of the popular Russian internet company as part of a treason probe. "The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) is conducting searches in the offices of the subsidiary of the Russian company Yandex in Kiev and Odessa", SBU spokeswoman Olena Gitlyanska wrote on her Facebook page.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/world/assange-hacker-can-stay-london-embassy-ecuadors-new-president-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T10:15:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-30T10:51:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Pope Francis for a private audience at the Vatican on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/world/powerful-m6-6-temblor-jolts-indonesias-sulawesi-island-causes-panic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T11:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Patients are led down the stairs at Anutapura Hospital following an earthquake in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Monday in this photo taken by Antara Foto.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-30T13:14:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pair of U.S. B-1B strategic bombers conduct joint drills with Air Self-Defense Force F-15s in airspace over the Kyushu region Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/national/magazine-aims-attract-non-japanese-tokushimas-awa-odori-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T14:10:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The annual Awa Odori in Tokushima Prefecture is one of Japan's largest dance festivals. A local firm plans to publish a multilingual magazine on the festival to reach out to visitors from abroad.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-administrations-policy-review-cuba-near-completion-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T14:16:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vintage car leaves the Hotel Nacional in Havana on May 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/national/hokkaido-firm-turns-oil-fat-culled-wild-deer-shampoo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T14:20:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cao Xuefeng, president of leather goods firm Wayoutokushin Co., holds a bottle of shampoo made with oil extracted from the fat of native Ezo deer in Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/national/akita-ups-vigilance-bears-woman-found-mauled-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T16:58:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers put up a no-entry sign at the foot of the mountains in the city of Senboku, Akita Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/national/politics-diplomacy/ex-osaka-mayor-hashimoto-retire-policy-adviser-nippon-ishin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T17:18:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toru Hashimoto]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/national/50-rescued-human-traffickers-japan-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T17:20:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/business/abe-adviser-ito-touts-minimum-wage-hike-taxing-cash-hoards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T17:21:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/b-adviser-a-20170531.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-adviser-a-20170531.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takatoshi Ito]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/business/economy-business/robots-may-help-defuse-demographic-time-bomb-japan-germany/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T17:34:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/b-robots-a-20170531.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-robots-a-20170531.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Increased automation and more use of robotic technology in Japan and Germany could help cushion the impact of their aging populations.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/business/economy-business/japans-job-availability-best-level-four-decades-amid-labor-shortage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T17:36:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Job availability has improved to its highest level in over four decades, the government said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/business/tpp-chief-negotiators-meet-japan-mid-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T18:08:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tpp-a-20170531.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump holds up an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Washington on Jan. 23. The 11 other nations in the TPP will meet in July to discuss what comes next.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-aide-pushed-kake-approval-meetings-ex-bureaucrat-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T18:12:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-kake-a-20170531.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kake-a-20170531.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/national/north-koreas-missile-launches-stoke-concern-japans-anglers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T18:18:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-fishermen-a-20170531.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A large screen in Osaka's Dotombori area shows footage from a television news program reporting North Korea's latest firing of a ballistic missile on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/national/olympic-stadium-architect-sees-wood-way-change-tokyos-concrete-legacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T19:20:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-kuma-a-20170531.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kuma-a-20170531.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kengo Kuma, architect for the new National Stadium for the 2020 Olympics, says during an interview in Tokyo this month that he wants to utilize Japanese timber for the centerpiece venue.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/asia-pacific/north-korea-hails-test-precision-guided-missile-success-vows-bigger-gift-package-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T20:28:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Monday launch of a new North Korean "precision-guided" ballistic missile is seen in this photo taken from the Tuesday edition of the country's state-run Rodong Sinmun daily.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/national/social-issues/preventive-efforts-seen-helping-2016-saw-another-decline-suicides-japan-21897/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T20:28:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-suicide-a-20170531.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of suicides in Japan was 21,897 in 2016, hitting the lowest in 22 years, but suicide remains the No. 1 cause of death among people in the 15-39 age groups.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/asia-pacific/shocked-south-korea-leader-moon-orders-probe-extra-u-s-thaad-launchers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T21:08:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters stage a rally to oppose the plan to deploy the U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, in Seoul April 29.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trumps-communications-director-set-leave-white-house-adviser-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-30T22:02:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/business/mccain-urges-allies-australia-japan-pursue-tpp-talks-calls-u-s-exit-serious-mistake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T07:08:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. John McCain speaks at a United States Studies Centre event in Sydney Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-restarts-search-fbi-chief-two-interviews/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T07:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/national/panel-urges-tokyo-penalize-acts-encouraging-children-send-selfies-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T09:24:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-selfies-a-20170601.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuriko Koike]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/national/politics-diplomacy/u-n-chief-backed-comfort-women-deal-met-abe-italy-tokyo-insists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T10:29:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-coalition-ally-warns-military-shift-rile-neighbors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T12:07:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-komeito-a-20170601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Natsuo Yamaguchi]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-heavyweight-nikai-looks-visit-seoul-june-meet-moon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T15:23:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshihiro Nikai]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/business/corporate-business/panasonic-eyes-return-growth-track-fiscal-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T15:33:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-panasonic-a-20170531.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic seeks to return to a growth track by shoring up its home appliance business while investing cash into automotive parts.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/business/economy-business/japans-industrial-output-rose-4-0-month-april/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T16:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-output-a-20170601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Industrial production in April showed the biggest gain since a jump registered in June 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/national/msdf-hold-joint-drill-u-s-carrier-ronald-reagan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T17:19:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drill-a-20170601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A joint exercise by the Maritime Self-Defense Force and the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier is being arranged following the repeated test-firing of ballistic missiles by North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/south-korean-assembly-approves-moons-pick-prime-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T17:21:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/national/science-health/japan-violating-anti-smoking-treaty-bowing-tobacco-industry-expert-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T17:41:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign reading 'smoking allowed' is displayed outside an 'izakaya' (pub) in Tokyo in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-31T18:13:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Theresa May]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-31T18:17:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eiichi Hasegawa, a special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leaves Narita International Airport for Sakhalin on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-31T18:27:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In an effort to enhance its services, retailer Laox Co. will acquire a Kyoto taxi operator.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-31T19:11:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soccer star Keisuke Honda stirred controversy by tweeting about a recent government report on suicide.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-31T20:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moon Jae-in]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/national/ex-deputy-gov-hamauzu-charged-perjury-tsukiji-move-testimony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T20:27:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeo Hamauzu]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/national/abe-government-clashes-u-n-rapporteurs-critical-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T20:43:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Justice Minister Katsutoshi Kaneda speaks at an Upper House committee meeting Tuesday during deliberations over the contentious conspiracy bill.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/national/passport-rules-maiden-names-ease-married-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T21:38:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to ease passport regulations by enabling married Japanese women to include their maiden names on their passports.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/national/local-governments-agree-cost-sharing-2020-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T21:38:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tamayo Marukawa (right), a Cabinet minister for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, speaks as Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike listens during a meeting Wednesday in Tokyo with local governments who will host some of the venues for the games.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/national/social-issues/u-n-rights-expert-airs-concern-japans-freedom-expression/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T21:46:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-unreport-a-20170531.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Kaye, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, raised concerns about the contentious secrecy law for the prevention of leaks of state secrets that took effect in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-pulling-u-s-paris-climate-deal-axios/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-05-31T22:23:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-31T23:07:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/business/corporate-business/toshiba-unable-issue-fiscal-2016-earnings-report-shareholders-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T04:12:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-01T06:06:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/29/asia-pacific/north-korea-fires-off-missile-lands-japans-exclusive-economic-zone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T08:56:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters about a North Korean missile launch Monday, at his official residence in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/national/train-kills-two-elderly-women-holding-hands-jump-off-kanagawa-station-platform-onto-tracks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T08:59:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Odakyu railway's Kakio Station in Kawasaki is seen Monday evening after two elderly women who jumped onto the tracks were fatally hit by a train.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/business/kenya-debuts-3-2-billion-chinese-built-railway-linking-nairobi-mombasa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T09:43:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A train launched to operate on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line constructed by the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) and financed by the Chinese government arrives at the Nairobi Terminus on the outskirts of Kenya's capital Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/comey-testify-congress-trump-pressured-drop-probe-flynns-russia-ties-cnn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T09:47:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-comey-a-20170602.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-comey-a-20170602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump (left) speaks in Ypilanti Township, Michigan, March 15, and FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington May 3 in a combination of file photos.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/written-off-no-hoper-socialist-u-k-labour-leader-corbyn-gaining-ground-crowds-ahead-polls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T10:55:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, signs placards at a campaign event in Reading, England, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/national/princess-mako-begins-nine-day-official-visit-bhutan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T11:52:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Mako leaves for Bhutan at Haneda airport on Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/national/science-health/exercise-music-helps-keep-dementia-worsening-mie-university-researchers-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T13:38:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dementia-a-20170601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A provided photo shows elderly people exercising along with music in Kiho, Mie Prefecture. Mie University researchers have found that exercising combined with music is effective in preventing dementia from worsening.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/31/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-hammers-home-view-chinese-cooperation-needed-tackle-north-korea-nuclear-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T14:11:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-abechina-a-20170601.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abechina-a-20170601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's State Councilor Yang Jiechi meets with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/business/corporate-business/japans-shorted-stock-faces-agm-pressure-largest-shareholder-effissimo-looms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T14:22:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-kawasaki-a-20170602.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha's transporter vessel Drive Green Highway sits moored at Yokohama port.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/national/social-issues/oecd-urges-japan-boost-social-services-young-people-curb-ranks-neets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T14:49:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-neet-a-20170602.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-neet-a-20170602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Monika Queisser (left) and Stephane Carcillo of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development speak in an interview in Tokyo on May 29.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/business/economy-business/japans-january-march-business-investment-highest-nine-years-finance-ministry-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T15:46:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-investment-a-20170602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Capital spending by Japanese companies rose 4.5 percent year-on-year in the January-March quarter, to the highest level in nine years, according to Finance Ministry data released Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/national/fukushima-aquarium-displays-blobfish-deemed-worlds-ugliest-creature/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T17:17:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-blobfish-a-20170601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A blobfish is displayed at Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. The fish had been chosen as the world's ugliest animal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/business/corporate-business/panasonic-looks-break-top-three-thai-refrigerator-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T17:18:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-pana-a-20170602.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic is focusing on the Thai refrigerator market by introducing locally made models to widen its customer base.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/national/jt-bee-winner-stumbles-u-s-semifinals-content-spelling-effort/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T17:21:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bee-a-20170602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shantanu Edgaonkar, an eighth-grader at Global Indian International School in Tokyo, is interviewed on the sidelines of the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-replaces-consul-general-busan-unusually-short-stint/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T17:22:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuhiro Morimoto]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/business/corporate-business/toshiba-retakes-50-1-stake-chip-venture-pressure-western-digital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T17:24:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toshiba-a-20170602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past an advertisement for Toshiba products in Tokyo. The company has taken back a majority stake in a joint chip production venture with Western Digital.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/national/social-issues/yokohama-mayor-apologizes-boy-bullied-fukushima-nuclear-evacuee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T18:29:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-bullying-a-20170602.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bullying-a-20170602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi speaks at a news conference on Wednesday at the city offce. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/national/2016-saw-japans-carbon-dioxide-concentration-levels-hit-record-highs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T18:40:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-co2-z-20170602.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-co2-z-20170602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Meteorological Agency said the country saw the average concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere marking record highs at all observation points in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/business/tech/tokyo-toy-show-blend-old-new-targets-fans-ages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T19:23:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man tries out a smartphone-assisted gadget called BotsNew Characters VR Dragon Ball Z as the annual International Tokyo Toy Show kicks off Thursday at Tokyo Big Sight in Koto Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/business/nissan-expands-sales-rental-companies-analysts-warn-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T20:01:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan's Altima sedans are seen on a sales lot in Midlothian, Virginia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/national/politics-diplomacy/koike-bolts-ldp-take-helm-tomin-first-no-kai-ahead-tokyo-assembly-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T20:30:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-koike-a-20170602.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-koike-a-20170602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuriko Koike]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/national/education-reform-panel-suggests-easing-load-public-teachers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T20:31:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-teachers-a-20170602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A government panel on education reform proposed Thursday steps to ease the workload of teachers amid chronic problem of their overwork.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/national/politics-diplomacy/lower-house-panel-gives-nod-one-off-abdication-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T20:31:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga addresses the Lower House Steering Committee on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trumps-covfefe-typo-leaves-twitter-users-puzzled/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T22:36:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A late-night tweet from U.S. President Donald Trump is seen on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/national/msdf-asdf-train-u-s-carriers-latest-north-korean-missile-launch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-01T22:49:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-exercises-a-20170602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The aircraft carriers USS Ronald Reagan (background) and USS Carl Vinson are seen during joint drills with the Maritime and Air self-defense forces in the Sea of Japan on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/world/gunmen-kill-venezuelan-judge-barricade-unrest-maduros-rule-worsens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T06:10:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-caracas-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A volunteer first responder from the "Green Helmets" sprays a protester's eyes to alleviate the affects of tear gas, on the sidelines of an anti-government protest during clashes with security forces in Caracas in May.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/world/taliban-denies-kabul-truck-blast-warns-retaliation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T08:02:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taliban-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People hold candles for the victims of Wednesday's blast in Kabul.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-deploy-military-disputed-isles-off-hokkaido-returned-putin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T09:45:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-isles-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-isles-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/gunman-kills-causing-panic-apparent-robbery-attempt-torching-manila-casino/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T10:15:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-gunman-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-gunman-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine National Police Special Action Forces prepare to enter the Resorts World Manila complex in suburban Pasay city, southeast of Manila, Friday. A masked gunman stormed the hotel-casino complex early Friday, shooting up a TV screen, torching gambling tables and stuffing a backpack with casino chips before fleeing, authorities said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/27/national/science-health/waking-mechanics-sleep/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T10:26:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/p3-hooper-sleep-a-20170527.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-hooper-sleep-a-20170527.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A report by Rand Corp. estimates that the economic cost of sleep deprivation in Japan is $138 billion, or some 2.9 percent of GDP.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/business/ghibli-theme-park-scheduled-open-former-aichi-expo-site-2020s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T11:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ghibli attraction Satsuki and Mei's House in shown at the 2005 World Expo in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, in April 2005.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/putin-lauds-trump-hints-patriotic-russians-may-involved-hacking-foreign-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T11:46:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-putin-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-putin-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi react while walking near the Constantine (Konstantinovsky) Palace during their meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/national/tokyo-angling-get-waterfowl-habitat-kasai-rinkai-park-listed-ramsar-wetland-treaty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T11:53:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-ramsar-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ramsar-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The wetland in Kasai Rinkai Park in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward is reportedly being pitched for the Ramsar Convention.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/business/nomura-bought-controversial-venezuelan-bonds-discount-wsj/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T12:10:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-nomura-a-20170602.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nomura-a-20170602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past the Nomura Securities headquarters in Tokyo. The firm bought about $100 million worth of Venezuelan government bonds last week as part of the same transaction that landed Goldman Sachs Group in the middle of a political storm, the Wall Street Journal reported.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/national/sapporo-first-major-city-japan-issue-certificates-recognizing-sex-couples/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T12:28:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-sapporo-a-20170602.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sapporo-a-20170602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A same-sex couple receives a certificate recognizing their partnership at Sapporo City Hall on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/bent-paring-regulations-epa-offering-buyouts-bid-cut-staff-internal-memo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T13:55:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-epa-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-epa-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump listens while Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks after announcing the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris accord, in the Rose Garden of the White House Thursday in Washington. The EPA plans massive staff cuts, an internal memo reportedly indicates.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-just-paris-climate-withdrawal-explained/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T14:50:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-climpact-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-climpact-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A turbine at the Lost Creek Wind Farm is silhouetted against the setting sun on Thursday near King City, Missouri.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-misunderstood-mit-climate-research-university-officials-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T14:54:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/business/corporate-business/softbank-talks-canada-mideast-firms-raise-7-billion-tech-fund/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T15:25:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-softbank-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group's technology fund led by Masayoshi Son may receive more capital from potential investors in Canada and the Middle East.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/national/bathhouse-offers-naked-school-classes-lure-younger-bathers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T15:27:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-sento-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sento-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen shot of a Reuters video shows an instructor explaining the finer points about the board game go at the Hinodeyu bathhouse in Tokyo's Asakusa district in May.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/national/crime-legal/knife-wielding-man-68-tries-rob-officer-pistol-tokyo-police-box/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T15:52:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-knife-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-knife-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man was arrested Thursday in Tokyo after he tried to rob a police officer of his pistol at a "koban" police box in Katsushika Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/national/crime-legal/eight-held-allegedly-smuggling-record-206-kg-gold-saga-port/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T16:19:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-smuggle-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-smuggle-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A coast guard patrol boat docks next to another boat Thursday at the Nagoya port in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture. A record 206 kg of smuggled gold was found from the boat.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/business/bojs-total-assets-climbs-top-%c2%a5500-trillion-first-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T16:46:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-assets-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-assets-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The central bank's balance sheet has ballooned with total assets surpassing ¥500 trillion as of the close May. The Bank of Japan building is seen in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/business/corporate-business/western-digital-may-submit-new-offer-toshiba-chip-unit-next-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T16:57:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-westerndigital-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-westerndigital-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Western Digital office building is seen being built in Irvine, California. The firm reportedly plans to present Toshiba with a revised offer for its memory chip unit next week.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/business/japan-said-ink-deal-promote-u-s-lng-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T17:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-lng-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-lng-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Transfer lines are seen at the Dominion Cove Point Liquefied Natural Gas terminal in Lusby, Maryland. Japan reportedly plans to sign an agreement to promote American liquefied natural gas exports.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/business/economy-business/boj-minnow-whale-japan-stocks-socgen-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T17:22:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-boj-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan building is seen between walls at a construction site in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/national/latest-japanese-detained-china-brings-potential-spying-cases-12/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T17:53:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-espionage-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-espionage-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese man in his 60s was detained by Chinese authorities in Liaoning Province in May over vague charges that could possibly include espionage, a government source says.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/01/national/japan-close-ushering-new-wave-mass-surveillance-snowden-warns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T18:07:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-snowden-a-20170602.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-snowden-a-20170602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the U.S. National Security Agency, is interviewed on May 29 in Moscow.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/national/politics-diplomacy/abdication-bill-sails-lower-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T18:15:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-abdication-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abdication-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmakers stand up and clap as a bill to allow Emperor Akihito to step down clears the Lower House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/national/diet-enacts-law-upgrade-ports-cruise-ship-boom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T19:16:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-cruise-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cruise-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tour buses wait in front of a cruise ship at Hakata Port in Fukuoka in August 2016. A law was enacted Friday to upgrade key ports to attract more tourism via cruise ships.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/national/crime-legal/aichi-cop-linked-info-leak-arrests-fukuoka-gold-bar-heist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T19:18:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-aichipolice-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aichipolice-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoki Noguchi]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/national/social-issues/population-took-record-dip-2016-births-fell-1-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T19:57:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-babies-z-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-babies-z-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mother and her child in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/national/japan-disappointed-trumps-decision-quit-paris-agreement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T21:03:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-japanreax-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-japanreax-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters hold signs in front of the White House on Thursday during a demonstration against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/national/politics-diplomacy/email-verifies-document-behind-kake-abe-scandal-democratic-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-02T21:04:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-kake-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kake-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An email allegedly sent by an education ministry official on Sept. 27 and disseminated by the Democratic Party is believed to authenticate the Kake Gakuen scandal dogging the prime minister. It was allegedly sent to eight other ministry officials.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/national/u-n-expert-kaye-fires-back-tokyos-criticism-freedom-expression-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-03T10:54:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators at the March for Truth in New York on Saturday call for an impartial investigation into alleged Russian influence the 2016 U.S. election and for President Donald Trump to release his tax returns.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese dissident Wang Dan looks on in Taipei on Sunday during an event marking the 28th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing. Dozens gathered in downtown Taipei to commemorate the atrocity and to call for China to release detained activists.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-05T04:15:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In show of solidarity (from left) Malaysian Minister of Defense Hishammuddin Hussein, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, National Security Advisor of Myanmar U Thaung Tun, Philippine Under-Secretary for Defense Policy Gen. Ricardo David Jr. and Singapore Minister for Defense Ng Eng Hen join hands while posing for a photo after a meeting with the U.S. and the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-la Dialogue, an annual defense and security forum Sunday in Singapore.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. troops sit atop an armored vehicle on a road near the northern Syrian village of Ain Issa on Saturday. U.S.-backed forces Sunday took a key dam in their drive toward Raqqa.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-05T13:43:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-05T13:58:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture taken by an offended foreign resident reader shows a discriminatory sign seen outside a rock-style clothing store in Tokyo’s Harajuku district.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis (center) links hands with South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo (left) and defense chief Tomomi Inada ahead of a trilateral meeting at the 2017 International Institute for Strategic Studies Shangri-la Dialogue defense and security forum Saturday in Singapore.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Souvenir matryoshka dolls depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as U.S. leader Donald Trump and his family, are displayed at a tourist stall in St. Petersburg, Russia, on May 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/05/national/science-health/japan-researchers-create-comfortable-tongue-operated-wheelchair/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Sasaki (right), an assistant professor at Iwate University, helps test a wheelchair that can be operated by the user's tongue movements.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A crashed Cessna is seen on a mountain in Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture, on Saturday. The four people on board were found dead.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/05/national/macho-photo-contest-hopes-boost-demolition-industrys-image-draw-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-05T17:27:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-d-20170606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukihito Hida won the best muscles award in the Macho Photo Contest for Demolition Workers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/05/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-rejects-taiwan-leaders-support-democracy-says-party-caused-chaos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-05T17:28:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/05/business/corporate-business/panasonic-india-cashing-telecom-green-energy-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-05T18:04:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-panasonic-a-20170606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The telecom sector has become the major growth driver for Panasonic's energy storage business in India.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/05/business/economy-business/top-oecd-official-touts-hiring-quotas-japan-give-womenomics-shot-arm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-05T18:26:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-womanomics-a-20170606.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-womanomics-a-20170606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mandatory quotas for hiring and promoting women could provide a much-needed boost for "﷯womenomics."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/04/world/may-blames-islamic-extremism-london-reels-deadly-terrorist-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-05T19:32:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/05/world/clutching-a-pint-amid-london-attack-mayhem-man-becomes-unlikely-hero/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-05T19:36:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pint-a-20170606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this image taken from video footage, people run from the scene of attack, alongside a man strolling holding a pint of beer (right) in London late Saturday. People in the U.K. have responded to the deadly London Bridge attack with sorrow and distinctly British humor, hailing the man pictured walking away from the mayhem holding a pint of beer as a tongue-in-cheek symbol of defiance.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/05/national/social-issues/matchmaking-events-aim-pair-rural-men-city-women-willing-move/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-05T20:37:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-matchmaking-a-20170606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Single men listen to matchmaking adviser Sosuke Takahashi in Ojiya, Niigata Prefecture, after participating in a konkatsu spouse-hunting event in March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/04/national/bubble-generation-singles-give-middle-age-marriage-shot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-05T20:52:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-marriage-a-20170605.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-marriage-a-20170605.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Data shows that a growing number of Japanese aged from their late 40s to early 50s have been marrying in recent years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/05/national/politics-diplomacy/despite-evidence-abe-fights-diet-calls-new-probe-alleged-kake-gakuen-conflict/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-05T20:57:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-diet-a-20170606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers questions at a Lower House committee meeting on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/05/business/economy-business/world-bank-lifts-japan-growth-forecast-1-5-exports-olympics-spending/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-05T20:57:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-worldbank-a-20170606.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-worldbank-a-20170606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The World Bank has raised its forecast for Japan's economic growth this year on the back of an increase in exports and capital spending.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/05/national/japan-talks-return-ainu-remains-held-australia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-05T23:08:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ainu-a-20170606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ainu performers perform a fork dance at the Ainu Museum in the town of Shiraoi in western Hokkaido. Japan has been in talks with Australia on repatriating the remains of Japan's indigenous people from Australia, where they were apparently shipped for research purposes.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/05/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-offers-conditional-cooperation-chinas-silk-road-initiative/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T04:10:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-chinaforum-a-20170606.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chinaforum-a-20170606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a forum on Asia's future in Tokyo Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/business/india-angles-bigger-share-space-sector-sends-satellite-orbit-atop-powerful-rocket/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T06:08:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-india-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-india-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) carrying an Mk III communication satellite blasts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, India, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/national/science-health/rocks-containing-cobalt-rare-metals-found-seabed-off-eastern-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T07:01:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-raremetal-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-raremetal-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sample rock containing rare metals found from a seamount 350 km off the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture is shown at the education ministry on Monday. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/asia-pacific/marawis-islamic-militants-dug-prepared-long-siege/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T10:31:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-marawi-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-marawi-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Evacuees from Marawi camp rest at the Saguiaran Townhall in Lanao del Sur on the southern island of Mindanao on Monday. Efforts to rescue up to 2,000 civilians trapped in fighting between government forces and Islamist militants in a Philippine city failed on Sunday when a proposed truce ended in a hail of gunfire and explosions, authorities and witnesses said.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/world/crime-legal-world/contractor-charged-leaking-classified-nsa-intel-russian-hacking-u-s-election-hacking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T10:55:05+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/05/reference/japan-copyright-body-courts-anger-casting-wider-net/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T11:46:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-fyi-a-20170606.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20170606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Private music school operators are resisting proposed fees for playing copyrighted music during lessons.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/05/national/study-travel-agencies-unaffected-london-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T13:07:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-japanreacts-a-20170606.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-japanreacts-a-20170606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters walk past a police officer on London Bridge on Monday after dozens of pedestrians were attacked over the weekend.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/national/guidebook-covers-comfort-women-museums-across-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T14:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-comfort-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-comfort-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This guidebook on Asian museums focuses on wartime sexual violence. The compilers say it will contribute to preserving the memories of the victims.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/business/corporate-business/mufg-teams-plug-play-new-tokyo-venture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T17:07:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-mufg-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mufg-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is teaming up with Silicon Valley-based Plug and Play Tech Center.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/national/japan-npo-brings-movies-kids-developing-countries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T17:41:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-theater-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-theater-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children watch a film by the Tokyo-based nonprofit organization World Theater Project in a farming village in Battambang province, Cambodia, in December 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/national/science-health/service-dogs-help-people-with-dementia-live-at-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T17:42:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-dogs-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dogs-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A program in Australia provides specially trained dogs so people with dementia can live at home.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/asia-pacific/philippine-troops-find-cash-fighters-pull-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T17:56:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/business/exclusive-cocktails-30-year-milestone-expanding-routes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T18:11:37+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-trudeau-agree-press-u-s-climate-paris-accord-withdrawal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T18:12:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-abetru-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abetru-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/national/crime-legal/teen-arrested-allegedly-dropping-5-year-old-girl-second-floor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T18:12:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-teenarrest-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-teenarrest-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 14-year-old boy is alleged to have dropped a 5-year-old girl from the second floor of this entrance hall at the Mihara Region Plaza in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/business/japan-notches-18-billion-soured-deals-amid-ma-boom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T18:12:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-deals-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-deals-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Post Holdings Co. is among large Japanese companies that have seen massive write-downs from their overseas investment deals.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/world/offbeat-world/unique-reef-fish-kisses-take-sting-coral-diet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T18:43:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-wrasse-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-wrasse-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tubelip wrasse feeds on coral.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/world/science-health-world/bloomberg-delivers-u-s-pledge-continue-paris-climate-goals-un/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T19:32:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-bloomate-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bloomate-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/national/politics-diplomacy/dp-plays-political-hardball-bid-slow-passage-conspiracy-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T19:33:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-conspiracy-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-conspiracy-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Democratic Party hopes to tie up the enactment of a contentious conspiracy bill by calling for the removal of the chairperson of the Upper House Judicial Committee.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-target-article-9-free-education-constitutional-amendment-proposals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T20:56:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-constitution-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-constitution-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okiharu Yasuoka, the head of the LDP's constitutional reform panel, speaks at a meeting of the panel's senior members in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/business/corporate-business/bid-compromise-western-digital-wont-seek-majority-stake-toshiba-chip-unit-just-19-9/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T20:56:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-toshiba-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toshiba-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This aerial photo shows Toshiba Corp.'s flash memory plant in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, on May 15. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/05/world/crime-legal-world/cosbys-sex-assault-trial-begin-years-u-s-allegations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-06T23:35:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-cosby-a-20170606.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cosby-a-20170606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/national/politics-diplomacy/china-welcomes-abes-interest-silk-road-initiative/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-07T05:28:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-chinawelcome-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chinawelcome-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Representatives of several countries attend a photo session last month in Beijing at a gathering focused on China's "One Belt, One Road" initiative.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-retreats-canada-seeks-larger-world-role-foreign-minister-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-07T08:53:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-canada-a-20170608.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-canada-a-20170608.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland delivers a speech on Canada's foreign policy in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/business/saudi-arabia-closes-qatar-airways-offices-revokes-licenses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-07T08:55:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A parked Qatari plane is seen Tuesday in Hamad International Airport (HIA) in Doha. Qatar's foreign minister says Kuwait is trying to mediate a diplomatic crisis in which Arab countries have cut diplomatic ties and moved to isolate his energy-rich, travel-hub nation from the outside world.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-07T09:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some 380 students in Ibaraki Prefecture reportedly became sick after drinking milk served at school Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-07T14:16:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-07T15:47:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Graecopithecus freybergi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/asia-pacific/china-missiles-capable-sending-nukes-western-pacific-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-07T17:14:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-07T17:19:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An advertisement for Grab is seen at a taxi stand in Singapore. Grab is hunting for deals with funding from SoftBank, its biggest backer.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-07T17:33:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The iconic Wako store stands in the heart of Tokyo's Ginza shopping district. Land prices in the capital's Chuo Ward have jumped by 51 percent in four years.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-07T17:50:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the Congress of the Korean Children's Union at the April 25 House of Culture in this photo released by official media on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/national/social-issues/japans-single-mothers-choice-fight-stigma-seek-change-perceptions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-07T18:14:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aya Okamoto feeds her second child in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/world/u-k-s-may-says-ready-curb-human-rights-laws-fight-extremism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-07T19:13:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May visits a bakery on Tuesday during an election campaign visit to Fleetwood, in the northwestern English county of Lancashire.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korea-foreign-minister-nominee-seek-talks-2015-comfort-women-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-07T19:54:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea's foreign minister-nominee Kang Kyung-wha speaks in a parliamentary hearing Wednesday in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/business/corporate-business/western-digital-build-new-chip-plant-central-japan-ceo-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-07T19:55:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wd-a-20170608.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Western Digital plans to build a flash memory production plant in central Japan. The move comes as the U.S. company is aiming to buy a stake in Toshiba Memory in a joint bid with the state-backed Innovation Network Corp. of Japan turnaround fund and the state-owned Development Bank of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/business/corporate-business/geely-bid-proton-not-major-threat-japanese-automakers-expert-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-07T19:55:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Geely NL-3, manufactured by Geely Automobile Holdings, is displayed at the Moscow International Automobile Salon in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/national/crime-legal/mother-two-children-found-apparently-strangled-fukuoka-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-07T21:18:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police Wednesday carry out an investigation at a house in Ogori, Fukuoka Prefecture, where a mother and her two children were found strangled Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-07T21:19:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan-India nuclear cooperation pact clears the Upper House plenary session on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-08T06:12:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by the families of businesspeople he claims were harmed by Obamacare, high-fives a young boy as he arrives to deliver remarks on the U.S. health care system at Cincinnati Municipal Lunken Airport in Cincinnati, Ohio, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/national/politics-diplomacy/overhaul-sex-crime-laws-receives-broad-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T10:16:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The overhaul of Japan's sex crime laws moved a step forward Wednesday as a Lower House committee passed a package of amendments that include broadening the definition of what constitutes rape and increasing minimum sentences.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-08T10:52:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators cross the street as they cover themselves with shields during clashes with authorities in Caracas Wednesday. The protest movement has claimed more than 60 lives as it enters its third month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/08/world/nigeria-sends-troops-suspected-boko-haram-fighters-attack-maiduguri/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T10:58:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children fetch water from a borehole point at an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp on the outskirts of Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, Tuesday. Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked Maiduguri Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/national/rainy-season-begins-western-central-eastern-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T12:19:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors take photos of an iris garden at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden on Wednesday in Tokyo. The weather agency said the nation’s rainy season started in many parts of the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/08/business/boeing-weighs-mild-wild-design-pivotal-midmarket-jet-post-737-era/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T12:28:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official watches passengers as they walk along the tarmac to board a Qantas Airways Boeing 737-800 at Sydney's domestic airport terminal in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/national/crime-legal/far-left-activist-charged-police-slaying-45-years-fugitive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T12:31:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masaaki Osaka sits in the back seat of a police car after he was served with a fresh arrest warrant on Wednesday in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/national/security-cameras-installed-jr-yamanote-line-trains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T12:50:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-securitycam-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[East Japan Railway Co. will introduce security cameras on trains running on Tokyo's Yamanote loop line to enhance security.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/national/five-workers-exposed-radioactive-materials-ibaraki-nuclear-facility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T15:08:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Atomic Energy Agency officials bow Tuesday at a news conference after five workers at its facility in Ibaraki Prefecture were found to have their gloves and shoes exposed to radioactive materials.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/08/national/u-s-osprey-makes-emergency-landing-okinawa-fa-18-likewise-miyagi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T16:07:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Osprey aircraft is on display during an air show hosted by U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture on May 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/08/business/economy-business/japans-first-quarter-gdp-downgraded-annualized-1-0-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T16:35:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-gdpdown-a-20170609.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's economic growth in the January-March quarter suffered a major downgrade compared with preliminary data, due largely to a fall in crude oil inventories.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/08/national/okinawa-file-fresh-lawsuit-next-month-building-futenma-replacement-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T16:58:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[MV-22 Ospreys are seen at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa, in a file photo from 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/08/world/science-health-world/archaeologists-discover-aztec-ball-court-heart-mexico-city/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T16:58:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new Aztec discovery of the remains of the main temple of the wind god Ehecatl, a major deity, is seen during a tour of the area, located just off the Zocalo plaza in the heart of downtown Mexico City, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/08/business/corporate-business/can-%c2%a5100-shop-operator-see-big-potential-thai-expansion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T17:03:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Can Do outlet is seen in the city of Osaka. The ¥100 shop operator aims to aggressively expand the number of outlets in Thailand from the current seven to as many as 100.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/national/science-health/researchers-propose-japan-based-name-represent-geologic-age/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T17:22:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chibanian-a-20170608.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The stratum on a cliff in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, that is seen in this photo taken in April has a horizontal line showing that north and south magnetic poles switched 770,000 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/08/asia-pacific/bodies-debris-found-search-crashed-myanmar-aircraft/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T17:31:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/08/business/corporate-business/toshiba-asserts-right-sell-chip-unit-warns-western-digital-quit-harassment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T17:34:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-letter-a-20170609.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Western Digital has received another warning from Toshiba, which told the U.S. company to stop its "harassment" as Toshiba tries to sell its flash memory business.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/08/world/science-health-world/moroccan-fossils-shake-understanding-human-origins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T18:33:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-homolder-a-20170609.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The earliest known Homo sapiens, from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, was reconstructed from multiple fossils using micro-computed tomographic scans.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/08/asia-pacific/chinese-exam-authorities-use-facial-recognition-drones-catch-cheats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T18:40:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-08T18:41:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-might-avoid-criminal-prosecution-obstruction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-08T19:19:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-obstruction-a-20170609.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The case for obstruction revolves around U.S. President Donald Trump's alleged request for  then-FBI Director James Comey (center) to drop the investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn's contacts with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-08T19:21:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (right) and his Laotian counterpart, Thongloun Sisolith, announce joint development plans at a news conference held after a meeting between the top leaders in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-08T19:24:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Red Army founder Fusako Shigenobu, shown here in the documentary "Children of the Revolution," spent nearly 30 years in hiding before being arrested in 2000.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-08T20:57:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The plight of embattled Toshiba could lead to three possible scenarios for delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-09T04:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Puerto Rico resident Michelle Flandez caresses her 2-month-old son, Inti Perez, diagnosed with microcephaly linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus, in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, in December. According to a report released Thursday on the impact of Zika virus in Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories, about 1 in 20 Zika-infected pregnant women had babies with birth defects.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators demand the minimum wage be increased to ¥1,500 per hour during a march in Shibuya, Tokyo, in April 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-09T18:19:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-10T13:06:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Newark International airport in New Jersey on Friday to spend a weekend at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminister, New Jersey.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-10T13:48:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster meets with British Prime Minister Theresa May in Belfast last July.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats (left) and National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers arrive for a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkmissile-b-20170610.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new North Korean cruise missile is test-fired in this photo released Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/10/asia-pacific/north-korea-warns-long-range-missile-test-not-far-away/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-10T14:21:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the intermediate-range Hwasong-12 ballistic missile in this photo released May 15.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/09/business/japans-latest-economic-road-map-focuses-investment-human-resources-retains-fiscal-goal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-10T14:50:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fiscal-a-20170610.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a Cabinet meeting to approve the government's latest road map to fiscal health on Friday evening.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/09/national/history/declassified-papers-reveal-u-s-held-debate-japans-nuclear-ambitions-1970s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-10T15:59:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-carter-a-20170610.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-carter-a-20170610.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A declassified U.S. National Security Council document shows a projection of plutonium supply and demand for Europe and Japan in 2000.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/09/national/nuclear-workers-quarantined-plutonium-tainted-room-3-hours-accident-jaea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-10T16:03:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nuclear-a-20170610.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Oarai Research &amp; Development Center in Ibaraki Prefecture is shown on Wednesday. The facility is overseen by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. 						KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/10/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-scouring-maps-using-east-sea-instead-sea-japan-seek-name-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-10T16:54:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/10/national/media-national/imperial-family-public-vs-ldp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-10T23:04:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-mediamix-a-20170611.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Royal issues: Princess Mako visits the Folk Heritage Museum in Thimphu on June 1 as part of her tour of Bhutan at the invitation of the Bhutanese government.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/10/business/corporate-business/summer-bonuses-major-firms-fall-first-time-five-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-10T17:40:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bonus-y-20170611.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Of 11 major industries, only five agreed to pay higher bonuses than last summer.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/10/business/corporate-business/toshiba-pay-3-7-billion-reactor-guarantees-u-s-utility-southern/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-10T18:20:10+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/25/national/politics-diplomacy/ex-education-official-vouches-kake-papers-says-copies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-10T18:28:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-kake-a-20170526.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kake-a-20170526.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Copies of once-secret documents, allegedly drafted by education ministry officials are shown in this photo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/10/asia-pacific/philippines-says-u-s-special-forces-assisting-local-troops-linked-militants-insurgent-maute-brothers-reportedly-killed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-10T18:34:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/10/world/crime-legal-world/okinawa-prisoner-conscience-address-u-n-perceived-abuses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-10T19:46:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/p2-mitchell-yamashiro-a-20170611.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-mitchell-yamashiro-a-20170611.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroji Yamashiro]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/10/national/media-national/todays-web-lies-disinformation-lot-stomach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-10T23:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/p17-schreiber-bij-a-20170611.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-schreiber-bij-a-20170611.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Internal matters: Spa! magazine claims that Japanese have intestines that are 1.5 to 2 meters longer than Westerners, something that many doctors have reputed.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/10/national/crime-legal/three-japanese-arrested-thailand-allegedly-kidnapping-assaulting-businessman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-10T22:21:31+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/10/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-may-try-get-xi-visit-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-10T22:22:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-xivisit-a-20170611.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-xivisit-a-20170611.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping greets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during the Group of 20 summit in China in September 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/11/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/australia-build-first-prison-aimed-isolating-militants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-11T16:49:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/09/national/britons-japan-welcome-u-k-election-result/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-11T19:26:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-japanreax-a-20170610.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-japanreax-a-20170610.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Britain's ruling Conservative Party react Thursday to media forecasts for the general election at a sports bar in London.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/11/national/politics-diplomacy/ruling-bloc-seeks-results-kake-gakuen-probe-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-11T20:31:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-kakeprobe-a-20170612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kakeprobe-a-20170612.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/11/world/iran-arrests-almost-50-deadly-tehran-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-11T21:11:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-iran-a-20170612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-iran-a-20170612.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranians attend the funeral of victims of Wednesday's Islamic State militant attack in Tehran on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/11/asia-pacific/kim-jong-nam-120000-cash-killed-earlier-met-suspected-u-s-spy-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-11T21:22:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-kimkill-a-20170612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kimkill-a-20170612.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Jong Nam]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/11/national/quake-simulators-draw-foreign-tourists-disaster-learning-sites/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-11T21:45:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-quake-a-20170612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-quake-a-20170612.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[High school students from foreign countries experience a strong jolt generated by a quake simulator in Yuasa, Wakayama Prefecture, last November.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/11/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/south-korea-names-new-defense-minister-counter-norths-missile-nuclear-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-11T22:11:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-skdefense-a-20170612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-skdefense-a-20170612.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in delivers a speech during a ceremony marking Korean Memorial Day at the National Cemetery in Seoul on June 6.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mays-sure-thing-became-political-disaster-ages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-11T22:13:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-ukmay-a-20170612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ukmay-a-20170612.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband, Phillip, arrive at church in Sonning, England, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/11/business/japan-carmakers-benefit-south-korean-auto-sales-plunge-china-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-11T22:13:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-autos-a-20170612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-autos-a-20170612.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A staffer polishes Hyundai vehicles at a showroom in Goyang, South Korea, last month.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-delays-state-visit-britain-protest-fears-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-11T22:33:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-uktrump-a-20170612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-uktrump-a-20170612.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference Friday in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/italy-sees-no-chance-changing-u-s-stance-climate-change-pruitt-exits-g-7-talks-early/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-12T06:21:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-climate-a-20170613.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-climate-a-20170613.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italian Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti (right) shares a word with United States Environment Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt ahead of a family photo at the opening of a two-day G-7 summit on the environment, in Bologna, Italy, Sunday. Italy says the top environment official of U.S. President Donald Trump administration is leaving the Group of Seven summit before it ends.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/ex-u-s-attorney-bharara-tells-unusual-direct-calls-trump-axing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-12T07:53:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-trumpcalls-a-20170613.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpcalls-a-20170613.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Preet Bharara, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, listens as former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey (left) speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/12/asia-pacific/china-eastern-flight-returns-safely-sydney-engine-emergency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-12T10:54:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-emergency-a-20170613.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-emergency-a-20170613.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man stands alongside the damaged engine of a China Eastern Airlines Airbus A330 on the tarmac at Sydney International Airport in Australia Monday after it made an emergency landing with a damaged engine.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/10/national/bus-car-crash-kills-one-injures-45-aichi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-12T11:55:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-bus-a-20170611.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bus-a-20170611.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A car that crashed into a bus on the Tomei Expressway in Aichi Prefecture on Saturday is hoisted by crane.  The driver died at the scene.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/12/asia-pacific/philippines-duterte-says-didnt-seek-u-s-support-city-siege/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-12T12:24:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-duterte-a-20170612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-duterte-a-20170612.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte awards a medal and cash to a government soldier who was wounded fighting insurgents from the Maute group, which has taken over large parts of the city of Marawi, during his visit at the military camp hospital in Cagayan De Oro, Philippines, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/11/national/politics-diplomacy/arms-show-offers-japan-venue-build-military-ties-southeast-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-12T13:20:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-arms-a-20170612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-arms-a-20170612.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force tanks take part in an annual live-fire drill at the foot of Mount Fuji last August.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/12/asia-pacific/militant-philippine-brothers-highlight-southeast-asias-islamist-time-bomb/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-12T13:56:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-maute-a-20170612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-maute-a-20170612.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Philippine Marine fires his weapon toward a Maute group stronghold in Marawi, the Philippines, on May 30.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/11/national/no-crew-hurt-aircraft-undamaged-u-s-osprey-conducts-emergency-landing-kagoshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-12T15:43:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-osprey-a-20170612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osprey-a-20170612.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Marine Corps Osprey sits on a runway at Amami airport in Kagoshima Prefecture on Sunday after making an emergency landing a day earlier.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-like-julius-caesar-production-prompts-delta-bank-america-pull-sponsorship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-12T16:29:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-trumpcaesar-a-20170613.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpcaesar-a-20170613.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tina Benko (left) portrays Caesar's wife, Calpurnia, and Gregg Henry (center left), portrays a Donald Trump-like Julius Caesar during a rehearsal for The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare in the Park production of "Julius Caesar" in New York on May 21.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/12/business/corporate-business/fujifilm-uncovers-accounting-discrepancies-australian-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-12T17:45:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-fujifilm-a-20170613.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fujifilm-a-20170613.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An independent check has found accounting irregularities at an Australian subsidiary of Fujifilm Holdings Corp., in addition to those already found at a New Zealand unit.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/12/national/osaka-police-deploy-900-officers-watch-atms-keep-seniors-falling-prey-bank-transfer-scams/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-12T18:11:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-atm-a-20170613.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-atm-a-20170613.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Osaka Prefectural Police officer hands out a flyer warning about money transfer scams near an ATM in Higashiosaka on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/12/national/social-entrepreneur-taps-corporate-millennials-engage-developing-world/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daichi Konuma , co-founder and CEO of Cross Fields, poses for a photo during an interview at his office in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on May 25.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuhito Wada, mayor of the village of Okawa, Kochi Prefecture, speaks at a municipal assembly meeting Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-12T23:22:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-13T15:47:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-13T16:45:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-13T17:12:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-13T17:21:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Radiation levels exceeding the state safety limit have been detected on the grounds of five schools in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-13T17:28:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-13T17:28:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-13T17:31:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-13T17:32:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes the Clemson Tigers, 2016 NCAA Football National Champions, to the White House on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-13T18:32:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan-built analog GM Star projector from the 1970s is still being used at the National Planetarium in Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-13T18:38:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-13T19:37:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-13T19:40:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A derailment on the JR Fukuchiyama Line in 2005 in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, killed 106 passengers and the driver and injured 562 others.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/13/national/science-health/japanese-study-links-caffeine-three-deaths-101-hospitalizations-five-years/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new study warns that consumers as well as authorities should be more aware of the risks of ingesting too much caffeine.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nikos Passas]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/pressure-soften-brexit-may-meets-northern-irish-kingmakers/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-maydup-a-20170614.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster is due to meet Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday for crunch talks, which could force the delay of the government's presentation of its legislative program to parliament by Queen Elizabeth II, due on June 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/13/asia-pacific/ex-basketball-star-rodman-expected-arrive-north-korea-tuesday-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T01:18:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkrodman-d-20170614]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman arrives at Sunan International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/national/japan-sounds-china-south-korea-hosting-summit-late-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T06:07:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trisummit-a-20170614.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes to strengthen cooperation with his Chinese and South Korean counterparts.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/friend-says-hes-turning-comeys-trump-memos-fbi-msnbc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T06:10:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/asia-pacific/u-s-looks-block-chinese-stakes-artificial-intelligence-technology-military-uses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T13:38:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted drone performs aerial maneuvers over Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, in June 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-authorizes-mattis-set-troop-levels-afghanistan-u-s-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T13:40:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/world/science-health-world/study-frequent-aspirin-use-flags-heightened-risk-serious-fatal-bleeding-75s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T14:23:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/world/russian-breach-39-states-threatens-future-u-s-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T15:45:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-electionhack-b-20170614.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/national/politics-diplomacy/publisher-puts-photo-collection-tokyo-gov-koike-sale-ahead-polls-sees-high-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T16:12:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo book of Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike went on sale Wednesday, less than a month before the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election scheduled for July 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/national/japans-free-preeschool-education-plan-requires-fiscal-balancing-act/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T16:13:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children work on arts and crafts at a kindergarten in Tokyo. The government is considering  a plan that would make preschool education free.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/business/tech/nintendo-unleashes-flurry-new-games-fuel-switch-momentum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T16:19:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nintendo-a-20170615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bill Trinen (left), director of product marketing of Nintendo of America Inc., Shigeru Miyamoto (center), representative director and creative fellow at Nintendo Co., and Yves Guillemot, CEO of UbiSoft Entertainment SA, announce the "Mario + Rabbis Kingdom Battle" game at an Ubisoft event ahead of the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/national/crime-legal/travel-agency-h-s-referred-prosecutors-labor-violations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T16:58:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-his-a-20170615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-his-a-20170615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The building that houses travel agency H.I.S. Co. is shown in this photo taken in Shujuku Ward, Tokyo, in January. Labor authorities referred H.I.S. to prosecutors for allegedly making employees work an illegal amount of overtime.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/asia-pacific/philippines-says-u-s-special-forces-ground-near-besieged-marawi-not-fighting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T17:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine government troops are seen onboard a truck Tuesday in Amai Pakpak as they continue their assault against insurgents from the Maute group, who have taken over large parts of the city of Marawi, Philippines.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/12/national/politics-diplomacy/masahide-ota-former-okinawa-governor-noted-historian-dies-age-92/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T17:43:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahide Ota]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-lawmakers-sue-trump-foreign-state-payments-businesses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T18:14:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-trumpsuit-a-20170615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpsuit-a-20170615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump smiles as he walks with his daughter Ivanka across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Tuesday before boarding Marine One helicopter for the trip to nearby Andrews Air Force Base.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/business/corporate-business/hynix-bain-may-join-government-led-bid-toshibas-chip-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T18:45:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-chipunit-a-20170615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chipunit-a-20170615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean chip maker SK Hynix Inc. is part of a new consortium reportedly being considered for the acquisition of Toshiba Corp.'s chip unit.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/world/science-health-world/radiation-risk-robots-ripping-reactors-heart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T18:50:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-nuclear-a-20170615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nuclear-a-20170615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image taken with a thermal camera shows the shuttered nuclear power plant in Biblis, southwest Germany, in March 2011. The picture does not show any temperature difference outside the power plant.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/business/uber-crossroads-ceo-take-indefinite-leave-leadership-team-run-firm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T18:50:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-uber-b-20170615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-uber-b-20170615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Bonderman]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/national/big-headache-calendar-publishers-new-emperors-era-name-announcement-delayed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T20:17:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-calender-a-20170615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-calender-a-20170615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Calendar Publishers Association says if the name of the era for the new emperor's reign is not known by January, billions of yen would be lost each month the announcement is delayed.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/national/saitama-maker-stylish-tabi-footwear-looks-revitalize-hometown-via-overseas-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T20:18:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Musashino Uniform President Kazuhiro Komatsu shows off pop-colored tabi footwear at his shop in Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/business/ivanka-trump-fashion-brand-halted-talks-japanese-firm-conflict-interest-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T21:32:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ivanka-a-20170615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump listens as his daughter Ivanka speaks at a workforce development roundtable at Waukesha County Technical College in Wisconson on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/national/crime-legal/jr-west-derailment-case-victims-calling-legal-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-14T21:32:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-focus-a-20170615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-focus-a-20170615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A train on the JR Fukuchiyama Line derailed in file photo taken in April 2005, killing 106 passengers and the driver while injuring 562 in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/national/two-sites-japan-added-unesco-biosphere-reserves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-15T04:14:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-unesco-a-20170615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization members give a round of applause Wednesday at the agency's headquarters in Paris after it was decided to add the Tone River basin north of Tokyo and a mountain range in the country's southwest to the list of biosphere reserves.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/15/world/desperate-islamic-state-fighters-posing-civilians-killing-try-flee-raqqa-escapees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-15T06:25:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children walk at a camp for people displaced from fighting in the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa, in Ain Issa, Syria, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/15/business/corporate-business/incoming-tepco-chief-eager-tie-ups-raise-funds-vows-decision-whether-scrap-fukushima-no-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-15T08:35:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomoaki Kobayakawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/cuba-calls-municipal-polls-begins-process-leading-castro-handover/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-15T10:52:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-cuba-a-20170616.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cuba's President Raul Castro casts his vote last December to elect a new member of the state council, the biannual legislative session at the National Assembly in Havana. The island nation has announced the start of a twice-a-decade electoral process. One of the country's highest bodies, the Council of State, said in state media on Wednesday that voting for municipal assemblies would take place on Oct. 22. (Ladyrene Perez, Cubadebate via AP)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-camp-amends-travel-ban-start-date-keep-legal-battle-alive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-15T10:53:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/national/social-issues/government-plans-reduce-suicide-rate-30-percent-10-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-15T11:53:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-suicide-z-20170615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With the sixth-highest suicide rate in the world, Japan plans to bolster measures against bullying in schools and overwork, according to the draft of the guideline, which is reviewed every five years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/asia-pacific/north-korea-releases-jailed-u-s-university-student-otto-warmbier-tillerson-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-15T12:04:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-warmbier-c-20170614.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[American college student Otto Warmbier is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang on March 16, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/national/tokyos-first-filipino-housekeepers-arrive-part-program-bolster-sagging-labor-numbers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-15T12:35:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jocelyn Paloma Oledan (center) and Marianne Paragua Culaniban, who arrived from the Philippines on Wednesday to work as housekeepers in Tokyo, speak to reporters at Haneda airport.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/15/national/kagoshima-artist-completes-global-peace-mural-painting-trek-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-15T13:08:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-murals-a-20170616.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-murals-a-20170616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture of a pigeon holding a white daisy is seen on the wall of Hakuai Hospital in Haebaru, Okinawa Prefecture. Shinichiro Higashi painted the mural as a message of peace.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/15/asia-pacific/u-s-sanction-chinese-entities-north-korea-china-fails-act/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-15T13:16:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sanktions-a-20170616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/15/asia-pacific/philippine-military-captures-senior-member-backed-maute-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-15T15:17:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-maute-a-20170616.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-maute-a-20170616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An armored personnel carrier drives along a road in Amai Pakpak on Wednesday as government troops continued their assault against insurgents from the Maute group, who have taken over large parts of the city of Marawi.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/15/national/crown-prince-leaves-denmark-weeklong-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-15T17:20:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito leaves his residence in Tokyo for a weeklong visit to Denmark as Crown Princess Masako sees him off.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/15/business/cool-japan-bets-10-million-u-s-fund-attract-foreign-venture-capital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-15T17:30:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eclipsed by China in startup activity, Japan is boosting efforts to get foreign venture capital firms more involved with its entrepreneurs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Citizens voice opposition toward a just-enacted law to criminalize conspiracy outside the Diet building on Thursday morning. The rally started on Wednesday evening and continued overnight.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-15T17:53:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-15T18:14:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of dementia sufferers who went missing in Japan in 2016 rose from the previous year, hitting a record high for the fourth-straight year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-15T18:25:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. pension giant TIAA plans to invest about $1 billion in retail and logistic sites in Tokyo and Osaka, a company official says.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-15T18:29:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-government protesters stage a demonstration against the controversial conspiracy bill near the Diet building in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nearly half of the juvenile Japanese eels  — an endangered species — farmed in the country may have been illegally caught, a Kyodo News survey has shown.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rie Fujikawa (center) participates in a rally on April 15 in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward to demand that Japan's minimum wage be hiked to help young people get out of poverty.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is ranked 23rd in reducing the number of children living in poverty of all its forms.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmakers vote on a bill to criminalize conspiracy during an Upper House plenary session on Thursday morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The education ministry said Thursday that it has found 14 digital copies of documents related to the Kake Gakuen scandal.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-16T10:56:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kunio Inoue]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/16/business/tech/quantum-computing-machines-tomorrow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-16T21:01:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[To cool superconducting bits for a quantum computer processor, this dilution refrigerator at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center cools to 15 millikelvin.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/16/national/calbee-resume-potato-chip-sales-halt-spud-shortage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-16T21:15:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-potato-a-20170616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shortage of potato chips sparked a buying spree in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/16/business/air-bag-maker-takata-may-file-bankruptcy-next-week-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-16T21:35:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A billboard advertisement of Takata Corp. is pictured in Tokyo in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/business/tech/north-korea-waging-damaging-cyberattacks-since-2009-coming-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-16T22:11:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff monitori the spread of ransomware cyber-attacks at the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) in Seoul in May. In the aftermath of major cyberattacks, of which recent examples have shown potential dramatic consequences, experts and the Microsoft IT company are advocating the creation of a private international NGO. The U.S. said Tuesday North Korea has been waging damaging cyberattacks since 2009 and urged vigilance.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/16/business/google-skeptic-reyes-seen-fading-race-lead-ftc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-16T23:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/16/business/greece-wins-e8-5-billion-fresh-loans-though-path-debt-repayment-remains-murky/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-16T23:04:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks by uniforms set up by employees of a public hospital in front of the finance ministry in Athens on Friday during a protest against cuts in health sector. Eurozone ministers struck a long-delayed bailout deal with Greece on Thursday to unlock badly needed rescue cash, but warned that Athens would have to wait for debt relief.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/16/business/corporate-business/decades-long-run-mcdonalds-ends-olympic-sponsorship-deal-early/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-16T23:04:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/16/national/japan-discuss-steps-prevent-genetic-discrimination/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-16T23:08:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-genetic-a-20170617.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to the health ministry, 350 of 11,000 people surveyed say they have treated unfairly based on their genetics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/16/national/social-issues/kawasaki-draws-nations-first-guidelines-eliminating-hate-speech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-16T23:16:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-16T23:44:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Izumo helicopter destroyer, its largest warship, is seen in this undated file photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-17T13:34:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May addresses the Confederation of British Industry's annual conference in London last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-17T13:36:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bill Richardson]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-17T13:42:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees of IBM Japan Ltd. participate in the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade in the Shibuya district in May. IBM is one of the firms in Japan that actively promotes the rights of LGBT employees at the workplace.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-17T13:48:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Office workers walk past the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-17T15:11:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the media line up for a press preview of the Trump Presidential Twitter Library, created by "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah," on Thursday in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-17T15:31:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jun Yamamoto, who heads a Tokyo-based group that supports victims of sex crimes, attends a Liberal Democratic Party panel meeting in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/17/national/kansai-takes-measured-view-missile-drills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-17T16:07:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osaka-a-20170618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A big screen TV in the city of Osaka shows the news of North Korea's missile launch May 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/17/national/media-national/living-golden-years-lost-sheen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-17T22:44:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-bij-a-20170618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senior problems: When an elderly person becomes ill and in need of round-the-clock care, the medical expenses often end up contributing to the financial burdens of other members of the family.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/17/national/media-national/japan-really-need-veterinarians/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-17T23:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese veterinarian examines a dog.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/17/national/nuke-ban-treaty-talks-kick-off-u-n-hibakusha-hand-petition-3-million-signatures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-17T22:31:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshima atomic bombing survivor Toshiyuki Minomaki (left) and others involved in collecting 2.96 million signatures calling for the abolition of nuclear arms, submit the petition to officials Friday at the U.N. headquarters in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/17/business/corporate-business/japan-posts-bid-nomura-unit-stalls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-17T22:40:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-jpost-a-20170618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jpost-a-20170618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Post Holdings hopes to acquire know-how in real estate development by purchasing Nomura Real Estate Holdings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/17/business/corporate-business/reddits-rumored-fundraising-may-value-startup-1-7-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-17T23:01:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/17/business/corporate-business/luxury-sleeper-train-launched-western-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-18T11:52:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Twilight Express Mizukaze prepares to depart from Osaka Station on Saturday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/18/world/explosion-bogota-shopping-center-kills-three-wounds-nine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-18T15:15:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman stands in front of the Centro Andino shopping mall after it was rocked by an explosion in Bogota on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/18/national/love-anime-prompts-young-filipinos-pursue-japanese-studies-select-high-schools/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-18T15:17:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filipino high school students Beatrize Chee (left) and Gio Franza are interviewed on June 1 at Makati Science High School in Manila about their interest in Japanese language and culture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/18/world/u-s-pacific-commander-harris-expected-step-next-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-18T16:15:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adm. Harry Harris testifies before a House Armed Services Committee hearing on April 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/voter-turnout-low-macron-sets-sights-huge-parliamentary-majority/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-18T21:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emmanuel Macron]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/18/national/kyoto-lobbies-emperor-live-former-imperial-capital-abdication/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-18T21:27:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoto Gyoen National Garden, including the Kyoto Imperial Palace (upper left), is where emperors used to live before the capital moved to Tokyo during the Meiji Era.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/18/national/fukushima-returnees-security-growing-concern-deserted-towns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-18T21:27:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The deserted streets of the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, are seen at night after its evacuation order was lifted in this undated photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-eu-trade-deal-sight-gaps-narrow-autos-farm-produce/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-18T21:40:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-euepa-a-20170619.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoichi Suzuki, Japan's chief negotiator in the Japan-EU free trade talks, and European Union counterpart Mauro Petriccione, meet in Tokyo on April 3. Japan and the EU are in the final phase of negotiations on a broad bilateral FTA expected to be sealed next month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/18/national/politics-diplomacy/cabinets-support-rate-sinks-44-9-fallout-kake-scandal-conspiracy-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-18T21:41:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/18/business/eye-grabbing-slice-market-china-focuses-developing-small-nuclear-reactors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-18T22:15:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors look at a model of Linglong One (ACP1000), a nuclear reactor developed by the China National Nuclear Corp., at an expo in Beijing at the end of April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/18/business/abes-infrastructure-reforms-hit-roadblock-cities-balk-effort-mend-japans-aging-sewer-systems/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-18T22:15:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sewers-a-20170619.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An underground sewer facility is pictured in Tokyo on June 8. Overhauling the nation's infrastructure is a looming burden on the government.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/18/asia-pacific/lives-disrupted-south-korean-grannies-vow-fight-u-s-thaad-deployment-end/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-18T22:16:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Do Geum-ryeon poses for photographs during an anti-THAAD protest, in Seongju, South Korea, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-18T22:23:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mandarin orange farmer Shoji Yamamoto stands by a sign pointing to his orchard on Teshima Island in Kagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Director Masaaki Yuasa's "Lu Over the Wall" won the top award for feature films at last week's Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Muslims pray on a sidewalk in the Finsbury Park area of north London after a vehicle plowed into pedestrians Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Luxury online retailer Reebonz Pte plans to raise up to $150 million for business expansion in China, Japan and South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-19T17:21:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic Corp. will begin selling its residential fuel cell systems in the U.K. and Austria this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-19T18:05:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-19T18:24:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Diet has passed a bill that will make it easier for researchers and drugmakers to utilize medical "big data."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-19T20:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Post Holdings Co. called off a plan to buy out Nomura Real Estate Holdings Inc. after failing to agree with Nomura on a purchase price and other terms.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/19/national/politics-diplomacy/contrite-abe-takes-blame-support-plunge/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a news conference Monday evening at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo to mark the end of the ordinary Diet session on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/20/national/princess-makos-engagement-officially-announced-july-8/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the riot security forces points what appears to be a pistol toward a crowd of demonstrators during a rally against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/19/national/first-visitation-flight-disputed-isles-off-hokkaido-canceled-poor-weather/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former residents of the disputed isles off Hokkaido listen to an announcement Monday in Nakashibetsu, Hokkaido, that their trip to the islands was canceled due to fog.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/20/business/britain-seeks-special-eu-ties-brexit-talks-kick-off-brussels/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Davis, U.K. exiting the European Union secretary, listens during a news conference following the start of Brexit negotiations in Brussels on Monday. The U.K. and the European Union moved to reassure millions of their citizens that they won't be forced to leave their homes or find new jobs after Brexit, as negotiations on Britain's withdrawal finally got underway.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vanilla Air officials bow in apology at a news conference Monday in Tokyo for allowing 10 passengers on a flight from Hong Kong to enter Japan without going through immigration at Narita International Airport on Sunday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-20T15:52:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwanese clerk Liang I-ting helps a guest at an Apa Group hotel near JR Nippori Station in Arakawa Ward, Tokyo, in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-20T15:54:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women look at specially made Italian luxury fashion brand handbags on display at an exhibition in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-20T16:52:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Izumo helicopter carrier leaves Yokosuka port in May. The Izumo is now in the South China Sea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-20T17:13:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-20T17:39:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two workers allegedly pocketed about ¥10 million cash they found at a waste disposal center in Fukushima in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-20T17:51:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jerry Yang, general partner of the Hardware Club venture fund, speaks during the Slush Tokyo startup event in Tokyo on March 29.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A girl does homework with her mother in Yangon. With help from Japan, Myanmar has introduced a new curriculum for first-graders.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-20T19:26:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Four of Line's sticker characters are seen at the offices of Line Fukuoka Corp. in Kyushu. Line Corp. will open an adventure park in Bangkok featuring the characters.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-20T19:41:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. college student Otto Warmbier is seen being escorted at North Korea's Supreme Court in Pyongyang in March 2016. Warmbier's family announced his death Monday, just days after he was freed by the regime of Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-20T20:38:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-20T21:20:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Education minister Hirokazu Matsuno faces the media at a news conference Tuesday in Tokyo over the discovery of a document related to an ongoing government favoritism scandal involving school operator Kake Gakuen.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-20T21:47:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's defense budget, which has stayed at around 1 percent of gross domestic product for decades, should be increased to deal with ongoing security challenges, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party panel said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-20T22:24:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a Philippine police special action force ride in an army truck on their way to the front line in the battle against Islamic State-linked militants in Marawi, on the southern island of Mindanao, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/20/national/tough-kindergartens-finding-favor-japanese-parents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-20T23:11:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children go on a morning run at the Buddy Sports kindergarten in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/20/business/guinean-president-alpha-conde-calls-investment-japanese-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-21T05:07:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guinea's President Alpha Conde and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attend a joint news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-21T05:18:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-21T06:17:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-21T06:37:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson waves off a question from the press during a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at the State Department in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-21T06:46:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French police officers engage with a suspect outside a car on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris Monday in this still image obtained from social media.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/20/national/tokyo-governor-announces-tsukiji-fish-markets-relocation-possible-plan-return-five-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-21T12:01:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike faces the media at a news conference Tuesday at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government office in Shinjuku Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/20/national/japan-eyes-u-s-nuclear-pact-renews-automatically-amid-trump-administration-vacancies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-21T14:39:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A reprocessing plant for spent nuclear fuel is seen in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture. Japan plans to seek a nuclear pact with the United States that will renew automatically, sources said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/1999/12/30/national/media-national/a-recap-of-1999s-top-media-mavens-meddlers-madmen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-21T16:06:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/21/business/japan-inc-inefficiency-reigns-see-going-paperless-clear-fix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-21T16:07:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Paper Association says the demand for paper used for documents in 2016 increased 1.3 percent from the previous year to 1.84 tons.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/21/business/delivery-firms-team-convenience-stores-labor-shortage-bites/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-21T16:58:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/21/business/corporate-business/ransomware-cyberattack-halts-production-honda-plant-saitama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-21T17:58:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ransomware forced Honda Motor Co. to temporarily suspend production at a factory in Saitama Prefecture on Monday before it was resumed the following day, the automaker said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/21/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-fuso-see-recovery-commercial-vehicle-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-21T18:30:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/21/national/foreign-visitors-japan-reach-2-29-million-record-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-21T19:39:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this May 3, 2016, file photo, tourists visit a festival held at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/21/national/osaka-university-partners-firms-sell-goods-made-discarded-tuna-skin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-21T19:42:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women display a wallet and other products made using the skin of farmed bluefin tuna at Kindai University in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, on May 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/21/national/politics-diplomacy/south-koreas-moon-issues-strongest-comments-date-comfort-women-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-21T19:44:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moon Jae-in]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/21/asia-pacific/trump-says-china-efforts-north-korea-havent-worked/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. is set to negotiate exclusively with a consortium formed by Japanese, U.S. and South Korean entities over the sale of its chip unit.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-22T13:13:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-22T16:02:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-22T16:13:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[JR Kyoto Station is crowded with passengers on Thursday due to cancellations and delays caused by a power outage that began on Wednesday evening.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junior lawmaker Takeshi Ninoyu, who says cooking is his hobby, sets himself apart from other LDP lawmakers by deftly fixing stew for his wife and two little children at an event in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Several varieties of fish caught on the day are delivered from all over Japan via Haneda airport to a seafood outlet in Tokyo's Ginza district, skipping the wholesale process.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer urged Japan on Wednesday to make "unilateral concessions" on beef imports in order to help reduce its trade surplus with the United States.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey conducted by Development Bank of Japan shows many Asian tourists who have traveled Japan hope to visit rural areas and hot springs next time.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during an interview with Reuters at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-23T09:23:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/23/business/u-s-bans-fresh-brazil-beef-imports-amid-recurring-safety-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-23T10:48:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meat products are in a cold storage room at a supermarket in Rio de Janeiro during a March inspection by the state's consumer protection agency, PROCON. The United States announced Thursday a halt to all imports of fresh beef from Brazil, the world's second-largest producer, citing "recurring" food safety concerns.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-23T11:59:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party Secretary General Yoshihiko Noda (fourth from left) and other opposition parties' executives submit a request to open an extraordinary Diet session on Thursday at the Diet.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this March 3, 2006, file photo, Brendan Dassey is escorted out of a Manitowoc County Circuit courtroom, in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-23T16:19:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-23T17:05:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiko Ko]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign pastors have found a niche market after demand for their services at hotels and wedding chapels started rising in the late-1990s when Western weddings overtook Shinto nuptials as the ceremony of choice.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryoichi Wago]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naohiko Baba, chief Japan economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-23T18:48:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichikawa Ebizo and Mao Kobayashi share a glance after announcing their engagement in January 2010 at a Tokyo hotel.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/23/business/fintech-firm-uses-credit-card-data-fix-holes-japans-consumption-figures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-23T19:02:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nowcast Inc. is using credit card transaction data to track consumer spending trends.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-23T19:03:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Denmark's ﷯Vestas Wind Systems A/S plans to expand business in the Middle East and in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-23T19:30:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-23T19:42:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomoaki Kobayakawa]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-23T20:09:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron, who threw his weight behind a common European defense during his election campaign, arrives Thursday for an EU summit in Brussels.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/23/business/tech/rise-of-ai-assisted-art-in-japan-raises-challenges-notions-of-proprietary-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-23T20:49:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artificial intelligence-equipped microsatellite composes music and poetry in space and sends the works back to Earth, where they are transformed into sculpture, shown in this handout photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-23T22:49:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The mayor of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, has agreed to let dozens of U.S. carrier aircraft based in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, be transferred to U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-23T22:49:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Warnings about incoming missiles will be made through loudspeakers hooked up to the J-Alert public warning system, according to this public service announcement the government began televising Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/23/business/corporate-business/toshiba-asks-regulators-extension-annual-statement-deadline-aug-10/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-23T23:45:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. has asked regulators to extend a deadline for submitting its annual financial statement until Aug. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/24/asia-pacific/north-korea-denies-torturing-warmbier-says-biggest-victim-u-s-students-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-24T12:45:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters stage a memorial rally for the late American student Otto Warmbier near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Friday. North Korea on Friday called itself the "biggest victim" in the death of Warmbier who was detained for more than a year and died days after being released in a coma.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-24T13:03:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rex Tillerson]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda Motor Co. is going public in an effort to debunk claims by lawyers that it knew about the hazards of exploding Takata air bag inflators nearly two decades ago but covered it up.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tough press: Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga enters the prime minister's residence for a press conference at which he faced the Tokyo Shimbun reporter Isoko Mochizuki, who, uncharacteristically for Japanese journalists, grilled him with 23 questions about the Kake scandal.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-24T19:39:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 9-year-old girl who spent more than three months in a temporary shelter in Tokyo after being reported as a victim of abuse sits in her psychotherapist's office in Tokyo on March 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-24T22:52:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks Saturday in Kobe.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-24T23:11:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Lotteria Co. restaurant inside the Junction City mall in Yangon, Myanmar, on June 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/24/business/tech/vr-amusement-center-opens-shibuya-cash-new-tech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-25T05:21:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors experience the Ultra Reverse Bungee game with virtual reality headsets and moving seats at Shibuya VR Land in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/21/national/first-female-head-japan-coast-guard-regional-office-focused-territorial-security/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-25T14:22:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-25T14:56:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Candy Lau, born five months before Hong Kong's handover to Chinese rule in 1997, poses on June 6 with a 1997 photo of her taken in the building behind her.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-25T15:31:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Korean War veterans salute during a ceremony marking the 67th anniversary of the Korean War in Seoul on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/25/asia-pacific/north-korea-seeks-u-n-post-official-arousing-concern-access-confidential-information/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-25T16:35:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-25T17:47:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Retired high school teacher Koichi Saito uses a container of arrows to demonstrate how to use a mokuju in this photo taken recently in Tsushima, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Models pose during a photo session to introduce new VR games at the headquarters of Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-27T14:36:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-27T14:53:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[International passengers arrive at Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, on Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court granted parts of the Trump administration's emergency request to put its travel ban into effect later in the week pending further judicial review.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-27T15:39:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sota Fujii, a 14-year-old professional shogi player, speaks to the media after getting his record-setting 29th straight victory at Shogi Kaikan hall in Tokyo on Monday]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-27T16:31:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Sunday photo shows the Key Safety Systems headquarters in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Japanese air bag maker Takata Corp., the company at the center of the world's biggest automotive recall, has filed for bankruptcy protection as it struggles to supply replacements for faulty air bag inflators linked to the deaths of at least 16 people. Takata's filings in the U.S. and Japan on Monday cleared the way for a $1.6 billion takeover of most of Takata's assets by rival Key Safety Systems.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-27T16:39:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourism spots located in Kumamoto Prefecture are introduced by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government on its website.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-27T18:23:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-27T18:23:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Benjamin Peters, vice president of Miyazaki International College, teaches a political science class in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-27T18:23:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On Monday, it was reported that CNN has accepted the resignations of three journalists after the publication of a Russia-related article that was later retracted.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Resorts employee Jiang Ling (rear center) and another employee wearing a face mask, arrive at the Baoshan District People's Court to attend their trial in Shanghai on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-27T18:25:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-27T18:46:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sota Fujii (right), a 14-year-old professional shogi player, reviews a match with opponent Yasuhiro Masuda, 19, following his win in the prestigious Ryuo Championship finals at Shogi Kaikan hall in Tokyo on Monday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-27T19:04:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Tokyo couple look at images of their grandchild through the Mago Channeru (Grandchildren Channel) service provided by Tokyo-based startup Chikaku Inc.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-27T19:07:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sota Fujii, a 14-year-old professional shogi player, speaks to the media after getting his record-setting 29th straight victory at Shogi Kaikan hall in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-27T19:18:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sota Fujii, seen playing shogi as an elementary school student, started the game when he was 5 years old.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/27/business/corporate-business/shareholders-express-anger-takata-management/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-27T21:33:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/27/national/science-health/cancer-patients-japan-freeze-eggs-ahead-treatment-money-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-27T21:33:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-27T23:50:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vice Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama speaks to reporters after his talks with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-28T05:16:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Western Digital Corp. has resubmitted a bid with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for Toshiba Corp.'﷯s chip unit in a last-minute effort.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-28T06:27:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Libyan coast guardsman stands on a boat during the rescue of 147 illegal immigrants attempting to reach Europe off the coastal town of Zawiyah, 45 km west of Tripoli, on Monday. More than 8,000 migrants have been rescued off Libya during the past 48 hours in difficult weather conditions, Italy's coast guard said on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-28T06:28:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Iraqi Federal Police (right) throws a hand grenade against Islamic State militants at the frontline in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-28T06:36:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian President Bashar Assad visits a Russian air base at Hmeymim, in western Syria in this handout picture posted on SANA on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/asia-pacific/north-korean-rocket-engine-test-smallest-stage-icbm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T13:15:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Recent damage to vegetation from a purported North Korean rocket engine test is seen at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station in Tongchang-ri in this satellite photo taken June 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/business/global-cyberattack-seen-links-wannacry-mayhem-indicating-firms-still-not-securing-networks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T13:46:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers line up at a grocery shop in Kiev Tuesday. A new and highly virulent outbreak of malicious data-scrambling software appears to be causing mass disruption across Europe, hitting Ukraine especially hard, with company and government officials reporting serious intrusions at the Ukrainian power grid, banks and government offices.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-28T14:18:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of men and women pump their fists in the air and chant as they carry placards with anti-American propaganda slogans in Pyongyang's central Kim Il Sung Square on Sunday to mark the start of the beginning of the Korean War.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-28T14:38:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-28T14:59:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Facebook Communities Summit in Chicago on June 21.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Currency traders handle deals at the offices of Ueda Harlow Ltd. in Tokyo. Japan's drive to promote yen use abroad is being tested amid a gradual economic recovery.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-28T15:41:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nikki Haley]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-28T16:48:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters wear masks of jailed Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo during a demonstration outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/national/japans-oldest-aquarium-born-sea-otter-celebrates-21st-birthday-ice-cake/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pata the sea otter receives a "cake" made of ice for her 21st birthday on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/business/japans-corporate-chiefs-face-scrutiny-cushy-retirement-roles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T16:55:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-retirement-a-20170629.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-retirement-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Recent signs suggest that highly paid advisory roles for former corporate executives are changing.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/business/economy-business/boj-keeps-snapping-debt-pace-bond-purchases-slowing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T16:55:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan keeps buying government debt, but the pace of increase has slowed dramatically since the introduction of yield-curve control in September 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/national/crime-legal/sakai-woman-arrested-allegedly-setting-man-ablaze/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T16:56:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fire-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Part of an electric appliance store in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, is seen burned after a man covered in flames ran into the store on June 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/national/social-issues/rural-japan-prefectures-act-matchmakers-luring-city-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T16:57:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-matchmaking-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masanobu and Etsuko Ota work on their farm land together in Ureshino, Saga Prefecture, in April.  They met through a matchmaking event organized by the prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-getting-frustrated-chinas-inaction-north-korea-threat-weighs-trade-actions-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T16:57:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-trumpchina-b-20170629.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpchina-b-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump waves to members of the media after escorting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to his car at the White House on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/business/tech/ransomware-go-hack-cybercriminals-amid-bitcoin-rally-glut-stolen-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T16:57:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-hackanalysis-a-20170629.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hackanalysis-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Technicians at Boryspil International Airport in Kiev work on a flight timetable for the airport's site Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/national/hokkaido-salmon-catch-seen-dropping-due-colder-waters-research-institute/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T17:07:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-salmon-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Salmon are hung from rods for preservation in Hokkaido. The catch of salmon in the waters near the northern island is projected to decrease this fall.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/national/social-issues/envy-epiphany-japanese-woman-dwarfism-follows-fashion-dreams/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T17:41:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dwarfism-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitomi Goto (second from left) takes part in an event supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Tokyo on May 7. Despite a genetic condition that stunts physical growth, Goto has successfully pursued her dreams in the fashion industry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/asia-pacific/chinas-cnpc-suspends-fuel-sales-north-korea-risks-mount-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T18:45:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-nkfuel-a-20170629.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkfuel-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pyongyang residents take part in a mass rally marking the anniversary of the start of the Korean War on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/asia-pacific/chinese-navy-launches-advanced-homegrown-destroyer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T19:06:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-BRI-destroyer-a-20170629.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-destroyer-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's new type of domestically built destroyer, a 10,000-ton warship, is seen during its launching ceremony at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/national/new-employees-ready-challenge-japans-work-first-culture-study-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T19:07:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-work-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nearly half of newly employed workers said they would go home when their own work was finished, even if their superiors were working overtime, according to a survey conducted jointly by Japan Productivity Center and Junior Executive Council of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/business/japan-helps-myanmar-set-250-revenue-generating-postboxes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T19:07:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-myanmar-a-20170629.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-myanmar-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new postbox is shown to the media in Yangon on Tuesday. Japan is offering assistance to help Myanmar reform its aging postal system.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/business/corporate-business/toshiba-sues-western-digital-%c2%a5120-billion-standoff-imperils-plans-chip-unit-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T21:13:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign guides Toshiba shareholders to their meeting Wednesday at the Makuhari Messe convention hall in the city of Chiba. The sign also offers an apology for not preparing souvenirs or bento lunch boxes this time.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/national/politics-diplomacy/defense-minister-draws-flak-suggesting-sdf-behind-candidate-tokyo-assembly-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T21:13:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-inada-a-20170629.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-inada-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Tomomi Inada speaks to reporters at the Diet Tuesday night.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/national/crime-legal/nearly-three-decades-90-year-old-kagoshima-woman-wins-retrial-murder-conviction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T21:13:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-retrial-a-20170629.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-retrial-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers hold up signs announcing a decision Wednesday by the Kagoshima District Court to retry a woman convicted in a 1979 murder case.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/asia-pacific/philippines-says-beheaded-civilians-found-rebel-held-town/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T22:14:38+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/national/one-war-displaced-japanese-person-still-living-north-korea-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T06:07:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-nkjapan-a-20170629.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkjapan-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ruriko Arai, a war-displaced Japanese woman still living in North Korea, is seen speaking to the Japanese media at her home in the eastern coastal city of Hamhung in April.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/business/u-s-set-unveil-enhanced-airline-security-steps-avoid-laptop-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T06:15:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-security-a-20170630.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-security-a-20170630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department is set to announce new security measures Wednesday for international flights bound to the United States that could lead to a lifting of a ban on laptops and other electronics from passenger cabins from certain airports.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/world/venezuela-hunts-rogue-cop-chopper-attack-skeptics-regard-staged-justify-repression/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T07:58:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-venezuela-a-20170630.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-venezuela-a-20170630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police official Oscar Perez poses for photographs during an event of the Body of Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigation (CICPC) in Caracas in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/business/despite-weak-spots-steel-nuclear-experts-say-edfs-flamanville-reactor-safe-start-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T08:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-reactor-a-20170630.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-reactor-a-20170630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President of the French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) Pierre-Franck Chevet speaks during a press conference on the Flamanville nuclear power plant Wednesday in Paris.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/business/shareholders-urge-utilities-end-nuclear-power-generation-snubbed-management/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T08:16:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-nuclear-a-20170630.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nuclear-a-20170630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People protest the use of nuclear energy in front of a venue where Kyushu Electric Power holds its general shareholders' meeting Wednesday in Fukuoka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/business/trump-press-south-korean-president-trade-imbalance-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T08:18:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-trumpsk-a-20170630.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trumpsk-a-20170630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks in front of the "Chosin Few Battle Monument" at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Wednesday in Triangle, Virginia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/senate-intel-panel-will-view-comeys-trump-memos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T10:44:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-comeymemos-a-20170630.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-comeymemos-a-20170630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner,  whose panel is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, speaks with reporters after final votes for the week, at the Capitol in Washington June 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/world/social-issues-world/protests-held-across-india-mobs-attack-muslims-alleging-theyre-eating-beef/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T10:47:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-india-a-20170630.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-india-a-20170630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi holds a placard high during a protest over a spate of violent attacks across the country targetting the country's Muslim minority, in Mumbai, India, Wednesday. Thousands of protestors gathered in different cities to decry the silence of India's Hindu right-wing government in the face of the public lynchings and violent attacks on at least a dozen Muslim men and boys since it was voted to power in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/national/vanilla-air-makes-wheelchair-user-pull-stairs-airplane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T11:55:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-wheelchair-a-20170629.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wheelchair-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideto Kijima, president of Japan Accessible Tourism Center, speaks in an interview Wednesday in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/27/national/science-health/smokers-make-less-20-japans-population-first-time-survey-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T12:15:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-smokers-a-20170628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-smokers-a-20170628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of smokers in Japan has fallen below 20 percent of the population for the first time on record.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-preparing-september-visit-india-promote-bullet-train-tech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T15:38:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-abeindia-a-20170630.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abeindia-a-20170630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (right) and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, wave as they visit Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.'s bullet train plant in Kobe last November. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/28/business/worlds-first-starbucks-coffee-shop-tatami-rooms-open-kyoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T16:41:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-starbucks-a-20170629.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-starbucks-a-20170629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The new Starbucks outlet in Kyoto near Kiyomizu temple.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-china-start-talks-prevent-accidental-clashes-east-china-sea-disputed-isles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T17:43:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-maritime-a-20170630.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-maritime-a-20170630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senior officials from Japan and China discuss maritime issues as they begin two-day talks in Fukuoka on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/asia-pacific/malaysia-decides-stop-importing-north-korean-labor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T17:46:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-nkuala-a-20170630.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkuala-a-20170630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Jong Nam]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/business/fiscal-2016-saw-japans-first-tax-revenue-decline-seven-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T18:46:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-tax-a-20170630.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tax-a-20170630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Corporate, income and consumption tax revenues all fell in fiscal 2016 compared with a year ago.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/national/small-plane-makes-belly-landing-nagasaki-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T19:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-plane-a-20170630.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-plane-a-20170630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A small twin-propeller plane that made a belly landing sits on the tarmac at Nagasaki airport on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/business/nissan-honda-see-may-domestic-output-rise-toyota-records-fall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T19:02:58+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-delays-summit-china-south-korea-amid-seoul-beijing-thaad-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T19:03:58+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/asia-pacific/north-korea-vows-execute-former-south-korean-president-park-spy-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T19:05:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-South Korean President Park Geun-hye speaks during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule following the end of World War II in Seoul in August 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-29T19:33:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sheet to prevent odor and bacteria is displayed under a mannequin at the Funeral Business Fair 2017 in Yokohama on June 26. Over 120 businesses exhibited its products and services for funeral, burial and memorial services during the two-day fair.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-29T20:46:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hakubun Shimomura]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-29T20:49:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diet affairs chiefs of opposition parties meet with Lower House Speaker Tadamori Oshima (third from left) on Thursday to demand that the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe convene an extraordinary Diet session.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/business/sony-crank-vinyl-records-first-time-28-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T20:49:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shop manager shows off a period Japanese pressing of The Beatles' final studio album 'Let It Be' at the RECOfan music shop in Tokyo's Shibuya district on Thursday. Sony said it will start making vinyl records again on the back of surging demand for a technology that the Japanese firm abandoned three decades ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/business/japan-tobacco-caught-dozing-promising-heat-not-burn-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T21:04:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Tobacco Inc.'s Ploom Tech smokeless tobacco devices are seen on display while an attendee tries them out, at the company's Ploom Shop Ginza in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-29T22:13:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Videos without clear provenance but certainly shot by Chinese authorities show jailed Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo receiving medical treatment at a hospital (left) and Liu saying wardens take good care of him, on computer screens in Beijing, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/27/business/tech/classic-mini-super-famicom-nintendo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T23:10:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nintendo Classic Mini: Super Famicom is a palm-sized reissue of the blockbuster Super Famicon video game console launched in 1990.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-29T23:11:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroichi Yagi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/national/social-issues/women-japan-cite-judged-work-top-concern-taking-maternity-leave-survey-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T23:21:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mothers exchange information about day care facilities in Tokyo. In a survey, 42.3 percent of women said feeling confident about securing slots in competitive day care facilities was important for taking child care leave.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/business/bank-japan-policymaker-praises-hitlers-economic-policies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-29T23:38:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yutaka Harada]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-29T23:39:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is considering using luxury cruise ships as hotels during 2020 Tokyo Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-29T23:57:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsuru Nakata, a 38-year-old sergeant with the Fukuoka Prefectural Police charged for murdering his wife, is sent to prosecutors in earlier this month in the city of Fukuoka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/business/global-cyberattack-just-cover-malware-installation-ukraine-computer-infrastructure-police-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T06:39:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officers of Ukrainian Cyberpolice Department work in an office in the department building in Kiev on Thursday. The EU must boost its defenses against cyberattacks, which have fallen behind the modern world's reliance on the internet and mobile devices, the bloc's security chief warned Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/asia-pacific/defector-alleges-wage-skimming-koreas-joint-industrial-zone-funding-kim-jong-uns-arms-quest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T07:13:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/business/trump-rebrands-predecessors-policy-push-u-s-energy-dominance-exporter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T07:40:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b-energy-a-20170701.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the Unleashing American Energy event at the Department of Energy in Washington on Thursday. Trump said he is lifting an Obama-era policy that curtailed the financing of coal-fired power plants overseas, as he seeks to reorient the U.S. government away from fighting climate change and toward American "energy dominance."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/putin-receives-ex-u-s-diplomat-kissinger-kremlin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T09:43:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Kremlin in Moscow Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/29/business/fewer-shareholders-meetings-held-traditional-peak-day-government-behest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T10:28:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An investor arrives to attend Fujifilm Holdings Corp.'s annual shareholders meeting in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/asia-pacific/china-built-new-military-facilities-south-china-sea-isles-u-s-think-tank-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T10:49:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction is shown on Fiery Cross Reef, in the Spratly Islands, the disputed South China Sea, in this June 16 satellite image released by CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to Reuters on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-draws-strong-rebuke-assailing-female-tv-host-personal-terms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T10:53:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski arrive for the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/world/social-issues-world/migrants-return-calais-finding-no-relief-french-asylum-process/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T10:59:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-calais-a-20170701.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-calais-a-20170701.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The makeshift migrant camp "Jungle" is seen near Calais, France, last year. A French court has ruled against creating a new center for migrants in the western port city of Calais but said Tuesday they should have access to water, showers and toilets, services the city's mayor is refusing to provide.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/left-leaning-party-govern-canadas-british-columbia-first-time-16-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T14:24:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Columbia Premier Christy Clark leaves after making a statement to the media at Government House after being defeated in a no-confidence vote in Victoria on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/world/crime-legal-world/barriers-keep-man-driving-crowd-front-french-mosque/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T14:31:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police vehicle is stationed outside a mosque Thursday in the Paris suburb of Creteil after a man tried to drive a car into a crowd front of the Islamic religious facility.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/business/tech/gunze-develops-wearable-technology-keep-dairy-cows-cool-summer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T14:49:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cows wearing Ushi-ble, technology  developed by apparel firm Gunze Ltd. to allow cattle to beat the summer heat, munch on feed on a farm in this handout photo taken in Kyoto Prefecture on June 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/asia-pacific/australia-creates-military-unit-expand-hacking-attacks-islamic-state-enemies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T15:28:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-30T15:34:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A caregiver helps a resident at a nursing home in Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, in June 2016. The number of people training to become caregivers has dwindled due to an increasing workload and low pay.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/business/corporate-business/airbnbs-new-premium-service-steps-competition-luxury-hotels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T16:30:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Airbnb Inc. app is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone and iPad in this arranged photograph taken in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/business/lighthizer-presses-reduce-u-s-trade-deficit-japan-talk-trade-chief-seko/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T17:04:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer shakes hands with trade minister Hiroshige Seko in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/business/foreign-firms-maligned-trump-driving-force-reviving-u-s-manufacturing-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T17:30:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo shows the assembly line where the BMW X4 is made at BMW's manufacturing plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in March 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/national/landslide-warnings-issued-50-years-downpours-hit-parts-kyushu-chugoku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T17:31:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/business/economy-business/job-availability-japan-climbs-highest-level-four-decades/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T17:59:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's job availability improved to its strongest level in more than 40 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/national/women-set-record-25-8-pass-rate-civil-service-exam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T19:22:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-30T20:18:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers are seen at a construction site in Tokyo on June 29. Labor demand is at a 43-year high here as the population shrinks and barriers for blue-collar workers remain high. This has spawned a "gray" labor market, especially in the construction and manufacturing sectors, which hire asylum seekers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/national/npa-panel-pitches-limiting-elderly-drivers-cars-automatic-braking-tech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T20:19:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A National Police Agency panel has proposed creating restricted driver's licenses for the elderly.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/30/national/politics-diplomacy/inada-apologizes-retracts-ldp-election-plug-refuses-resign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-30T20:19:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Tomomi Inada holds a news conference at the ministry on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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