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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ministerial members in charge of the free trade negotiations between Japan and the European Union tackle the issues Sunday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-03T01:04:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-03T05:58:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hyogo Gov. Toshizo Ido speaks to supporters Sunday in Kobe after winning a fifth term in office.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Vogtle Unit 3 and 4 site, being constructed by primary contactor Westinghouse, a business unit of Toshiba, near Waynesboro, Georgia, is seen in an aerial photo taken in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-03T10:58:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-03T14:16:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At a rally held in front of the Tokyo District Court on Friday, ahead of the first trial of three former Tepco executives, people criticize the utility. Tepco is the operator of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant which suffered meltdowns following the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-03T14:25:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kabuki star Ichikawa Ebizo will launch an English version of his late wife's blog, Kokoro (Heart), so non-Japanese can read about her battle with breast cancer. His wife, popular TV announcer Mao Kobayashi, died last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-03T15:27:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese men appear to be losing their dominant position in the family along with the increase of working women, a survey shows.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/national/politics-diplomacy/stagnant-japan-diet-members-incomes-rose-average-%c2%a524-million-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-03T16:10:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-03T18:22:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Telemessage President Hidetoshi Seino, seen in Tokyo in May, holds a device that can receive pager frequencies.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-03T18:31:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Aso]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/business/economy-business/japans-property-prices-rise-second-year-gap-cities-rural-areas-widen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-03T18:32:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The land in front of the Kyukyodo stationery store in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district is the most valuable in all of Japan for the 32nd consecutive year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/business/g-20-leaders-gather-germany-trade-climate-likely-top-agenda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-03T18:47:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters against climate and trade policies demonstrate Sunday in Hamburg, Germany, ahead of the G-20 summit in the city later this week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/beijing-lambastes-u-s-warship-patrol-south-china-sea-tensions-rise-waterway-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-03T19:52:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Stethem guided-missile destroyer arrives at Wusong military port in Shanghai in November 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/national/politics-diplomacy/phone-talks-abe-trump-agree-step-pressure-nuclear-armed-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-03T20:24:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while posing for photographs before a joint news conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/national/politics-diplomacy/victory-hand-koike-step-head-tomin-first/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-03T20:35:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks to reporters Monday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/business/economy-business/boj-leadership-due-change-says-abe-mentor-nakahara/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-03T20:50:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/asia-pacific/circumventing-chinas-great-firewall-now-tougher-popular-vpn-shut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-03T20:50:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/asia-pacific/china-accuses-india-violating-1890-agreement-border-standoff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-03T21:36:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/asia-pacific/wide-areas-southern-china-hit-flooding-heat-wave-strikes-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-03T21:41:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Days of torrential rain in Hunan province have swollen the Xiangjiang River to a record flood level.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/national/2020-olympic-committee-chief-seeks-cooperation-new-tokyo-assembly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-03T22:27:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiro Mori]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/asia-pacific/u-s-warship-sails-near-chinese-occupied-island-disputed-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-03T22:56:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stethen transits waters east of the Korean Peninsula during an exercise in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/moon-says-north-korea-last-chance-talks-obama-visits-south/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-03T22:57:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in shakes hands with former U.S. President Barack Obama at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/02/national/premium-business-hub-springboard-major-markets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T00:16:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/business/corporate-business/idemitsu-row-escalates-share-offering-spurs-legal-battle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T04:22:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Idemitsu Kosan Co. holds a shareholders meeting last week in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-u-s-two-plus-two-security-talks-postponed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T04:45:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Tomomi Inada gets together with U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in Singapore last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/business/financial-markets/government-pension-investment-fund-begins-investment-using-socially-responsible-stock-indexes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T04:47:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government pension fund has begun investing in domestic stocks in line with socially responsible stock indexes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/widodo-upholds-indonesia-model-moderate-islam-despite-extremist-undercurrents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T06:23:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indonesian President Joko Widodo gestures during an interview with Reuters in Jakarta Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/business/trump-pitch-u-s-lng-exports-russias-backyard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T08:38:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/merkel-camps-election-program-no-longer-refers-u-s-friend-amid-trump-chill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T08:39:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel, accompanied (from left) by European Council President Donald Tusk and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, talks with President Donald Trump during a family photo with G-7 leaders at the Ancient Greek Theater of Taormina in Taormina, Italy, in May. President Donald Trump will learn this week whether he gets a second chance to make a first impression as he returns to Europe and has his first encounter with Russia's Vladimir Putin.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/national/crime-legal/prosecutors-file-appeal-block-retrial-woman-90-served-time-1979-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T08:50:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prosecutors appealed a district court's decision to grant a retrial for Ayako Haraguchi, who served a 10-year term in prison for a murder in 1979.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/national/politics-diplomacy/jump-women-tokyo-assembly-raises-hopes-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T10:44:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ayumi Saigo, 32, a member of Tomin First No Kai who is expecting a baby, campaigns in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Monday a day after being elected to the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/national/science-health/first-okayama-hospital-combines-healthy-parts-donors-lungs-make-one-successful-transplant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T10:45:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takahiro Oto, a surgeon at Okayama University Hospital, explains a lung transplant procedure he performed Saturday at a news conference held in the city of OKayama on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/national/shogi-sota-fujii/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T14:23:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shogi prodigy Sota Fujii, 14, takes his first loss in 30 career matches on Sunday at Tokyo Shogi Hall.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/national/politics-diplomacy/nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty-likely-adopted-week-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T15:22:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants at U.N.  nuclear weapons ban treaty negotiations discuss the wording of a draft on Monday at the U.N. headquarters in New York. The landmark agreement is expected to be adopted on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/gathering-lawmakers-versailles-macron-issues-ultimatum-timescale-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T15:24:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-macron-a-20170705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron walks through the Galerie des Bustes (Busts Gallery) at the Palace of Versailles near Paris on Monday for a special gathering of both houses of parliament.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/business/corporate-business/sk-hynix-demands-voting-rights-33-4-toshibas-chip-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T15:28:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-hynix-a-20170705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SK Hynix Inc. is asking for up to 33.4 percent of voting rights in Toshiba Corp.'s semiconductor unit.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/national/social-issues/insurers-debut-dementia-liability-coverage-japan-grays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T16:06:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-dementia-a-20170705.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dementia-a-20170705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Insurance companies have launched products that cover costs associated with people with dementia wandering onto train tracks, among other needs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/national/ioc-exec-praises-public-use-tokyo-olympic-venues-games-underway/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T16:06:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-olympics-a-20170705.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-olympics-a-20170705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[International Olympic Committee Vice President John Coates holds a news conference Friday after meeting with Tokyo 2020 organizers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/reference/government-mulls-kids-week-holiday-prompt-overworked-japan-take-paid-leave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T16:39:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20170704.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is considering creating "Kids Week," a new holiday for schoolchildren, designed to get working parents to take vacation and spend more time with family.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-speaks-german-italian-leaders-ahead-summit-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T16:42:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-trumpchats-a-20170705.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpchats-a-20170705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump waves Monday as he boards Air force One at Morristown municipal airport, New Jersey, en route back to Washington after a weekend at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/business/donations-hometown-tax-payment-program-hit-record-%c2%a5284-billion-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T17:27:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-donation-a-20170705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The city of Miyakonojo, Miyazaki Prefecture, was the biggest recipient of donations under the hometown tax payment program in fiscal 2016 for the second straight year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/national/new-service-connects-japanese-travelers-compatriots-living-abroad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T17:35:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20170704.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traveloco President Yutaka Shiiya says he launched a website to utilize the experience and skills of Japanese living abroad.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/business/japan-automakers-ford-beat-u-s-sales-estimates-june-breaking-industry-downtrend/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T18:17:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/b-autosale-a-20170705.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-autosale-a-20170705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota, Honda and Nissan all had a good month in the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/business/bankrupt-fishmonger-now-hes-%c2%a5100-shop-billionaire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T18:23:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past a Daiso Japan Value LLC store and signs for tax-free shopping in Kitakyushu in January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/national/politics-diplomacy/success-koikes-tomin-first-echoes-ishin-no-kai-movement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T19:48:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuriko Koike]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/national/social-issues/younger-japanese-urbanites-increasingly-drawn-quiet-rural-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T19:48:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-retirees-a-20170705.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[City dwellers plant rice during a promotional event in Ina, Nagano Prefecture, on June 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/world/bid-give-couples-privacy-cuba-revive-network-state-run-love-motels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T19:48:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-cubalove-a-20170705.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cubalove-a-20170705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourist Johan Cavoloro, 27, from France, kisses his girlfriend, Sheila Leal, 26, from Cuba, in Havana in July 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/business/japan-moots-low-tariff-import-quota-cheese-eu-free-trade-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T19:51:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/b-japaneu-a-20170705.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japaneu-a-20170705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks Tuesday during a meeting between ministers involved in free trade negotiations with European Union.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/national/kyoto-nara-hope-host-emperor-akihito-abdication-traditional-events/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T19:54:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-emperor-a-20170705.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20170705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[During trips to the old capital, the Emperor stays at the Kyoto Omiya Imperial.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/national/oita-aims-heat-things-olympic-onsen-video/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T19:55:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-onsen-a-20170705.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-onsen-a-20170705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mikako Kotani (front) and other former Olympians perform synchronized swimming in an Oita Prefecture hot spring.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/national/senior-finance-ministry-official-defended-government-moritomo-scandal-given-promotion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T19:56:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-mof-a-20170705.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n mof-a 20170705]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuhisa Sagawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/national/ministry-unveils-plan-for-facial-recognition-to-speed-up-airport-entryexit-process/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T20:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-face-a-20170705.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-face-a-20170705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People try out immigration machines that use facial recognition during an experiment at Narita International Airport in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korean-claim-of-successful-icbm-test-likely-to-raise-alarm-in-tokyo-and-anchorage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T20:13:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-missile-i-20170705.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passers-by in Tokyo on Tuesday look at a large monitor showing news of North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile test.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/national/cool-japan-fund-ranks-unionize-female-employees-say-execs-sexually-harassed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-04T20:32:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cooljapan-a-20170705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[These cards are believed to have been used at a Cool Japan Fund social event. Female participants say the cards, one of which called for the participant to go on a date with a superior, were a form of sexual harassment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/business/ukraines-cyber-police-seize-servers-accounting-software-firm-global-malware-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T06:56:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/b-cyber-a-20170706.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ukraine's infrastructure minister, Volodymyr Omelyan, talks in his office in Kiev Tuesday. Omelyan said that last week's data-scrambling software outbreak has dealt millions of dollars in damage to Ukraine's Department of Infrastructure alone.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/03/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-election-loss-places-abe-jeopardy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T09:47:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters as he arrives at the Prime Minister's Office on Monday in the wake of his Liberal Democratic Party's crushing defeat in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/world/peru-taps-3-d-tech-re-create-face-mummified-tattooed-high-priestess-died-1700-years-ago/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T10:56:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take a selfie of a replica of The Lady of Cao face, a female mummy found at the archaeological site Huaca El Brujo, a grand pyramid of the ancient Moche pre-hispanic culture, at the Ministry of Culture in Lima Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/national/nanmadol-third-typhoon-season-makes-landfall-nagasaki-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T11:46:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A metal structure blocks a road in Kumamoto Prefecture after being knocked down by strong winds associated with Typhoon Nanmadol on Tuesday morning. The typhoon, the third of the season, made landfall in Nagasaki Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/national/fire-ants-including-first-confirmed-queen-found-osaka-port/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T12:23:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A queen fire ant found at Osaka port is seen in this photo taken Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/world/russia-may-deploy-military-syrian-buffer-zones-within-weeks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T13:53:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/asia-pacific/north-korea-apparently-used-china-timber-hauling-truck-first-claimed-icbm-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T14:18:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (second from right) observes the test-firing of the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile Tuesday at an undisclosed location.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/asia-pacific/beheaded-bodies-vietnamese-sailors-abducted-abu-sayyaf-militants-found-southern-philippines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T15:25:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/national/heavy-reliance-coal-likely-stymie-japans-climate-agreement-goals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T15:46:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koichi Yamamoto]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/national/drone-pilot-classes-demand-skilled-operators-needed-disaster-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T15:50:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A teacher shows how to fly a drone during a class in this handout photo taken in Kai, Yamanashi Prefecture in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/04/national/regional-airports-get-financial-incentives-bid-promote-travel-beyond-major-cities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T16:52:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-regionalports-a-20170705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists shop at Saga airport in Saga Prefecture. The transport ministry has selected a number of regional airports to take part in a tourism promotion incentive program.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/business/corporate-business/consortium-seeking-buy-toshiba-chip-unit-may-wait-california-court-decision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T17:16:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toshiba-a-20170706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shareholders of Toshiba Corp. gather for their general meeting at the Makuhari Messe convention center near Tokyo on June 28. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/business/strict-id-checks-may-deter-residents-visiting-japans-casinos-ldps-iwaya-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T17:38:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/b-casino-a-20170706.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-casino-a-20170706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Requiring My Number cards for Japan residents to enter a casino would impose a stricter check than required in the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/world/caught-crossfire-desperate-civilians-try-flee-mosuls-last-islamic-state-held-enclave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T18:01:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mosul-a-20170706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fleeing Iraqi civilians walk past the heavily damaged al-Nuri mosque as Iraqi forces continue their advance against Islamic State militants in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday. As Iraqi forces continued to advance on the last few hundred square kilometers of Mosul held by the Islamic State group, the country's Prime Minister said Tuesday the gains show Iraqis reject terrorism.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/business/corporate-business/tetsuro-funai-founder-funai-electric-dies-aged-90/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T19:02:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-funai-a-20170706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tetsuro Funai]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/national/crime-legal/man-arrested-arson-charges-miyagi-fire-killed-wife-two-children/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T19:02:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-arson-a-20170706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiaki Shimaya]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/world/science-health-world/need-talk-sex-robot-experts-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T19:03:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Catalan nanotechnology engineer Sergi Santos holds the head of Samantha, a sex doll with artificial intelligence giving her the ability to respond to different scenarios and verbal stimuli, at his house in Rubi, Spain, in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-demands-unsc-meeting-believes-north-korea-tested-icbm-puts-least-alaska-within-range/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T19:33:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usnorth-b-20170706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea's Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile is seen during its test launch Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/08/10/%news_category%/war-and-reconciliation-a-tale-of-two-countries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T19:54:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fl20080810x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mass confusion: Japanese troops cheer and wave flags after breaching the walls of Nanjing, the former Chinese capital, to capture the city on Dec. 14, 1937.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/national/social-issues/japans-population-falls-eighth-straight-year-number-foreign-residents-rises/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T21:01:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-population-a-20170706.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-population-a-20170706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's population, excluding foreign residents, continued to fall at the fastest pace since the current survey started in 1968, according to the latest government data.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-dp-agree-hold-diet-meeting-kake-gakuen-vet-school-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T21:01:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-kakediet-a-20170705.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kakediet-a-20170705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diet affairs chiefs from the ruling and opposition camps — the Liberal Democratic Party's Wataru Takeshita (right) and the Democratic Party's Kazunori Yamanoi — discuss holding  off-session deliberations in the Diet over a controversial school plan at the center of Abe government favoritism allegations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/national/group-mulls-fukushima-no-1-melted-fuel-debris-extraction-without-filling-containment-vessels-water/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T21:01:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukushima-a-20170706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A series of photos taken on Jan. 30 shows the inside of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant's reactor 2 pressure vessel. A specific method for removing debris is set to be revealed soon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/asia-pacific/commander-u-s-forces-south-korea-says-self-restraint-thing-preventing-war-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-05T23:26:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-nkwar-a-20170707.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkwar-a-20170707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. missiles are fired from an undisclosed location on South Korea's east coast during a South Korea-U.S. joint missile drill Wednesday aimed to counter North Korea's ICBM test.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/world/crime-legal-world/belgian-led-anti-terror-sweep-nets-arms-five-suspects-linked-kamikaze-biker-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T10:50:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-kamikaze-a-20170707.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers of an anti-terrorim unit and of French intelligence agency (DGSI) patrol a street in Wattignies, northern France, after a man was arrested during a French-Belgian anti-terrorist operation Wednesday. Four people have been arrested and an arms cache found after overnight terror raids in Brussels linked to a bikers' club called the Kamikaze Riders, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/business/job-changing-reaches-seven-year-high-japan-inc-scrambles-cope-labor-shortages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T11:50:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/b-jobhopping-a-20170706.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jobhopping-a-20170706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Job-changing is at its highest level in Japan since the global financial crisis, amid a rapidly-aging economy and labor shortages.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/world/peta-protesters-don-horns-doff-tops-pamplona-call-end-bull-runs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T11:56:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-pamplona-a-20170707.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pamplona-a-20170707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Animal rights protesters shout slogans after breaking mock banderillas containing red powder, which covered them during a demonstration for the abolition of bull runs and bullfights a day before the start of the famous running of the bulls San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/01/asia-pacific/80-years-mystery-u-s-aviatrix-amelia-earharts-disappearance-pacific-remains-unresolved/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T13:42:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/p10-gilhooly-earhart-a-20170702.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-gilhooly-earhart-a-20170702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amelia Earhart sits on the nose of her aircraft before takeoff in Miami in 1937.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/national/meteorology-agency-official-shimane-seen-rain-like-never-seen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T14:22:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-rain-b-20170706.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rain-b-20170706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A road in the city of Masuda, Shimane Prefecture, collapsed due to heavy rain that fell across the region Wednesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/world/science-health-world/structure-proteins-linked-alzheimers-discovered-possibly-leading-new-treatments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T15:08:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/world/colombia-closer-salvaging-treasure-laden-spanish-galleon-sunk-british-fleet-1708/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T15:16:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-salvage-a-20170707.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-salvage-a-20170707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos speaks in Cartagena, Colombia, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/national/politics-diplomacy/former-prime-minister-mori-plans-discuss-cooperation-isle-issue-putin-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T16:56:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-moriputin-a-20170706.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-moriputin-a-20170706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori is reportedly arranging a three-day visit starting Sunday to Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin to help break an impasse over a decades-old territorial dispute over Russian-held islands off Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/asia-pacific/duterte-proposed-deal-end-marawi-siege-backed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T17:37:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Agakhan Sharief talks during an interview on Monday in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/business/ghosn-boosts-renaults-china-ties-brilliance-van-buy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T18:01:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/b-renault-a-20170707.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-renault-a-20170707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn's Renault SA has agreed to acquire almost half of Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Ltd.'s unprofitable minibus unit, giving the French carmaker a foothold in light commercial vehicles in the Chinese auto market.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/business/corporate-business/hino-motors-pursue-overseas-partnerships-self-driving-delivery-vehicles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T18:08:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/b-hino-a-20170706.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b hino-a 20170706]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshio Shimo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/asia-pacific/haley-threatens-trade-ties-chinas-dealings-north-korea-gets-little-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T18:39:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-unsc-a-20170707.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-unsc-a-20170707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a Security Council meeting on North Korea at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Wednesday. The United States will present to the UN Security Council a new draft resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea after it launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile, Haley said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/business/londons-top-financial-status-risk-brexit-hits-tipping-point-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T19:16:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/national/japan-coast-guard-mistakenly-issues-north-korea-missile-launch-warning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T19:16:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/asia-pacific/can-u-s-defend-north-korean-missile-tests-not-everyone-agrees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T19:35:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-nkockout-a-20170707.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkockout-a-20170707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo released Wednesday, North Koreans watch the test-launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile on a huge outdoor TV screen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-putin-talks-raise-fears-ex-spymaster-get-upper-hand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T19:50:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-trutin-a-20170707.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A drawing of Russian President Vladimir Putin holding a baby with the face of U.S. President Donald Trump, based upon a propaganda poster showing late Soviet leader Joseph Stalin holding a baby, is displayed at a souvenir kiosk in Moscow on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/national/crime-legal/tokyos-new-jk-ordinance-takes-aim-schoolgirl-exploitation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T19:51:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-jkbiz-a-20170707.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jkbiz-a-20170707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A girl employed by a dating service is warned against soliciting customers by a police officer on a street in Tokyo's Akihabara district on June 30. A new ordinance to regulate so-called JK businesses that pair men with teenage schoolgirls took force the following day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/business/economy-business/experts-say-key-criteria-aligning-japans-long-battle-escape-deflation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T19:55:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/b-economy-a-20170707.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-economy-a-20170707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than four years after the Bank of Japan launched its radical monetary easing program, key conditions are aligning in its long battle to truly escape deflation, BOJ data show.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/business/eu-commissioner-says-free-trade-agreement-japan-reached-kishida-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T21:16:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/b-japaneutrade-a-20170706.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japaneutrade-a-20170706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom shakes hands with Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida before their meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday. She later announced that a free-trade agreement between the EU and Japan had been reached.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/national/driver-2016-nagano-bus-crash-fatal-15-unfit-deal-emergencies-probe-concludes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-06T21:18:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-bus-a-20170707.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bus-a-20170707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The mangled remains of  a charter bus that skidded off Route 18 and crashed in the town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, is shown in this handout photo taken on Jan. 19, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/national/one-person-dead-11-missing-rescue-efforts-continue-following-torrential-rain-parts-kyushu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T09:22:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-rain-a-20170707.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rain-a-20170707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Houses in the city of Hita, Oita Prefecture, are destroyed on Thursday, following torrential rain which has fallen since Wednesday. While pledging to do its utmost to assist those hit by the storm, the government called on residents in the affected areas to protect themselves.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/g-20-summit-like-side-show-anticipation-builds-trumps-first-face-face-putin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T10:51:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-trumput-a-20170708.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumput-a-20170708.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman looks at traditional Russian wooden nesting Matryoshka dolls depicting U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a gift shop in central Moscow Thursday. Trump is due to meet his Russian counterpart Putin on Friday during the G-20 summit in Germany.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/world/hawaii-alaska-awaking-reality-within-north-korean-icbm-range/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T11:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter participates in a training exercise over Diamond Head crater on the Hawaiian island of Oahu in 2014 in this handout photo obtained by Reuters Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/business/branson-ready-resume-powered-flights-rocket-plane-eyes-2018-trip-space/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T11:07:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Billionaire Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group Ltd., speaks on a smartphone during an interview in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Virgin Galactic will conduct powered flights with new SpaceShipTwo craft roughly every three weeks after its restart, Branson said in the interview.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/02/national/abundant-flora-fauna-await-visitors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T13:35:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/national/social-issues/japans-child-poverty-rate-eases-strong-public-support-still-needed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T14:40:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children receive free after-school education at Kid's Door, a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/national/boxing-legend-gushiken-inspires-younger-okinawa-generation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T15:03:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoko Gushiken, a boxing legend, is interviewed recently at The Okinawa Times in Naha.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/business/japan-eu-seal-fta-four-years-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T15:31:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and European Council President Donald Tusk give a news conference along with the European Commission president after an EU-Japan summit at the European Council on Thursday in Brussels.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/national/venomous-fire-ant-found-cargo-tokyo-port/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T15:36:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ant-a-20170707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The first fire ant to reach the Kanto region was found at Oi cargo terminal at Tokyo port on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/national/crime-legal/shizuoka-man-held-fatal-late-night-stabbing-total-stranger-mishima-street/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T15:42:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police vehicles are seen in a general image. A 27-year-old man in Shizuoka Prefecture being held for fatally stabbing a total stranger on a street.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/business/corporate-business/toyota-shifts-rental-cars-fleet-sales-boost-slowing-u-s-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T16:43:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota cars sit in a showroom in Orem, Utah.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/business/sex-toys-works-art-love-doll-maker-seeks-shed-seedy-image/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T16:46:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lovedolls-a-20170706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Love dolls" feature silicone skin that is soft to the touch to enhance the verisimilitude of human contact.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/national/japan-nato-look-expand-cooperation-sea-cyberspace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T17:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg speak during a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/national/princesss-engagement-announcement-postponed-deadly-rains-kyushu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T17:16:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Because of the record rainfall pounding Kyushu, the government has postponed Saturday's announcement of the engagement of Princess Mako to Kei Komuro.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/business/economy-business/japans-real-wages-0-1-year-first-rise-five-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T18:10:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Real wages in May gained 0.1 percent from a year earlier for the first rise in five months, according to  government data released Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/national/nra-chief-draws-flak-saying-north-korea-attack-tokyo-instead-reactor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T19:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shunichi Tanaka (left) speaks to residents of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/business/bigger-cut-middlemen-japans-lower-tariffs-eu-cheese-may-not-mean-lower-prices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T19:46:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/b-yenforliving-a-20170708.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-yenforliving-a-20170708.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The tariff on cheese imported from the European Union has been a persistent sticking point in free trade negotiations between Japan and the EU.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/national/rakuten-bans-ivory-sales-via-online-mall-activist-outcry-grows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T20:42:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elephant tusks, confiscated by the Kenyan government from poachers, are incinerated in April 2016 at Nairobi National Park. Rakuten Inc. has decided to ban the sale of ivory items on its shopping site in light of international criticism.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-mulling-cabinet-reshuffle-early-august-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T20:59:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/national/residents-search-teams-kyushu-battle-rescue-flood-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T22:22:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman is helped to safety after being airlifted from her home in Asakura, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Friday morning, amid flooding caused by torrential rain that began Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-washington-seoul-vow-step-pressure-pyongyang-amid-perceived-china-inaction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-07T22:39:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-trilateral-a-20170708.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump meets South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ahead the G-20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/08/asia-pacific/u-s-bombers-challenge-beijing-south-china-sea-flyover/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T09:55:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers fly a 10-hour mission from Andersen Air Force Base on Guam through the South China Sea on June 8.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/national/kyushu-remains-high-alert-record-downpour-continues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T12:09:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-rain-a-20170708.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rain-a-20170708.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers remove flood debris Friday in the village of Toho, Fukuoka Prefecture, after it was inundated by torrential rain.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/national/politics-diplomacy/depopulation-tourism-voters-minds-nara-gears-mayoral-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T12:40:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-nara-z-20170708.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nara-z-20170708.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nara is struggling with creating a transportation and hospitality infrastructure that can deal with an ever-increasing number of tourists.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/business/tech/hokkaido-venture-launch-privately-developed-rocket-space/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T12:40:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-rocket-a-20170708.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takahiro Inagawa (left), the president of Interstellar Technologies Inc., a space venture based in Hokkaido, shakes hands with its founder President Takafumi Horie alongside a model of their rocket MOMO in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/business/corporate-business/expect-idemitsu-acrimonious-court-battle-looms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T12:41:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tank truck driver prepares to pump out gasoline and other fuels into reserve tanks at an Idemitsu Kosan Co. gas station in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/08/asia-pacific/bombers-buzz-korean-peninsula-u-s-says-ready-unleash-full-lethal-capability-allied-air-forces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T14:07:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber prepares for take off from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam to conduct a sequenced bilateral mission with South Korean F-15 and Air Self-Defense Force F-2 fighter jets on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/08/world/least-23-egyptian-soldiers-killed-deadliest-sinai-attack-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T14:09:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/08/world/crime-legal-world/passenger-tried-open-exit-door-restrained-following-brawl-fbi-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T14:14:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo taken Friday shows the aftermath of a cabin on Delta Flight 129 from Seattle to Beijing after authorities say flight attendants struggled with Joseph Daniel Hudek IV, a passenger who lunged for an exit door.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/08/world/science-health-world/aztec-golden-wolf-sacrifice-yields-rich-trove-mexico-city/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T14:37:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-aztec-a-20170709.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gold pieces are seen at a newly discovered Aztec site adjacent to Templo Mayor in Mexico City on June 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/07/business/japans-giant-pension-fund-wiped-losses-%c2%a58-trillion-profit-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T15:58:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-pension-a-20170708.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Government Pension Investment Fund logged an investment profit of ¥7.94 trillion ﷯in fiscal 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/even-u-s-first-lady-couldnt-keep-trump-putin-time-tillerson/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T16:10:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/08/national/first-non-japanese-cormorant-fisher-debuts-kyoto-tourist-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T16:59:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Larissa Corriveau, Japan's first foreign cormorant fisher, tries to control four of the fish-gulping birds in a river during a training session in Kyoto on June 14.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/08/business/corporate-business/tatami-promoters-kumamoto-develop-rush-flavored-edible-chopsticks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T17:07:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tatami-flavored edible chopsticks]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/08/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korea-japan-unlikely-let-comfort-women-row-undermine-security-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T19:36:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-focus-a-20170709.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-focus-a-20170709.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in hold talks in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/08/national/japan-u-s-south-korea-vow-maximum-pressure-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T20:07:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in, U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pose for photos before attending the Northeast Asia Security Dinner at the U.S. Consulate in Hamburg, Germany, on the sidelines of the G-20 summit on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/08/national/hibakusha-welcome-adoption-global-nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T20:09:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Costa Rican Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez, president of the United Nations conference on prohibiting nuclear weapons, celebrates after the meeting voted to adopt a legally binding ban on nuclear arms at United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-08T20:33:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A statue of a girl symbolizing "comfort women" is placed in front of the Japanese Consulate in Busan, South Korea, in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/08/national/japan-host-first-g-20-summit-2019-source-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-08T22:02:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives on the first day of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-08T22:29:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force personnel help a resident who had been isolated following heavy flooding in Asakura, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets Russian President Vladimir Putin before their talks on Friday, the first day of the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-08T22:33:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk to their seats for talks in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/16/national/social-issues/sexual-orientation-remain-taboo-subject-schools-leaving-students-dark/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-09T05:05:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeyoshi Suzuki, an elementary school teacher and an openly gay man, says Japan lags behind in gender equality education. The photo was taken on May 25 in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-09T14:40:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A queen fire ant found at Osaka port is seen in this photo taken Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-09T16:26:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kimikazu Matsumoto, head of the Children's Cancer Center at the National Center for Child Health and Development, explains equipment in a sterilized room in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/09/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-prods-abe-shrink-u-s-japan-trade-imbalance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-09T21:00:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-09T21:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Self-Defense Forces search for missing people in Asakura, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/09/business/corporate-business/toshiba-pressure-draw-plan-b-chip-sale-falters-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-09T23:03:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satoshi Tsunakawa, president and CEO of Toshiba Corp., speaks at a Tokyo news conference on June 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-09T23:19:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump converse at the start of the first working session of the Group of 20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-xi-discuss-north-korea-trade-g-20/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-09T23:20:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands prior to a meeting on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/09/national/politics-diplomacy/g-20-splits-key-issues-japan-faces-delicate-balancing-act/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-09T23:22:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-09T23:25:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-generation-a-20170710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Isihizaka Sangyo Co. President Noriko Ishizaka speaks about her efforts to restore the reputation of her father's waste disposal firm at her office in the town of Miyoshi, Saitama Prefecture, on June 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/09/business/sales-cyberattack-insurance-tripled-2016-top-insurers-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-10T05:13:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The screen of a laptop computer locked up by a cyberattack warns that data files have been encrypted. The arranged photo was taken in London on May 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/tillerson-lauds-turkish-courage-failed-coup-skips-mention-ensuing-crackdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-10T06:08:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-tillerson-a-20170711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-tillerson-a-20170711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handout picture taken and released Sunday by the Turkish Presidential Press Service shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during their meeting in Istanbul, as Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu looks on. Tillerson was holding talks with Turkish leaders in Istanbul in a bid to iron out a series of disputes on issues ranging from Syria to last year's failed coup.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trumps-son-along-manafort-kushner-met-russian-lawyer-promise-dirt-clinton-nyt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-10T07:36:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpjr-a-20170711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump Jr. campaigns for his father, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, in Gilbert, Arizona, last November. Donald Trump's eldest son, son-in-law and then-campaign chairman met with a Russian lawyer shortly after Trump won the Republican nomination, in what appears to be the earliest known private meeting between key aides to the president and a Russian.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-10T09:18:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French Prime minister Edouard Philippe looks on during a press conference at the Monnaie de Paris, on Friday, when he presented measures to reinforce the Paris' financial attractivity, following the Brexit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/national/tokyo-plans-new-effort-ease-crowding-rush-hour-trains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-10T10:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-10T10:49:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-turkey-a-20170711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People cheer as Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu throws flowers to supporters during a rally on Sunday in Istanbul marking the end of his 450-km "justice march" from Ankara to Istanbul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/08/national/media-national/shinzo-abes-hotel-spa-gym-visits-media-running-wild/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-10T12:13:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-schreiber-bij-a-20170709.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keeping up appearances: Media suppositions about the state of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's health has led some to believe the "post-Abe" era is close.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/09/national/okinoshima-three-reefs-put-unesco-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-10T13:44:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reporters visit Munakata Taisha Okitsumiya Shrine on the island of Okinoshima in Fukuoka Prefecture on Sept. 30, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/weakened-may-appeals-opponents-help-deliver-brexit-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-10T14:11:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May addresses a news conference on the second day of the Group of 20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-10T14:12:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Camden Market is seen ablaze in London Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-10T16:32:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Specimens of alligator gar are displayed at Hekinan Seaside Aquarium in Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/10/business/economy-business/japan-economy-watchers-sentiment-rises-june-third-straight-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-10T16:49:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-10T18:21:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-10T19:02:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Barclays PLC is boosting its investment banking and market operations in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/10/national/ioc-board-mulls-refugee-teams-2020-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-10T19:14:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-10T19:14:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Private-sector machinery orders fell in May due to weakness in the service sector.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/10/business/economy-business/japans-current-account-surplus-logs-first-fall-four-months-oil-prices-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-10T19:15:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-surplus-a-20170711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Higher crude oil prices in May pushed up imports in Japan, driving down the current account surplus which fell year-on-year for the first time in four months.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/10/national/politics-diplomacy/nara-mayor-nakagawa-snares-third-term-close-race-ldp-backed-candidate-crushed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-10T19:28:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nara Mayor Gen Nakagawa (center) and his supporters celebrate at his campaign office in the city early Monday after he won a third term.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/10/business/economy-business/boj-upgrades-assessments-five-japanese-regional-economies-amid-asia-stronger-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-10T19:30:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20170711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯The Bank of Japan is growing more bullish about the nation's regional economies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/10/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/hello-hong-kong-chinas-army-turns-charm-weekend-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-10T19:33:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hkfocus-a-20170711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People's Liberation Army soldiers stand guard as a naval base in Hong Kong is opened to the public Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-10T19:47:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former top education ministry bureaucrat Kihei Maekawa speaks during deliberations on the Kake Gakuen scandal at a special Diet committee session.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves Stockholm for Helsinki on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-10T22:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shunichi Tanaka]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Philippines and Japan have signed a ¥264 million grant agreement to fund the studies of government workers in Japanese universities.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-11T10:58:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his wife, Kim Jung-sook, attend the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-11T15:27:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/10/national/metro-government-begins-campaign-get-residents-switch-incandescent-led-bulbs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-11T16:49:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-11T17:37:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-11T18:37:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-11T18:38:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-11T18:38:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker at the Japanese Red Cross Kagoshima Hospital points out a crack in the floor caused by an earthquake on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-11T19:16:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-11T19:16:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-11T22:11:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-11T22:12:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-11T22:12:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The bilateral economic partnership agreement between the European Union and Japan could hit local dairy farmers and wineries hard.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-11T23:08:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in the city of Nagoya, where the 15-day Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament is currently being held, is seen in a file photo from July 2016. The Japan Sumo Association on Tuesday issued a fire-ant warning to its wrestlers at the ongoing tournament.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, joined by Majority Whip John Cornyn, meets with reporters after a closed-door Republican strategy session Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington. McConnell said Senate Republicans will unveil their revised health care bill Thursday and begin voting on it next week, adding, he could delay the chamber's August recess for two weeks as the GOP tries breaking logjams that have slowed work on that and other issues.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials from Nagoya port look for any evidence of fire ants in the village of Tobishima, Aichi Prefecture, on June 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/11/national/education-ministry-panel-approves-private-sector-english-testing-university-entrance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T12:01:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-english-a-20170712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is set to end the current unified English test for Japanese college admission and shift to exams run by private bodies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/asia-pacific/u-s-says-test-thaad-hits-intermediate-range-target-missile-first-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T14:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptor is launched from a U.S. military site in Kodiak, Alaska, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-12T14:28:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/world/bought-e100-world-war-ii-enigma-machine-fetches-e45000-auction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T14:36:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee of an auction house presses a key on an working original Enigma cipher machine on display at an auction house in Bucharest on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/asia-pacific/china-sends-pla-forces-djibouti-man-first-overseas-military-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T15:39:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A ship carrying Chinese military personnel departs a port in Zhanjiang, in China's Guangdong Province, on Tuesday for the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti to man the rising Asian giant's first overseas military base.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/06/national/danish-ambassador-japan-hopes-swift-conclusion-eu-trade-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T16:06:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Freddy Svane]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/asia-pacific/taiwan-says-chinese-aircraft-carrier-sails-adiz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T16:37:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's Liaoning aircraft carrier departs Hong Kong on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-12T17:09:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Janet Yellen]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/national/okinawa-moves-block-u-s-base-construction-henoko/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T17:15:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga explains the prefectural government's plan to file a fresh lawsuit against the central government at the prefectural assembly on June 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/national/science-health/tick-borne-encephalitis-claims-hokkaido-man-70s-second-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T17:19:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Four different kinds of ticks known to exist in Japan are seen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/business/corporate-business/sons-softbank-vision-fund-lures-michael-ronen-away-goldman-sachs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T17:20:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/b-visionfund-a-20170713.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-visionfund-a-20170713.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son's planned $100 billion SoftBank Vision Fund is hiring Michael Ronen, Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s co-chief operating officer of the global technology, media and telecommunications group.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/business/economy-business/wholesale-prices-sixth-month-signaling-pick-consumer-inflation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T17:47:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wholesale-a-20170713.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Cosmo Oil Co. refinery at the Yokkaichi industrial complex in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, is seen in this October 2016 photo. Wholesale prices rose 2.1 percent from a year earlier in June for the sixth straight monthly gain on higher oil and steel prices, data from the central bank showed Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/business/tpp-chief-negotiators-meet-hash-deal-without-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T18:14:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's chief trade negotiator, Kazuyoshi Umemoto (left), meets the Canadian delegation Wednesday morning in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, before top officials from the 11 remaining Trans-Pacific Partnership members begin talks in the hot-spring resort town.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/national/panda-cub-ueno-zoo-named-public/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T18:23:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The panda cub born in June at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo is seen being held by her mother on July 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/national/crime-legal/copyright-watchdog-jasrac-files-lawsuits-use-background-music-stores/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T18:37:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-seeks-avoid-repeating-history-first-tenure-demise-decade-ago/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T18:58:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets a resident of Hita, Oita Prefecture, on Wednesday during his visit to the disaster-stricken city.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/national/peru-holds-promise-japanese-trade-investment-ambassador-harold-forsyth-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T19:12:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-peruenvoy-a-20170713.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harold Forsyth]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/national/kyushu-floods-destruction-magnified-fast-flowing-driftwood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T19:23:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-tree-a-20170713.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A road is blocked with driftwood and other debris in the city of Asakura, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Tuesday following torrential rain in the Kyushu region, hampering efforts to rescue people and restore services.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/business/nations-regional-banks-facing-choice-mergers-extinction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T20:02:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/b-banks-a-20170713.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-banks-a-20170713.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daisan Bank's headquarters stands in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture. An increasing number of regional banks in Japan are under pressure to merge to avoid extinction.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/business/toshiba-ordered-u-s-court-allow-western-digitals-access-joint-venture-database/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T21:33:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. headquarters is seen in Tokyo in this undated photo. The San Francisco County Superior Court has ordered the firm to stop blocking Western Digital Corp. access to databases belonging to their joint chip venture as the business partners continue a dispute over the Japanese company's plan to sell its memory unit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/national/crime-legal/china-detains-35-japanese-alleged-phone-fraud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T21:33:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/business/marriotts-top-luxury-hotel-brand-open-tokyo-locations-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T04:29:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marriott's top luxury hotel brand Edition will open for the first time in Japan in 2020. This illustration shows the plans for the a location in Ginza.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/business/tech/japan-looking-lead-exporting-renewable-energy-tech-emerging-economies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T06:01:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-13T07:57:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders holds the daily briefing at the White House in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/national/pill-popping-business-worth-watching-japans-drugmakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T09:31:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eisai Co.'s Aricept was once the world's best-selling Alzheimer's medicine. Eisai and other Japanese drugmakers are working with technology firms on devices to help patients take medicine.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/world/wildfires-prompt-tourists-flee-boat-sicily-imperil-people-wildlife-vesuvius/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T10:04:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Woodland fires burn near a tourist resort where, according to firefighter reports, some several hundred tourists have been evacuated by land and sea, in the Sicilian town of San Vito lo Capo, southern Italy, Wednesday. Wildfires have been raging for days and Italian firefighters said Wednesday they were responding to 887 fires throughout Italy, 628 of which regarded vegetation and woodlands.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/national/crime-legal/nurse-drugged-colleagues-arrested-attempted-murder-charge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T11:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nurse-a-20170713.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aiko Hatano, who was arrested Tuesday on a charge of attempted murder, is suspected of drugging her colleagues at this nursing care facility in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/world/social-issues-world/conservative-malta-becomes-24th-nation-legalize-sex-marriage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T11:01:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People celebrate in front of the rainbow-color-lit Auberge de Castille, the office of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, after the Maltese parliament voted to legalize same-sex marriage on the Roman Catholic Mediterranean island, in Valletta Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/11/asia-pacific/north-korean-icbm-likely-able-strike-san-diego-two-years-analysis-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T11:57:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea's Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile is successfully test-fired at an undisclosed location on July 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/national/increase-huntresses-seen-helping-keep-wildlife-related-crop-damage-bay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T13:24:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman poses with a rifle in this poster made by Dainihon Ryoyukai, a nationwide hunters association. Hunting licenses held by women totaled 3,184 in fiscal 2014]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/12/national/science-health/straw-poll-american-expats-finds-half-feel-repeal-obamacare-discourage-returning-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T14:06:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A demonstrator opposed to the Senate Republican health care bill marches near the U.S. Capitol in Washington last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/business/thieves-u-s-shunning-harder-steal-new-models-keep-busy-1990s-hondas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T14:51:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles wait to be unloaded from a truck parked at a Honda dealership in the Queens borough of New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/business/corporate-business/wework-competitor-knotel-plans-triple-shared-workspace-nyc-end-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T14:54:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Knotel Inc. is planning to more than triple its office space in New York by the end of the year, in an effort to approach the omnipresence of WeWork Cos.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/national/history/liberal-party-founder-itagaki-favored-louis-vuitton-goods-1883-purchase-record-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T15:23:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Louis Vuitton suitcase that belonged to Itagaki Taisuke, a 19th century politician, is shown at Kochi Liberty and People's Rights Museum in the city of Kochi on Sept. 16, 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/national/crime-legal/death-penalty-sought-japanese-man-alleged-insurance-murders-manila/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T17:25:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-13T17:26:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-13T18:53:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiko Watch Corp. is hoping to attract more customers in Thailand, particularly young people, as it seeks to increase sales in Southeast Asia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/business/corporate-business/siemens-aes-combine-forces-battery-based-energy-storage-venture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T19:17:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-13T19:46:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iga Mayor Sakae Okamoto (left) and Mie University president Yoshihiro Komada (center) show off a sign for the international ninja research center in Iga, Mie Prefecture, on July 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/national/crime-legal/dentsu-face-open-trial-high-profile-karoshi-case-summary-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T20:55:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Labor Bureau officials leave the headquarters of Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo in November 2016 after raiding the office in suspicion that the firm made its employees work illegally long hours. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/national/crime-legal/japan-hangs-two-inmates-including-one-sought-retrial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T20:56:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masakatsu Nishikawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/national/politics-diplomacy/renho-disclose-family-registry-bid-quell-furor-dual-nationality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T20:56:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Renho]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/business/tpp-states-agree-new-framework-needed-implement-pact-without-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T06:14:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's chief negotiator Kazuyoshi Umemoto speaks to reporters in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/national/tokyo-plans-cybersecurity-hub-protect-infrastructure-2020-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T06:44:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-14T06:59:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-14T07:06:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liu Xiaobo speaks during an interview at a park in Beijing in this July 24, 2008 image taken from video footage.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-14T09:58:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The entrance to idled U.S. Steel Corp. steelmaking operations in Granite City, Illinois, is seen on July 5. U.S. President Donald Trump is considering imposing import restrictions based on a national security review of the steel industry.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-14T10:08:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Preparing for dinner (from left) Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Emmanuel Macron; Emmanuel Macron; U.S. President Donald Trump; and first lady Melania Trump pose at the Jules Verne restaurant in the Eiffel Tower in Paris Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/national/social-issues/rengo-seeks-amend-bill-axing-white-collar-overtime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T11:44:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-14T13:24:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Dalley, a flower grower in New South Wales, Australia, poses with a Christmas bush crop. Japan is Australia's largest export market for native flowers, buying almost half of the country's exports.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/national/crime-legal/japans-expanded-sex-crime-laws-go-effect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T13:56:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sexcrimelaw-z-20170714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Authorities can now prosecute offenses such as rape and indecent assault even if the victim does come forward to file a formal complaint.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/asia-pacific/new-u-s-sanctions-eyed-chinese-firms-north-korea-ties-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T14:18:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese flag is seen in front of the Friendship bridge over the Yalu River that connects the North Korean town of Sinuiju with Dandong in China’s Liaoning Province, on April 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/business/tech/softbank-mull-investment-chinese-robotics-startup-makeblock/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T15:25:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Makeblock Co. mBot robot is put through its paces during a robotics class at Creative Coding Hong Kong Ltd. in Hong Kong.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-agrees-diet-session-address-alleged-kake-cronyism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T16:39:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Thursday to attend an ad hoc Diet committee session, which is likely to take place next week or later.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-14T16:41:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a ceremony marking last year's failed coup at the Bestepe People's Culture and Congress Center in Ankara on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/world/returning-washington-without-solution-tillerson-says-qatar-crisis-may-linger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T16:54:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-qatar-a-20170715.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Sea Palace, his official residence, in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday. Tillerson visited Qatar while trying to mediate a dispute between the energy-rich country and its Gulf neighbors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/national/politics-diplomacy/no-plans-remove-comfort-women-statues-outside-japanese-consulate-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T17:21:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong's government said Thursday it does not plan to remove a pair of "comfort women" statues erected in front of the Japanese Consulate in the Chinese territory.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/national/crime-legal/japanese-man-busted-south-korea-believed-part-h-k-gold-smuggling-ring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T17:33:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/business/japan-russian-oil-exploration-project-meets-u-s-resistance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T17:36:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-rusoil-a-20170715.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Washington is opposed to a Japanese consortium's plan to explore for oil with Russia's state-run oil company, according to sources.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/national/crime-legal/police-searching-missing-yokohama-sisters-find-two-corpses-stuffed-bags-kanagawa-woods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T17:50:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police Thursday found bodies of two women put in separate bags in woods in Hadano, Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/national/kawasaki-k-1-kickboxer-rescues-two-men-trapped-vehicles-head-crash-tokushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T17:54:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-14T18:46:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-14T18:49:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hajime Funada (second from left), a Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker, speaks at a session of the Lower House's Commission on the Constitution.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/national/crime-legal/mom-prevails-top-court-upholds-ruling-high-profile-custody-rights-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T18:49:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers representing a mother who is suing for custody of her daughter and limits on the father’s visitation rights appear at a news conference in Tokyo in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/business/shopping-malls-promising-despite-growing-e-commerce-jakarta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T18:58:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shopping malls are still a promising business in Jakarta.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/business/initial-foray-japans-pension-fund-plans-buy-even-socially-responsible-assets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T19:12:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-gpif-a-20170715.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Government Pension Investment Fund aims to boost and broaden its socially responsible assets.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/business/mayor-soichiro-takashima-envisions-fukuoka-living-lab-internet-things/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T19:23:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fukuoka Mayor Soichiro Takashima speaks in an interview in Dalian, China, in late June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/business/government-eyes-steps-help-farmers-affected-eu-trade-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T19:53:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b farmer-a 20170715_v0.3]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks Friday during a meeting to craft a policy package to help farmers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/asia-pacific/late-chinese-nobel-peace-prize-winner-liu-xiaobo-no-enemies-no-hatred/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T20:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester signs a condolence book for jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo during a demonstration outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong on Thursday. Government officials in the northeast Chinese city of Shenyang said the same day that Liu had died from liver cancer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/national/japanese-recount-memories-noble-liu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T20:27:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman mourns late Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/national/science-health/tepco-says-decision-already-made-release-radioactive-low-toxic-tritium-sea-fishermen-irate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T20:27:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee walks past storage tanks for contaminated water at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, in February. Tepco needs to release the water — which contains radioactive tritium that is not removable but considered not harmful in small amounts — into the Pacific Ocean, Chairman Takashi Kawamura said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/14/national/labor-federation-rengo-blinks-abes-merit-based-pay-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T20:30:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-focus-a-20170715.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rikio Kozu]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The town of Oguchi in Aichi Prefecture is inundated by a flooded river on Friday after heavy rain pounded Aichi and Gifu prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dogen the monk]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Jordanian Prime Minister Hani al-Mulki shake hands after a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the government's economic policy panel gather at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday evening to discuss next year's budget.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-15T20:23:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-16T12:35:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-16T12:50:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-16T13:25:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-16T15:55:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-16T20:51:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a Japanese economic study group are welcomed back to Nemuro, Hokkaido, on July 1 after a four-day study tour of the nearby disputed islands. Diplomatic sources said recently that Nemuro Mayor Shunsuke Hasegawa was excluded from the delegation as Russia refused to let him travel there.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-16T21:01:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sun Zhengcai]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philip Hammond]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-17T01:59:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-17T01:59:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The city of Nagoya will start accepting donations on Friday to fund a project aimed at re-creating the original wooden structure of Nagoya Castle's main tower.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-17T05:38:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday after a revised version of the Republican health care bill was announced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The bill has faced opposition and challenges within the Republican ranks, including by Collins.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A National Guardsman stands at a Detroit intersection during July 1967 riots in the city. Detroit wasn't the first of the riots in the summer of 1967, and it was far from the last. Buffalo, New York, and Newark, New Jersey, preceded it; in the course of the summer, more than 150 cases of civil unrest erupted across the United States.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. (left) meets with FBI Director nominee Christopher Wray in Warner's office on Capitol Hill in Washington July 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-17T11:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Italian Coast Guardsman waits as the NGO Medecins Sans Frontier Vos Prudence ship carrying more than 900 migrants rescued at sea comes in to dock at Salerno's harbor Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mazda Motor Corp. announced it will recall 19,000 cars in South Africa due to air bag safety concerns.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An air bag manufactured by Takata Corp. that was removed from a 2001 BMW vehicle under a factory recall program is shown in Alexandria, Virginia, in December 2015.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer briefs members of the media during a daily briefing at the White House Monday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-18T11:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People sit on the beach as black smoke rises from wildfires at the nearby Castelfusano pine forest, near Rome Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated photo provided Monday by Columbia University Medical Center in New York shows Dr. Michio Hirano. The American neurologist specializing in treating rare genetic conditions is meeting in London with other specialists treating Charlie Gard, assessing the critically ill 11-month-old for the first time.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-18T11:55:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese H-6 bomber flies over the East China Sea and Sea of Japan in January. Six similar bombers flew through the Miyako Strait on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-18T12:04:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers search through tall grass for missing people in Asakura, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Monday. Evacuation orders were issued to some 16,000 residents in about 5,900 households in the city and in the village of Toho, both in Fukuoka Prefecture, due to the possibility of more heavy rain.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-18T12:11:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children from foreign countries study Japanese and other subjects after school at YSC Global School in Fussa in western Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-18T13:07:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-18T15:57:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local lawmaker Misaki Hibi works while caring for her son in a day care room set up inside Nagoya City Hall by Democratic Party members of the municipal assembly.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-18T16:46:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/18/national/science-health/fossilized-dinosaur-teeth-unearthed-nagasaki-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-18T19:53:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-18T19:57:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-18T20:16:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Whaling vessels are set to leave Hachinohe port in Aomori Prefecture on Tuesday, to conduct what the government calls research whaling in the Pacific.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-18T20:27:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-18T20:42:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (left) greets U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-18T20:48:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers prepare to board All Nippon Airways Co. flight bound for New York at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Tuesday. Japan's major airlines have started security checks on hand-carried electronic devices amid tightened anti-terrorism measures.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/18/national/shigeaki-hinohara-japans-centenarian-doctor-st-lukes-dies-105/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-18T20:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara is interviewed in August 2008 at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/18/national/japan-spurns-nuke-treatys-ban-threat-use/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-18T21:30:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki and their backers rally in Nagasaki Peace Park earlier this month to gain support for the world's first treaty banning nuclear weapons.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/18/business/tech/driverless-ev-developed-france-completes-first-test-run-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-18T21:33:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Navya Arma autonomous shuttle bus moves past Tokyo Tower during a test drive Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/18/national/family-blames-prolonged-use-restraints-kanagawa-hospital-english-teachers-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-18T23:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kelly Savage receives care at Yamato Municipal Hospital, where he was transferred from Yamato Hospital, in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, with his mother Martha by his side, on May 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-18T23:01:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-18T23:01:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials in the city of Tokorozawa in Saitama Prefecture said Tuesday that a teacher working at a local elementary school told a student to "jump out the window" after a disturbance broke out in the class.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/asia-pacific/u-s-navy-destroyer-monitored-chinese-carrier-taiwan-strait-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T06:25:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, sails into Hong Kong July 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/world/malala-slams-china-death-fellow-nobel-laureate-liu-xiaobo-faults-nigeria-education/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T07:40:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai (center right) is welcomed by students and a staff from UNICEFF during a visit to the camp of people displaced by Islamist extremists in Maiduguri ,Nigeria, Tuesday. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala was greeted with cheers Tuesday by dozens of young women in northeastern Nigeria, where she spoke out for the many girls abducted under Boko Haram's deadly insurgency.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mueller-says-trump-jr-manafort-can-testify-publicly-congress-feinstein/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T07:47:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California, speaks to reporters while heading to a weekly Democratic luncheon meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/national/crime-legal/osaka-couple-arrested-baby-left-alone-overnight-found-dead-bed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T11:19:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Osaka couple were arrested for allegedly leaving their 3-month-old son alone for the night, leading to the baby's death, the police said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-19T11:21:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riot security forces fire tear gas during clashes at a rally against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-19T12:39:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this Saturday file photo provided by the Shenyang Municipal Information Office, Liu Xia, wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, holds a portrait of him during his funeral at a funeral parlor in Shenyang in northeastern China's Liaoning Province. The photo shows (from left) Liu Hui, younger brother of Liu Xia, Liu Xia and Liu Xiaoxuan, younger brother of Liu Xiaobo holding his cremated remains.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-19T13:08:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the their bilateral meeting at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-19T14:06:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A computer generated three-dimensional view of the seafloor obtained from mapping data collected during the first phase of the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is seen in this undated photo.  Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) / via REUTERS]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-19T14:26:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tamayo Marukawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/national/social-issues/curbing-japans-illicit-teen-dating-services-cat-mouse-game-police-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T14:41:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A teenage girl is escorted by an Osaka Prefectural Police officer during a May crackdown on operators employing underage girls.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/national/japan-taps-tech-foil-nuclear-terrorism-ahead-tokyo-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T15:33:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A researcher inputs features of nuclear materials into a database at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-19T15:55:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during an interview at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul on June 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/business/japan-u-s-start-planning-next-round-high-level-economic-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T17:08:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso, who doubles as finance minister, and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, arrive for a joint news conference after the U.S.-Japan economic dialogue in Tokyo on April 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/business/corporate-business/sony-complete-sale-battery-business-murata-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T17:29:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sony-a-20170720.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp. will complete the sale of its battery business to Murata Manufacturing Co. on Sept. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/national/science-health/female-researchers-surge-japan-still-low-international-standards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T17:34:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-19T17:38:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reacts with scientists and technicians of the country's Academy of Defense Science after the test-launch of the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/national/agency-says-rainy-season-ended-across-parts-honshu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T17:42:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play under jets of water at a Tokyo park on Wednesday. The Meteorological Agency said the rainy season appears to have ended across much of Japan, including in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/18/national/politics-diplomacy/renho-discloses-family-registry-critics-call-move-setback-minorities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T17:45:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Renho]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/national/crime-legal/scheduled-yomiuri-starter-yamaguchi-withdrawn-violent-incident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T17:45:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shun Yamaguchi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/national/two-weeks-deadly-kyushu-rains-work-begins-temporary-homes-displaced/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T17:51:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/business/corporate-business/toshiba-resumes-blocking-western-digital-access-joint-venture-databases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T18:26:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toshiba-a-20170720.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. has resumed blocking Western Digital Corp.'s access to the databases of their memory chip joint venture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/business/corporate-business/yahoo-japan-launches-web-based-gaming-platform-bypasses-app-stores/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T18:27:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/b-yahoogame-z-20170719.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b yahoogame z 20170719]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen shot of the Game Plus website.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/business/corporate-business/daimler-seeks-stave-off-crisis-voluntary-recall-3-million-diesel-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T18:28:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-daimler-a-20170720.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daimler AG is voluntarily recalling more than 3 million Mercedes-Benz diesel vehicles in Europe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/business/japan-brokerages-face-industry-audit-wake-nomura-breech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T19:33:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeharu Suzuki, chief executive officer of the Japan Securities Dealers Association, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/national/crime-legal/ex-teacher-gets-three-years-prison-child-pornography-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T19:35:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/national/foreign-tourist-visits-spending-hit-record-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T19:59:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People stand amongst paper lanterns while looking out at Rainbow Bridge in Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo on July 17. Foreign tourists spent a record ¥2.05 trillion in the half-year period up 8.6 percent from the previous year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/national/politics-diplomacy/defense-chief-inada-approved-withholding-info-sdf-south-sudan-peacekeeper-logs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T21:12:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Tomomi Inada holds a regular news conference Tuesday at the Defense Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/national/crime-legal/narita-security-finds-30-bullets-american-airlines-crew-members-carry-baggage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-20T04:10:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T08:23:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence (left) and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster arrive for a lunch meeting with service members at the White House in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T11:03:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T11:18:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An undated still image taken from a video footage shows Marat Nurmagomedov, a 33-year-old Russian who fought for Islamic State in Syria, during an interview in Ukraine.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T12:22:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cigarette butts fill an ashtray on in Centreville, Virginia, last year. Warnings about the dangers of smoking and restrictions on tobacco use have quadrupled worldwide since 2007, but more needs to be done to curb this deadly habit, the U.N. health agency said Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T13:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Keio University professor who studies well-being says employees work more productively and creatively — and are more likely to put innovative ideas into practice — when they are happy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/20/national/kansais-volunteer-guides-get-language-badges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-20T14:07:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kansai Tourism Bureau is giving badges to volunteer guides in the region that indicate which languages they can speak.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/20/national/social-issues/books-give-elementary-school-pupils-wider-exposure-lgbt-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-20T14:14:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lgbt-a-20170721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Various books have been published recently to teach children in elementary school about sexual minority issues.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T14:17:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Martha Savage holds a portrait of her son, Kelly, who died after being forcibly restrained at a psychiatric hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture in May, during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/19/national/crime-legal/japan-coast-guard-confirms-largest-heroin-seizure-to-date/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-20T14:22:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/20/national/17th-century-japanese-porcelain-plate-loan-taiwan-damaged-slipping-off-stand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-20T16:05:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Imari-style piece of porcelain on loan from Japan to Taiwan has been found partially damaged at Taiwan's National Palace Museum.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/20/business/financial-markets/stock-exchange-chief-kiyota-turns-surprise-critic-bojs-distorting-etf-purchases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-20T16:06:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Kiyota]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T16:07:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T16:58:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lt. Gen. Manas Kongpaen of the Royal Thai Army is escorted by a Thai correction officer on his arrival last year at the Criminal Court in Bangkok. The Thai army general was one of the most prominent figures found guilty Wednesday in a major human trafficking trial that included more than 103 defendants accused of involvement in a modern-day slave trade.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T17:03:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's State Councilor Yang Jiechi (left) is escorted by Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida at their meeting at the Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T18:14:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ashinkansen train arrives at Hakata Station in Kyushu in March 2016. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T18:50:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Idemitsu Kosan Co. gasoline station is seen in Tokyo in this undated file photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T18:50:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota vehicles bound for export sit in a lot at Nagoya port in Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T19:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Tomomi Inada is surrounded by reporters at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/20/national/defense-ministrys-push-fund-research-dual-use-technologies-sparks-ethics-debate-among-scientists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-20T19:30:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Defense Ministry's technology agency showcases Japanese defense equipment and dual-use technologies at an international arms show in Chiba in mid-June. Scientists are debating how to define military research.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T19:32:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Issei Nishikawa]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T19:33:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A person plays Nintendo's "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe" video game on a Switch console.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T19:33:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is seen in Downing Street in London last month. He arrived in Japan on Thursday for talks about trade and security issues.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T20:25:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopper walks into a Takashimaya department store in Tokyo. On Wednesday, the Fair Trade Commission conducted inspections at seven department store operators over alleged price-fixing.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T20:56:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T20:57:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Showa]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-20T22:59:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel speaks during a news conference in Berlin on Thursday. Gabriel said his country will revise its travel advice for Turkey following the jailing of a German human rights activist who has no ties to the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-21T06:12:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-21T06:20:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-21T08:09:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This satellite imagery posted Wednesday on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website shows a large plume of smoke spreading hundreds of miles east from the Ditwiler fire, near Yosemite National Park in California's Sierra Nevada. Authorities say the stubborn wildfire burning in foothills west of Yosemite had destroyed dozens of structures while forcing thousands of people from their homes Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-21T08:28:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sotheby's Cassandra Hatton adjusts the Apollo 11 Contingency Lunar Sample Return Bag, used by Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11 to bring back the very first pieces of the moon ever collected, during a July 13 media preview for Space Exploration auction in New York. The bag, which was once nearly thrown out with the trash, sold at auction on Thursday for $1.8 million,]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-21T10:39:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-21T10:55:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens last December as then-President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology industry leaders at Trump Tower in New York. In a Tweet, Musk says he has "verbal government approval" to build a tunnel for high-speed transportation from New York to Washington. The billionaire entrepreneur didn't say who gave him the approval. But the White House confirmed it had "positive discussions" about the tunnel with Musk and executives from his underground drilling enterprise, The Boring Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/20/national/orange-juice-running-faucets-not-just-joke-matsuyama-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-21T11:45:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A girl helps herself to some juice from an "orange faucet" at Matsuyama airport, Ehime Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/21/asia-pacific/south-korea-calls-north-respond-military-talks-offer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-21T12:15:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea's Defense Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun speaks during a news conference at the Defense Ministry in Seoul on Friday. South Korea has urged North Korea to accept its offers for talks as Pyongyang continues to ignore Seoul's proposal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/21/business/japans-millennials-tend-sacrifice-higher-earnings-job-security-thwarting-bojs-economic-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-21T12:47:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young Japanese workers are more eager to stay at one company than switch jobs despite the brisk employment market.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/21/national/japan-ngo-carabao-family-helps-sustain-small-philippine-farms-one-water-buffalo-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-21T13:06:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer works with a water buffalo, donated by a Japanese nongovernmental organization, at Carabao Family farm in Kananga on Leyte Island, Philippines, on Jan. 29, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/21/business/japanese-firms-see-positives-raising-retirement-age-amid-tight-labor-market-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-21T13:09:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More companies are planning to raise their retirement age to 65 due to the shortage of workers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/20/national/science-health/japans-life-expectancy-increases-4-2-years-quarter-century/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-21T14:47:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A research team, led by Kenji Shibuya, a University of Tokyo professor of health policy, has found that average life expectancy in Japan has increased to 83.2 years from 79.0 years during the quarter-century period.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-21T15:13:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-21T15:30:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kozo Yamamoto]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-21T15:35:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People protest in front of the headquarters of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Wednesday.  KYODO]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihiko Noda]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-21T16:29:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees check Honda Civic vehicles at the quality control station on the production line at Honda Motor Co.'s assembly plant in Prachinburi, Thailand.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image captured by a new remote-controlled robot Wednesday shows the inside of the primary containment vessel of the No. 3 reactor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/21/national/pictograms-added-changed-2020-olympics-familiar-onsen-sign-gets-reprieve/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-21T18:27:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/21/business/corporate-business/japans-convenience-stores-recorded-first-sales-decline-four-months-dreary-weather/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-21T18:28:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sales at convenience stores in Japan fell 0.1 percent in June from a year earlier for the first drop in four months, industry data released Thursday show.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/21/national/curious-case-akie-abes-english/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-21T19:22:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[akie abe_0120]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akie Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/21/national/japan-protests-south-koreas-plan-institute-memorial-day-comfort-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-21T19:37:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters gather next to a statue symbolizing the "comfort women" in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/21/national/science-health/dna-influence-japans-collectivist-society/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-21T19:43:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-hooper-happiness-a-20170722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese society traditionally prefers conformity and social harmony to independence and individual expression.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/21/national/crime-legal/second-court-rejects-plea-halt-ikata-reactor-shikoku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-21T20:52:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents whose plea to halt a reactor in Ehime Prefecture was rejected hold up signs criticizing the Matsuyama District Court on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-21T21:31:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomomi Inada]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-21T23:20:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. plans to book a special profit for the business year to March from a sale of its Swiss subsidiary's shares.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Office workers ride an escalator in Tokyo in June. Japan needs to resolve its severe labor shortage to achieve sustainable economic growth, according to a new government report.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-22T00:47:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riot police last month move a protester away from the gate of the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, adjacent to where construction of a new air base is underway.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida fields questions from reporters after a regular Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akie Abe (right) attends dinner with U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Trump’s wife Melania at Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Feb. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-22T11:26:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A ceremony to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the launch of popular manga “One Piece” is held Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-22T12:20:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya speaks during an interview in Moscow in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-22T12:35:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-22T12:46:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-22T14:17:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-22T14:33:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-22T16:09:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seven female members of the Miyagi Prefectural Assembly have asked the governor to remove a tourism promotion video uploaded to YouTube that they claim includes sexually suggestive scenes.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-22T16:58:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Royal Express, leaves JR Yokohama Station on Friday morning. Jointly operated by Izukyu Co. and Tokyu Corp., the new luxury train will offer passengers scenic views of the Izu Peninsula and Sagami Bay during their journey.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-22T17:16:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Metropolitan Expressway runs above Nihonbashi Bridge, which was rebuilt in 1911 over the Nihonbashi River in the business district in Tokyo's Chuo Ward and is designated as an important cultural asset.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-22T17:25:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinkansen fans watch the long arms of a robot tasked with polishing the train's distinctively shaped nose during an event in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-22T19:09:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Fitzgerald sits in Dry Dock 4 at Fleet Activities Yokosuka in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 11 for repairs and damage assessment after its fatal June 17 collision with a merchant vessel near Tokyo Bay.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida smiles during a meeting with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (not pictured) on Monday in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-23T13:59:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An anti-government protester holds a homemade shield covered with photos of President Nicolas Maduro, government officials and a gun sight, during clashes with security forces blocking a march to the Supreme Court in Caracas on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-23T20:53:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sergei Kislyak]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction is shown on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly chain of the disputed South China Sea in this June 16 satellite image.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-23T23:49:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Asia Press International, including founder Akihiro Nonaka (far left), discuss their news gathering experiences at a Tokyo symposium held Saturday to mark the 30th anniversary of the group's establishment.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rate-a-20170724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to a poll published by the Mainichi Shimbun on Sunday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's support rating fell 10 points to 26 percent.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana speaks while Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez, Western Mindanao military commander, listens during a dialogue between displaced Marawi residents and government officials in Iligan City on the southern island of Mindanao on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/24/world/jerusalem-mosque-metal-detectors-stay-may-reduced-israel/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gestures while he speaks during his weekly broadcast "Los Domingos con Maduro" ("The Sundays with Maduro") in Caracas Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the new monitoring posts will be installed on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, about 70 km from the Kori nuclear power plant in the southern part of South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This tram system is one the keys to Toyama's plan to become a compact city as its population continues to shrink.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 70 percent of ﷯Japan's governors think tougher﷯ steps are needed to halt passive smoking, but less than half support a government proposal to basically ban indoor smoking at restaurants, a recent survey says.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokushima Gov. Kamon Iizumi and other officials open a Consumer Affairs Agency office at the Tokushima Prefectural Government building on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At Calbee Inc.'s headquarters in Tokyo, most workstations are empty on Monday, the government's first designated Telework Day.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-24T20:48:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-24T20:55:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reform polices have made India a "sweet spot" for investment among emerging markets.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp says its new TV brand for the U.S. will be a step above its Aquos lineup.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-24T21:43:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Electronic screens post the price of Alphabet stock at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on Feb. 1, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A website resembling a Google site recommends the purchase of bogus software. As many as 1,000 people were defrauded by the makers of the site, according to police.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/26/business/corporate-business/rural-resorts-well-visitors-key-japan-looks-become-tourism-giant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-26T19:28:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miwako Date speaks during an interview in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-26T21:28:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Colin Angle, chairman, chief executive officer and co-founder of iRobot Corp., holds up a Roomba robot in 2013. SoftBank Group Corp. is said to have taken a stake in the company.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-26T21:46:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An undated photo shows inmates working at a prison. The Justice Ministry plans to offer translation services for non-Japanese inmates nationwide through video phones, starting in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-27T06:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-27T06:42:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-27T07:37:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/26/national/tokyo-government-calls-public-name-ueno-zoos-new-panda-cub/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T11:40:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture taken on Tuesday shows a new panda cub holding onto her mother's arm at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-seen-looking-replace-scandal-hit-defense-chief-inada-old-hand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T12:02:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Defense Minister Tomomi Inada attend a Lower House Budget Committee session at the Diet in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/business/u-s-impose-stricter-electronic-carry-airport-screening/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T12:09:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travelers wait in line at the security checkpoint at Baltimore/Washington International Airport in Baltimore, Maryland, in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/26/business/corporate-business/nintendo-returns-profit-april-june-quarter-fueled-strong-switch-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T12:20:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nintendo Co. posted a group net profit of ¥21.26 billion for the April-June quarter on the back of solid sales of its Switch game console and games.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/26/business/new-women-capsule-hotel-open-central-tokyo-firm-sees-strong-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T12:39:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new women-only capsule hotel, nine hours woman Kanda, is set to open Thursday in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/social-issues/osaka-web-series-gives-voice-intellectually-disabled/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T13:33:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Pansy Media, including many who are intellectually disabled, shoot an online program on June 15 in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/politics-diplomacy/constitution-enshrine-civilian-control-self-defense-forces-ldp-vice-president/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T13:50:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahiko Komura, vice president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is interviewed in Tokyo on July 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/social-issues/families-clash-outside-panels-probing-extreme-cases-bullying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T14:33:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials of the Toride Municipal Board of Education apologize on May 31 to the parents of teenager Naoko Nakashima — who took her own life in 2015 — for its handling of a probe into the case, in Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/business/corporate-business/ana-jal-seek-stand-diverse-flight-meals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T15:17:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways planes are seen at Haneda airport in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/world/wanted-congo-warlord-surrenders-u-n-forces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T15:19:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/26/national/abuse-disabled-workers-trending-downward-labor-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T15:37:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/business/corporate-business/lmvh-profit-jumps-japan-europe-join-china-luxury-rebound/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T15:39:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopper walks past a window display in a Fendi store, a brand of LVMH, in the Ginza district of Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/msdf-conducts-drill-protecting-u-s-navy-ship-japans-waters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T15:49:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/national-stadium-tokyo-olympics-refitted-team-ball-sports-2020-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T15:50:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The National Stadium in Tokyo, under construction for the Tokyo Olympics, will be used exclusively for ball sports such as soccer and rugby after 2020.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-india-stress-importance-trilateral-security-cooperation-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T15:52:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-27T15:56:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alexander Vinnik is escorted by a plainclothes police officer to a court in Thessaloniki, Greece, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-27T16:03:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takatoshi Ito]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/business/economy-business/japan-doesnt-need-fiscal-stimulus-economic-adviser-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T16:27:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Susumu Takahashi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/politics-diplomacy/two-three-japanese-men-held-eastern-china-alleged-illegal-activities-freed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T16:39:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Foreign Ministry building is seen in Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. Chinese authorities have informed the Consulate General in Qingdao, Shandong Province, of the release of two of the three Japanese nationals who had been detained in eastern China since March for their suspected involvement in "illegal activities," according to Japanese officials.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/passengers-injured-shuttle-boat-accident-kobe-airport-facility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T16:40:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials from the transport ministry check the passenger boat Sora at Kobe Port on Thursday, after it rammed into a navigation aid and left 15 injured the day before.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/emperor-akihitos-abdication-date-may-announced-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T17:43:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/osaka-lays-groundwork-ambitious-plan-host-expo-casino-resort/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T18:46:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshihiro Nikai, secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, visits Osaka on Wednesday to push for its bid to host the 2025 Expo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/politics-diplomacy/main-opposition-chief-renho-resigns-dp-leadership/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T21:32:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Renho announces her resignation as the leader of the Democratic Party at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/ex-chief-scandal-hit-school-operator-summoned-questioning-subsidy-fraud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T21:32:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasunori Kagoike, former head of Moritomo Gakuen, speaks to reporters outside his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, before he was summoned by prosecutors later in the day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/politics-diplomacy/gsdf-chief-expected-resign-peacekeeper-data-coverup-allegations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T23:02:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Surrounded by reporters, Defense Minister Tomomi Inada arrives at her ministry Thursday morning. Sources said Inada later expressed an intention to resign after allegations of a cover-up of logs recording the activities of Japanese troops serving as U.N. peacekeepers in South Sudan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/governors-adopt-iwate-declaration-boost-japans-disaster-preparedness-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T05:43:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks during a meeting with other governors in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-28T06:11:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants on a dinghy are rescued by Save the Children NGO crew from the ship Vos Hestia in the Mediterranean sea off Libya coast on June 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-28T08:40:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A message on the U.S. military's policy on transgender personnel sent from Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen.Joseph Dunford to military leaders, is shown as released to Reuters on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/28/world/crime-legal-world/federal-law-doesnt-ban-discrimination-gay-workers-u-s-justice-department-tells-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T09:51:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-28T10:12:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday. The Senate voted decisively to approve a new package of stiff financial sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea, sending the popular bill to President Donald Trump for his signature after weeks of intense negotiations. The legislation is aimed at punishing Moscow for meddling in the 2016 presidential election and its military aggression in Ukraine and Syria, where the Kremlin has backed President Bashar Assad.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-28T10:19:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israeli security forces fire tear-gas to disperse Palestinians after clashes broke out inside Al-Aqsa mosque's compound in Jerusalem's Old City on Thursday. Clashes erupted between Israeli police and Palestinians at the sensitive Jerusalem holy site as thousands of Muslim worshippers entered to end a boycott of the compound over new Israeli security measures.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-28T13:14:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (black suit) visits the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs' Cemetery in Pyongyang on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-28T14:13:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during a citizenship ceremony in Orleans on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-28T14:14:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey transits the South China Sea with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ship JS Izumo on May 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/28/national/social-issues/tokyo-forum-women-empowerment-takes-stock-progress-challenges-still-come/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T15:28:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks about female empowerment during the 22nd International Conference for Women in Business held on Sunday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/18/business/direct-flights-vienna-uplifting-upgrades-free-internet-access/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T15:39:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-28T15:40:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/28/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/chinese-man-sentenced-death-killing-parents-17-others/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T16:22:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-28T16:29:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recalled Takata air bag inflator is shown in Miami in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/28/business/corporate-business/big-auto-discounts-u-s-seen-digging-asia-carmakers-profits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T16:30:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-28T16:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/28/business/economy-business/adviser-says-abe-can-juggle-constitutional-economic-goals-amid-investor-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T16:35:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-28T16:55:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese companies continue to face severe labor shortages as job availability improved further in June to the tightest level in over four decades.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-28T17:03:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-28T17:19:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Grab app is shown on a smartphone. After a four-month trial period, the Singapore-based ride-hailing giant has started full operations in Myanmar.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/27/national/social-issues/dentsu-targets-20-cut-working-hours-fiscal-2019-address-chronic-overwork-woes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T17:21:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dentsu President Toshihiro Yamamoto apologizes at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/28/national/patent-office-first-government-agency-permit-use-maiden-names/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T17:47:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Patent Office will become the first government agency to officially allow married workers to use their maiden names in the workplace.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/28/national/tokyo-readies-new-sanctions-not-directly-linked-pyongyangs-nuke-missile-threats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T18:35:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/28/national/japan-ranks-second-world-life-expectancy-progress-medical-health-advances/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T19:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese men and women placed second on the world's average life expectancy list in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/28/business/corporate-business/sharp-returns-net-profit-first-quarter-tv-sales-recover/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T19:38:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp Corp. swung back into profit for the three months to June thanks to cost-cutting efforts under Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-28T20:57:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-29T02:10:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/28/national/inada-makes-resignation-official-kishida-take-defense-role-now/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T02:11:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, at a Friday news conference, said she will resign to take responsibility for the confusion regarding  allegations of a cover-up of daily logs from the SDF's mission in South Sudan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-29T02:11:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee arranges U.S. beef products at a Tokyo supermarket. Japan decided Friday to raise tariffs on U.S. frozen beef imports from the current 38.5 percent to 50 percent from August until next March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-29T12:32:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/28/national/social-issues/panel-urges-justice-ministry-check-asylum-requests-thoroughly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T12:32:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official from the Justice Ministry (back right) talks to refugees from Myanmar in Mae Sot, Thailand, on Feb. 9, 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-29T13:19:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-29T13:49:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during their bilateral meeting on July 7 at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/29/world/americans-support-transgender-military-service-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T14:22:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nick Rondoletto, left, and Doug Thorogood, a couple from San Francisco, wave a rainbow flag and hold a sign against a proposed ban of transgendered people in the military at a protest in the Castro District on July 26 in San Francisco.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/28/world/mongolia-bans-grain-exports-due-drought-hottest-temperatures-56-years/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-29T14:24:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[National University of Singapore researcher Alcine Chan pours a pint of "gut-friendly" probiotic sour beer on July 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/space-alien-donald-trump-appears-mexican-billboard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T14:37:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A billboard of U.S. President Donald Trump as a "They Live"-style alien stands beside Periferico Avenue in Mexico City on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/struggling-govern-trump-faces-growing-republican-unease/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T17:01:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, New York, to deliver remarks on law enforcement at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/29/national/media-national/death-go-sometime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T22:54:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The future is crowded: Japan has the world's oldest and fastest-aging population — death is not a subject that can be ignored.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/29/national/fog-delays-private-space-ventures-rocket-launch-hokkaido/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Interstellar Technologies President Takahiro Inagawa (left) and former Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie shake hands as they stand in front of a model of the privately developed Momo rocket in Tokyo on July 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/29/national/hokkaido-fishermen-irked-latest-north-korean-missile-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T17:40:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/29/national/media-national/spare-thought-secretaries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T22:58:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Easy introduction: Mayuko Toyota, who was nicknamed "pink monster" because of her dress sense and reputation as being difficult to work with, celebrates her first successful election campaign in 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/29/national/beppu-makes-splash-bathtub-theme-park/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T20:14:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play while riding a merry-go-round featuring bathtubs instead of seats at a temporary amusement park in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/29/business/corporate-business/german-court-rules-favor-diesel-ban-mercedes-hometown-fallout-vw-scandal-continues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T21:04:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Transport minister Alexander Dobrindt attends a news conference in Berlin on Thursday amid scandals around diesel emissions and a suspected carmaker's cartel involving Germany's top brands.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/29/business/corporate-business/germanys-top-automakers-sued-u-s-two-decade-tech-suppression-cartel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T21:05:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A combo photo shows damaged logos and logo traces of German car brands at a scrap yard in Betzigau, Germany on Tuesday. Clockwise from top left: Mercedes-Benz by Daimler, BMW, Audi and Volkswagen. Der Spiegel magazine reported on July 21 that Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, BMW and Daimler had secretly worked together from the 1990s onwards on issues including polluting emissions from diesel vehicles.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/29/national/politics-diplomacy/inadas-leadership-hopes-evaporate-meteoric-rise-defense-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T22:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Defense Minister Tomomi Inada leaves the ministry on Friday after submitting her letter of resignation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/29/national/politics-diplomacy/strategic-approach-washingtons-shifting-nuclear-policy-asia-pacific-region-putting-japan-difficult-position/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T23:02:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/29/world/crime-legal-world/known-knife-wielding-islamist-kills-one-injures-six-germany/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T23:41:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers secure the area after a knife attack at a supermarket in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/29/national/north-korean-missile-lands-japans-exclusive-economic-zone-45-minute-flight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T08:56:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-missile-b-20170730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men walk past a large television in Tokyo showing news of North Korea firing an intercontinental ballistic missile on July 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/30/asia-pacific/u-s-bombers-link-asdf-south-korean-fighters-direct-response-north-korean-icbm-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T15:58:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancers from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam fly with an Air Self-Defense Force F-2 fighter jet during an operation Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/30/national/ldp-pushback-keeps-state-effort-curb-restaurant-smoke-limbo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T17:42:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-smoking-a-20170731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Legislative efforts in Japan to address the public health hazards caused by passive smoking have been stalled by political bickering driven by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/30/national/image-analysis-reveals-north-korea-may-planned-send-first-icbm-test-much-closer-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T20:35:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un looks on during the test-fire of the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile on July 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/30/business/tech/venture-gears-field-test-self-driving-delivery-robot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T20:37:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-robot-a-20170731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The CarriRo Delivery robot is unveiled in Tokyo on July 13. In field tests scheduled to be carried out in August, developer ZMP Inc. plans to deliver sushi with it.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/30/national/transparent-kayak-tours-off-tottori-likened-flying-sky/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T20:43:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-kayak-b-20170731.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kayak-b-20170731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors enjoy paddling in transparent kayaks off the coast of Tottori Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/30/national/footage-reactor-3-may-force-rewrite-fukushima-road-map-officials-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T22:08:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-fukushima-a-20170731.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukushima-a-20170731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This underwater robot was used in the recent probe of reactor 3 at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/30/national/deadly-storms-kyushu-hit-traditional-businesses-hard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T22:08:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-kyushu-a-20170731.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kyushu-a-20170731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees check bottles of sake and other alcoholic beverages before shipment at Shinozaki Co. on July 19 in Asakura, Fukuoka Prefecture, after taking heavy damage from the torrential rain earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/30/business/tech/launch-private-rocket-backed-horie-fails-off-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T22:19:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/b-rocket-a-20170731.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-rocket-a-20170731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Momo rocket developed by Interstellar Technologies Inc. takes off from the launch pad in Hokkaido on Sunday. Just a few seconds later, due to technical problems, it fell into the ocean.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/30/asia-pacific/china-bets-u-s-wont-carry-strike-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T22:58:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-chump-a-20170731-e1501406142266.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chump-a-20170731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects troops during a military parade in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/30/asia-pacific/north-korea-hints-fresh-military-provocation-u-s-imposes-new-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T23:10:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-nksanx-a-20170731.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nksanx-a-20170731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk up stairs near a propaganda poster depicting Korean People's Army soldiers at a museum in Sinchon, south of Pyongyang, on Saturday. North Korea said Sunday that its latest ICBM test was a "warning" targeting the U.S. for its efforts to slap new sanctions on Pyongyang and threatened a counterstrike if provoked militarily by Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/world/politics-diplomacy-world/voters-snub-maduro-assembly-venezuela-protests-turn-deadly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T09:13:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-venezuela-a-20170801.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-venezuela-a-20170801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An anti-government activist fires an improvised handgun made out of an iron tube that can fire a marble or a steel bearing impulsed by a firecracker during clashes with security forces ensuing a protest over the elections for a Constituent Assembly proposed by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on Sunday. Deadly violence erupted around the controversial vote, with a candidate to the all-powerful body being elected shot dead and troops firing weapons to clear protesters in Caracas and elsewhere.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/haley-china-aware-must-act-u-s-done-talking-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T09:28:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-haley-a-20170801.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-haley-a-20170801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This handout photo taken and released by the U.S. Air Force on Sunday shows a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer (top) assigned to the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, being joined by South Korean air force F-15s, during a 10-hour mission from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, into Japanese airspace and over the Korean Peninsula.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/world/politics-diplomacy-world/turkey-party-brings-5000-stage-istanbul-protest-israeli-security-steps-jerusalem-mosque/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T10:27:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-istanbul-a-20170801.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-istanbul-a-20170801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters wave Turkish and Palestinian flags during a demonstration in Istanbul on Sunday to protest measures taken by Israel in Jerusalem and to show solidarity with the Palestinians. Israel had angered Turkey by installing metal detectors and security cameras after a July 14 attack near the Haram al-Sharif holy site in Jerusalem, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, in which gunmen killed two policemen. The move sparked Muslim protests and deadly unrest, and the Israeli government removed the detectors on July 25 as well as the cameras.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/national/nagoya-university-team-use-aircraft-gauge-potency-supertyphoons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T16:31:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20170801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagoya University professor Kazuhisa Tsuboki explains his team's project to analyze supertyphoons, holding an expendable device for collecting data on temperatures, air pressure and wind speeds in typhoons.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/reference/loopholes-let-records-pertaining-abes-scandals-slip-cracks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T16:42:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20170801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former education ministry bureaucrat Kihei Maekawa has pointed to the existence of documents alluding to Cabinet Office pressure in the approval of a new university veterinary department that benefited a friend of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/business/japans-monkey-bike-nears-extinction-country-cuts-tailpipe-emissions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T17:43:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man rides a Honda Motor Co. Super Cub at the Tsukiji market in Tokyo on June 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/business/mexican-minister-supports-japans-leadership-achieving-tpp-without-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T18:07:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/national/father-son-found-dead-tokyo-river-night-fishing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T18:09:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fishing-a-20170801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers on Monday investigate a boardwalk along a river in Koto Ward, Tokyo, where a man in his 40s and his 9-year-old son vanished while fishing overnight Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-may-seek-add-clause-constitution-ensure-equal-education/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T18:10:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/national/social-issues/ibaraki-school-board-education-hit-concealing-girls-bullying-linked-suicide-quizzing-classmates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T18:25:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The parents of Naoko Nakashima, a junior high school student in Ibaraki Prefecture who committed suicide in November 2015, speak at an event on school bullying in Tokyo in March, holding a picture of her.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/business/car-production-helps-japanese-industrial-output-rise-1-6/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T18:26:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/business/dbj-hoshino-resorts-team-banks-start-fund-japans-struggling-hotels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T18:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/beijing-investigates-successor-support-jailed-bo-xilai-endures-chongqing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T18:39:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-chongqing-a-20170801.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chongqing-a-20170801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sun Zhengcai]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-trump-agree-take-action-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T20:27:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-abetrump-a-20170801.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abetrump-a-20170801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/asia-pacific/u-s-conducts-successful-thaad-anti-missile-test-latest-north-korea-icbm-launch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T20:48:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/national/politics-diplomacy/no-apology-inada-attends-defense-ministry-resignation-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T20:52:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Defense Minister Tomomi Inada bows before attending a ceremony to mark the end of her stint at the Defense Ministry on Monday after resigning over a cover-up scandal.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-31T20:52:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks at the SoftBank World 2017 event in Tokyo on July 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/asia-pacific/u-s-might-blacklist-kim-jong-un-new-u-n-sanctions-resolution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T22:26:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 29, 2017 North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un signs documents for the test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-14, at an undisclosed place in North Korea on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/business/corporate-business/panasonics-logs-67-1-jump-net-profit-april-june-quarter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T22:27:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic's logo is seen on the wall of an electronics shop in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-31T23:46:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buddhist monks wait receive alms from well-wishers during the birthday celebrations for Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn in the southern Thai province of Narathiwat on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/national/crime-legal/high-school-student-among-trio-nabbed-hit-run-ginza-robbery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T05:41:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A high school student has admitted being part of a trio that allegedly robbed a man of about ¥72 million in cash in Tokyo's Ginza district in April, the police say.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/business/corporate-business/jal-posts-32-9-climb-group-net-profit-april-june-quarter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T05:43:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing 767 jet operated by Japan Airlines Co. prepares to land on runway 34L at Haneda airport in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/world/thousands-flee-niger-chad-fear-boko-haram/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T07:03:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman stands in a pool of rain water in Rann in northeast of Nigeria close to the Cameroonian border on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/world/free-movement-eu-will-end-march-2019-spokesman-may-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T08:11:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-may-a-20170801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May (left) and Prince William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, watch as poppies fall from the roof of the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, on Sunday during the official commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/envoy-throws-ball-back-trump-says-u-s-north-korea-key-peace-peninsula-not-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T09:58:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Liu Jieyi speaks at a news conference at U.N. Headquarters in New York City Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/world/crime-legal-world/yemeni-convicted-child-rape-murder-first-publicly-executed-since-2009/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T10:10:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Muhammad al-Maghrabi, 41, who was convicted of raping and murdering a 3-year-old girl, reacts as he is prepared to be executed in Sanaa Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/business/trump-targets-health-insurer-subsidies-make-obamacare-affordable/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T10:19:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-insurers-a-20170802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mario Henderson leads chants of "save Medicaid" as other social service activists, Medicaid recipients and their supporters stage a protest outside the building that houses the offices of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., June 29 in Jackson, Mississippi. Soaring prices and fewer choices may greet customers when they return to the Affordable Care Act's insurance marketplaces in the fall in part because insurers are facing deep uncertainty about whether the Trump administration will continue to make key subsidy payments and enforce other parts of the existing law that help control prices.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-embassy-moscow-locked-diplomatic-dacha-told-lacked-permits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T10:32:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian police  enter a territory of a dacha compound used by U.S. diplomats for recreation, in Serebryany Bor residential area in the west of Moscow Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/scaramuccis-colorful-comments-new-yorker-displeased-trump-white-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T10:44:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House spokesman Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks at the press briefing at the White House in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/world/social-issues-world/thousands-syria-jihadis-refugees-leave-lebanon-border-zone-swap-hezbollah-prisoners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T10:49:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A convoy carrying Syrian jihadis and their families, who have been in eastern Lebanon since the beginning of the Syria war, enter the Lebanese Wadi al-Hamid area, in the Jurud Arsal border region, to be transported to Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, as part of the second phase of a cease-fire deal Monday. Lebanon's Hezbollah's "War Media" outlet reported that the "first phase of the deal" took place on Sunday where "the bodies of nine Al-Nusra fighters were exchanged for the remains of five Hezbollah fighters who died in the Jurud battles."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/world/crime-legal-world/british-royal-marine-gets-18-years-making-bombs-irish-republicans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T10:53:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/f-ukterror-a-20170802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ukterror-a-20170802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This is an undated photo provided by the Metropolitan Police of former Royal Marine Ciaran Maxwell. A judge sentenced the former Royal Marine to 18 years in prison Monday for a series of terrorism-related offenses. Thirty-one-year-old Ciaran Maxwell lived a double life as a member of the military and as a bombmaker for dissident Irish Republicans.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/world/yemen-regime-vows-wrest-vital-aid-port-hodeidah-houthi-hands-give-neutral-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T10:54:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather around a charity tanker truck to fill up their jerrycans with drinking water in Bajil of the Red Sea province of Hodeidah, Yemen, Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/world/malta-restores-forgotten-british-wwii-cold-war-tunnels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T11:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A rotary dial telephone set and clock are seen in the NATO tunnels dating back to the Cold War in the War Headquarters tunnels beneath Valletta in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/maduro-claims-mandate-questionable-vote-seen-paving-way-dictatorship-looks-strip-foes-immunity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T13:41:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro celebrates the results of his "Constituent Assembly" vote in Caracas on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/31/national/hyogo-boy-10-passes-bitten-venomous-snake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T14:14:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A snake that bit a 10-year-old boy in Hyogo Prefecture could have been a tiger keelback, which is poisonous, police said Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/business/imf-urges-japan-boost-foreign-female-elderly-labor-participation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T16:19:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯The International Monetary Fund says Japan should increase the use of foreign workers and the participation of women and elderly people in the labor market.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/national/panel-looking-japan-casino-rules-seeks-woo-foreign-visitors-charge-control-flow-locals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T16:40:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A government panel has compiled a report saying that casinos should be attractive to foreign tourists, while emphasizing the need for restrictions to control potential harm to local communities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/national/crime-legal/missing-shiga-woman-found-buried-forest-arrested-pair-confess/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T17:21:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators dig a hole beside a forest road in Taga, Shiga Prefecture, on Monday. Police were searching for the body of a Nagoya woman based on confessions given by two suspects.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/national/history/poetic-justice-one-americans-47-year-campaign-nuclear-weapons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T17:55:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Krieger, president and founder of the nonprofit organization Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, has used poetry to communicate the inherent dangers of nuclear weapons.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/national/hiroshima-nagasaki-mayors-urge-government-act-nuke-ban-treaty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T18:37:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui speaks at a news conference on Tuesday about a peace declaration he will read out during a Sunday ceremony to mark the 72nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bomb attack on his city.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/business/summer-gourmet-cuisine-serenity-sky-new-routes-new-zealand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T19:25:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p6 travel 20170802]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/asia-pacific/nhk-video-casts-doubt-north-korean-icbms-re-entry-capabilities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T21:28:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean Hwasong-14 Intercontinental ballistic missile is test-fired late Friday from an undisclosed location.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-dream-amending-constitution-slipping-away/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T21:28:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-analysis-a-20170801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shuts his eyes during a Lower House committee session in February 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/business/toto-launches-high-end-washlet-bidet-toilets-globally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T21:34:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toto-a-20170802]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Neorest NX with a domestic price of ¥615,600 ($5,590), features a curvy integrated toilet seat cover and bowl.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/business/corporate-business/toshiba-shares-demoted-first-section-tokyo-stock-exchange/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T22:03:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toshiba-a-20170802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. was demoted Tuesday from the first to the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/national/politics-diplomacy/support-rate-free-fall-abe-eyes-veterans-key-posts-cabinet-reshuffle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T22:03:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/n-reshuffle-a-20170802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-reshuffle-a-20170802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, also the Liberal Democratic Party president, heads to a meeting of LDP executives Tuesday at party headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/national/amount-plutonium-held-japan-falls-slightly-reactor-restarts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-02T04:41:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/n-plutonium-a-20170802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-plutonium-a-20170802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The amount of plutonium held by Japan fell slightly at the end of 2016 from a year earlier with the restart of nuclear reactors using plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-02T06:10:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A long boat sails near the port of Chiang Saen on the Thai side of the Golden Triangle at the border between Thailand, Laos and Myanmar on the Mekong River in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-02T08:25:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks with reporters following party luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police emerge from a block of flats in the Sydney suburb of Lakemba on Tuesday after counterterrorism raids across the city over the weekend. Four men accused of plotting to bring down a plane planned to use poisonous gas or a crude bomb disguised as a meat mincer, reports said on Sunday, with Australian officials calling preparations "advanced."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-02T10:53:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of civil society groups protest the killing of electoral commission information technology manager Christopher Msando, at a demonstration in downtown Nairobi Tuesday. Msando, an official crucial to running Kenya's presidential election next week, was found tortured and killed, the electoral commission chairman said Monday, as concerns grew that the East African nation's vote again could face dangerous unrest.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-02T15:21:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs who oppose the government's decision to deny Korean schools access to tuition subsidies march to the Hiroshima High Court on Tuesday. The group later filed an appeal to the court after the Hiroshima District Court dismissed their request last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-02T15:43:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-02T15:52:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a news conference after the Group of 20 nations' summit on July 8 in Hamburg, Germany.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/02/business/economy-business/economists-predict-inflation-will-peak-autumn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-02T16:15:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-inflation-a-20170803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More economists say Japan's consumer prices will peak as early as this autumn, missing the Bank of Japan's inflation target.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-02T16:55:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-02T17:23:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-02T17:28:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-02T17:30:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-02T17:31:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Six MV-22 tilt-rotor aircraft, stationed at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa Prefecture, will be mobilized for an upcoming U.S.-Japan exercise in Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/02/business/rengo-chief-kozu-remain-helm-nations-largest-labor-organization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-02T17:56:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-02T18:02:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukitoshi Funo, a member of the Bank of Japan's Policy Board, delivers a lecture in Sapporo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-02T18:21:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasunori Kagoike]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/02/national/public-hearings-japans-casino-resort-policies-held-nine-cities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-02T18:27:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday receives a report on integrated casino resorts from Hirotaka Yamauchi, head of the government's expert panel, at the Prime Minister's Office.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-02T18:31:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/02/national/kyushu-citys-historic-water-wheels-begin-turning-deluges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-02T19:12:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's oldest working water wheels, located in Asakura, Fukuoka Prefecture, began turning again Wednesday after soil and debris that accumulated around them following torrential rain in the area last month was removed.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-02T19:54:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Outgoing Democratic Party chief Renho speaks to party members at a meeting Tuesday at the party headquarters in Tokyo. The main opposition is set to choose its new leader on Sept. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/02/business/manga-goes-digital-via-smartphone-apps-paper-comics-still-place/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-02T20:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sales of digital manga are rising sharply as numerous companies are entering the manga app market.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/02/national/severity-june-nuclear-accident-rated-level-2-japans-nuclear-regulation-authority/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-02T21:06:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People stand in front of a crosswalk in Tokyo's Akihabara district on Tuesday. A mere 51 hospitals — just 3 percent of those surveyed — had in-house medical coordinators to guide non-Japanese patients.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-03T00:14:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-03T03:46:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-03T08:44:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italian police stand around the German NGO Jugend Rettet ship Juventa in Lampedusa harbor, Italy, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-03T10:48:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asylum seekers take a walk outside Olympic Stadium as security guards look on in Montreal Wednesday. The stadium will be housing asylum seekers after a spike in the number of people crossing at the United States border in recent months.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-03T11:12:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte points at a reporter during a press conference at the 113th Founding Anniversary of the Bureau of Internal Revenue in metropolitan Manila Wednesday. The tough-talking Duterte briefly lashed out at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a speech before local revenue collectors Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents ride in a truck as Mount Sinabung releases pyroclastic flows during its eruption in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday. The volcano blasted volcanic ash as high as 4.2 km, one of its biggest eruptions in the past several months of high activity.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/03/asia-pacific/u-s-may-deploy-two-carriers-korean-peninsula/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-03T13:05:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea hold a banquet at the Mokran House in celebration of the second successful test-fire of the intercontinental ballistic missiles Hwasong-14 in picture provided by KCNA in Pyongyang on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/03/world/battle-beliefs-nigeria-targets-boko-harams-top-brass/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People cross a street in Beijing. China is thinking about how to avoid what happened in Japan after its epic bust in the 1990s and the decades of stagnation that followed.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents of Portland, Oregon, leap into the Willamette River on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-03T14:48:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-03T15:42:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-03T17:30:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-03T17:41:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-03T17:52:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/03/national/crime-legal/man-transferred-police-van-dies-following-accident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-03T18:54:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers Wednesday investigate the scene of an accident involving a police van and a truck in Ogi, Saga Prefecture, that left a prisoner dead.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-03T18:57:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/03/business/hello-toyotas-president-wants-friends-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-03T19:36:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota chief Akio Toyoda has opened an account on Weibo seeking to make friends in China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/03/business/tech/sony-develops-magnetic-tape-can-store-20-times-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-03T19:37:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp.'s headquarters is seen in Tokyo. The electronics giant has developed a new type of magnetic tape that can record 20 times more data than previously thought possible.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/03/world/china-coordinating-u-s-south-china-sea-search-missing-sailor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-03T21:03:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-03T21:56:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono, newly appointed foreign minister, arrives at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Thursday. His candid and liberal-leaning opinions — often articulated on his blog — have made him stand out among his more conservative peers in the Liberal Democratic Party.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-03T21:57:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Cabinet members line up and pose at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/03/national/crime-legal/new-justice-minister-kamikawa-says-will-follow-law-carefully-regarding-death-penalty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-03T22:48:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly appointed Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Thursday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-04T06:14:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/business/corporate-business/toshiba-looks-build-new-yokkaichi-chip-plant-without-partner-western-digital-fueling-feud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T06:34:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/business/corporate-business/sapporo-snaps-anchor-steam-u-s-craft-beer-foray/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T07:26:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/business/french-can-buy-fresh-oysters-vending-machines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T08:11:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aquaculturist Tony Berthelot loads oysters in an automatic oyster vending machine at l'huitriere de Re in Ars en Re on Re Island, southwestern France, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-04T10:19:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-04T10:26:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yazidis attend a commemoration to mark three years since Islamic State launched what the United Nations said was a genocidal campaign against them, in Sinjar region, Iraq, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/asia-pacific/air-france-widens-north-korea-no-fly-zone-icbm-miss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T10:58:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Embraer 170 operated by Air France-KLM French regional airline unit Hop! takes off at Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Roissy, near Paris, July 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/world/offbeat-world/russian-tv-reporter-punched-face-broadcasting-live-moscow-park/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T12:07:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian military veterans cool off in a fountain as they celebrate Paratroopers' Day at Gorky Park in Moscow on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/national/parks-stadiums-japans-urbanites-try-reducing-stress-night-yoga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T12:28:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yoga-a-20170805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Instructor Arisa Takada leads participants during a night yoga event at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on May 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/national/politics-diplomacy/new-defense-chief-onodera-vows-restore-trust-review-strategy-face-north-korea-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T13:05:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera speaks at a news conference Thursday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/03/national/politics-diplomacy/kishida-named-ldp-policy-chief-freeing-run-abe-party-presidency-next-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T13:35:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe joins hands with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's new leadership, including newly appointed LDP policy chief Fumio Kishida (right) at the party headquarters in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/03/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-poised-reshuffle-cabinet-support-slides-tap-kono-top-envoy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T13:36:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Environment Minister Masaharu Nakagawa (front left), Economic Revitalization Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (front center), Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa (right) and other Cabinet ministers gather at the Prime Minister's Office on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/03/business/economy-business/abe-expected-to-try-populist-policies-to-reverse-plummeting-support-rate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T13:40:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With deflation still dragging on the economy and public approval ratings plummeting in recent weeks, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is widely expected to fall back on Abenomics, a policy mix that a growing number of economists have begun to question.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/business/corporate-business/fujitsu-boost-service-manpower-philippines-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T15:11:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fujitsu-a-20170805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fujitsu Ltd. plans to boost its manpower in the Philippines and India in an effort to enhance information technology services abroad and cut costs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mueller-convenes-washington-grand-jury-probe-russias-election-meddling-wsj/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T15:18:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Mueller pauses after making an opening statement at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/business/economy-business/japans-june-real-wages-dip-first-time-three-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T15:19:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wages-a-20170805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In June, real wages decreased 0.8 percent from a year before — the first fall in three months — according to labor ministry data released Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/22/national/science-health/venomous-fire-ants-found-kyushu-first-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T16:03:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/business/sales-foreign-brand-vehicles-japan-see-first-fall-16-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T17:09:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fcars-a-20170805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers look at BMW cars at a showroom in Tokyo. Sales of new imported foreign-brand vehicles in Japan dropped 3.8 percent in July from a year before, marking the first fall in 16 months.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/business/corporate-business/softbank-invests-250-million-online-lending-startup-kabbage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T17:10:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20170805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son speaks at a news conference in Tokyo. The firm has invested $250 million into online lender Kabbage Inc. in the latest in a flurry of big bets on mature startups.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/business/corporate-business/toyota-trawls-for-techies-along-tokyos-nambu-line-amid-silicon-valleys-tense-rivalry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T17:13:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Toyota Motor Corp. badge is displayed at the Toyota Mega Web showroom in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-04T17:18:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo, believed to have been taken in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, in April 2014, shows Yasunori Kagoike (left), former head of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, Akie Abe (center), wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and Kagoike's wife, Junko.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/business/kochis-new-port-cruise-ships-call-passengers-dont-splurge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T18:12:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 168,000-ton cruise ship Quantum of the Seas arrives at Kochi New Port in Kochi Prefecture on June 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/business/tech/japans-farming-industry-poised-automation-revolution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T18:12:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hokkaido University professor Noboru Noguchi (center) oversees a test on a tractor operated with a tablet computer on the university campus in Sapporo on June 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-softens-stance-deadline-constitutional-reform-proposals-deferring-ldp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T18:26:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/national/fire-breaks-close-famed-tsukiji-fish-market-no-injuries-reported/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T18:27:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fire trucks are seen lined up on the main road close the famed Tsukiji fish market in central Tokyo late Thursday afternoon after a fire broke out. There were no reports of any injuries.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/national/crime-legal/mpd-officer-mistakenly-dumps-womans-body-parts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T19:06:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-04T19:22:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey last year of women in the Kinki region has found that, of the 53 women who said they were physically or sexually assaulted by partners, none reported the incidents to the police.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/national/south-koreas-ex-foreign-minister-ok-emergency-surgery-kochi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T19:31:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Choi Sung-hong]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/national/crime-legal/pressured-tokyo-jk-ordinance-kanagawa-mulls-crackdown-firms-dispatch-underage-teens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T19:39:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers verify the ages of employees at a dating service for men in Tokyo's Akihabara district on April 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/national/crime-legal/bill-lower-age-adulthood-set-submission-diet-fall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T20:49:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Japan Daily Life]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women participate in 'uchimizu,' a Japanese water-throwing tradition at a summer festival in Tokyo on Friday. On the same day, new Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa said the ministry is considering submitting a bill to lower Japan's legal age of adulthood from 20 to 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/national/hokkaido-police-seek-information-missing-chinese-woman/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wei Qiujie, a Chinese woman who went missing in Hokkaido on July 23, is shown in this photo from the Hokkaido Prefectural Police.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/national/politics-diplomacy/ex-minister-hosono-leave-opposition-democratic-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T21:16:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Goshi Hosono]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/business/corporate-business/toyota-mazda-form-capital-alliance-jointly-develop-electric-vehicles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T22:59:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada speaks to reporters in the city of Chiba on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/04/business/economy-business/trumps-reboot-sanctions-ushers-new-normal-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-04T23:31:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpsanctions-a-20170805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/05/asia-pacific/u-s-army-halts-use-chinese-made-drones-cyber-vulnerabilities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-05T13:03:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-05T13:07:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse sprays water on the face of an elderly man at a residential care home for seniors in Lyon, France, amid a July 2015 heat wave.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/05/world/politics-diplomacy-world/special-counsel-mueller-asks-white-house-flynn-documents-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-05T13:26:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-flynndocs-a-20170806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Flynn]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/05/world/estimated-2000-islamic-state-fighters-remain-raqqa-syria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-05T13:27:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. military de-mining vehicle leads a convoy on the main road in Raqqa, Syria, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/05/asia-pacific/u-s-ends-search-sailor-missing-exercise-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-05T15:23:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/05/national/media-national/bitcoin-exchange-operator-arrested-amid-new-questions-mt-gox-theft/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-05T19:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Russian man identified as Alexander Vinnik is escorted by police officers to a courthouse at the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on July 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/05/business/corporate-business/toyota-swap-sedans-trucks-maybe-suvs-new-mexico-plant-light-trump-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-05T16:57:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-05T22:11:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/05/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-reaffirms-plan-complete-doubling-consumption-tax-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-05T23:11:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures during a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-05T23:12:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets Myanmar's Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-05T23:12:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda (left) and Mazda Motor Corp. President Masamichi Kogai answer a question at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-06T13:20:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Graffiti reading "Venezuela is Mercosur, Venezuela is respected and live long the homeland" stands in Caracas on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/06/world/chinese-tourists-arrested-making-hitler-salutes-outside-german-parliament-building/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-06T15:19:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-06T17:43:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-06T18:56:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-06T21:28:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-06T21:29:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-06T21:29:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China is expected to surpass Japan in U.N. contributions from 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/06/national/hiroshima-marks-72nd-anniversary-atomic-bombing-japans-refusal-join-nuke-ban-treaty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-06T21:38:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People offer prayers in front of the cenotaph dedicated to atomic bomb victims at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-06T23:01:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-06T23:41:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuji Sasaki (left), a nephew of Hiroshima hibakusha Sadako Sasaki, takes part in a ceremony held Saturday to mark the donation of one of her origami cranes to a museum in Wendover, Utah.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/06/national/two-people-die-weakening-typhoon-noru-heads-toward-shikoku/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A digger is parked across a national highway in Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Sunday to block access to it after the road was closed due to Typhoon Noru.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/06/national/kono-japans-new-foreign-minister-tackles-north-korea-issues-asean-debut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T04:52:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono speaks during the ASEAN-Japan ministerial meeting at the 50th ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting in Manila on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/syria-investigator-del-ponte-quits-blames-u-n-security-council-lack-backing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T07:38:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carla del Ponte, member of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, attends a March 1 press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva. Renowned former war crimes prosecutor del Ponte has told a Swiss publication she's resigning from the U.N.'s independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria after a five-year stint, decrying Security Council inaction to hold criminals accountable.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/aussie-man-held-islamic-state-linked-terror-sweep-charged-weapons-offenses-freed-bail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T08:29:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police stand guard outside Parramatta Court, where two men charged with terrorism offenses with a plan to blow up a passenger plane, appeared via video link in Sydney on Friday. A senior Islamic State commander directed a group of Australian men to build a bomb destined for an Etihad Airways flight out of Sydney, with a second poisonous gas plot also in the works, police alleged Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/asia-pacific/australia-sends-ships-divers-aid-recovery-u-s-marines-end-search-missing-osprey-crash-trio/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T09:55:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey aircraft land on the deck of the USS Bonhomme Richard amphibious assault ship off the coast of Sydney during events marking the start of Talisman Saber 2017, a biennial joint military exercise between the United States and Australia, on June 29. A MV-22 Osprey that had launched from the USS Bonhomme was conducting regularly scheduled operations when it crashed off Australia's east coast Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/06/national/crime-legal/filling-gaps-south-sudan-logs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T10:40:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-pko-a-20170807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of Africa: Ground Self-Defense Force members of the U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) work beside a refugee camp in the South Sudanese capital of Juba in November. The mission wrapped up in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mueller-probe-trump-camps-links-russia-election-meddling-no-fishing-expedition-rosenstein/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T10:55:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/f-mueller-a-20170808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mueller-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs after a closed-door meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee about Russian meddling in the election at the Capitol in Washington on June 21.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-moon-speak-phone-u-s-leader-calls-north-korea-growing-direct-threat-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T12:36:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/f-nktrump-a-20170808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nktrump-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/world/u-k-proposes-law-strengthen-citizens-control-personal-data-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T14:50:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/f-ukerase-a-20170808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ukerase-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, are seen in January 2013. The U.K. is proposing a new privacy law that aims to make it easier for citizens to erase personal data and old pictures from Facebook Inc., Google and other internet sites.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/chinese-state-run-media-stress-limits-north-korea-sanctions-slam-u-s-arrogance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T14:50:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/f-chinamedia-a-20170808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinamedia-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (right) shakes hands with South Korea's U.N. envoy, Cho Tae-yul, before voting on a U.S.-drafted resolution toughening sanctions on North Korea at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-deputy-komura-hails-chinas-vote-latest-north-korea-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T15:32:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/n-komura-a-20170808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-komura-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Song Tao (left), head of the international department of the Communist Party of China, shakes hands with Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Masahiko Komura at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/south-korean-prosecutors-seek-12-year-prison-term-samsung-scion-lee-jae-yon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T15:51:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-samsung-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Jae-yon (center), vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., arrives for his trial at the Seoul Central District Court in the South Korean capital on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/national/politics-diplomacy/kono-asks-tillerson-ensure-operational-safety-ospreys-queensland-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T16:46:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Foreign Minister Taro Kono greet each other in Manila Monday on the sidelines of the regional meeting involving foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/business/corporate-business/toyota-test-mini-ev-sharing-service-thai-university/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T17:04:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers assemble a car at a Toyota Motor Corp. plant in Ban Pho, Chachoengsao province, Thailand.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/business/corporate-business/wework-pump-500-million-southeast-asia-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T17:15:17+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/business/financial-markets/bojs-silence-side-effects-monetary-easing-policies-adds-risk-kiuchi-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T18:15:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/b-boj-a-20170808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takahide Kiuchi, who recently stepped down from the Bank of Japan's Policy Board, says the central bank is adding to the risks of its aggressive monetary easing policy by discussing only the potential upside.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/national/politics-diplomacy/asean-sidelines-japan-u-s-australia-rap-chinese-buildup-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T19:16:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/n-japusaussie-a-20170808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-japusaussie-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono shakes hands with Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson looks on during a meeting in Manila on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/national/kyoto-city-government-set-pass-lodging-tax-visitors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T19:27:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/n-kyoto-a-20170808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kyoto-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists flocking to the city of Kyoto may see a lodging tax appear on their hotel bills as early as next year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/reference/japan-working-hard-douse-fire-ant-invasion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T19:33:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fire ant found at Hakata port in Fukuoka in mid-July is seen.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/national/social-issues/japans-shrinking-rural-population-poses-dilemma-democracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T19:33:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/n-okawa-a-20170808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okawa-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The quiet mountain village of Okawa, Kochi Prefecture, is spurring a nationwide debate by advocating the possibility of abolishing its municipal assembly and introducing direct democracy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/business/corporate-business/alliance-happy-auto-industry-go-alone-honda-odd-carmaker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T19:52:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takahiro Hachigo, president and chief executive officer of Honda Motor Co., steps out of the company's NSX supercar as he attends a launch event in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/asia-pacific/xis-move-punish-north-korea-buys-time-trump-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T19:52:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/f-trumpxi-a-20170808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpxi-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrive for a meeting on the sidelines of the Group of 20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 8.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-south-korea-u-s-plan-international-push-denuclearize-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T20:26:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/n-trilateral-a-20170808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trilateral-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (left), South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha (middle) and Foreign Minister Taro Kono pose during a  photo session during their ministerial meeting on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' regional security forum in Manila on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/asia-pacific/software-engineer-held-hacking-indian-biometric-id-platform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-07T23:05:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/f-indianhacker-a-20170808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-indianhacker-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian candidates use typewriters during the last official typing exam conducted by the state government in Mumbai on Monday. Typewriters have largely been consigned to history in many countries, and high-tech India might soon join the list as its shift to globalization and mastery of the latest computer technologies drives its economic boom.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/national/politics-diplomacy/dp-calls-new-okinawa-minister-sacked-reading-aloud-gaffe-diet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-08T04:22:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/n-esaki-a-20170808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-esaki-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tetsuma Esaki , new minister in charge of issues related to Okinawa and the disputed Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, speaks to reporters Sunday in Tokyo after suggesting he will just read text prepared by bureaucrats when answering questions in the Diet.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/08/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-ready-talk-north-korea-stops-missile-tests-tillerson-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-08T06:20:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usnk-a-20170809.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. State Secretary Rex Tillerson passes by the table of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the start of the 7th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers' Meeting and its dialogue partners as part of the 50th ASEAN Ministerial Meetings in Manila Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/national/crime-legal/man-held-allegedly-kicking-woman-using-smartphone-near-collision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-08T10:27:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/08/world/islamic-state-rained-rockets-lebanon-syria-border-enclave-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-08T11:12:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lebanon-a-20170809.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian refugees arrive in Wadi Hamayyed, on the outskirts of Lebanon's northeastern border town of Arsal, to board buses bound for the northwestern Syrian town of Idlib on Aug. 2.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/national/residents-warned-typhoon-noru-looks-set-make-shikoku-landfall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-08T11:41:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/n-typhoon-a-20170808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-typhoon-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[High waves pound the coast of Kushima, Miyazaki Prefecture, Sunday afternoon as Typhoon Noru approaches.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/08/world/military-can-destroy-drones-domestic-u-s-bases-pentagon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-08T12:16:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/f-drones-a-20170809.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-drones-a-20170809.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An vendor shows off a small drone during a show for retailers in Salt Lake City on July 29.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/national/crime-legal/yamanashi-mayor-arrested-allegedly-inflating-test-score-city-hall-applicant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-08T13:20:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/n-mayor-a-20170808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mayor-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiki Mochizuki]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/08/asia-pacific/u-s-professor-accused-agent-foreign-influence-singapore-appeals-expulsion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-08T13:48:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/f-BRI-sing-a-20170809.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-sing-a-20170809.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Huang Jing]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/08/business/economy-business/japans-current-account-surplus-sets-10-year-high-first-half-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-08T13:49:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/b-surplus-a-20170809.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-surplus-a-20170809.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker sits on a scooter near a stack of shipping containers at a port in the city of Shizuoka. Japan's current account surplus expanded in the January-June period to its highest level since 2007.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/08/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/meeting-chinese-vietnamese-ministers-canceled-amid-south-china-sea-tensions/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pham Binh Minh]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-08T14:32:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is behind Sprint Corp.'s resumed talks about a potential merger with T-Mobile US Inc.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-08T14:47:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-08T14:58:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara speaks at a news conference on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-08T15:25:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-08T16:02:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Comments made by Former Defense Minister Tomomi Inada in June highlight the ongoing problem of gender stereotyping in Japan's media and public discourse.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-08T17:59:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-08T20:33:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-08T20:33:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[AstraZeneca is seeking approval in Japan for its cancer drug Olaparibin. The drug has already been approved in the United States and the European Union.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-08T22:05:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this image taken from footage run by China's CCTV on Friday, artillery guns fire during a live-fire drill by the Chinese army in China's Tibet Autonomous Region that border India. Beijing is intensifying its warnings to Indian troops to get out of a contested region high in the Himalayas where China, India and Bhutan meet.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-09T04:12:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koichi Mizushima, minister at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, enters South Korea's Foreign Ministry building on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-09T06:10:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-09T07:49:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-09T08:04:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Argentina's Diego Armando Maradona (left) and then-Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez embrace upon Maradona's arrival to the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas in 2010. On Monday, Maradona made a post on Facebook reading: "We are Chavistas to the death." He also wrote that if current President Nicolas Maduro were to order it, he would "dress as a soldier for a free Venezuela, to fight imperialism."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (right) and Foreign Minister Taro Kono listen to Philippine Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano's opening remarks during the 18th ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers Meeting in Manila on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-09T12:33:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sports economist Andrew Zimbalist speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about North Korea during an opioid-related briefing at Trump's golf estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai started the Seed Accelerator Program in 2014 to encourage invention and risk-taking.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women pray at Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki on Wednesday, the 72nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/09/business/uniqlo-chief-yanai-makes-2017-asia-game-changers-list-praised-making-philanthrophy-fashionable/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuhiro Higashiiriki, chairman and CEO of smartphone screen-maker Japan Display, talks about the company's restructuring plans during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-09T20:31:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Confiscated elephant tusks are shown to the media at a Tokyo police station in June. Environmental conservation group Traffic says the operators of e-commerce websites are not doing enough to crack down illegal ivory sales.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-09T20:55:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-09T21:45:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber sits on the tarmac at Anderson Air Force Base on Guam last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-09T22:56:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T05:42:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan returns to the U.S. Yokosuka Naval Base Wednesday after a nearly three-month mission that included patrols and drills in the Sea of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T05:44:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and Gen. Ngo Xuan Lich, minister of national defense of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, listen to their respective National Anthems during arrival ceremonies at the Pentagon in Washington Tuesday. Mattis warned North Korea on Wednesday that it would be "grossly" outmatched in any conflict with the U.S., telling Pyongyang to stop considering any action that risked "the destruction of its people."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/10/business/corporate-business/u-s-fund-kkr-suspend-tender-offer-hitachi-chip-device-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-10T08:50:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kohlberg Kravis Roberts decided to suspend a tender offer for Hitachi Ltd.'s chip manufacturing device maker.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers rebuild a Yazidi shrine, after is was destroyed by Islamic State, in Bashiqa, a town near Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber takes off from Guam for a strike against the Viet Cong in Vietnam, 2,200 miles away, during the Vietnam War in 1965. The small U.S. territory of Guam has become a focal point after North Korea's army threatened to use ballistic missiles to create an "enveloping fire" around the island. The exclamation came after President Donald Trump warned Pyongyang of "fire and fury like the world has never seen" on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T14:18:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T14:19:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[American soldiers on Corregidor, Philippine Islands, surrender to Japanese troops in May 1942.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T15:06:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Maiopatagium with a baby climbs on a tree trunk  160 million years ago in this illustration.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T15:48:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelan singer Jesus Alberto Miranda, known as Chino (left), and Chacao Mayor Ramon Muchacho sing the national anthem during an anti-government protest in Caracas. Venezuela's supreme court ordered the removal and arrest of Muchacho Tuesday for not following an order to remove barricades set up in the Chacao district of eastern Caracas. He's the fourth opposition mayor whose arrest the high court has sought in the past two weeks.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T15:48:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T15:59:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T16:23:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T16:54:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sailors stand aboard the attack submarine USS Oklahoma City as it returns home to Guam on Dec. 8, 2016. North Korea says it is considering strikes near U.S. installations in Guam.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/10/business/economy-business/machinery-orders-japan-slipped-1-9-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-10T17:24:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker assembles an engine on a production line in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, in March 2017. Japan saw core private-sector machinery orders fall in June for the third straight month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/10/national/election-gears-governor-vows-block-reactor-restart-tokai-nuclear-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-10T18:15:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T18:32:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's food self-sufficiency rate drops further mainly due to falling rice consumption.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T18:37:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T18:40:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T18:46:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitachi Zosen President Takashi Tanisho said the company can offer solid-state lithium-ion batteries that are on par with the liquid type in performance.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/10/business/corporate-business/toshiba-ducks-delisting-submitting-long-overdue-financial-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-10T20:58:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T20:59:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to the health ministry, 41.8 percent of hospital doctors worked more than 60 hours per week in 2012 — the highest among all workers.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-10T20:59:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-11T06:09:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-11T08:44:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo taken Thursday in Weelde shows a local office for Poultry-Vision, a Belgian company specializing in animal health products for the poultry sector, under investigation for having sold a product containing the prohibited insecticide Fipronil to the Dutch firm ChickFriend. Dutch investigators arrested two suspects Thursday in an intensified European investigation into insecticide-tainted eggs, as the scandal spread eastward with the discovery of a ton of contaminated yolk in Romania.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/11/asia-pacific/canadian-pastor-freed-north-korea-healthy-passes-japan-way-home/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Rev. Hyeon Soo Lim is shown in this undated file photo from the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Mississauga, Ontario.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces keeps watch as his comrades try to lacate an Islamic State sniper in Al Senaa, a district of Raqqa, Syria, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photograph, taken by the U.S. Navy and obtained Thursday, shows the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain patrolling in the South China Sea in January. The ship on Thursday sailed close to an artificial island China has built up in the South China Sea as part of a "freedom of navigation" operation, an official said. The McCain sailed within 12 nautical miles of Mischief Reef.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The coastline of North Korea is seen across the water from the Chinese port of Yicuomao in Dandong, Liaoning province, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address for the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, California, on May 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-11T17:07:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a February budget committee session of the House of Representativest in Tokyo. Less than six months ago Abe appeared poised to stay in power until 2021, becoming Japan's longest-serving leader and cementing a coveted place in history. Now, the humbled hawk finds himself fighting for his political life or, in the words of one observer, scrambling to crawl out of a "hell hole."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tatsuya Iwasaki]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese H-6 bomber flies over the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan on Jan. 9.|DEFENSE MINISTRY/ VIA KYODO]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Sonic Mania"]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's graying population is a major driver of the country's increasing health care spending.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/12/business/tobacco-tax-revenue-shrink-%c2%a550-billion-year-study/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's tobacco tax revenue is likely to shrink by more than ¥50 billion this year as more smokers switch to heated tobaccos.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/12/national/media-national/role-rules-moral-education/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-12T22:44:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A citizens' group has been scrutinizing textbooks that have been submitted for government approval. The textbooks include some discussion on whether a pumpkin has a right to grow freely.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-12T18:17:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves No. 10 Downing St. in London on July 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-12T19:07:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tourism official wears a ninja outfit in Koka, Shiga Prefecture, on July 13 to promote an upcoming ninja test in Tokyo in October.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children on Saturday blow bubbles at the monument erected on Osutaka Ridge in Gunma Prefecture to mourn the victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash. The event was held on the 32nd anniversary of the accident, in which 520 passengers and crew died.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-13T20:29:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abeno Harukas, Japan's tallest building, is becoming a popular destination for international travelers in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Mueller]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zeynep Arican drinks a cup of Japanese tea during Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.'s global analyst program at Happo-en garden in Tokyo on July 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/13/national/astroscale-exec-boldly-clean-no-one-cleaned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-14T10:36:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobu Okada, CEO of Astroscale PTE Ltd., shows off a miniature model of a "debris rotator" he developed, at the company's Tokyo office on Aug. 2. Okada used to carry the gadget around to business meetings to promote his space junk removal project.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends a news conference in Kabul on June 14.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Swedish journalist Kim Wall appears to stand next to Peter Madsen in the tower of his private submarine, UC3 Nautilus, in Copenhagen Harbor on Thursday evening.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-14T16:22:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-14T17:17:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiko Sasaki arranges a display of T-shirts at her boutique Parisien in Tokyo's Harajuku district on July 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/14/business/corporate-business/mufg-plans-hire-saudi-arabia-tap-privatizations-valued-350-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-14T17:27:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is set to become the first Japanese lender to start full banking operations in Saudi Arabia.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-14T17:27:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopper chooses clothes at a store in Tokyo's Omotesando shopping district. Japan's economy gained momentum in the April-June quarter thanks to stronger consumer spending, but economists are split over whether the trend will continue.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-14T17:29:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Koreans line up to join or rejoin the Korean People's Army in Pyongyang on Thursday following new U.N. sanctions.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-14T17:31:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly upgraded Sayyad-3 air defense missiles are displayed on July 22 at an undisclosed location in Iran.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-14T19:05:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manish Sharma]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-14T19:36:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-14T20:40:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (right) hands a document urging Tokyo to give up on moving the Futenma base to Nago, to Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-14T20:40:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Eisaku Sato meets with U.S. President Richard Nixon at the White House in November 1969. The two later agreed to have Okinawa revert to Japanese rule.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-14T20:40:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic revitalization minister Toshimitsu Motegi speaks at a news conference Monday as Japan's economy marked the longest growth run since 2006 in the April-June period.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-14T20:40:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe receives a written request from Shimane Gov. Zenbe Mizoguchi (second from right) and the governors of Kochi (far left), Ehime (second from left) and Hiroshima prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-15T04:13:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue dog Jagaimo shows off his skills in a mock rescue operation on Monday in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-15T04:17:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Debris from what is believed to be a small plane that crashed in a mountainous part of the village of Yamazoe, Nara Prefecture, is seen from a helicopter on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-15T06:12:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-15T08:40:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/business/trump-orders-inquiry-whether-probe-china-intellectual-property-theft/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T08:43:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by (from left) Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, delivers remarks before signing a memorandum directing the U.S. Trade Representative to complete a review of trade issues with China at the White House in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/world/syrian-forces-surround-islamic-state-pocket-homs-desert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T10:34:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boys ride a bicycle near rubble of damaged buildings in Douma, near Damascus, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/business/merck-ceo-quits-trump-manufacturing-council-charlottesville-draws-snide-tweet-revenge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T10:46:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in February alongside Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier during a meeting with manufacturing CEOs in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump lambasted Merck's CEO on Monday after the African-American pharmaceutical executive resigned from a White House advisory council, citing Trump's controversial response to a violent white supremacist rally.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/world/arson-suspected-90-wildfires-rage-greece-gutting-homes-spurring-evacuations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T11:14:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A firefighting airplane makes a water drop as a wildfire burns near the village of Metochi, north of Athens, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/14/reference/some-japanese-brand-legacies-stand-to-profit-from-geographical-indication-others-not-so-much/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T11:51:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker inspects wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese at a storehouse in Modena, Italy, in February 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/13/national/roller-coaster-test-run-leaves-one-dead-one-injured-amusement-park-beppu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T12:09:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One man was killed and another was injured Saturday while this roller coaster was being tested at Kijima Kogen Park in Beppu, Oita Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/14/national/comfort-women-statues-installed-seoul-buses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T12:32:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-statue-a-20170815.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon touches the hand of a "comfort woman" statue installed on a bus in Seoul on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/business/corporate-business/japans-financial-firms-team-rural-areas-offer-unique-tourism-experiences-visitors-overseas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T14:35:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/n-tourism-a-20170816.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n tourism-a 20170816]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors from Taiwan enjoy sashimi at a fishermen's cooperative in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Nov. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/national/crime-legal/tokyo-court-introduces-tablets-provide-trial-info-public/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T15:08:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tablet computers will be introduced from Tuesday at a court building in Tokyo that hosts the Tokyo High Court and the Tokyo District Court, for visitors to check trial information of the day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/national/bears-beware-traditional-tohoku-hunters-dagger-enjoys-strong-sales-internet-popularity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T15:11:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daggers called nagasa crafted by blacksmith Noboru Nishine on display at his store in Kita-Akita, Akita Prefecture, in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/national/15-japanese-rescued-stranded-floods-borneo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T15:37:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/national/tokyo-looks-tap-tech-small-firms-not-involved-defense-sdf-equipment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T16:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Ministry documents obtained by Kyodo News show the ministry is exploring incorporating small companies' technologies to use to equip the Self-Defense Forces.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/business/japan-russia-mull-cruises-around-disputed-islands-part-joint-economic-activities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T16:12:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese government officials and private-sector experts inspect a site scheduled for a hot springs resort development on Russian-held, Japan-claimed Kunashiri Island on June 28 during a visit to assess potential joint economic activities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/national/people-20-remain-subject-japans-gambling-ban-even-adult-age-lowered/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T16:26:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to continue banning people under 20 from gambling even after the adult age is lowered from the current 20 to 18, sources said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/asia-pacific/kim-jong-uns-hopes-gain-nuclear-game-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T16:52:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reviews the plan for landing missiles near the U.S. territory of Guam in this undated still photo taken from video provided by KRT.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/09/national/asean-japan-offer-tourists-great-diversity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T18:10:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[ASEAN member states offer tourists an abundance of nature and destinations to enjoy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/09/national/halal-cafe-encourages-cultural-exchange-shared-meals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T18:10:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[z5-halal-b-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Halal Deli and Cafe]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/09/national/deep-commitment-temple-preservation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T18:10:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Restoration work at Angkor Wat]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/09/national/university-actively-participating-exchange-programs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T18:10:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[z5-saims-d-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students taking part in TDHD, compulsory course of SAIMS Program.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/09/national/program-provides-international-immersion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T18:11:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[z4-rikkyo-b-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students have many opportunities for international exchanges on campus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/09/national/asean-students-increase-high-corporate-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T18:11:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[z4-student-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of students from ASEAN region is increasing in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/09/national/youth-encouraged-expand-horizons-travel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T18:11:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[z3-event-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A seminar on travel to Southeast Asia was held in Tokyo, Aug. 1, as one of the events by the ASEAN-Japan Centre to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ASEAN.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/09/national/major-role-ensuring-asian-stability-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T18:11:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[z1-sunaga-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Sunaga, ambassador of Japan to ASEAN.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/09/national/partnering-change-engaging-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T18:11:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jose C. Laurel V., ambassador of the Republic of the Philippines.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/business/corporate-business/softbank-invests-major-indian-e-commerce-operator-flipkart-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T18:18:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20170816.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/09/national/working-boost-regional-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T18:47:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[z2-center-a-20170808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secretary-General of the ASEAN-Japan Centre Masataka Fujita speaks at the center in Tokyo on  July 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/14/world/social-issues-world/social-injustices-caused-charlottesville-melee-victim-weep-boss-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T18:59:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A makeshift memorial of flowers and a photo of victim Heather Heyer are seen in Charlottesville, Virginia, Sunday. Heyer died when a car rammed into a group of people who were protesting the presence of white supremacists who had gathered in the city for a rally.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/business/corporate-business/toshibas-hopes-quick-chip-unit-sale-imperiled-talks-stall-payment-timing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T21:03:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. President Satoshi Tsunakawa arrives last Thursday for a press conference in Tokyo, after the company's auditors signed off on its full-year earnings.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/world/merck-chief-quits-armour-ceo-steps-trumps-business-council/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T21:09:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Founder and CEO of Under Armour Kevin Plank speaks during an IBM keynote address at the 2016 CES trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, in January last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/national/6000-offer-prayers-tokyo-event-held-72nd-anniversary-japans-world-war-ii-surrender/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T21:10:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/n-ceremony-a-20170816.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ceremony-a-20170816.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko bow before an altar decorated with a bank of chrysanthemums during a memorial service at Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo on Tuesday as Japan marked the 72nd anniversary of its World War II surrender.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-cabinet-steer-clear-war-linked-yasukuni-shrine-anniversary-world-war-ii-surrender/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T21:10:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/n-yasukunivisit-a-20170816.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yasukunivisit-a-20170816.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmakers visit the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Tuesday, the 72nd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/national/politics-diplomacy/south-koreas-moon-urges-japans-leaders-show-courage-address-decades-old-wartime-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T21:10:45+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-trump-reaffirm-importance-halting-north-korean-missile-launches/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T21:18:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abetrump-a-20170816.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses reporters in Tokyo on Tuesday after a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump about North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/business/british-prime-minister-theresa-may-lead-business-delegation-japan-meet-abe-emperor-akihito/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T21:23:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/03/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-nominee-china-ambassador-promises-firm-line-beijing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T21:28:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/world/mayor-says-270-bodies-recovered-sierra-leone-mudslide-rescue-efforts-continue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-15T23:14:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-slmudslide-a-20170816.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma (second from right) visits the site of a mudslide near Freetown on Tuesday after landslides struck the capital of the west African state.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/national/2000-olympic-mascot-design-submissions-received-deadline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T04:31:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mascot-a-20170816.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryohei Miyata, commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, hits a gong to mark the kickoff of a contest to choose a mascot for the 2020 Tokyo Games on Aug. 1 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/business/lufthansa-seen-circling-air-berlin-files-protection-etihad-pulls-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T06:09:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-airberlin-a-20170817.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Airbus of Air Berlin takes off in Duesseldorf, Germany, Tuesday. Struggling German carrier Air Berlin says it's filing for bankruptcy after its main shareholder, Abu Dhabi-based Etihad, said it would make no more financing available. The Economy Ministry and Transport Ministry said Tuesday in a statement that the airline would get a loan of €150 million ($177 million) so that it can continue flights for the time being.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/business/taxpayers-expected-take-hit-trump-moves-dump-obama-era-flood-risk-building-standards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T06:14:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/world/rebels-take-credit-downing-syrian-mig-show-photos-pilot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T08:20:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/iran-quit-nuclear-deal-hours-higher-level-u-s-levels-new-sanctions-rouhani/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T09:22:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/f-iran-a-20170817.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-iran-a-20170817.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a session of parliament to debate his proposed Cabinet, in Tehran Tuesday. Iran's president issued a direct threat to the West on Tuesday, claiming his country is capable of restarting its nuclear program within hours — and quickly bringing it to even more advanced levels than in 2015, when Iran signed the nuclear deal with world powers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/world/social-issues-world/libyan-coast-guard-threatens-spanish-ngos-migrant-rescue-ship-chases-off/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T11:02:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Libyan coast guard vessel chases away the former fishing trawler Golf Azzurro of the Proactiva Open Arms rescue charity in the Western Mediterranean Sea Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/asia-pacific/bali-schoolchildren-hold-tsunami-drill-help-u-n-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T11:59:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bali-a-20170817.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pupils protect their heads as they run to a safe place during a tsunami drill at Tanjung Benoa school in Badung, Indonesia's Bali resort island, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/national/historic-taipei-shrine-dating-back-japanese-colonial-era-vandalized/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T12:55:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this undated photo, graffiti is seen at Yuanshan Water Shrine in Taipei.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/asia-pacific/north-korea-likely-can-produce-missile-engines-without-imports-u-s-intelligence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T14:05:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkengines-a-20170817.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A public television at a rail station in Seoul broadcasts news on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un receiving a briefing on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/national/u-s-japan-exercise-hokkaido-will-use-osprey-starting-friday-despite-safety-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T14:07:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Marine Corps Osprey aircraft participates in a joint training exercise with the Ground Self-Defense Force in Niigata in March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/business/researchers-japan-use-wood-make-cellulose-nanofiber-auto-parts-stronger-lighter-metal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T14:29:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/b-wood-a-20170816.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wood-a-20170816.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[These wood chips and fibers, when converted into cellulose nanofibers, are used to make lighter auto parts.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/11/national/science-health/chimpanzees-trained-master-rock-scissors-paper-kyoto-university-researchers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T15:06:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A chimpanzee at Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute accurately points to the image of a scissors hand gesture as the winner over a paper gesture during a learning exercise conducted at the facility in February.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/15/national/young-japanese-war-mostly-seen-something-dim-distant-past/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T15:16:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n youths-a 20170816_v0.2]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo release doves in a gesture of peace on Tuesday, the 72nd anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/business/taiwan-blackout-affects-millions-households-amid-stifling-summer-heat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T15:54:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-tackout-z-20170817.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk on a street during a massive power outage in Taipei on Aug. 15.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/national/japans-day-care-shortage-intensifies-populations-cluster-near-city-centers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T18:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-daycare-a-20170817.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Parents participate in a February gathering to exchange information about day care options in the city of Musashino in Tokyo. The meeting was held after the results of day care facility applications were announced.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/business/corporate-business/toyota-launches-first-eco-sedan-thailand-boost-green-car-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T18:50:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota has unveiled its first environmentally friendly sedan model for sale in Thailand.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/12/national/media-national/meti-seeks-pass-nuclear-buck-release-waste-disposal-map/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T19:59:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This 2013 file photo shows radioactive waste sealed in large stainless steel canisters under a five-feet of concrete in a controversial storage facility near Aiken, South Carolina. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has plans to dispose of Japan's nuclear waste using similar means.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-may-able-shoot-north-korean-missiles-no-legal-basis-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T21:25:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis-class destroyer Kirishima test-fires an SM-3 missile off the island of Kauai, Hawaii, in October 2010.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/national/international-treaty-curbing-mercury-pollution-enters-force/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T21:27:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinobu Sakamoto, a Minamata disease patient who suffered mercury poisoning in utero, speaks to reporters in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/national/large-bounty-offered-giant-tortoise-run/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-16T21:34:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aboo, the giant tortoise which ran away from a zoo in Okayama Prefecture, is shown in this photo taken in July at Shibukawa Animal Park in Tamano, Okayama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/national/single-engine-plane-nara-crash-likely-broke-apart-midair/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T04:17:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wreckage from a small plane that crashed in the mountains of Yamazoe, Nara Prefecture, is seen Monday in a photo provided by local firefighters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/world/social-issues-world/baltimore-quickly-quietly-removes-four-confederate-statues-deadly-virginia-rally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T07:50:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers remove the monuments to Robert E. Lee, commander of the pro-slavery Confederate army in the American Civil War, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a Confederate general, from Wyman Park in Baltimore early Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/business/trump-dumps-business-policy-councils-ceos-quit-protest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T08:09:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Ken Frazier (right), CEO of Merck, during a Made in America Week event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on July 20. Trump announced Wednesday he was scrapping two business advisory councils in the wake of several high-profile resignations in protest over his comments on a white supremacist rally in Virginia that turned violent.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/maduro-threatens-dissidents-prison-truth-commission-probes-opposition-violent-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T10:02:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) stand guard outside the house of Venezuela's ex-chief prosecutor, Luisa Ortega, in Caracas on Wednesday. The Venezuelan prosecutor's office requested the arrest of the husband of removed general prosecutor Ortega, a deputy dissident of the chavism, for allegedly integrating a network that extorted suspects of corruption.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/world/belgian-town-upholds-22-year-tradition-cooks-giant-omelet-despite-europe-egg-scare/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T10:24:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the worldwide fraternity of the omelet prepare a traditional giant omelet made with 10,000 eggs in Malmedy, Belgium, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/world/crime-legal-world/lebanon-drops-law-let-rapists-off-hook-married-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T11:11:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An activist from the Lebanese NGO Abaad stands in a golden cage dressed as a bride during a protest in front of the government building in downtown Beirut in March. On Wednesday parliament repealed a law that allowed rapists to avoid prison by marrying their victims, which had been in place since the 1940s, and follows years of campaigning by women's rights advocates.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/asia-pacific/aussie-agencies-help-satellite-drift-data-pinpoint-likely-location-mh370/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T11:12:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The HMAS Success scans the southern Indian Ocean, near the coast of Western Australia, as a Royal New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion flies over, while searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in 2014. Scientists have potentially narrowed the search area for the missing Malaysian airliner to three specific locations in the southern Indian Ocean, through new satellite and drift analysis of the 2014 crash released Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/national/overseas-travel-japan-rises-new-record-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T12:10:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walking along the Sumida River during a summer festival in Tokyo's Asakusa neighborhood on Aug. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/29/national/enoshima-island-spotlight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T12:20:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The lighthouse, known as Enoshima Sea Candle, is lit up on the night of July 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/business/ex-nomura-salesman-exiled-chicago-goes-hostile-tiny-japan-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T13:22:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A former Nomura Holdings salesman working for Chicago's RMB Capital Management urges small firms with big cash holdings to improve, going hostile if they ignore him.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/national/social-issues/students-outed-teachers-however-well-intentioned-feel-risk-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T14:17:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyosei Net, a Tokyo-based support network for LGBT people, says it is handling a growing number of consultations related to "outing," the act of exposing the sexual orientation of others without their consent.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/world/food-aid-reaches-thousands-devastated-sierra-leone-mudslide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T14:27:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman who lost a son in a mudslide on the outskirts of Freetown is consoled near the entrance of Connaught Hospital in Sierra Leone's capital on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/national/emperor-empress-visit-remote-isles-kyushu-rain-disaster-sites-october-offer-words-encouragement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T15:20:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are planning to visit Kyushu in late October and mid-November, according to Imperial Household Agency sources.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/national/npo-looks-set-lgbt-hospitality-venue-2020-tokyo-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T16:38:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gon Matsunaka (right), founder and head of Good Aging Yells, an LGBT support group, poses at Pride House, a hospitality center for LGBT athletes and fans, during the 2016 Rio Olympics. He plans to set up a similar facility at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/national/first-57-temporary-homes-built-displaced-residents-disaster-hit-fukuoka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T17:21:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Temporary homes await residents in a school yard in Asakura, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Thursday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/world/melbourne-named-livable-city-7th-year-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T18:23:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-liveability-a-20170818.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Melbourne received perfect scores for health care, education and infrastructure in this year's Global Liveability Report.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/philippine-war-drugs-crime-intensifies-least-58-killed-three-days/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T18:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer tries to comfort a man by giving him a glass of water after his brother was killed in a spate of drug-related violence Wednesday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/business/u-s-talks-tough-trade-deficit-talks-nafta-revisions-begin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T19:23:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bob Lighthizer, U.S. trade representative, left, talks to Chrystia Freeland, Canada's minister of foreign affairs, center, and Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, secretary of economy for Mexico, right, after opening statements during the first round of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiations in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/national/princess-mako-boyfriend-kei-komuro-publicly-announce-engagement-sept-3/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-17T19:24:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Mako and Kei Komuro are set to announce their engagement on Sept. 3.]]></image:caption>
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