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		<lastmod>2017-08-17T21:27:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot from YouTube video released Wednesday shows the new U.S. ambassador to Japan, William Hagerty, sending a message to the people of Japan from his home in Nashville, Tennessee.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Student leader Joshua Wong leaves the Hong Kong High Court in a prison van after his sentencing on charges related to the 2014 pro-democracy "Umbrella Movement" on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/world/wildfire-ravaged-parts-portugal-declared-state-public-calamity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T06:13:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-18T08:06:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-18T08:17:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facing reporters (from left) Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera and Foreign Minister Taro Kono listen as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks during a news conference Thursday, at the State Department in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/world/sierra-leone-holds-mass-burial-300-braces-downpours-mudslides/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T08:31:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Victims of a mudslide are buried at the cemetery of Freetown on Thursday. Sierra Leone buried at least 300 victims of devastating floods, as fears grew of more mudslides and accusations of government "inaction" over deforestation and poor urban planning mounted.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/world/catalan-police-say-killed-four-terrorists-cambrils/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T10:03:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-18T11:15:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump walks across the tarmac from Marine One to board Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, Monday. Bombarded by the sharpest attacks yet from fellow Republicans, Trump on Thursday, dug into his defense of racist groups by attacking members of his own party and renouncing the rising movement to pull down monuments to Confederate icons.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-18T14:50:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/business/corporate-business/packaging-firm-rengo-focuses-innovations-cardboard-drive-corporate-efficiency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T14:56:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rengo Co.'s cardboard box for beer, which can be opened easily and used as a display box, is shown in this photo taken on July 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/national/four-msdf-servicemen-treated-helicopter-flips-iwakuni-air-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T16:26:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Maritime Self-Defense Force CH-101 helicopter crashed Thursday at the MSDF Iwakuni Base in Yamaguchi Prefecture, after it flipped over during a drill.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/business/corporate-business/toyota-unveil-car-sharing-app-hawaii-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T17:16:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-osprey-joins-joint-drill-despite-opposition-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T17:22:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. MV-22 arrives in Hokkaido on Friday to take part in a joint drill with the Ground Self-Defense Force.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/business/philippines-courts-japan-china-invest-135-billion-power-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T17:38:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manila's skyline is reflected on a river showing both residential and business districts in the Philippines.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/business/ustr-raises-concerns-japans-safeguard-tariffs-u-s-beef/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T17:54:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Lighthizer, U.S. trade representative, speaks during the first round of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiations in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/business/corporate-business/mori-building-ventures-southeast-asia-market-construction-office-tower-jakarta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T18:13:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/business/china-property-market-cools-july-regulators-imposed-curbs-lending/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T18:28:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/national/ways-curb-gamblings-social-ills-top-talks-second-casino-hearing-osaka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T18:37:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/world/crime-legal-world/islamic-state-takes-credit-spain-searches-van-driver-mowed-barcelona-crowd/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T19:19:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A van is towed away from the area where it crashed into pedestrians at Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/business/japans-budding-fashion-rental-services-proving-popular-working-women-moms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T20:01:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More and more companies, such as Aircloset, are offering rental services for clothing changing people's view of their daily wardrobe as something to rent rather than own.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/business/fashion-rentals-make-sense-moms-go-often-kids-tow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T20:01:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aircloset Inc. sends a new batch of clothes in a box after the user returns the old one.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/national/gifu-nursing-home-probed-following-three-deaths-two-weeks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T22:57:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenichi Orishige, head of medical corporation Doujinkai, which runs the Soleil nursing home, in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, speaks at a news conference on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/national/skipper-relieved-command-sailors-face-punishment-u-s-warship-collision-off-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-18T22:57:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald returns to Fleet Activities (FLEACT) Yokosuka following a collision with a merchant vessel while operating southwest of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/business/financial-markets/bearish-bets-japan-display-approaches-record-restructuring-plan-announcement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-19T10:55:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuhiro Higashiiriki, chairman and chief executive officer of Japan Display Inc., attends a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/19/asia-pacific/beijing-puts-pressure-u-k-academic-publisher-pull-scholarly-articles-china-website/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-19T12:17:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cambridge University Press, one of Britain's most respected academic publishers, has blocked online access in China to hundreds of scholarly articles and book reviews on Chinese affairs after coming under pressure from Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/19/world/finnish-police-say-quite-certain-know-turku-terrorist-attackers-identity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-19T13:21:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman plays a "kantele," a traditional Finnish stringed instrument, in Turku's market square where several people were stabbed during a terrorist attack on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/business/blasts-past-japans-gaming-classics-get-retro-revival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-19T13:56:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French tourists shop for video game titles for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) console at the Super Potato video game store in Akihabara, Tokyo, on Aug. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/19/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/chinese-nobel-laureate-liu-xiaobos-widow-makes-first-appearance-since-funeral/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-19T14:30:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester covers his eyes with red ribbon to call for the release of Liu Xia, the wife of late Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, in Hong Kong on Wednesday. The sign reads: "Missing person. Please help to find Liu Xia."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/19/asia-pacific/amid-korea-tensions-u-s-says-fewer-troops-will-take-part-war-games-south/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-19T15:47:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Koreans wearing gas masks flee a mock attack as part of the Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercises in Seoul in August 2010.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A drone disguised as a hawk clutching a monkey flies over a farm in the city of Oita in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/19/national/history/wabi-lies-heart-japanese-history/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kamo no Chomei]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/19/national/media-national/japan-grapples-new-arrivals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-19T22:52:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The perfect picture: Visitors observe the changing of the Imperial Guard officers at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Japan's top tourist destinations have seen a rise in visitors and in some cases their presence is impacting the lives of residents.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facing hard truths: Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (right) and his South Korean counterpart, Yun Byung-se, concluded an agreement on the "comfort women" issue in December 2015. Three Japanese women have spoken publicly about their own experiences at the hand of Soviet troops in Manchuria at the end of World War II.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ihor Kharchenko]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Pacific Command chief Adm. Harry Harris provides U.S. Naval War College students, staff and faculty with an overview of the PACOM theatre during a visit to the college in Newport, Rhode Island, in April.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the command of the Korean People's Army's Strategic Force at an unknown location in the country in this undated photo released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Shinjuku Marui Annex official shows off the department store's trial bitcoin payment system on Aug. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-21T17:33:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Calbee Inc.'s granola cereals have proved a time-saver for a growing class of Japanese working mothers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/21/business/nafta-sides-vow-seal-quick-deal-first-round-u-s-canada-mexico-talks-wrap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-21T17:42:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-21T17:55:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ben Rhodes, who was deputy national security adviser to former U.S. President Barack Obama, is interviewed in Tokyo last week by The Japan Times.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/unwavering-trump-voters-say-will-not-miss-steve-bannon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-21T18:57:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steve Bannon]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-21T19:56:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Electric current from a battery placed near the knuckle flows through the conductor and powers an LED near the fingertip.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-21T21:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic Corp.'s Hospi robot can deliver drinks to customers and clear away dishes from tables at airports and hotel lobbies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/21/business/corporate-business/rural-depopulated-areas-banks-introduce-mobile-atm-vehicles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-21T21:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mobileATM-a-20170821.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An increasing number of Japanese banks are introducing automated teller machines mounted on vehicles to provide easy access to elderly people living in rural areas where there are no bank ATMs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/21/world/russian-jets-reportedly-kill-200-militants-near-syrias-deir-al-zor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-21T22:02:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-21T22:26:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain is seen after a collision near Singapore on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/21/world/university-texas-austin-moving-statues-four-figures-tied-confederacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-21T22:29:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A statue of Robert E. Lee is removed from the University of Texas campus in Austin early Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-21T22:34:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Minamiaso Railway Co., hit by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes, is making an attempt to woo back passengers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/21/asia-pacific/extremely-dissatisfied-china-blames-india-border-scuffle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-21T22:37:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-21T22:38:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Department stores sales in Japan dropped 1.4 percent in July from a year earlier on a same-store basis, due partly to weak sales of clothes and food items.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/21/national/japan-backtracks-basing-ospreys-civilian-use-saga-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-21T22:38:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ospreys-a-20170822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is planning to deploy MV-22 Osprey aircraft operated by the Ground Self-Defense Force in the Kyushu region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/21/reference/color-coded-map-identifies-potential-nuclear-waste-sites-japan-local-governments-see-red/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-21T23:28:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20170822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A collage image shows Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko, overlaid with a map of nuclear waste storage candidate sites published last month by the ministry, and Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama reactors No. 3 and No. 4, which went back online in June and May, respectively.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/21/national/wakayama-expand-tsunami-forecast-system-cover-prefectures-entire-coast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-22T04:10:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tsunami-a-20170822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Starting in mid-September, Wakayama Prefecture will provide tsunami forecasts, including projected arrival times and wave heights, along its entire coast.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T06:33:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS America, which is supporting ongoing search for missing crew members of USS John McCain, is seen in Singapore waters Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T06:45:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lebanese army soldiers gesture as they sit on their military vehicles in the town of Ras Baalbek, Lebanon, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/22/world/social-issues-world/liberated-west-mosul-gets-first-major-aid-delivery-since-2014-icrc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-22T08:01:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/22/world/social-issues-world/poll-split-along-racial-party-lines-finds-54-feel-confederate-monuments-preserved/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-22T08:59:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Onlookers watch as Confederate statues are removed from the south mall of the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T10:48:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/22/world/crime-legal-world/spanish-police-corner-gun-barcelona-van-attacker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-22T11:11:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Catalan Mossos d'Escuadra vans are parked along a road near the place where Younes Abouyaaqoub, the man suspected of driving the van that killed 13 people in Barcelona last week, was killed by police in Sant Sadurni d'Noia, Spain, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/22/world/social-issues-world/chile-court-oks-new-law-allowing-abortions-limited-basis-nixing-appeal-lifting-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-22T11:23:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women celebrate after learning that Chile's Constitutional Court will uphold a measure that would end the country's absolute ban on abortions, in Santiago Monday. The court's vote accepts the constitutionality of a measure to legalize abortions when a woman's life is in danger, when a fetus is not viable and in cases of rape.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/21/national/social-issues/child-support-groups-gear-action-suicide-rate-peaks-end-summer-break/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-22T11:36:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n suicide-g 20170822]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/21/national/japanese-war-memorabilia-pile-museums-online-auctions-artifacts-remain-unregulated/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-22T12:28:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers sort out personal items donated by relatives of people who experienced World War II at the Material Pavilion of War and Peace Aichi in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T13:13:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A rock outcrop is seen on Mars' Gale Crater in this undated photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T14:04:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T14:05:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[United Nations chemical weapons experts collect samples from the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, in August 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T15:51:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan decided last year to reduce its Nikkei 225 buying in favor of the Topix.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/22/business/tech/time-prime-worker-scarce-japan-investing-service-robots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-22T15:55:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents exercise at the Asheim Nerima Garden nursing home in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T16:03:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bottle of Johnson's baby powder is displayed in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T16:12:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A computer screen shows an online petition page urging Cambridge University Press to restore more than 300 politically sensitive articles removed from its website in China after a request from authorities, in Beijing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T16:12:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service agents stand guard as Marine One, with President Donald Trump on board, departs the White House in Washington on July 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T16:49:04+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/2017/08/22/national/three-found-dead-akita-apartment-blaze-pair-unaccounted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-22T17:06:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at an apartment building in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, on Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Soleil nursing care facility in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, is seen in this photo taken Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano (left) and former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara hold a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T19:22:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Coast Guard boat searches around the area where a barge is believed to have sunk on Tuesday off Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T20:17:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuaki Hagiwara, who has a schizophrenic condition, works at Transcosmos Inc. in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, in June. The outsourcnig service company actively hires people with mental health issues.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T21:19:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (left) and former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano pose for photos after their first debate at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T21:19:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Derishasu Kagohara deli inside the supermarket Shokusaikan Marche Kagohara, in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, is seen on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-23T00:42:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Ground Self Defense Force members riding a Type 90 tank take part in a joint exercise with U.S. Marine Corps personnel in Eniwa, Hokkaido, on August 16.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai hands in a written request to Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike on Tuesday, asking that the torch relay for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics start from Ishinomaki.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/business/ukraine-cybersecurity-firm-detects-possible-new-malware-attacks-ahead-independence-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T06:15:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-23T10:30:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) launch a rocket toward Islamic State militants on the outskirts of Tal Afar, Iraq, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-23T10:39:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya refugees fleeing from Myanmar sit in a boat after the Bangladesh coast guard stopped them Saturday on the Naf river from entering the country. The coast guard pushed back a boat full of 31 Rohingya Muslims on a bordering river as they were escaping a fresh army buildup in neighboring Myanmar, an official said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/business/indigenous-group-seizes-peru-oil-field-facilities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T11:10:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazonia community leaders (from left) (Apus in their native language) Alfonso Lopez, Aurelio Chino and Carlos Sandia meet with the foreign press in Lima on Tuesday. Amazonia leaders are holding dialogue sessions with Peruvian government officials on the ecological damage and health hazards that oil exploitation in their territories bring. The central issue for the leaders is the prior consultation to their community leaders before the government bids for exploitation in their territory.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/business/800-80000-far-sign-jordan-opens-first-job-center-inside-syrian-refugee-camp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T11:38:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-23T11:49:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain conducts a patrol in the South China Sea in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/22/national/osakas-ancient-burial-mounds-eyed-world-heritage-status-clear-explanations-elude/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T13:44:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nintoku-tenno-ryo (the Nintoku Mausoleum) in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, is part of the Mozu-Furuichi group of ancient burial sites known as kofun, which the government has recently put forward for World Heritage status.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/world/u-s-withhold-290-million-egypt-aid-lack-progress-human-rights-democracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T14:50:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-23T14:58:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly appointed Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera gives a group interview at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/09/business/economic-revitalization-chief-motegi-tackle-education-labor-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T15:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshimitsu Motegi, the new economic revitalization minister, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/10/national/politics-diplomacy/new-education-chief-looks-repair-ministrys-tarnished-image/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T15:01:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Education Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks in an interview on Wednesday at the ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-23T15:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoko Kamikawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/national/mount-ontakes-volcanic-alert-level-set-lowest-level-following-deadly-2014-eruption/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T15:49:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Ontake, which straddles Nagano and Gifu prefectures, is  seen covered in volcanic ash in September 2016, two years after an eruption left 58 people dead and five missing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/national/social-issues/u-s-sex-marriage-advocate-urges-japan-go-beyond-municipal-certificates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T16:39:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mary Bonauto]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/national/politics-diplomacy/kono-warns-loopholes-north-korea-sanctions-urges-strict-implementation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T17:46:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly appointed Foreign Minister Taro Kono speaks during a joint interview on Tuesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/national/high-pressure-boots-central-tokyo-rain-system-21-day-wet-stretch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T17:48:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People swim in a pool at the Toshimaen amusement facility in Tokyo's Nerima Ward last week. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/national/guam-urges-japanese-tourists-ignore-north-korea-missile-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T18:06:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guam's Lieutenant Gov. Raymond Tenorio speaks at a news conference in Tokyo Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/national/crime-legal/police-arrest-mother-alleged-burial-newborn-baby-riverbank-tokyo-suburb/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T18:08:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman has been arrested for allegedly attempting to kill her newborn baby by covering him with dirt and abandoning him on a riverbank in the Tokyo suburb of Higashimurayama, the police said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/business/financial-markets/thinking-unthinkable-japans-stocks-slip-free-yens-grip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T18:16:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-stocks-a-20170824.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some analysts say the link between Japanese stocks and the yen is loosening as the economy shows signs of stability and corporate earnings rise.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/business/foreign-companies-japan-adapting-local-culture-seen-key-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T19:09:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-brand-a-20170824.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Starbucks Coffee Japan Ltd.'s outlet near JR Meguro Station features a specially designed interior inspired by traditional Japanese architecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/asia-pacific/chinese-media-say-collisions-show-u-s-navy-becoming-hazard-asian-waters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T19:46:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mccainchina-a-20170824.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Damage to the port aft hull of the USS John S. McCain, docked at Singapore's Changi Naval Base, is seen on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/national/u-s-navy-relieve-commander-yokosuka-based-7th-fleet-collisions-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T19:52:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mccainwrap-a-20170824.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Royal Malaysian Navy personnel carry a body onto their ship during a search and rescue operation for survivors of the USS John S. McCain ship collision in this undated photo released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/asia-pacific/even-tensions-ease-north-korea-releases-photos-indicating-future-missile-types/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T20:37:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/f-nkmissiles-a-20170824.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkmissiles-a-20170824.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Chemical Material Institute of the Academy of Defense Science in this photo released Wednesday. Posters for two apparently new missiles, the Pukguksong-3 (right) and an unknown Hwasong model are displayed on the walls.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/national/death-toll-akita-apartment-building-blaze-rises-five/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T21:10:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters Wednesday check the charred remains of an apartment building where a fire that broke out in the early hours of Tuesday morning killed five people in Yokote, Akita Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/national/science-health/government-mulls-setting-ai-center-analyze-genetic-data-dementia-patients/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T21:11:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The health ministry plans to set up the nation's first large-scale data hub to analyze the genomes of dementia patients.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/national/unmarried-single-parents-become-eligible-state-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T21:11:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The "relative poverty rate" among single-parent households in Japan is about 50.8 percent.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/national/food-processing-plant-probed-potato-salad-linked-e-coli-poisoning-saitama-gunma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T21:11:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ten people in Saitama and Gunma prefectures were found to have been infected with O-157 E. coli after eating potato salad sold at supermarkets.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/national/politics-diplomacy/russia-designates-isles-claimed-japan-special-economic-zone-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-23T22:31:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev are seen together during their visit to Sevastopol, Crimea, on Aug. 18.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A conservationist works on a 1500-year-old mosaic floor bearing Greek writing, discovered near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, as it is displayed at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/24/world/barcelona-tries-balance-security-freedom-deadly-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-24T08:20:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-24T09:08:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-24T09:15:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-24T10:20:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yemeni Red Crescent workers and civilians stand at the site of an air raid in the Arhab area, around 20 km (13 miles) north of Sanaa, on Wednesday, where a Saudi-lead coalition has been bombing Iran-backed Houthi rebels.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/business/corporate-business/japan-tobacco-targets-emerging-markets-fewer-health-controls-rivals-go-high-tech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-24T10:30:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Tobacco Inc. is targeting emerging markets amid tightening controls.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-24T10:31:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fujitsu Ltd. Arrows NX smartphones are seen on display at an NTT Docomo Inc. store in Tokyo. The electronics manufacturer is reportedly considering selling its mobile phone business after struggling in the market.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-24T14:39:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fighting against the Islamic State group has left the old city of Raqqa, Syria, heavily damaged.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/national/missile-evacuation-drill-held-hyogo-prefecture-sept/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-24T15:03:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People put their hands on their heads during an evacuation drill in Tottori Prefecture last week simulating a possible missile launch by North Korea. Hyogo Prefecture plans a similar drill next month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/britain-outlines-plans-break-free-european-court-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-24T15:42:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[EU supporter Phil Jones participates in a demonstration against Brexit outside The Royal Courts of Justice, which houses Britain's High Court, in London on Oct. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/24/national/politics-diplomacy/mayor-opposed-u-s-okinawa-construction-seek-third-term/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-24T15:43:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine on Wednesday announces that he will seek a third term in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture. The vote is set for Feb. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/24/national/export-demand-fukushima-produce-grows-malaysia-signaling-subsiding-food-safety-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-24T15:44:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori (center) is joined by Malaysian food importers as he announces a plan to export 100 tons of rice and 15 tons of peaches to Malaysia by next year, at a news conference in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-government-shutdown-threat-mexico-wall-funds-draws-flak-sends-markets-south/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-24T16:25:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks during his visit to Intel in Hillsboro, Oregon, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/24/business/hedge-fund-crusade-stymied-japan-inc-clings-cross-shareholdings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-24T16:27:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees work on the trading floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2016. Many Japanese companies are still reluctant to unload their cross-shareholdings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/24/national/no-go-zones-keep-kin-burying-deceased-fukushima-evacuees-ancestral-gravesites/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-24T16:54:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buddhist monks offer prayers for victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, in March 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/24/national/ama-newcomer-19-living-dreams-beneath-waves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-24T17:35:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young ama diver Miku Higuchi shows off a shellfish she caught in Toba, Mie Prefecture, on Aug. 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/national/science-health/shizuoka-institute-boasts-storage-batteries-using-activated-charcoal-coffee-grounds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-24T17:37:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keisuke Kikuchi, a senior researcher at the Industrial Research Institute of Shizuoka Prefecture in Hamamatsu, holds a storage battery on July 28 that uses coffee grounds.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/23/national/government-remove-goshawks-scarce-species-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-24T18:56:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A goshawk is seen in Tochigi Prefecture in a photo provided by a conservation group.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-24T19:20:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Toyota Motor Corp. agreed with major steel makers to lower prices for steel sheet in the April-September period.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-24T20:03:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-24T20:03:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image shows a Deltatheridium, an ancient relative of marsupials which include kangaroos and koalas. The Mifune Dinosaur Museum in Kumamoto Prefecture said a fossil tooth of a marsupial relative has been unearthed in the town of Mifune.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-24T20:10:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians view Ginkgo trees in Meiji Jingu Gaien Park, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, on Nov. 24, 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-24T20:43:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp.'s flash memory chip plant in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, part of its joint venture with Western Digital, is seen in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-24T20:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents take part in an evacuation drill in Kamiamakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Thursday. It was held under the scenario that a North Korean ballistic missile was flying toward Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe smiles as he dines with former prime ministers (from left) Junichiro Koizumi, Yoshiro Mori and Taro Aso at Nippon Foundation Chairman Yohei Sasakawa's villa in Narusawa, Yamanashi Prefecture. Sasakawa posted the picture to his blog on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-25T09:30:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis gestures to the media at the Pentagon in Washington in April.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Engineering student Mostafa Saeed Ali works near flame used in the process of burning car tires into diesel in Cairo Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hezbollah fighters walk near a tank in Western Qalamoun, Syria, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshimitsu Motegi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Dandong, based in the Chinese border city of Dandong, has been accused of laundering money for Pyongyang.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Office of Personnel Management was hacked using the rare Sakula malware in 2014 and 2015. Yu Pingan of Shanghai was arrested Monday after a federal criminal complaint alleged he provided the software.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers monitor energy grids during the solar eclipse at the California Independent System Operator headquarters in Folsom on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Goshi Hosono]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kevin Degenhard (left), a trustee of the Japan Animal Welfare Society Ltd., and JAWS Chairman Tony Crittenden look through some of the group's archives on July 3 in London.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, says Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should go ahead with the planned sales tax hike in October 2019 to address Japan's ballooning debt.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The website at Rakuten Securities Inc. on Friday says the company is experiencing an internet connection problem.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ousted former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra greets supporters as she arrives at the Supreme Court in Bangkok on Aug. 1.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump crosses the South Lawn of the White House to take a helicopter to Camp David on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets scientists and technicians in the field of nuclear weapons research in this undated photo released in March 2016.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hans Georg Yourievsky, the last living great-grandson of Russian Czar Alexander II, is seen during an interview in Zurich on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-26T16:58:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Labor reform is one of the key policies being promoted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masao Uchibori]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/26/national/politics-diplomacy/koike-ally-plans-set-new-party-aim-revising-constitution/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-26T18:51:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, walk the grounds at the Jackson Hole economic symposium in Moran, Wyoming, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides a target-striking contest of the Korean People's Army's special operation forces in this photo released Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-26T19:52:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers take measures to prevent the entry of fire ants last month at Onahama port in Fukushima Prefecture, where container ships from China call on a regular basis.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No toxic bacteria has been found in food samples taken from this local factory in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, after potato salad produced there caused E. coli food poisoning earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yutaka Motohashi, director of the Japan Support Center for Suicide Countermeasures, speaks during a news conference on Tuesday at the Foreign Press Center Japan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trolled: After announcing her pregnancy on July 12, the blog of Lower House Hokkaido lawmaker Takako Suzuki — pictured here with her father, Muneo — received comments to the effect that she couldn't be a lawmaker and a mother at the same time.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a top candidate for the upcoming general elections of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), looks on during a rowdy election campaign rally in Quedlinburg, Germany, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A power generator tips in front of the Christus Spohn Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, as Hurricane Harvey hits the coast on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-26T23:28:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Best friends forever: Social relations lie at the heart of human happiness.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/26/national/japan-south-korea-china-agree-jointly-promote-asian-culture-next-three-olympic-events/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-27T11:47:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Delegations from Japan, China and South Korea hold talks concerning cultural affairs at a meeting in Kyoto on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/27/business/u-k-s-labour-shifts-support-staying-eu-single-market-undermining-may-brexit-talks-resume/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-27T13:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brexit Secretary David Davis leaves a television studio in central London on Aug. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-27T17:15:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women walk out of a house slated for demolition near Shahezi, in rural China's Shaanxi province, in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-27T19:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-27T20:31:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An SH-60J patrol helicopter like this one lost contact with the Maritime Self-Defense Force on Saturday while flying over the Sea of Japan off Aomori Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-27T22:36:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-27T23:10:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-27T23:10:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinsuke Shuto, a 40-year-old doctor in Tokyo, covers his face with a towel at Matsuyama Airport in Ehime Prefecture on Sunday after being arrested for allegedly taking part in unauthorized stem cell therapies using blood collected from umbilical cords.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party presidential candidates Yukio Edano (left) and Seiji Maehara shake hands after a news conference at DP headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-27T23:13:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuhiko Oigawa (center), a former trade ministry bureaucrat, bows to supporters after media outlets predicted he was set to win Sunday's Ibaraki Prefecture gubernatorial election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/27/national/social-issues/japanese-satisfied-lifestyles-government-survey-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-27T23:13:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-27T23:55:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A digital illustration shows what an integrated casino resort might look like at a proposed site in Yumeshima.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-28T00:14:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cayamora Maute, who said he was the father of two brothers whose Maute group of Islamist militants led the seizure of Marawi city, is guarded by policewomen inside the police station after his arrest in Davao city, southern Philippines, June 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-28T08:13:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-28T10:08:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-28T13:23:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-28T13:33:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-28T14:09:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/28/national/crime-legal/kanazawa-man-arrested-slashing-police-pair-came-calling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-28T15:04:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators from the Ishikawa Prefectural Police enter the slashing suspect's home Monday in Kanazawa.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/28/asia-pacific/thousands-panic-stricken-civilians-flee-fighting-myanmars-northwest/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newborn children among Rohingya refugees take shelter in no-man's land near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/28/reference/japans-annual-student-achievement-test-worth-cost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-28T17:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children take the government's national achievement test at an elementary school in Tokyo on April 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/28/business/corporate-business/japanese-cutlery-maker-kai-group-opens-shop-india-big-plans-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-28T16:48:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/27/national/shiga-tops-volunteerism-osaka-last-place-leisure-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-28T17:55:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kansaiside-a-20170828.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recent survey says residents in Shiga Prefecture, home to Lake Biwa, are keen participants in volunteer activities during their leisure time.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese and Indian soldiers in dress uniform encounter each other at the Nathu La border crossing between India and China in India's northeastern Sikkim state in July 2008.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passers-by watch a TV news program showing an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-29T04:16:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-29T11:42:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-29T13:47:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-29T16:20:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks to reporters Monday after a special session of the metropolitan assembly.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/28/national/japans-government-stipulate-ainu-indigenous-people-first-time/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/29/national/population-wilted-24-japans-former-island-flowers-hopes-newcomers-plant-roots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-29T17:06:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents Tsuneyasu Yamaji (left) and Shoichi Kitano share a laugh on Shishi Island, Kagawa Prefecture, on July 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/29/business/economy-business/japans-job-availability-43-year-high-jobless-rate-steady/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-29T17:27:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Job availability improved for a fifth consecutive month in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/29/national/social-issues/thousands-japanese-apply-labor-inspectors-wake-dentsu-overwork-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-29T17:44:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People in Tokyo take the exam to work as a labor standards inspector on June 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-29T17:45:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-29T18:22:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Copies of an extra edition of the Hokkaido Shimbun reporting on North Korea's missile launch are handed out in Sapporo Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/29/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stocks-fall-north-korea-missile-launch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-29T18:50:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-29T19:09:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asian shares were mostly lower Tuesday as the region was rattled by a North Korean missile test in which the projectile flew over Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/29/national/matsue-mayor-visit-sister-city-south-korea-first-time-10-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-29T19:18:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masataka Matsuura]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/29/business/corporate-business/ubers-incoming-ceo-inherits-embattled-global-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-29T19:48:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dara Khosrowshahi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/29/national/north-korea-fires-missile-japan-reportedly-breaks-falls-pacific/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-29T20:26:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to take steps to curb problem gambling by limiting online betting and removing ATMs from some venues.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-30T17:54:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mayumi Morishita holds a news conference Tuesday in Fukuoka after filing a lawsuit asking that the suicide of her daughter, Kana, be covered by workers' compensation.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-30T20:57:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasumitsu Shigeta]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A-bomb survivor Sumiteru Taniguchi, who died Wednesday at the age of 88, gives a speech in May 2010 at the U.N. conference in New York on reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, with a picture of himself suffering from severe burns caused by the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-30T22:38:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Theresa May, Shinzo Abe]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May is welcomed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and tea master Sen Sosa upon her arrival for a tea ceremony at the Omotesenke school’s Fushinan teahouse in Kyoto on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-30T23:30:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple Inc. joins a Bain Capital-led consortium's last-minute bid for Toshiba Corp.'s chip unit.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T01:44:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversees a ballistic missile drill in this photo released Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T07:49:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oil refinery storage tanks stand in this aerial photograph taken above Texas City, Texas, Wednesday. Unprecedented flooding from the Category 4 storm that slammed into the state's coast last week, sending gasoline prices surging as oil refineries shut, may also set a record for rainfall in the contiguous U.S., the weather service said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T10:47:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak  and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands following a bilateral summit meeting in Tokyo  on Nov. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T11:12:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T11:38:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump gestures while speaking about tax reform Wednesday at the Loren Cook Company in Springfield, Missouri.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/31/world/frankfurt-evacuate-60000-clear-hospital-university-defuse-british-wwii-bomb/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-31T11:39:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T12:03:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Government troops stand on guard Wednesday in front of damaged buildings and houses after 100 days of intense fighting with insurgents from the Maute Group in Marawi city, in the southern Philippines.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T14:25:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Floodwaters cover Interstate 69 on Tuesday in Humble, Texas.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T14:51:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People fill the square outside Pyongyang's main railway station on Wednesday to watch a news broadcast of the launch a day earlier of a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range missile.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/31/business/corporate-business/japan-post-bank-poised-plow-%c2%a5100-billion-stocks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-31T16:21:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsunori Sago]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/31/national/not-yakuza-laws-japan-cleaning-e-sports-ring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-31T17:36:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants compete in an e-Sports event in Tokyo on July 1. Laws curbing organized crime and gambling are preventing gaming competitions with high prize money from being held in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/30/national/japan-seeks-new-u-s-missile-radar-north-korea-threat-grows-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-31T18:17:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A deckhouse of the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System (AAMDS)is seen at Deveselu Air Base in Romania on May 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T18:18:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera speaks to reporters at the ministry on Thursday after speaking by phone with U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T18:20:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T18:24:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wrapped pieces of sushi exit a Suzumo Machinery Co. machine during a demonstration at its factory in Kawashima, Saitama Prefecture, on Aug. 7. Suzumo Machinery's robots are used by about 70,000 customers around the world, ranging from sushi chains to factories, and account for about 70 percent of the market for the equipment at restaurants, according to Suzumo's estimates.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T18:25:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May, along with Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera, reviews an honor guard on board the Maritime Self-Defense Force's helicopter carrier Izumo at Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/31/business/energy-hogs-china-targets-farm-animals-waste-clean-power-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-31T18:55:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T19:22:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (third from left), his wife, Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and his brother, Britain's Prince Harry (second, right)), talk with Head Gardener Sean Harkin during an event at the memorial gardens in Kensington Palace, west London, Wednesday. Princes William and Harry prepared to pay tribute to their late mother Princess Diana on Wednesday for the 20th anniversary of her death as wellwishers left candles and flowers outside the gates of her former London residence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/30/national/smoking-drinking-ban-remain-despite-lowering-age-adulthood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-31T19:29:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T19:37:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Financial Services Agency plans to launch a special investigation into the card loan business run by banks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/31/national/politics-diplomacy/foreign-minister-kono-may-join-abe-september-visit-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-31T19:44:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T21:34:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talks to reporters in the early hours of Thursday after a telephone conference with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-31T21:34:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. remains in negotiations with three consortia after failing to select a buyer for its flash memory business on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/31/business/japans-budget-requests-reach-%c2%a5101-trillion-fiscal-2018-making-sustainability-challenge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-31T22:20:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Budget requests by government ministries and agencies for the next fiscal year totaled around ¥101 trillion ($913 billion), according to government officials.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/04/national/students-credit-survival-to-disaster-preparedness-drills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-31T23:43:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Standing tall: Kamaishi East Junior High School students Kana Sasaki (left), Fumiya Akasaka (center) and Aki Kawasaki pose for a picture in late May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-01T06:37:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fire burns at the flooded plant of French chemical maker Arkema SA in Crosby, Texas, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/01/business/u-s-charges-chinese-canadian-found-medical-tech-firm-trade-secret-theft/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-01T07:38:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People cover the bodies of Rohingya refugee women and children who died after their boat capsized while crossing the border through the Bay of Bengal, at Shah Porir Dwip, near Teknaf, Bangladesh, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/31/national/american-japanese-society-recognizes-lifetime-contributions-u-s-japanese-citizens-new-award/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-01T09:18:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-01T10:56:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A detainee watches a basketball game inside the city jail of Quezon City, Metro Manila, in July.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peer pressure: The obligatory randoseru leather knapsacks Japan's schoolchildren use for carrying books can wind up costing a doting grandparent as much as ¥80,000.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A copy of the local newspaper is for sale in Hagatna, Guam, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiori Yamao, former policy chief of the Democratic Party, is expected to be appointed as secretary-general of the main opposition party by DP leader Seiji Maehara.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-04T18:23:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-04T19:49:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-04T20:56:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The approval rating for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet remained flat at 44.5 percent in August, according to a poll by Kyodo News.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Doris Leuthard]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters late Sunday following telephone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump regarding North Korea's latest nuclear test.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks during an extraordinary session of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly on Aug. 28.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take part in a sit-in protest Monday against North Korea's sixth nuclear test in front of the cenotaph for atomic bomb victims at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nanako Shibata works at a staffing agency in Tokyo on July 20.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Parents observe the burned dormitory in front of the students' laundry hanging on washing lines, following a fire at the Moi Girls High School in Nairobi on Saturday. Nine girls died early Saturday when a fire gutted their dormitory at the high school in Kenya's capital, the country's education minister said.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jubei, a 26-year-old Japanese macaque, walks on stilts as his trainer, Yasutaka Kawabe, calls out instructions at a recent show in Seto, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), speaks during a March news conference in Warsaw.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during a news conference marking his first 100 days in office at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Aug. 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-05T16:42:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Health minister Katsunobu Kato says Japan's aging population means it needs to cap its spending on social welfare.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese people have a pessimistic view about the future of their country compared with those living in other Asian nations, according to a survey conducted between June and August.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-05T17:23:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An operational error at this JR East power substation in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, caused a power outage, which subsequently disrupted train services in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, speaks to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington Sunday regarding the escalating crisis over North Korea's nuclear threats.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-05T17:26:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-05T17:36:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-drone-a-20170905.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Post Co. is considering using drones like this to move packages between post offices amid the shortage of delivery workers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/05/national/crime-legal/police-allege-boy-sold-information-smartphone-virus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-05T18:58:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-05T19:04:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[DeNA Co. plans to test a taxi dispatch app in Yokohama starting this month, which the firm says will make it easier for cab drivers to find customers based on the AI demand forecast. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-05T20:09:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean TV presenter Ri Chun Hee announces the successful launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile in this July 4 still image taken from TV.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-05T21:59:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-05T22:23:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-05T22:26:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The University of Tokyo, Japan's top institution, fell seven places to No. 46, its lowest rank ever, in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ajinomoto Frozen Foods Co. is set to open a new gyoza restaurant Thursday in Tokyo's Akasaka district.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a news conference at the BRICS Summit in Xiamen, Fujian province, China on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image  shows Hurricane Irma on September 5, 2017, at 12:15 GMT. Irma picked up strength and has become an "extremely dangerous" Category Five hurricane as it approached the Caribbean, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center reported.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-posthike-a-20170906.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Post Co. will raise shipping fees for its door-to-door parcel delivery service amid increasing labor costs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marco Franco (left), deputy director of Mexican Red Cross disaster relief, talks with Gustavo Santillan, part of a group of 33 Mexican Red Cross volunteers helping victims of Hurricane Harvey, at the George R. Brown convention center in Houston on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian departing Defense Minister Arun Jaitley (right) reviews the honor guard with Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/national/politics-diplomacy/maehara-stumbles-selection-deputy-dp-braces-snap-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-06T11:45:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiji Maehara (center),  newly elected president of the largest opposition Democratic Party, poses with other party leadership on Tuesday at the DP's headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/05/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-crisis-dominate-abe-putin-summit-pushing-isles-row-aside/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-06T11:45:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping watch a concert in Xiamen, China, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/05/national/jal-jet-makes-emergency-landing-haneda-suspected-bird-strike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-06T12:18:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers of a Japan Airlines plane disembark on Tuesday after the aircraft made an emergency landing at Haneda airport following engine trouble caused by a suspected bird strike.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/24/national/drop-dead-beautiful-japan-undertakers-show-skill-preparing-bodies-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-06T12:53:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A funeral undertaker prays next to a model during an ceremonial nōkan (encoffining) competition at Life Ending Industry EXPO 2017 in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/national/prince-hisahito-third-line-throne-turns-11/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-06T13:49:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Hisahito speaks with his sisters, Princesses Kako (left) and Mako, on Aug. 14 on the grounds of the Akasaka Detached Palace in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/business/financial-markets/mom-pop-investors-tiptoe-japans-lucrative-reit-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-06T17:32:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-reit-a-20170907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An increasing number of retail investors are buying REITs tracked by the Tokyo Stock Exchange's gauge.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-06T18:49:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elementary school students hold their heads and keep their bodies low during an emergency drill in the town of Okinoshima, Shimane Prefecture, on Wednesday, in the wake of repeated missile launches by North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/national/crime-legal/stab-wounds-found-burned-bodies-murdered-japanese-couple-bali/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-06T18:50:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/business/toyotas-aqua-hybrid-top-seller-august-first-time-since-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-06T18:50:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/business/japan-sales-foreign-brand-vehicles-rise-5-5-august/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-06T18:51:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/business/economy-business/japanese-firms-cut-bonuses-pushing-overall-wages-lower/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-06T19:08:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bonuses and allowances slid 2.2 percent to ¥110,156 in July, the labor ministry said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/national/politics-diplomacy/okinawas-economics-minister-soul-searching-backlash-recent-comments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-06T19:29:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tetsuma Esaki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/national/crime-legal/tokyo-high-court-dismisses-journalists-case-syria-travel-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-06T20:19:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Freelance photographer Yuichi Sugimoto speaks at a news conference Wednesday in the capital after the Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court ruling backing the Foreign Ministry's order that he surrender his passport.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-putin-likely-sign-off-economic-cooperation-disputed-isles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-06T21:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves Tokyo's Haneda airport on Wednesday for the Russian city of Vladivostok to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a regional forum.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-merkel-agree-phone-work-toward-tougher-north-korea-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T07:34:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-abemerkel-a-20170907.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abemerkel-a-20170907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed on a tougher sanction against North Korea at a teleconference held Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-u-s-defense-chiefs-resolve-add-pressure-pyongyang-exploded-160-kiloton-bomb/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T10:58:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera speaks to reporters on Wednesday at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/asia-pacific/suu-kyi-says-myanmar-defending-people-rakhine-still-silent-rohingya-fled/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T11:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-myansuu-a-20170907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya refugees come ashore in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on Tuesday after crossing the Bay of Bengal from Myanmar.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/business/corporate-business/western-digital-asks-apple-join-bid-toshiba-chip-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T11:15:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-toshiba-a-20170907.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toshiba-a-20170907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Western Digital Corp. is asking Apple Inc. to join its bid for Toshiba Corp.'s chip unit.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/business/trump-sours-cohn-fed-chair-looks-several-candidates-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T13:40:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gary Cohn, director of the U.S. National Economic Council, speaks during an interview outside the White House on Sept. 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/national/japanese-take-bodybuilding-veteran-chases-championship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T14:13:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-bodybuilding-a-20170907.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bodybuilding-a-20170907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoki Go (right) strikes a pose during the Japan Open bodybuilding competition on Aug. 27 in Kawasaki alongside men's winner Seiichiro Kimura.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/asia-pacific/u-n-weighs-u-s-push-north-korea-oil-embargo-textile-export-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T14:50:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-nksanctions-a-20170908.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nksanctions-a-20170908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pyongyang residents greet contributors to Sunday's test of a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/asia-pacific/south-korea-deploys-u-s-anti-missile-launchers-amid-clashes-protesters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T14:56:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-thaad-a-20170908.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-thaad-a-20170908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. military vehicles move to deploy the THAAD missile defense system in Seongju, South Korea, on Thursday as police try to block protesters.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/business/corporate-business/mcdonalds-japan-adding-restaurants-turnaround-gains-momentum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T15:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-mcdonalds-a-20170907.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mcdonalds-a-20170907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[McDonald's Japan is adding to its restaurant count in the second half of the year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/business/corporate-business/olympics-spur-hotel-development-rush-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T15:34:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-hotels-a-20170908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist's rendition of the Edition hotel scheduled to open in Tokyo's Ginza district in 2020.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/national/crime-legal/cybercrime-reports-climb-record-first-half-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T16:33:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-cyber-a-20170908.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cyber-a-20170908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers participate in a cybersecurity workshop in Yokohama last month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-special-envoy-tries-enlist-iran-add-pressure-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T17:13:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-iran-a-20170908.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-iran-a-20170908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahiko Komura, a special envoy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, holds talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/business/corporate-business/western-digital-seeks-future-voting-stake-16-toshiba-memory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T17:15:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-toshiba-a-20170908.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toshiba-a-20170908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The monthslong bidding saga for Toshiba's chip unit could take a major step forward if an agreement can be reached on how Western Digital would be involved in its management.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/business/corporate-business/subaru-idle-diesel-output-2020-amid-global-shift-evs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T17:18:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-subaru-a-20170908.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-subaru-a-20170908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Subaru Corp. will stop selling diesel cars by around 2020 to focus on electric vehicles.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/national/japan-agrees-help-develop-indonesias-outer-islands-promote-fisheries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T17:19:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/business/corporate-business/pokemon-chief-hints-big-plans-augmented-reality-smartphone-game/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T17:37:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-pokemon-a-20170908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pokemon Co. CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara said in an interview in Tokyo on Aug. 31 that new elements will be added to "Pokemon Go" so people will keep coming back to play the game and discover new things.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/business/want-hydrogen-fish-japan-eyes-home-delivery-clean-fuel-rural-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T17:45:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/06/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-mongolia-agree-north-korea-response-economic-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T17:46:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-mongolia-a-20170907.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mongolia-a-20170907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks with Mongolian President Khaltmaa Battulga at an economic forum in Vladivostok, Russia, on Thursday. Abe's two-day visit to the city also includes talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and South Korean President Moon Jae-in.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/business/congestion-pricing-eyed-ease-traffic-top-tourist-spots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T19:04:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-traffic-a-20170908.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-traffic-a-20170908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The transport ministry is considering the introduction of a high-tech traffic countermeasure called "congestion pricing."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-moon-agree-push-stronger-pressure-north-korea-new-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T21:32:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-abemoon-a-20170908.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abemoon-a-20170908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in pose for the media ahead of their talks in Vladivostok, Russia, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/national/social-issues/osaka-hospital-will-review-300-hour-monthly-overtime-limit-documents-release/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-07T21:33:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-overtime-a-20170908.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-overtime-a-20170908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff members at the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Hospital in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, worked up to 60 hours of monthly overtime in the last year, a spokesman said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-putin-set-discuss-north-korea-tensions-joint-activities-contested-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-08T11:41:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to ban smoking in and around public facilities by 2019.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather on a street in downtown Mexico City during an earthquake on Thursday. The powerful 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck southern Mexico, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with seismologists warning of tsunami of more than three meters (10 feet).]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-09T00:07:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-09T12:21:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-09T13:13:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean Ambassador to Mexico Kim Hyong Gil (center) stands at the door of the North Korean Embassy in Mexico City on Friday after addressing the media.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-09T13:42:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean state media reported on Sept. 3 that leader Kim Jong Un had watched the loading of a hydrogen bomb onto a missile at a nuclear lab.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-09T15:30:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-09T15:50:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Western Digital Corp., Toshiba's chip venture partner, has approached Apple to join its consortium because the U.S. data storage giant does not plan to invest in Toshiba Memory Corp. initially to help speed up antitrust reviews if it buys the unit.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-09T16:09:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-09T16:20:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-09T17:45:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lottery tickets to help fund the costs for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 are sold in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Wednesday. Many local governments benefit from sales of tickets for Takarakuji,  the trademarked name for the lottery in Japan. But despite efforts to generate more interest, lotteries are not as popular with the younger generation as they used to be.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-09T20:02:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese coral fishing boat is seen operating illegally about 40 km (25 miles) east-northeast of Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture, in November 2013. The area of ocean falls within Japan's exclusive economic zone.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/09/national/u-s-heavy-bombers-link-asdf-training-amid-north-korea-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-09T20:03:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers fly alongside two Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighter jets over the East China Sea on Saturday. Following the the operation, one B-1B flew to Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture for the Misawa Air Festival, while the other B-1B returned to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-09T20:03:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Group of 20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/09/national/media-national/severe-school-anxiety-puts-teens-risk/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Back to school: For some students, the end of summer indicates a return to school bullying, social difficulties or relentless academic pressure.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/03/business/corporate-business/line-ceo-takeshi-idezawa-hears-voices-guiding-smartphones-evolution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-09T23:01:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Line CEO Takeshi Idezawa poses at his office in Shinjuku, Tokyo, on Aug. 8. The maker of Japan's most popular messaging app says the future of its business is AI.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/09/national/drone-measure-radiation-tainted-fukushima-no-1-buildings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-09T23:18:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This drone will be used to measure radiation inside the reactor and turbine buildings at the meltdown-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/09/world/hurricane-irma-rips-cuba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-10T14:01:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman and child use a blanket as protection from wind and rain as they walk in Caibarien, Cuba, on Friday. Hurricane Irma battered Cuba on Saturday with deafening winds and unremitting rain, pushing seawater inland and flooding homes before taking aim at Florida.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/09/business/tourism-agency-drafting-mandatory-minpaku-business-holiday-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-10T14:03:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/pyongyang-threatens-super-mighty-preemptive-strike-u-s-plots-next-move/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-10T14:14:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves during a military parade in Pyongyang on April 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/10/asia-pacific/north-korean-leader-praises-nuclear-scientists-urges-bolstered-nuclear-force/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-10T19:58:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkkim-a-20170911.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un claps during a celebration for nuclear scientists and engineers who contributed to a hydrogen bomb test in this undated photo released Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/10/national/social-issues/50-municipalities-holding-matchmaking-events-marriage-seminars-help-singles-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-10T20:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-matchmaking-a-20170911.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-matchmaking-a-20170911.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 50 percent of local governments in Japan are supporting single men and women through matchmaking and marriage seminars to help them get married, according to a recent Kyodo News survey.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/10/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-asks-qatar-stop-accepting-north-korean-laborers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-10T20:25:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-qatar-a-20170911.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-qatar-a-20170911.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono holds talks with his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, in Doha on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/10/business/asia-pacific-economic-ministers-admit-will-no-rcep-agreement-year-end/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-10T22:21:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economy ministers from 16 Asia-Pacific nations met in Manila on Sunday to discuss the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/09/national/41-escape-tour-bus-blaze-aichi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T04:17:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flames engulf a tour bus on the Shin-Tomei Expressway in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, on Saturday after a fire erupted near the engine. No one was injured.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/09/national/osprey-returns-okinawa-undergoing-repairs-emergency-oita/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T04:19:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-osprey-a-20170910.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The MV-22 Osprey that needed repairs after an emergency landing in Oita Prefecture last month leaves U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture for Okinawa on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/world/social-issues-world/iraq-holding-1400-foreign-wives-kids-suspected-islamic-state-fighters-squalid-camp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T06:44:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-iskin-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Saturday photo shows a camp where over 1,300 women and children, all foreign nationals and relatives of Islamic State militants, are kept on the outskirts of Mosul. Iraqi security officials said the women and their kids had surrendered to Kurdish peshmerga forces at the end of August after Tal Afar, one of the last strongholds of IS in northern Iraq, had been retaken by Iraqi troops.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/business/novartis-posts-win-roche-flop-drug-trials-targeting-skin-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T08:15:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/no-talk-ousting-u-s-house-speaker-ryan-key-gop-conservative/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T08:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/10/national/koreans-living-japan-worry-backlash-norths-nuclear-missile-programs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T10:58:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-osakakoreans-a-20170911.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osakakoreans-a-20170911.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk through Korea Town in Ikuno Ward, Osaka. Ethnic Koreans living in Japan are nervously watching growing tensions due to North Korea's nuclear and missile program and are worried about a possible backlash against their community.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/merkel-suggests-iran-style-nuclear-talks-end-north-korea-nuclear-missile-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T12:51:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-nkmerkel-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkmerkel-a-20170912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested a diplomatic push similar to that put in place with Iran to end North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile programs, which are overseen by leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/asia-pacific/south-koreans-dont-expect-war-north-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T13:34:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-nkpoll-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkpoll-a-20170912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighter jets (top and bottom) conduct an exercise with U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers flying from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, in the skies above the East China Sea on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/10/national/politics-diplomacy/dp-lawmakers-unhappy-with-jcp-election-alliance-consider-exiting-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T15:14:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-dp-a-20170911.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dp-a-20170911.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party leader Seiji Maehara faces the imminent departure of several members.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/10/national/politics-diplomacy/five-years-nationalization-three-senkaku-islets-japan-still-wary-intrusions-chinese-vessels-area/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T17:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-senkakus-a-20170911.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-senkakus-a-20170911.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Senkaku Islands, in the East China Sea, are seen in September 2012. Monday marks the fifth anniversary of the nationalization of three of the five islets.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/business/economy-business/posting-first-rise-four-4-months-july-machinery-orders-strong-8/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T17:46:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-machinery-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-machinery-a-20170912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's machinery orders posted an 8 percent month-on-month increase in July.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/cambodian-leader-threatens-ban-opposition-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T19:03:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-cambodia-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cambodia-a-20170912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hun Sen]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/business/corporate-business/honda-co-develop-ev-technology-china-firm-neusoft/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T19:07:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-honda-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-honda-a-20170912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda Motor Co. will tie up with Chinese firm Neusoft to develop a battery management system for an electric vehicle it plans to launch in China.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/asia-pacific/six-decades-separation-two-koreas-worlds-apart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T19:24:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-nksk-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters shout slogans during a rally against the deployment of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile-defense system, near the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/business/corporate-business/tv-ads-japan-posts-%c2%a51-3-trillion-share-sale-will-target-individual-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T19:34:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-post-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-post-a-20170912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[To help smooth the sale of Japan Post Holdings Co. shares to retail investors, brokerages will start a TV advertising campaign as soon as this week.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/business/japans-regional-bank-consolidation-inevitable-bojs-prolonged-ultraeasy-policy-hurts-profits-fsa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T19:34:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-fsa-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fsa-a-20170912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Further consolidation of Japan's regional banks seems unavoidable due to a rapidly aging population and ultralow interest rates.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/business-likely-motive-behind-elderly-couples-murder-bali-police-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T19:35:39+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/asia-pacific/major-chinese-banks-suspend-north-korean-transactions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T19:36:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-nkbanks-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkbanks-a-20170912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Koreans take a tour on Saturday, the isolated nation's foundation day, on a passenger boat on the Yalu River, which separates North Korea from China.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/10/national/wandering-kitties-event-train-help-raise-awareness-strays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T19:46:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-neko-a-20170911.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-neko-a-20170911.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A staff member holds a cat in a train cat cafe, an event held on a local train to bring awareness to the culling of stray cats, in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/national/womans-experience-lost-tokyo-station-spawned-mapmaking-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T20:04:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-train-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-train-a-20170912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Navit President Yasuyo Fukui points to a subway car guide poster in Tokyo on Aug. 24.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/national/jr-tokai-goes-way-luxury-sleeper-trains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T20:06:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-chubu-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A top-class stateroom coach on JR West's luxury sleeper train Twilight Express Mizukaze is seen in Osaka in February.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/national/science-health/snapping-turtle-expert-chiba-leads-battle-invasive-species/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T20:24:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-generation-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-generation-a-20170912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeshi Imazu speaks to The Japan Times on Aug. 21 about the challenges of culling snapping turtles, an invasive alien species.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/asia-pacific/north-korea-warns-u-s-u-n-gears-slap-pyongyang-heavier-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T20:51:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-nkwrap-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkwrap-a-20170912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un claps during a celebration for nuclear scientists and engineers who contributed to the country's claimed hydrogen bomb test in this undated photo released Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/national/u-s-says-pilot-error-led-osprey-ditch-off-okinawa-december/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T20:52:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-osprey-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osprey-a-20170912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moritake Tomikawa]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/national/2018-rent-hike-looms-70-2011-quake-victims-living-state-run-housing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T20:52:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-aid-a-20170912.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aid-a-20170912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiji Sato, who lives in government-run housing provided for those displaced by the March 2011 disasters, talks Sunday about the difficult living conditions he faces in Sendai.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/11/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/malay-woman-singapore-president-puts-minority-representation-agenda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-11T21:40:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former speaker of Singapore's parliament, Halimah Yacob, arrives at the Elections Department on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T06:15:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T09:56:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the six-toed felines descended from a tomcat named Snow White that the acclaimed American author Ernest Hemingway adopted while he lived in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s is seen in this undated photo at the Hemingway Home Museum in Key West.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T13:27:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets supporters in this undated photo released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T13:52:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump waits to speak during a memorial service Monday at the Pentagon for the 9/11 terrorist attacks in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T14:23:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a Sept. 3 meeting of a committee of the Workers' Party of Korea about the test of an apparent hydrogen bomb.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T15:16:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Upper House lawmaker Antonio Inoki gets ready for a news conference at Tokyo's Haneda airport Monday after returning from a visit to North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T15:36:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Experts say North Korea could be ramping up cyberattacks in a bid to secure bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies amid harsh trade restrictions.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T16:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T16:45:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Award-winning cattle are showcased at the 11th National Japanese Beef Ability Expo, commonly known as the Wagyu Olympics, in Sendai on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T17:12:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T17:38:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese adults are stepping up purchases of higher-value luxuries such as craft chocolate, coffee and wine.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T17:52:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller sits in a Sedric self-driving electric vehicle during the opening of the Frankfurt auto show in Germany on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T18:29:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T18:31:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T20:05:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers Ayane Odagawa and Shogo Watanabe, members of Japan Lawyers Network for Refugees, speak at a news conference Tuesday at the Tokyo District Court.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T21:12:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-12T23:31:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-13T04:14:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono speaks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi during their talks in Cairo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-13T04:18:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Michiaki Uryu faces the media during a news conference in the city of Fukuoka on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-13T06:06:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-13T07:45:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-13T09:44:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Baltimore Police Officers (from top left) Caesar R. Goodson Jr., Edward M. Nero, Garrett E Miller, (bottom from left) William G. Porter, Lt. Brian W. Rice and Sgt. Alicia D. White are pictured in these undated booking photos provided by the Baltimore Police Department.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-13T10:09:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-13T11:55:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rian Johnson, director of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," which will be released in December 2017, stands next to a folding screen painted in ink featuring main characters of the film, at Byodoin, a Buddhist temple in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/business/tech/china-chills-online-discussion-rules-punishing-creators-message-groups/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T12:44:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/national/monorail-service-linking-haneda-airport-disrupted-due-power-outage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T13:52:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monorail train on the right is seen stranded due to a power outage Tuesday in a section between Showajima and Seibijo stations near Haneda airport in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/national/stolen-cultural-asset-returned-south-korea-japan-20-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T14:02:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-asset-a-20170913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This epitaph on porcelain of a high-ranking official of Korea's Joseon dynasty has been returned to South Korea by the family of a Japanese collector who did not know it had been stolen 20 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/national/crime-legal/man-indicted-saitama-slayings-six-mental-illness-defense-initiated-psychiatric-test-concludes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T14:10:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A van carrying Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena arrives at a police station in Kumagaya, Saitama, in May 2016. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/12/national/depopulated-kochi-village-suspends-idea-direct-democracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T14:18:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okawa Mayor Kazuhito Wada speaks during a village assembly meeting in the village of Okawa, Kochi Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/ads-facebook-paid-russians-2016-u-s-election-campaign-promoted-live-events/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T14:56:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rusfb-a-20170914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook Inc. has said that some of the ads bought by Russians on social-networking site last year promoted events during the U.S. presidential campaign, an indication that alleged meddling ahead of the 2016 election went beyond social media.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-sets-first-quantum-communications-network/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T14:57:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/09/national/media-national/takes-threats-unstable-us-question-security/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T15:28:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Air Self-Defense Force personnel take part in training drills to operate PAC-3 surface-to-air interceptors at Yokota Air Base in Fussa, Tokyo, on Aug. 29.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/national/japan-ranked-last-among-34-nations-public-spending-education-2014-oecd/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T15:28:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-education-a-20170914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-education-a-20170914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to a recent OECD report, Japan's public spending on education as a percentage of GDP stood at the lowest in 2014 among OECD countries.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/suu-kyi-skip-u-n-session-amid-myanmars-rohingya-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T15:58:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People burn an effigy of Aung San Suu Kyi in Kolkata on Monday over what protesters called the killings of Rohingya in Myanmar.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-seeks-upgrade-security-talks-india-amid-china-muscle-flexing-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T16:07:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi (left), raise their glasses during a dinner party at Abe's official residence in Tokyo in November 2016. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/10/national/japans-recent-potato-chip-crisis-farmers-nagasaki-prefecture-step-efforts-grow-spuds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T16:46:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A potato farmer shows off his Nagasaki Kogane (Nagasaki Gold) potatoes in Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/business/japan-lifts-import-ban-idaho-spuds-first-time-11-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T17:51:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Healthy, ripe potatoes are seen in this file photo. Japan on Tuesday lifted an 11-year import ban on potatoes grown in Idaho, as the risk of crop pest infestations is believed to have now diminished.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/national/science-health/saving-heart-attack-victims-now-theres-app/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T18:07:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-health-a-20170914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An automated external defibrillator (AED) is seen inside the Toshima Ward Office in Tokyo. Experts say a quick response, including cardiac massage and administering an electric shock via an AED, is crucial to save the life of someone who has had a heart attack.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/business/tech/apple-bets-augmented-reality-sell-iphone-x-expensive-handset-yet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T18:28:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-iphone-a-20170914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The "animoji" feature, which lets people animate emoji characters with their own voice and facial expressions and then send them to their friends, is demonstrated by Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller, during a launch event on Tuesday in Cupertino, California.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/national/e-coli-infected-food-bought-delicatessen-gunma-kills-tokyo-girl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T18:52:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-ecoli-a-20170914.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A TV camera crew shoots a video of a local delicatessen hit by an outbreak of E. coli bacteria in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, on Wednesday .]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-congress-unanimously-adopts-resolution-calling-trump-denounce-hate-groups/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T19:05:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-trumphate-a-20170914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumphate-a-20170914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media about protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York on Aug. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/business/corporate-business/mufg-set-pick-amsterdam-post-brexit-hub-eu-investment-banking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T19:14:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iconic canal-side homes are seen in Amsterdam. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is said to have chosen the city as its base for investment banking in the European Union after Brexit.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/business/roomier-blue-cabs-added-tokyo-fleet-ahead-2020-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T19:19:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-cab-a-20170914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cab-a-20170914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many Tokyo taxi companies plan to introduce indigo-colored minivans to be known as "Blue Cabs" ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/asia-pacific/north-korea-lambastes-u-n-sanctions-vows-continue-nuclear-missile-drive-faster-pace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T19:34:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-nkwrap-a-20170914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkwrap-a-20170914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A performance at the People's Theater in Pyongyang, shown in an official photo released Sunday, celebrates the North Koreans who worked on the hydrogen bomb that the regime claimed to have successfully tested.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/business/corporate-business/toshiba-signs-memorandum-favor-bain-consortium-chip-unit-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T21:16:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-toshibamemo-a-20170914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toshibamemo-a-20170914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. aims to finalize by the end of September a deal to sell its flash memory business to a consortium formed by Japanese, U.S. and South Korean investors.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/national/chicago-youths-find-inspiration-broader-horizons-life-changing-japan-study-language-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T21:19:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-language-a-20170914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-language-a-20170914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Schoolchildren learn Japanese language with their teacher, Xian Barrett (behind), at Langston Hughes Elementary School in Chicago in May.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/national/politics-diplomacy/dp-hoping-keep-five-lower-house-members-defecting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T21:24:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-dp-a-20170914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dp-a-20170914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party Secretary-General Atsushi Oshima attends a news conference on Monday. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/asia-pacific/south-korea-confirms-traces-radioactive-gas-north-koreas-nuclear-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T22:57:57+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-seen-eying-japan-visit-early-november-stops-vietnam-philippines-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T23:22:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-trumpjapan-a-20170914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trumpjapan-a-20170914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump is likely to visit Japan in early November, according to sources.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/business/tech/infostellar-improve-satellite-access-global-antennae-sharing-platform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-13T23:59:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-infostellar-a-20170914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-infostellar-a-20170914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Infostellar will give free equipment to operators of satellite antennae around the world, such as these in Achochella, Bolivia, and pay them for the data they transmit.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/business/trump-administration-orders-u-s-government-purge-kaspersky-products-amid-russia-spying-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T06:44:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-kaspersky-a-20170915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kaspersky-a-20170915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eugene Kaspersky, Russian antivirus programs developer and chief executive of Russia's Kaspersky Lab, poses for a July 1 photo on a balcony at his company's headquarters in Moscow. On Wednesday, the U.S. banned the use of computer software supplied by Kaspersky Lab at federal agencies because of concerns about the company's ties to the Kremlin and Russian spy operations.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/business/easyjet-muscles-long-haul-passengers-new-feeder-flight-connecting-service/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T07:12:00+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/business/facebook-adds-new-standards-keep-ads-off-fake-news-objectionable-videos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T08:59:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/business/biggest-airbus-a350-loses-orders-cathay-becomes-latest-opt-smaller-sibling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T10:39:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-airbus-a-20170915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-airbus-a-20170915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Airbus A321 Neo performs a flight display at Le Bourget airport on June 19 on the opening day of the International Paris Air Show.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/world/crime-legal-world/pharma-bro-shkrelis-bail-revoked-facebook-post-offering-bounty-strand-clintons-hair/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T11:22:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-shkreli-a-20170915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-shkreli-a-20170915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli speaks during an interview by Maria Bartiromo during her "Mornings with Maria Bartiromo" program on the Fox Business Network in New York in August. Shkreli's lawyer says his client's caustic online rants shouldn't be taken so seriously. The attorney for the convicted ex-biotech CEO argued in court papers filed Tuesday that Shkreli's recent offer to pay a $5,000 bounty for a lock of Hillary Clinton's hair falls under the category of "political satire or strained humor."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-wooing-democrats-dreamer-tax-rich-overtures-gop-allies-congress-fail-deliver/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T11:23:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-trumpdems-a-20170915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpdems-a-20170915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi leaves a meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at the Capitol in Washington Wednesday. The top House and Senate Democrats have announced agreement with President Donald Trump to protect certain immigrants brought illegally to this country as children — along with some border security enhancements. The agreement was announced in a joint statement from Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, following a dinner the pair had with Trump at the White House.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/13/national/social-issues/inspectors-link-cambodian-trainees-depression-workplace-abuse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T12:41:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/business/japans-push-curb-drug-costs-seen-risking-trade-row-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T13:24:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-drugcosts-a-20170915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-drugcosts-a-20170915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's push to reduce drug costs is said to risk trade friction with the United States.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/asia-pacific/one-year-chinas-thaad-warning-south-korean-business-suffer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T13:43:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A closed Lotte Mart is seen in Jiaxing, China, on Sept. 8.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/asia-pacific/china-endorses-myanmars-crackdown-u-n-sees-ethnic-cleansing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T14:38:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-rochingya-a-20170915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rochingya-a-20170915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya Muslim men who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh level the ground before building a shelter at the Balukhali refugee camp Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/business/trump-bars-chinese-equity-firm-buying-u-s-chipmaker-lattice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T14:52:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-lattice-a-20170915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lattice-a-20170915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canyon Bridge's planned $1.3 billion acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor Corp. was one of the largest attempted by a Chinese-backed firm in the U.S. chip sector.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/national/politics-diplomacy/komeito-chief-yamaguchi-says-abes-idea-amend-constitution-difficult-without-public-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T15:24:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-yamaguchi-a-20170915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yamaguchi-a-20170915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Natsuo Yamaguchi]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/business/tech/eu-wants-internet-policing-increased/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T15:27:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/national/crime-legal/court-upholds-exclusion-pro-pyongyang-school-tuition-benefits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T16:40:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-koreaschool-a-20170914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-koreaschool-a-20170914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers hold up banners Wednesday in front of the Tokyo District Court after it upheld the government's exclusion of a pro-Pyongyang school in Tokyo from a tuition waiver program that covers most high schools in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/national/kyoto-plans-minimum-%c2%a5200-per-night-lodging-tax/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T16:51:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lodging-tax-a-20170915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists watch a tea ceremony in Kyoto, one of the most popular destinations in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/world/deaths-11-elderly-medically-fragile-patients-care-homes-rock-florida/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T17:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-irma-a-20170915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-irma-a-20170915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents of La Vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson, Texas, sit in floodwaters following the passage of Hurricane Harvey on Aug. 27.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/national/japan-take-lead-aging-issue-british-expert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T17:11:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-gratton-a-20170915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gratton-a-20170915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lynda Gratton]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/national/crime-legal/osaka-man-arrested-stabbing-woman-daughter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T17:57:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-stabbing-a-20170915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-stabbing-a-20170915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers investigate an apartment in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, early Thursday after a woman died and her daughter was seriously injured, both from stabbing, on Wednesday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-14T18:01:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-14T18:55:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-14T19:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-14T20:57:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-14T20:57:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/national/coast-guard-leaders-34-nations-gather-tokyo-inaugural-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-14T21:51:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hotel Capri in Havana, is photographed Tuesday. New details about a string of mysterious "health attacks" on U.S. diplomats in Cuba indicate the incidents were narrowly confined within specific rooms or parts of rooms. Aside from their homes, officials said Americans were attacked in at least one hotel, the recently renovated Hotel Capri, steps from the Malecon, Havana's iconic, waterside promenade.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-15T10:53:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Equifax Inc. offices in Atlanta are seen in 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-15T11:12:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man fights against waves caused by approaching Hurricane Max that took away part of the beach in Pie de La Cuesta, on the outskirts of Acapulco, Guerrero state, Mexico, Thursday. Max has strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane off Mexico's southern Pacific coast and is forecast to make landfall later Thursday along the coast of Guerrero state. It's a region that includes the resort city of Acapulco.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-15T11:39:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The @Toilet app helps people locate the nearest available bathroom. It was developed by Lion Corp., which makes a diarrhea medicine called Stoppa.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/national/eliminating-nuclear-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-15T14:48:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-15T16:17:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n trees-y 20170916]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The platanus trees, which are slated to be cut down, that line Meidai Street in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, are seen in this photo taken on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/15/business/japan-regulator-scrutinizes-regional-banks-fund-buying-risks-soar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-15T16:47:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-banks-a-20170916.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Regional banks are coming under scrutiny from financial regulators as they increase their purchases of risky investment trusts.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-15T18:05:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Mitsubishi Fuso eCanter truck is unveiled during a launch event in New York on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-15T18:31:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-15T23:11:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-15T23:22:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/15/national/crime-legal/japan-post-pay-gaps-regular-nonregular-workers-unjustifiable-tokyo-district-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-15T23:22:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo District Court ruled Thursday that Japan Post Co. is violating the law by setting gaps in allowances between its regular and nonregular workers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/15/business/utilities-put-notice-municipalities-looking-sell-energy-residents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-16T11:06:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Municipalities are starting their own electricity retail ventures amid the deregulation of Japan's power market.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/15/national/north-korea-launches-missile-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-16T11:23:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians in Tokyo look at a TV screen broadcasting news of a North Korean missile that passed over Hokkaido early Friday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/15/business/japans-bullet-train-tech-give-164-year-old-indian-railway-jolt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-16T11:24:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indian leader Narendra Modi wave after a visit to Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.'s Rolling Stock Co. plant in Kobe last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/15/national/32-2-new-2014-grads-quit-first-job-within-three-years-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-16T12:17:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[About one third of people who started to work just after graduating from university in March 2014 quit their jobs within three years.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-16T12:23:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-16T12:47:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-16T13:06:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jason Stockley]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/16/national/osaka-okawa-forefront-demographic-changes-altering-power-structures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-16T13:43:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuhito Wada, mayor of Okawa, Kochi Prefecture, addresses the village assembly in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/16/asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-vows-seek-equilibrium-force-u-s-missile-launch-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-16T21:21:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile is fired from a transporter erector launcher in these photos released Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/16/national/politics-diplomacy/senior-white-house-official-says-trump-will-host-talks-abe-moon-sidelines-u-n-general-assembly-next-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-16T21:22:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/16/national/politics-diplomacy/coalition-informs-opposition-extraordinary-diet-session-likely-begin-sept-28/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-16T21:22:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson leaves No. 10 Downing Street in central London on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/16/national/history/prosaic-state-ancient-confucianism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-17T11:13:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker installs a billboard Sunday that reads 'Creates a national civilized city, welcome the 19th Party Congress,' near a residential area in Shanghai, China. The Chinese Communist Party meeting, which is held once every five years, will start on Oct. 18, marking the formal countdown to the gathering at which President Xi Jinping will begin his second five-year term as head of the ruling party.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People watch as a screen shows footage of the launch of a Hwasong-12 rocket, beside a billboard advertising North Korea's Pyeonghwa Motors (right), in Pyongyang on Saturday. North Korea said it was seeking military "equilibrium" with the United States as leader Kim Jong Un vowed to complete Pyongyang's nuclear program.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-19T08:33:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Orbital ATK L-1011 aircraft takes off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, in December. Northrop Grumman is buying aerospace and defense technology company Orbital ATK for about $7.8 billion as activity in the sector heats up along with global tensions, it announced Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) faces reporters following a Republican policy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington Sept. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-19T08:47:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (right), U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (center) and Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj pose for photos in New York on Monday. POOL / VIA KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-19T08:52:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump jokes with French President Emmanuel Macron during a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the United Nations General Assembly Monday in New York.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mayuko Toyota, a Lower House lawmaker, holds the first news conference in Saitama on Monday since a weekly magazie alleged in June that she verbally abused and hit her secretary. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-19T10:52:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High demand for ambulance services continues to rise as Japan's population ages and nonemergency calls for services have increased.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley and President Donald Trump participate in a session on reforming the United Nations at U.N. Headquarters in New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-19T13:44:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of foreign workers in Japan hit a record 1.08 million last October, with that of part-time workers and apprentices showing significant growth.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/19/national/singapore-japan-ink-accord-strengthen-cybersecurity-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-19T14:50:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-19T14:52:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man rides a bicycle past a billboard depicting Syrian President Bashar Assad, which reads "Aleppo is in my eyes," in the city on Sept. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-19T15:21:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-19T17:29:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Slices of Japanese wagyu beef sit inside the kitchen at a restaurant. Taiwan has conditionally lifted a ban since 2001 on beef imported from Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-19T17:31:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Slack Technologies Inc. has closed a $250 million funding round led by SoftBank Group Corp.'s Vision Fund.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-19T17:40:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Patriot Advanced Capability-3 surface-to-air interceptors are seen at the Ground Self-Defense Force base in Kaita, Hiroshima Prefecture, in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-19T17:44:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda workers assemble cars at the company's Marysville plant in Ohio. The carmaker is investing $267 million and adding 300 jobs at two Ohio factories.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-19T18:26:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawson Inc. plans to expand a recycling system where fertilizer is produced from leftover food and the produce grown from it is sold in the chain's stores.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Biomass Recycling Center Mitoyo in the city of Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, uses microorganisms to decompose burnable waste and turn it into fuel.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Manafort]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives for an U.N. event in New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu meet in New York on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Tuesday on the sidelines of the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump greets delegates after addressing the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The estranged wife of a former violin maker accused of damaging 54 of his instruments told her then husband she would "destroy the violins if he did not pay" the amount she demanded to raise their two children, according to prosecutors in the Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley (right) listen as President Donald Trump addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a news conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gun enthusiasts look over Smith &amp; Wesson guns at the National Rifle Association's annual meetings and exhibits show in Louisville, Kentucky, in May 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-20T14:29:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-20T15:01:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students at Suginami Municipal Ogikubo Junior High School create their own Olympic logos in a special English class on July 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-20T15:49:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-20T15:51:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-land-a-20170920.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Average commercial land prices in the nation's major cities rose for the second straight year on the back of the projects following a surge in foreign tourists.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-20T16:46:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker at Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Himawari Life Insurance Inc. gets her body temperature measured during a walking program in Kaminoyama, Yamagata Prefecture, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/national/17-delicatessens-eastern-japan-close-e-coli-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-20T17:35:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-20T18:02:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/business/economy-business/japan-household-assets-rise-fresh-record-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-20T19:06:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-asset-a-20170921.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯A boost in the value of stocks and other assets pushed up the value of financial assets held by households to a record ¥1.832 quadrillion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/business/tech/sony-olympus-joint-venture-market-advanced-hd-surgical-microscope/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-20T19:23:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A reporter views sliced paprika using an advanced Orbeye microscope at a Sony Olympus Medical Solutions news conference on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-20T19:24:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donal Trump addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/asia-pacific/first-u-n-speech-trump-threatens-total-destruction-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-20T19:28:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-unnk-a-20170921.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/national/politics-diplomacy/trumps-fire-brimstone-u-n-speech-hands-abe-win-north-korea-will-victory-pyrrhic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-20T21:02:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-unanalysis-a-20170921.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe toast during a luncheon hosted by the United Nations secretary-general in New York on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-snap-election-cost-taxpayers-%c2%a560-billion-%c2%a570-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-20T21:02:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-electioncost-z-20170921.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-struggles-reach-consensus-article-9-revision-ahead-snap-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-20T21:20:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ldp-a-20170921.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe favors a constitutional revision to formalize the existence of the SDF.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/business/brexit-looms-romania-makes-case-japanese-investment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-20T23:18:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Romania is becoming an attractive destination for Japanese investment following Britain's decision to leave the European Union and the Japan-EU free trade agreement, according to Romanian commerce minister Ilan Laufer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/national/overseas-visitors-japan-set-january-august-record-topping-18-9-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-21T07:24:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign tourists are seen in Tokyo's bustling Shibuya district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/business/corporate-business/toshiba-selects-bain-led-consortium-buyer-memory-chip-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-21T07:28:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. selected a group led by Bain Capital as the buyer of its memory chip business, sources said Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/07/national/politics-diplomacy/lawmaker-yamaos-alleged-extramarital-affair-deepens-dps-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-21T10:26:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiori Yamao]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-21T10:49:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-21T11:02:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks to reporters about proposed legislation to repeal Obamacare, after the weekly Republican caucus policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-21T11:09:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-stlu-a-20170922.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clerics march together after holding an interfaith prayer service calling for peace and solidarity at Kiener Plaza on Tuesday in St. Louis. Leaders of several faiths on Tuesday called for peace and justice amid the turmoil that followed the acquittal of a white former St. Louis police officer in the 2011 death of a black man.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-21T13:33:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A teenager who fought alongside Islamic State-linked militants in Marawi City speaks during an interview in the southern Philippines on July 11 after fleeing the fighting.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-21T14:16:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A displaced woman and her children sit at a camp in Abayok, South Sudan, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean tourists look out over Pyongyang from atop the Juche Tower on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Part of a projection falls across Stuart Davis, a director at one of FireEye's subsidiaries, as he speaks to journalists about the techniques of Iranian hacking in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/world/distrustful-u-s-allies-force-spy-agency-back-encryption-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-21T15:28:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The National Security Agency headquarters in Ft. Meade, Maryland.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/national/politics-diplomacy/hospitalized-ex-ldp-leader-tanigaki-72-wont-seek-re-election-lower-house-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-21T15:48:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sadakazu Tanigaki]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron greets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Wednesday at the U.N. headquarters in New York.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯There are likely 10 million diabetics in Japan, according to the most recent health ministry survey.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenji Shiga (right), head of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, visits the USS Arizona Memorial in Honolulu on Sept. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T02:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T07:07:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T09:50:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during the committee's Sept. 6 hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cruz said he's against the Republican bill that would erase much of President Barack Obama's health law. If the Texas Republican sticks to that stand, GOP leaders will have little hope that their 11th-hour Senate push will survive.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T11:07:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T11:24:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T14:17:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha rides on a tractor at an agricultural school in central Suphan Buri province on Sept. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/22/national/japan-unique-position-take-global-lead-investment-trade-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T14:24:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiromichi Mizuno (third from left), chief investment officer at GPIF, speaks during a session of the G1 Global Conference at Globis University in Tokyo on Monday. Other panelists (from left) are Jesper Koll, CEO of Wisdom Tree Japan; Heizo Takenaka, professor emeritus at Keio University; and Richard McCormack, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T15:06:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, attempt to catch a bag of rice thrown at them during distribution of aid near Balukhali refugee camp on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/despite-undiplomatic-discourse-trump-met-leaders-u-n-general-assembly-obama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T16:23:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walks behind U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at a lunch during the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/25/reference/high-tech-robots-forefront-japans-funeral-industry-boom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T17:15:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pepper, the humanoid robot created by SoftBank Robotics, recites Buddhist sutras during the Life Ending Industry Expo 2017 in Tokyo on Aug. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T17:21:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Koreans hold an anti-U.S. rally in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/25/national/prince-akishino-princess-kiko-leave-10-day-trip-chile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T17:28:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Akishino and his wife, Princess Kiko, are seen at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Monday before departing for their 10-day trip to Chile.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T17:29:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A flare burns off excess gas from a stack at the Cosmo Oil Co. refinery, at the Yokkaichi industrial complex in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T17:31:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A trader works on the Mizuho Americas trading floor in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T17:33:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron attend a welcome ceremony at the Chancellery in Berlin in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/25/national/shinkansen-train-halts-passengers-tablet-catches-fire-singes-seat-back-table/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T17:36:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shinkansen is seen in this undated image. On Sunday, a shinkansen passenger's tablet computer apparently caught fire, forcing an emergency halt to the train.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T17:43:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/25/business/tech/ntt-toyota-kick-off-joint-project-develop-partner-robots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T18:58:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T18:58:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/25/business/financial-markets/dollar-firmer-%c2%a5112-ahead-abes-anticipated-call-general-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T18:58:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T18:58:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ecoview-a-20170926.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's economy has been recovering moderately in September, boosting the likelihood of the current expansion becoming the second longest in the postwar period, according to the Cabinet Office.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/25/business/election-looming-aso-may-skip-meeting-g-20-finance-chiefs-next-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T20:12:07+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/2017/09/25/business/corporate-business/uber-changes-tone-london-authorities-suspend-license-says-ready-make-concessions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T20:12:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uber Technologies Inc. is reportedly prepared to make concessions to restore its revoked taxi license in London after the ride service said it will fight its suspension order in court.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T20:29:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Incumbent Sakai Mayor Osami Takeyama (center) celebrates his victory in Sunday's mayoral poll at his campaigning office in the Osaka Prefecture city.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/25/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-gambles-snap-election-koike-starts-new-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T21:07:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walks to his office Monday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-25T21:07:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Arakaki, a 51-year-old professor at Okinawa Christian University, holds his 2-year-old daughter An in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, in July. First-time fathers who are 50 or older are becoming less unusual in Japan, where the average marriage age keeps rising.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/25/national/crime-legal/parental-help-crucial-protecting-children-school-mpd-crime-panel-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T21:08:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui and U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty shake hands at the Osaka Prefectural Government office on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-26T00:18:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hirotaka Ando, an ER doctor at Nagoya Ekisaikai Hospital, has posted on his hospital's information about treating fire ant bites.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-26T00:25:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The panda cub born at Ueno Zoo in June has been named Xiang Xiang, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike announced Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/25/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-vice-president-komura-wont-run-lower-house-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T06:07:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahiko Komura]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-26T06:28:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prince Harry and his girlfriend, actress Meghan Markle, watch the wheelchair tennis event during the Invictus Games in Toronto Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-26T08:40:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Google logo is pictured atop an office building in Irvine, California, Aug. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-26T08:50:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kurds celebrate to show their support for the independence referendum in Irbil, Iraq, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-26T08:54:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/business/fbi-secret-service-believed-probing-hackers-access-real-sec-data-used-firms-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T09:13:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sec-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman nominee Jay Clayton testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee in March. The SEC says a cyberbreach of a filing system it uses may have provided the basis for some illegal trading in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-ally-roger-stone-denies-russia-collusion-statement-ahead-house-appearance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T10:53:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-stone-a-20170927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-stone-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Stone talks to reporters outside a courtroom in New York in March. The House intelligence panel will interview two of President Donald Trump's associates behind closed doors this week as congressional committees step up their investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Longtime Trump associate Roger Stone and former staffer Boris Epshteyn will talk to the House panel. Stone will be interviewed Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/world/crime-legal-world/nsa-targeted-106000-foreigners-past-years-surveillance-program-soon-renewal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T10:55:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nsa-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[National Security Agency director Adm. Mike Rogers speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in June about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Capitol Hill in Washington. Intelligence and law enforcement officials across the government lobbied Congress on Monday to let them conduct broad surveillance on foreign targets in coming years, saying it helps prevent terrorist and cyberattacks on the United States. Rogers told senators earlier this year that a lot of what was in the intelligence agencies' assessment on Russian meddling in the U.S. election was informed by knowledge gained through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/world/social-issues-world/trump-travel-ban-seen-solid-ground-top-court-drops-hearing-critics-say-muslims-still-target/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T11:04:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpban-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester holds a sign at San Francisco International Airport during a January demonstration to denounce President Donald Trump's executive order that bars citizens of seven predominantly Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. The Trump administration announced new restrictions after spending months hashing out the details determined to avoid a repeat of the chaos of Trump's first travel ban.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/23/national/firms-seeking-foreign-help-get-guidance-visas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T12:20:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-students-a-20170924.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-students-a-20170924.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi Arabian students are briefed about work opportunities at a job fair in Tokyo organized by the Saudi Arabian Embassy on March 13, 2014. About 30 companies participated.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/24/national/kyotos-pricey-lodging-tax-plan-spurs-fierce-debate-necessity-tourism-impact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T12:23:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-kansaiside-a-20170925.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kansaiside-a-20170925.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoto plans to use the revenue from a lodging tax to improve tourism facilities starting next year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/25/national/japan-shouldnt-neglect-humanities-studies-favor-disciplines-oxford-professor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T14:13:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-oxford-a-20170926.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Karen O'Brien, head of the humanities division at the University of Oxford, is interviewed in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 5.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/25/national/tokyu-unveils-new-tram-beckoning-cat-livery-mark-110th-anniversary-tamagawa-line/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T14:39:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-cat-a-20170926.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cat-a-20170926.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Railway workers attend to Tokyu Corp.'s new manekineko (beckoning cat) tram, which was unveiled Monday to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the Tamagawa Line, one of only two tram lines still operating in the capital.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-expresses-concern-south-koreas-comfort-women-monument-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T15:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/asia-pacific/u-s-navys-pacific-fleet-commander-misses-promotion-retire-wake-collisions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T15:10:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-BRI-swift-a-20170927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-swift-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adm. Scott Swift, head of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, speaks at a news conference near the damaged guided-missile destroyer USS John S . McCain at Changi Naval Base in Singapore on Aug. 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/australia-returns-funds-china-money-laundering-swoops/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T15:12:52+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/national/japanese-personnel-end-search-rescue-efforts-quake-hit-mexico/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T15:40:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rescue-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a Japanese rescue team hold a dog found Sunday underneath the rubble of a multi-family residential building that collapsed in Mexico City from an earthquake earlier in the week.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/prime-minister-thailand-visit-white-house-oct-3/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T15:43:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-BRI-thaipm-a-20170927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-thaipm-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha poses for a photo with local government officers at a farming school in Thailand's Suphan Buri province on Sept. 18.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/national/japan-submits-documents-osakas-bid-2025-world-expo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T15:55:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-expo-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Ambassador to France Masato Kitera  submits Osaka's bid to host the 2025 world exposition to the Bureau International des Expositions in Paris on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/asia-pacific/north-korea-says-u-s-declared-war-warns-shoot-american-bombers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T16:37:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-nkwar-a-20170927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkwar-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho speaks outside the U.N. Plaza Hotel in New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/supporters-ousted-south-korean-leader-park-ask-u-n-body-probe-detention-conditions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T16:40:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-BRI-parkorea-a-20170927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-parkorea-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A TV news program shows ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye's arrival at a prosecutors office, at Seoul railway station in the South Korean capital in March.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/national/fukuoka-school-lunches-laced-insects-hair-gifu-teacher-makes-first-graders-vomit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T16:59:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-school-a-20170927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-school-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Insects and hair have been found in school lunches in Fukuoka Prefecture, prompting local education board officials to investigate.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/chinas-communist-party-uses-rap-tap-youth-culture-hook-millennials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T17:04:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-chinarap-a-20170927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinarap-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students stand around a flag of the Chinese Communist Party made of red scarves ahead of the party's 19th National Congress, at a primary school in Linyi, Shandong province, on Sept. 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/business/corporate-business/toyota-invests-japanese-startups-catch-autonomous-car-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T17:44:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toyota-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akio Toyoda (left), president of Toyota Motor Corp., speaks while Masamichi Kogai, president and chief executive officer of Mazda Motor Corp., looks on during a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 4.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/national/japans-fiscal-2017-research-whaling-nets-177-whales-northwest-pacific/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T18:10:02+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/25/business/economy-business/labor-costs-will-soon-rise-sending-inflation-toward-bojs-2-target-kuroda-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T18:50:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-kuroda-a-20170926.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kuroda-a-20170926.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda delivers a speech at an Osaka hotel on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/national/politics-diplomacy/komeito-member-quits-diet-misuse-lawmakers-housing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T19:09:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-komeito-a-20170927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-komeito-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroaki Nagasawa]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/business/thailand-courts-japanese-businesses-grand-tour-key-industrial-zone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T20:03:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-thaibiz-a-20170927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-thaibiz-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants of a business networking reception commemorating the 130th anniversary of Japan-Thailand diplomatic relations held at Bangkok Marriott Marquis Queen’s Park on Sept. 12 discuss new investment opportunities in Thailand.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/national/spent-nuclear-fuel-removal-fukushima-plant-pushed-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T20:37:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-roadmap-a-20170927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-roadmap-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cabinet ministers attend a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday to discuss a delay in the road map for decommissioning the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/business/adjusted-premium-friday-government-eyes-moving-campaign-aimed-boosting-fun-spending/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T20:46:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-friday-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government's "Premium Friday" campaign began in February as part of efforts to encourage workers to leave their offices early.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/business/abe-trots-tax-hike-snap-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T21:54:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-analysis-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past a large monitor in Tokyo on Monday showing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announce a plan to dissolve the Lower House and call a snap election.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/national/japan-successfully-undertakes-large-scale-deep-sea-mineral-extraction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T04:16:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-minerals-a-20170927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-minerals-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mining machine is put into water off the coast of Okinawa Tuesday to extract minerals from a deep-water seabed.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-boasts-team-really-good-job-hurricane-hit-puerto-rico-begs-differ-feels-slighted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T06:26:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-rico-a-20170928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rico-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Destroyed homes and vehicles sit in floodwaters after Hurricane Maria in this aerial photograph taken above Hamacao, Puerto Rico, on Monday. Hurricane Maria hit the Caribbean island last week, knocking out electricity throughout the island. The territory is facing weeks, if not months, without service as utility workers repair power plants and lines that were already falling apart.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/world/social-issues-world/monks-nationalists-force-rohingya-refugees-flee-sri-lanka-u-n-safe-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T06:29:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/senate-gop-bill-kill-obamacare-dies-quick-death-prompts-trump-slam-called-republicans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T06:35:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-obamacare-a-20170928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-obamacare-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, listens as Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, speaks during a news conference after a Republican policy meeting luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday. Senate Republicans gave up on their last-ditch proposal to repeal Obamacare as opposition in their own ranks ended months of fruitless efforts to gut the Affordable Care Act.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/business/washington-state-nixes-permit-build-terminal-asia-bound-coal-cites-environmental-grounds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T06:46:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/business/unlike-harvey-irma-trump-camp-rules-jones-act-waiver-maria-ravaged-puerto-rico/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T10:12:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-jonesact-a-20170928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jonesact-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) speaks at a press conference about the ongoing relief efforts in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria, at the Capitol Building in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/business/u-s-slaps-preliminary-220-countervailing-duty-bombardier-jets-boeing-subsidy-complaint/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T10:24:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-boeing-a-20170928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boeing-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model of the Bombardier C Series jetliner is seen in the Bombardier offices in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/world/kin-missing-mexico-quake-grow-angry-search-survivors-winds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T10:29:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-mexquake-a-20170928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mexquake-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives of people who are presumed still buried under the rubble from a building toppled by the 7.1 magnitude quake that struck central Mexico one week ago wait for news in Mexico City on Tuesday. A week after an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, a shaken Mexico was torn Tuesday between trying to get back to normal and keeping up an increasingly hopeless search for survivors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/national/science-health/saury-day-keeps-depression-bay-research/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T10:33:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fish-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women prepare saury. A Japanese research team has found that people who eat fish frequently, especially blue fish, face a lower risk of depression than those consuming less.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/world/crime-legal-world/trump-lawyer-tells-court-law-not-ban-discrimination-gay-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T10:57:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-27T11:10:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-sessions-a-20170928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sessions-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks about free speech at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington Tuesday. Sessions says the U.S. Justice Department will intervene on behalf of people who sue colleges claiming their free speech rights were violated.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/26/national/politics-diplomacy/voters-mixed-abes-decision-call-snap-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T13:12:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-streetvoices-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday to announce plans for a snap election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/national/amid-ballooning-health-care-costs-fitness-chain-rizap-helps-cities-keep-elderly-residents-shape/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T13:48:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senior citizens in Makinohara, Shizuoka Prefecture, participate in a fitness program offered by the city in collaboration with Rizap Group Inc.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/national/japan-support-domestic-potato-production-poor-harvest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T14:03:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-potato-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Domestic potato farmers will receive support from the agriculture ministry as they work to increase their harvest following a poor harvest due to bad weather.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/national/fuel-shortage-looms-japan-fires-biomass-energy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T14:25:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-biomass-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wood construction waste, set to be made into wood chips, is seen at the Eco Green Holdings factory in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/business/sales-tax-track-hiked-2019-unless-disaster-strikes-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T15:06:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tax-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government plans to hike the consumption tax in October 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/business/tech/u-k-inventor-james-dyson-aims-electric-car-launch-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T15:13:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-dyson-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[James Dyson, creator of the Dyson vacuum cleaner, speaks on the first day of the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, northwest England, in 2009. Dyson, who is best known for his bagless vacuum cleaners, on Tuesday announced a plan to produce electric cars by 2020 with a £2.0 billion investment. "Dyson has begun work on a battery electric vehicle, due to be launched by 2020," he said in an email to employees, referring to his company.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/business/japan-slips-notch-ninth-wefs-competitiveness-rankings-137-economies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T16:11:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japanrank-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amari Akira, then-economy minister, attends the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2016. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/national/history/little-known-ferry-tragedy-recalled-72-years-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T16:50:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/n-tarumizu-a-20170818.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tarumizu-a-20170818.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tarumizu Maru No. 6, run by the now-defunct Tarumizu Kisen Co., sails in this undated photo. According to the official incident report, 466 passengers died when the ferry capsized and sank on the morning of Feb. 6, 1944, just minutes after leaving the pier in Tarumizu, Kagoshima Prefecture. Many believe the death toll was much higher.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/national/yoshitomo-tokugawa-great-grandson-last-shogun-dies-67/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T16:51:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/business/corporate-business/western-digital-seek-injunction-block-toshiba-chip-unit-sale-bain-led-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T17:13:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp.'s headquarter in Tokyo is seen in this photo taken last week. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/asia-pacific/trump-says-military-option-north-korea-not-preferred-devastating/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T17:29:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkwrap-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-war activists attach "X" signs on a banner showing a caricature of U.S. President Donald Trump during a rally near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/asia-pacific/north-koreas-bark-may-worse-bite-threat-shoot-u-s-bombers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T17:31:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-nkanalysis-a-20170928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkanalysis-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image, made on Tuesday from propaganda video released by North Korea, shows a simulation of a U.S. B-1B bomber being hit by a missile. The words say "Those who dare try to harm the Great Nation of Mount Paektu would never escape the fate of becoming a wandering ghost."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/business/corporate-business/twitter-let-break-140-character-limit-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T17:59:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-twitter-a-20170928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-twitter-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Twitter will double its 140-character limit in an experiment aimed at drawing in more users.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/national/science-health/role-playing-video-game-seen-helping-ease-depression-counselor-shy-japanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T18:09:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-health-a-20170928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-health-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ayako Shimizu, president of Hikari Lab, talks about the SPARX role-playing video game that her company introduced to Japan, during an interview in Tokyo earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/asia-pacific/chinas-biggest-north-korea-taboo-discussing-life-kim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T19:12:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkchina-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spectators listen to a television news broadcast of a statement by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un outside the central railway station in Pyongyang on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/business/saudi-women-getting-right-drive-may-boost-toyota-sales-hurt-uber/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T19:20:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-sauditoyota-a-20170928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sauditoyota-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Saudi Arabian woman drives on a Riyadh highway as part of a campaign to defy the ban on women driving in March 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/business/mitsui-science-startups-look-landfill-gas-sustainable-steak-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T19:31:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-landfillgas-a-20170928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-landfillgas-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Landfills, sewage plants and farms all naturally produce methane when organic matter decomposes.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/national/victims-mount-ontake-eruption-mourned-third-anniversary-eruption/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T19:56:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ontake-b-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Families of the victims of the eruption at Mount Ontake Wednesday pray before a monument set up in the village of Otaki, Nagano Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/23/business/first-permanent-sailor-moon-store-opens-harajuku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T21:12:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/b-sailormoon-a-20170924.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sailormoon-a-20170924.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People look at the new Sailor Moon store in Tokyo's trendy Harajuku district during a media preview Saturday morning. It opened to the public later in the day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/national/new-system-foreshocks-trigger-warnings-possible-massive-nankai-trough-temblor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T21:15:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nankai-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Government officials overseeing disaster prevention discuss a new warning system Tuesday to alert residents of a possible earthquake along the Nankai Trough.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/national/crime-legal/supreme-court-rules-vote-gap-2016-upper-house-election-constitutional/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T21:15:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-votegap-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of plaintiffs head to the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning before it dismissed their claim that the vote disparity in the July 2016 Upper House election was unconstitutional.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/28/business/indonesia-ready-divert-bali-bound-flights-volcano-erupts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-28T06:44:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bali-a-20170929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Balinese children play on the beach near Mount Agung, a volcano on the highest alert level, outside the current danger zone in Amed, on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/28/world/smoking-mountain-volcano-near-quake-hit-mexico-city-belches-burning-boulders-rattling-residents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-28T08:10:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/28/national/downpours-lash-kanto-region-spurring-warnings-floods-mudslides-evacuations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-28T08:27:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/28/business/britain-warns-boeing-might-miss-defense-contracts-bombardier-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-28T10:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bombardier headquarters and factory are pictured in Belfast on Wednesday. The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday said it would impose anti-dumping duties of 220 percent on Bombardier's CSeries jets, following an investigation into state subsidies sparked by a Boeing complaint.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/alabama-arch-conservatives-victory-seen-putting-establishment-republicans-notice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-28T10:08:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/f-moore-a-20170929.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-moore-a-20170929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore rides in on a horse Tuesday to vote in Gallant, Alabama. Moore wouldn't stand a chance in many U.S. Senate races after defying federal court orders, describing Islam as a false religion, calling homosexuality evil and pulling out a revolver on stage before hundreds of supporters. Moore is the GOP candidate for the Senate. He will face Democratic nominee Doug Jones.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/28/business/unnamed-country-will-build-expand-five-u-s-auto-plants-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-28T10:10:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trumpster-a-20170929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump walks to board Air Force One to return to Washington from Indianapolis International Airport in Indianapolis Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/28/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/thai-court-sentences-former-prime-minister-yingluck-shinawatra-absentia-five-years-jail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-28T13:54:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra arrives at the Supreme Court to make her final statements in a trial on a charge of criminal negligence in Bangkok on Aug. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/28/asia-pacific/south-korea-offer-tax-help-loans-firms-hit-china-trade-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-28T14:28:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman shops in an almost empty Lotte Mart in Shanghai on March 13. Dozens of other Lotte stores in China were closed as the THAAD missile system sparked boycott calls against Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/28/world/londons-homeless-estimated-12000-many-sofa-surfing-resorting-survival-sex-strangers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-28T14:34:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-londonhomeless-z-20170929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The London Assembly — an elected body that holds London's mayoral office to account — said more than 12,000 people do not have a home.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/saudi-arabia-names-first-woman-senior-government-post/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-28T14:37:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/28/asia-pacific/singapore-teen-blogger-amos-yee-granted-asylum-u-s-released/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-28T15:07:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amos Yee stands outside the United Sates Citizenship and Immigration Services offices after his release from detention in Chicago on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo of a woman, believed to be Kyoko Matsumoto, kidnapped by North Korean agents in 1977, was provided to the Japanese government Wednesday by a group of families of South Korean abductees.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-28T17:21:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets family members of victims abducted to North Korea at the Prime Minister's Office on Thursday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-28T17:23:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travis Kalanick]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-28T17:33:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ibrahim Yener, a Turkish resident of Osaka who won a lawsuit against a second-hand car dealer for discriminating against him because he was not Japanese, is interviewed in Osaka earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Habikino Medical Center started performing autopsies at police request in April amid a nationwide shortage of anatomists.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's yield-hungry investors are helping turn companies that were once bond-market pariahs into stars.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-28T19:54:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-28T22:28:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-29T06:21:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-29T07:39:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Twitter's Carlos Monje, public policy and philanthropy director, tries the door with Colin Crowell, head of global public policy, to enter a closed door meeting with the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill Thursday in Washington. Officials from Twitter are on Capitol Hill as part of the House and Senate investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-29T08:52:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees of Yamato Transport Co. push carts loaded with parcels for distribution in Musashimurayama, Tokyo, in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-29T09:03:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price receives a flu vaccination during a news conference on annual influenza prevention at the Press Club in Washington Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/29/business/flights-worldwide-delayed-amadeus-booking-system-suffers-network-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-29T09:52:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-29T10:31:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-29T14:19:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An illustration of the species Uromys vika]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-29T15:57:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-29T15:59:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traffic congestion is seen at the Meishin Expressway's Suita interchange in Osaka Prefecture. The government plans to launch unlimited expressway passes for foreign tourists driving on many expressways across the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-29T16:32:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey shows a total of 1,021 people are planning to run in the Oct. 22 general election, in which a key focus is whether Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike herself will join the race.]]></image:caption>
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