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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dick Shaw, country director for CABI, and research scientist Daisuke Kurose study psyllids on a Japanese knotweed plant in a laboratory in Egham, England, on Aug. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-29T21:20:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A government report suggests more married women are entering the workforce, and the number of mothers eager to work is increasing, regardless of income level.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-30T11:13:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gives a speech in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Thursday after the Lower House was dissolved earlier that day.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-30T13:26:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man passes a poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping in Shanghai on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-30T13:28:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sun Zhengcai]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/29/business/elon-musks-new-vision-anywhere-earth-one-hour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-30T14:30:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, speaks during a news conference on Friday at the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-30T14:31:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bruno Mottin (left), chief curator of heritage at the Conde Museum at the Palace of Chantilly, examines the "Mona Vanna" through a microscope as Conde Museum curator Mathieu Deldicque looks on at the Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France in Paris on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John McCain]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-30T14:33:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Jong Un]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-30T15:40:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean Hwasong-12 intermediate-range missile is launched in this undated combination photo released Sept. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/30/national/media-national/education-system-still-much-learn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-30T22:44:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under pressure: According to the media, schools in Japan are facing a number of problems, including the bullying of students and overworked teachers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/30/national/media-national/ainori-reboot-reflects-attempt-attract-new-generation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-30T22:42:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-30T22:43:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-30T19:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kodo-kai syndicate made a manual that advises gangsters how to avoid prosecution, which includes warnings about using Facebook and Line.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/30/national/social-issues/estimated-3-2-million-japanese-addicted-gambling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-30T20:32:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pachinko players in Japan spend an average of ¥58,000 per month on the activity.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/01/asia-pacific/japan-based-u-s-carrier-navigates-crowded-waters-north-korea-tensions-mount/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-01T12:11:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crew members manage the flight deck onboard the USS Ronald Reagan in the South China Sea on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/01/world/u-s-accuses-iran-venezuela-failing-act-human-trafficking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-01T13:18:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/01/world/weak-columns-extra-floors-led-mexico-city-school-collapse-experts-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-01T13:58:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Search and rescue efforts are conducted at the Enrique Rebsamen school in Mexico City, on Sept. 21, two days after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake killed more than 350 people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/30/national/politics-diplomacy/kibo-no-nippon-ishin-no-kai-agree-not-directly-challenge-tokyo-osaka-city-districts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-01T14:02:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[(From left) Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura and Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui face the media during a joint news conference Saturday in the city of Osaka after holding talks to discuss the upcoming Oct. 22 Lower House snap election.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-01T15:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson speaks during a news conference in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/01/national/seven-begins-donating-leftover-food-tokyos-needy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-01T15:03:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official (left) at the Ito Yokado Hikifune store hands over a box of food for donation to a member volunteer of nonprofit food bank Second Harvest Japan in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/01/asia-pacific/tea-tiananmen-inside-chinas-new-censorship-machine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-01T15:03:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees work at computers inside the Beijing headquarters of ByteDance Technology Co., better known as Toutiao, a popular and fast-growing news feed app, in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/01/national/yokohama-expressway-crash-leaves-one-dead-five-hurt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-01T15:30:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/01/business/taiwan-receives-first-delivery-japanese-beef-16-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-01T18:22:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A chef prepares imported Miyazaki beef at a restaurant in Taipei on Saturday. The meat was part of the first beef shipment from Japan in 16 years after Taiwan lifted its 2001 import ban, which was triggered by an outbreak of mad cow disease.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/01/national/senior-survey-says-half-men-quarter-women-drink-much/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-01T19:08:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-01T20:32:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masaru Wakasa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/01/world/yemen-houthi-forces-shoot-u-s-surveillance-drone-capital-sanaa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-01T20:45:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yemenis gather around the burning wreckage of a U.S. drone after it was shot down over the country's capital, Sanaa, on Sunday. A military source said Houthi air defenses shot down a U.S. surveillance craft.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/01/national/politics-diplomacy/koike-party-striking-distance-ldp-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-01T22:44:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and fellow members of his conservative Liberal Democratic Party raise fists at party headquarters in Tokyo on Thursday as they pledge to win the upcoming Lower House election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/01/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-eager-push-deregulation-bid-japan-become-innovation-capital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-02T04:48:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures while delivering a speech at an international conference on science and technology in Kyoto on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/02/world/puerto-rico-masses-survival-struggle-amid-acute-shortages-11-days-devastating-hurricane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-02T07:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hundreds of people line up to buy ice at a local plant in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Saturday. U.S. military and emergency relief teams ramped up their aid efforts for Puerto Rico amid growing criticism of the response to the hurricanes that ripped through the Caribbean island.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-treasury-chief-steven-mnuchin-doesnt-regret-government-plane-use-kentucky-jaunt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-02T08:20:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Treasury secretary, listens to a question during a discussion at The Atlantic's Washington Ideas conference in Washington on Thursday. Mnuchin at the event said the GOP's plan in its tax proposal for 2.9% annual growth over a decade is "doable" and that 6 percent growth is "optimistic."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/02/business/britain-caught-crossfire-says-will-fight-protect-jobs-amid-boeing-bombardier-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-02T08:42:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during the Bank of England 'Independence 20 years on' conference, which marks two decades of operational independence from the UK government, at Fishmongers Hall in London Thursday. May on Thursday lambasted the behavior of Boeing after it complained that Canadian rival Bombardier used unfair government subsidies to sell planes at artificially low prices.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/02/world/argentines-march-en-masse-demand-answers-case-missing-activist-believed-seized-security-forces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-02T10:06:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travis Kalanick]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-03T08:28:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take water from tanks in a truck in Juventud neighborhood, in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, Sunday. President Donald Trump strenuously defended U.S. efforts to bring relief to storm-battered Puerto Rico, even as one island official said Trump was trying to gloss over "things that are not going well," two weeks after devastating Hurricane Maria left much of the island without electricity, fresh water or sufficient food.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Starved for returns by near-zero rates at home, individual investors have propelled a 27 percent jump in Japanese mutual funds' investments in Turkish lira-denominated bonds this year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of gun deaths in Japan was the second lowest among 34 OECD member countries after Iceland.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/03/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-gov-yuriko-koikes-new-party-kibo-no-releases-first-list-candidates/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuriko Koike]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-03T21:35:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike arrives for a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Sept. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-04T06:37:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Ryanair plane takes off Sept. 21 from Dublin Airport.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-04T07:01:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man uses a tactile table with a street map during a visit by French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb at the municipal police supervision center as part of the Euro-Mediterranean conference of cities on the prevention of radicalization and for the fight against terrorism in Nice, France, Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-04T07:20:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Home Secretary Amber Rudd speaks at the Conservative party conference at the Manchester Central Convention Complex in Manchester, England, Tuesday. The British government says it will make streaming extremist content an offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Currently it's illegal to download or store material that encourages violent attacks. But Rudd says the law should be toughened to include "people who repeatedly view terrorist content online."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/04/world/blood-donors-around-world-line-las-vegas-aid-massacre-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T11:16:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hundreds of people line up to donate blood following the mass shooting at the Route 91 music festival in Las Vegas Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/01/business/online-research-firm-aims-break-japanese-mold-global-market-quest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T12:10:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scott Ernst, CEO of Macromill, is interviewed at his office in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Sept. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/03/asia-pacific/white-house-rules-talks-north-korea-threatens-japan-nuclear-clouds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T13:28:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-04T15:08:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-refugee-z-20171004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan has remained unwelcoming for refugees, even though its shrinking, aging population is a key reason behind the economy's slow growth.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-04T16:04:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Risa Ueda, head of the commercial banks examination-planning division at the Bank of Japan, poses for a photograph at the BOJ headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-04T16:40:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuya Inagaki (center), the head of Kyoto University Hospital, apologizes after the death of a woman who is alleged to have died as a result of improperly mixed medicine from the facility, at a news conference in Kyoto on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-04T16:54:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[College students listen to a guest speaker during a ceremony to launch their job search at Tokyo's Hibiya Park on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/04/asia-pacific/use-small-tactical-nuclear-weapons-proposed-u-s-policy-review/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T17:26:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-04T17:30:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson addresses the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, England, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-04T17:51:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump attends a briefing aboard the USS Kearsarge off Puerto Rico on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-04T18:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Female customers toast with beer at a Tokyo restaurant on Aug. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/04/world/u-s-shift-almost-half-billion-dollars-missile-defense-north-korean-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T18:13:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-04T18:59:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits a Farm No. 1116 of KPA Unit 810 in this Friday photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/04/national/japan-tourism-group-builds-social-media-presence-new-instagram-account/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T20:44:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tourism-a-20171005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Snacks are served on plates featuring the hashtag #visitjapanjp during an event on Monday celebrating the launch of the Japan National Tourism Organization's new Instagram account.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/04/national/tepco-secures-first-reactor-safety-certifications-since-fukushima-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T20:55:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-nuclear activists protest Wednesday in Tokyo after listening to the Nuclear Regulation Authority's decision to allow the restart of two reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear complex in Niigata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/04/national/japan-nuclear-panel-plans-reduction-plutonium-stockpile-details-remain-unclear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T20:56:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel is put into a spent nuclear fuel pool at the Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture on Sept. 28. The fuel will be loaded into a nuclear reactor next year at the earliest.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/04/national/politics-diplomacy/koikes-kibo-no-will-push-halt-sales-tax-hike-end-nuclear-power-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T23:08:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reporters are given campaign leaflets for the Liberal Democratic Party at its Tokyo headquarters on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/04/business/corporate-business/honda-domestic-car-plant-consolidation-shift-overseas-production/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T23:25:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda Motor Chief Executive Officer Takahiro Hachigo speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/04/national/nuclear-watchdog-safety-clearance-tepco-reactors-fukushima-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T23:25:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-nuclear activists protest on Wednesday near a building in Tokyo's Minato Ward, where the Nuclear Regulation Authority held a meeting to give safety approval for two reactors at Tepco's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/06/national/politics-diplomacy/koike-unveils-plans-cheaper-easier-access-public-records/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T23:28:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-koike-a-20170107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuriko Koike]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/19/business/corporate-business/renault-to-hire-ex-defense-chief-koike-as-director/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T23:28:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-04T23:29:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuriko Koike]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/18/national/yuriko-koike-postpones-decision-fate-tsukiji-relocation-summer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T23:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike announced Friday she will decide in summer next year whether to relocate Tsukiji fish market, shown in this photo taken in Oct. 2015, to the Toyosu site in Tokyo's Koto Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/04/asia-pacific/russia-quietly-throws-north-korea-lifeline-bid-stymie-regime-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T23:33:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A guard walks along a platform past signs which read "Russia" (left) and "DPRK" at the border crossing between Russia and North Korea in the settlement of Tumangan, North Korea. DPRK stands for the North's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/03/national/politics-diplomacy/yuriko-koike-says-new-party-will-seek-topple-abes-ruling-bloc-coming-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T23:48:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, founder of Kibo no To (Party of Hope), is interviewed in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/30/national/politics-diplomacy/yuriko-koike-challenge-exposes-risk-shinzo-abe-snap-poll-decision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T23:49:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike unveils the name of her new party, Kibo no To (Party of Hope), during a news conference at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building in the capital on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/29/national/politics-diplomacy/yuriko-koike-list-dp-refugees-security-constitutional-amendment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T23:50:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks to reporters after meeting with Democratic Party leader Seiji Maehara in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/29/national/politics-diplomacy/yuriko-koike-appoint-first-female-vice-governor-22-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T23:50:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/28/national/politics-diplomacy/yuriko-koike-says-second-place-finish-not-good-enough-snap-vote-plans-wrench-power-ruling-ldp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T23:50:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/28/national/politics-diplomacy/democratic-party-may-field-no-candidates-snap-poll-ranks-look-run-part-koikes-new-force/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T23:51:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dpkoike-a-20170929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party leader Seiji Maehara is considering letting the party's members run under Yuriko Koike's new party Kibo no To in the coming Lower House election, sources said Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/national/politics-diplomacy/yuriko-koike-new-party-take-ldp-vowing-alter-japans-political-landscape/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-04T23:51:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Founders of Kibo no To cheer at the party's launch at a Tokyo hotel on Wednesday. From left: Goshi Hosono, Akihisa Nagashima, Yuriko Koike, Masaru Wakasa, Kyoko Nakayama and Mineyuki Fukuda]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An adult female Dryococelus australis, also known as the Lord Howe Island stick insect, sits on a tea tree.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former secret agent Werner Mauss (right) stands next to his lawyer, Daniel Fischer, at the start of a session of his trial in Bochum, Germany, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police Friday conduct an investigation at an apartment in Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, where a man allegedly set a fire and killed his wife and five children.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An 87-year-old woman died in September after she was attacked by a swarm of Asian giant hornets in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man grabs an Atlantic salmon in Norway. Projects are underway in Norway and Japan to raise salmon in large numbers in big offshore pens, by adopting next-generation aquafarming technology.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/06/business/u-s-judge-dismisses-criminal-charge-toyota-sudden-acceleration-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-06T18:19:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-06T18:27:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-06T23:04:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-06T23:04:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kibo no To leader Yuriko Koike enters the Japanese Trade Union Confederation Friday to meet its president Rikio Kozu and ask for the group's support in the coming election.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Edano (right), who launched the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan earlier this week, speaks during a news conference held at the Diet building in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Theresa May addresses delegates during a speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, England, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-07T14:23:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-07T14:30:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo taken by Andrey Kuzhabekov, second secretary at the Russian Embassy, of children playing in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, wins the Prince Takamado Memorial Prize in the 20th Japan Through Diplomats Eyes photo competition this week.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Surrounded by aboriginal chief Marcia Brown Martel (front) and "Sixties Scoop" survivors, Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett responds to a question during a news conference on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family ties: Camden Whiddon (right) sits with his brother, Jaxton, and younger sister, Ryleigh.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuo Miyake (center), a survivor of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing, expresses joy after the announcement of the winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The transport ministry plans to introduce a system from next April to grade aging runways at every major airport in the country.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokai University's Tokai Challenger solar car sets out Sunday from the northern Australian city of Darwin on a 3,000-km endurance race through the center of the continent.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoto Umehara, an executive vice president at Kobe Steel Ltd., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his sister Kim Yo Jong attend an opening ceremony of a residential complex in Pyongyang on April 13.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this still image taken from social media on Saturday evening, people are seen running for cover following an explosion at a fuel distribution center in the Ghanaian capital, Accra.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-09T03:48:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese School in Vienna faces problems finding teachers due to stricter immigration rules in Austria.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-09T08:26:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference Wednesday about gun legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington. Seeking momentum for gun restrictions, Feinstein said only broader legislation would be effective in outlawing "bump stocks" like the Las Vegas gunman used. Her comments Sunday came as the National Rifle Association reiterated support for more limited regulations that stopped short of a ban.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-09T08:30:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-09T11:27:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters listen to Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa during ademonstration called by Societat Civil Catalans" (Catalan Civil Society) to support the unity of Spain on Sunday in Barcelona. Spain braced for more protests despite tentative signs that the sides may be seeking to defuse the crisis after Madrid offered a first apology to Catalans injured by police during their outlawed independence vote.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-09T11:28:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ahmed Hanachi's longtime friend who agreed to be publicly identified only as Omar for fear for his security, reacts in Bizerte, about 60 km north of Tunis, Wednesday. Omar described the community as "shocked" to learn Hanachi was behind the Marseille attack. French authorities have identified the Marseille attacker as Ahmed Hanachi, a 29-year-old Tunisian who had been picked up by French police but released despite lacking residency papers]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-09T11:29:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan Secretary-General Tetsuro Fukuyama (left) and Akira Nagatsuma, deputy chief of the party, announce its campaign pledges for the Oct. 22 Lower House election during a news conference in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-09T20:55:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[As Japan's farmers age and as their numbers decrease, some companies are pushing automation of the agriculture sector.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/09/business/american-nudge-theorist-thaler-wins-years-economic-nobel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-09T22:13:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Richard Thaler]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Kawasaki, an ICAN International Steering Group member and a co-chair of Japanese nongovernmental organization Peace Boat, speaks to a group of 20 hibakusha during a meeting in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-10T06:06:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-10T09:49:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-10T11:15:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants ride in a truck before they are transported to a detention center, in the coastal city of Sabratha, Libya, Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-10T13:04:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-10T13:40:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image of Kim Yo Jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's younger sister, is seen on a screen broadcasting a TV news program at Seoul Railway Station in the South Korean capital in November 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-10T14:56:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-10T15:03:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is planning to visit Japan by year-end to discuss a range of issues including North Korea’s nuclear program with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/10/national/crime-legal/womans-battered-corpse-found-miyagi-coastal-park-dedicated-311-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-10T15:08:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-10T15:10:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron stands by Pablo Picasso's 1932 painting "Woman lying in the sun" during the opening of the "Picasso 1932: Erotic Year" exhibition at the Picasso museum in Paris, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/09/national/crime-legal/graffiti-found-historic-zenkoji-temple-city-nagano/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-10T15:17:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/10/national/tokyos-ueno-zoo-celebrates-birth-western-gorilla/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-10T16:31:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A western gorilla named Momoko holds her baby at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo on Monday after giving birth the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/10/national/crime-legal/man-prison-attempted-murder-charged-2006-kawasaki-killing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-10T16:36:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-10T16:50:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An H-IIA rocket carrying Japan's fourth and final quasi-zenith satellite, the Michibiki No. 4, lifts off Tuesday from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/10/national/diaper-sushi-baby-shower-hit-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-10T17:16:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Noriyuki Monda presents an assortment of diapers, baby soaps and bibs arranged to resemble sushi, on Sept. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/10/asia-pacific/asia-pacific-region-higher-risk-disasters-u-n-warns-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-10T17:28:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-10T17:48:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This April photo shows the Google mobile phone icon in Philadelphia. Russian operatives spent tens of thousands of dollars on ads across Google products, including YouTube and Google search, according to reports. The Washington Post is reporting that the technology behemoth uncovered the Russian-backed disinformation campaign as it considers whether to testify before Congress in November. Social media companies Facebook and Twitter have already agreed to testify.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-10T17:52:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer sniffs the "king of fruits," the exotic Asian durian, in downtown Singapore in 1999.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-10T18:33:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traders with an eye on the yen have already started betting on potential scenarios for the currency after Japan's Oct. 22 general election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/10/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-voters-identify-election-defining-issues-campaigning-starts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-10T19:08:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman holds a leaflet from the Liberal Democratic Party's election campaign featuring Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's photo while waiting for a campaign rally in the city of Fukushima on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/10/business/economy-business/japans-current-account-surplus-expands-record-%c2%a52-38-trillion-august/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-10T19:12:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-10T19:41:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, who heads Kibo no To (Party of Hope), attends a campaign rally in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/10/national/politics-diplomacy/election-kicks-off-abe-finds-upstaged-koike-solid-ground/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-10T19:54:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with his supporters after an election campaign rally in Fukushima on Oct. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/10/national/nagano-counselors-trial-online-consultations-troubled-teens-via-line-messaging-app/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-10T19:55:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A smartphone screen shows how teenagers can seek consultations with counselors via the Line message app. In the background, counselors respond to them via computers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/10/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/thai-junta-sets-firm-date-election-many-false-starts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-10T22:01:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha reviews an honor guard during a welcome ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. More than three years after seizing power in a coup, Prayuth, the head of Thailand's military government, on Tuesday promised elections in November next year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chisako Kakehi]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-10T23:19:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, attends a campaign rally in the city of Fukushima.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-10T23:20:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Falsified data at Kobe Steel Ltd. could affect customers in a wide range of industries.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-11T04:11:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. CEO Hiroto Saikawa, who also chairs the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, gives a news conference last week at Nissan's headquarters in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A journalist takes photos of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" after it was unveiled at Christie's in New York on Tuesday. One of fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and the only one in private hands, the work will be offered in Christie's Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art on Nov. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-11T06:42:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong is escorted by police as she leaves after her trial session at the Shah Alam courthouse in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-11T09:55:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scott Taylor, director of the Department of Community Justice of Multnomah County in Oregon, and Lusanne Green, association coordinator of the International Community Corrections Association in Ohio, listen to the experiences of Japanese volunteer probation officers on Sept. 12 at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-11T10:48:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, talks to guests during a reception at Buckingham Palace, London, to celebrate World Mental Health Day Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/07/national/japan-times-120th-anniversary-exhibition-kicks-off-yokohama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T11:22:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors look at display panels at the 120th anniversary exhibition of The Japan Times in Yokohama on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/10/business/economy-business/imf-raises-japan-growth-forecast-1-5-broad-based-global-recovery-gathers-steam/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past a billboard for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Washington on Monday. The world economy is gaining strength and extending its broad-based recovery.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/lacking-legislation-trump-looks-sign-order-week-expected-gut-obamacare/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T12:28:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this July 27 photo, a person walks by a health care insurance office in Hialeah, Florida. The White House is working on a plan that could bring more health insurance choices and cheaper options to people buying individual and small business coverage. But the bill for this might be paid for by the sick.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/national/reconstruction-advances-tohoku-tsunami-survivors-stress-need-keep-memories-alive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T12:53:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuko Tanno, a survivor of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, talks about her son, Kota, who died in the disaster at age 13, at a monument to him and 13 other students in the Yuriage district of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-11T15:06:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee pulls alongside the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz for a scheduled replenishment at sea in October last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/business/tech/softbank-leads-93-million-investment-ai-startup-petuum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T15:36:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Billionaire Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/national/politics-diplomacy/politically-savvy-teen-mino-casts-first-early-vote-lower-house-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T15:38:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Natsuki Nakagawa, 18, casts the first early vote in the Lower House election Wednesday morning in Mino, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/world/u-s-poised-boost-military-drone-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T15:40:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. airmen perform a post-flight check of an MQ-9 Reaper drone at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico last December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/business/economy-business/japan-core-machinery-orders-rise-august-second-straight-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T16:03:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's core machinery orders rose amid robust demand in the manufacturing sector.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/asia-pacific/south-koreans-seek-visit-jointly-run-factory-zone-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T16:05:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean traffic policeman stands at an intersection in Kaesong, North Korea, in April 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/10/national/crime-legal/court-orders-tepco-government-pay-damages-fukushima-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T16:28:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man speaks on Tuesday in the city of Fukushima during a meeting of victims seeking damages from the government and Tepco over the 3/11 nuclear disaster. Later in the day, the court ruled in their favor.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-11T16:29:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man works on a 3-D street painting of the emblem of the Chinese Communist Party to celebrate the upcoming party congress, in Xiayi, China's central Henan province, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/british-leader-theresa-may-refuses-say-vote-another-brexit-referendum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T16:30:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Theresa May]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/business/kurodas-reappointment-bank-japan-chief-likely-hinge-snap-poll-outcome/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T16:39:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20171012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Whether Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda will be appointed for a second term may hinge on the results of the upcoming election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/hong-kong-leader-says-asian-financial-hub-faces-grave-challenges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T16:40:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam poses with copies of her policy speech in the city on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/05/national/captured-1974-shimoda-aquarium-dolphin-nana-sets-record-breeding-duration-nearly-43-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T16:54:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bottlenose dolphin Nana is seen Wednesday. She has been bred for more than 42 years and 10 months at Shimoda Aquarium. Shimoda Aquarium / VIA KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/world/trump-requests-4-9-billion-loan-puerto-rico-congress-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T17:50:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents affected by Hurricane Maria wait in line for fuel donated by the Fuel Relief Fund, in the municipality of Orocovis, outside San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/national/crime-legal/security-camera-footage-leads-police-arrest-woman-graffiti-nagano-temple/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T18:30:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A column of a gate at Zenkoji Temple in Nagano Prefecture is seen vandalized with an "X" mark on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/national/elderly-man-accidentally-drives-car-hokkaido-train-track-kilometer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T19:10:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/asia-pacific/u-s-flies-powerful-bombers-korean-peninsula-trump-discusses-range-options/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T19:10:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber takes off from Andersen Air Force Base on Guam for missions with Air Self-Defense Force and South Korea Air Force warplanes in the vicinity of the Sea of Japan on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/business/firms-promote-japanese-cuisine-export-fair-chiba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T19:11:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/b-fair-a-20171012.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local sake is offered to a visitor at the "Japan's Food" export fair at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/business/corporate-business/toshiba-removed-tokyo-stock-exchange-delisting-watch-list-improved-controls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T19:11:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toshiba-a-20171012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Stock Exchange removed Toshiba Corp. from its watch list for delisting.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/business/scandals-seen-shredding-japan-inc-s-revered-image-quality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T21:35:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japaninc-a-20171012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A string of corporate scandals in Japan has destroyed shareholder value, enraged consumers and incurred the wrath of regulators.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/national/crime-legal/government-ordered-pay-damages-aircraft-noise-u-s-yokota-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-11T21:35:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yokotabase-a-20171012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents who live near the U.S. Yokota Air Base walk toward the Tachikawa Branch of the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday before the ruling in their suit against the government over noise issues.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/13/national/ghoulish-goodies-spooktacular-sweets/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Halloween-inspired dessert buffet at The French Kitchen.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-13T11:58:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kanaya Resort Hakone opens on Nov. 3 with 14 guest rooms, including the John Kanaya Suite.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-13T11:57:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All-Day Dining Oasis Garden at The Prince Gallery Tokyo Kioicho is serving the "Kunsei one plate."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Through Oct. 31, guests can enjoy Halloween-themed cocktails at the Royal Scots main bar.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-13T11:55:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The terrace offers beautiful views of the Pacific Ocean.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/national/science-health/tick-borne-sfts-disease-spreads-via-dog/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-12T07:02:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ticks-a-20171012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Doctors in Japan have confirmed the first case of the tick-borne disease thrombocytopenia syndrome, or SFTS, being transmitted to a human from a dog.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T07:11:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uber Technologies Inc. signage is displayed outside the company's headquarters building in San Francisco.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T07:30:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump meet with Justin Trudeau (left), Canada's prime minister, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Wednesday. Trump renewed his threat to walk away from the North American Free Trade Agreement just as Trudeau arrived Tuesday on the eve of a new round of negotiations.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T07:58:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian security forces carry the remains of a reported suicide bomber following an attack near the main police headquarters in Syria's capital Damascus on Wednesday. Three suicide bombers blew themselves up near the main police headquarters, killing at least two people, the interior ministry said.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T08:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mariano Rajoy, Spain's prime minister, speaks at the parliament in Madrid on Wednesday. Rajoy, speaking after an emergency session of his ministerial team on Wednesday, said the Cabinet had agreed to issue a formal request to the Catalan government in Barcelona for confirmation of whether it has declared independence.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Rohingya boy walks at a refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T10:52:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[IWhite House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Deputy Chief of Staff Kirstjen Nielsen speak together as they walk across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington in August. President Donald Trump has nominated Kirstjen Nielsen as his next secretary of homeland security.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T10:57:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U..S President Donald Trump makes his way to board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/12/world/science-health-world/thin-air-stone-greenhouse-gas-test-starts-iceland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-12T13:39:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Climeworks facility for capturing carbon dioxide stands on the roof of a waste incineration plant in Hinwil, Switzerland, on July 18.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts salute during a Memorial Day ceremony in Linden, Michigan, on May 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T16:01:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/12/national/gunma-university-sacks-professor-alleged-falsification-data-slanderous-tweets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-12T17:13:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T17:32:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/national/politics-diplomacy/ldps-secretary-general-says-election-loss-impossible-party-not-danger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-12T17:49:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai speaks in a group interview Wednesday at the party headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/12/national/mount-shinmoe-eruption-continues-second-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-12T17:54:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A plume of smoke billows from Mount Shinmoe in Kyushu on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T17:58:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T18:03:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kobe Steel Ltd. Chairman and President Hiroya Kawasaki speaks to reporters about the company's ongoing scandal following his visit to the industry ministry in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T18:03:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-clione-a-20171013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new species of clione sea slug has been discovered in Toyama Bay.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/12/world/sonoma-napa-vintners-scramble-protect-wine-fires-sweep-area/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-12T18:07:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fermentation tanks stand next to the burned remains of the Signorello Estate winery in Napa, California, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/12/business/economy-business/september-wholesale-prices-rise-fastest-pace-nine-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-12T18:53:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T19:26:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tokyo-a-20171013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo is closing in on the No. 2 spot, currently held by New York, in the Global Power City Index ranking.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T19:36:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People watch a TV screen broadcasting a news report on the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the older half brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, on February 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/12/national/japan-nuclear-fuel-skipped-safety-checks-rokkasho-plant-14-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-12T21:25:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.'s Rokkasho reprocessing plant in Rokkasho Village, Aomori Prefecture, allegedly violated safety rules for over a decade.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T21:25:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T21:26:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuho Ishibashi]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-12T21:26:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Voters gather and listen to a speech made by a candidate for the Oct. 22 election in the city of Matsudo in Chiba on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/12/national/okinawa-gov-takeshi-onaga-visits-site-u-s-military-chopper-accident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-12T22:38:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The burned-out wreckage of a U.S. CH-53E transport helicopter that burst into flames is seen near the military's training area in the northern part of Okinawa Prefecture on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks on the U.S. system for asylum-seekers at the Executive Office for Immigration Review in Falls Church, Virginia, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the White House Oval Office on Wednesday. With them are first lady Melania Trump and Trudeau's wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants wash themselves from a sink installed on a street of Paris on Wednesday. Unprecedented waves of migration are affecting the world today, with record numbers of people escaping war-torn regions, poverty, persecution and natural disasters.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's leading wheelchair maker, Matsunaga Manufactory Co., operates a flagship shop for wheelchairs and various equipment for the elderly at the Japanese department store Isetan Bangkok.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokuichiro Tamazawa]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kobe Steel Ltd. Chairman and President Hiroya Kawasaki (left) meets with an industry ministry official Thursday in Tokyo over the firm's data falsification scandal.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liow Tiong Lai]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump speaks about taxes Wednesday in Middletown, Pennsylvania.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hokkaido has released a manga to provide guidance for its residents on how to protect themselves in the event of a North Korean missile launch.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-13T17:41:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-13T17:51:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-13T18:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-13T19:49:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hotel Sha La La, located amid fields of chrysanthemums grown through light cultivation, attracts inbound tourists with its castle-like exterior.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-13T20:03:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students sit a university entrance exam in February. There are few options for students from low-income families who want to go to college.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-13T20:16:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/13/business/corporate-business/kobe-steel-scandal-widens-500-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-13T20:16:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatsugu Asakawa, vice finance minister for international affairs, speaks to reporters at a news conference on Thursday in Washington after Group of 20 finance chiefs and central bankers discussed further economic pressure on North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-13T21:04:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshio Ogawa]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-13T21:30:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Korean waitresses play music at the Pyongyang Okryu-Gwan North Korean Restaurant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in July. The United Arab Emirates says it will stop issuing new visas to North Korean laborers, becoming the latest Gulf country to cut back on ties to Pyongyang amid tensions between North Korea and the U.S. The announcement by the UAE Foreign Ministry on Thursday did not address the thousands of North Korean laborers already working in the Emirates.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-13T21:37:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-13T22:47:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-13T23:12:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, delivers a speech during a visit in Paris in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-14T11:47:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-14T11:49:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kwon Oh-hyun, the chairman of Samsung Electronics Co.'s board of directors, speaks during the company's annual general meeting at the Seocho office building in Seoul in March. Kwon said Friday he will resign next year to make way for a new leader.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-14T11:53:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The nuclear-powered submarine USS Michigan approaches a naval base in Busan, South Korea, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/14/national/osaka-tokyo-regional-split-seen-keeping-koikes-hashimotos-camps-at-arms-length/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-14T13:46:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, who heads Kibo no To (Party of Hope), attends a news conference to unveil its election campaign pledges in Tokyo Oct. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/19/national/lessons-learned-failure-osaka-foreign-settlement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-14T13:47:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Osaka port is seen in an aerial view in December 2016. This year, Osaka is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the opening of its port to the outside world.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/14/business/u-s-regulators-ok-atlantic-coast-mountain-valley-natural-gas-pipelines/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A program for the funeral of Heather Alvarado, one of the victims in the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooting, stands outside the Enoch LDS stake center where the funeral services were held in Utah on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/14/national/haneda-airport-to-launch-facial-recognition-gates-for-japanese-nationals/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An immigration official demonstrates a facial recognition system for Japanese travelers at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Friday. The system will be introduced on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/14/world/california-wildfires-rage-as-death-toll-hits-record-35/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sonoma firefighter Pete Avencino launches an incendiary device during a backburn operation on Oct. 13.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of Vietnamese in Japan's Technical Intern Training Program for foreign nationals was the largest group in January-June this year, topping 26,000 participants.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hard times: Students may earn degrees in the hope of landing high-paying jobs, but they often need to settle for part-time work in the short-term to pay back college loans.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The health ministry is calling on people aged 13 and over to take only one dose of influenza vaccine this winter instead of two due to a predicted supply shortage.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-15T18:12:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-16T02:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-15T23:17:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-15T23:20:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-15T23:26:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-16T05:17:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crocodile tears:  Sometimes it's hard to tell if celebrity responses on TV shows are genuine, or if it's a case of staged reactions.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Around 40 participants enjoy a sunset dinner by Lake Inawashiro in Fukushima Prefecture during a recent "glamping" tour.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-16T17:16:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees work checkout counters at a Daiso store, operated by Daiso Sangyo Corp., in Tokyo in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-16T17:26:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kokona Kawase surfs in this undated photo taken in Shima, Mie Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The South Korean Air Force's Black Eagles aerobatic team performs during the press day of the 2017 Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition at Seoul Airport in Seongnam, South Korea, on Monday. South Korean and U.S. troops launched five days of naval drills on Monday, three days after North Korea renewed its threat to fire missiles near the American territory of Guam.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inmates are seen beside a wall depicting Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte as authorities search for contraband at the Manila City Jail on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/16/national/politics-diplomacy/let-permanent-foreign-residents-participate-local-elections-komeito-chief-yamaguchi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-16T19:58:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Natsuo Yamaguchi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/15/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-ruling-coalition-poised-win-300-lower-house-seats-forecast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-16T20:26:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People listen to a Tokyo campaign speech Sunday before the general election on Oct. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-16T20:27:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters rally in front of the gate of the U.S. Northern Training Area in Higashi, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sunday following the crash-landing of a  U.S. military helicopter near the training area last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/16/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-communist-party-says-dialogue-not-pressure-will-work-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T04:06:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Shii]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/16/national/tokyos-famed-tsukiji-fish-market-moved-next-september-october/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T04:09:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has decided that the operations of the Tsukiji fish market will be moved to the new Toyosu facility between September and October 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-17T08:16:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senior Advisor Jared Kushner leaves after attending an event where U.S. President Donald Trump nominated Kirstjen Nielsen as next secretary of homeland security in the East Room of the White House Oct. 12 in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-17T11:08:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Supreme Court is intervening in a digital-age privacy dispute between the Trump administration and Microsoft over emails stored abroad. The justices say Monday they will hear the administration's appeal of a lower court ruling in favor of Microsoft. The court held the emails sought in a drug trafficking investigation were beyond the reach of a search warrant because they were kept on a Microsoft server in Ireland.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-17T11:12:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers and peshmerga forces carry their weapons north of Kirkuk, Iraq, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/national/media-national/fuji-tv-apologizes-comedy-show-mocking-gay-men/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T12:37:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/16/national/crime-legal/operator-tokyo-jk-teen-dating-service-arrested/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T12:57:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yutaka Tanaka]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/national/japanese-job-fairs-wooing-people-disabilities-foreign-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T14:17:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manpower agency Recruit Staffing Co. and Litalico Inc., a job and education assistance service provider for people with disabilities, arrange job interviews in Tokyo on Sept. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/15/national/social-issues/lgbt-groups-educators-call-diversity-school-uniforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T14:34:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lgbtunis-z-20171016.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nearly all schools in Japan require students to wear uniforms that are strictly dictated by binary notions of gender.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/world/divided-iraq-tests-u-s-influence-fight-islamic-state-wanes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T14:44:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Iraqi security forces holds a Kurdish flag in Kirkuk on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/16/business/corporate-business/internet-bad-boy-takaumi-horie-wagyumafia-cohorts-set-sights-savory-180-steaks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T14:47:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takafumi Horie (left) and Hisato Hamada raise a toast at Wagyumafia, a members only restaurant in Tokyo, on Sept. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/business/abe-win-may-boost-chances-another-term-bank-japan-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T15:16:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-17T15:20:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/asia-pacific/north-korean-hacker-group-linked-taiwan-bank-cyberheist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T15:43:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean soldiers march at the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/sino-japanese-rivalry-deepens-abe-xi-look-set-consolidate-grips-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T15:52:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past a poster featuring Chinese President Xi Jinping with a slogan reading "Chinese Dream, People's Dream" in Beijing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-sends-ritual-offering-yasukuni-fall-festival-visit-seen-unlikely/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T15:53:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on Tuesday at the start of an autumn festival.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/world/science-health-world/big-brilliant-sperm-whale-largest-brain-study-links-size-complex-social-behavior/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T15:55:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The fluke of a sperm whale sticks out of the sea as it dives among other resting whales off the coast of Mirissa, in southern Sri Lanka, in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/national/osaka-japans-gritty-second-city-suddenly-finds-amid-asia-tourist-boom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T16:52:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pose for a selfie in front of the famous "Glico Man" advertisement in the Dotonbori district in Osaka on Oct. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/asia-pacific/mad-dog-anti-trump-leaflets-believed-floated-north-korean-balloon-turn-seoul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T17:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An anti-Donald Trump leaflet believed to come from North Korea by balloon is pictured in this undated photo released Monday. The text in Korean reads from the top "For the peaceful world without war and for the future of mankind" and "Butcher a mad dog Trump!"]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-washington-vow-solve-north-korea-crisis-diplomatic-means/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T17:07:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan and Deputy Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama shake hands prior to their meeting at Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/business/corporate-business/teslas-former-battery-director-joins-high-tech-farming-startup-plenty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T17:09:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/business/corporate-business/line-opens-character-goods-store-new-yorks-times-square/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T17:53:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/national/u-s-preservation-group-puts-kenzo-tange-designed-kagawa-gym-monuments-watch-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T18:29:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, which was designed by late architect Kenzo Tange and now faces possible demolition, has been included in the 2018 World Monuments Watch list by the nonprofit preservation group World Monuments Fund.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/business/airport-suddenly-opens-remote-st-helena-naoleon-fame-outside-world-21st-century-flu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T18:38:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Merrill Joshua, a member of the local government, dresses up as Napoleon outside a house where the exiled French emperor's personal assistant used to live, in Jamestown, on the tiny Atlantic island of St. Helena, Sunday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/national/japanese-bomb-survivor-activists-press-nations-ratify-nuclear-ban-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T20:11:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/aso-pence-hold-second-round-economic-talks-condemn-pyongyangs-nuclear-missile-threats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-17T21:13:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence meet in Washington on Monday for the second round of high-level economic dialogue between Japan and the United States.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte raises a clenched fist as he shouts declaring Marawi "liberated" during a ceremony inside the battle area of Bangolo district in Marawi on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Edano campaigns in Sapporo on Friday for the upcoming Lower House election.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harvey Weinstein arrives Jan. 8 at The Weinstein Company and Netflix Golden Globes afterparty in Beverly Hills, California. The Weinstein Co.'s board said in a statement Tuesday that Weinstein had resigned.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-18T12:03:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Mobile Communications Inc.'s Xperia Hello reads and displays news during a demonstration in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[AKB48 CDs that had been illegally dumped on a mountain in Fukuoka Prefecture are shown to the media Tuesday at the Fukuoka Prefectural Police's Chikushino Police Station.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christopher Sharpley, nominee for inspector general of the Central Intelligence Agency, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-18T13:25:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-18T14:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ushers manage delegates' umbrellas at the opening session of the Chinese Communist Party congress on Wednesday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-18T14:06:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A candidate running for a seat in the Oct. 22 Lower House election reaches out to voters on Friday near Tomio Station, within the No. 1 Nara electoral district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/world/islamic-states-defeat-raqqa-brings-u-s-new-challenge-commit-strategy-region/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-18T14:08:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian Democratic Forces fighters celebrate victory in Raqqa on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/world/crime-legal-world/victims-las-vegas-shooting-may-secure-damages-affluent-gunmans-estate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-18T14:10:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stephen Paddock]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People hold placards reading "Freedom" during a demonstration Tuesday in Barcelona, Spain, following the arrest of two Catalan separatist leaders.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Koreans perform during mass games in Pyongyang in August 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/19/reference/japans-incompatible-power-grids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-18T14:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-18T14:47:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoto and other popular tourist destinations are considering their own rules for minpaku services.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-18T14:52:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-18T14:59:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuji Sugimoto, managing director at Bain Capital, speaks during an interview on Tuesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/national/social-issues/tokyos-blade-library-offers-joy-blade-running-amputees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-18T15:37:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruta Saito tries out a prosthetic blade Sunday during an opening ceremony of the Blade Library in Tokyo, which lets people borrow and try out prosthetic blades for runners.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/business/japan-remains-u-s-monitoring-list-currency-no-manipulation-seen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-18T15:52:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-18T16:06:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-traintour-a-20171019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[East Japan Railway Co. officials send off the Cassiopeia, the overnight limited express that resumed operation as a tour train, on June 4, 2016, at JR Ueno Station. JR Group firms said they will jointly offer an across-Japan tour plan in December using 24 select trains, including the luxury sleeper train.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/national/crime-legal/driver-blinded-sun-injures-five-children-teacher-near-osaka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-18T16:17:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigate the site where a car hit students and a teacher on Wednesday in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-oldest-village-age-sees-ldp-leadership-key-survival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-18T17:22:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A board showing the population by gender and number of households is seen at the village office in Nanmoku, Gunma Prefecture, on Oct. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-18T17:23:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Pacific Command chief Adm. Harry Harris attends the Fullerton Lecture on "Challenges, Opportunities and Innovation in the Indo-Asia-Pacific" in Singapore on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/business/japans-coastal-fishing-industry-takes-reforms-boost-profits-sustainability/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osamu Oka, head of a fishery cooperative in the city of Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture, holds a sardine caught off the city's Jizohama district in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/national/debris-found-off-hamamatsu-asdf-chopper-four-aboard-apparently-crashed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-18T17:51:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chopperupdate-b-20171019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers on Wednesday search for four missing crew members of an Air Self-Defense Force helicopter that crashed off Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, the previous day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/business/corporate-business/toyota-targets-1000-km-driving-range-fuel-cell-concept-car/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/national/u-s-forces-resume-okinawa-ch-53-chopper-flights-accident-drawing-criticism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-18T20:05:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[CH-53E helicopters are seen at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Tuesday. The U.S. Marine Corps said it will resume flight operations of the helicopters on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/16/business/corporate-business/ippudo-ramen-chain-credits-global-success-localized-tastes/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiyuki Kiyomiya, president and chief operating officer of Chikaranomoto Holdings Co., the company that runs the Ippudo ramen chain, mimmicks eating a bowl of ramen on Sept. 29 in Tokyo's Ginza district.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-18T21:07:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa speaks during an interview at the Nissan Crossing showroom in Ginza in September. The carmaker said an internal probe discovered that uncertified staff continued to be involved in a process to check the steering of finished cars until Oct. 11 — a week after Saikawa publicly apologized for the misconduct.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/national/japans-nuclear-watchdog-require-new-cooling-system-boiling-water-reactors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-18T21:07:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-18T21:07:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past campaign posters for the upcoming Lower House election in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/national/survey-finds-fewer-japanese-now-see-united-states-favorable-light/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-18T21:07:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-survey-a-20171019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey shows support for the United States in Japan dropped to its lowest level in nine years as only a quarter of Japanese respondents expressed confidence in U.S. President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/national/crime-legal/manager-ripple-cryptocurrency-exchange-arrested-scam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-18T23:30:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigators enter the office of a company operating the Ripple cryptocurrency exchange in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Wednesday. Police arrested the same day Yuki Takenaka, the founder and head of the company, for allegedly swindling ¥1.4 million from a depositor.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/business/cnn-first-get-faa-waiver-fly-drones-crowds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T07:03:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-19T10:29:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeff Sessions, U.S. attorney general, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington on Wednesday. Sessions told senators he won't answer questions about his conversations with President Donald Trump over the firing of FBI Director James Comey.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/world/social-issues-world/u-n-jury-still-whether-declare-myanmar-violence-muslim-rohingya-genocide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T10:38:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rohingya-a-20171020.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Rohingya refugee camp in Tang Khali near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, is seen Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/world/crime-legal-world/maltese-prime-minister-promises-reward-find-killer-journalist-major-critic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T11:34:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat (left) and his head of communications, Kurt Farrugia, walk out of his office of Auberge de Castille to the jeers of a small crowd of people protesting the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a car bomb attack, in Valletta Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-motors-announces-first-business-plan-since-mileage-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T16:16:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Motors Corp. CEO Osamu Masuko speaks at a news conference at its company headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/business/economy-business/japans-trade-surplus-expanded-strongly-september-surging-37-7-%c2%a5670-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T16:51:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trade-a-20171020.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The chemical tanker Torm Cecilie sails past a port in Yokohama. Japan's September trade surplus expanded nearly 40 percent from a year earlier as exports of cars and chemical products surged on brisk demand.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/national/ex-toshiba-japan-post-chief-taizo-nishimuro-dead-81/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T17:01:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taizo Nishimuro attends a 2003 news conference after assuming the post of Japan Post Holdings Co.'s president. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/national/unescos-new-heritage-procedure-will-weigh-opposing-views-politically-sensitive-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T17:08:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-unesco-a-20171020.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[UNESCO'S newly elected director-general, France's Audrey Azoulay, speaks to the media at the U.N. body's headquarters in Paris last Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/national/blue-planet-prize-winners-honored-tokyo-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T17:09:24+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/national/efforts-afoot-japan-flag-fake-news-ahead-sundays-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T17:13:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-fakenews-a-20171020.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fakenews-a-20171020.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen shot from a website run by the Japan Center of Education for Journalist, along with Hosei University associate professor Hiroyuki Fujishiro, shows the announcement of a project that examines fake news related to Sunday's Lower House election.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/business/financial-markets/keizai-doyukai-chief-warns-stock-price-bubble-tse-dow-surge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T17:14:26+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/national/science-health/japans-lunar-orbiter-discovers-moon-cave-potentially-suitable-use-shelter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T17:21:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lunar-a-20171019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated satellite photo taken by the lunar orbiter Kaguya shows a 50-meter hole on the moon's surface that leads to a 50-km-long cave.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/world/science-health-world/deepminds-superpowerful-ai-sets-sights-drug-discovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T17:42:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/national/politics-diplomacy/election-already-done-deal-abes-ruling-bloc-preparing-special-diet-session-sundays-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T17:52:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech during a campaign appearance in Saitama on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/national/spending-foreign-visitors-pace-surpass-last-years-record-tops-3-trillion-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T17:53:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-tourism-a-20171019.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rickshaws line up on a street in the Arashiyama tourist spot in the city of Kyoto. Spending by foreign visitors to Japan is expected to set a new record this year, according to the Japan Tourism Agency.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/national/four-people-went-missing-hokkaidos-tallest-mountain-found-alive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T17:54:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force personnel traverse through snow as they search for four missing people on Mount Asahidake in Hokkaido on Wednesday afternoon, before they were found alive later in the day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/business/corporate-business/wpp-alliance-dead-without-bain-deal-asatsu-dk-ceo-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T18:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinichi Ueno, president and CEO of Asatsu-DK Inc., is interviewed in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/national/politics-diplomacy/election-numbers-four-key-figures-watch-sundays-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T18:48:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-numbers-a-20171020.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-numbers-a-20171020.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As Sunday's Lower House election draws closer some key figures are the focus of close scrutiny, such as significant thresholds for voter turnout and women's political representation, as well as  the number of seats set to be secured by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-inc-wants-ruling-bloc-prevail-election-win-smaller-majority-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T19:55:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/18/national/japanese-fighter-jet-catches-fire-takeoff-base-ibaraki-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T20:33:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Air Self-Defense Force personnel inspect an F-4 fighter jet that caught fire at Hyakuri Air Base in Ibaraki Prefecture on Wednesday. The two pilots escaped safely.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/national/new-ipc-head-happy-progress-made-date-2020-tokyo-paralympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T20:38:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons (center) faces the media in Tokyo on Thursday at the start of a two-day review of preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/national/crime-legal/number-minors-victimized-crimes-via-social-media-climbs-recond-first-half-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T20:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-crime-z-20171020.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[To protect children from crimes involving online community space and social media, the government will require smartphone stores by next June to confirm the age of users.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/national/arrangements-underway-trump-meet-emperor-november-tokyo-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T20:40:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko arrive at Haneda airport on Oct. 1 after their visit to Ehime Prefecture. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/obama-hits-campaign-trail-first-time-since-leaving-white-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-19T23:15:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-obamacamptrail-a-20171020.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former President Barack Obama speaks during a conference hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Sept. 20 in New York. Obama is stepping back into the political spotlight for the first time since leaving the White House, stumping for Democratic gubernatorial candidates in Virginia and New Jersey for this fall's elections.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mccain-says-subpoena-may-needed-get-answers-white-house-niger-ambush/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-20T06:32:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks to reporters Thursday on Capitol Hill in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/spain-looks-suspend-catalonia-autonomy-impose-direct-rule-response-independence-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-20T06:36:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man wrapped with the Estelada (Catalan flag of independence) attends a gathering next to Spanish Central Government headquarters to protest the imprisonment of leaders of two of the largest Catalan separatist organizations, Catalan National Assembly's Jordi Sanchez and Omnium's Jordi Cuixart, who were jailed by Spain's High Court, in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/20/world/drop-cover-hold-californians-great-shakeout-drill-next-big-one/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-20T06:48:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-quakedrill-a-20171021.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti teaches children what to do in the event of an earthquake during the annual California ShakeOut in Los Angeles Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/20/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/myanmar-forces-believed-using-rape-weapon-war-muslim-rohingya-women-girls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-20T07:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rape-a-20171021.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya refugees, who crossed the border from Myanmar two days before, rest as they wait to receive humanitarian aid at the Kutupalong refugees camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/20/national/eastern-atlantic-mediterranean-bluefin-tuna-catch-expected-increase-50-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-20T08:37:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/20/business/start-skyalerts-early-warning-app-sudden-hit-mexico-massive-killer-temblors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-20T08:44:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SkyAlert earthquake alarm screens are pictured at the SkyAlert headquarters in Mexico City Oct. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/20/national/fire-famed-yangon-hotel-claims-least-two-including-japanese-man/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-20T08:49:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T11:30:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kurdish Peshmerga fighters gather north of Kirkuk, Iraq, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T16:01:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Amy Klobuchar speaks as Sen. Mark Warner listens on Thursday during a news conference introducing the Honest Ads Act, aimed at increasing the transparency of political advertisements on the internet.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Independent candidate Shiori Yamao, who has been tarnished by an alleged extramarital affair, speaks in Owariasahi, Aichi Prefecture, on Oct. 10, the first day of campaigning for Sunday's general election.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiseido Co. plans to build a new plant, like the one in the illustration, in Otawara, Tochigi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T18:49:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T18:52:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children cast ballots in a mock election Friday at the KidZania Tokyo career theme park in Koto Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T18:53:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda attends a news conference in Tokyo in April last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T19:02:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T19:06:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Edano greets a voter in Sapporo on Oct. 13 while campaigning for Sunday's Lower House election.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T19:12:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T19:13:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trainee housekeepers attend practice in Manila in December before heading to Japan to work for staffing company Pasona Group Inc. While the presence of foreign workers and residents is growing, their perspectives have been largely ignored in the campaigns for Sunday's Lower House election.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump is considering making an inspection of the Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier Izumo, seen in this file photo, during his visit to Japan next month, according to sources.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T19:13:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ines Rau]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T19:33:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T19:49:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moon Jae-in, then former leader of the Minjoo Party of Korea, visits Takeshima in July 2016 before being elected president of South Korea, which controls and calls the island Dokdo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T20:02:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kibo no To candidate Izumi Yoshida campaigns in the coastal area of Ena in Fukushima Prefecture on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mayuko Toyota]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T20:18:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Voters listen to a party leader deliver a speech in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on Saturday during campaigning for the Lower House election.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T20:25:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A car is seen near where it crashed into a guardrail Friday after hitting pedestrians in front of the Tokyu Department Store in Kichijoji in western Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/20/national/typhoon-lan-course-hinder-voting-approaches-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-20T20:34:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past electoral posters of candidates for the upcoming election in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, on Oct. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T20:38:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nikkei 225 average climbed to the highest since 1996 during its longest winning streak.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-20T22:51:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kobe Steel President and CEO Hiroya Kawasaki bows during a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-21T12:33:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People participate in an emergency exercise on prevention and control of the H7N9 bird flu virus organized by the Health and Family Planning Commission of the local government in Hebi, Henan province, China, in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-21T13:17:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-21T13:19:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The light fades behind the completed royal crematorium and funeral complex for late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej in Bangkok on Friday afternoon.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-21T13:52:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kurdish peshmerga forces are seen near Altun Kupri, between Kirkuk and Irbil, Iraq, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-21T15:41:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-21T15:49:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seven Dreamers Laboratories Inc. CEO Shin Sakane (left) receives a trophy from Fenox Venture Capital CEO Anis Uzzaman after winning Japan's preliminary round of the Startup World Cup on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-21T16:12:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-21T21:47:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joseph Cannataci]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image of the ukiyo-e woodblock print "The Actor Otani Oniji III as Edobei" is re-created with apples at Hirosaki Castle in Aomori Prefecture on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/21/world/crime-legal-world/florida-man-gets-16-months-bitcoin-bank-hacker-scheme/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A physical Satori bitcoin is seen at the Coin Trader bitcoin retail store in Tokyo on Aug. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-23T21:20:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, is seen at a news conference at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-23T22:30:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A runner passes a new mural on the Nationalist Falls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/world/social-issues-world/u-k-lobbies-transgender-rights-seeks-retain-term-pregnant-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T06:13:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-24T06:39:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pass the New York Stock Exchange in 2015. Congress is looking for ways to raise revenue, and one of the methods reportedly under consideration is to limit how much pretax money workers can contribute to their 401(k) and similar accounts. If it were to happen, the move would strike at a way that tens of millions of Americans use to save for retirement.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-24T07:52:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-24T11:08:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers try to disperse a protest staged by taxi drivers over the private hire company Uber in Bogota Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-24T11:25:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Rohingya refugee sits in a waiting room at a women's clinic in Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image from video released by ABC shows Myeshia Johnson, La David Johnson's widow, during an interview on "Good Morning America" Monday in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-24T13:58:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-24T13:58:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-24T13:58:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa (left) and U.N. Information Centre Director Kaoru Nemoto discussed the Sustainable Development Goals and other issues  at the Justice Ministry in Chiyoda Ward on Sept. 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-24T14:08:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A service offered by Tokyo-based Kaonavi Inc. links photos of company employees with their online profiles for quick viewing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/national/ikea-returns-aichi-1970s-department-store-presence-proved-hard-fit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T14:53:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ikea opened an outlet in a Meitetsu department store in Nagoya 45 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-24T15:12:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-24T15:48:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-24T15:54:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike walks in Paris on Monday. She was in the city to attend a meeting of C40, a network of the world's megacities committed to addressing climate change.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korea-japan-u-s-begin-two-day-joint-missile-tracking-exercise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T16:06:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/23/national/politics-diplomacy/lawsuits-filed-nullify-lower-house-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T16:21:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-24T16:23:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A proposal by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose ruling coalition scored a big win in Sunday's election, to make day care and kindergarten free of charge is drawing mixed responses from experts.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/23/national/politics-diplomacy/china-urges-japans-peaceful-development-abes-election-win/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T16:32:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang speaks at a news conference Monday in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-abe-visit-looks-focus-alliance-pyongyang-pressure-free-indo-pacific-region-bit-golf/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T16:50:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump will affirm a robust alliance with Japan during a three-day visit to the country starting Nov. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stocks-bull-run-boj-sitting-hands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T17:11:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An electronic board in Tokyo shows Monday's Nikkei 225 average.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-24T17:33:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Rohingya refugee boy, who crossed the border from Myanmar this week, takes shelter at Long Beach Primary School, in the Kutupalong refugee camp, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/business/tpp-negotiators-meet-japan-next-week-ahead-apec-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T17:35:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/business/tech/game-makers-deploy-deep-learning-ai-algorithms-keep-players-coming-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T19:20:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese and South Korean game publishers pioneered the art of making money from free-to-play titles. Enticing players to pay with custom incentives is tricky though.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/business/corporate-business/toshiba-gains-shareholder-approval-crucial-chip-unit-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T19:36:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalists interview a shareholder before an extraordinary Toshiba shareholders meeting in the city of Chiba on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/world/science-health-world/low-pitched-rumbling-rocks-help-predict-earthquakes-strike-research-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T19:39:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/business/tech/sony-develops-remote-driven-vehicle-off-road-use-displaying-ads-tailored-passers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T19:42:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp. has developed a vehicle that can be driven remotely using advanced sensor technology and artificial intelligence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/world/border-wall-prototypes-first-small-step-trump-campaign-promise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T19:44:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prototypes for U.S. President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico are shown near completion in this picture taken from the Mexican side of the border, in Tijuana, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/national/politics-diplomacy/cdp-chief-yukio-edano-balks-merging-parties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T20:45:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Edano]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/23/national/powerful-typhoon-lan-lashes-tokyo-snarling-morning-commute-least-two-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T20:45:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A road running through the mountains in Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture, is seen Monday after it collapsed due to rain dumped by Typhoon Lan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/23/national/crime-legal/plaintiffs-file-appeal-win-bigger-payout-fukushima-nuclear-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T20:45:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers representing victims of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear disaster hold up victory banners in front of the Fukushima District Court on Oct. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/business/corporate-business/transport-ministry-inspects-kobe-steel-mie-aluminum-plant-amid-product-data-fabrication-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T20:47:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kobe Steel Ltd. is facing stepped-up government examination.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/chaotic-scenes-suspects-wheeled-around-airport-kim-jong-nam-killed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T21:50:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong is escorted by police at KLIA2 budget terminal in Sepang, Malaysia on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/business/corporate-business/bain-says-western-digital-legal-protest-threatens-toshiba-joint-venture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-24T21:51:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the media stand in line outside a Toshiba Memory Corp. plant ahead of a tour in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, on Oct. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/myanmar-bangladesh-agree-halt-outflow-rohingya-refugees-begin-repatriations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T10:37:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya refugees carry their sick relative to a medical center at the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/business/automakers-launch-coalition-get-trump-back-off-trade-talks-say-winning-nafta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T10:39:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chrystia Freeland (right), Canada's minister of foreign affairs, speaks with Kelly Craft, U.S. ambassador to Canada, during a meeting at the Lester B. Pearson building in Ottawa on Monday. Craft formally took office Monday and has expressed support for U.S. President Donald Trump's trade agenda, which involves renegotiating or canceling NAFTA.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/21/national/media-national/dancing-storm-another-generation-brings-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T12:53:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/world/science-health-world/shrews-ability-shrink-brain-winter-described-first-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T13:33:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Common shrews, which have extremely high metabolic needs, shrink their braincase by up to 20 percent as the lean months of winter approach.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/national/politics-diplomacy/duterte-meet-abe-next-week-ahead-regional-summits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T14:33:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte visits the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology on the outskirts of Manila on Oct. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korean-leader-congratulates-abe-election-win/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T16:02:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abemoon-a-20171025.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a Tuesday telephone call, South Korean President Moon Jae-in congratulated Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his coalition's landslide win in Sunday's Lower House poll.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/24/national/facing-ldp-resistance-japan-approves-cancer-policy-without-tougher-smoking-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T16:30:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-smokingban-a-20171025.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government has failed to strengthen a passive smoking ban in its new anticancer program after facing resistance from some Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers with ties to related industries.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/national/science-health/cancer-breast-density-doctors-withholding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T17:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-breastcancer-a-20171026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[These mammograms show breasts with differing densities, (from left) ranging from an extreme fatty breast, one with scattered areas of density, a heterogeneously dense type and an extremely dense type.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/national/tokushima-e-books-firm-media-tap-ai-experiment-summarize-governors-briefings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T17:04:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tokushima-a-20171026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokushima Gov. Kamon Iizumi (left) and Media Do Holdings Co. President Yasushi Fujita announce Tuesday at the Tokushima Prefectural Government building the launch of an experiment to summarize the governor's news conferences using AI.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/national/crime-legal/61-plaintiffs-seek-%c2%a51-7-billion-state-materials-makers-asbestos-ills-share-%c2%a5306-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T18:16:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-asbestos-a-20171026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs of a lawsuit seeking damages over health problems caused by asbestos hold a news conference Tuesday in Yokohama following a ruling by the Yokohama District Court that held the government and two companies responsible.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/national/safety-board-probes-cause-osaka-train-accident-deformed-bridge-typhoon-lan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T18:22:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-train-a-20171026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Railway officials inspect a twisted section of track on a bridge in Osaka Prefecture on Wednesday. A train operated by Nankai Electric Railway Co. made an emergency stop on the bridge on Sunday, causing two injuries.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/national/ivanka-trump-speak-tokyo-womens-empowerment-symposium/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T19:13:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ivanka-a-20171026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump speaks during a town hall meeting in Richboro, Pennsylvania, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/business/bitcoin-retreats-another-offshoot-cryptocurrency-appears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T19:19:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bitcoin-a-20171025.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cryptocurrency bitcoin further split on Tuesday with the appearance of bitcoin gold.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/national/japan-eyes-tobacco-tax-hike-cover-revenue-shortfall-consumption-levy-raised/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T19:19:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is mulling raising the tobacco tax to cover revenue shortfalls when it introduces lessened rates for daily necessities along with the expected consumption tax hike, sources said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/national/politics-diplomacy/koike-says-wont-resign-kibo-no-head-poor-election-showing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T20:58:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-kibo-a-20171026.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kibo-a-20171026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuriko Koike]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/national/politics-diplomacy/aichi-voting-office-overwhelmed-calls-right-wing-campaign-alleges-foul-play-re-election-shiori-yamao/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T20:58:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-yamao-a-20171026.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yamao-a-20171026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiori Yamao]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/national/tokyo-2020-organizers-boost-efforts-counter-ticket-scalping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T20:58:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-tickets-a-20171026.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tickets-a-20171026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Olympics organizing committee is worried that ticket scalping will drive up prices for the games.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/national/honey-trap-selfie-added-japans-kojien-dictionary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T20:58:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-kojien-a-20171025.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kojien-a-20171025.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The prestigious Kojien Japanese-language dictionary has added 10,000 new entries to its latest edition.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/asia-pacific/china-says-foreign-press-welcome-even-media-outlets-excluded-key-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T23:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/f-chinapress-a-20171026.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinapress-a-20171026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the media observe as Xi Jinping, China's president and general secretary of the Communist Party of China, speaks at the podium while other members of the Communist Party's new Politburo Standing Committee look on in the East Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/world/airlines-get-ready-new-u-s-security-rules-set-start-thursday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-25T23:04:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/f-airlines-a-20171026.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-airlines-a-20171026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Emirates plane taxis to a gate at Dubai International Airport. The long-haul carrier says it is starting new screening procedures for U.S.-bound passengers following "new security guidelines" from American authorities.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/26/business/financial-markets/japans-stock-boom-seen-driven-profits-still-hinge-weak-yen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-26T06:39:18+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/26/world/islamic-state-takes-credit-libya-checkpoint-attack-left-two-soldiers-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-26T06:54:54+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/26/business/tech/kaspersky-says-obtained-suspected-nsa-hacking-source-code-personal-computer-u-s-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-26T07:34:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/b-kaspersky-a-20171027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kaspersky-a-20171027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eugene Kaspersky, Russian anti-virus programs developer and chief executive of Russia's Kaspersky Lab, poses for a photo on a balcony at his company's headquarters in Moscow July 1. The founder of Russian anti-virus firm tells The Associated Press his company did upload classified U.S. documents a couple of years ago, only to delete them immediately after realizing what had happened. Kaspersky's acknowledgement is the first on-the-record confirmation of an incident described earlier this month in three U.S. newspapers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/26/business/osakas-%c2%a51-sales-energize-shoppers-not-good-bojs-inflation-quest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-26T08:38:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/b-deflation-a-20171027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-deflation-a-20171027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vending machines offering ¥10 fare stand in the city of Osaka, in a sign that undercuts the central bank's efforts to generate sustained price rises.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/26/business/shades-obamacare-repeal-bid-secrecy-also-shrouds-republicans-tax-overhaul-blanks-arent-filled/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-26T09:06:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/b-tax-a-20171027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tax-a-20171027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) ponders his answer to a question during an onstage interview about tax policy with Thomson Reuters Editor in Chief Stephen Adler in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/26/national/no-injuries-reported-fire-rips-akashi-shopping-district-rages-six-hours/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-26T09:39:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fire-a-20171027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters battle to keep a blaze from burning down a shopping district in the city of Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, on Wednesday. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/26/world/science-health-world/fda-hopes-lift-stigma-using-drugs-treatment-opioid-addiction-face-resistance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-26T11:08:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-opioids-a-20171027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Aug. 15 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/26/world/social-issues-world/bangladeshs-news-starved-rohingya-refugees-tune-whatsapp-radio-despite-dodgy-info-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-26T11:09:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/f-rohingya-a-20171027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rohingya-a-20171027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya Muslim refugees shelter from the sun under umbrellas as they wait for relief aid at the Kutupalong refugee camp in the Bangladeshi district of Ukhia on Wednesday. Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to work together to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees, officials said, but details remain thin as the humanitarian crisis deepens.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/26/national/japanese-pharmacies-drugmakers-taking-linguistic-steps-better-serve-foreign-clients/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-26T13:17:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-pharmacies-a-20171027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pharmacies-a-20171027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruka Hirose, a pharmacist at Nozomi pharmacy in Tokyo's Koto Ward, shows a point-and-speak conversation notebook she compiled for pharmacies to communicate with foreign customers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/26/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/ancient-papua-new-guinea-skull-called-oldest-known-tsunami-victim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-26T13:26:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/f-firstsunami-a-20171027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-firstsunami-a-20171027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The cranium of the first known tsunami victim, 6,000 years ago in what is now Papua New Guinea.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/business/local-governments-across-japan-adopt-labor-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-26T14:05:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/b-workstyle-a-20171026.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-workstyle-a-20171026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local governments plan to adopt their own measures to promote work-style reforms, such as by consigning some operations to the private sector to cut overtime.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/26/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-britain-plan-mid-december-security-talks-north-korea-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-26T15:06:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-japanbritain-a-20171027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-japanbritain-a-20171027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (right) and Foreign Minister Taro Kono attend a Diet session focsued on security issues on Aug. 30. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-aims-improve-ties-china-new-leadership-team-xi-emerges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-26T15:07:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-japanchina-a-20171026.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-japanchina-a-20171026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping gives a speech during the introduction of the Communist Party of China's Politburo Standing Committee in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/brazils-congress-rejects-corruption-case-president-temer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-26T15:16:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/f-temer-a-20171027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-temer-a-20171027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazilian President Michel Temer leaves a hospital with his wife, Marcela, in Brasilia on Wednesday after suffering a urinary obstruction.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/26/world/social-issues-world/eu-lawmakers-denounce-harassment-brussels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-26T15:36:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/f-eutoo-a-20171027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-eutoo-a-20171027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Austrian member of the European Parliament, Evelyn Regner (left), and French MEP Patrick Durand talk Wednesday during a debate about sexual harassment in Strasbourg, France. The placard refers to the hashtag #MoiAussi (#MeToo).]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/business/economy-business/government-retains-upbeat-economic-view-october-pick-imports-pauses/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government said Wednesday in its report for October that Japan's economy is recovering moderately.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota displays its EV concept car Concept-i, a vehicle equipped with an artificial intelligence system, at a media preview at the Tokyo Motor Show on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-26T20:45:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the wake of his election win, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is shaping up his economic agenda.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-27T06:37:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, whose panel is charged with writing tax law, pauses for reporters just after the House gave a significant boost to President Donald Trump's promise to cut taxes, narrowly passing a GOP budget that shelves longstanding concern over federal deficits in favor of a rewrite of the tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo provided by the United Nations, the U.N. Security Council meets on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, at U.N. headquarters Thursday. Experts from the U.N. and the chemical weapons watchdog are blaming the Syrian government for an attack in April using the nerve gas sarin that killed over 90 people.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-27T11:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shahana Akhter, 8, waits for her father, who went to collect their f15 days ration from a distribution center run by the World Food Programme (WFP) at the Balu Khali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-27T12:55:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-27T14:29:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paleontologist Fabien Knoll lies next to the exceptionally large carnivorous dinosaur footprints found in Lesotho.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-27T15:32:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-27T15:56:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-27T16:15:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/27/national/msdf-chopper-crashed-off-aomori-august-salvaged-seabed/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-27T16:32:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-27T16:43:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Congress reportedly is considering eliminating double taxation for U.S. expatriates.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/27/business/corporate-business/sharp-raises-outlook-posting-profit-fourth-straight-quarter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-27T20:45:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-27T20:49:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-27T20:51:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-27T21:02:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/27/national/politics-diplomacy/oshima-emerges-possible-candidate-kibo-no-co-leader/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atsushi Oshima]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull watches as Foreign Minister Julie Bishop reacts after an official ceremony to swear in members of the government in Canberra in July 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/28/world/science-health-world/possible-first-interstellar-interloper-spotted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-28T14:34:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A frame from an animation showing the path of A/2017 U1, an asteroid — or perhaps a comet — passing through our inner solar system in September and October. From analysis of its motion, scientists calculate that it probably came from outside our solar system.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-28T15:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-28T16:14:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pull and push a cart through the streets of central Wonsan, North Korea, in October last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-10-28T16:17:08+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/2017/10/28/national/media-national/limit-damage-office-battlefields/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-28T22:46:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/28/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-retain-ldp-leadership-cabinet-party-member-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-28T17:02:15+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/2017/10/28/asia-pacific/even-without-nukes-war-korean-peninsula-kill-300000-days-u-s-report-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-28T17:39:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean soldiers look at the South side during a visit to the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone by U.S. Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis and South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo on the border between North and South Korea on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/catalan-parliament-votes-split-spain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-28T18:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People celebrate after Catalonia's parliament voted to declare independence from Spain in Barcelona on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/28/national/media-national/twitter-japan-confronts-hate-speech-mixed-results/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-28T23:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-pulse-twitter-a-20171029.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiko Mizuhara received abuse on Twitter following her participation in a series of promotional posts by Suntory's Premium Malts account.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/28/national/politics-diplomacy/although-passed-u-n-vote-fewer-nations-endorsed-japans-anti-nuclear-resolution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-28T19:55:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Delegates gather Friday at a United Nations committee where Japan's 24th anti-nuclear resolution passed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/28/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-less-interested-senkaku-islands-takeshima-islets-government-surveys-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-28T19:55:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese coast guard's Haijing 2350 (left) and the Japan Coast Guard ship Hateruma sail in Japanese waters near Uotsuri, one of the five main islets in the Japan-administered Senkaku chain, in this September 2013 photo taken by a Kyodo News airplane.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/catalan-police-call-officers-maintain-neutrality-spain-exerts-control/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-28T22:59:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Catalan police officers stand to prevent Spanish demonstrators from moving forward during a march against the unilateral declaration of independence approved earlier by the Catalan parliament in downtown Barcelona on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/28/national/sprawling-radioactive-waste-storage-facility-opens-business-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-28T22:59:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new facility in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, starts storing radioactive waste generated by the 2011 nuclear crisis on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/28/national/nato-chief-seeks-stronger-broader-partnership-japan-security-cyberattacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-28T23:05:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-nato-a-20171029.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nato-a-20171029.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jens Stoltenberg, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is interviewed at NATO headquarters in Brussels.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/29/world/cuba-make-easier-cuban-americans-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T12:33:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A taxi driver transports passengers in a classic American car in Havana on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/29/world/iraqi-kurdistan-leader-barzani-will-hand-presidential-powers-wednesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T12:34:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani speaks during a news conference in Irbil Iraq, on Sept. 24, the eve of the referendum on independence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/28/national/test-happy-pyongyang-accuses-abe-hysteric-campaigning-win-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T12:54:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-nkabe-a-20171029.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkabe-a-20171029.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea on Saturday criticizes Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for planning to ask U.S. President Donald Trump to ratchet up pressure on Pyongyang when he visits Tokyo early next month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/28/business/corporate-business/mizuho-mulls-cutting-19000-employees-worldwide-10-year-cull/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T12:54:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Struggling amid low interest rates, Mizuho Financial Group Inc. is thinking of slashing its entire labor force by a third over a 10-year period.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/28/national/media-national/fork-hides-noodle-slurping-sounds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T12:56:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-pulsations-noodles-z-20171029.png]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Otohiko]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/first-charges-filed-u-s-special-counsel-muellers-russia-probe-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T13:08:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington in June 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/27/national/crime-legal/mufg-brokerage-manager-claims-paternity-harassment-led-unpaid-leave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T13:12:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Glen Wood, an equity sales manager at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., filed a harassment claim at the Tokyo District Court, asking that the firm withdraw its decision to put him on unpaid leave.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/28/national/media-national/organ-donations-transplants-still-face-obstacles-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T13:12:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-brasor-mediamix-a-20171029.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Transplant issues: Dr. Takahiro Oto talks to the press after performing a lung-transplant operation at Okayama University Hospital. Although Oto is in demand as a leading lung-transplant surgeon, he is required to spend time on not only screening donors, but also providing aftercare to patients.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/catalans-question-now-compliance-defiance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T14:38:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A reveler spits fire in a "correfoc" ("run with fire") party on Saturday in Cornella Llobregat, on the outskirts of Barcelona. Correfocs originated as medieval street theater that represented the fight of good against evil.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/29/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/chinas-neo-maoists-welcome-xis-new-era-say-hes-not-new-mao-zedong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T16:34:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women in replica Chinese Red Army uniforms have their photo taken in front of autumnal leaves in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/29/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-abe-expected-focus-north-korea-rather-spar-fta-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T20:42:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abetrump-a-20171030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump walk off stage after a news conference in the East Room of the White House in February.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/29/national/history/osaka-threatens-san-francisco-ties-sister-citys-comfort-women-memorial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T23:23:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors take a closer look at a "comfort women" monument in San Francisco on Sept. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/29/business/chinas-bitcoin-barons-seek-new-life-japan-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T23:24:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The bitcoin logo is seen at the information desk of the Bic Camera Akiba electronics store run by Bic Camera Inc. in Tokyo's Akihabara district in June. More Chinese bitcoin operators are looking to run businesses in Japan because China's authorities have tightened regulations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/29/business/abe-trump-agree-technology-cooperation-tokyo-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T23:24:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trabe-a-20171030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/29/asia-pacific/u-s-sends-nuclear-capable-b-2-stealth-bomber-mission-pacific-ahead-trump-visit-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T23:27:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-b2mission-a-20171030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Airmen inspect a B-2 bomber before it takes off Saturday from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri for a long-range mission to the U.S. military's Pacific area of responsibility over the weekend.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/29/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/indias-gandhi-scion-seeks-revival-modis-backyard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T23:27:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[India's Congress party vice president Rahul Gandhi gives an address during a farmers' rally at Ramlila ground in New Delhi in April 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/29/world/kenya-polarizing-election-re-run-rekindles-ethnic-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-29T23:28:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An ethnic Luo holds a spear after a standoff with Kalenjins near the Kenyan town of Muhoroni on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/29/national/politics-diplomacy/nippon-ishin-ponders-fate-brutal-defeat-lower-house-election/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Catalonia President Carles Puigdemont speaks during a session of the regional parliament in Barcelona, Spain, on Sept. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/china-considers-three-year-prison-terms-disrespecting-national-anthem-flag/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-31T15:39:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A video-display board shows the Chinese flag at an exhibition highlighting China's achievements under the leadership of President Xi Jinping at the Beijing Exhibition Hall in the capital on Oct. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/business/corporate-business/softbanks-talks-merge-sprint-t-mobile-seen-hitting-serious-impasse-valuation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-31T16:44:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., is interviewed on "The David Rubenstein Show" in New York in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/business/financial-markets/boj-leaves-stimulus-program-unchanged-trimming-inflation-forecasts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-31T17:29:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese flag flutters atop the Bank of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/national/politics-diplomacy/diplomatic-experts-urge-trump-bring-north-korea-back-negotiating-table/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-31T18:09:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/national/jr-railways-use-seafloor-censors-provide-swifter-train-stopping-alert-event-offshore-temblors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-31T18:59:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/national/politics-diplomacy/dp-taps-upper-house-member-kohei-otsuka-new-party-president/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-31T19:01:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kohei Otsuka]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/national/politics-diplomacy/opposition-rips-abes-reported-drive-slash-time-grilling-top-officials-diet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-31T20:15:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-questiontime-a-20171101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Moriyama, the Diet affairs chief for the Liberal Democratic Party, and Kiyomi Tsujimoto, his counterpart from the Constitutional Democratic Party, begin their meeting at the Diet on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/national/history/unesco-adds-records-korea-envoys-japan-three-monuments-gunma-memory-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-31T20:15:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-unesco-a-20171101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[At an event held in the city of Yeongcheon, South Korea, in September, a re-enactment is staged of a Korean envoy sent to Japan between the 17th and 19th centuries. UNESCO on Monday added 333 documents related to the envoys sent by the Joseon Dynasty to its Memory of the World heritage program.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-russia-form-task-force-joint-business-disputed-isles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T01:34:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/national/crime-legal/two-heads-body-parts-found-flat-zama-man-seen-camera-missing-tokyo-woman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T01:34:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer stands guard in front of an apartment building in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, where police found nine bodies on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/national/tokyo-beefs-security-ahead-trumps-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T01:35:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-security-a-20171101.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer and police dog check coin lockers at JR Shibuya Station on Oct. 23 ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's visit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-notes-north-korean-threat-europe-japan-nato-agree-need-boosted-pressure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T01:35:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-nato-a-20171101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nato-a-20171101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe following their joint new conference at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/business/corporate-business/sony-expecting-record-%c2%a5630-billion-group-operating-profit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T01:35:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Sony logo is displayed at the company's showroom in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/business/economy-business/job-availability-japan-remains-high-amid-labor-crunch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T01:35:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/b-jobless-a-20171101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jobless-a-20171101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese companies continue to face a severe labor shortage, with job availability remaining at the highest level since February 1974.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/national/late-manga-legend-jiro-taniguchis-unpublished-works-released-december/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T01:35:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-manga-a-20171101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-manga-a-20171101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jiro Taniguchi]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/national/japan-inc-starting-embrace-community-oriented-creating-shared-value-concept/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T01:36:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-csv-a-20171101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-csv-a-20171101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People attend a hops harvest festival at a farm in Tono, Iwate Prefecture, in August 2015. Kirin Co. supports young people wishing to start farming in the city, which is facing a shortage of growers and a drop in hops production.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/asia-pacific/north-korea-hacked-daewoo-shipbuilding-took-warship-sub-blueprints-south-lawmaker-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T01:36:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/f-nkhack-a-20171101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkhack-a-20171101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees look at a model of a Daewoo Shipbuilding &amp; Marine Engineering Co. ship at the company's booth during an exhibition in Langkawi, Malaysia, in March 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/south-korea-china-seek-mend-relations-thaad-fallout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T01:37:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/f-skchina-a-20171101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-skchina-a-20171101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and South Korean leader Moon Jae-in are scheduled to meet on the sidelines of an annual regional forum in Vietnam next week.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/national/crime-legal/man-charged-dangerous-driving-fatal-expressway-accident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T04:10:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-accident-a-20171101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-accident-a-20171101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuho Ishibashi was arrested Oct. 10 on charges including negligence resulting in death or injury. On Tuesday, prosecutors applied a stricter charge of dangerous driving.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/national/crime-legal/nine-arrested-operating-website-linked-pirated-japanese-language-comics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T05:27:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/white-house-chief-staffs-civil-war-lack-compromise-remark-draws-fire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T07:35:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-kelly-a-20171102.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kelly-a-20171102.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders listen as U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a tax reform industry meeting at the White House in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/01/business/bid-fight-gender-pay-gap-new-york-becomes-first-city-ban-questions-previous-pay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T07:55:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-epa-bans-scientists-independent-advisory-boards-riling-democrats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T11:06:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-epa-a-20171102.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-epa-a-20171102.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stands for a photograph after an interview in his office at the EPA headquarters in Washington Oct. 25. Pruitt vowed that he will get tough on corporate polluters, dismissing critics who cast him as too cozy with industry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/01/world/assad-sets-sights-areas-held-u-s-backed-kurds-islamic-state-fall-risking-new-syria-conflict/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T11:09:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-assad-a-20171102.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Syrian pro-government member watches as smoke rises from buildings following an airstrike by government forces in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, on Tuesday during an operation against Islamic State (IS) group jihadis. The Assad regime has been able to recapture more than half of Syria's territory with the support of Russian airstrikes. It is now focusing on the oil-rich eastern province of Deir Ezzor, where the SDF alliance is also involved.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/01/business/fema-chief-says-u-s-spending-200-million-day-weather-related-disasters-slams-whitefish-contract/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T11:12:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/b-fema-a-20171102.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fema-a-20171102.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long testifies before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday during a hearing on the federal response to the 2017 hurricane season. Long said the challenge presented by hurricanes Irma, Harvey and Maria is unprecedented in the history of his agency.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/01/world/iraqi-authorities-gain-first-foothold-decades-kurdish-frontier-turkey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T11:13:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iraqi and Turkish soldiers wave flags at the Habur Border Gate between Turkey and Iraq in this still image taken from video Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/01/business/u-s-states-allege-broad-generic-drug-price-fixing-collusion-triggering-fall-pharmaceutical-stocks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T11:15:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/b-pharma-a-20171102.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-pharma-a-20171102.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen speaks at the Justice Department in Washington in 2013. On Tuesday, Jepsen and 45 of his colleagues sought to expand a federal antitrust lawsuit against generic drugmakers to include more manufacturers and medications, as well as senior executives at two companies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/01/asia-pacific/attention-focuses-north-korea-threat-beijing-quietly-expanding-south-china-sea-militarization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T11:26:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-chinasouth-a-20171102.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A satellite photo shows Chinese-controlled Tree Island, part of the Paracel Islands group in the South China Sea, on Oct. 12.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/ex-adviser-george-papadopoulos-claimed-email-trump-campaign-okd-meet-putin-representatives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T13:03:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-papa-a-20171102.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-papa-a-20171102.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[George Papadopoulos (third from left) sits at a table with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and others in this photo from Trump's Twitter account, posted on March 31, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/01/business/corporate-business/nissan-set-resume-production-shipment-inspection-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T13:12:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/b-nissan-a-20171101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissan-a-20171101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Nissan Motor Co. plans to resume the production and shipment of new vehicles for the Japanese market.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/01/national/duterte-meets-emperor-empress-notes-strained-historical-past-gave-way-cooperative-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T14:34:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-emperor-a-20171102.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20171102.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito (left) talks with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (third from left) as Duterte's partner, Cielito Avancena (second from right), talks with Empress Michiko at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/01/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-unveils-line-stickers-featuring-abe-apparent-bid-appeal-women-voters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T14:50:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-line-a-20171102.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-line-a-20171102.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Liberal Decmoratic Party Tuesday released stickers of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, also the LDP president, for the Line free messaging app.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/manafort-gave-wildly-varying-estimates-wealth-banks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T15:35:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-manafort-a-20171102.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-manafort-a-20171102.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Manafort]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/01/business/tech/toyotas-solid-state-battery-power-future-automaker-readies-game-changer-mass-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T15:37:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/b-battery-a-20171102.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-battery-a-20171102.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Toyota Concept-i Ride, an EV concept car, is showcased at the Tokyo Motor Show 2017 last week. Toyota is trying to get ahead of the pack in solid-state battery technology, a next-generation, high-capacity energy storage device.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/business/china-emerges-job-market-choice-analysts-fleeing-eus-mifid-ii/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-01T16:05:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stephen Parry speaks during a Senate Estimates Committee meeting at the Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, in February 2016.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe receives applause at the Lower House on Wednesday as he is re-elected following the ruling bloc's landslide victory in last month's general election.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Jong Un]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Gov. Jerome Powell has generally backed Fed Chair Janet Yellen's cautious approach to withdrawing stimulus.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kyoto Municipal Assembly has passed an ordinance that requires guests of hotels, inns and private lodging services to pay taxes ranging from ¥200 to ¥1,000 per person per night.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This file handout photograph obtained courtesy of the St. Charles County Dept. of Corrections in Missouri on Tuesday shows Sayfullo Habibullahevic Saipov, the suspected driver who killed eight people in New York on Tuesday, mowing down cyclists and pedestrians, before striking a school bus in what officials branded a "cowardly act of terror."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The facility for Kake Gakuen's planned veterinary school in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, is seen under construction on Oct. 4. The operator hopes to open the school next spring.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Upper House lawmaker Katsuya Ogawa, who tendered his resignation from the Democratic Party, speaks on Thursday about his son's misconduct.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Softwood lumber is stacked in April at Murray Brothers Lumber Company woodlot in Madawaska, Ontario. The U.S. Department of Commerce issued its final finding Thursday on the softwood lumber duties Canadian producers must pay, escalating a trade dispute amid the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet ministers attend a photo session at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday after Abe was re-elected as prime minister.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits a factory in this picture released Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Ivanka Trump attend a meeting of the World Assembly for Women in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the nearly six months since a new law took effect on March 12, about 1.12 million elderly drivers have taken a cognitive test.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-04T13:53:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-04T14:49:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrive for a meeting on the sidelines of the Group of 20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/04/national/politics-diplomacy/public-support-rises-cabinet-not-abe-latest-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-04T18:16:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-04T19:33:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-04T23:03:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[So much to say: Shinzo Abe waves to the crowd on his way to give a campaign speech in Fukushima on Oct. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-04T23:27:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnamese vocational trainees, who wished to remain anonymous, call for greater support for their program at a gathering in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sandra paints in the Florian Richter Circus in Budapest on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wheat grows in a field near the Momotombo volcano outside Leon, Nicaragua, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-05T18:58:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Left: Singer Tielle sings a Gundam song with her band in front of the full-scale Unicorn Gundam statue at Diver City Tokyo in Koto Ward’s waterfront area on Sept. 23. Upper Right: Tourists from Thailand gaze at plastic Gundam models displayed at Gundam Base Tokyo in Diver City Tokyo on Oct. 14. Visitors from Sendai assemble plastic models at Gundam Base Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman shoots video during a media preview of Gundam Base Tokyo on Thursday in Tokyo's Odaiba waterfront district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/05/asia-pacific/u-s-pulling-china-may-grasp-climate-leadership-u-n-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-05T22:17:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demostrators wearing masks of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump embrace during a peace rally in Seoul on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Containers are unloaded from the North Korean ferry Mangyongbong in Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East, in September.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An airstrip, structures and buildings on China's man-made Subi Reef in the Spratly chain of islands in the South China Sea are seen from a Philippine Air Force C-130 transport plane in April.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A document leak shows that former executives of a KDDI Corp. unit strongly resisted changing auditors before suspicious accounting came to light and led to their arrest in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-07T16:37:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe review an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Inazuma (right)) participates in a trilateral military exercise with the United States and India in the Sea of Japan on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-07T16:50:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-07T17:10:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. is under fire for shoddy final inspections of its newly assembled cars.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mother chimpanzee Kazumi holds her twin infants at a zoo in Nagoya during the first public viewing for the baby chimps.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/07/national/science-health/japanese-astronaut-soichi-noguchi-join-new-iss-mission-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-07T17:59:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soichi Noguchi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/07/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stocks-surge-highest-close-since-1992/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-07T18:01:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average reached its highest close since January 1992 on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/07/national/crime-legal/black-widow-murder-case-casts-shadow-lonely-hearts-among-japans-elderly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-07T18:03:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The home of slain elderly man Isao Kakehi and his wife Chisako, a serial killer dubbed Japan's "black widow," is seen in Muko, Kyoto Prefecture, in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/07/asia-pacific/fake-meat-free-markets-ease-north-koreans-hunger-woes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-07T18:06:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean girls enjoy ice cream at a zoo in Pyongyang in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-07T18:57:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Nimitz, USS Kitty Hawk and USS John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Groups transit in formation during the Valiant Shield 2007 exercise in the Pacific Ocean in August 2007.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/07/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korea-invites-wartime-comfort-woman-state-banquet-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-07T20:20:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-07T20:22:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania meet abductees and families of abductees by North Korea in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/07/national/crime-legal/japans-black-widow-serial-killer-gets-death-sentence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-07T20:22:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chisako Kakehi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/07/national/japan-nuclear-watchdog-says-restart-approval-pace-unlikely-speed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-07T21:32:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Toyoshi Fuketa speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-07T21:58:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalists work at the newsroom of The Cambodia Daily newspaper in Phnom Penh Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/putin-wary-political-tumult-shuns-russian-revolution-centenary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-07T22:43:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a Moscow exhibition on Nov. 2 devoted to the 400-year anniversary of Russian Emperor family rule.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/07/business/japan-funded-philippine-subway-project-possibly-delayed-december-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-08T05:58:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-08T08:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Aomori Prefecture is seen in this aerial photo taken in March 2014. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-08T08:12:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated file photo provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety shows Devin Kelley, the suspect in the shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-08T11:09:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michigan Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof speaks with reporters in June at the State Capitol in Lansing. The Republican is sponsoring fast-tracked legislation that would let gun owners carry concealed weapons inside schools and other gun-free zones.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-08T12:48:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's pet cat, Paddles, had six digits, including an opposable thumb.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/07/business/financial-markets/nikkei-surges-26-year-high-strong-corporate-earnings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-08T13:43:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-08T13:54:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The MSC Musica cruise ship is seen in Venice lagoon, Italy, in 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/08/national/lost-japan-despite-reforms-left-behind-items-pile-police-stations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-08T13:58:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officers sort umbrellas at a Sapporo police station on Sept. 15. According to the National Police Agency, the number of lost items brought to police stations nationwide jumped to around 27.96 million in 2016 from about 12.72 million in 2007.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-08T14:22:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pregnant domestic workers speak with social worker Jessica Chow at PathFinders in Tai Kok Tsui, Hong Kong, on Oct. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-08T16:20:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past an electronics stocks indicator displaying share prices of the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday as the benchmark Nikkei 225 index hits highest since 1992.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/08/business/suspending-parts-tpp-may-save-pact-without-renegotiation-malaysia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-08T16:38:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The troubled Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact could be salvaged by suspending parts of the deal in order to get the 11 remaining nations to sign on, according to Mustapa Mohamed, Malaysia's trade minister.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/08/national/kumamoto-resorts-quake-resistant-domed-cabins-prove-big-draw/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-08T16:40:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Quake-resistant domed houses made of polystyrene in Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, are drawing visitors from Asia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/silvio-berlusconi-hes-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-08T16:41:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Forza Italia party leader Silvio Berlusconi speaks during a rally in Catania, Italy, on Nov. 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/08/business/imf-chief-says-labor-reform-can-game-changer-japans-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-08T17:21:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, delivers a speech in Tokyo on Wednesday during an event marking the 20th anniversary of the IMF's regional office for Asia and the Pacific.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-08T19:29:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech as South Korea's National Assembly Speaker Chung Sye-kyun listens at the assembly in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/08/national/science-health/japanese-team-competing-lunar-probe-contest-delay-launch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-08T19:34:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Hakuto, a Japanese team competing in an international lunar probe contest, explain Wednesday the details of their plan to representatives of the organizer, the Google Lunar XPRIZE Foundation, during a presentation in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/08/national/crime-legal/former-sdf-member-barricaded-fukuoka-home-shooting-pet-dog-found-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-08T19:34:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-barricade-a-20171109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers stand outside a seventh-floor apartment in Kitakyushu on Wednesday where a man with a hunting rifle barricaded himself in and later committed suicide.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/08/national/politics-diplomacy/nippon-ishin-no-kai-calls-emergency-meeting-decide-future-leadership/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-08T20:06:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/08/business/apec-explores-regional-free-trade-u-s-pushes-bilateral-deals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-08T22:37:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (center) attends the opening of the APEC ministerial meeting ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit leaders meetings in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-09T06:13:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[TA Philippine survey team sails around Philippine-held Thitu island, with a sandbar seen in the background, in the Spratlys archipelago in April. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered troops to scrap plans to build a fishermen's shelter on a sandbar in the disputed South China Sea after Beijing complained, his defense chief said Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Syrian pro-government forces member flashes the sign for victory as he patrols in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday. Syrian and allied forces converged on holdout Islamic State group fighters in the Syrian border town of Albu Kamal, the jihadis' very last urban bastion following a string of losses.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers try out Apple Inc. iPad products at a SoftBank Group Corp. store in Tokyo. Apple Inc. is said to be working on a redesigned, high-end iPad for as early as 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-09T07:48:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-09T07:50:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chikako Yamada is taken to the Shibuya Police Station on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/08/national/crime-legal/japan-weighs-tougher-penalties-amid-spike-gold-smuggling-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-09T07:53:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to toughen penalties on gold smugglers. Perpetrators secretly bring gold into Japan and then sell it at shops — with the buyer paying for the gold and the 8 percent levy — making the taxation a "profit" for the smugglers.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-09T07:55:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koro Bessho]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/transgender-candidates-score-wins-first-u-s-elections-trump-presidency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-09T11:11:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Danica Roem (center), who ran for house of delegates against GOP incumbent Robert Marshall, is greeted by supporters as she prepares to give her victory speech with the Prince William County Democratic Committee at Water's End Brewery on Tuesday in Manassas, Virginia. Roem will be the first openly transgender person elected and seated in a state legislature in the United States.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures Wednesday during a news conference before his departure to Da Nang in Vietnam for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay, metro Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/25/national/japans-youngest-pro-shogi-player-beats-oldest-top-player-debut-match/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-09T12:35:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Professional shogi player Sota Fujii (right), 14, poses after defeating Hifumi Kato, 76, in his debut match Saturday in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. Fujii is the youngest pro in the game.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-09T12:38:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Professional shogi player Sota Fujii, 14, faces off against Ryuma Tonari (right) at Tokyo's Shogi Kaikan Hall on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/02/national/record-setting-winning-streak-shogi-prodigy-sota-fujii-halted-at-29-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-09T12:39:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Professional shogi player Sota Fujii (left) faces off against Yuki Sasaki at Shogi Kaikan Hall in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/17/national/japans-youngest-shogi-player-fells-fourth-dan-stretch-winning-streak-27/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-09T12:46:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sota Fujii (right), the nation's youngest professional shogi player at 14, cruises to his 27th consecutive victory Saturday in the city of Osaka. If he prevails again, he will match the record for longest winning streak in the Japanese board game.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-09T14:28:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akari Kojima sits on a stroller for people with disabilities, accompanied by her mother, Yayoi, in Adachi Ward, Tokyo, in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-09T14:38:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-09T15:02:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-09T15:03:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-09T15:11:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-09T15:59:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-09T16:30:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Froman, who served as the U.S. Trade Representative, says policymakers in Asia are watching U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to see if the U.S. is withdrawing from the region or has an alternative ready for the TPP.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-09T16:32:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in congratulates U.S. President Donald Trump on the anniversary of his election victory during a state dinner at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/09/business/japans-slow-embrace-sharing-economy-nothing-fear-u-s-expert-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-09T18:49:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Neal Gorenflo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/09/business/corporate-business/toshiba-rides-memory-chip-unit-28-year-high-operating-profit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-09T20:45:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-09T20:46:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kibo no To (Party of Hope) lawmakers Hiroshi Ogushi (left) and Yuichiro Tamaki pose for photos after a policy debate for the party's leadership race on Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/09/national/crime-legal/tellmeclub-bankruptcy-scandal-prompts-expansion-customer-reimbursement-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-09T20:46:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Failed travel agency Tellmeclub President Chikako Yamada is seen at a news conference in Tokyo in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/09/business/apec-forum-extended-day-chiefs-squabble-unity-free-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-09T22:53:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-09T23:53:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in (left) and Indonesian President Joko Widodo shake hands at the end of their joint statement to the media at the presidential palace in Bogor, Indonesia, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/21/national/miyagi-remove-sexist-tourism-video-month-complaints/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-10T00:41:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Miyagi Prefectural Government will remove an online tourism promotional video featuring actress Dan Mitsu that has been criticized as sexually suggestive.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/09/business/outspoken-adviser-abe-urges-regime-change-boj-cautions-2019-sales-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-10T02:28:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Etsuro Honda, an economic adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is calling for fresh blood at the top of the Bank of Japan as current Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda is expected to be reappointed to another term.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/09/business/u-s-curbs-travel-trade-cuba-move-seen-hypocritical-communist-china-fetes-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-10T02:28:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A car passes by the Telegrafo Hotel in Havana on Wednesday. Tighter restrictions on U.S. travelers to Cuba will go into effect on Thursday, officials said, almost five months after President Donald Trump vowed to crack down.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/09/asia-pacific/u-s-navy-run-rare-three-carrier-military-exercise-pacific-trump-visits-region-north-korea-rattles-saber/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-10T02:28:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Nimitz, USS Kitty Hawk and USS John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Groups transit in formation during a joint photo exercise during the Valiant Shield 2007 drills in the Pacific Ocean in this 2007 handout photo. The aerial formation consists of aircraft from the carrier strike groups as well as Air Force aircraft.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/09/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/pyongyang-says-sanctions-hurting-women-kids-demands-seoul-return-12-waitresses-kidnapped-china/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump burns incense at the National Cemetery in Seoul on Wednesday. Trump offered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un what he called "a path towards a much better future" as tensions soar over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen.Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, gestures while walking to a closed-door GOP conference meeting to discus tax reform at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump singles out Boeing Japan President Brett Gerry (right) during remarks to U.S. and Japanese business leaders at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Tokyo Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traders work at the post where Snap and Twitter are traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday about the Republican tax reform plan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A poster of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who resigned last week in a televised speech, hangs on the side of a road with a phrase reading in Arabic, " God protect you" in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli on Thursday. Hariri announced his resignation last weekend from Riyadh in a televised speech that sparked concerns of a political crisis in Lebanon as tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran escalated.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-10T12:38:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co.'s downgraded profit forecast for the fiscal year through next March shows how the automaker is reeling from an inspection scandal in which uncertified workers conducted final tests on cars.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-10T12:54:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-10T13:11:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on Thursday night ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmakers arrive at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 1 to attend a special session held following the Oct. 22 Lower House election.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the end of a news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-10T13:36:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-10T13:47:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masashi Takashiho, Kingdom Solar Co.’s managing director, shows a home renovated into an inn for foreign tourists in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-10T15:06:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Devin Kelley]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/10/business/tech/u-s-travel-site-tripadvisor-show-hotels-sexual-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-10T16:58:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/10/business/china-lifts-foreign-ownership-limits-financial-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-10T17:18:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/10/national/visitors-japan-set-new-record-24-million-tourism-chief-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-10T17:21:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of foreign visitors to Japan this year has set a new record, according to the government.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-10T17:24:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at Johnstown Wire Technologies in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in July 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/10/national/japans-casinos-work-keep-yakuza-deal-problem-drinking-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-10T17:55:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two reports issued by the International Gaming Institute of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas offer guidance on how to establish and operate casino gambling.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/10/business/economy-business/survey-shows-households-financial-assets-increasing-helped-abenomics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-10T17:59:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-10T18:54:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kobe Steel President Hiroya Kawasaki attends a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-10T20:50:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuichiro Tamaki (right), a Lower House lawmaker selected as co-leader of the opposition Party of Hope (Kibo no To), and his sole rival, Hiroshi Ogushi, raise their hands on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/10/national/veterinary-school-hit-abe-cronyism-allegations-gets-ministry-panels-ok-open/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-10T20:51:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This aerial photo, taken on Nov. 6, shows the under construction veterinary medicine department of  Okayama University of Science — which is at the center of a cronyism scandal involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-10T23:06:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Images of those killed in the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas are shown during the in memoriam segment of the 51st Country Music Association Awards show.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-10T23:07:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A frozen section of the Ross Sea is viewed on Nov. 12 at the Scott Base in Antarctica.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-10T23:30:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Toshiba Corp. logo is seen outside an electronics retailer in Tokyo in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/10/business/financial-markets/bitcoin-slides-1000-less-48-hours/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-11T09:08:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-11T09:38:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-11T09:50:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-White House national security adviser Michael Flynn arrives prior to a joint news conference between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/11/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-build-four-radar-stations-philippines-counter-piracy-surge-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-11T11:44:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after a meeting at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on Oct. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-11T14:05:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/10/national/japan-tops-life-expectancy-health-care-room-improve-oecd-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-11T15:26:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan has the highest life expectancy but has room to improve in areas such as higher-than-average smoking rates and longer hospital stays, according to an OECD report.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/11/business/corporate-business/rupert-murdoch-twice-discussed-buying-cnn-att-ceo-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-11T15:27:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/10/business/libraries-blame-japans-slump-bunko-paperback-book-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-11T16:13:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-yenforliving-a-20171111.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The publishing industry is unhappy about libraries’ efforts to lend out bunko editions of their books.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/11/national/media-national/quest-holy-grail-long-live/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-11T22:46:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-11T19:32:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/11/national/love-dependent-japanese-french-villages-form-sister-city-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-11T21:14:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masaomi Tokuta (left), mayor of Sagara, Kumamoto Prefecture, and Pierre Rousseau, mayor of Saint-Valentin, France, attend a signing ceremony in Paris on Friday. The two villages formed a sister-city relationship, each relying on "love" to boost their economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/10/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-putin-agree-strictly-apply-u-n-s-latest-sanctions-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-11T21:42:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a meeting Friday in Danang, Vietnam.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/11/national/social-issues/grisly-zama-murders-prompt-japan-look-ways-combating-suicide-preventing-killings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-11T23:10:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Neighbors pray Friday in front of flowers on a street near the apartment in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, where the dismembered bodies of nine young people were found late last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/11/national/akita-yamaguchi-eyed-host-aegis-ashore-missile-interceptor-batteries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-11T23:11:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/11/national/social-issues/kawasaki-draws-japans-first-local-guidelines-prevent-hate-speech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-11T23:11:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People protest against hate speech in Kawasaki in June 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/12/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-insults-short-fat-nuclear-armed-kim-jong-un/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-12T18:22:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have traded insults, with the American leader on Sunday alluding to Kim as being "short and fat."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/12/business/despite-tpp-agreement-japan-pressure-make-free-trade-deal-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-12T20:28:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshimitsu Motegi, minister in charge of Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations, speaks during a news conference in Danang, Vietnam, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/02/business/tpp-states-push-activate-pact-without-u-s-soon-next-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-12T23:02:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuyoshi Umemoto, Japan's chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact, speaks to the media Wednesday after the remaining parties wrapped up the latest round of talks in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/pyongyang-warns-states-u-n-dont-join-u-s-action-youre-safe-retaliation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-12T23:02:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/21/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-urges-u-n-states-wage-blockade-north-korea-says-dialogue-come-naught/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-12T23:02:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/11/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-xi-acknowledging-political-successes-home-agree-push-better-bilateral-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-12T23:15:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose ahead of their summit meeting Saturday on the sidelines of a regional economic summit in Danang, Vietnam.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/britains-gove-says-will-not-block-move-may-increase-brexit-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T00:11:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-13T00:13:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One to depart after participating in the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/12/national/japanese-warships-join-three-u-s-aircraft-carriers-massive-display-military-might/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T00:17:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Ronald Reagan, USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Nimitz carrier strike groups transit the western Pacific Ocean with ships from the Maritime Self-Defense Force during operations in international waters as part of a three-carrier strike force exercise on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/13/world/social-issues-world/purgatory-sun-myanmar-forces-let-rohingya-masses-languish-border-beach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T06:25:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Rohingya Muslim boy stands as he waits to cross the border to go to Bangladesh, in a temporary camp outside Maungdaw, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/11/national/media-national/lawsuit-over-students-dyed-hair-confronts-outdated-thinking-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T12:08:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sayaka Akimoto]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/11/national/media-national/teenage-girls-text-like-middle-aged-men/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T12:11:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-komiyama-texting-a-20171112.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Recently, teenage girls are beating middle-aged men at their own game and sending messages in the same way as their older counterparts.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/10/business/tech/money-forward-ceo-wants-take-popular-budget-tracking-app-global/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T13:18:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yosuke Tsuji, CEO of Money Forward Inc., poses for a photo on Thursday in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/12/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-meets-taiwanese-lawmaker-apec-summit-vietnam-despite-warning-xi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T14:53:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears in Danang, Vietnam, on Saturday. On Sunday he met with James Soong, Taiwan's special envoy to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' meeting.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/12/national/four-injured-car-plows-spectators-drift-event-saga-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T15:21:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drift-a-20171113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tire marks are seen on a road after cars were raced at high speed. On Sunday in Saga Prefecture a car plunged into a crowd of spectators at a drift event and injured four people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/12/national/hibakusha-calls-abolition-nuclear-weapons-vatican-speech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T15:24:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masako Wada, a ranking member of the A-bomb survivors group Nihon Hidankyo, addresses a symposium on abolishing nuclear weapons at the Vatican on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/12/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-seeks-malaysias-help-getting-new-tpp-running-early/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T15:39:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Malaysian counterpart, Najib Razak, get together Sunday afternoon in Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/12/national/crime-legal/nepalese-man-wrongly-jailed-1997-murder-visits-japan-first-time-since-2012-release/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T15:47:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese man wrongfully convicted of murdering a 39-year-old Japanese woman in 1997 and released in 2012, is interviewed in Tokyo on Saturday. With him is his wife, Radha.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/13/business/eu-lift-import-restrictions-fukushima-rice-japanese-foods-december/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T15:51:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The European Union has decided to lift restrictions on imports of some foods from 10 Japanese prefectures, including rice grown in Fukushima.]]></image:caption>
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