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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Esports player Yota Kachi, aka Pekos, plays Bandai Namco Holdings Inc.'s "Tekken 7" at a Tokyo arcade on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A phenomenon in which reduced quantities of products are sold at the same price is catching the attention of consumers in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tottori Gov. Shinji Hirai (center) speaks at a news conference held in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward Wednesday to announce the establishment of an association to promote minpaku private lodging in rural villages.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking the lead: Welfare minister Katsunobu Kato has instructed welfare offices nationwide to avoid withholding benefits for children who plan to attend university.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-10T18:22:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-10T19:23:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-10T19:25:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda laughs during a news conference at BOJ headquarters in Tokyo in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/10/business/corporate-business/top-wagyu-exporter-itoham-projects-16-surge-new-sales-record-yea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-10T22:10:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Itoham Foods Inc., the biggest exporter of premium wagyu, is predicting solid growth, with beef shipments to Taiwan set to triple and exports to Brazil on the verge of starting.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-10T22:11:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[United States Pacific Command chief Adm. Harry Harris shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a courtesy visit to Tokyo in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-10T23:17:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Applications on an iPhone show retailers such as Target and Amazon are embracing mobile applications to help consumers save money and time with features like digital wallets and augmented reality.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-10T23:35:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michiko Ishimure]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/10/national/media-national/japans-impoverished-finding-hard-enjoy-freedom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-10T23:52:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Money woes: Half of Japan's students have taken out loans that hang like millstones around their necks, Spa! reports.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/10/national/u-s-sailors-yokosuka-suspected-buying-selling-using-illegal-drugs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-11T08:20:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Ronald Reagan arrives at Yokosuka Naval Base in December after a scheduled patrol.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-11T15:41:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-11T15:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-11T15:42:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/11/world/iranian-canadian-environmental-activist-imprisoned-tehran-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-11T15:46:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-11T18:47:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in shakes hands with Kim Yo Jong, younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/11/national/support-use-dual-surnames-japan-rises-40-government-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-11T19:09:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/11/national/nhk-world-updates-app-issue-disaster-alerts-english/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-11T22:05:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A participant at a briefing by NHK World tests a new push notification system provided in English for disasters such as earthquake and tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/11/asia-pacific/dont-mention-nukes-olympics-south-koreans-learn-talk-enemy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-11T22:06:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the North Korean cheering squad arrive at a hotel in Inje, South Korea, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/11/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-worried-korean-thaw-will-melt-united-front-pyongyang/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-11T22:29:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe waves during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, on Saturday. Abe said he and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have reaffirmed their shared stance of maximizing pressure on Pyongyang until it scraps its nuclear program.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-11T23:09:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera speaks to reporters Sunday after his meeting with the governor of Saga Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/11/business/japanese-grilled-coincheck-cryptocurrency-theft/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-11T23:39:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A signboard shows the name of Coincheck Inc. on Feb. 2. Police have questioned a Japanese man in connection with last month's massive theft of cryptocurrency from the exchange.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/11/business/financial-markets/shut-let-trade-week-rocked-stock-markets-went/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-12T00:33:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Specialist Jay Woods works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday as the chart behind him shows the volatility of the Dow Jones industrial average.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-12T09:52:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A carnival chariot is seen with figures of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a parade in Torres Vedras, Portugal, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/12/business/trump-poised-unveil-1-5-trillion-infrastructure-plan-costs-borne-states-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-12T12:43:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man works on the Southern Nevada portion of U.S. Interstate 11 near Boulder City, Nevada, last May. President Donald Trump's $1.5 trillion infrastructure proposal fulfills a number of campaign goals, but relies heavily on state and local governments to produce much of the funding.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/11/national/politics-diplomacy/cabinets-approval-rating-inches-51-majority-backing-pressure-north-korea-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-12T13:20:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe waves as he watches the preliminary round of the women's ice hockey match between Japan and Sweden at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/12/business/bullet-trains-transforming-chinas-annual-lunar-new-year-pilgrimage-worlds-biggest-migration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-12T14:06:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High-speed bullet trains operated by China Railway Corp. sit in a train yard shrouded in haze on the outskirts of Shanghai on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/12/asia-pacific/chinas-millennium-old-fireworks-hub-grapples-bans-shifting-traditions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-12T14:07:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker prepares pyrotechnic products at Liuyang Standard Fireworks Manufactory in Liuyang, China, on Jan. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/12/national/mie-gifu-take-delivery-mobile-pharmacy-vehicles-improve-medical-provision-wake-natural-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-12T16:58:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An RV modified to operate as a mobile pharmacy is seen in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, loaded with medicine and pharmacy equipment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/12/national/one-injured-explosion-sets-yokohama-chemical-factory-fire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-12T19:40:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters hose down an chemical factory in Yokohama after a fire broke out there Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/12/business/corporate-business/toyotas-self-muted-presence-winter-olympics-nod-political-reality-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-12T19:44:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hyundai Motor Co.'s booth is seen Sunday near Pyeongchang Olympic Plaza in South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/12/asia-pacific/ioc-boss-visit-north-korea-winter-olympics-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-12T20:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Fuji Xerox logo is seen on a photocopier in this illustration photo Jan. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/business/koch-network-starts-ads-indiana-missouri-plugging-trump-tax-plan-attacking-senate-democrats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T06:45:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) questions Kirstjen Nielsen on her nomination to be secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in Washington in November.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/anc-orders-zuma-step-south-african-president-doesnt-specify-timing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T06:52:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-zuma-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Departing African National Congress (ANC) President and current South African President Jacob Zuma gestures as he addresses delegates at the 54th ANC conference in Johannesburg in December. South Africa's calm and often jovial Jacob Zuma is a former herdboy who fought in the anti-apartheid struggle and has clung on to the presidency despite a string of scandals. Now aged 75, he has survived by building a network of loyal African National Congress (ANC) lawmakers and officials, and by trading on the party's legacy as the organization that ended white-minority rule.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/white-house-defends-security-clearance-process-trump-ex-aide-rod-porter-says-hadnt-decided-yet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T06:56:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during a news briefing at the White House in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/business/boeing-weighs-new-797-midsize-jet-delta-sign-thaw-looks-sign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T10:11:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boeing-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boeing 737-800 aircraft belonging to budget carrier Norwegian Air stand at Stockholm Arlanda Airport in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/asia-pacific/damage-uncertain-cyclone-gita-hits-remote-fiji-islands-thrashing-tonga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T10:15:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-fiji-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-fiji-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image made from video shows parliament house damaged by Cyclone Gita in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Tuesday. Tonga began cleaning up Tuesday after the cyclone hit overnight, while some people in the nearby Pacific nation of Fiji began preparing for the storm to hit them.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/13/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-says-wont-fall-north-korean-charm-offensive-amid-detente-u-s-south/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T10:17:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-abe-z-20180214.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abe-z-20180214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea's President Moon Jae-in welcomes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister Kim Yo Jong and North Korea's ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam on Feb. 10.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/business/u-s-pursues-motion-put-pakistan-global-terrorist-financing-watchlist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T10:34:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/b-pakistan-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-pakistan-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the banned Islamic charity Jamat-ud-Dawa, looks over the crowed as they end a "Kashmir Caravan" from Lahore with a protest in Islamabad in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/business/colorado-closes-funeral-biz-run-body-parts-broker-cremated-remains-turn-concrete/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T10:36:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/b-colorado-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-colorado-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Megan Hess, owner of Donor Services, is pictured during an interview in Montrose, Colorado, in 2016 in this still image from video.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-intel-chief-dan-coats-says-north-korea-decision-time-near/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T11:14:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-coats-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-coats-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on "Worldwide Threats" on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/12/national/social-issues/illegal-overstayers-re-detained-detention-centers-released/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T12:17:29+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/world/macron-says-france-will-strike-proven-chemical-weapons-used-syria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T12:33:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-macron-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-macron-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron speaks Friday during a Trianon Council meeting aiming to strengthen links between France and Russia at the Elysee Palace in Paris.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/world/crime-legal-world/u-k-judge-refuses-stop-legal-action-wikileaks-assange/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T12:35:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-assange-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-assange-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Julian Assange]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/asia-pacific/south-korea-approves-2-6-million-budget-north-koreas-olympic-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T13:28:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-olybudget-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-olybudget-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean cheerleaders attend the hockey match between Sweden and the unified Korean women's Olympic team on Monday in Gangneung, South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-denies-china-protest-prompted-taiwan-quake-message-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T14:16:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/national/politics-diplomacy/ousted-thai-leaders-yingluck-shinawatra-brother-thaksin-shinawatra-leave-japan-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T14:16:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-thailand-a-20180214.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-thailand-a-20180214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yingluck Shinawatra (left) and her brother Thaksin Shinawatra]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/2018-elections-already-attack-russia-u-s-intelligence-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T14:23:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-uspolls-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-uspolls-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[FBI Director Christopher Wray (left) listens as CIA Director Mike Pompeo testifies next to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on "Worldwide Threats" on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/asia-pacific/south-korean-births-dwindle-penis-parks-multiply/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T15:33:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists pose near a statue in Haeshindang Park, known euphemistically as the "Penis Park," on Monday in Sinnam, South Korea. The park is a shrine to fertility, dedicated to the legend of a local girl who died a virgin.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/national/j-village-soccer-center-fukushima-partially-reopen-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T15:39:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction work continues at J-Village, a national soccer training center that was used by workers dealing with the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, in this photo taken in March last year. The facility is set to be partially reopened in July.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/business/13-automakers-minus-honda-provide-130-million-takatas-u-s-settlement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T15:39:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-takata-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Ford sign is seen last year at an auto dealership, in Hialeah, Florida. Ford and U.S. government safety regulators are telling the owners of 33,428 Ranger pickup trucks in North America not to drive them because they have Takata air bag inflators "that are an immediate risk to safety." A company investigation into Ranger inflators from the 2006 model year found test results showing that more inflators had ruptured or recorded high internal pressure readings, company spokeswoman Elizabeth Weigandt said Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/national/go-shogi-champions-given-national-award-sweeping-major-titles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T16:07:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-award-a-20180214.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-award-a-20180214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shogi champion Yoshiharu Habu (left) and go master Yuta Iyama face reporters Tuesday after they were given the People's Honor Award.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/national/social-issues/japans-telecommuters-work-clear-communication-hurdles-amid-government-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T16:08:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-telework-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-telework-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East staff members use the OriHime communications robot to talk with an employee working from home in September.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/business/appetite-sushi-hummus-boosts-nigerias-sesame-seed-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T16:34:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/b-sesami-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sesami-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The demand for sesame seed is strong this year due to the popularity of sushi and other healthy foods.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/business/japans-automaker-labor-unions-seek-pay-increases-annual-wage-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T16:35:54+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/business/economy-business/despite-growth-run-abenomics-still-clouded-uncertainty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T17:17:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/b-gdpfocus-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-gdpfocus-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan’s economy grew at an annualized rate of 0.5 percent in the October-December period, marking the eighth straight quarter of expansion.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/business/financial-markets/whistleblower-alleges-manipulation-u-s-based-cboe-volatility-index/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T17:19:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/b-vix-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-vix-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A board above the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the closing number for the Dow Jones industrial average Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/asia-pacific/chinese-newspaper-says-britain-trying-validate-existence-grab-attention-south-china-sea-patrol/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T17:25:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/national/japans-maritime-self-defense-force-says-bolt-may-fallen-off-one-helicopters-drill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T18:05:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/national/social-issues/japanese-government-seeks-reduce-repeat-offenders-jobs-program-ex-convicts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T18:26:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-prison-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-prison-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo taken in January shows a work center in Saitama that helps ex-convicts find jobs.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/national/social-issues/fukuoka-city-become-japans-seventh-municipality-recognize-lgbt-couples/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T18:38:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-lgbt-z-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lgbt-z-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fukuoka will issue papers authenticating partnership oaths submitted by LGBT couples this April.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/national/shimane-prefecture-group-delivers-petition-gov-zenbei-mizoguchi-opposing-restart-matsue-reactor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T19:43:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chugoku Electric Power Co.'s Shimane nuclear power station is seen in this aerial photo taken in March 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/national/politics-diplomacy/critics-draw-attention-flaws-japans-referendum-system-ahead-plebiscite-amending-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T21:01:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-focus-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-focus-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masaki Miyamoto, a 44-year-old movie director, calls for tougher regulations on TV advertising in constitutional referendum campaigning during an interview in Tokyo on Jan. 29.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/business/corporate-business/toshiba-appoints-industry-outsider-ceo-scandals-record-losses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-14T21:01:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/b-toshiba-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp.'s newly appointed Chairman Nobuaki Kurumatani speaks during a news conference in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/14/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-norway-agree-jointly-work-north-koreas-nuclear-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T04:17:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-norway-a-20180215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-norway-a-20180215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg meets with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/world/crime-legal-world/terrorism-ruled-trio-held-trying-drive-onto-national-security-agency-campus-drawing-fire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T07:03:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-nsa-a-20180216.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nsa-a-20180216.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The main entrance of Fort Meade, headquarters of the National Security Agency (NSA), is seen after a shooting incident at the visitor's entrance in Fort Meade, Maryland, Wednesday. Shots were fired early Wednesday at the ultra-secret National Security Agency, leaving one person injured, officials said. Aerial footage of the scene from NBC News showed a black SUV with numerous bullet holes in its windshield crashed into concrete barriers at the main entrance to the NSA's headquarters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/business/spacex-gets-fcc-chiefs-nod-launch-satellite-based-broadband-network/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T07:08:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-spacex-a-20180216.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is prepared for another launch attempt for a supply mission to the International Space Station from historic launchpad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/congress-probing-white-house-learned-disqualifying-info-ex-trump-aide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T11:17:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., meets with reporters following a GOP strategy session at the Capitol in Washington Wednesday. Ryan confirmed that Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, updated him that the watchdog panel has decided to launch a probe related to the background investigation and security clearance for White House aide Rob Porter, who has resigned due to domestic abuse allegations against him.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/world/u-n-says-bombs-will-litter-mosul-decade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T11:18:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 2016 photo provided by UNMAS on Wednesday, shows stockpiles of explosives near the Al Shifa Hospital in west Mosul, Iraq. The head of the U.N.'s mine-clearing agency in Iraq says it will have to reassess priorities with the government in Baghdad if a major donors conference fails to drum up enough funds for the country as it rebuilds.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/world/social-issues-world/trudeau-says-canada-will-create-framework-guarantee-indigenous-rights-ditch-colonial-policies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T11:19:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottaw last May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/national/politics-diplomacy/dont-fall-charm-offensive-keep-north-siege-chief-lower-house-foreign-affairs-panel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T13:48:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/national/chiba-bar-association-remove-gender-boxes-forms-line-new-lgbt-sensitive-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T16:40:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lgbt-a-20180216.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chiba Bar Association's new policy for dealing with sexual minorities pledges to remove gender boxes, typically used on forms to asks about a person's sexual identity, from it's own registration documents.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/national/international-visitors-get-trouble-hokkaido-mountains-police-introduce-multilingual-safety-messages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T16:42:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists walk near Asahidake Ropeway Station on Mount Asahidake, in the town of Higashikawa, Hokkaido, on Feb. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-15T17:20:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-discretionary-a-20180216.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologizes Wednesday at a House of Representatives Budget Committee for a recent remark he made about Japan's discretionary work system reducing working hours.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/business/economy-business/japans-core-machinery-orders-fell-11-9-december-largest-monthly-drop-since-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T18:02:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-machinery-a-20180216.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's core private sector machinery orders in December suffered its largest monthly decline since 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/national/japan-introduce-new-high-school-compulsory-subjects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T18:07:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A draft of the revised high school curriculum guidelines released by the education ministry on Wednesday proposes the addition of comprehensive history and public affairs as new compulsory subjects in the classroom.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/business/financial-markets/yen-appreciates-finance-minister-taro-aso-says-no-need-intervention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T18:49:14+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/2018/02/15/business/corporate-business/kirin-pursues-932-million-buyback-continues-asian-expansion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T18:52:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kirin Holdings Co. seeks to improve shareholder returns while building up its presence in the Asian beverage market.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/business/corporate-business/japans-trading-houses-prowl-record-earnings-boost-investment-appetite/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T18:53:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's trading houses enjoy their best profit outlook in six years, driven by higher prices for commodities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-trump-agree-keep-pressure-north-korea-seeks-meaningful-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T20:38:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at the Prime Minister's Office Wednesday night after talking with U.S. President Donald Trump over the phone.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/national/new-report-highlights-risks-fire-building-collapse-central-tokyo-following-predicted-megaquake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T20:46:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Homes in Arakawa Ward's Yanaka Ginza district. It's one of the areas in Tokyo that is concentrated with old wooden houses and light-gauge steel buildings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/national/government-may-limit-casino-visits-10-per-month-tracked-using-number-identity-cards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T20:46:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/national/police-data-shows-50-elderly-drivers-fatal-accidents-cognitive-impairment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-15T20:47:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/national/japan-u-s-hold-enhanced-tabletop-exercise-missile-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T07:44:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-16T10:51:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders talks to reporters during the daily press briefing in the Brady press briefing room at the White House in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-16T11:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri (right) speaks with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the Government House in Beirut Thursday. Tillerson held talks with the Lebanese president and other officials amid a growing dispute between the small Mediterranean country and neighboring Israel over oil and gas reserves, and Israel's construction of a border wall that Lebanon says encroaches on its territory.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/world/crime-legal-world/fbi-admits-alerted-florida-gunman-last-year-couldnt-pinpoint/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T11:08:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A video monitor shows school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz making an appearance before Judge Kim Theresa Mollica in Broward County Court, Thursday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-16T13:17:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mohammud Sanu and his wife work on fine needlework by the light of a solar lamp in Pipargaon Nevada, a village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, on Jan. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-16T13:23:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Libyan family prepares to eat a freshly cooked traditional couscous dish, with lamb, onions, chickpeas and pumpkin, in Tripoli on Feb. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-16T13:29:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An art project in Sassoon Dock]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/asia-pacific/tea-haircuts-fish-bones-letting-light-pakistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T13:38:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women and children in the Pakistani village of Murid Khoso pose beside their prized battery hub on Dec. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/world/crime-legal-world/telltale-internet-message-may-foreshadowed-florida-school-massacre/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T14:32:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A video monitor shows school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz making an appearance before Judge Kim Theresa Mollica in Broward County Court, Thursday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/national/shogi-showdown-pits-god-genius/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T15:14:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-next-ambassador-u-s-firm-stance-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T16:08:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Shinsuke Sugiyama]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/national/fukushima-town-namie-launch-radioactive-decontamination-work-around-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T16:54:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-16T16:57:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-iaea-ink-nuclear-counterterrorism-pact-2020-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T17:06:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[IAEA chief Yukiya Amano (far left) talks with Foreign Minister Taro Kono (far right) in Vienna on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/business/financial-markets/2017-saw-biggest-rise-chinas-holdings-u-s-treasuries-seven-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T17:09:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/business/mnuchin-says-washington-studying-possible-return-tpp-renegotiation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T17:12:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/national/social-issues/parents-unmarried-offspring-drive-surge-matchmaking-parties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T17:51:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Parents peruse profiles of the sons and daughters of participants at a matchmaking event in Tokyo on Jan. 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/business/economy-business/japans-tax-incentive-raising-wages-seen-limited-appeal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T18:26:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters hurry at Ikebukuro Station in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/national/longtime-harvard-japanese-teacher-yori-oda-dies-82/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T18:49:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-obit-a-20180217.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yori Oda]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/national/japan-lags-fact-checking-initiatives-media-watchers-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T18:50:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[FactCheck Initiative Japan co-founder Yoichiro Tateiwa (center) speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 8, as FIJ representatives Hitofumi Yanai (left) and Keiko Kanai look on.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/business/tech/mitsubishi-electric-shines-spotlight-new-ai-technology-rd-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T18:51:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Electric Corp. engineer operates a robotic arm during a research and development open house event in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/business/corporate-business/toyotas-female-executive-says-mission-always-speak-mind/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T18:52:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chika Kako, managing officer with Toyota Motor Corp., participates in a media roundtable in Nagoya on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/national/social-issues/save-children-japan-poll-finds-majority-adults-tolerant-physical-discipline-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T19:16:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In one poll, of the 1,030 respondents with children, 70.1 percent said they had hit them for disciplinary purposes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/national/politics-diplomacy/icc-eyed-condemn-norths-59-84-repatriation-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T21:16:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/national/crime-legal/former-temp-sues-cool-japan-fund-sexual-harassment-superiors-including-government-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T21:23:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/national/gsdf-resume-chopper-flights-wake-deadly-crash-saga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T22:57:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/business/financial-markets/gun-sales-gun-stocks-just-go/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T23:16:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Chadwick (left) and his son Joshua of Triple J Firearms in Magnolia, Texas, look over Remington rifles and shotguns during the annual SHOT Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, in January 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/business/financial-markets/hackers-stole-6-million-russian-bank-via-swift-system-central-bank-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-16T23:20:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man using a mobile phone passes the logo of global secure financial messaging services cooperative SWIFT at the SIBOS banking and financial conference in Toronto in October 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/17/national/kansai-executives-offer-advice-improving-nations-diplomacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-17T11:10:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Matsumoto, chairman of the Kansai Association of Corporate Executives, delivers a speech at the Kansai Press Club in the city of Osaka last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/moons-chief-staff-takes-center-stage-inter-korean-detente/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-17T13:30:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Im Jong-seok, the chief presidential secretary for South Korean President Moon Jae-in, greets Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, during a banquet at a hotel in Seoul on Feb. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/17/national/politics-diplomacy/foreign-minister-taro-kono-meet-mongolian-counterpart-next-week-source-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-17T15:08:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/17/national/politics-diplomacy/government-oks-plan-hike-pension-collection-age-71/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-17T16:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a Tokyo conference on the aging of society at the Prime Minister’s Office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/17/national/history/heroism-changing-state-morality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-17T22:32:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p19-hoffman-livingpast-a-20180218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nitobe Inazo, author of "Bushido: The Soul of Japan" (1900)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/17/national/media-national/im-mom-childrens-song-sends-vexed-mothers-wrong-message/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-17T22:38:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In need of a helping hand:  The lyrics of a children's song have been criticized for promoting the idea that women are expected to give up their lives to raise their children.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/21/national/media-national/commercials-reflect-subtle-shift-traditional-parenting-roles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-17T16:44:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A father's plight: Soaking away his troubles in a bath before his son's birthday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-17T22:50:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the rise: The Vietnamese population in Japan has grown by 36.1 percent between 2015 and 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-17T19:50:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-taxagency-a-20180218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters on Friday call for the resignation of Nobuhisa Sagawa, head of the National Tax Agency, in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district. Sagawa was a senior Finance Ministry official when he told the Diet all records of the sweetheart land deal given to Moritomo Gakuen had been destroyed. A number of related documents turned up later, contradicting his testimony.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-17T21:21:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-17T21:25:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-17T23:38:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sota Fujii (right) and shogi master Yoshiharu Habu review their match as Fujii beats Habu for the first time in an official tournament in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-18T12:26:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May talks at the Munich Security Conference in the German city Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/18/world/sweden-grants-citizenship-scientist-sentenced-death-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-18T13:27:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-18T13:35:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-18T13:36:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[UKIP leader Henry Bolton arrives for a party meeting in Birmingham, England, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/18/business/financial-markets/cryptoprofits-taxable-filed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-18T17:22:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-18T19:40:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-18T22:21:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image of an Eden’s whale was based on this skull fossil (left) from Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/18/national/cities-prefectures-rush-localize-ordinances-airbnb-type-lodging-minpaku-law-takes-effect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-18T22:25:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman shows a room used for the private lodging service known as minpaku in Okayama Prefecture last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/18/national/ioc-facilitate-north-koreas-participation-tokyo-2020-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-18T22:38:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean cheerleaders perform during the first run of the women's slalom at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-18T23:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A building believed to be the base for a group of North Korean information technology experts is shown in Vladivostok, Russia, on Jan. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-18T23:16:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T00:39:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori (right) promotes Fukushima-made peaches with officials from local agricultural cooperatives at a supermarket in Kuala Lumpur in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T09:50:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[These undated file photos show Kent Whitaker on a hike and his son, Bart,  talking on a telephone from prison in Polunsky, Texas. Bart Whitaker is scheduled for execution on Thursday for setting up the ambush that killed his mother and brother in 2003.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T09:52:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters carry a released politician outside the National Prison, after demonstrations in Khartoum Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/19/world/ankara-calls-alleged-turkish-gas-attack-syrias-afrin-just-fabricated-story/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-19T11:04:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army fighters prepare a TOW anti-tank missile north of the city of Afrin, Syria, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/18/business/financial-markets/guide-common-cryptocurrency-terms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-19T11:37:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T12:02:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men wait for afternoon prayers to begin at a mosque in Linxia, in China's Gansu province, home to a large population of ethnic minority Hui Muslims, on Feb. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/19/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/john-kelly-secret-service-agent-scuffled-chinese-officials-nuclear-football-beijing-report-claims/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House chief of staff John Kelly stands beneath a painting of former U.S. President Harry S. Truman as current President Donald Trump holds a meeting on trade with members of Congress at the White House in Washington on Feb. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/19/national/japan-link-oda-promotion-indo-pacific-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-19T15:16:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T16:47:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T17:02:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian workers stand in front of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, about 1,200 km (745 miles) south of Tehran, in October 2010.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T17:42:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawson Inc. is thinking of applying artificial intelligence to its strategy on where to open new convenience stores.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/19/business/airbnb-vows-curb-sex-trafficking-rental-homes-seen-serving-pop-brothels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-19T17:52:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T18:21:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The village of Tobishima in Aichi Prefecture is looking to attract tourists by promoting its picturesque rural landscape.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/19/national/social-issues/ministop-ends-sale-porn-magazines-convenience-stories-nationwide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-19T18:32:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Calls are increasing for convenience stores in Japan to remove pornographic magazines from their shelves.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/19/national/ex-jets-major-source-japans-soft-power-u-k-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-19T18:34:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At a gathering last March 16, (from left) Roger Godsiff, chairman of the British-Japanese Parliamentary Group; Sarah Parsons, chairwoman of the JET Programme Alumni Association U.K.; Baroness Frances D'Souza; and Koji Tsuruoka, the Japanese ambassador to the U.K., celebrate 30 years of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme, at the British Parliament.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T18:50:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20180220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T18:53:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T18:53:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elementary school students from Hakodate visit Cape Nosappu in Hokkaido during an introductory journalism event in August to study about the Russian-held islands claimed by Japan. The government plans to promote school trips to the area to raise young people's awareness of the issue.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T18:53:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T19:07:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers on Sunday investigate the rubble of a house that burned down the previous day in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/19/business/financial-markets/bank-japan-watchers-see-strong-stimulus-continuing-gov-haruhiko-kuroda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-19T19:07:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T19:07:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/19/national/international-ninja-research-group-founded-mie-prefecture-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-19T19:42:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Academics set up an international academic society in Iga, Mie Prefecture, on Saturday to promote research on the ninja.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T20:15:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull takes a selfie as he walks with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and members of the public during a parade as part of the Chinese New Year Festival in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T20:15:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ruling and oppositions parties are at odds over a bill to expand the discretionary labor system, which the government says would lead to a more flexible working environment but the labor unions say could worsen the problem.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T20:15:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-19T20:51:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers stand in front of a facility in Kyoto owned by Aleph, an offshoot of the infamous Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/19/asia-pacific/north-korea-fully-ready-dialogue-war-state-media-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-20T10:07:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T11:50:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge shows off the card displaying Tokyo after the city was elected host of the 2020 Summer Games during an IOC session in Buenos Aires in September 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T11:56:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui attends an opening event at the new Ikinari Steak restaurant in Manhattan on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T12:40:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors wear virtual reality goggles as they "travel" with First Airlines, a first-class airline experience facility in Tokyo, earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T13:23:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman takes part in an anti-gun rally in downtown Los Angeles on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T14:14:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rodrigo Duterte]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T15:25:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori waves as he leaves the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima in April 1997.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T16:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T17:05:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T17:14:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A student at an elementary school in Taiwan's Yilan County attends a lesson on the Atayal language on Dec. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T17:48:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This is one of the questions featured in the SHE Kentei (Sexual Health Education Test) that can be found at she.shiawasenamida.org.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A taxi moves through an Osaka shopping district in October. Sony plans to team up with taxi operators around Japan this spring to develop an artificial intelligence-based ride-hailing system.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda answers a question as Finance Minister Taro Aso listens during a meeting of the Lower House Financial Committee on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T17:53:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/20/world/science-health-world/want-drink-blood-vampire-bats-genetic-secrets-revealed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-20T19:24:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T19:30:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T19:59:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This file photo taken on March 21, 2016 shows a motorcyclist riding past a poster depicting a clown-faced caricature of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in Kuala Lumpur.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T20:16:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-poll-a-20180221.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monthly Reuters Corporate Survey shows that more than half of Japanese companies have no plans to raise wages.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a session of the Lower House Budget Committee on Tuesday. Debate is raging over the government's handling of labor data.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T20:28:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People demonstrate against the Kudo-kai crime syndicate in front of its head office in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, in August.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mieko Okubo, the daughter-in-law of Fumio Okubo, who hanged himself at age 102 after learning he had to evacuate from his home in the wake of the March 2011 nuclear disaster, speaks to reporters in front of the Fukushima District Court on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-20T22:49:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T07:04:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T07:08:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T09:37:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Archbishop Charles Scicluna looks on during a press conference prior to a meeting with people who claim to have been victims of sexual abuse by members of the Church, in Santiago Tuesday. Scicluna arrived in Chile on Monday, sent by the Pope Francis to gather testimonies accusing the Archbishop of Osorno of covering up sexual abuses committed by priest Fernando Karadima.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T09:38:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T11:01:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T13:16:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiseido Co., Japan's largest cosmetics company, and analysts say the trend cycle of eyebrows has a correlation with the economic cycle.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T13:28:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T14:04:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T14:14:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiro Nakano, founder and president of Saison Asset Management Co., is touted as an "herbivore" investor who believes investments can be structured around the slow and steady accumulation of assets instead of a high-stakes game where the hunter eats its prey.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T14:15:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T15:15:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T15:44:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gun enthusiast attends the South Florida Gun Show at Dade County Youth Fairgrounds in Miami, Florida, on Feb. 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T15:53:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T16:21:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rodrigo Duterte]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T17:30:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thaksin Shinawatra]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T18:06:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, nominal North Korean head of state Kim Yong Nam (back left) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, attend the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Feb. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T18:07:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T18:26:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-21T19:05:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a speech to students and staff during her visit to Derby College in Derby, Britain, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials in the Aomori Prefecture town of Tohoku discuss Wednesday how to deal with the oil spill from fuel tanks jettisoned by a U.S. fighter jet on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Excavators and drillers work in an open pit at Tenke Fungurume, a copper and cobalt mine owned by Freeport McMoRan, Lundin Mining and state mining company Gecamines in Democratic Republic of Congo in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini (left) delivers remarks beside Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono prior to their dinner meeting at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura guesthouse in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian businessman Vipul Ambani, one of the accused in the Punjab National Bank fraud case, is escorted after his appearance in a special court in Mumbai on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/world/science-health-world/drugs-work-study-seeks-end-antidepressant-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-22T13:41:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All 21 tested drugs were more effective than placebos, or dummy pills, results showed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/national/science-health/japanese-hospitals-sick-requests-flu-recovery-certificates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-22T15:24:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many schools in Japan require children and students who get over the flu and return to school to hand in medical certifications proving they have fully recovered.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/21/business/bitcoins-free-another-japanese-cryptocurrency-exchange-lands-hot-water/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-22T16:26:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-zaif-a-20180222.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zaif, a cryptocurrency exchange run by Osaka-based Tech Bureau Corp., suffered a system glitch that let users purchase bitcoins for free for about 20 minutes last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/national/pollen-projection-japans-hay-fever-season-already-underway-worse-last-year-forecaster-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-22T17:21:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pollen-a-20180223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meteorologists predict this year’s cedar and cypress pollen counts could be twice as high compared with 2017 in some parts of the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/business/tech/twitter-cracks-tactics-used-bots-spread-false-stories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-22T17:56:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-twitter-a-20180223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Twitter sign is seen outside of the company's headquarters in San Francisco in 2016. A white nationalist advocate is suing Twitter for banning his account amid the company's recent crackdown on content it deems abusive. Jared Taylor filed the lawsuit Tuesday in a San Francisco state court. Taylor joins a growing list of extreme right wing groups and figures suing social media sites for banning their accounts and content.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/business/abe-adviser-says-boj-consider-buying-foreign-bonds-reflate-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-22T18:21:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/business/uber-ceo-plans-closer-ties-toyota-autonomous-driving/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-22T18:35:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/b-ubertoyota-a-20180223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ubertoyota-a-20180223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO Uber Technologies Inc., on Thursday posted a photo of him and Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda on Twitter, saying they had great discussions about their autonomous partnership.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/bangladesh-preparing-barren-islet-house-100000-rohingya-refugees-denies-concentration-camp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-22T18:59:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man cooks a meal in his makeshift restaurant in the Vashan Char, previously known as Thengar Char island in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, Feb. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/business/corporate-business/honda-aircraft-topped-list-business-jet-deliveries-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-22T19:22:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[HondaJet was the most delivered small business jet in 2017, according to data from the General Aviation Manufacturers Association.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/business/tech/new-japan-travel-app-pairs-microsofts-ai-chatbot-navitime-guidance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-22T19:28:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-navigator-a-20180223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Representatives from JTB Corp., Microsoft Japan Co. and Navitime Japan Co. announce the launch of the Japan Trip Navigator app on Thursday at a hotel in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-22T20:16:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ivanka Trump speaks during a working session on tax reform in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/business/japan-blocking-access-auto-market-nontariff-trade-barriers-trump-says-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-22T21:55:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-22T21:57:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean civic group members stage a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/national/social-issues/records-found-13-japanese-prefectures-showing-sterilization-children-aged-15-younger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-22T22:03:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-eugenic-a-20180222.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The sister of woman who filed a lawsuit against the government last month seeking compensation over her forced sterilization speaks at a news conference on Jan. 30 in Sendai.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/21/national/number-foreign-visitors-japan-rises-9-2-5-million-january/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-22T22:25:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tourism-z-20180222.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lion dancers celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year in Yokohama on Friday. Over the Lunar New Year holidays in February, the Japan Tourism Agency said many travelers from China chose to visit snowy areas such as Hokkaido, the Tohoku region and Niigata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/business/npa-cryptocurrency-tips-point-669-suspected-money-laundering-cases-april-december/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T04:44:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/national/seven-years-new-zealand-remembers-christchurch-earthquake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T04:46:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kikuo and Chizuko Suzuki, whose daughter died in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, lay flowers at a cenotaph for quake victims in the city on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/national/politics-diplomacy/ruling-ldp-embraces-even-weaker-anti-smoking-bill-ahead-tokyo-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T04:47:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-23T07:01:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke billows during Syrian government bombardments on Kafr Batna, in the besieged eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-23T07:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks during the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor in Oxen Hill, Maryland, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/world/nigerian-official-says-abducted-schoolgirls-not-rescued/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T07:08:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-boko-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Information Minister Lai Mohammed speaks during his visit Thursday to the school in Dapchi, Nigeria, in the northeastern state of Yobe where dozens of school girls went missing after an attack on the village by Boko Haram.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/pyongyang-says-u-n-chief-picking-quarrel-sanctions-remarks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T09:44:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-guterres-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and North Korea's Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, attend the Feb. 9 opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Pyeongchang Stadium. Pence on Thursday assailed the North Korean leader's sister who sat near him at the Olympics as part of an "evil family clique" that oppresses millions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/national/politics-diplomacy/opposition-lawmakers-find-least-117-errors-botched-labor-survey-scandal-abes-key-work-style-reforms-deepens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T12:43:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-labor-a-20180223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-labor-a-20180223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[During a Diet session on Wednesday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rejected a call for the resignation of labor minister Katsunobu Kato (right) should more data errors be found in a 2013 working hour survey. The labor ministry has been criticized for erroneous data in the survey, which Abe cited during a Diet session.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/business/distrust-unions-gm-hangs-south-korean-efforts-stem-job-losses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T13:59:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-gmoon-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Koreans protest GM Korea's restructuring near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday. The signs read, "We oppose Trump's trade pressure and denounced GM's brutality."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/south-korean-chat-app-becomes-new-outlet-movement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T14:51:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-blind-a-20180224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-blind-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Blind anonymous work talk application is shown in the Google Play store on a mobile phone on Feb. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/national/japan-slams-south-korea-mention-sex-slaves-u-n-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T15:59:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-comfort-a-20180224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-comfort-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Gender Equality and Family Minister Chung Hyun-back (right) attends a meeting in Seoul in November to promote documents related to "comfort women" to be nominated for UNESCO's Memory of the World Register, along with Lee Yong-soo, who was forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/national/science-health/survey-shows-end-life-care-planning-still-limited-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T16:51:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-endoflife-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse counselor talks with a patient about her wishes regarding end-of-life care at Kasugai Municipal Hospital in Aichi Prefecture in February 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/business/economy-business/japans-inflation-rate-steady-0-9-january-due-energy-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T17:23:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/business/indian-banks-1-8-billion-fraud-went-unnoticed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T18:15:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-punjabank-b-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeweler to the stars Nirav Modi, shown at the March 2015 launch of his store in Mumbai, is at the heart of a fraud case that has shaken Indian banking.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-oda-white-paper-links-aid-support-indo-pacific-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T18:23:24+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/national/kyoto-struggles-keep-buses-running-time-amid-surge-overseas-visitors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T18:32:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Long lines form as people wait to ride buses at JR Kyoto Station on Feb. 11.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/national/rural-areas-hit-acute-scarcity-nurses-turnover-high-among-agency-referred-staff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T18:33:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-nurse-a-20180224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nurse-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masami Kumagai, an executive of the Japanese Nursing Association, is calling for greater use of nurse centers across the country.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/business/boeing-spacex-lockheed-interested-launching-rockets-brazil-base-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T18:44:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/business/macron-vows-protect-french-farmland-foreign-buyers-amid-uproar-chinese-deals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T18:47:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-macron-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech to the young French farmers invited at the Elysee Palace before the opening of the 2018 Paris International Agricultural Show in Paris Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/national/japans-big-brands-go-cat-crazy-neko-no-hi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T19:02:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-catday-a-20180223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-catday-a-20180223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 22nd of February is Neko No Hi (cats' day) in Japan, and some prestigious Japanese companies — including Sharp Corp. and Tanita  Corp. — have surprised the public by rebranding themselves on a feline theme to capture the heart of cat-loving potential customers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/business/corporate-business/tobacco-giants-including-japan-tobacco-international-dodge-trial-dutch-prosecutors-reject-murder-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T19:13:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/national/space-matching-service-finds-work-idle-offices-across-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T19:17:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/b-shared-a-20180224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-shared-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers use Spacee Inc.'s shared office in Tokyo on Feb. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/national/oil-reached-japans-shores-sunken-iranian-tanker-sanchi-coast-guard-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T19:21:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/national/science-health/dreamless-mice-japan-help-unravel-mystery-sleep/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T19:46:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-hooper-sleep-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Researchers at the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, introduced random genetic mutations in more than 8,000 mice and then examined the animals for abnormal sleep patterns.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/national/crime-legal/two-men-detained-firing-shots-pro-north-korea-groups-tokyo-headquarters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T20:36:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shooting-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The General Association of Korean Residents in Japan headquarters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward is seen barricaded Friday following the arrest of two men who fired shots at the building earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/national/best-selling-donald-trump-expose-hits-bookstores-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T22:26:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trumpbook-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Copies of the Japanese translation of "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," are stacked in front of a photograph of Trump Tower at a bookstore in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Friday for its debut in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/national/mongolia-protests-japan-vulgar-manga-picture-mocking-genghis-khan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-23T23:22:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-announce-new-sanctions-north-korea-south-prepares-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T12:19:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A float with effigies of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump is paraded through the crowd during the 134th Carnival parade in Nice, France, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/national/u-s-military-helicopter-flies-okinawa-school-despite-promise-avoid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T12:22:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/national/wto-backs-japan-complaint-south-koreas-fukushima-import-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T12:24:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wto-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean government official answers questions from reporters in Seoul in September 2013 after announcing the nation will ban imports of all fishery products from Fuskushima Prefecture and seven other nearby prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/business/corporate-business/nissan-dena-invite-300-groups-yokohama-self-driving-experiment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T12:25:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissan-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Nissan Motor Co. staff member demonstrates the Easy Ride app in front of a self-driving vehicle at the company's headquarters in Yokohama on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/national/crime-legal/japans-customs-authorities-seized-record-high-6200-kg-smuggled-gold-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T12:33:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gold-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A poster for a campaign to fight gold smuggling is seen at a customs inspection area at Fukuoka Airport in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/business/kuroda-staying-boj-japanese-firms-rush-issue-long-debt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T12:45:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-longbonds-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda attends a financial and monetary committee on Feb. 16. His reappointment and the assignment of a new vice governor has prompted many companies to issue superlong bonds.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/world/crime-legal-world/woman-van-arrested-striking-white-house-barrier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T12:45:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-whcrash-a-20180225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service officers investigate the scene where a passenger vehicle struck a security barrier near the White House in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/business/economy-business/u-s-discuss-trade-disputes-chinese-official-trump-considers-tariffs-steel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T12:49:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-chinatrade-a-20180225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinatrade-a-20180225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liu He]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/add-another-item-trumps-list-frustrations-bald-spot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T12:54:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-trumpbald-a-20180225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpbald-a-20180225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump pretends to smooth his hair as he speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-ready-open-jerusalem-embassy-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T13:26:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-jerusalem-a-20180225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The former Diplomat Hotel in Jerusalem, seen in December, is considered one of the options to host the U.S. Embassy after its relocation from Tel Aviv.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/national/sundays-tokyo-marathon-will-cause-road-closures-officials-warn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T14:57:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-marathon-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman poses with a starting pistol in front of a photograph of a previous Tokyo Marathon in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/asia-pacific/u-s-imposes-north-korea-sanctions-trump-warns-phase-two/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T15:45:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-nksanx-a-20180225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nksanx-a-20180225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announces fresh North Korea-related sanctions in a bid to further isolate Pyongyang, in the press room at the White House in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/national/crime-legal/man-sentenced-death-killing-two-shizuoka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T16:17:39+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/national/social-issues/abe-administration-promotes-bill-allow-schools-use-digital-textbooks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T16:46:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/asia-pacific/u-s-prepares-high-seas-crackdown-north-korea-sanctions-evaders-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T17:02:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-nkseas-a-20180225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkseas-a-20180225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The North Korean-flagged tanker Yu Jong 2 (left) and Min Ning De You 078 conduct an apparent ship-to-ship transfer in the East China Sea on Feb. 16.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/asia-pacific/peace-games-no-game-changer-south-koreans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T17:06:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkgames-a-20180225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean cheerleaders attend a men's ice hockey match pitting the South Korean team against the Czech Republic at Gangneung Hockey Center in Gangneung, South Korea, on Feb. 15 during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/national/media-national/whats-become-humanity-ai-replaces-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T22:53:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/p16-hoffman-AI-a-20180225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-AI-a-20180225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Give a dog a bone: Sony's robotic dog, Aibo, was presented at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/national/media-national/japan-bobsled-makers-miss-olympic-games-glory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T22:55:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/p17-brasor-bobsled-a-20180225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-bobsled-a-20180225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Slippery slope: The Jamaican bobsled team slides down the track at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Feb. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-national-security-adviser-top-chinese-diplomat-vow-tackle-north-korean-nuke-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T19:27:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/national/japan-defense-chief-vows-push-fishermens-compensation-u-s-military-drops-fuel-tanks-aomori-lake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T19:44:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-defensefish-a-20180225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-defensefish-a-20180225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura (right) and Koji Ebina (left), mayor of the prefecture's town of Tohoku, on Saturday hand Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera a formal request for compensation to fishermen over U.S. fighter jet's dumping of fuel tanks into a lake.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/national/hibakusha-storytellers-get-state-funding-travel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T19:44:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abombstories-a-20180225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakuko Sasaki (left), who is set to become a Hiroshima "A-bomb legacy successor" in April, prepares for an upcoming lecture with A-bomb survivors in the city of Hiroshima on Feb. 8.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/business/1-10-leave-work-early-premium-fridays-year-consumption-campaign-began/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T19:44:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People hold a toast after work at a bar in Tokyo's Shibuya district on Friday afternoon.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/national/record-number-elderly-gave-drivers-licenses-japan-last-year-police-agency-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T19:44:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-drivers-a-20180225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drivers-a-20180225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A record 252,677 elderly drivers voluntarily gave up their licenses in 2017, according to the National Police Agency.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/national/tsunami-hit-okawa-elementary-holds-ceremony-ahead-closure-march/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T22:04:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-school-a-20180225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The former grounds of tsunami-battered Okawa Elementary School are shown Friday in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. The school will close next month ahead of the seventh anniversary of the March 2011 quake and tsunami that claimed scores of lives there.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/24/national/science-health/one-dose-flu-drug-xofluza-gets-nod-health-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-24T23:35:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fludrug-a-20180225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka-based drugmaker Shionogi &amp; Co. has received approval from the health ministry for its new flu drug Xofluza, which requires only one dose.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/25/world/dozens-killed-wounded-south-yemen-suicide-attacks-anti-terrorism-forces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-25T13:07:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/25/business/tech/apple-moves-store-icloud-keys-china-raising-rights-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-25T13:11:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chapple-a-20180226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man stands outside an Apple store in Shanghai in this file photo. Chinese authorities can now use their own legal system to ask Apple to hand over iCloud data for Chinese users.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/25/world/science-health-world/egypt-uncovers-ancient-necropolis-south-cairo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-25T14:53:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-necropolis-a-20180226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Statues discovered near an ancient necropolis in Minya, Egypt, are shown on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/25/world/americas-nuclear-reactors-run-long-80-years-trump-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-25T15:48:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-nuclear-a-20180226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nuclear-a-20180226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Decommissioned cooling towers sit idle behind power lines at Exelon Corp.'s Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/25/national/myanmar-using-jicas-assistance-spruce-slumping-shrimp-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-25T15:54:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/25/business/tech/japanese-government-spending-ai-less-20-u-s-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-25T21:04:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui addresses a panel debating the ward reorganization plan for the city of Osaka, at Osaka City Hall in June.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dana Loesch, spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), at National Harbor, Maryland, Thursday. She is poised, photogenic and articulate — the new public face of an organization that long has been associated with older white men. Yet Loesch is not softening the message of an organization that has morphed from a hunting and Second Amendment rights advocacy group into an active voice in the nation's culture wars, with positions on everything from immigration to socialism.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inpex Corp. has won development rights for a 10 percent stake in Abu Dhabi's offshore oil field for $600 million.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bitcoins can be used to pay for services at this hair salon, Hair Grande Seeek, in Naka Ward, Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials from municipalities registered to serve as "host towns" during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics gather in Tokyo Sunday to share their ideas on how to welcome the athletes.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-26T20:16:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-26T20:16:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-26T20:18:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-26T21:26:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-26T21:37:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-26T22:31:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-27T04:16:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[These pictograms show how to use a Japanese electric toilet. They have been registered as a global standard in a step aimed at making such signs more familiar to the growing number of foreign tourists visiting the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-27T04:19:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A dinosaur park is seen affected by freezing weather and snowfall in Belgrade Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-27T12:31:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With Diet practices long criticized as inefficient and time-consuming, modernizing the legislature has once again become a topic of discussion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/26/asia-pacific/white-house-says-will-see-north-korea-serious-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T13:43:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in (front center) and senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump (front, second from right) and Kim Yong Chol (back right), head of the North Korean Olympic delegation, attend the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jacinda Ardern]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/business/corporate-business/oasis-hedge-fund-boss-bets-japans-professional-gaming-scene/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T17:21:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-esports-a-20180228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seth Fischer, chief investment officer of Oasis Management Co., has started buying Japanese game publisher stocks, looking to cash in as the country begins a long-delayed embrace of professional gaming.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/eye-u-s-china-revamp-top-tier-diplomats-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T17:24:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wang Qishan]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/national/politics-diplomacy/minister-okinawa-hospitalized-due-minor-stroke/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T17:32:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-esaki-a-20180227.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-esaki-a-20180227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tetsuma Esaki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/thai-junta-chief-now-says-election-held-no-later-february-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T17:42:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-thaijunta-a-20180228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy activists wearing masks mock Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha as Pinocchio during a protest against the junta at a university in Bangkok on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/asia-pacific/toilet-paper-crisis-taiwan-sparks-government-intervention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T17:43:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-taiwantp-a-20180228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan's premier has urged the public to avoid hoarding toilet paper after a reported spike in prices by manufacturers spurred a run on supermarket supplies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/business/financial-markets/u-s-european-servers-accessed-coincheck-intranet-hack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T18:24:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People stand outside Coincheck Inc.'s headquarters in Tokyo on Feb. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-refuses-calls-redo-flawed-labor-survey-debate-delays-budget-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T18:54:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-says-u-s-can-talk-north-korea-right-conditions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T19:11:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-nktrump-a-20180228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nktrump-a-20180228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean cheering squads arrive at the inter-Korea transit office in Paju, South Korea, to return to their country Monday after attending the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-state-departments-point-man-north-korea-step-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T19:57:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-nkyun-b-20180228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkyun-b-20180228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joseph Yun, the U.S. State Department's top diplomat in charge of North Korea policy, arrives for a meeting with reporters in Bangkok last December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/national/japan-launches-website-aum-cult-bid-raise-public-awareness-splinter-groups/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T20:13:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-aum-a-20180228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aum-a-20180228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Public Security Intelligence Agency has launched a website aimed at raising awareness of the Aum Shinrikyo cult and victims of its crimes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-weighs-deploying-anti-ship-missile-unit-okinawas-main-island-china-maritime-assertiveness-grows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T21:27:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-okimissile-g-20180228.jpg</image:loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/national/japan-protests-south-korea-jab-comfort-women-deal-u-n-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T21:28:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-comfort-a-20180228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha addresses her statement during the High-Level Segment of the 37th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/national/social-issues/waiting-lists-persist-japans-municipal-day-care-facilities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T21:48:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-daycare-a-20180228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-daycare-a-20180228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 35,000 children across Japan can't get into municipal day care centers, according to a Kyodo News survey.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/world/chemical-weapons-watchdog-investigates-ghouta-attacks-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T22:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-syriachem-a-20180228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-syriachem-a-20180228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man stands in a damaged building in Hamouria in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/asia-pacific/life-danger-kim-jong-nam-told-japanese-friend-feared-life-malaysian-court-hears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T22:43:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-namquoted-a-20180228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-namquoted-a-20180228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Jong Nam]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/national/crime-legal/japan-rounds-341-first-crackdown-refugee-applicant-work-abuses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T23:11:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-softens-stance-prospect-chat-north-korea-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T23:12:05+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/business/corporate-business/hackers-steal-email-addresses-thousands-porsche-japan-customers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-27T23:14:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/b-porsche-a-20180228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-porsche-a-20180228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese subsidiary of German luxury automaker Porsche says it has detected multiple cyberattacks that resulted in over 28,700 customer email addresses being stolen.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/27/national/japan-suspects-yet-another-north-korea-sanctions-breach-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T04:10:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-nktanker-a-20180228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nktanker-a-20180228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Maldivian-flagged tanker that possibly engaged in illegal transfer with a North Korean tanker is seen in this photo provided by the Defense Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/28/asia-pacific/u-n-warns-rohingya-refugees-brace-monsoon-admits-cant-keep-everyone-safe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T09:26:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-rohingya-a-20180301.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rohingya-a-20180301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya refugees collect relief material next to a settlement near the 'no man's land' area between Myanmar and Bangladesh in Tombru in Bangladesh's Bandarban on Tuesday. Hundreds of desperate Rohingya Muslims still pour over the Myanmar border into Bangladesh camps every week, six months into the refugee crisis.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/28/business/ebay-buy-qoo10-japan-shopping-platform-assets-giosis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T09:41:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/25/national/kyoto-executives-consider-making-nightlife-in-kyoto-more-tourist-friendly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T11:52:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-kansaiside-a-20180226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kansaiside-a-20180226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Corporate leaders in the Kansai region are discussing ways to keep tourists coming to Kyoto amid complaints about higher prices, a lack of hotels and early closing times for tourist spots.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/national/kyoto-develops-new-niche-hosting-wedding-ceremonies-international-couples-cherish-traditional-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T11:53:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-wedding-a-20180224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wedding-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoto issues marriage certificates for foreign couples who hold weddings in the city, after businesses noted that more and more overseas visitors hope to tie the knot in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/national/scenarios-abound-japan-getting-dragged-u-s-china-conflict-expert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T11:54:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-allison-a-20180223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-allison-a-20180223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese maritime surveillance vessel Haijian 51 (background) sails near a fishing boat chartered by a Japanese political group near Uotsuri, one of the five main islets in the Japan-administered Senkaku chain in the East China Sea, in July 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/russian-operatives-compromised-election-systems-seven-states-2016-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T13:13:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-ruselex-a-20180301.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ruselex-a-20180301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Capitol. U.S. intelligence had evidence that voter registration systems or websites in seven states were compromised by Russian-backed operatives before the 2016 election but never told the states, according to a new report.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/28/asia-pacific/pyongyang-leader-kim-jong-un-late-dad-used-brazil-passports-apply-western-visas-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T13:16:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-kims-a-20180301.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kims-a-20180301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A scan obtained by Reuters shows a Brazilian passport apparently issued in 1996 to North Korea's current leader, Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/28/business/executive-meetings-asia-no-longer-boozy-lunches-refined-fare-tighter-budgets-hold-sway/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T14:17:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-boozy-a-20180301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hotel Okura, which is now closed, was once seen by many executives as a top spot to meet clients for dinner or drinks in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/28/asia-pacific/south-korea-complains-chinese-ambassador-military-jets-flight-air-defense-identification-zone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T14:27:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-28T14:29:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-dutprobe-a-20180301.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-dutprobe-a-20180301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police and Drug Enforcement Agency agents search a house for a drug dealer on Wednesday in Maharlika Village in the city of Taguig, south of Manila.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/28/business/corporate-business/softbank-thinks-tech-investors-enjoy-deal-spree/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T15:22:38+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/28/national/majority-japanese-university-students-dont-read-books-pleasure-poll-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T15:39:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[reading-z-20180228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More college students have apparently lost interest in reading books, according to an annual survey by the National Federation of University Co-operative Associations.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/28/business/tech/samsungs-new-galaxy-s9-compares-iphone-x/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T15:51:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-galaxy-a-20180301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor looks through VR gear installed on a new Samsung Galaxy S9 mobile phone during the Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/25/business/sports-expo-spotlights-high-tech-ways-better-train-athletes-ahead-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T15:56:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-spbusiness-a-20180226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman plays Libzent Innovations Inc.'s virtual reality tennis game at an exhibition in Chiba on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/28/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-tibetan-leader-urges-pressure-china-free-homeland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T16:07:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tibet-a-20180301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lobsang Sangay, president of the Tibetan government-in-exile, is interviewed in Tokyo on Feb. 20 during a weeklong visit to Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/28/business/australia-issues-compulsory-recall-2-7-million-cars-takata-air-bags/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T16:19:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-takata-a-20180301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo of Takata Corp. is seen on its display at a showroom for vehicles in Tokyo last year.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/28/asia-pacific/top-south-korean-presidential-adviser-says-joint-u-s-military-drills-start-early-april-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-28T16:58:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-skdrills-a-20180301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Marines listen to radio commands during the annual joint exercises with the South Korea military west of Seoul in March 2003.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
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		<lastmod>2018-02-28T17:04:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Cambridge University study on Japanese men indicates that although they are starting to develop a softer side and help women, the basic postwar gender traits regarding division of labor and male domination have not changed.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[General Motors Executive Vice President for Global Product Development Mark Reuss speaks as he unveils the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado trucks during the 2018 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit in January. American automakers were battered as consumers pulled back on new car purchases in February, a continued hangover from the brisk sales pace last year, according to data released on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves to people attending a military parade marking the 105th birth anniversary of country's founding father, Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T10:12:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T12:10:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of Greenpeace checks radiation levels in the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T13:15:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T14:38:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign ministers of the Group of 20 countries meet in Bonn, Germany, on Feb. 17, 2017. The Japanese government is considering holding next year's foreign ministerial meeting in Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T15:41:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Farmers plant rice close to the Citarum River outside Muara Gembong, in Indonesia's West Java province, on Feb. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T16:19:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T16:20:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T17:01:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-job-a-20180303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's unemployment rate fell to its lowest in over 24 years in January, but the tight labor market has yet to fully translate into robust wage growth.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/02/business/digital-currency-exchanges-join-standards-security/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-02T17:16:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T18:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, chairman of Renault SA, speaks during a news conference to announce the automaker's full year earnings, in Paris, France, on Feb. 16, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T18:04:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akihiko Hoshide]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/02/business/chinese-social-media-clout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-02T18:11:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Candy Lian (left), a Chinese influencer for cosmetics brands with nearly 2 million followers on Chinese social media platforms such as Weibo and WeChat, tries out a facial cleanser from Japan's House of Rose brand during a live online performance at the Matsuya Ginza department store in central Tokyo in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T18:11:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Edwin Yoshihiro Fujinaga]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T18:14:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commemorative stamps featuring figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu are among a range of  goods related to the Pyeongchang Olympics that have seen their popularity skyrocket in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T18:17:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Squid and salmon sushi is arranged for a photo. Seafood company Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd. has developed alternatives for Japanese flying squid and imported salmon, for use in sushi and sashimi, as prices surge.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T18:36:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T18:38:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics Men's figure skating gold medallist Yuzuru Hanyu poses with his gold medal during a fan event in Tokyo Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/02/national/japan-ties-singapore-top-passport-power-ranking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-02T18:54:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey has shown that Japanese passports are tied with Singapore's as the most powerful worldwide, with visa-free access to 180 countries.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/02/world/china-ready-build-larger-aircraft-carriers-paper-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-02T19:07:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Liaoning, China's first aircraft carrier, sails into Hong Kong for a port call on July 7, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T19:22:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomomi Nakamura]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/02/world/science-health-world/tattoos-discovered-egyptian-mummies-millennia-wraps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-02T20:57:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An infrared image of the male mummy known as Gebelein Man shows tattoos on his right arm.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/02/business/economy-business/diet-kuroda-touches-exit-strategy-easing-2-inflation-reached/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-02T21:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at a Lower House committee Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T22:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T22:07:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T23:07:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-02T23:50:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-03T14:06:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bitcoin logo is seen at a facility of the Youth and Sports Ministry in Caracas on Feb. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-03T15:06:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Public Prosecutor's Office and the Metropolitan Police Department have issued a statement warning people about a "wire me the money" fraud that makes use of a fake web page modeled after the Public Prosecutor's Office.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trucks line up to cross the border to the United States at the Otay Mesa Commercial Port of Entry in Tijuana, Mexico, on Jan. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-03T16:11:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawson convenience stores have halved the time it takes to make a cup of coffee.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/03/national/media-national/anniversaries-loom-gum-producer-lotte-yoshiwara-red-light-district/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The bubble era: Bubble gum was Lotte Co.'s first major commercial success.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Misunderstood: This aerial photo shows a house in the city of Neyagawa, Osaka, where a couple allegedly confined their 33-year-old daughter, who died last month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May listens to a question from a member of the audience after giving a speech on Brexit and the European Union at Mansion House in London on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-03T19:46:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Li Keqiang stands beside President Xi Jinping along with other members of the Chinese Politburo at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-03T19:47:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-03T19:49:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction workers put girders in place for the maglev track at Shinagawa Station in Tokyo in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/04/world/polish-group-sues-argentine-paper-new-holocaust-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-04T13:44:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-04T14:55:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-04T15:03:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-04T17:47:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiromitsu Goto, a local farmer who builds special greenhouses for edible cactus, poses with an ornamental variety grown in Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-04T21:57:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-04T22:53:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko speaks during a news conference in Singapore on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-04T23:03:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology will end its clinical study on a method to identify potential fetus abnormalities. As a result, more hospitals and clinics are expected to apply for approval to offer the test.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-05T09:11:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This handout photograph taken Thursday and released by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) on Sunday shows air force personnel along with Australian High Commission officials and Papua New Guinean locals unloading humanitarian aid from trucks onto an RAAF C-130J aircraft in Lae, bound for earthquake-affected areas in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Local communities are struggling to cope with the aftermath of a major earthquake that hit Papua New Guinea's remote highlands almost a week ago, reports said Sunday, amid fears of a rising death toll.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-05T10:42:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The participants of the ninth Japan Times Bee pose for a group photo before the competition begins at The Japan Times headquarters in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-05T14:09:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin in January 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-05T16:17:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-05T16:20:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-05T17:50:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 1-kg metal part found Sunday on a mountain near Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture is shown in this photo taken by a local resident.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-05T18:58:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute is seen in an 1895 photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-05T19:39:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-05T20:21:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masazumi Wakatabe (left) and Masayoshi Amamiya, government nominees to become the next Bank of Japan deputy governors, attend a confirmation hearing in the Lower House on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/05/business/trumps-metal-tariff-proposal-provokes-ire-across-corporate-america/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-05T20:21:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-05T20:22:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-05T22:22:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese sailors in protective gear clean and disinfect a nuclear submarine during a drill at the Qingdao submarine base in China's Shandong province in July 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-05T22:23:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in (right) speaks during a meeting with his top aides at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Feb. 26. Moon has joined the growing number of supporters of the country's MeToo movement.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-05T22:50:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke rises Sunday as Miki Station is engulfed by fire on the Ao Line run by Kobe Electric Railway Co. in this photo taken by a resident of Miki, Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/05/national/crime-legal/trial-chiba-man-charged-vietnamese-girls-murder-start-june-4/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T04:13:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-06T06:39:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attilio Fontana, candidate for the presidency of the Lombardia Region, makes the victory sign in his electoral campaign headquarters in Milan, Italy, Monday. In January, Fontana told Radio Padania, the mouthpiece of his anti-migrant League party, that being unwilling to "accept all" immigrants isn't "xenophobic or racist," but logical. He said Italy needs to decide "if our white race, our society, must continue to exist or be canceled out."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/05/national/politics-diplomacy/obama-visit-japan-month-north-talks-abe-works-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T09:07:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to visit Japan later this month and may meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a Japanese government source said on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/05/business/japans-top-auto-energy-firms-tie-promote-development-hydrogen-stations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T09:09:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials from major domestic automakers and energy companies join hands Monday to mark the creation of joint firm Japan H2 Mobility, which aims to help promote Japan's hydrogen energy goals.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/05/national/social-issues/2016-suicide-nomura-real-estate-worker-said-caused-overwork-discretionary-labor-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T09:10:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A labor office has determined that the death of male worker at Nomura Real Estate Development who worked 180 hours of overtime in a month and committed suicide in September 2016 was caused by overwork.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/05/national/politics-diplomacy/msdf-plans-buy-tanker-replenish-u-s-navys-white-beach-fuel-facility-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T09:11:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/business/u-s-interior-chief-halts-second-federal-oil-lease-sale-local-outcry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T09:27:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaks on the Trump Administration's energy policy at the Heritage Foundation in Washington in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/world/politics-diplomacy-world/ex-trump-aide-corey-lewandowski-returning-house-panel-questioning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T09:38:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/05/national/japanese-head-philippines-study-english-budget/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T12:21:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manila's business and residential districts are seen reflected in a river. The number of Japanese visitors to the Philippines has been on the rise in recent years thanks to their desire to study English at an affordable cost.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/world/social-issues-world/sri-lanka-deploys-forces-quell-deadly-buddhist-muslim-clash-issues-curfew/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T14:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women carry banners during a "Safe Sights, Safe Streets and Safe Homes for Women" evening demonstration on Monday in Colombo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-06T14:01:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army fighters stand atop of mount Bafliyun, in the Afrin region of Syria Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-06T15:50:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-06T15:53:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization holds events to bring together male patients being treated for breast cancer and generate greater public understanding of the disease.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-official-allegedly-not-rule-building-nuclear-weapons-storage-site-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T16:09:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeo Akiba]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/national/tokyo-aid-helps-malaysia-solve-japanese-language-teacher-shortage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T16:16:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-06T16:57:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese military vehicles carrying DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missiles, potentially capable of sinking a U.S. Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in a single strike, drive past Tiananmen Gate in Beijing during a military parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in September 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/world/politics-diplomacy-world/italys-five-star-rebels-must-now-negotiate-establishment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T17:07:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Five Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio talks during a news conference in Rome on Monday, the day after Italy's parliamentary election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/business/convenience-store-squeeze-shows-deflationary-dilemma-facing-bank-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T17:14:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags are seen attached to boxes of Ezaki Glico Co. Pocky snacks at a FamilyMart convenience store in Tokyo on Feb. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/business/holders-cryptocurrencies-win-lose-trades-exchanges-rake-billions-fees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T18:21:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/national/ex-subordinate-arrested-taisei-exec-admits-contractor-helped-rig-maglev-bids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T18:55:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction work continues on the maglev station being built in Nagoya in December. A senior Taisei Corp. official reportedly admitted during questioning by prosecutors that the contractor was involved in bid-rigging related to the multitrillion-yen train project.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/business/theme-park-huis-ten-bosch-unveils-floating-capsule-hotel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T20:17:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Huis Ten Bosch Co. unveils a floating capsule hotel on Tuesday in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/national/japanese-publisher-withdraws-kids-comic-illustration-mocks-mongolian-hero-genghis-khan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T20:24:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mongolians living in Japan stage a rally in front of the head office of Shogakukan on Feb. 26 to protest a comic it published which included an image of Genghis Khan with a crude sketch of male genitalia across his forehead.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/national/kyushus-shinmoedake-rumbles-anew-explosive-eruption/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T20:46:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Footage taken by a weather agency camera Tuesday afternoon shows plumes of smoke billowing from Shinmoedake, a volcano  straddling Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/business/corporate-business/kobe-steel-ceo-steps-data-fabrication-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T20:47:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kobe Steel President and CEO Hiroya Kawasaki speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/national/politics-diplomacy/opposition-forces-suspension-upper-house-committee-ministry-refuses-disclose-moritomo-papers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T20:47:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/national/social-issues/lawmakers-weigh-compensation-victims-forced-sterilization-japans-defunct-eugenics-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T20:47:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A multiparty group of lawmakers gather for an inaugural meeting Tuesday to talk over measures to help victims of forced sterilization under the now-defunct Eugenic Protection Law.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/national/crime-legal/14-year-old-boy-dies-falling-truck-driven-friend-tottori/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-06T20:47:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/business/abe-discusses-u-s-tariff-plan-australian-canadian-leaders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T04:08:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull hold a news conference in January in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/07/world/sri-lanka-declares-state-emergency-amid-buddhist-muslim-clashes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T06:40:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sri Lankan army soldiers and police personnel stand near a vandalized building in Digana, a suburb of Kandy, Sri Lanka, Tuesday. Buddhist mobs swept through the town on Monday, burning at least 11 Muslim-owned shops and homes. Sri Lanka's president declared a state of emergency Tuesday amid fears that anti-Muslim attacks in the central hill town could spread.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/07/world/bus-conscience-convoy-2000-women-heads-syria-press-rights-awareness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T06:46:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activists wave Turkish and East Turkestan flags as they wait to take part in the International Conscience Convoy, which aims to reach the Turkish-Syrian border on the International Women's Day to raise awareness about the plight of Syrian women, in Istanbul Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/07/world/crime-legal-world/britain-warns-russia-double-agents-mysterious-illness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T06:51:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this image taken from security camera footage from PA shows a man and woman as they walk through an alleyway connecting a Zizzi's restaurant to a bench where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal was found in Salisbury, England, on Sunday The image is believed to be of interest to police. British counterterror specialists offered expertise Tuesday to police in southern England as they sought to unravel the mystery of why a former Russian spy fell critically ill following exposure to an "unknown substance."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-seoul-envoys-discuss-easing-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T08:41:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un greets a member of the South Korean delegation sent by President Moon Jae-in ahead of a group dinner in this photo released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/07/business/republican-pushback-trump-tariffs-gathers-steam-talk-changes-emerges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T09:23:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks after the Senate Republican weekly policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/07/business/u-s-sees-national-security-risk-broadcoms-qualcomm-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T09:34:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A display in the booth of Qualcomm shows the journey early 5G phone chipsets have made out of the lab, starting as a suitcase full of outsized prototype components (left), which has now been shrunk into a smartphone the size of a very thick chocolate bar (right), at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/07/world/39-aboard-confirmed-killed-crash-russian-military-plane-syria-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T10:53:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Russian military transport An-26 is seen on the unpaved runway of the Shagol airfield in Chelyabinsk region, Russia, in 2016. The same type of plane crashed at Russia's Hmeymim air base in Latakia province in Syria on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/07/world/social-issues-world/migrants-protest-angrily-florence-italian-kills-african-street-vendor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T10:54:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senegalese demonstrators face police during a demonstration at Vespucci bridge in Florence, Italy, Tuesday. The Senegalese community in Florence is demanding justice after an Italian man shot and killed one of their own, apparently just because he was there.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/democrats-buoyed-texas-voter-turnout-quest-retake-u-s-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T10:55:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Sylvia Garcia tries to reach officials to fix polling machines and allow constituents to vote at the Montie Beach Community Center Tuesday in Houston. Texas Democrats turned out in force ahead of the first-in-the-nation primary Tuesday in what could be an early hint of a midterm election backlash against President Donald Trump, but their party remains a longshot to make much of a dent in Republican political dominance of the state.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/national/japans-maritime-self-defense-force-appoints-first-woman-command-warship-squadron/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T11:59:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-commander-a-20180307.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-commander-a-20180307.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryoko Azuma (second from left), newly appointed commander of the 1st Escort Division of the Maritime Self-Defense Force and the first female commander of an MSDF destroyer squadron, gives a salute on the helicopter carrier Izumo at a port in Yokohama on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/07/world/science-health-world/u-s-budget-cuts-delay-international-fusion-project-iter-director-warns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T13:58:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f-fushion-a-20180308.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/07/business/japan-post-start-trial-self-driving-delivery-cars-public-roads-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T16:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/b-jpost-a-20180308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jpost-a-20180308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A self-driving vehicle leaves Japan Post Co.'s headquarters in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district for a demonstration on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/07/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/duterte-says-international-criminal-court-no-jurisdiction-indict-killings-drug-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T16:07:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte fires a few rounds with a sniper rifle during the opening ceremony of the National Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Challenge in Davao City, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, on March 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/national/history/solemn-peace-park-belies-trove-buried-bomb-artifacts-bustling-commercial-district/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T16:08:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-hiroshima-b-20180307.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hiroshima-b-20180307.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The owner of this vase, who ran a barber shop in the district, disappeared when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The vase was donated by Kinuyo Nishiguchi in 1999. It miraculously survived the attack because it was left in the air-raid shelter at the back of the house.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/07/world/funds-spurn-nuclear-arms-although-financing-still-strong-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T16:09:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/business/corporate-business/rakuten-tap-tepco-infrastructure-help-launch-mobile-carrier-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T16:54:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Rakuten Mobile store in Tokyo's Ginza district is seen in December.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corp., smiles during the company's news conference at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-07T18:04:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stands beside a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile in this photo released Nov. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/07/business/luxurious-sightseeing-train-unveiled-kyoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T19:31:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-train-a-20180308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoto's Eizan Electric Railway Co. unveiled Wednesday a new carriage featuring a huge golden oval on the front and a luxurious interior.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-07T19:34:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn speaks to reporters during the daily press briefing in the Brady press briefing room at the White House in Washington Jan. 23. Cohn is leaving the White House after breaking with President Donald Trump on trade policy. Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, has been the leading internal opponent to Trump's planned tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-07T19:35:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A clerk holds up an Ise-ebi (Japanese spiny lobster) at a market in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/04/national/media-national/automation-comes-news-gathering-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-07T20:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jxpress-a-20180305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsuhiro Yoneshige, president of JX Press, says he wants to help media outlets with his AI-powered news alerts.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-07T21:29:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-07T21:29:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junichi Ihara]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T06:59:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Far-right group Britain First leader Paul Golding and deputy leader Jayda Fransen arrive at Folkestone magristrates court in Kent on Jan. 29. The deputy leader of far-right group Britain First, who hit the headlines after U.S. President Donald Trump retweeted anti-Muslim videos she posted, was jailed on Wednesday for 36 weeks for religiously aggravated harassment. Jayda Fransen, 31, filmed and posted online videos of people whom she wrongly believed were defendants in a rape trial at Canterbury Crown Court in May 2017, in a case that led to the conviction of three Muslim men and a teenager.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T09:34:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cameroonian (orange) and Senegalese (yellow) African migrants, split into two teams, take part in a soccer match at the Libyan Interior Ministry's illegal immigration shelter in Tajoura on Feb. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T09:40:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T10:11:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roughly 3 million people visit Naritasan Shinshoji Temple in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, during the first three days of every year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T10:56:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reuters journalist Wa Lone (third from left) is escorted by Myanmar police as he leaves the court after his trial Wednesday on the outskirts of Yangon.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T11:02:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Latino Coalition Legislative Summit in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T11:08:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer stands in front of a Japanese restaurant after several people were wounded in a knife attack on the streets of Vienna Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T11:32:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T14:11:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T14:46:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T17:08:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-unescos-a-20180309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is set to propose as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve area the Kobushi mountain region, seen here, which stretches over four prefectures including Saitama and Nagano.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/08/national/crime-legal/nagoya-court-overturns-rejection-nagasaki-hibakusha-siblings-radiation-illness-recognition-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-08T17:20:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T17:35:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[University students wait for the start of a job fair in the city of Chiba during last year's recruiting season. A recent survey found that the majority of students don't want their abilities to be judged by artificial intelligence, even as more companies rely on the technology.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T17:36:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tetsuya Shirai, a professor at the University of Tsukuba, shows on Feb. 13 a temporary changing room made out of cardboard that was used by evacuees from the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, at a shelter in Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T17:51:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, attends a news conference to unveil Renault's midterm strategic plan in Paris in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T17:56:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T19:40:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks past a clothing store in Kobe in February. The economy grew at an annualized rate of 1.6 percent in the October-December quarter, much faster than initially reported, thanks to robust corporate spending in a fresh sign of strengthening domestic demand, the government said Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T20:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomy Co. President Kazuhiro Kojima poses with a large-scale Zoids replica during a news conference in Tokyo's Akihabara district on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T20:07:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T20:48:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[These documents, linked to the controversial sale of state-owned land to Osaka-based school operator Moritomo Gakuen, were released by the Finance Ministry on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T20:49:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T20:50:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-08T23:18:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian children pose for a picture in a basement being used as a make-shift bomb shelter in the rebel-held town of Douma in the eastern Ghouta enclave on the outskirts of Damascus on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, commander of the US European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Comm.ander, Europe, testifies on Capitol Hill before the U.S Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People march during a demonstration as part of a nationwide feminist strike on International Women's Day in Valencia, Spain, Thursday. A placard (left) reads "I cover my hair, not my brain."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-09T09:56:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maldivian Police officers push back opposition supporters near the main opposition Maldives Democratic Party (MDP) headquarters during a protest demanding the government to release jailed opposition leaders, including former Presidents Mohamed Nasheed and Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, in line with a Supreme Court order, in Male, Maldives, on February 9, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/business/trump-meets-doom-maker-video-game-execs-violent-content/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T10:14:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-09T10:17:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Manafort (left), President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, and his wife, Kathleen Manafort, walk behind spokesman Jason Maloni as they leave the Alexandria Federal Courthouse after an arraignment hearing in Alexandria, Virginia, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-09T10:20:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski departs after appearing before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-09T10:28:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated photo provided by the family of the late Iranian-Canadian professor Kavous Seyed-Emami shows him and his wife, Maryam Mombeini, in an unidentified place in Iran. Canada's foreign affairs minister said Thursday that Mombeini, the widow of Seyed-Emami, who died in custody in Tehran in disputed circumstances, has been stopped from leaving Iran.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/business/false-news-70-likely-spread-twitter-driven-people-bots-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T12:05:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People hold mobile phones silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken in Warsaw in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/national/foreign-ministers-japan-u-s-south-korea-hold-talks-next-week-north-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T12:16:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-09T12:30:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flood gates in Colombo on canals connected to the Kelani River.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/08/national/japanese-government-admits-claim-chocolate-good-brain-short-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T13:14:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Is chocolate good for your brain? The government said Thursday that a report claiming eating chocolate could expand the cerebral cortex needs more evidence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/business/11-states-minus-u-s-sign-tpp-free-trade-push-face-protectionist-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T13:17:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ministers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership member countries pose for a photo in Santiago Thursday prior to the signing of an agreement without the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/business/tech/olympics-hack-highlights-emerging-false-flags-threat-researcher/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T13:21:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-09T15:25:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Russian military intelligence Col. Sergei Skripal attends a hearing at the Moscow District Military Court on Aug. 9, 2006.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/national/social-issues/japan-eyes-steps-avert-medical-problems-foreign-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T17:33:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-09T17:46:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/national/tohoku-tech-firm-develops-fashion-niche-withstand-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T18:32:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akio Sato, representative of Asutoro Tech, presents a bag at his firm in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/business/vietnam-bumps-thailand-third-place-survey-interest-among-japanese-businesses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T19:08:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People drive past a beach in Da Nang, Vietnam, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/business/cautious-boj-holds-line-monetary-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T19:46:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda attends a news conference at the BOJ headquarters in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-ready-meet-north-koreas-kim-denuclearization-talks-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T20:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f-nknews-a-20180310.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nknews-a-20180310.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump are seen in a combination photo. Kim has invited Trump to meet for negotiations over its nuclear program, an audacious diplomatic overture that would bring together two strong-willed, idiosyncratic leaders who have traded threats of war.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/national/fukushima-no-1-cleanup-continues-radioactive-water-rumors-also-prove-toxic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T21:33:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hundreds of tanks can be seen holding filtered coolant water from the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Seven years after the meltdown crisis started, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. is struggling with an ever-increasing volume of radioactive water at the site.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/business/trumps-steel-tariffs-seen-putting-u-s-away-tpp-free-trade-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T21:36:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ministers pose for an official photo after signing the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) in Santiago on Thursday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/national/crime-legal/peruvian-drifter-gets-death-2015-slayings-six-saitama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T21:37:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/national/lost-found-cash-reported-tokyo-police-topped-3-7-billion-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T22:35:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cash-a-20180310.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People who find cash and report it to police can receive up to 20 percent of the money as a reward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/national/politics-diplomacy/government-gives-nod-watered-antismoking-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T23:13:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-smoking-a-20180310.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The bill on antismoking measures will be Japan's first to allow penalties to be levied on violators.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/national/politics-diplomacy/tax-chief-exits-ministry-suicide-casts-pall-moritomo-land-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T23:34:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[National Tax Agency chief Nobuhisa Sagawa speaks at a Lower House committee session in March last year. He has reportedly decided to step down the shady Moritomo Gakuen land deal linked to the prime minister's wife.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/national/science-health/osaka-university-oks-worlds-first-test-ips-cell-based-heart-failure-treatment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-09T23:34:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/09/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-visit-u-s-april-discuss-north-korea-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T06:15:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe welcomes U.S. President Donald Trump to Tokyo in November. Abe said Friday that he and Trump agreed to meet in the United States next month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/business/economy-business/australia-set-secure-exemption-u-s-tariffs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T11:36:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/business/economy-business/trumps-no-exemptions-tariff-plan-got-carve-outs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T12:14:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steel sits in a port authority facility in Hamilton, Ontario, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/business/economy-business/pressure-allies-u-s-eases-way-exemptions-just-imposed-steel-aluminum-tariffs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T12:15:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A steelworker in a protective suit checks the temperature of molten metal in a furnace at the TMK Ipsco Koppel plant in Koppel, Pennsylvania, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/world/convoy-delivers-food-syrias-besieged-ghouta-amid-shelling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T13:49:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People carry their belonging next to International Red Cross (ICRC) and U.N aid convoys in the besieged Syrian town of Douma, eastern Ghouta, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/asia-pacific/north-korean-state-media-quiet-kims-overtures-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T13:51:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkmedia-a-20180311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Friday's Asia Economy newspaper, displayed on a newsstand in Seoul, shows U.S. President Donald Trump, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean National Security Council chief Chung Eui-yong speaking in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/asia-pacific/north-korean-foreign-minister-visit-sweden-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T14:08:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-seeks-concrete-actions-north-korea-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T15:19:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean soldier walks past a television broadcast on U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a railway station in Seoul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/world/crime-legal-world/abuse-elderly-nursing-facility-staffers-rises-10-8/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T16:25:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/national/media-national/confusing-power-powerlessness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T22:42:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-power-a-20180311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Power play: If protesting to management threatens to derail a career, the prospect of a prolonged court battle is liable to stymie all but the most committed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-jordan-agree-advance-mideast-peace-corridor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T16:54:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/national/media-national/japans-labor-reform-ignores-elementary-principles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T22:55:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-labor-a-20180311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hard at work: The government wants to solve (or, at least, be seen as trying to solve) the problem of excessive overtime.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/national/rock-risk-zone-expands-mount-shinmoe-eruptions-intensify-kyushu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T18:21:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Shinmoe on the border of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures spews lava and smoke during an eruption at 1:55 a.m. Saturday. The event prompted the Meteorological Agency to widen the area at risk from large flying rocks to 4 km from the crater.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/wine-spirits-kim-jong-un-poked-fun-south-korean-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T20:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (rear) talks with South Korean officials, who traveled as envoys of President Moon Jae-in, during a dinner in Pyongyang on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/national/crime-legal/internship-association-allegedly-stole-pay-vietnamese-working-ishikawa-fukui/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T20:50:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/national/politics-diplomacy/85-say-japan-risk-going-war-triennial-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-10T23:04:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/national/kamaishi-mounts-soft-power-recovery-revive-tsunami-hit-community/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-11T12:52:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-series3-a-20180311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The city of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, is rebuilding itself using soft power in multiple projects, including career workshops for high school students and rural tourism.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/national/media-national/life-japan-can-exhausting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-11T17:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-kitagawa-by-the-numbers-a-20180311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Life in Japan can sometimes be exhausting.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/11/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-says-japan-happy-north-korea-talks-bring-greatest-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-11T18:31:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally for Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/11/national/residents-volunteer-preserve-monuments-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-11T20:41:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An empty building in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, that used to house Yuichi Yonezawa's company and helped him survive the tsunami that devastated the city on March 11, 2011, is shown in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/11/national/anniversary-3-11-survivors-pay-tribute-lost-kin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-11T20:58:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-reaction-a-20180312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buddhist priests enter the sea Sunday in the Tairausuisho district of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, to pray for those who were swept away by the tsunami that scoured the area on March 11, 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-11T20:58:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean officials inspect unused fuel rods at a warehouse at North Korea's Nyongbyon nuclear complex on Jan. 16, 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/11/world/japan-asks-trump-tariff-exemption-gets-no-answer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-11T20:58:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom (center), U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and trade minister Hiroshige Seko arrive for talks over new U.S. tariffs at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/11/national/fukushimas-fishing-industry-stuck-slow-steady-battle-change-public-perceptions-3-11/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-11T22:18:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man holds up a flounder at a fish market in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 28 before the fish was shipped to Thailand.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/national/politics-diplomacy/finance-ministry-admit-cover-moritomo-land-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-11T22:24:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-schoolscandal-a-20180311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former National Tax Agency chief Nobuhisa Sagawa faces reporters Friday at the Finance Ministry after resigning in the midst of the growing controversy over the ministry's heavily discounted sale of land to Osaka-based school operator Moritomo Gakuen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/11/national/28-municipal-government-buildings-still-risk-earthquakes-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T04:26:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The building housing the Uto Municipal Government in Kumamoto Prefecture is shown on April 2014. The structure, which was damaged by the earthquakes in Kumamoto and neighboring prefectures in 2016, was later demolished.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/putin-says-grandfather-cooked-stalin-lenin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T06:38:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then acting Russian President and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin talks with representatives of the news media at a polling station in Moscow in 2000.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/world/crime-legal-world/clinton-impeachment-lawyer-met-trump-white-house-job-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T06:39:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-12T09:30:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-12T10:53:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-myanmar-a-20180313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bangladeshi border guard personnel gesture to Rohingya who are stuck in "no man's land" as they tell them not to cross in Tombru last August. Some 6,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled attacks in Myanmar last year live at the cloudiest edges of the border with Bangladesh, in a no man's land that seems to be neither Myanmar nor Bangladesh. Many stay in these places because they are from nearby villages, and can see the wreckage of their former homes.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/11/national/shadow-nuclear-disaster-fukushimas-rice-farmers-look-rebuild-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T13:51:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-series4-a-20180312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bags of brown rice harvested in Fukushima Prefecture are checked for radiation in the city of Nihonmatsu in February 2015. Since 2012, the prefectural government has been screening every single bag of rice produced in Fukushima.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/11/national/japan-marks-seven-years-since-devastating-3-11-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T14:06:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-disasters-a-20180312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-disasters-a-20180312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An unidentified man offers prayers and a bouquet on Arahama Beach in Sendai's Wakabayashi Ward early Sunday morning as Japan observed the seventh anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/hong-kong-pro-democracy-movement-loses-ground-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T15:23:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f-hkpoll-a-20180313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hkpoll-a-20180313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong pro-Beijing by-election candidate Vincent Cheng Wing-shun celebrates after winning a seat at the Legislative Council by-elections in the city Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/11/national/fukushima-powers-toward-100-goal-renewables-grid-cost-woes-linger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T15:25:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukenergy-a-20180312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diplomatic officials from the U.S., South Korean, Pakistani, Colombian and Myanmar embassies receive a briefing at the Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, last August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/national/politics-diplomacy/incumbent-tanimoto-wins-seventh-term-ishikawa-prefectures-gubernatorial-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T16:14:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-ishikawarace-a-20180312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ishikawarace-a-20180312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gov. Masanori Tanimoto celebrates after securing another win — his seventh — in Ishikawa Prefecture's gubernatorial election on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/business/economy-business/no-deal-brexit-cost-u-k-eu-companies-58-billion-report-warns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T17:03:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-brexit-a-20180313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Theresa May]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/business/corporate-business/fast-retailing-open-first-uniqlo-shop-indonesias-sumatra-island/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T17:25:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fast Retailing Co. will open a new shop on Sumatra Island, Indonesia, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/chinese-state-media-defends-removing-presidential-term-limits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T18:24:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-12T18:57:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasunori Kagoike and his wife, Junko, were arrested in July on allegations of fraud in their dealings with government entities as they went through the process of building Moritomo Gakuen elementary school in Osaka. They've been in jail ever since.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/business/coincheck-lift-limits-trading-withdrawals-imposed-digital-money-heist-start-repaying-customers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T19:39:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coincheck Inc, said Monday it would start the same day repaying customers affected by the heist.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/national/kumamoto-assembly-bans-nonmembers-response-november-baby-disruption/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T19:41:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-assembly-a-20180313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kumamoto Municipal Assembly member Yuka Ogata holds her baby during a meeting of the legislature on Nov. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/national/crime-legal/boob-tube-stunt-shibuya-gets-youtuber-trio-hot-water/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T19:44:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-youtube-a-20180313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo from the Metropolitan Police Department shows a makeshift sign advertising "free boobs" in a notebook used by YouTubers for a stunt in Shibuya in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/national/politics-diplomacy/gist-secret-redactions-moritomo-papers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T21:28:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/national/crime-legal/miyazaki-court-upholds-retrial-90-year-old-woman-convicted-79-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T21:37:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masami Mori, head of a group of lawyers seeking a retrial for Ayako Haraguchi speaks at a news conference in Miyazaki on Monday. The Fukuoka High Court's Miyazaki branch granted Haraguchi a retrial the same day. She served 10 years in prison for the murder of her brother-in-law in 1979.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/may-faces-calls-retaliate-russia-spy-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-12T23:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Air Chief Marshall Stuart Peach (left) and Britain's Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson arrive in Downing Street in central London on Monday, ahead of a meeting of the National Security Council, as investigations continue in connection with the major incident sparked after a man and a woman were apparently poisoned in a nerve agent attack on March 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/business/trudeau-tries-reassure-aluminum-workers-u-s-tariff-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T06:46:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (right) and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard answer questions after signing an infrastructure agreement in Montreal, Quebec, in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/world/porn-star-stormy-daniels-offers-pay-back-hush-money-order-reveal-trump-affair/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T09:06:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-stormy-a-20180314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stormy Daniels visits a restaurant in downtown New Orleans in 2009. The adult film actress who said she had sex with President Donald Trump is offering to return the $130,000 she was paid for agreeing not to discuss their alleged relationship. An attorney for Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, sent a letter to Trump's lawyer Monday, saying she would wire the money to Trump if she could speak openly about their relationship.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/business/u-n-rights-investigators-hit-beast-facebooks-role-spreading-hate-speech-amid-myanmar-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T09:20:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A girl from the Pauktaw township stands in front of her family's shelter in a Rohingya internally displaced persons (IDP) camp outside Sittwe, Myanmar, in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/world/social-issues-world/women-farmers-join-long-march-mumbai-demand-land-forest-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T11:02:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thousands of farmers listen to their leader at the end of their six-day march on foot, in Mumbai Monda. Tens of thousands of farmers from across western India have arrived in Mumbai demanding, among other things, a waiver of farm loans and fair prices for their produce as India's agriculture sector struggles amid years of declining earnings.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-13T11:57:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks by a huge TV screen in Tokyo on Friday showing U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/national/asian-daca-recipients-limbo-await-congressional-action/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T12:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A DACA recipient is seen at a rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program outside the Edward Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles last September.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-13T12:49:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea's National Intelligence Service chief Suh Hoon (left) shakes hands with Foreign Minister Taro Kono before their meeting in Tokyo Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/reference/abes-route-revising-article-9-crosses-minefield-legalese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T13:54:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party gather at a meeting last month on revising the constitution, at LDP headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/national/crime-legal/lawsuit-challenges-japans-ban-dual-citizenship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T15:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nationality-a-20180313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitoshi Nogawa, a plaintiff in a lawsuit targeting Japan's ban on dual citizenship, holds up his invalidated passport at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday, telling reporters that being forced to give up his nationality was a "painful experience."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/national/native-english-speakers-demand-japanese-teachers-hone-language-skills-new-curricula/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T15:53:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuko Shigematsu (left), an elementary school teacher, takes a lesson at an English language school in the city of Oita, in February, to gain confidence in teaching the language.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/national/japans-de-facto-ban-liquid-baby-formula-may-lifted-summer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T16:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-milk-a-20180314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[While liquid baby formula is widely used abroad for its convenience, its production and sale are not currently allowed in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/asia-pacific/china-says-new-agency-will-improve-foreign-aid-coordination/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T16:02:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security staff member keeps watch at the entrance to the assembly hall after the fourth plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-13T16:05:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sailors perform flight operations on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson on Saturday in the South China Sea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/national/japan-restaurant-chain-ordered-pay-damages-raw-meat-food-poisoning-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T16:55:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-13T16:56:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-13T17:26:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Julie Bishop]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/business/corporate-business/nippon-life-acquire-5-stake-deutsche-bank-unit-send-representative-join-new-board/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T17:49:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-13T17:56:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-13T18:16:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Company representatives attend a seminar on the rules for converting fixed-term contract workers into indefinite-term employees held in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, in March last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/asia-pacific/remain-patient-tillerson-says-trump-kim-meeting-specifics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T18:39:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the newly renovated Pyongyang Teachers' University in the capital in this undated picture released in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/business/corporate-business/block-broadcom-bid-trump-makes-clear-u-s-tech-interests-not-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T18:49:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Broadcom Ltd. logo is seen on a sign at the firm's headquarters in Irvine, California, in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/national/politics-diplomacy/falsified-rewritten-headlines-moritomo-scandal-shine-light-political-leanings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T19:07:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters stage an anti-Abe demonstration near the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/business/economy-business/oecd-upgrades-global-japan-growth-outlooks-2018-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T19:21:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People tour Yokohama’s Chinatown in February. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development raised its forecasts for both Japan and the global economy, for 2018 and 2019, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/12/national/politics-diplomacy/finance-ministry-admits-to-altering-moritomo-documents-says-references-to-abe-and-wife-were-deleted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T20:12:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso enters his office at the ministry on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/national/politics-diplomacy/apparent-shift-abe-says-doesnt-think-pyongyang-using-summits-buy-time-weapons-programs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T22:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets South Korean National Intelligence Service chief Suh Hoon in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/national/estimated-number-foreign-visitors-japans-national-parks-hit-record-6-million-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T22:33:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated photo provided by the Environment Ministry shows the scenery of Aso-Kuju National Park.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/national/politics-diplomacy/pressure-possibly-behind-moritomo-document-alterations-former-finance-bureau-official-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-13T23:20:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-13T23:24:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso listens to a reporter's question after a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-explore-possibility-summit-abe-north-korean-leader-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-14T00:01:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abenk-a-20180314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese government plans to examine the possibility of a summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, sources said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/national/politics-diplomacy/hundreds-rally-prime-ministers-office-demand-abe-taro-aso-quit-moritomo-document-tampering/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-14T00:03:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters blast Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a rally near his office Monday evening, hours after the Finance Ministry admitted to secretly doctoring documents at the center of a cronyism scandal linked to Abe and his wife.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/14/world/trump-lawyer-ignores-porn-stars-offer-return-hush-money/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-14T06:34:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-stormy-a-20180315.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adult film star Stormy Daniels arrives at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in 2008. CBS News President David Rhodes says that a "60 Minutes" interview with Daniels needs more journalistic work. Rhodes' statement at a conference in Israel Tuesday was the first time CBS publicly confirmed it had interviewed Daniels, who has alleged an extramarital affair with Donald Trump before he became president.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/14/world/u-k-counterterrorism-police-probe-death-russian-associate-late-tycoon-foe-putin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-14T06:41:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer stands guard outside the home of Nikolai Glushkov in New Malden, Britain, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/gina-haspel-linked-black-site-torture-coverup-tapped-trump-head-cia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-14T06:43:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This October 2017 videograb still image obtained Tuesday courtesy of the OSS Society shows Gina Haspel, deputy director of the CIA, speaking at the 2017 William J. Donovan Award Dinner in Washington. Gina Haspel, nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the CIA, is a black ops veteran who once ran a secret interrogation operation in Thailand accused of torturing detainees. If approved by the Senate, Haspel would be the first woman ever to run the Central Intelligence Agency.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/14/world/crime-legal-world/florida-prosecutor-seeking-death-penalty-youth-parkland-school-massacre/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-14T09:55:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nikolas Cruz appears in court for a status hearing before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Feb. 19, Florida prosecutors announced Tuesda that they will seek the death penalty against Cruz, a former student charged in the fatal shooting of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/14/business/u-k-tv-may-pull-broadcaster-russia-todays-plug-spy-poisoning-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-14T10:05:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T11:04:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vil Mirzayanov, the former Soviet scientist who developed the chemical agent Novichok, is pictured in Princeton, New Jersey, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/14/world/russia-threatens-military-response-u-s-strikes-damascus-government-quarter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-14T11:06:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People enjoy the view from a pedestrian bridge in the Zaryadye Park, with the Kremlin's towers and the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters seen in the background, in Moscow on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/14/world/sick-injured-start-leaving-syrias-besieged-ghouta-rare-medical-evacuation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-14T11:13:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian civilians arrive at a makeshift clinic during Syrian government airstrikes on Zamalka, in the rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T12:58:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Susan Wojcicki]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T15:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The newly opened third terminal for budget airlines at Narita airport near Tokyo is crowded with travelers on April 8, 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T15:13:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's core private-sector machinery orders in the January-March quarter jumped over 8 percent amid rising demand in the manufacturing and service sectors.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T15:24:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A volcanic plume is seen coming from Mount Shinmoe in Kagoshima on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T15:53:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The symbols for the bitcoin and ethereum cryptocurrencies are displayed on a screen during the Crypto Investor Show in London on March 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T17:03:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two U.S. consumers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Kobe Steel Ltd. and Toyota Motor Corp.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T17:06:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer leaves the European Commission headquarters after a meeting on steel overcapacity, in Brussels Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T17:11:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flounder caught in waters off Fukushima Prefecture are shipped from a port in the city of Soma late last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T18:09:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T18:26:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T18:27:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A union worker tracks wage hikes at major automakers on Wednesday in Tokyo's Chuo Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T18:31:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mike Pompeo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/14/national/crime-legal/okinawa-loses-suit-aimed-halting-u-s-futenma-base-relocation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-14T18:43:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T18:51:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T18:58:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T19:35:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masako Wakamiya talks with Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, on June 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/14/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-ruling-coalition-ready-summon-key-figure-document-scandal-diet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-14T21:19:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n moritomo z 20180315]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuhisa Sagawa]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T21:49:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is reportedly "exploring the possibility" of a bilateral summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/14/national/politics-diplomacy/change-u-s-secretary-state-chief-not-likely-affect-relations-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-14T21:49:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks to the media at the State Department on Tuesday after being fired by President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/14/national/30-years-worlds-longest-undersea-tunnel-faces-challenges-japan-balances-bullet-trains-freight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-14T22:10:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T22:45:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reporters gather in front of a detention center in Tokyo on Wednesday following reports that the Justice Ministry has started transferring seven former members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, who are now on death row, from the facility to detention centers in other areas.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-14T23:10:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Munich specimen of the transitional dino-bird Archaeopteryx is shown in this picture taken in 2014 at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-15T06:36:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong (center) is escorted by police as she leaves a court hearing at the Shah Alam High Court in Shah Alam, Malaysia, Wednesday. Doan and Siti Aisyah of Indonesia have pleaded not guilty of killing Kim Jong Nam on Feb. 13, 2017, at a crowded Kuala Lumpur airport terminal. They are accused of wiping VX on Kim's face in an assassination widely thought to have been orchestrated by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-15T06:42:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian families prepare to board Syrian Red Crescent buses evacuating humanitarian cases from Douma in the rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta to the government-controlled Wafidin crossing on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus on Wednesday. A second day of medical evacuations from Syria's eastern Ghouta got underway, with dozens more civilians expected to be taken out of the besieged rebel enclave.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/15/business/trumps-tariffs-lift-hopes-jobs-u-s-steel-mill-towns-see-industry-revival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-15T06:43:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker stands outside the U.S. Steel Corp. coke plant, part of the company's complex in Granite City, Illinois, in 2015. With President Donald Trump's tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, some companies are planning to fire up long-idled mills and smelters. United States Steel Corp. says it will restart a blast furnace in Illinois.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-15T09:31:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-15T10:52:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-15T11:06:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter (left) and Joe Allbaugh, director of the Oklahoma Corrections Department, hold a news conference on using nitrogen gas for executions at the Capitol in Oklahoma City on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-15T13:55:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Southern African python]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-15T15:51:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/15/business/corporate-business/nissan-taps-top-exec-fortify-push-top-growth-market-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-15T16:55:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-15T16:56:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Finance Minister Taro Aso, who also serves as deputy prime minister, attend a Lower House Budget Committee session at the Diet on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/15/business/corporate-business/toray-buy-dutch-carbon-fiber-maker-tencate-advanced-composites-e930-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-15T18:10:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-15T18:15:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena at his office in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/15/national/crime-legal/man-arrested-stabbing-officials-kanazawa-city-hall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-15T18:18:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police block the entrance into Kanazawa city hall in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Wednesday after a knife-wielding man was arrested for stabbing city employees.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/15/national/move-seen-paving-way-redress-japan-hold-national-survey-historical-forced-sterilizations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-15T18:54:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-15T19:06:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers for plaintiffs seeking compensation from the state and Tepco related to the 2011 nuclear disaster hold up banners saying "partial victory" and "government held responsible," after a ruling was handed down by the Kyoto District Court on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-15T19:24:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-15T20:24:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An overwhelming 88.3 percent of stalking victims were women, and more than 60 percent were in their 20s and 30s, a police report said.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-15T20:24:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall on Defender of the Fatherland Day, Feb. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/15/national/japans-government-may-abolish-political-fairness-clause-broadcasting-law-part-industry-shake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-15T22:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-broadcasting-z-20180316.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/15/world/brooklyn-sale-kushner-family-firm-60-premium-linked-ntt-one-third-owned-japans-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T04:07:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Ivanka Trump, assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump and the wife of Jared Kushner, pose for photographers as they arrive for a dinner in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/world/may-visits-u-k-city-russian-double-agent-poisoned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T06:52:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-may-a-20180317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May (right) "fist-bumps" a member of the public during her visit to Salisbury, southern England, on Thursday, where she visited the areas where former Russian doubleagent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, went to, and were discovered at, following an apparent nerve agent attack on March 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-16T06:53:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian civilians evacuated from the eastern Ghouta enclave pass with belongings through the regime-controlled corridor opened by government forces in Hawsh al-Ashaari, east of the enclave town of Hamouria on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on Thursday Thousands escaped Syria's rebel-held eastern Ghouta into government-held territory, AFP correspondents on both sides said, the largest numbers since the regime assault on the enclave began.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/15/asia-pacific/indias-top-court-reinstates-marriage-overturning-lower-court-ruling-alleged-case-love-jihad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T08:46:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hadiya, 24, who converted to Islam in 2016 and changed her name from Akhila, arrives at the airport in Kochi, India, November 25, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/business/french-rail-strike-call-sets-stage-showdown-macron-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T09:24:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/b-sncf-a-20180317.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sncf-a-20180317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of SUD-Rail union holds a flare near a banner reading "Sud Rail won't let you break SNCF" during a protest over the reform of French national state-owned railway company SNCF in front of the Ground Control venue near the Gare de Lyon in Paris Monday as French rail network celebrates its 80th birthday. French rail workers have agreed to launch a strike starting April 3 against the government's plan to overhaul the state-owned operator SNCF, the CGT union said on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/asia-pacific/north-korean-foreign-minister-visits-sweden-sparking-speculation-kim-trump-summit-plans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T09:30:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f-riyongho-a-20180317.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A video grab taken from an AFPTV video shows North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and his delegation arrive at the airport in Stockholm Thursday. North Korea's top diplomat arrived in Sweden for two days of talks that could play a role in setting up a proposed summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/business/trump-get-options-soon-crack-chinas-theft-u-s-intellectual-property-peter-navarro/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T09:44:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/b-chinatheft-a-20180317.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinatheft-a-20180317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Lighthizer (left), U.S. trade representative, left, speaks with Peter Navarro, director of the National Trade Council, at a ceremony before U.S. President Donald Trump signs proclamations on adjusting imports of steel and aluminum into the United States in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on March 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/business/thousands-french-pensioners-rally-tell-macron-stop-squeezing-finances/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T09:50:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-pensioners-a-20180317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Retirees and pensioners and Ehpad employees protest on Thursday in Nantes as part of a national day of action and strike by EHPAD (Establishment for the Housing of Elderly Dependant People) workers and pensioners to demand more resources.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/business/facebook-lite-launch-developed-countries-including-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T09:52:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-special-counsel-subpoenas-trump-organization-documents-russia-probe-nyt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T11:07:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f-mueller-a-20180317.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Special counsel Robert Mueller departs after a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington last June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/world/trump-pardons-sailor-invoked-clinton-defense-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T11:45:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/15/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-panel-fails-form-consensus-revision-war-renouncing-article-9/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T12:03:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-constitution-a-20180316.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-constitution-a-20180316.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba answers questions from reporters after a meeting of a Liberal Democratic Party panel at the party's headquarters on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/15/national/crime-legal/death-penalty-sought-25-year-old-man-2016-dagger-attack-unknown-osaka-family-killed-one/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T12:14:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/national/japan-develop-ability-strike-enemy-missile-bases-ldp-urge-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T13:15:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/harassed-south-korean-lawyer-fights-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T13:19:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f-skarass-a-20180317.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Eun-eui]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/15/national/foreign-tourists-set-new-record-hotel-stays-kyoto-visiting-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T13:33:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-kyoto-a-20180316.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kyoto-a-20180316.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Major hotels in the city of Kyoto, one of the most popular tourist destinations, saw record numbers of foreigners in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/world/west-calls-russia-explain-nerve-toxin-attack-former-double-agent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T13:57:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to members of military as she visits Salisbury in southwest England on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/world/sanctions-condemnation-u-s-hints-taking-tougher-stance-toward-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T14:02:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/business/corporate-business/tepco-utilities-eye-joint-nuclear-plant-project-aomori-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T17:47:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/national/crime-legal/government-tepco-ordered-pay-damages-fukushima-evacuees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T17:49:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/business/corporate-business/luxury-push-japan-gives-swiss-watch-making-industry-run-money/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T18:02:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee arranges Seiko Watch Corp.'s Grand Seiko brand watches at the company's Seiko Premium Boutique store, in the upscale Ginza shopping district of Tokyo on Feb. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/national/nagasaki-hibakusha-pass-experiences-traditional-story-telling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T18:32:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abomb-a-20180317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagasaki hibakusha Yukio Inoue presents drawings that document the experiences of A-bomb survivors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/national/politics-diplomacy/russian-foreign-minister-hints-possible-deal-joint-activities-disputed-isles-off-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-17T05:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lavrov-a-20180317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during a group interview in Moscow on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/national/contractor-says-government-asked-falsify-report-waste-moritomo-school-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T20:20:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo provided by a contractor shows a signboard noting that an inspection on a plot of state-owned land sold to Moritomo Gakuen was completed at a depth of 3 meters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/business/corporate-business/kobe-steels-new-ceo-vows-restore-damaged-trust-program-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T20:21:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsugu Yamaguchi, the newly appointed chief executive officer of Kobe Steel, listens to questions during a news conference at a Tokyo hotel on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/business/trumps-joke-japanese-car-inspections-dropping-bowling-balls-leaves-tokyo-perplexed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T20:23:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/business/financial-markets/bitcoins-death-cross-looms-strategist-eyes-76-plunge-2800/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T21:57:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/asia-pacific/china-hacking-u-s-firms-linked-dispute-south-china-sea-fireeye/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T22:01:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gestures to journalists at a news conference on the sidelines of the National People's Congress at the media center in Beijing on March 8. Wang appeared to blame the U.S. and its allies for stirring up trouble in the South China Sea, which is claimed in all or in part by China and five other governments.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/national/science-health/saitama-medical-device-makers-fill-vital-health-care-niche/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T22:03:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kotobuki Giken President Seiichiro Takayama holds up mock organs made from tofu and konnyaku (devil's tongue jelly) that his firm developed for young surgeons.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/world/hope-survivors-fades-rubble-florida-bridge-collapse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T22:21:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police lights illuminate the scene of a pedestrian bridge collapse in Miami on Thursday that crushed a number of cars below and reportedly left several people dead. The Miami Herald reported that an unknown number of people were trapped underneath the collapsed walkway, which connected Florida International University to a student housing area.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/national/two-sdf-officers-japan-commit-suicide-returning-south-sudan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-16T22:59:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-16T23:59:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May talks with Wiltshire Police's Chief Constable Kier Pritchard (left) as she arrives in Salisbury, England, on Thursday to visit the areas where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia went to, and were discovered at, on March 4, following an apparent nerve agent attack. Britain expelled 23 Russian diplomats over the poisoning of the former spy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/business/corporate-business/toys-r-us-said-targeting-chinese-funds-potential-1-billion-deal-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-17T11:25:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers walk into a Toys R Us store in San Antonio, Texas, in September 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/europeans-propose-new-iran-sanctions-save-nuclear-accord-face-u-s-ultimatum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-17T12:06:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abbas Araghchi, political deputy at the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the secretary general of the European Union External Action Service, Helga Schmid, talk during a meeting between Iran and six world powers to review the Iran nuclear deal in Vienna on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-signs-bill-encouraging-official-contacts-taiwan-angering-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-17T13:02:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen (right) toasts with Foreign Minister Joseph Wu at the island's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chinese Lunar New Year dinner in Taipei on Feb. 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/national/politics-diplomacy/moritomo-scandal-threatens-osaka-leaders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-17T13:14:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a recent Upper House budget committee session. Abe and his finance minister Taro Aso have been on the ropes in recent days following revelations that key documents relating to a controversial land sale were doctored.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/betting-side-puts-odds-h-r-mcmaster-exit-trump-white-house-next/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-17T13:26:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[H.R. McMaster]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/asia-pacific/top-officials-clamor-make-trump-kim-summit-reality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-17T14:46:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho leaves the Rosenbad Swedish government building in Stockholm on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/national/u-s-military-unlikely-pay-family-killing-base-worker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-17T15:25:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-17T17:04:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke answers a question from Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, of Hawaii, during a House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee hearing in Washington on Thursday in this screen shot taken from YouTube.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/business/japanese-biz-lobbies-call-eu-japan-trade-deal-apply-u-k-british-exit-transition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-17T17:12:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-17T22:54:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-schreiber-aum-execution-a-20180318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Center of attention: Media outlets have been increasingly debating whether Shoko Asahara, spiritual leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, will be executed before the Emperor's abdication.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/national/media-national/japan-struggles-overcome-groping-problem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-17T22:57:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-groping-a-20180318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unreported incidents: Media critic Maki Fukasawa says that less than 10 percent of train groping victims report their attacks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/business/corporate-business/japan-tobacco-buys-russias-no-4-cigarette-maker-donskoy-tabak-1-6-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-17T17:34:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/national/violin-made-3-11-tsunami-debris-leads-australian-concert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-17T17:36:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kana Ohashi performs with a violin made from 3/11 tsunami debris on Friday in Melbourne.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/national/politics-diplomacy/komeito-looking-minimum-%c2%a58000-admission-fee-casinos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-17T19:58:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A ball rolls on a spinning roulette wheel at a mock casino in Tokyo. Komeito, the junior coalition partner of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, reportedly plans to call for gamblers to pay an admission fee of at least ¥8,000 for planned casinos.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-17T19:58:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono meets with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Friday at the White House.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/business/corporate-business/exhausted-toys-r-us-suppliers-weigh-options-huge-retailer-shuts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-17T23:27:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers for Toys R Us vendor Learning Resources assemble globes at the warehouse in Vernon Hills, Illinois, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-18T12:56:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Polluted air cloaks Jinshang Hill on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-18T14:08:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists climb on a tree that was uprooted by Tropical Cyclone Marcus car in Australia's Northern Territory capital city of Darwin on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-18T15:02:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping takes the oath of office after being formally re-elected to a second term as China's president during a plenary session of China's National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-18T15:59:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese couple Toshiaki Yoshida (right) and Natsumi Ueno ﷯wed via ﷯a traditional aboriginal wedding ceremony in Taiwan on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/chinese-premier-li-keqiang-re-elected-influence-expected-wane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-18T16:57:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (right) shakes hands with President Xi Jinping, after Li was re-elected to another term at the sixth plenary session of the National People's Congress at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/18/business/economy-business/achieving-inflation-target-possible-nations-elderly-remain-employed-expert-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-18T16:57:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoyuki Yoshino]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-18T17:18:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Graduates of the National Defense Academy toss their caps in the air during their graduation ceremony in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-18T17:18:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping takes an oath of allegiance to the constitution after being formally re-elected president during a plenary session of China's National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-18T17:20:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junior high school students in the Kirikiri district of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, play a version of the matching game karuta with phrases on the playing cards written in their local dialect.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kunio Shimada]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-18T21:18:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-taiwan-talks-fishing-near-senkakus-end-progress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-18T21:55:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An activist distributes electoral materials in support of presidential candidate President Vladimir Putin in central Moscow on Thursday. The placard reads: "We are ready to take any challenge of time and win V.V. Putin."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-18T23:35:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-19T06:36:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrians walk along a destroyed street in the eastern Ghouta town of Saqba on Sunday, after regime forces took control of the southern pocket that was held by the Faylaq al-Rahman rebel group. Regime forces have retaken some 80 percent of eastern Ghouta since launching a brutal air and ground offensive on Sunday, carving it up into three ever-smaller pockets held by different rebel groups.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-19T06:58:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions addresses the California Peace Officers' Association at the 26th Annual Law Enforcement Legislative Day in Sacramento March 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-19T07:02:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Choe Kang Il, a senior North Korean diplomat handling North American affairs, is seen at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing Sunday. Cho is heading to Finland for talks with the U.S. and South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/business/gop-lawmakers-suspect-privacy-breach-trump-campaign-consultancys-access-facebook-data-50-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T10:05:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia in 2012. Facebook suspended Cambridge Analytica, a data-analysis firm that worked for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, over allegations that it held onto improperly obtained user data after telling Facebook it had deleted the information.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-popularity-ticks-amid-appeal-white-men-50-pollees-want-democrats-retake-congress-40-favor-gop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T10:08:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump talks with reporters during a meeting Thursday with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. In a series of blistering tweets on Saturday, MTrump falsely asserted that the House Intelligence Committee has concluded there was no collusion between his presidential campaign and Russia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/asia-pacific/hundreds-flee-australian-wildfires-destroy-homes-kill-cattle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T10:28:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A house thats has been destroyed by a bushfire can be seen near the town of Cobden, located southwest of Melbourne in Australia Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/business/economy-business/45-u-s-trade-groups-urge-trump-not-slap-tariffs-china-biz-rift-widens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T13:03:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-19T14:09:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull shakes hands with Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-ordered-white-house-officials-sign-nondisclosure-agreements-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T14:45:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump waves after the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon at the Capitol in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/chinas-silver-fox-foreign-minister-former-ambassador-japan-promoted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T16:12:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gestures to journalists at a news conference on the sidelines of the National People's Congress at the media center in Beijing on March 8. Wang appeared to blame the U.S. and its allies for stirring up trouble in the South China Sea, which is claimed in all or in part by China and five other governments.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/national/top-security-advisers-japan-u-s-south-korea-vow-closer-teamwork-north-san-francisco-powwow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T16:21:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/18/national/sumo-association-reveals-two-fresh-cases-physical-abuse-among-wrestlers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T16:37:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takayoshitoshi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/business/corporate-business/u-s-regulators-probe-south-korean-automakers-hyundai-kia-crash-fatalities-injuries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T16:55:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hyundai Santa Fe sport utility vehicles stand on display during a launch event for an updated model in Goyang, South Korea, on Feb. 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/business/china-selects-new-economic-team-xi-kicks-off-second-term/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T18:01:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liu He]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/national/crime-legal/japanese-man-gets-life-term-murdering-two-kitakyushu-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T18:09:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/18/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-says-japan-may-not-get-ticket-pyongyang-pressure-policy-continues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T18:15:57+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/2018/03/19/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/top-south-korean-diplomat-says-kim-given-word-nukes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T18:49:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha meets with Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan on Friday at the State Department in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/national/crime-legal/tokyo-police-officer-quits-allegedly-giving-yakuza-dating-investigative-info/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T19:27:47+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/business/economy-business/japan-logs-goods-trade-surplus-%c2%a53-4-billion-february/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T20:30:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[JFE Steel Corp.'s factory is seen in Kawasaki, near Tokyo. Japan's exports in February grew 1.8 percent compared to the same month a year ago, according to the Finance Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/business/tech/apples-secret-project-replacing-samsung-screens-house-microled-displays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T20:36:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-apple-a-20180320.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple's screen development and manufacturing facility, in Santa Clara, California, looks ordinary enough. Inside, Apple is making its own device displays for the first time.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/national/sumo-wrestler-pulls-spring-grand-sumo-tournament-admitting-beating-junior-grappler/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T20:37:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takayoshitoshi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/gop-senators-warn-trump-not-end-russia-probe-saying-jeopardize-presidency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T21:36:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This combination of pictures created on Jan. 8 shows then-FBI Director Robert Mueller (left) in 2013 and U.S. President Donald Trump last December. Trump on Sunday intensified his attacks on Mueller's Russia investigation as biased against him, but stopped short of targeting the special counsel — whose ouster lawmakers warned would cross a "massive red line."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/world/opcw-inspectors-analyze-toxin-used-former-russian-spy-eu-backs-britain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T23:17:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles enter the Porton Down science park that houses the Ministry of Defence's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in the village of Porton, near Salisbury, in England on Monday where samples collected in connection with the investigation into an apparent nerve agent attack in Salisbury were analysed. Investigators from the international Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons were due to visit Britain the same day to collect samples of the nerve agent used.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/national/social-issues/cult-prevention-group-seeks-stay-execution-brainwashed-former-aum-shinrikyo-members/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-19T23:26:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takashi Yamaguchi, board member at the Japan Society for Cult Prevention and Recovery, holds up a petition sent to the Justice Ministry last week, requesting that the lives of the 12 former Aum members on death row be spared, at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/world/social-issues-world/italy-seizes-charitys-ship-picked-migrants-refused-turn-libya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T06:22:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Spanish NGO's Proactiva Open Arms vessel is seen at harbor at the port of Pozzallo, in the southern Italian island of Sicily, Monday. The NGO's migrant rescue ship has been put under sequester by prosecutors' orders Sunday in Pozzallo, where the vessel brought 216 migrants it had rescued last week in the Mediterranean north of Libya.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/business/tech/female-pedestrian-dies-arizona-hit-uber-self-driving-suv-prompting-halt-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T07:03:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Monday still image taken from video provided by ABC-15 shows investigators at the scene of a fatal accident involving a self driving Uber car on the street in Tempe, Arizona. Police in Tempe said Monday that the vehicle was in autonomous mode with an operator behind the wheel when the woman walking outside of a crosswalk was hit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-top-court-rejects-arizona-bid-bar-dreamers-getting-drivers-licenses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T07:17:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters who call for an immigration bill addressing the so-called Dreamers, young adults who were brought to the United States as children, rally on Capitol Hill in Washington in December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/business/tenant-group-alleges-kushner-cos-falsified-permits-launches-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T07:21:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A building in the Queens borough of New York is pictured after being mentioned in an investigation announced into buildings owned by the Kushner Companies, which had allegedly falsified work permits with the City's Department of Buildings, in New York Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/release-detained-americans-not-precondition-kim-trump-summit-sweden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T07:31:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom talks to journalists on Friday in the Swedish house of parliment in Stockholm, to comment on her meeting with the North Korean foreign minister the day before.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/world/science-health-world/migration-due-climate-surge-2050-unless-emissions-curbed-world-bank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T09:22:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A local community volunteer carries a sack of seeds distributed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the opposition-controlled town of Thonyor, in Leer county, South Sudan, last April. The wave of refugees fleeing crop failures, droughts and rising sea levels will grow drastically over the next three decades if world governments do not intervene, the World Bank warned Monday. By 2050, 143 million "climate migrants" will face an "existential threat" and be displaced, the World Bank said in a new report.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/business/u-k-bags-brexit-transition-deal-avoid-2019-cliff-edge-return-irish-vow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T09:26:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-brexit-a-20180321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brexit protesters wave flags made up of a European Union flags (left and right), British Union flags, also known as a Union Jack (center top), and a national flag of Wales, outside the Houses of Parliament in London on Monday. The U.K. clinched a deal that will buy it time in Brexit talks in a move the European Union's chief negotiator hailed as a decisive step. But it's all still contingent on finding a solution to the most intractable issue of all — the Irish border.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/national/politics-diplomacy/caroline-kennedy-sees-okinawa-key-security-ties-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T09:28:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/cambridge-analytica-stage-managed-kenyan-presidents-campaigns-u-k-tv/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T10:47:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/national/refurbished-tower-sun-symbol-osaka-worlds-fair-reopens-crowds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T11:54:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People check out the artworks of Taro Okamoto inside the newly refurbished "Tower of the Sun" in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Monday. The tower has reopened for the first time since Expo '70.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/national/golden-bras-put-three-taiwan-women-behind-bars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T11:58:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Golden bowls smuggled into Japan via the bras of three Taiwanese women is shown in this photo from the Hokkaido Prefectural Police.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/national/crime-legal/smartphone-using-truck-driver-caused-fatal-shiga-pileup-gets-double-term-demanded-prosecutors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T12:38:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A truck driver who caused a fatal pileup in November while using a smartphone on an expressway in Taga, Shiga Prefecture, was given a harsher sentence than prosecutors sought on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/national/aichi-finds-wartime-elementary-school-teaching-materials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T13:24:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20180320.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wartime education materials for elementary schools recommend pupils visit injured soldiers and pay their respects to the fallen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/world/cambridge-analytica-ceo-offered-ensnare-politicians-dirty-tricks-campaign-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T14:04:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alexander Nix]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/national/crime-legal/1995-aum-sarin-attack-tokyo-subway-still-haunts-leaving-questions-unanswered/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T15:10:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aum-a-20180320.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Victims are treated in front of Tsukiji Station in Tokyo after the sarin gas attack by Aum Shinrikyo on the Tokyo subway system on March 20, 1995. The attack killed 13 people and injured more than 6,200.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/national/crime-legal/u-s-plaintiffs-involved-fukushima-disaster-relief-seek-1-billion-damages-nuclear-meltdowns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T15:52:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/national/hakodate-court-rejects-plea-injunction-halt-construction-oma-mox-plant-aomori/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T16:25:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Oma nuclear plant (right) is shown under construction Monday in the town of Oma, Aomori Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/business/corporate-business/toyota-sell-ethanol-fueled-hybrids-brazil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T16:57:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. unveils a prototype of the world's first hybrid vehicle to run on ethanol, in Brazil on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/national/politics-diplomacy/xis-stronger-influence-may-change-asean-policy-toward-japan-diplomats-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T17:57:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang  greet former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli (bottom center) and former National People's Congress chairman Zhang Dejiang (bottom right) after the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/national/first-time-half-japans-elderly-now-aged-75-older/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T18:03:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/business/legal-making-sense-worlds-cryptocurrency-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T18:59:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/business/economy-business/meti-kicks-off-studying-putting-flying-cars-practical-use-japan-plays-catchup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T20:13:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The industry ministry began research on flying cars Monday in an effort to steer them toward practical use sometime in the 2020s.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/asia-pacific/u-s-south-korea-military-drills-resume-despite-thaw-nuclear-armed-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T20:15:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Army and South Korean soldiers take positions during the annual Foal Eagle joint military exercise at the Rodriquez Multi-Purpose Range Complex in Pocheon, South Korea, in March 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/business/g-20-pushes-free-trade-u-s-vows-defend-national-interests-readies-china-tariffs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T20:20:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan's Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda (left), Finance Vice -Minister Minoru Kihara (center) and Brazilian Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles pose for a "family photo" at the G-20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, in Buenos Aires, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/national/politics-diplomacy/emboldened-dive-polls-opposition-camp-raises-calls-akie-abe-testify-moritomo-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T21:44:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abe-a-20180320.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is still being dogged by a cronyism scandal involving school operator Moritomo Gakuen, is seen at the Upper House Budget Committee on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/xi-launch-voice-china-broadcaster-boost-global-image/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T22:17:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Delegates applaud as China's President Xi Jinping walks past after he delivered a speech during the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/world/u-k-investigates-facebook-data-breach-plans-raid-cambridge-analytica/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T22:17:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f-ukfacebook-a-20180321.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past the offices of Cambridge Analytica in central London on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/national/politics-diplomacy/moritomo-scandal-ruling-bloc-yields-opposition-calls-diet-testimony-former-tax-agency-head/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T23:15:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-sagawa-a-20180321.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuhisa Sagawa]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/business/exemption-escalation-japans-options-u-s-metals-tariffs-set-applied-friday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T23:15:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/b-steeljapan-z-20180321.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stockpiles of raw materials including iron ore sit at the JFE Steel Corp. plant in Chiba on March 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/national/saga-district-court-rejects-bid-suspend-restart-nuclear-reactors-genkai-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T23:16:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-genkai-a-20180321.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-genkai-a-20180321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinichi Tanoue, a lawyer for plaintiffs seeking to halt the restart of two reactors at the Genkai nuclear power plant, speaks during a gathering on Tuesday in Saga after a district court backed the restarts.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/national/23-jump-year-japan-sees-record-number-foreign-visitors-february/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-20T23:18:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-tourism-z-20180321.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tourism-z-20180321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians stroll past early blooming cherry blossoms in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/21/world/stephen-hawking-join-isaac-newton-charles-darwin-final-resting-place/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T06:38:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hawking-a-20180322.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Physicist Stephen Hawking sits on stage during an announcement of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative with investor Yuri Milner in New York in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/21/business/industries-scramble-exemptions-amid-looming-trump-one-two-punch-tariffs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T09:29:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Treasury secretary, listens during a press conference at the G-20 Summit in Buenos Aires on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/21/business/cambridge-analyticas-board-suspends-ceo-alexander-nix-pending-inquiry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T09:31:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nix-a-20180322.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alexander Nix, chief executive officer of Cambridge Analytica, leaves the company's offices in London Tuesday. The company's board said it suspended Nix, effective immediately, while an independent investigation is conducted.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/21/world/crime-legal-world/trump-faces-prospect-deposition-apprentice-ex-contestants-groping-suit-proceeds-new-york/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T09:37:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-zervos-a-20180322.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Summer Zervos, a former contestant on "The Apprentice," leaves New York State Supreme Court with attorney Gloria Allred after a hearing on the defamation case against U.S. President Donald Trump in Manhattan, New York City, Dec. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/21/world/crime-legal-world/23-expelled-russian-diplomats-leave-britain-nerve-agent-crisis-23-alleged-spies-also-get-boot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T11:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f-russboot-a-20180322.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-russboot-a-20180322.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian diplomats' family members ordered to leave Britain as part of a standoff over a nerve agent attack on British soil, leave the gate of the Vnukovo 2 government airport outside Moscow Tuesday. Nearly two dozen Russian diplomats expelled by Britain over the poisoning of an ex-spy arrived home Tuesday, while a scientist involved in the creation of the nerve agent said it could be manufactured by other countries.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/21/world/crime-legal-world/trump-slams-sick-people-texas-bombings-fifth-blast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T12:58:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman is overcome with emotion as she watches a massive response by law enforcement officers at the bomb explosion site at a Goodwill store in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/21/world/tsa-says-not-search-travelers-devices-content/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T13:58:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-tsa-a-20180322.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travelers wait in line before going through Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screening at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington in November.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/21/world/trump-boost-exports-lethal-drones-u-s-allies-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T14:09:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f-drones-a-20180322.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-drones-a-20180322.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Kratos Mako drone is shown in this undated photo provided Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/21/world/social-issues-world/macron-says-much-english-spoken-pre-brexit-brussels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T15:16:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f-macroneigo-a-20180322.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-macroneigo-a-20180322.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech to unveil his strategy to promote the French language as part of the International Francophonie Day, before members of the French Academy and other guests, at the French Institute in Paris on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/21/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-host-early-may-summit-china-south-korea-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T16:09:53+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/peru-opposition-alleges-vote-buying-keep-president-pedro-pablo-kuczynski-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T16:55:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f-peru-a-20180322.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peru President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski participates in a military event at Rimac army headquarters in Lima on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/21/business/tech/toyota-halts-robot-car-tests-wake-crash-arizona/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T16:55:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/b-toyota-a-20180322.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toyota-a-20180322.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Toyota Motor Corp. has stopped testing its self-driving system, as seen installed in this picture, on U.S. public roads.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/national/crime-legal/syrian-asylum-seekers-bid-refugee-status-rejected-tokyo-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T17:36:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-syria-a-20180321.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-syria-a-20180321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joude Youssef speaks at a news conference on Tuesday after a ruling by the Tokyo District Court did not qualify him and other plaintiffs for refugee status]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vice Finance Minister Minoru Kihara and Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda attend a news conference at the Group of 20 meeting of finance chiefs in Buenos Aires on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Pension Service chief Toichiro Mizushima (left) speaks to the media in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeff Sessions, U.S. attorney general, listens during a law enforcement roundtable on sanctuary cities with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-22T06:47:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigate at the Sunset Valley FedEx store located on Brodie Lane in Austin, Texas, which is linked to the package bomb that exploded on a conveyor belt in the sorting facility in Schertz, Texas, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The shared building that houses the offices of Cambridge Analytica are pictured in central London on Wednesday. The academic behind the app that harvested data from 50 million Facebook users said Wednesday he was being used as a scapegoat in the row over online privacy. Aleksandr Kogan said that British firm Cambridge Analytica, which is at the center of a major scandal rocking Facebook, assured him that what he was doing was "perfectly legal and within the terms of service" of the social media giant.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-22T11:06:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeff Sessions, U.S. attorney general, listens during a law enforcement roundtable on sanctuary cities with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (right) and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov attend a news conference after a meeting at the Iikura House in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-22T12:11:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students from Fukushima's Futaba Future High School meet diplomats, staff and youth representatives at the United Nations in New York on March 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-22T12:52:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-22T13:44:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski addresses the nation as he resigns at the Presidential Palace in Lima Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-22T16:25:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Assembly in China accounts for just a few percent of the cost of an iPhone.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-22T16:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, speaks during the International Space Station Research and Development Conference in Washington on July 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-22T16:44:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-22T16:49:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-22T16:50:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers work toward 13 mountain climbers trapped in the Okutama area of western Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/22/national/crime-legal/zama-man-confessed-killing-dismembering-nine-people-served-10th-arrest-warrant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-22T16:59:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-22T17:03:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-22T17:55:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Hinomaru flies outside Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. A survey shows that three-quarters of Japan's companies say the BOJ needs to exit from its radical monetary easing policy but most do not see that happening until next year or beyond.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-22T17:57:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-22T18:54:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children push a newly introduced touch-panel traffic light switch in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward last month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In an aim to prevent money laundering, the government is considering requiring casino operators to report on exchanges by visitors of chips for cash and vice versa worth ¥1 million yen or more, when Japan launches integrated resorts — set to include casinos.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/world/crime-legal-world/investigators-scour-texas-bombers-home-searching-motive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T06:37:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-conditt-a-20180324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ATF crime scene investigators and law inforcement personnel gather evidence at the home of suspected bomber Mark Anthony Conditt on Thursday in Pflugerville, Texas. The man suspected of carrying out a series of bombings in Austin blew himself up on Wednesday, leaving behind a recorded video "confession" that police said portrayed "challenges in his personal life."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/business/strikes-halt-trains-ground-flights-spark-clashes-across-france-challenge-macron-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T06:37:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Youths protect themselves from a police water canon during a demonstration Thursday in Paris. Trains, planes, schools and other public services across France were seriously disrupted Thursday as unions set up dozens of street protests across the country. Paris protest was mostly peaceful, but some localized scuffles broke out between some violent protesters wearing black hoods and riot police.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/house-republicans-vote-release-russia-report-ending-probe-denying-motions-democrats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T10:58:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., followed by Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, and Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas (far left) leave the secure area where the panel was wrapping up its inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/22/business/corporate-business/lawson-chief-bets-health-tech-future-convenience/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T11:37:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawson Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Sadanobu Takemasu is interviewed by The Japan Times  at his office in Tokyo earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/world/new-post-brexit-british-passport-made-franco-dutch-firm-de-la-rue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T11:45:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handout photograph shows the original “blue” British passport — subsequently replaced by the burgundy EU British passport — supplied by the U.K. government in London, Britain, March 22, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/asia-pacific/china-building-arctic-expedition-cruise-ship-polar-silk-road/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T11:48:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-23T12:37:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and then-U.S. President Barack Obama meet in Hawaii in December 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/22/business/corporate-business/demand-used-luxury-items-prompts-japan-pawnshop-startup-launch-ipo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T12:49:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/b-pawn-a-20180323.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sou Inc., a startup pawnshop firm that buys secondhand bags and other luxury brand goods like these to supply other resale shops, went public Thursday on the TSE's Mothers section.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/world/millions-hungry-2017-amid-famine-conflict-report-says-numbers-rising/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T15:02:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/22/national/crime-legal/former-worker-sentenced-death-killing-3-kawasaki-nursing-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T15:29:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-23T16:03:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-23T16:04:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A plastic sample collected in 2015 by the Ocean Cleanup Campaign.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/national/crime-legal/ftc-files-criminal-complaint-four-tokyo-osaka-maglev-contractors-alleged-bid-rigging/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T16:15:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction work at Shinagawa Station for the maglev train project is seen in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/national/politics-diplomacy/trumps-twin-blows-japan-test-limit-abes-charm-offensive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T16:36:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as they observe an honor guard at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo during Trump's November visit to Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/business/polar-silk-road-greenlands-courting-china-airport-projects-worries-denmark/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T16:36:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A general view shows the port of Nuuk, Greenland, in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/22/business/corporate-business/low-cost-carriers-peach-vanilla-merge-2019-ana/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T17:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers use Peach Aviation's check-in machines at Narita airport in July 2014. ANA on Thursday said it plans to combine Peach and fellow low-cost carrier Vanilla Air by fiscal 2020.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/business/economy-business/boj-deputy-governor-seeks-stronger-policy-drive-inflation-price-gains-remain-tepid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T17:42:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/business/economy-business/bank-japan-gets-halfway-inflation-target-stronger-yen-clouds-outlook/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T17:45:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/business/corporate-business/qb-net-launches-initial-public-offering-budget-barbershop-operations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T18:04:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/b-qbhouse-a-20180324.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[QB Net Holdings Co. CEO Yasuo Kitano rings the bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange to celebrate the company's listing on Friday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/indonesia-shadowy-campaign-attacks-islamist-stokes-unrest-elections-loom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T18:05:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-shadonesia-a-20180324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bandung Major Ridwan Kamil, who is front-runner to become governor of West Java province but has been targeted by online hoax stories labeling him an infidel, waves with his wife, Atalia Kamil, to reporters from his car in Bandung on Jan. 20.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/world/social-issues-world/russias-moment-puts-lawmakers-focus-amid-media-boycott/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T18:05:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f-slutsky-a-20180324.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian lawmaker Leonid Slutsky speaks in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, on March 20, 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/no-laughing-matter-china-regulator-bans-tv-parodies-amid-content-crackdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T18:06:11+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/national/reactor-sagas-genkai-nuclear-plant-back-online-seven-year-hiatus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T18:06:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-genkai-a-20180324.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester holds up a sign saying "Let's create a society without nuclear power plants!" in front of the Genkai plant in Genkai, Saga Prefecture, on Friday as its No. 3 reactor was put back online.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/business/china-plans-reciprocal-tariffs-3-billion-u-s-imports-trump-move-threatens-wto-legal-action/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T18:08:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/b-china-a-20180324.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-china-a-20180324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump listens as Archbishop Demetrios of America, elder archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (not pictured), speaks during a Greek Independence Day celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday. Trump took his boldest step to level the economic playing field with China, ordering sweeping tariffs on Chinese goods in a move that could escalate already tense trade relations between the world's two biggest economies.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/national/education-ministry-works-curb-excessive-overtime-teachers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T18:18:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/national/tourism-industry-tailors-services-well-heeled-visitors-overseas-looks-boost-numbers-revenue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T18:29:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tourism-a-20180324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A special outlet run by JTB Corp in Tokyo's upscale Ginza district offers luxury travel services. The major travel agency is hoping to attract more foreign customers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/national/key-surviving-japans-hay-fever-season-may-toilet-stall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T18:54:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toilet paper produced by Hayashi Paper Manufacturing in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, comes with descriptions and illustrations advising on how to deal with the symptoms of hay fever.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/22/national/politics-diplomacy/key-ldp-panel-agrees-pursue-abes-proposed-amendment-japans-pacifist-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T19:19:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-ldp-a-20180323.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ldp-a-20180323.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroyuki Hosoda, who heads the Liberal Democratic Party's panel for discussing constitutional amendments, speaks at a meeting on Thursday at the party's headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/business/corporate-business/japan-post-launch-cold-storage-parcel-service-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T19:22:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/business/nem-stolen-coincheck-may-exchanged-cryptocurrencies-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T19:24:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/b-coincheck-a-20180324.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-coincheck-a-20180324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Major cryptocurrency exchange operator Coincheck Inc. submits its second business improvement plan to the Financial Services Agency on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/business/indian-airliner-makes-history-flying-israel-via-saudi-airspace-el-al-still-shut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T19:26:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/b-airspace-a-20180324.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-airspace-a-20180324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing 787 flight number AI139 of Indian national carrier Air India, from New Delhi, arries on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport on the outskirts of Tel Aviv on Thursday after using for the first time Saudi airspace.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/20/national/politics-diplomacy/education-minister-denies-ldp-lawmakers-pursuing-kake-scandal-whistleblower/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T20:32:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-maekawa-a-20180321.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-maekawa-a-20180321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kihei Maekawa]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-komeito-odds-casino-resort-rules-dashing-deadline-hopes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T21:03:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-casinodebate-a-20180324.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-casinodebate-a-20180324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, Komeito, remain split over details on the nation's plan to establish casinos.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/national/crime-legal/nagoya-high-court-upholds-life-sentence-ax-wielding-strangler-wanted-see-people-die/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T21:04:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-nagoyaruling-a-20180324.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nagoyaruling-a-20180324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up Friday morning in front of the Nagoya High Court to get tickets to a sentencing hearing for a former Nagoya University student convicted of murder.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/business/washington-snubs-japan-exemptions-60-billion-tariffs-targeting-china-rattle-markets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T21:38:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/b-japantariff-a-20180324.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japantariff-a-20180324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump signs a presidential memorandum targeting China's economic aggression, in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/national/japan-drops-charges-foreign-crewmen-deadly-uss-fitzgerald-acx-crystal-collision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T22:59:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/national/politics-diplomacy/kagoike-certain-akie-abe-spoke-favorably-moritomo-land-deal-lawmakers-say-detention-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T23:10:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/business/corporate-business/new-york-university-launch-new-program-bringing-entrepreneurial-skills-agility-japans-changing-workforce/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-24T11:44:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/b-nyu-a-20180324.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nyu-a-20180324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dennis Di Lorenzo]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin prepares to approach fleet replenishment oiler USNS Rappahannock in the western Pacific Ocean last May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/24/national/japans-help-improving-regional-connectivity-hailed-mekong-forum/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-24T14:03:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump holds his signed memorandum on tariffs on high-tech goods from China at the White House on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-24T14:55:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-24T14:58:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-24T14:59:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-24T15:13:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A collection of bitcoin tokens sit in this arranged photograph in London in January 2017. Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by traded value, is planning to open an office in Malta.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-24T15:36:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-24T16:10:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyu Corp.'s Setagaya Line streetcars decorated with maneki-neko cats run through Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, in a photo taken in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-24T16:15:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-24T23:00:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iwao Hakamada (left) plays shogi with the director of "Gokutomo" ("Friends in Prison"), Kim Sung Woong.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-24T22:59:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Living memory: An analyst quoted in Bungei Shunju magazine estimates 10 million would die in a nuclear war in the region, devastation reminiscent of Japan's circa 1945.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-24T22:58:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Talking points: A blog post on Medium has sparked debate about Japan's office culture, with some highlighting the constant meetings that are typically a regular part of work.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-25T13:29:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inui Street reopened to the public on Saturday, allowing people to enjoy the blooming cherry blossoms on the grounds of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-25T13:30:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-25T17:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-25T17:43:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-25T18:39:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A demonstrator holds a sign on New York's 6th Avenue during the March For Our Lives on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-25T19:27:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Peach Aviation Ltd. passenger jet is towed by a truck after two of its tires went flat after landing at Fukuoka airport Saturday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/25/national/politics-diplomacy/kyoto-gubernatorial-race-puts-focus-demographic-economic-challenges-come/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-25T20:09:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takatoshi Nishiwaki]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-25T21:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leads a banzai cheer at the end of the Liberal Democratic Party's convention in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-25T21:49:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seven climbers, linked together with a rope, fell from the southern ridge of Mt. Amida, Nagano Prefecture, shown above, on Sunday, leaving three dead, police said.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-25T22:37:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-25T22:39:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/25/national/saitama-find-homestays-families-tokyo-2020-athletes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-25T23:09:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-25T23:09:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/26/business/steve-mnuchin-says-trump-isnt-afraid-trade-war-china-iowa-farmers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-26T06:35:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks during a fireside chat on tax reform at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, last Nobember. Mnuchin on Sunday insisted President Trump intends to implement $60 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports, saying the measures will benefit the economy long-term. Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Mnuchin said unless a deal is reached with China, Trump will implement the tariffs targeting sectors in which Washington says Beijing has stolen American technology.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/26/business/uber-sell-southeast-asia-business-rival-grab-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-26T06:40:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-26T06:46:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas in 2014. President Donald Trump's pick of Bolton for his next national security adviser stirred up the same burning question Friday in Washington as in anxious foreign capitals: Just how much will his hawkish, confrontational approach rub off on Trump?]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-26T09:18:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono speaks with Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Sunday in Hong Kong.]]></image:caption>
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