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		<lastmod>2018-03-26T18:36:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-26T19:47:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The GBLT998, the newest version of Spring Drive Eichi II in 18k rose gold under Seiko's luxury Credor brand.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers search a ship believed to have been used to smuggle 206 kg of gold into Japan at a port in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-26T21:19:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-26T21:31:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on Feb. 24, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/26/national/social-issues/japan-tries-tackle-health-problems-aging-homeless/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-26T21:32:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government says it has counted 5,534 people across Japan as living on the streets or along riverbanks as of January 2017, with many of them in urban areas such as central Tokyo's 23 wards and the city of Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-26T22:03:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a joint news conference with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on Feb. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-26T22:44:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/26/national/sumo-chairman-vows-eliminate-violence-surrounding-sport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-26T22:51:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku holds a news conference Monday after he was elected to a third term head of the JSA.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/27/world/passenger-tripped-emergency-fuel-shutoff-fatal-nyc-tourism-copter-fell-east-river-pilot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T09:27:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A helicopter is hoisted by crane March 12 from the East River onto a barge in New York, after crashing the previous day. The pilot told federal investigators that he believed the aircraft's fuel was cut off when a passenger's restraint tether tangled with an emergency fuel cutoff switch. The pilot told the National Transportation Safety Board that he went to flip off the switch because the craft was going down, but discovered that it was already off and that part of the harness was underneath it.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/27/business/white-house-investigating-loans-jared-kushners-business-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T11:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House Senior adviser Jared Kushner attends a meeting in Beijing last November. The head of the federal government's ethics agency says the White House is looking into whether up to $500 million that went to Kushner's family real estate company may have spurred ethics or criminal law violations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/27/world/fbi-probing-suspicious-packages-found-u-s-installations-d-c-explosive-residue-found/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T11:01:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[National Defense University is seen in a general view at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., in a 2011 photo provided by the Department of Defense Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/26/national/toyohashi-man-93-oldest-summit-fuji-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T11:42:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masashi Toyoda poses for a photo at Okumiya Shrine at the top of Mount Fuji in July 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/26/national/crime-legal/owners-cellphones-tv-capability-obliged-pay-nhk-high-court-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T11:58:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo High Court ruled Monday that owners of cellphones with a television function must pay the NHK subscription fee .]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/26/national/peak-season-tourism-boom-producing-long-lines-narita-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T12:50:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A massive line at Narita airport's border control area contrasts with the shorter one for Japanese in this photo by @younyaf on Twitter on Sunday. Some Twitter users claimed they waited for about three hours.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/26/national/politics-diplomacy/wife-japans-prime-minister-finds-scandal-spotlight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T13:55:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akie Abe has been thrust into the spotlight due to her suspected links with Moritomo Gakuen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/26/national/crime-legal/year-chiba-slaying-vietnamese-girls-dad-hopes-similar-tragedy-never-happens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T13:56:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo of Le Thi Nhat Linh is placed at the site where her body was found just over a year ago in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/27/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/high-ranking-north-korean-official-believed-visiting-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T14:14:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese military honor guard is seen marching away late Monday after a convoy of vehicles entered the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, where top North Korean leaders have been known to stay on previous trips to Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/27/world/war-crimes-evidence-syria-overwhelming-not-can-pursued-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T14:32:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Syrian woman and a child are seen in the village of Qalaat al-Madiq, some 45 kilometers northwest of the central city of Hama, on Monday, as evacuations from eastern Ghouta continue following a deal that was announced earlier in the week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/27/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/vatican-china-talk-taiwan-looks-nervously/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T15:07:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bicyclist passes the Vatican's nunciature, or embassy, in Taipei on March 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/27/asia-pacific/kim-jong-un-john-bolton-take-different-lessons-libya-gadhafis-fall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T15:22:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un greets a member of a South Korean special delegation at a dinner in Pyongyang in this photo released March 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/27/national/japans-top-diplomat-taro-kono-mulls-attending-nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T15:23:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/27/national/russia-lifts-ban-japan-seafood-adopted-fukushima-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T15:26:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/27/national/nobel-peace-prize-laureate-muhammad-yunus-visits-hiroshima-peace-park/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T15:45:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/27/national/emperor-empress-visit-okinawa-commemorate-war-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T15:50:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/27/national/crime-legal/north-korean-skipper-gets-suspended-sentence-theft-japanese-island/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T15:58:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masami Sato, head of the Hokkaido fishery cooperative whose hut was found ransacked in November, speaks to reporters in front of the Hakodate District Court on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-27T16:02:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop speak to the media during a Tuesday news conference at Parliament House, Canberra.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 4R Energy Corp. employee checks a used lithium-ion electric vehicle battery during a demonstration at a 4R Energy Corp. factory in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, during a media tour on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence selects desired meal combinations of main and side dishes and soup ﷯on Ajinomoto Co.'s free recipe website.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ambassadors to Japan from the ASEAN member states, Secretary-General of the ASEAN-Japan Centre Masataka Fujita, ERIA President Hidetoshi Nishimura and panelists with Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan Toshihiro Nikai at the ASEAN 50th Anniversary Symposium IV held in Tokyo on March 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-27T17:21:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Representatives of parties to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, including Minister of economic revitalization Toshimitsu Motegi (right) and Mexico's Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, attend the agreement signing ceremony in Santiago, Chile, March 8.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin's helicopter flies near St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow while preparing to land at the Kremlin on Monday. The Kremlin has insisted that Moscow is innocent in the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal after the U.S. and several other countries expelled Russian diplomats over the case.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-27T17:50:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-27T18:15:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A performer beats a Japanese drum at Club Piccadilly in Osaka's Umeda district on March 2. The show was one of seven projects to receive prefectural government subsidies to encourage foreign tourists to attend nighttime events.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/27/national/history/tsushima-island-key-conduit-japans-edo-period-trade-korea/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsushima residents re-enact trips to the island by ancient Korean envoys at a February event celebrating the UNESCO registration of records of the visits.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/27/business/ruling-parties-agree-casino-visit-restrictions-japan-residents/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-27T18:20:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-27T20:21:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force 1st Airborne Brigade take part in an annual new year military exercise at the Narashino exercise field in Funabashi, east of Tokyo, in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-27T20:22:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kagashiya is one of many stores in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, that has put up Korean-language signs to attract some of the 350,000 annual tourists from South Korea, which can be seen from the northern tip of the island.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former National Tax Agency chief Nobuhisa Sagawa, a key figure in a cronyism scandal that has sparked a political crisis for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, raises his hand as he testifies at the Upper House of the Diet in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-27T22:50:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this image taken from video, Chris Wylie gives evidence to the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee's inquiry into fake news  on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-28T03:52:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono greets his Canadian counterpart Chrystia Freeland during their talks at a Tokyo hotel on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-28T06:17:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An attendee holds her new country's flag and her naturalization papers as she is sworn in during a U.S. citizenship ceremony in Los Angeles last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-28T06:18:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[William Strampel (left), a former dean at Michigan State University and former supervisor of convicted USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, i" arraigned by video for "Criminal Sexual Conduct' involving medical students, by Judge Richard D. Ball, in 54B District Court in East Lansing, Michigan, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ecuador Interior Minister Cesar Navas addresses the media after two Ecuadorean reporters and their driver were kidnapped near the Colombian border, in Quito Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-28T10:57:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-28T10:58:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-28T11:04:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-28T11:05:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-28T11:51:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-28T12:04:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bitcoin logo is seen on an advertisement of an electronic shop in Tokyo last September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/27/business/economy-business/redevelopment-hotel-demand-lift-commercial-land-prices-outside-japans-major-metropolitan-areas-first-time-26-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-28T12:05:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-land-a-20180328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commercial land prices outside Japan's major metropolitan areas rose in 2017 for the first time in 26 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/28/business/economy-business/u-s-south-korea-revise-trade-pact-currency-side-deal-autos-concessions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-28T13:04:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/28/business/tech/apple-takes-google-education-cheaper-ipad-new-software/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-28T16:01:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-28T17:27:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands in Beijing in this photo provided Wednesday. The Chinese government has confirmed that Kim visited Beijing and met with Xi in his first known trip to a foreign country since he took power in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/28/business/corporate-business/nippon-paint-shareholders-approve-handing-board-majority-wuthelam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-28T17:30:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-28T18:18:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20180329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., shakes hands with Mohammad bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's crown prince, after signing an agreement in New York on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/28/business/financial-markets/dollar-caps-around-%c2%a5105-50-tokyo-u-s-stock-slump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-28T19:21:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/28/national/defying-criticism-taiji-pushes-forward-with-bold-plans-based-on-continued-dolphin-hunts/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-taiji-a-20180329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A dolphin leaps in its pen in Moriura Bay in this undated photo. The town is gradually converting the bay into a large dolphin attraction..]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/28/national/politics-diplomacy/day-sagawas-testimony-things-stand-japans-moritomo-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-28T21:34:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuhisa Sagawa, former head of the financial bureau at the Finance Ministry, testifies during an Upper House budget committee session on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/28/asia-pacific/historic-meeting-leaders-north-korea-china-shore-leverage-kim-trump-talks-loom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-28T22:50:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toasts with Chinese President Xi Jinping during an unofficial visit to Beijing in this undated photo released Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/28/world/crime-legal-world/two-cops-wont-charged-fatal-2016-baton-rouge-shooting-black-man-pinned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-28T23:32:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this July 5, 2016, image made from video, Alton Sterling is restrained by two Baton Rouge police officers, one holding a gun, outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Moments later, one of the officers shot and killed Sterling, a black man who had been selling CDs outside the store, while he was on the ground. Louisiana's attorney general has ruled out criminal charges against the two white officers in the fatal shooting.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/world/crime-legal-world/lawyer-porn-star-stormy-daniels-seeks-grill-trump-oath/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T07:05:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this image from video, Michael Avenatti, attorney and spokesman for adult film star Stormy Daniels, listens to a reporter's question during an interview at The Associated Press Wednesdayin New York. Avenatti is seeking to depose the president and his attorney. Avenatti filed the motion in federal court in California. In the documents he seeks to depose President Donald Trump and his attorney Michael Cohen about a $130,000 payment made to Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 presidential election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/world/crime-legal-world/trump-campaign-aide-rick-gates-contact-ex-russian-spy-month-election-court-filing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T07:06:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington March 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/28/national/number-foreign-residents-japan-hit-record-high-2-56-million-end-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T09:07:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-foreigners-z-20180328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Among the legal residents, those from China totaled 730,890, South Korea 450,663 and Vietnam 262,405.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/world/tens-thousands-civilians-trapped-syrian-army-readies-huge-assault-holdout-rebels-last-bastion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T09:25:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian government forces' armored infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and trucks drive past damaged buildings down a street in the eastern Ghouta town of Hazzeh on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday in the direction of the rebel-held town of Douma.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-29T09:33:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Russian Soyuz VS01 rocket, carrying the first two satellites of Europe's Galileo navigation system, blasts off from its launchpad at the Guiana Space Center in Sinnamary, French Guiana, in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/world/crime-legal-world/trump-attorney-discussed-pardons-michael-flynn-paul-manafort-lawyers-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T11:02:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attorney John Dowd walks in New York in 2011. One of President Donald Trump's attorneys floated the possibility of pardoning two of the president's former advisers caught up in the Russia probe in discussions with their lawyers last year, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The newspaper, citing three anonymous people with knowledge of the discussions, says that then-Trump attorney, John Dowd, raised the idea with attorneys for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former national security adviser Michael Flynn.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-29T13:29:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives of inmates held at the General Command of the Carabobo Police react as they wait outside the prison, where a fire occurred in the cells area, according to local media, in Valencia, Venezuela, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/asia-pacific/american-samoans-sue-u-s-seeking-birthright-citizenship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T14:06:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-29T14:10:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Materials Corp. President Akira Takeuchi (second from right) apologizes with other executives during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/world/science-health-world/nasas-tess-probe-resume-search-planets-orbiting-stars-beyond-solar-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T14:16:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will build on the work of the Kepler space telescope.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/world/science-health-world/fossils-badass-argentine-meat-eating-dinosaur-unearthed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T14:17:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tratayenia rosalesi lived in what is now Patagonia, Argentina, roughly 85 million years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/asia-pacific/will-kim-tell-country-hes-ready-give-nuclear-arms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T15:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/national/japan-modernizing-workplace-conditions-lure-new-mothers-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T15:48:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New mother Maiko Saito (left), who has returned to full-time work, says she can find more time to spend with her family now because she has become more efficient and does less overtime work.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/national/sophia-university-students-camera-found-taiwan-beach-lost-sea-two-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T16:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-camera-a-20180330.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This contributed photo shows a waterproof case enclosing a camera belonging to a Japanese student. The camera was found Tuesday on a beach in Suao Township, northern Taiwan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/28/business/corporate-business/nissan-re-enter-pakistan-market-producing-datsuns-local-manufacturer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T16:08:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Datsun emblem is displayed during a media event in India. The automaker will re-enter the Pakistani market in 2020 with local production of Datsun brand vehicles.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/28/business/corporate-business/japan-post-announces-launch-real-estate-unit-monday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T16:11:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/business/tech/facebook-cuts-ties-data-brokers-blow-targeted-ads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T17:34:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook's corporate headquarters located in Menlo Park, California, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/national/politics-diplomacy/suga-says-japan-u-s-alliance-stronger-divisive-2016-security-laws/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T18:01:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/business/luxury-complex-tokyo-midtown-hibiya-opens-arts-district/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T18:31:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Midtown Hibiya, a shopping and entertainment complex in the capital's downtown arts district, opens for business on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/business/corporate-business/nissan-renault-make-progress-rumored-merger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T19:15:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/business/toyota-suzuki-alliance-deepens-agree-sell-others-vehicles-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T19:39:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-29T19:59:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christophe Weber]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/national/takanohana-handed-fifth-demotion-sumo-world-faces-string-scandals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T20:28:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku addresses a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/national/kyoto-university-says-no-military-related-research-despite-spike-defense-ministry-funding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T20:28:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-29T22:42:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach speaks with Kim Il Guk, North Korea's Minister of Physical Culture and Sports and chairman of the nation's Olympic Committee, in Pyongyang on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/national/major-retailer-ito-yokado-ban-tenants-selling-ivory-items/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T06:34:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ivory-a-20180331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials at Haneda airport's customs and World Wildlife Fund run a campaign to warn that bringing ivory products into other countries is illegal last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-pledges-%c2%a5100-billion-loans-mumbai-subway/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T06:36:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (right) and Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj attend a mews conference in Tokyo after holding a bilateral meeting on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/business/u-s-judge-drops-exxon-suit-seeking-stop-probes-whether-misled-investors-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T09:20:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/national/seven-years-radioactive-water-fukushima-plant-still-flowing-ocean-study-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T13:27:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An aerial view of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is seen on Feb. 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/business/cryptocurrency-ai-excite-tech-confab-slush-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T13:37:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/b-slush-a-20180330.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-slush-a-20180330.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stefan Thomas, chief technology officer at Ripple, speaks during the Slush Tokyo event on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/business/corporate-business/toshiba-set-miss-deadline-%c2%a52-trillion-chip-sale-pushing-back-bain-capital-deal-least-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T14:15:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toshiba-a-20180331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. is set to miss an initial deadline to close the ¥2 trillion sale of its chip division by the end of March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/national/robots-making-inroads-japans-elder-care-facilities-costs-still-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T14:25:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-robots-b-20180331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A resident claps to call Aibo, a robotic dog, at Shintomi nursing home in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/national/gsdf-helicopter-makes-emergency-landing-tottori-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T15:14:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-chopper-a-20180330.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People surround a Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter after it made an emergency landing at Yonago Airport in Tottori Prefecture on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/business/financial-markets/bank-japans-bid-taper-stealth-made-tougher-supercharged-yen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T15:26:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20180331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan's headquarters in Tokyo. The central bank looks set to end this fiscal year well behind on its target for government bond purchases.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/business/trump-hints-may-hold-seoul-trade-deal-getting-pyongyang-denuclearize/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T15:37:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump walks down the stairs of Air Force One during his arrival at Palm Beach International Airport, in West Palm Beach, Florida,Thursday. Trump is spending the weekend at his his Mar-a-Lago estate.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/business/economy-business/recovery-car-exports-u-s-february-helps-japans-industrial-output-rise-4-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T16:43:34+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/business/bitcoin-dives-10-near-7000-dismal-quarter-nears-end/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T17:24:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bitcoin-a-20180331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A huge advertisement for bitcoin is displayed near Shibuya Station in Tokyo. The major cryptocurrency dropped as much as 10 percent Thursday, pushing it toward the $7,000 mark.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/asia-pacific/future-citizens-philippines-leading-way-green-new-clark-city-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T17:30:10+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/asia-pacific/wild-weather-worsens-philippine-migration-takes-female-face/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T17:38:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-phigration-a-20180331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Corazon Vegafria and Lettie Garcisa pose in the Philippine village of Pamantingan on March 20.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/national/law-drone-assistants-scrapped-favor-remote-observation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T18:40:45+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/national/science-health/pediatric-center-requests-ok-launch-embryonic-stem-cell-trial-liver-treatment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T18:42:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/business/long-term-plan-japan-set-confirm-renewables-major-energy-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T18:42:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/national/goal-achieve-full-barrier-free-access-major-transport-terminals-2020-olympics-adopted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T19:18:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-barrierfree-a-20180331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members from associations helping people with disabilities check the condition of the sidewalk connecting Keio Line's Tobitakyu Station in Chofu, Tokyo, and Ajinomoto Stadium, one of the venues of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, in June.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/national/japan-high-schoolers-least-obese-least-confident-three-nation-poll-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T20:43:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-highschool-z-20180331.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-highschool-z-20180331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The NIYE, a semipublic body, collectively surveyed 8,480 high school students in China, South Korea, the United States and Japan last year about their mental and physical condition.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/national/politics-diplomacy/strong-diplomacy-abe-seemingly-caught-off-guard-north-korea-trade-setbacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T21:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-abediplomacy-a-20180331.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abediplomacy-a-20180331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has faced major diplomatic setbacks in recent weeks.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/national/preferential-visa-system-extended-foreign-fourth-generation-japanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T21:00:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-visa-z-20180331.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-visa-z-20180331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new program will allow ethnic Japanese between 18 and 30 who have basic Japanese skills to work in Japan for up to five years.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/national/south-korea-condemns-japans-renewed-claim-disputed-islets-summons-diplomat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T21:03:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-takeshima-a-20180331.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-takeshima-a-20180331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Yasumasa Nagamine enters the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/seoul-raced-conclude-u-s-trade-deal-ahead-north-korea-denuclearization-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-31T00:01:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f-uskoreatrade-a-20180331.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-uskoreatrade-a-20180331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model poses with a Chevrolet Bolt EV during the 2017 Seoul Motor Show in Goyang, South Korea, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/national/crime-legal/osaka-court-dismisses-residents-request-halt-fukui-reactors-north-korean-missile-attack-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-31T00:08:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-courtreactor-a-20180331.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-courtreactor-a-20180331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lawyer attends a news conference with his plaintiff on Friday after the Osaka District Court dismissed her request to halt two reactors at the Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture. The plaintiff said the reactors posed a ripe target for North Korean missiles.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/31/world/russia-expels-59-diplomats-23-countries-dispute-poisoning-ex-spy-britain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-31T14:37:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f-russpel-a-20180401.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-russpel-a-20180401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The British ambassador to Russia, Laurie Bristow, leaves after a meeting at the Russian foreign ministry building in Moscow on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/31/national/media-national/outsider-scores-hits-among-misses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-31T19:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/p3-adelstein-outsider-a-20190401-e1522480707723.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-adelstein-outsider-a-20190401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jared Leto]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/31/business/tech/russian-accused-massive-hacking-extradited-u-s-pleads-guilty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-31T16:33:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/national/social-issues/japans-population-drop-everywhere-tokyo-2045-state-estimate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-31T16:37:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-population-a-20180331.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-population-a-20180331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo's population is expected to climb until 2045 while the populations of all other prefectures decline, according to the latest research by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/31/national/media-national/japans-companies-beginning-rethink-paternity-leave-policies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-31T22:42:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/p16-shoji-paternity-a-20180401.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-shoji-paternity-a-20180401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men at work: Companies are starting to introduce flexible paternity leave.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/31/national/media-national/much-education-bad-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-31T22:44:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/p16-bij-a-20180401.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-bij-a-20180401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The burden of youth: While randoseru school rucksacks may be getting heavier, the prospects for the over-educated may be getting bleaker.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/31/national/crime-legal/woman-arrested-abandoned-baby-found-dead-osaka-septic-tank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-31T17:33:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/31/national/asia-society-plans-set-new-venue-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-31T20:01:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-asia-a-20180401.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-asia-a-20180401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[International House of Japan Chairman Akashi Yasushi (left), Asia Society Trustee Charles Rockefeller (center), and Asia Society Executive Vice President Tom Nagorski sign a memorandum of understanding Friday at the International House of Japan.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/01/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-china-prepare-revive-high-level-economic-dialogue-amid-tensions-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-01T02:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/31/national/pyongyang-getting-ready-seventh-nuclear-test-despite-thaw-japans-taro-kono/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-31T22:50:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/31/business/new-definition-beer-gives-japanese-breweries-license-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-31T23:02:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-beer-b-20180401.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-beer-b-20180401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Starting Sunday beer makers will be allowed to add new ingredients when brewing beer, including fruit, spices and oysters.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/31/business/japan-may-forced-bilateral-trade-deal-u-s-ex-diplomat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-31T23:18:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/b-fta-a-20180401.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fta-a-20180401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoyuki Shinohara]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/01/world/crime-legal-world/russian-billionaire-magomedov-arrested-embezzlement-charges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-01T14:04:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-magomedov-a-20180402.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-magomedov-a-20180402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ziyavudin Magomedov attends a hearing on his detention at the Tverskoy District Court in Moscow on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/01/world/moscow-cuts-u-k-diplomats-dispute-poisoning-ex-spy-skripal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-01T14:10:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-skripal-a-20180402.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-skripal-a-20180402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers stand guard outside of the home of former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England, on March 6.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/01/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-says-tiangong-1-space-station-re-enter-earths-atmosphere-monday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-01T14:13:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-tiangong-a-20180402.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-tiangong-a-20180402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model of the Tiangong 1 space lab module (left), the Shenzhou 9 manned spacecraft and three Chinese astronauts is displayed during a news conference at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province on  June 15, 2012.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/01/business/tech/3-million-cases-personal-info-leaked-due-cyberattacks-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-01T19:53:43+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/01/national/politics-diplomacy/scandal-hit-cabinets-support-rate-rebounds-42-4-latest-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-01T19:56:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/01/business/tech/paper-phones-atlanta-struggles-recover-cyberattack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T00:35:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-atlanta-a-20180402.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-atlanta-a-20180402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atlanta's City Hall on Saturday]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/business/tech/hackers-breach-saks-lord-taylor-customer-data-parent-hudsons-bay-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T08:54:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b-saks-a-20180403.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-saks-a-20180403.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopper uses a Fifth Avenue entrance to Saks, in New York in 2013. A data breach at department store chains Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off Fifth and Lord &amp; Taylor has compromised the personal information of customers who shopped at the stores.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/epa-chief-scott-pruitt-pressure-conflict-interest-condo-reports-lawmakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T08:56:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-pruitt-a-20180403.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pruitt-a-20180403.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Capitol Hill condo building where Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has stayed  is seen in Washington Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mexico-no-pinata-election-front-runner-says-trumps-threatening-tweets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T09:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-pinata-a-20180403.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pinata-a-20180403.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, with the MORENA party, addresses supporters during his campaign rally in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Sunday. Mexico will hold general elections on July 1.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/24/national/88-year-old-becomes-oldest-earn-doctoral-degree-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T09:52:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-degree-a-20180325.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-degree-a-20180325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiyoko Ozeki, 88, who became the oldest person to earn a doctoral degree in Japan on Saturday, attends a ceremony at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/divided-costa-rica-votes-runoff-fought-gay-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T11:01:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-crica-a-20180403.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-crica-a-20180403.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Carlos Alvarado Quesada, presidential candidate of the ruling Citizens' Action Party (PAC), react during the presidential election in San Jose Sunday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/seen-powerless-control-military-suu-kyi-urges-myanmar-stay-united-amid-challenges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T11:05:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar's state counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi, arrives at Parliament in Naypyitaw Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/01/asia-pacific/k-pop-stars-turn-diplomatic-envoys-concert-dates-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T11:37:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the popular South Korean girl band Red Velvet arrive at a hotel in Pyongyang on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/national/small-hole-found-pipe-steam-leak-reactivated-genkai-nuclear-reactor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T15:45:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture is seen in this aerial photo taken in 2016. Kyushu Electric Power Co. said Sunday that  technicians had found a 1-cm hole in a pipe that is believed to have caused a small steam leak at the plant's No. 3 reactor.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/business/corporate-business/incoming-lobby-head-says-banks-must-persist-consolidation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T17:29:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Fujiwara]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/28/national/ritsumeikan-student-said-oldest-secure-doctorate-88-preceded-95-year-old-kyoto-scholar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T17:37:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiyoko Ozeki attends a ceremony at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto on Saturday after being given a doctoral degree.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/business/corporate-business/sharp-streamlines-malaysian-operations-hon-hai-leadership/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T18:11:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp Corps.'s SV-S500 automated unmanned ground vehicle stands on display. The integration of Sharp's two Malaysian arms will help make decision-making processes more efficient, says Tadashi Oyama, managing director of the marketing unit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/business/financial-markets/goldman-cuts-japan-equity-forecasts-foreign-investors-flee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T18:11:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A stock board at a securities firm in Tokyo shows the latest figures Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/national/hong-kong-valuable-test-market-japans-campaign-attract-foreign-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T18:28:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers browse Japanese food products at a Yata Ltd. department store in Hong Kong on March 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/gop-sen-lindsey-graham-warns-syria-troop-exit-says-revive-islamic-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T18:35:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. soldiers sit on their vehicle as they pass on a road leading to the tense front line with Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria, Saturday. President Donald Trump's unscripted public declaration this week about pulling out of Syria "very soon" while at odds with his own policy are unnerving for the Kurds in this context. U.S. troops first deployed in the area about 16 months ago, after Turkish-backed Syrian forces advanced on areas near Manbij, in a race for control of territories as Islamic State militants collapsed. The deployment prevented repeated clashes between the two rival forces.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-02T18:38:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Players take part in the opening ceremony of the 90th National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament, also known as Spring Koshien, at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture on March 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-02T18:50:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The value of financial assets held by Lower House members has fallen to a record-low average of ¥29.17 million, according to data released Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/national/marriage-quest-finds-japanese-men-looking-share-household-duties-female-partners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T20:09:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man tries his hand at bathing a baby doll at a recent event in Tokyo aimed at preparing unmarried men to become dutiful fathers in the future.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/national/foreign-minister-taro-kono-urges-newest-diplomats-hone-english/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T20:17:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-02T20:53:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves as South Korean Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Do Jong-whan claps during a performance by a South Korean art troupe in Pyongyang in this image taken from video Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/asia-pacific/kim-jong-un-statesman-around-normal-guy-not-quite/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T20:54:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets South Korean K-pop singers in Pyongyang on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/business/japans-new-fiscal-year-starts-amid-government-scandal-higher-food-prices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T21:51:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly hired employees of Sumitomo Corp. attend an initiation ceremony at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Monday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/national/politics-diplomacy/matsui-eyes-second-referendum-osaka-merger-plan-nationwide-elections-april-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T22:07:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Matsui]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/xi-pitched-four-way-security-parley-trump-includes-koreas-leaves-japan-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T23:10:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-invited-putin-white-house-summit-kremlin-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-02T23:55:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) gives his annual press conference in Moscow in December 2015, and U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about the spending bill during a news conference at the White House on March 23, in this combination of pictures.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-03T06:53:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.'s headquarters stands in Hunt Valley, Maryland, in 2004. President Trump is jumping to the defense of the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is under fire following the rapid spread of a video showing anchors at its stations across the country reading a script criticizing "fake" news stories. Trump tweeted Monday that it was funny to watch "Fake News Networks" criticizing Sinclair for being biased.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-03T06:57:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue workers carry the body of a victim following a suicide attack in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Monday. Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked two villages on the outskirts of the northeastern city of Maiduguri late Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-03T07:41:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This March 28 drone video image shows the pullout where the SUV of Jennifer and Sarah Hart was recovered off the off Pacific Coast Highway 1, near Westport, California. The SUV carrying the large, free-spirited family from Washington state accelerated straight off the scenic California cliff and the deadly wreck may have been intentional, authorities said Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/03/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-supreme-court-rejects-release-anti-abortion-activists-undercover-videos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-03T09:43:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-abortion activist David Daleiden speaks at a news conference outside court in Houston in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/03/world/science-health-world/hubble-spots-distant-star-ever-detected-halfway-across-universe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-03T10:48:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NASA's Hubble Space Telescope image shows the blue supergiant star the Icarus, the farthest individual star ever seen, in this image released Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/03/world/chinese-woman-admits-cheating-u-s-college-admission-exam-paid-test-taker-sits-toefl-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-03T14:22:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/03/business/tokyo-hotel-teams-airbnb-style-private-lodging-operator/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-03T14:26:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hotel Suehiro President Mitsuharu Nishizawa (left) has started performing check-in, check-out and front-desk services for guests of minpaku (private lodgings).]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-03T14:27:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-03T14:38:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/03/world/crime-legal-world/trump-attorney-seeks-force-porn-stars-lawsuit-arbitration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-03T15:02:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stormy Daniels]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/03/business/japans-hotel-industry-expanding-fast-newcomers-enter-fray-tap-tourism-boom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-03T15:06:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A hotel operated by wedding service provider Take and Give Needs Co. in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, is seen in this handout photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/03/national/politics-diplomacy/iraqi-pm-visit-japan-wednesday-talks-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-03T15:16:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/national/politics-diplomacy/2019-g-20-summit-held-june-28/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-03T15:44:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Intex Osaka convention center in the city's waterfront area will host next year's Group of 20 leaders' summit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/still-mr-97-percent-egypts-el-sissi-defeats-token-opponent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-03T15:54:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A supporter of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is pictured in Cairo's Tahrir Square after presidential election results were released Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/03/business/corporate-business/tokyo-disney-theme-parks-log-first-rise-attendance-three-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-03T15:55:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters help celebrate the 15th anniversary of Tokyo DisneySea in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, in September 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/03/business/economy-business/corporate-japan-expects-just-meager-inflation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-03T15:58:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b-inflation-a-20180404.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-inflation-a-20180404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People shop for vegetables in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. Companies surveyed by the Bank of Japan expect consumer prices to rise 0.8 percent over the next year, unchanged from their projection three months ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/03/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/china-says-made-real-efforts-toward-establishing-vatican-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-03T16:02:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Li Wenzu, wife of detained Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, is followed by friends and media near a Supreme People's Court complaints office in Beijing on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/04/national/social-issues/japan-labor-authorities-say-death-worker-renesas-unit-linked-overwork/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-04T23:20:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Labor authorities have determined that a factory worker at a subsidiary of chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp. died from overwork.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/04/national/politics-diplomacy/gsdf-failed-report-2017-discovery-requested-iraq-troop-logs-defense-chief-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-04T23:22:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera speaks to reporters at the ministry in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/world/crime-legal-world/shooter-attacked-youtube-filtering-videos-went-gun-range-assault-police/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T06:37:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated photo provided by the San Bruno Police Department shows Nasim Aghdam. Law enforcement officials have identified Aghdam as the person who opened fire with a handgun Tuesday at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, wounding several people before fatally shooting herself.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/business/china-strikes-back-duties-u-s-soybeans-planes-cars-sending-global-markets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T06:43:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers load imported soybeans onto trucks at a port in Nantong in China's eastern Jiangsu province on Wednesday. China unveiled plans Wednesday to hit major U.S. exports worth $50 billion, such as soybeans, cars and small airplanes, with retaliatory tariffs in an escalating trade duel between the world's two top economies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/business/amc-set-open-saudi-arabias-first-movie-theater-plans-99/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T06:43:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-saudicin-a-20180406.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman visits Moscow's Kremlin last May. AMC says it will open Saudi Arabia's first movie theater on April 18. Cinema operators are rushing to build theaters in the Gulf kingdom. The Saudi government in December said it would open the country to commercial movie theaters for the first time in more than 35 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/world/crime-legal-world/judge-skewers-paul-manaforts-civil-case-challenging-robert-muellers-powers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T09:11:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort departs a motions hearing in the indictment filed against him by special counsel Robert Mueller, at the U.S. District Court in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/world/riga-alarmed-russian-missile-tests-force-partial-closing-baltic-sea-airspace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T09:13:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vessels are seen during the joint war games Zapad-2013 (West-2013), attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, at the Khmelevka range on Russia's Baltic Sea in the Kaliningrad Region in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/business/ex-trump-aide-steve-bannon-hell-wall-street-view-trade-moves-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T09:25:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump talks to senior staff Steve Bannon during a swearing-in ceremony for senior staff at the White House in Washington in January 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-05T11:17:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kirstjen Nielsen, U.S. secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), speaks during a press briefing in Washington on Wednesday. Nielsen said that President Donald Trump is directing the National Guard to protect the southern border of the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/04/national/slovenia-colombia-envoys-raise-awareness-land-mines-event-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T11:24:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Slovenian Ambassador Simona Leskovar (left) speaks on U.N. International Mine Awareness Day as Colombian Ambassador Gabriel Duque looks on at the Colombian Ambassador's residence on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/asia-pacific/researchers-boycott-south-korean-university-ai-weapons-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T13:23:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-05T13:42:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk during the family photo session at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam, on Nov. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/world/politics-diplomacy-world/french-strike-brings-second-day-rail-chaos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T14:46:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High-speed TGV trains stand stationary on tracks outside the Gare de Lyon station in Paris on Wednesday, the second day of three months of rolling strikes by the French public railway service, SNCF.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/business/snow-shy-miyazaki-ski-resort-staves-off-closure-another-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T15:40:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/national/illegal-drone-flights-double-2017-awareness-regulations-remains-poor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T15:57:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/17/business/beyond-airbnb-minpaku-market-poised-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T16:38:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This old house rented as a minpaku private lodging in Tokyo is one of many accommodations offered on the Airbnb site.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/national/medical-interpreters-high-demand-tourists-flock-niseko/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T16:44:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical interpreter Izumi Miyama talks to a patient at the Kutchan-Kosei General Hospital in the town of Kutchan near the Niseko ski resort in February. The growing influx of tourists is increasing demand for medical interpreters at resorts like Niseko.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/national/kyoto-turns-crowdfunding-maintain-lesser-known-cultural-assets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T17:31:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasaka Pagoda and Sannen Zaka Street with cherry blossom in Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/business/banks-rush-turn-japan-cashless-legal-change-attracts-tech-giants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T17:35:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-banks-a-20180406.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese banks are now diving into digital payments thanks to a regulatory change that threatens to usher in new rivals.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/national/companies-taking-carrot-stick-approach-discourage-employees-smoking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T17:37:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More Japanese companies are going smoke-free.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-electric-reward-workers-efficiency-not-long-hours/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T17:38:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Electric Corp. President and CEO Takeshi Sugiyama is interviewed in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/04/national/goldfish-filled-phone-booth-removed-nara-shopping-street-plagiarism-accusation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T17:51:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An installation in Nara Prefecture featuring a phone booth filled with water and goldfish (left) is said to resemble an earlier work (right) by artist Nobuki Yamamoto.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/business/share-foreign-car-sales-japan-hit-record-9-1-fiscal-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T19:18:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-importcar-a-20180406.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Among imported car brands sold in Japan in fiscal 2017, Mercedes-Benz maintained its grip on the top spot.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/national/another-powerful-eruption-observed-mount-shinmoe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T19:44:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lava erupts from Mount Shinmoe on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/national/crime-legal/australian-woman-renews-plea-japans-government-amend-u-s-forces-agreement-rape-ordeal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T20:02:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Catherine Jane Fisher, an Australian human rights activist who was raped by a U.S. military serviceman 16 years ago in Japan, speaks during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/business/monex-acquire-coincheck-get-cryptocurrency-foothold-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T20:04:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-coincheck-a-20180406.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coincheck Inc. has accepted a takeover bid by Monex Group Inc., sources said Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/national/politics-diplomacy/disclosure-gsdf-hid-discovery-iraq-logs-reignites-doubts-civilian-control-japans-armed-forces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T21:30:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera speaks in the Diet on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/national/social-issues/women-told-to-stay-out-of-sacred-sumo-ring-during-emergency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T21:31:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A YouTube screenshot shows women climbing into the dohyo (sumo ring) to assist after Maizuru Mayor Ryozo Tatami collapsed on Wednesday during a spring tournament in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/national/crime-legal/former-university-student-appeals-life-sentence-murders-top-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T21:56:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/business/japan-faces-losses-grain-production-fronts-u-s-china-trade-war-erupts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-05T22:47:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soybeans are harvested with a combine harvester in Princeton, Illinois. After the U.S. introduced fresh tariffs on many Chinese products this week, Beijing fired back Wednesday with its own threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on 106 American products, including soybeans.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/06/national/kim-told-xi-wanted-resume-six-party-disarmament-talks-nikkei/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-06T06:35:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-06T09:14:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump makes his way across the South Lawn upon returning to the White House on Thursday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/05/business/corporate-business/facebook-japan-ducks-parents-privacy-backlash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-06T12:15:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-facebookjp-a-20180406.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shin Hasegawa, managing director of Facebook Japan, is interviewed on Tuesday at Facebook's offices in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/06/world/u-k-opens-permanent-naval-base-bahrain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-06T13:10:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/06/world/crime-legal-world/russian-historian-focused-stalins-crimes-cleared-child-pornography-charges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-06T13:37:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Historian Yuri Dmitriev speaks Thursday outside a court building in Petrozavodsk, Russia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/06/business/trump-tells-trade-officials-weigh-slapping-100-billion-new-tariffs-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-06T13:55:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump smiles as people applaud him during a roundtable discussion on tax policy Thursday in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia with (from left) Rep. Evan Jenkins, R-W.Va., West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and CEO of Davis Trust Company Hugh Hitchcock.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers view the first sunrise of a new year aboard a special dawn service operated by Sanriku Railway Co. on Jan. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-06T16:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-06T16:10:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/06/business/tokyo-offers-host-tpp-negotiators-meeting-summer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-06T16:13:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-06T16:34:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff at a day care center in Nagoya take care of 1-year-old children at mealtime in May 2016. The day care service sector, dominated by women, is struggling with a labor shortage, which in turn is leading to tough working conditions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/06/national/tepco-apologizes-family-102-year-old-man-committed-suicide-amid-nuclear-crisis/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-06T16:44:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (second from right) and his Iraqi counterpart Haider al-Abadi (third from right) poses for a photo with other world leaders before an international conference on the reconstruction of Iraq, at a Tokyo hotel on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-06T16:54:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Labor minister Katsunobu Kato speaks to reporters at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday following the Cabinet's approval of a labor reform bill.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-06T17:54:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-06T20:36:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Monex Group Inc CEO Oki Matsumoto (left) and Coincheck CEO Koichiro Wada attend a joint news conference in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-06T20:37:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera announces Friday the ministry has discovered another set of activity logs concerning a Self-Defense Forces mission in Iraq.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-06T20:39:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-06T21:14:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets with a group of entrepreneurs and innovators during a round-table discussion at Cortex Innovation Community technology hub in St. Louis last November. Facebook said Wednesday that it has shut down a feature that let people search for Facebook users if they had their phone number or email address. In a call with reporters on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said the company had tried "rate limiting" the searches.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-06T22:15:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Palm Beach International Airport, Florida, in Palm Beach on March 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-06T22:24:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A third-party panel determined that four-time Olympic wrestling champion Kaori Icho (left) was harassed by Japan Wrestling Federation Director Kazuhito Sakae.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomoko Nakagawa, the mayor of Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, makes a speech outside a dohyō (sumo ring) at an exhibition in the city on Friday. Her request to speak form inside the ring was denied by the organizers of the event.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-07T12:47:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers load soybeans imported from Brazil at a port in Nantong, in east China's Jiangsu province, on Wednesday. China's threat to raise tariffs on U.S. exports could be a disaster for American soybean farmers but a boon to their Brazilian and Argentine competitors, European aerospace companies and Japanese whiskey distillers.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-07T13:02:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new student wearing an Armani uniform walks to Taimei Elementary School's entrance ceremony with his parents on Friday in Tokyo's Ginza district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/07/asia-pacific/chinese-sperm-bank-requires-political-loyalty-donors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-07T13:32:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-07T13:35:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this Dec. 13 photo, Rep. Blake Farenthold arrives for a House Committee on the Judiciary oversight hearing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/07/business/trump-administration-reportedly-considers-stiffer-rules-auto-imports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-07T13:38:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-07T13:42:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-07T13:51:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An FBI notice on the Backpage site on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/06/national/crime-legal/four-japanese-maglev-contractors-barred-industry-ministry-tenders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-07T14:19:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-07T14:24:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jchrist-a-20180408.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maria Kannon statues — objects of worship by Christians who had to hide their faith in the Virgin Mary — are displayed at a newly opened museum in Nagasaki on April 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-07T16:01:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel speaks after meeting with South Korean government officials at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul in September 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-07T22:40:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[School troubles: According to an education ministry survey, in 2015 and 2016 there were 2,098 pregnancies among high school girls. Of the girls, 674 voluntarily dropped out of school.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/06/business/corporate-business/japans-fujifilm-end-sales-black-white-photo-film-due-falling-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-07T16:50:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fujifilm Imaging Systems Co. announced Friday it will soon terminate sales of monochrome photographic film and printing papers, prompting many photo-lovers to lament over the end of Fujifilm's 82-year-old history of black-and-white film production.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/06/business/japans-cryptocurrency-exchanges-held-back-shortage-engineers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-07T16:50:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryo Fukuda, a software engineer at Next Currency Inc., is seen at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on March 30]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-07T22:42:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Giulia "Misu" Lamperti illustrates an upcoming Everyst story at the 96 Problems studio in Tokyo's Shimokitazawa neighborhood.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-07T17:08:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and Oleg Deripaska, who owns some of the world's biggest metal producers, head to a meeting of the APEC Business Advisory Council in Danang, Vietnam, on Nov. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-07T19:56:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump gestures to the media as he arrives with his wife, Melania, and their son, Barron, at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on April 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/07/national/woman-two-daughters-aged-5-7-perish-osaka-apartment-fire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-07T21:44:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fire which ripped through an apartment building on Saturday in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, killed three people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/08/national/politics-diplomacy/chinese-premier-likely-visit-hokkaido-attending-may-trilateral-summit-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-08T02:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/07/national/social-issues/japans-high-school-english-proficiency-falls-short-government-targets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-07T23:16:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-07T23:17:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Troops from the Ground Self-Defense Force's Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, Japan's first marine unit since World War II, take part in a joint drill with U.S. Marines at the GSDF's Camp Ainoura in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/07/national/crime-legal/police-launch-murder-probe-three-found-dead-kagoshima-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-07T23:17:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigate the scene of a triple-murder at a house in Hioki, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/07/national/father-arrested-confining-mentally-ill-son-cage-20-years/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshitane Yamasaki, seen in this photo taken on Saturday, is suspected of confining his 42-year-old son in a wooden cage inside a prefabricated hut next to his house in Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, for over 20 years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/08/national/landfill-work-connected-futenma-base-transfer-okinawa-set-start-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-08T22:13:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-futenma-a-20180409.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sea walls are being constructed in the Henoko coastal area in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/08/world/damascus-denies-behind-reported-gas-attack-civilians-syrian-rebel-enclave-ghouta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-08T23:31:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-Syrian regime forces advance toward the town of Douma, the last opposition holdout in eastern Ghouta, on Saturday, after they resumed a military blitz to pressure rebels to withdraw.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/business/french-rail-strikes-resume-unions-square-off-macron-gird-marathon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T06:47:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sncf-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees help commuters on Sunday at the Gare Montparnasse train station in Paris as French rail workers launched their latest two-day strike over plans to overhaul the heavily indebted train operator SNCF, the biggest test yet to French President's drive to reform the country's economy. Neither side appears ready to back down, with Prime Minister warning that the government would not be deterred despite union pledges for three months of rolling stoppages, and possibly more.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/unsc-expected-meet-monday-alleged-syria-chemical-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T06:48:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/world/rebel-fighters-hostages-begin-leaving-syrias-besieged-douma-weeks-bombardments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T08:49:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-douma-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian Army soldiers gather Sunday in an area on the eastern outskirts of Douma as they continue their fierce offensive to retake the last opposition holdout in eastern Ghouta.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/world/syria-gas-attack-reports-just-excuse-military-action-u-s-western-allies-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T08:58:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/world/crime-legal-world/arizona-election-database-targeted-2016-criminals-not-russia-official-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T10:59:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/world/joint-u-n-central-african-republic-forces-assault-restive-district-leaves-least-three-dead-30-wounded/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T11:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-uncar-a-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-uncar-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Portuguese contingent of the U.N. mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) that attacked the Muslim self-defence group of the PK5, a Muslim-majority neighborhood of Bangui, is seen patrolling, in Bangui on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/italys-top-three-rightist-parties-united-bid-form-government-name-prime-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T11:05:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-italy-a-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-italy-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cuirassiers presidential guards salute as Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi, followed by Mariastella Gelmini (left) and Anna Maria Bernini (second from right), arrive to meet journalists at the Quirinale presidential palace after talks with Italian President Sergio Mattarella in Rome Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/08/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-cambodia-sign-grant-loan-agreement-worth-90-million-economy-infrastructure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T14:44:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cambodia-a-20180409.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen get together for a meeting in Phnom Penh on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/08/national/politics-diplomacy/nishwaki-triumphs-kyoto-gubernatorial-race-vows-continue-policies-predecessor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T15:44:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-kyoto-b-20180409.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kyoto-b-20180409.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former bureaucrat Takatoshi Nishiwaki celebrates his election as governor of Kyoto Prefecture late Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/08/national/ground-self-defense-force-marines-debut-much-preparatory-work-remains-done/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T16:09:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-marine-a-20180409.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-marine-a-20180409.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Personnel from the Ground Self-Defense Force's Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, Japan's first marine unit since World War II, take part in a ceremony at Camp Ainoura in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-must-back-syria-tough-talk-risk-hurting-position-north-korea-u-s-senator/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T16:11:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-graham-a-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-graham-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to reporters as he arrives at the office of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who is moderating bipartisan negotiations on immigration, at the Capitol in Washington in January. Graham said he's glad John Bolton will serve as President Donald Trump's national security adviser going into talks with North Korea because of his "very healthy skepticism." A U.S.-North Korean summit is slated for May.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/national/m6-1-quake-hits-shimane-prefecture-four-injured-nuke-plant-safe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T16:37:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-earthquake-a-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-earthquake-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This landslide in Oda, Shimane Prefecture, was triggered by an earthquake Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/08/national/loading-nuclear-fuel-assemblies-begins-oi-plants-no-4-reactor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T16:38:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-nuclear-a-20180409.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nuclear-a-20180409.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The No. 4 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture is due to be restarted in mid-May.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/08/national/crime-legal/two-bodies-found-kagoshima-prefecture-mass-murder-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T16:38:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/obesity-among-asia-pacific-children-growing-health-crisis-researchers-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T16:45:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-asiaobesity-a-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-asiaobesity-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of overweight children under 5 rose 38 percent between 2000 and 2016 in the Asia-Pacific region, and the problem is growing, said the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/business/first-batch-japan-made-mass-rapid-transit-trains-arrive-jakarta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T17:01:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/national/egyptian-ambassador-seeks-convey-true-image-country-middle-east-japanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T17:10:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-egypt-a-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-egypt-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ayman Aly Kamel]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/business/economy-business/japans-current-account-surplus-shrinks-%c2%a52-08-trillion-february/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T17:10:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/business/no-nafta-deal-principle-expected-announced-lima-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T17:40:59+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/national/kanagawa-homeless-grow-crops-confidence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T18:29:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-generation-a-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-generation-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiyoko Ojima, who helps homeless and other needy people by giving them opportunities to work in agriculture, is seen at her field in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, on March 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/asia-pacific/holy-smokes-south-korean-envoy-reportedly-told-kim-kick-cigarette-habit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T18:34:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kimsmoke-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smokes a cigarette at the General Satellite Control and Command Center following the launch of the Unha-3 rocket at West Sea Satellite Launch Site in North Pyongan province in December 2012.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/business/big-money-small-change-small-firms-cash-unused-foreign-currency-japans-airports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T18:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b-coins-a-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-coins-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor uses a currency converter at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Jan. 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/business/trump-predicts-trade-concessions-china-despite-rising-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T18:59:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b-trumptrade-a-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trumptrade-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese workers stand in front of a loaded cargo ship docked at a port in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province Sunday. Amid falling markets, President Donald Trump's new economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, says there is no trade war between the U.S. and China. Another administration official, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, takes a different tack, saying he's "cautiously optimistic" that before any threatened tariffs go into place the two nations will reach an agreement.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/business/ahead-mark-zuckerberg-testimony-gop-senator-says-facebook-fiasco-may-big-firm-fix-alone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T19:14:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b-zuckface-a-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-zuckface-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during preparation for the Facebook Communities Summit in Chicago last September. Facebook has been secretly deleting some of Zuckerberg's texts sent through its Messenger application to people for several years, an option that hasn't been available to most of the social network's 2.2 billion users.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-ready-discuss-denuclearization-u-s-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T19:17:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-denuke-a-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-denuke-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man watches a TV screen showing file footage of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at Seoul Railway Station on March 27.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/business/tech/china-u-s-vying-winner-race-develop-quantum-computing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T20:15:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-quantum-a-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-quantum-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese universities and U.S. technology companies are racing to develop quantum computers, a type of processing forecast to be so powerful that it can transform how drug-makers, agriculture companies and auto manufacturers discover compounds and materials.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/national/convicted-thief-escapes-open-prison-ehime-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T20:19:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-escape-a-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-escape-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A stolen car believed to have been used by escaped prisoner Tatsuma Hirao sits on a trailer Monday at a police station in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/asia-pacific/china-blames-u-s-trade-friction-says-negotiations-currently-impossible/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T21:24:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-chintrade-a-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chintrade-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker checks aluminium rolls at a warehouse in an industrial park in Binzhou, Shandong province, China, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-finance-ministry-admits-official-urged-moritomo-gakuen-lawyer-give-false-explanation-dubious-land-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T22:10:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-moritomo-b-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-moritomo-b-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsuru Ota, head of the Finance Ministry's Financial Bureau, which oversees government asset transactions, appears before the Upper House Audit Committee on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/world/britons-rushed-eu-passports-brexit-vote-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-09T22:23:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-passports-a-20180410.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-passports-a-20180410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-EU supporters look on during a demonstration in Whitstable, southeast England, on Sunday against the Brexit transition deal that would see Britain continue to adhere to the Common Fisheries Policy after formally leaving the EU.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/12/reference/japans-staff-heavy-banks-downsize-turn-technology-survival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-10T00:05:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/n-bankfyi-a-20180213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bankfyi-a-20180213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past bank signboards in central Tokyo. The industry is at a crossroads as the central bank maintains an ultraeasy monetary policy and new technology sees growing prominence in the sector.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/10/world/social-issues-world/no-hell-report-pope-gives-devil-due/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-10T06:28:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-popedevil-a-20180411.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-popedevil-a-20180411.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis waves as he leaves at the end of a Holy Mass to mark the feast of Divine Mercy at the Vatican on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/10/asia-pacific/china-demands-halt-u-s-arms-sales-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-10T06:29:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-taiwan-a-20180411.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taiwan-a-20180411.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nicaraguan students wave Taiwanese flags to welcome three Taiwanese Navy warships at Corinto port, some 150 km northwest of Managua, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thanks to the bridge route, the number of visitors to Kagawa Prefecture surged to 9.37 million in 2016 from 4.9 million in 1988.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda (center) speaks to the media with Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso (second from right) and economic and fiscal policy minister Toshimitsu Motegi (right) after meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Prime Minister's Office on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asuke Tourist Association chief Toshio Taguchi shows off a distinctive Tankororin traditional lantern made of paper and bamboo and shaped like a rugby ball, at the association's office in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A jawbone from a giant ichthyosaur similar to this species pictured in this image was found on an English beach. Scientists have determined that the huge marine reptile that lived during the Triassic Period was one of the largest seagoing animals in history.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The single fossil finger bone of a Homo sapiens from the Al Wusta site in Saudi Arabia is pictured from various angles in this undated composite photo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yohei Kono (left), head of the Japanese Association for the Promotion of International Trade, speaks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the Great Hall of People in Beijing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry (left) attends a forum in Tokyo on Wendesday with moderator and onetime Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/11/world/trumps-obamas-get-no-invite-prince-harry-meghan-markle-marriage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-11T18:46:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Phillip Gillespie from Ballymena, Northern Ireland, poses for a photo Tuesday after he received an invitation to the wedding of Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle next month, among the 1,200 members of the public invited. An announcement from Kensington Palace says it will be friends and family, rather than politicians and world leaders, at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/11/business/singapore-asias-best-attracting-talent-fifth-year-row-survey-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-11T18:47:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singapore's Changi Airport Terminal 4 on April 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/11/business/tokyo-visit-ghanas-finance-minister-upbeat-future-funding-opportunities-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-11T18:50:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ken Ofori-Atta]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/11/national/u-s-military-parachute-falls-tokyo-junior-high-school/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-11T20:24:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents look at a public junior high school in Hamura, Tokyo, where a U.S. military parachute fell from a military transport aircraft belonging to Yokota Air Base in the neighborhood on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/11/national/crime-legal/seven-men-arrested-alleged-scam-cost-company-president-bitcoins-worth-%c2%a5190-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-11T20:25:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/11/business/tech/zuckerberg-deflects-senators-efforts-regulating-facebook-changing-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-11T20:25:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/11/business/industry-ministry-report-urges-japan-shed-custom-cash-dependence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-11T21:03:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b-cashless-a-20180412.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cashless-a-20180412.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is far from being a cashless society. An industry ministry panel said Wednesday that the ratio of cashless payments must be doubled by 2025.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/world/crime-legal-world/accused-toronto-serial-killer-faces-seventh-murder-count-remains-muslim-family-man-found/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T07:26:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toronto Police Det. Sgt. Hank Idsinga speaks to the media regarding an unidentified male believed to be connected to the Bruce McArthur case, during a press conference at the Toronto Police Headquarters in Toronto on Wednesday. Police have been trying to identify the remains of at least seven men found at a property McArthur used as storage for his landscaping business and say he targeted men he met through dating apps that cater to gay men, meeting them at bars in the "Gay Village" area of Toronto, as well as male prostitutes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/business/facebook-ceo-admits-data-shared-cambridge-analytica-receptive-regulation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T10:48:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election and data privacy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/11/national/six-missing-predawn-landslide-buries-three-homes-oitas-yabakei-valley/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T10:49:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters conduct rescue work where three houses were buried in a landslide Wednesday in Yabakei, Oita Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/business/ex-speaker-john-boehner-morphs-strong-marijuana-foe-pot-industry-adviser/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T11:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b-boehner-a-20180413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boehner-a-20180413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tehn-House Speaker John Boehner speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2015. Boehner says he has had a change of heart on marijuana and will promote its nationwide legalization. Known as an avid cigarette smoker, the Ohio Republican has joined the advisory board of Acreage Holdings, a multistate cannabis company.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/world/russia-says-tracking-u-s-carrier-strike-group-heading-toward-syria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T11:21:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman departs with its strike group toward the Middle East from Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/business/airlines-reroute-flights-avoid-possible-airstrikes-syria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T12:13:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo of Eurocontrol, Europe's air traffic regulator, is seen on the facade of its headquarters in Brussels in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/11/national/politics-diplomacy/diet-abe-denies-account-ehime-document-approval-kake-gakuen-vet-school/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T13:20:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kake-z-20180412.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Finance Minister Taro Aso (center) and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (left) attend a Lower House budget committee session at the Diet.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/business/corporate-business/open-sesame-kadoya-opens-second-oil-factory-maintains-market-mainstay-niche/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T13:26:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jiro Ozawa, president and chief executive officer of Kadoya Sesame Mills Inc., is interviewed in Tokyo on Feb. 21.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/11/business/u-s-ride-hailing-provider-lyft-considers-offering-services-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T14:12:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b-lyft-a-20180412.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-lyft-a-20180412.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Zimmer]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/world/science-health-world/environmentalists-plan-launch-methane-sensing-satellite/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T15:04:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[MethaneSAT, will measure major global sources of methane.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-conduct-next-test-antiballistic-missile-co-developed-japan-end-2018-pentagon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T16:44:02+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/national/british-warship-docks-japan-will-help-police-north-korean-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T16:44:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/national/crime-legal/amnesty-accuses-japan-breaching-international-laws-death-penalty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T16:59:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-threat-kake-gakuen-scandal-roars-back-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T19:35:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-focus-a-20180413.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura holds a news conference on Tuesday at the Ehime Prefecture Government headquarters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/business/abe-oecd-chief-agree-multilateral-fixes-needed-trade-disputes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T20:24:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jose Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), greets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the start of their meeting at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/national/japanese-government-mulls-gps-monitoring-inmates-open-type-prisons-escapes-ehime-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T20:30:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oi Shipyard at Matsuyama Prison, in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, is seen on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/national/india-pitching-buddhist-tourism-woo-japanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T20:31:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pilgrims and tourists visit Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya, northeastern India, in 2016. India is trying to boost the number of Buddhist tourists, including from Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/business/corporate-business/toys-r-us-talks-sell-majority-stake-asia-unit-including-japan-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T20:36:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toysrus-a-20180413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toys R Us Inc. is in talks with multiple entities to sell the 85 percent stake in its Asian business, including its Japan operations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/business/economy-business/quarterly-sakura-report-bank-japan-upgrades-two-nine-regional-economies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T20:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda (second from left) attends a branch managers' meeting at the central bank's headquarters Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/national/crime-legal/japan-sees-record-number-marijuana-cases-2017-youth-involvement-rises/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T21:17:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/asia-pacific/china-carry-live-fire-exercise-taiwan-strait-next-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T22:55:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Taiwan's navy participate in joint training and military activities with the Nicaraguan Navy at Corinto port, Nicaragua, on April 9, 2018. Three ships carrying around 800 crew arrived in El Salvador last Friday to begin a series of visits to allies in Central America, according to Taiwan's Defense Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/business/corporate-business/uniqlo-operator-fast-retailing-hikes-annual-forecast-13-growth-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-12T22:55:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/national/social-issues/girls-barred-sumo-event-jsa-doubles-gender-exclusion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T01:39:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yokozuna Kisenosato performs a ring-entry ceremony during a spring sumo tour on Thursday in Saitama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/business/u-s-launches-crackdown-sexual-harassment-housing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T06:44:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions pauses while speaking during an event to honor the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act at the Department of Justice Thursday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/national/sidestepping-wider-immigration-debate-japan-eyes-longer-stays-technical-interns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T07:16:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign workers under the Technical Intern Training Program take a Japanese language lesson in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/business/australia-export-liquefied-hydrogen-japan-world-first-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T11:36:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/asia-pacific/xi-shows-off-chinas-naval-might-largest-fleet-review-since-1949/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T11:48:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese naval vessels and aircraft, including the aircraft carrier Liaoning and high-tech submarines, take part in a review in the South China Sea on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/national/japan-avoid-direct-support-u-s-strike-syria-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T12:16:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian military police officers stationed in the eastern Ghouta near Damascus, in Syria, are seen on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/national/crime-legal/shiga-officer-found-shot-death-police-box-19-year-old-colleague-later-arrested/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T12:20:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer stands guard on Thursday in front of a police box where a colleague was shot to death, allegedly by a junior officer, in Hikone, Shiga Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/national/crime-legal/japan-looks-levy-%c2%a5500-million-fine-fraudulent-casino-applications/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T12:42:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/national/another-body-found-fatal-landslide-oita-prefecture-search-missing-goes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T13:04:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rescue-a-20180413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers search for survivors Thursday at the site where a massive landslide engulfed four houses the previous day in Nakatsu, Oita Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/national/tepcos-compensation-3-11-victims-made-matters-worse-many/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T13:05:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Storage tanks for contaminated water stand at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in February 2017. More than seven years after the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, Tepco still faces massive compensation lawsuits filed by people whose livelihoods were destroyed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/business/economy-business/japan-study-measures-mitigate-impact-2019-sales-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T17:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopper looks at sweaters at an Ito Yokado outlet in Tokyo. The government will examine steps to mitigate the impact of a consumption tax hike next year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/asia-pacific/u-s-embassy-cambodia-fires-32-allegedly-sharing-pornography/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T17:36:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh is pictured Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/business/tech/nintendo-teams-venture-fund-find-new-tech-switch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T17:37:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nintendo-a-20180414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nintendo Co.'s Switch game console is the centerpiece of a tie-up between the video game giant and San Francisco-based Scrum Ventures.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/national/okinawa-angling-become-cruise-liner-hub-not-just-waypoint/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T18:25:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[World Dream, a huge cruise ship with a capacity of more than 4,000 passengers, makes a port call at Naha International Container Terminal on April 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/national/crime-legal/dna-fingerprints-lead-police-arrest-man-2004-fatal-stabbing-hiroshima-girl-17/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T18:33:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hiroshimamurder-a-20180414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man was arrested Friday for allegedly killing a 17-year-old girl in 2004 at her home in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, seen at the center of the photo taken on Oct. 6, 2004, a day after the slaying.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/business/financial-markets/financial-experts-warn-china-not-repeat-japans-fx-mistake-1980s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T18:54:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b-currencies-a-20180414.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-currencies-a-20180414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A senior adviser to the People's Bank of China says China should learn from Japan in the 1980s, and never allow a trade war to become a currency war.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/business/corporate-business/japanese-engineer-builds-giant-robot-realize-gundam-dream/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T19:52:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gundam-a-20180414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bipedal robot Mononofu, 8.5 meters tall, is displayed at Sakakibara Kikai's factory in Shinto, Gunma Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/business/corporate-business/shinmaywa-mahindra-set-amphibious-aircraft-repair-base-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T20:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/business/economy-business/japan-likely-welcome-u-s-return-tpp-time-scale-route-unclear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T20:13:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b-tppreac-a-20180414.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tppreac-a-20180414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event on tax policy in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Thursday. He told lawmakers he is considering rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the free-trade deal from which he withdrew shortly after taking office.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/national/japan-calls-emergency-measure-blocking-access-websites-pirate-manga-anime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T20:13:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-piracy-a-20180414.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-piracy-a-20180414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man looks at one of Japan's most notorious 'leech sites,' which aggregate links to content that has been uploaded on other sites regardless of legality. The government on Friday said it plans to urge internet service providers to restrict access to notorious piracy websites.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/national/politics-diplomacy/document-linked-kake-ehime-facility-turns-agriculture-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T20:13:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-kakedocument-a-20180414.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kakedocument-a-20180414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Agriculture minister Ken Saito announces Friday a document related to Kake Educational Institution has been found at the ministry.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/business/bank-japan-looks-empower-women-new-etf-index-pick/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T20:13:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b-bojwomen-a-20180414.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bojwomen-a-20180414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The BOJ under Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda is adding an "empowering women" stock index to its ETF shopping list.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/no-reward-north-korea-without-irreversible-denuclearization-pompeo-tells-confirmation-hearing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T21:01:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-pompeo-a-20180414.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pompeo-a-20180414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State-designate Mike Pompeo pauses while speaking during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/national/vintage-cars-hit-road-10th-la-festa-primavera-rally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T21:23:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-car-a-20180414.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-car-a-20180414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The vintage car road rally La Festa Primavera 2018 kicks off at Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya on Friday in a four-day race to get to Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/national/crime-legal/man-gets-30-years-fatal-2016-stabbing-osaka-father-three/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-13T23:14:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-ruling-a-20180414.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ruling-a-20180414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist's rendering shows defendant Yuma Kobayashi (right), the judges (center) and the families of the victim during Friday's murder trial at the Osaka District Court.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/national/britain-three-warships-japan-years-end-envoy-mark-field-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T11:17:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/national/vast-bioclean-kumamoto-silkworm-factory-aims-revive-japans-sericulture-sector/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T11:18:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-silkworm-a-20180414.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-silkworm-a-20180414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers at Atsumaru Holdings Co. in Yamaga, Kumamoto Prefecture, feed silkworms with synthetic forage in an aseptic room at the firm's sericulture factory.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/business/financial-markets/u-s-refrains-labeling-china-currency-manipulator-keeps-japan-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T12:36:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b-currency-a-20180415.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-currency-a-20180415.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents walk past a board highlighting the security markers on the latest yuan note outside a bank in Beijing in November 2016. The Trump administration has once again declined to brand China a currency manipulator, but it did target that country and five others for special monitoring for what the administration says are practices that are worsening America's trade deficit.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/myanmar-seriously-concerned-war-crimes-prosecutors-move-rohingya-jurisdiction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T13:15:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-calls-comey-slime-ball-sparking-rush-dictionaries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T13:43:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-trumptweet-a-20180415.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumptweet-a-20180415.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump's denunciation of former FBI Director James Comey (right) as a "slime ball" on Friday triggered a 60,000 percent jump in look-ups for the word on Merriam-Webster's website, the dictionary publisher has said.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/national/chinese-military-aircraft-flew-strategic-waterway-record-number-times-fiscal-2017-defense-ministry-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T13:54:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-chinaflights-a-20180415.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chinaflights-a-20180415.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese H-6K bomber]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/full-text-u-s-president-trumps-announcement-strikes-syria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T14:35:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-trumpspeech-a-20180415.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpspeech-a-20180415.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump announces military strikes on Syria while delivering a statement from the White House in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/business/economy-business/boj-likely-adopt-inflation-forecast-around-2-percent-fiscal-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T15:46:18+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/national/history/ando-shoeki-dared-anger-gods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T22:32:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p19-hoffman-livingpast-a-20180415.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ando Shoeki Museum in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/national/media-national/handbag-hashtag-turns-tables-misogynist-social-media-conversation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T22:42:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/p16-stmichel-handbag-a-20180415.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-handbag-a-20180415.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bags not: Yuhei Umeki posted a tweet on April 7 suggesting that a woman's value was related to her handbag, setting the lowest bar at Celine items.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/national/safe-secure-stable-mantra-winner-polls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T16:53:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-osakajtos-a-20180415.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osakajtos-a-20180415.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoto Gov. Tadatoshi Nishiwaki nails his election win on April 8. He was the former governor’s handpicked successor and was heavily backed by all of the ruling and opposition parties except the Japanese Communist Party.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/national/media-national/japan-struggles-fashion-casino-guidelines-satisfy-public/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T22:54:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/p17-brasor-casinos-a-20180415.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-casinos-a-20180415.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unlucky for some: A recent Kyodo survey found that 65 percent of respondents don't want casinos.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/national/media-national/japan-faces-prospect-losing-middle-class-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T22:42:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/p16-hoffman-class-a-20180415.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-class-a-20180415.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under pressure: Japan is facing more rapidly growing social welfare pressure than any government anywhere in the developed world has ever faced before.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/national/crime-legal/filipino-man-arrested-10-guns-200-bullets-discovered-vacated-tokyo-room/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T21:07:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/world/huge-chinese-statue-karl-marx-erected-german-birthplace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T21:14:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-marx-a-20180415.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-marx-a-20180415.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers install a statue of Karl Marx on Friday in Trier, Germany.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-voices-support-u-s-led-strikes-syria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T23:37:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-japansyria-a-20180415.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-japansyria-a-20180415.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at the Prime Minister Office in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/national/nearly-40000-evacuees-still-living-temporary-housing-two-years-kumamoto-quakes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-14T23:37:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-kumamoto-a-20180415.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kumamoto-a-20180415.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pray on the second anniversary of the earthquakes that hit Kumamoto Prefecture and surrounding areas in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/14/national/politics-diplomacy/scandal-hit-abe-moves-shore-base-osaka-ahead-ldp-presidential-election/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-14T23:38:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-15T13:35:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-15T17:19:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-15T20:19:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian President Bashar Assad (left) talks to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi prior the 17th League of Arab States' summit in Algiers in March 2005.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-16T09:05:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-16T09:32:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-16T11:01:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-16T13:06:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elderly people dance at the New Hyundai Core "colatec" in Seoul on April 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-16T13:20:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is seen in The Hague on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, meets with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during high-level bilateral economic talks in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junichi Fukuda]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/16/business/economy-business/cabinet-office-sees-economy-recovering-moderately-april/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-16T21:38:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-16T21:38:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panelists speak at the launch of Venture Cafe Tokyo, an organization promoting innovation, at the Toranomon Hills complex in the capital, on March 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-16T21:41:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police search for a prison escapee on Mukaishima Island in the Seto Inland Sea on Sunday. Tatsuma Hirao, 27, remains at large after he escaped on April 8 from a prison in the city of Imabari, Ehime Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-16T21:56:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-17T06:44:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Sunday picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Monday shows fireworks being displayed to celebrate the 106th birth anniversary of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-17T06:46:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Spanish NGO's Proactiva Open Arms vessel is seen March 19 in the port of Pozzallo, in the southern Italian island of Sicily. Proactiva Open Arms founder Oscar Camps said Monday that Italian authorities have released his organization's ship after impounding it for taking 218 migrants to Italy.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-17T09:21:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A list including the names of thousands of members of the Imperial Japanese Army's secretive Unit 731 has been disclosed by the National Archives of Japan. A group led by Katsuo Nishiyama, a professor emeritus at Shiga University of Medical Science, led the effort to get the information released.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-17T09:22:46+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/2018/04/17/business/financial-markets/even-dollar-slips-trump-says-russia-china-playing-currency-devaluation-game/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-17T09:50:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump waves while sitting next to Maximo Alvarez (left), president of Sunshine Gasoline Distributors, and Irina Vilarino, owner of Las Vegas Cuban Cuisine, during roundtable discussion on tax cuts for Florida small businesses in Hialeah, Florida, Monday. Trump accused China and Russia of devaluing their currencies, breaking from his own Treasury chief's view that no major trading partners are currency manipulators.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[After the road was dug out from under the snow, tourists walk between the high snow walls at Murodo in Toyama Prefecture, on Monday, when the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route opened for the season.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this image released by SpaceX, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite sits atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 40 Monday in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA's newest planet-hunting spacecraft is poised for a Monday evening launch.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-17T11:08:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Li Wenzu, wife of detained Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, poses for a picture in Beijing April 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-17T15:27:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-17T15:38:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Toyota logo is seen on the trunk of a 2018 Toyota Prius on display at the Pittsburgh Auto Show in February. Toyota says it will start equipping models with technology to talk to other vehicles starting in 2021, as it tries to push safety communications forward.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk underneath flags of Commonwealth countries flying along the Mall that leads to Buckingham Palace in central London on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-17T15:45:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian authorities distribute bread, vegetables and pasta to residents of Douma — the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack — near Damascus, Syria, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-17T15:45:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-17T15:48:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/17/business/young-japanese-turn-financial-education-prepare-future-uncertain-pensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-17T16:11:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young Japanese are coming to realize they will need to invest wisely if they want a secure financial future.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-17T16:12:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[These premium mangoes matched a price record when they fetched ¥400,000 on Monday at the first wholesale auction of the season in the city of Miyazaki.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-17T16:25:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fireworks mark the 106th birth anniversary of late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Administrative Vice Finance Minister Junichi Fukuda leaves the ministry Monday evening.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, wave as they prepare to depart from Tokyo's Haneda airport on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A test version of the Orion crew module is shown following testing and recovery procedures with the U.S. Navy in San Diego, California, Jan. 25.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks about the opioid crisis during an appearance in Raleigh, North Carolina, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian people sign petitions to be sent to the Indian Supreme court to implement new laws following the recent rape cases in the Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir states, in Amritsar on Tuesday. Eight men accused of raping and murdering an 8-year-old girl pleaded not guilty Monday to the horrific crime that has sparked revulsion and brought thousands to India's streets in protest.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-18T12:30:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Detainees are seen through a hatch at the Tokyo detention center which is part of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau in Tokyo, December 2, 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/national/sdf-major-rants-defense-ministry-chiding-opposition-lawmaker-near-diet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T14:35:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroyuki Konishi, an Upper House lawmaker and member of the Democratic Party, speaks to reporters on Tuesday in the Diet.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/business/corporate-business/dentsu-debut-input-holiday-day-off-every-month-june-trial-basis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T14:35:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Dentsu Inc. headquarters building in Tokyo is seen in this photo taken in April 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/17/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-golf-outing-will-abe-find-bunker-green/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T14:51:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe play golf in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/world/crime-legal-world/lawyer-offers-100000-identify-man-stormy-daniels-says-threatened/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T14:57:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image released by ABC shows (from left) co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, adult film actress Stormy Daniels, her attorney, Michael Avenatti, co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Meghan McCain during an appearance on the daytime talk show "The View" Tuesday in New York. Daniels released a composite sketch of the man she says threatened her in a Las Vegas parking lot to stay quiet about her past sexual tryst with President Donald Trump. Avenatti says they are offering $100,000 for information leading to the man's identification.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/world/death-southwest-passenger-jet-ends-near-decade-long-successful-safety-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T15:53:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[National Transportation Safety Board investigators examine damage to the engine of a Southwest Airlines plane that made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/australia-aims-global-leader-strong-anti-slavery-law-expected-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T16:01:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/business/corporate-business/stroller-makers-combi-aprica-raided-alleged-antitrust-violation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T16:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/business/u-s-cryptocurrency-exchange-kraken-leave-japanese-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T16:57:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/business/corporate-business/ex-goldman-banker-brings-dealmaking-skills-sharpened-toshiba-unit-sale-startup-eyeing-ipo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T17:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/business/economy-business/bank-japan-likely-enjoy-greater-policy-freedom-abe-quits-says-former-board-member-kiuchi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T17:50:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20180419.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former BOJ board member Takahide Kiuchi says the central bank will likely find it easier to make its inflation target less binding if recent scandals lead to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/business/economy-business/japan-logs-%c2%a52-46-trillion-trade-surplus-fy-2017-strong-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T17:52:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trade-a-20180419.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A container ship is berthed at a shipping terminal in Yokohama. Japan posted a goods trade surplus of ¥2.46 trillion in fiscal 2017 as strong overseas demand lifted the country's exports to the second-highest level on record, according to the Finance Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/national/crime-legal/24-year-prison-term-sought-ex-nhk-reporter-accused-serial-rapes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T18:49:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasutaka Tsurumoto, a former NHK reporter accused of raping three women, leaves a police station in Yamagata Prefecture in February 2017. Prosecutors on Wednesday demanded he be sentenced to a 24-year prison term.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/national/orix-starts-new-free-information-services-various-languages-inbound-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T18:55:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tourist scans a QR code on Monday on an Orix Corp. travel information placard placed at the Kawagoe City Tourist Information Office in Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/asia-pacific/taipei-accuses-beijing-saber-rattling-live-fire-drills-kick-off-taiwan-strait/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T20:03:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen visits Su'ao naval station during an exercise on April 13. Tsai boarded a navy destroyer to review military drills ahead of planned war games by China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-u-s-south-korea-seek-denuclearization-north-korea-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T20:47:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/national/crime-legal/japanese-lawmakers-enact-law-court-jurisdiction-international-divorces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T20:48:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/national/foreign-visitors-japan-reach-almost-30-million-fiscal-2017-tourism-agency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T21:53:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In March alone, the number of foreign visitors was estimated at 2,607,900, up 18.2 percent from a year earlier and a record high for the month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/national/anti-nuclear-niigata-governor-eyes-resignation-amid-sex-scandal-move-likely-impact-restart-key-power-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-18T22:42:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Niigata Gov. Ryuichi Yoneyama apologizes at a news conference held after he submitted a letter of resignation at the prefectural office in the city of Niigata on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-19T01:37:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man passes by a TV screen showing file footage of CIA Director Mike Pompeo and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program, at the main railway station in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/national/vietnamese-trainees-made-conduct-fukushima-decontamination-work-union-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T04:22:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-19T09:31:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mizuho Financial Group's logo is seen next to an electronic board showing stock price indexes at a branch of Mizuho Securities in Tokyo last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/world/crime-legal-world/bitcoin-heist-suspect-flees-iceland-flight-carrying-prime-minister-state-broadcaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T09:36:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This 2014 photo made available by the Reykjavík Metropolitan Police shows Sindri Thor Stefansson. Icelandic police have informed their Swedish colleagues that a man suspected of masterminding the theft of about 600 computers used to mine bitcoins and other virtual currencies, likely fled to Sweden after a prison break, officials said Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/business/last-straw-britain-ban-sale-stirrers-single-use-plastics-bid-curb-marine-waste/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T09:39:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gestures in a meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May (second from left), New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (right) and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the National Cyber Security Center in London Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-19T09:40:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former FBI Director James Comey (second, left) arrives to speak about his book "A Higher Loyalty" in New York Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/world/social-issues-world/lebanon-camp-years-hundreds-refugees-return-syria-area-recaptured-regime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T11:02:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian refugees evacuated from the southern Lebanese village of Shebaa ride in a bus through the Masnaa crossing on the Lebanon-Syria border leading to Damascus on Wednesday to return home to their village of Beit Jinn in the southwestern Damascus countryside.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-19T11:06:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpstorm-a-20180420.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adult film actress Stormy Daniels leaves ABC Television Studios after taping a segment on "The View" Tuesday in New York. Daniels, the porn actress alleging a sexual affair with President Donald Trump, released a composite sketch Tuesday of the man she says threatened her in a Las Vegas parking lot to stay quiet about the relationship.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/national/crime-legal/australian-woman-nabbed-allegedly-attempting-board-shinkansen-fake-rail-pass/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T11:20:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-australia-z-20171213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The JR Rail Pass is popular among tourists for long-distance travel.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/business/facebook-put-1-5-billion-users-reach-new-eu-privacy-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T13:26:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-facebook-a-20180420.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook is under scrutiny from regulators and lawmakers around the world since disclosing last month that the personal information of millions of users wrongly ended up in the hands of political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/world/u-s-faa-orders-engine-inspections-explosion-southwest-airlines-flight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T14:23:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-faainspect-a-20180420.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A National Transportation Safety Board investigator on Tuesday examines damage to the engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/national/sea-urchin-imports-tasmania-growing-popular-second-try-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T14:57:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-seaurchins-a-20180420.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sea urchin imports from Tasmania are getting popular in Japan after a Japanese fishery worked with a local seafood plant to find a way to ship them in fresh.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/asia-pacific/trump-says-walk-away-kim-summit-isnt-fruitful/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T15:40:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a joint news conference with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/national/u-s-military-helicopter-makes-emergency-landing-kumamoto-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T16:02:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. military UH-1 helicopter (front) made an emergency landing at Kumamoto Airport on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/national/90-security-companies-suffering-staff-shortages-police-survey-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T17:02:51+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/business/japanese-scientists-look-help-palm-oil-industry-tap-green-energy-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T17:07:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-palmtree-a-20180420.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers use spears to remove bad palm fruit from a pile at the Bukit Senorang Palm Oil Mill, owned by United Malacca Bhd., in Pahang, Malaysia, in October 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/asia-pacific/philippines-duterte-says-ordered-investigation-australian-nun/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T17:08:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures during the change of command ceremony of the Armed Forces of the Philippines at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-19T17:13:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seniors take part in a seminar in the city of Chiba on March 6 regarding how they should prepare to conclude their lives.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-19T17:29:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clothing retailer Shimamura Co., based in Saitama Prefecture, will soon expand into online sales in Taiwan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-19T17:33:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vice Finance Minister Junichi Fukuda leaves the ministry in Tokyo on Friday after coming under fire for allegations of sexual harassment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/business/hokkaido-test-site-outshining-carbon-capture-options-race-reduce-emissions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T17:49:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pipe for transporting carbon dioxide to removal equipment is shown at the Tomakomai carbon, capture and storage test site in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, on March 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-19T19:17:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-19T19:26:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump host Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie Abe for dinner at Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club at his resort in Florida on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-underscores-tpp-trump-remain-loggerheads-trade-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T21:21:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump waves at the conclusion of a joint news conference with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/national/tv-asahi-says-staffer-recorded-senior-finance-ministry-official-making-sexually-aggressive-comments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T21:25:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Shinozuka (right), head of TV Asahi's news division, speaks at a news conference that kicked off at midnight Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/national/politics-diplomacy/will-resignation-key-governor-weaken-japans-anti-nuclear-movement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T21:29:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Niigata Gov. Ryuichi Yoneyama apologizes at a news conference held after he submitted a letter of resignation, at the prefectural office in the city of Niigata on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/business/iconic-shibuya-109-building-launches-%c2%a5109-million-design-contest-new-logo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-19T23:13:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-109-a-20180420.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The iconic Shibuya 109 logo is up for grabs in a contest that ends May 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-20T06:51:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), attends a news conference in Geneva Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-20T06:52:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crenshanda Williams appears in a booking photo provided by the Houston Police Department Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-20T08:27:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A toy consisting of small magnetic metal balls of 3 mm in diameter is seen in this handout photo from the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan. Swallowing small magnetic objects like these can cause holes in the surface of the stomach or bowel, the center warns.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/20/business/u-s-treasury-mulls-emergency-powers-curb-chinese-investments-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-20T09:07:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heath Tarbert, assistant secretary for international markets and investment policy at the U.S. Treasury, speaks during a panel discussion at the Institute of International Finance (IIF) policy summit in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/20/asia-pacific/hotline-connect-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-south-korean-president-moon-jae-friday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-20T10:02:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean marine passes a TV screen showing file footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on April 18, 2018. North and South Korea have agreed to allow live television broadcasts for parts of a summit between the two leaders scheduled for next week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/20/world/crime-legal-world/judge-questions-trump-ex-campaign-chiefs-bid-dismiss-charges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-20T10:58:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-manafort-a-20180421.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for Donald Trump, exits from federal court in Washington Thursday. Special counsel Robert Mueller's interest in Manafort stemmed in part from his suspected role as a "back channel" between the campaign and Russians intent on meddling in the election, a Justice Department lawyer told a judge.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-20T11:07:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian boys play on a destroyed car in the former rebel-held Syrian town of Douma on the outskirts of Damascus on Thursday, five days after the Syrian army declared that all anti-regime forces have left eastern Ghouta, following a blistering two month offensive on the rebel enclave.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/20/world/crime-legal-world/rod-rosenstein-told-trump-last-week-hes-not-target-russia-probe-bloomberg/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-20T14:57:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/20/business/tech/cafes-offer-students-virtual-workday-experiences/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-20T15:40:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At a Shiru Cafe outlet, like this one in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, students can use virtual reality systems to experience what it would be like to work at a company.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-20T15:57:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnamese deportee and Amerasian Pham Chi Cuong, 47, who was deported from the U.S., smokes after eating along a street in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on April 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-20T16:32:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of Lumad women from the Mansaka tribe are seen wearing formal attire in this photo taken in 2015 in the Philippine province of Davao.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-20T17:11:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The beach where a 29-year-old man allegedly killed his wife for insurance money is shown Friday in the town of Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-20T17:46:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists walk around the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in December 2017. English-speaking guides will be available for tours from the beginning of May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-20T17:50:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko meets with Patriarch Filaret, head of Ukraine's Orthodox Church, in Kiev on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/19/national/reports-measles-rise-okinawa-posing-threat-tourism-ahead-golden-week-holidays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-20T18:14:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A notice cautioning tourists about measles is seen at a counter at Naha Airport in Okinawa Prefecture on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-20T18:29:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean soldiers (center and left) stand with a U.S. soldier at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone during a press tour Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-20T18:44:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-20T18:57:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jorge L. Quijano]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/20/national/crime-legal/people-sue-state-sterilizations-eugenics-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-20T19:31:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/20/national/abe-masayoshi-son-among-time-magazines-100-influential-people/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-20T20:08:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman Masayoshi Son were selected for the world's 100 Most Influential People of 2018 by Time magazine.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/20/business/economy-business/inflation-slips-yens-rise-complicates-bank-japans-2-percent-goal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-20T20:42:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/20/business/corporate-business/gm-korea-fails-reach-wage-deal-edging-closer-bankruptcy-filing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-20T23:24:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An attendee looks at a charging cable at the EV Trend Korea 2018 exhibition in Seoul on April 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/20/asia-pacific/person-person-north-south-korea-get-neighborly-direct-hotline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-20T23:25:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official talks on a phone for testing a hotline between the two Koreas at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/20/national/politics-diplomacy/nonpartisan-lawmakers-visit-war-linked-yasukuni-shrine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-20T23:28:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nonpartisan group of lawmakers visit the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-20T23:36:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apartment buildings stand in Discovery Bay, a residential project developed by Hong Kong Resort Co., on Lantau Island in Hong Kong, China, on March 27. Private homes in Discovery Bay currently sell from about HK$8 million to HK$80 million, said Denis Ma, head of research for Hong Kong at real-estate services company Jones Lang LaSalle Ltd.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-21T11:08:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiko Noda (center), minister for women's empowerment, marches with senior government officials and police officers along a bustling street in the Shibuya district Friday to call for an end to sex crimes targeting young women.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty (center) speaks with Japanese and U.S. officials at Donald Trumps Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Printouts of an email message sent from a Cabinet Office official to an education ministry official are shown on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants chat at the Bengaluru Tokyo Technology Initiative, held Friday at Sasakawa Peace Foundation building in Tokyo's Minato Ward.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (second from left) inspects a Kidd-class destroyer during a naval exercise off the northeastern port of Su'ao in Yilan County, Taiwan, on April 13.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, flanked by Finance Minister Taro Aso (right), attends a Diet session in the Upper House on March 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-21T15:39:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, chairman of the alliance between Renault SA, Nissan Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp., gestures while speaking at an event in Hong Kong on Friday. The alliance between Renault and Nissan needs to come up with a sustainable plan for a future when he is no longer around as chairman to guide it, Ghosn said.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-21T16:22:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The container terminal at Piraeus, near Athens, is seen in June 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-21T22:56:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuting blues: Metropolitan Police Department figures from 2017 show that 20 percent of sexual harassment cases occurred in train stations.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saline solution: Women's incursion into a sumo ring requires mounds of salt for "purification."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/21/business/japans-top-three-mobile-carriers-asked-stop-charging-customers-switch-providers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-21T17:36:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-21T18:12:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning is seen in waters off Hong Kong last July. The carrier conducted its first drills in the Pacific on Friday, according to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/21/national/annual-rights-report-u-s-expresses-concern-sexual-harassment-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-21T18:13:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New female employees of Japan Airlines Co. attend an initiation ceremony in a hangar at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on April 2. The U.S. State Department expressed concern Friday about sexual harassment in Japan, saying it remained "widespread" in the workplace, in an annual rights report.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-21T21:15:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in this photo released Saturday.  KCNA / via Reuters]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-21T21:16:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-21T21:17:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso (right) and Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda laugh while attending a Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank chiefs group photo on the sidelines of the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/21/national/media-national/jealousy-link-financial-ministry-scandals-together/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-22T11:53:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under fire: Administrative Vice Finance Minister Junichi Fukuda leaves the ministry on Monday evening.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-22T13:16:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[King Salman]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/22/business/economy-business/u-s-treasury-chief-may-visit-china-trade-tensions-simmer-worlds-largest-economies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-22T14:11:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Finance Minister Taro Aso participate in the International Monetary Fund Governors family photo during the IMF/World Bank spring meeting in Washington on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/22/world/americas-nuclear-headache-old-plutonium-nowhere-go/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-22T14:12:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during an event at the Department of Energy in Washington last June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/22/business/economy-business/japan-may-soften-trade-stance-u-s-keeps-pressure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-22T14:15:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrive for a joint news conference at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/22/world/u-s-north-korea-plan-meet-iran-warns-trump-changes-nuke-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-22T18:58:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mohammad Javad Zarif]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/22/national/another-reactor-genkai-plant-saga-heads-restart-late-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-22T19:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fuel pool at the Genkai nuclear power plant in Genkai, Saga Prefecture, is shown in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/22/national/north-koreas-surprise-move-unlikely-deepen-u-s-japan-rift-ahead-trump-kim-summit-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-22T19:49:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he hosts a joint news conference with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinaboat-a-20180423.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers search for missing people after two dragon boats capsized in Guilin, in southern China, on Saturday afternoon. A total of 17 people were killed after the boats capsized. Rowers onboard the two long kayak-like boats were practising for a race on the Taohua River in Guilin when the accident occurred.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-22T22:41:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-22T23:36:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Breast cancer survivor Mie Bowman displays special underwear she created for women who undergo mastectomies, on April 5 in Saitama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/22/national/security-issues-worry-osaka-residents-ahead-2019-g-20-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-22T23:37:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui (left) and Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura face reporters after their meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/22/national/tokyos-chiyoda-ward-issues-false-terror-alert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-22T23:57:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/22/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-canada-vow-maintain-pressure-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-23T01:27:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (left) and his Canadian counterpart Chrystia Freeland sign a mutual defense supply agreement in Toronto on Saturday. The agreement will allow the sharing of military equipment during operations and exercises in Canada, Japan and other locations.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese hackers are said to have targeted Japanese defense companies, possibly to get information on Tokyo's policy toward resolving the North Korean nuclear impasse, according to a report by cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man who recently discovered that he was likely switched at birth five decades ago at a Tokyo hospital displays his mother-and-child health record booklet during an interview April 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/22/national/social-issues/sexual-harassment-scandal-highlights-a-larger-problem-in-japans-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-24T15:33:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Disgraced top Finance Ministry bureaucrat Junichi Fukuda takes questions from the media on Wednesday regarding sexual harassment accusations.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-24T15:35:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuhisa Sagawa, a former Finance Ministry bureaucrat, speaks during a Lower House session in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-24T16:39:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This drawing shows the building that will house Bulgari Hotels &amp; Resorts' first lodging in Japan. It is scheduled to open near JR Tokyo Station by the end of 2020.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Today, Kyoto's former Fushimi Port is a quiet park, but a wooden ship reminds visitors of its past as a trading center with Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-24T19:48:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The critically endangered Yanbaru whiskered bat was discovered in a former U.S. military training area on Okinawa island, the first such sighting in 22 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-24T20:41:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junichi Fukuda]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/24/national/politics-diplomacy/veteran-ldp-lawmaker-hakubun-shimomura-calls-sexual-harassment-whistleblowing-almost-crime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-24T20:42:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hakubun Shimomura]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-24T20:42:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An aerial photo from April 9 shows Mukaishima island (left) in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, where escapee Tatsuma Hirao is believed to be on the run.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-24T22:26:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hold a news conference after their meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing on Sunday. /AFP-JIJI]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-25T03:59:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono delivers a speech during the second preparatory committee meeting for the 2020 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference in Geneva on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/24/business/japan-u-s-trade-dialogue-start-early-mid-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-25T10:04:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-25T10:22:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates (right) chats with IOC Olympic Games executive director Christophe Dubi during a news conference following the IOC project review meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/25/world/science-health-world/worlds-richest-buying-way-longer-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-25T14:31:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People exercise with wooden dumbbells during an event marking Respect for the Aged Day at a temple in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/25/national/swedish-king-hopes-maintain-ties-emperor-akihito-abdication/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-25T15:41:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Tuesday as Queen Silvia looks on.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/25/business/corporate-business/japans-itochu-withdraws-nuclear-power-plant-project-turkey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-25T16:49:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-25T16:50:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Directional signs bearing North Korean and U.S. flags are seen near the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-25T17:00:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leopalace 21 Corp. employee Mai Shibata poses with her smartphone during a demonstration of the company's security system 'Man on the Curtain' in her room in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-25T17:15:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chikako Yamada]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-26T05:01:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-25T18:32:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Pacific Command chief Adm. Harry Harris arrives at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence in Tokyo on Nov. 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-25T18:51:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reporters Without Borders ranked Japan at 67th — up five notches from last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-25T19:42:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech during the Liberal Democratic Party's annual convention in Tokyo in March. Despite plunging public approval ratings, support for Abe is still strong among businesses.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[VR Zone Shinjuku, an arcade in Tokyo that features virtual reality attractions, will launch Dragon Quest VR on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshimasa Hayashi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sustainable cocoa plantation is seen on a farm in Medicilandia, Para state, Brazil, March 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-26T09:09:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/world/crime-legal-world/jeff-sessions-wont-say-hes-recused-probe-trumps-lawyer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-26T09:14:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeff Sessions, U.S. attorney general, speaks during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in Washington on Wednesday. Sessions has decided against recusing himself from the investigation into President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, but will consider stepping back from specific questions tied to the probe, according to a person familiar with the matter.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-26T09:21:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Apple Tim Cook and Lisa Jackson arrive for the State Dinner in honor of French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-26T09:26:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-26T11:05:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Human footprint inside a sloth track, which appears to show that humans stalked the sloth, can be seen at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. Photo supplied by Bournemouth University, Britain, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/world/science-health-world/colossal-cosmic-collision-alters-understanding-early-universe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-26T13:51:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist's impression shows a group of interacting and merging galaxies in the early universe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/business/corporate-business/startups-colorful-ugandan-bags-take-off-japan-lifting-women-make/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-26T14:11:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chizu Nakamoto shows African print bags made by Ugandan women for her brand Ricci Everyday, at a pop-up shop in a Sogo &amp; Seibu Co. department store in Saitama's Omiya Ward on April 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-26T16:16:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-license-a-20180426.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A National Police Agency panel is looking into easing eligibility requirements for tests to obtain bus and taxi driving licenses, to tackle chronic labor shortages in the two industries.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/business/tech/softbank-unit-others-develop-humanoid-robot-can-transform-electric-car/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-26T16:42:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The J-deite Ride robot, which can turn into a car,is unveiled at a factory near Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/business/corporate-business/shire-bid-marks-takedas-latest-biggest-push-global-status/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-26T16:52:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Logos of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. are seen at an office building in the Glattbrugg area near Zurich in March 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/national/osaka-governor-says-casino-resort-open-fiscal-2023/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-26T17:12:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-26T17:38:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/business/corporate-business/sharp-posts-first-net-profit-four-years-solid-lcd-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-26T21:13:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees walk past the Sharp Corp. booth at the CEATEC Japan 2017 exhibition in Chiba Prefecture in October 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-26T21:54:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono attends a meeting at the United Nations in Geneva on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/national/crime-legal/osaka-man-barred-attending-sex-partners-cremation-seeks-inheritance-damages-pioneering-lawsuit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-26T21:56:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-26T22:16:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kuwait City skyline is seen through the haze of a sand storm in Shuwaikh, Kuwait City, in 2009. On Wednesday, Kuwait gave the Philippines ambassador a one-week deadline to leave the small, oil-rich Gulf Arab nation over a growing diplomatic dispute regarding the abuse of Filipina housemaids and workers in the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-u-s-adm-harris-agree-keep-pressure-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-26T23:04:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adm. Harry Harris (left), commander of U.S. Pacific Command, meets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday at the Prime Minister's Office. The two agreed to maintain maximum pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile development programs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/world/facebook-lobbying-failed-google-takes-aim-u-s-law-banning-use-biometric-data-without-consent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-26T23:11:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Facebook logo is reflected in the eye of an observer in 2015. The company and its peers are under heightened scrutiny after unauthorized sharing of data at the firm.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-26T23:30:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie arrives to meet with Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/national/crime-legal/ntt-unit-sued-plan-block-sites-hosting-pirated-manga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-27T04:21:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-27T06:52:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture taken on Sunday shows a Syrian air force Mi 24 helicopter dropping bombs over the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk, south of the Syrian capital Damascus, during regime strikes targeting the Islamic State group in the camp. Syrian troops are waging an intense bombing campaign against Yarmuk, a Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of Damascus, and nearby districts that are held by IS.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-27T06:56:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this image provided by the European Space Agency, ESA, the ExoMars Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System, CaSSIS, captured this view of the rim of Korolev crater (73.3ºN/165.9ºE) on April 15. The European Space Agency has released its first image taken by a probe orbiting Mars, showing the ice-covered edge of a vast crater. Scientists combined three pictures taken by the Trace Gas Orbiter's camera instrument, CaSSIS, from an altitude of 400 km (249 miles) on April 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-27T06:59:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer leaves after answering questions before the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee at Parliament in London on Thursday. Schroepfer appeared before a British parliamentary committee probing the role of fake news in recent votes, and how data gathered from the network were used to target potential voters. He admitted that Facebook had been "slow" in realizing how its data were being used following revelations that British communications firm Cambridge Analytica mined information on around 90 million users.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-27T07:38:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang in a photo  taken over Easter weekend.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-27T07:42:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese military vehicles carrying DF-26 ballistic missiles drive past Tiananmen Gate during a military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing in September 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-27T08:27:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students hold posters with pictures of South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a pro-unification rally in Seoul on Thursday ahead of the upcoming summit between the North and South.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/national/crime-legal/record-number-minors-japan-fell-victim-crimes-via-social-media-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-27T08:30:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-27T11:52:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wonderful weed: Scientists at the Riken Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, have detected a hormone that senses drought in thale cress.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/27/world/crime-legal-world/trump-tries-distance-lawyer-michael-cohens-case-porn-star/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-27T12:29:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels' attorney (left), watches as Michael Cohen (center), President Donald Trump's personal attorney, leaves federal court in New York Thursday. President Trump said that Cohen, his personal attorney, represented him "with this crazy Stormy Daniels deal," after previously denying any knowledge of a payment Cohen made to the porn actress who alleges an affair with Trump.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-27T15:08:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-27T15:10:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in shake hands in the Peace House building on the southern side of the truce village of Panmunjom on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/27/asia-pacific/understanding-kim-inside-u-s-effort-profile-secretive-north-korean-leader/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-27T15:19:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un prepares to write in a guest book with his sister, Kim Yo Jong, at the Peace House at the truce village of Panmunjom inside the Demilitarized Zone on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/27/asia-pacific/korea-peace-dividend-flow-mostly-impoverished-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-27T15:24:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-ekonomy-a-20180428.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ekonomy-a-20180428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Ryuwon Shoe Factory in Pyongyang in this photo released on Jan. 21, 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/27/world/crime-legal-world/genealogy-websites-helped-california-police-find-golden-state-killer-suspect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-27T15:28:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-deangelo-a-20180428.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-deangelo-a-20180428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joseph James DeAngelo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/national/mount-io-kyushu-erupts-second-time-week-stirring-250-year-dormancy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-27T15:39:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A video camera image shows smoke rising up from a crater on Mt Io, which sits on the border of Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures, at 6:16 p.m. on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-27T19:11:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Korean residents who gathered at the Korean Cultural Center in Osaka on Friday applaud as they watch a live broadcast of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in shaking hands.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/27/business/boj-policy-meeting-removes-deadline-price-goal-keeps-policy-steady/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Finance Ministry decided to deduct an amount equivalent to 20 percent on six months' worth of wages from the retirement benefits of former Administrative Vice Minister Junichi Fukuda, whose resignation was approved by the Cabinet earlier this week.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors attend an integrated resorts trade show at Grand Front Osaka on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shakes hands with South Korean President Moon Jae-in as both of them arrive for the inter-Korean summit Friday at the truce village of Panmunjom, in this still frame taken from video.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stormy Daniels' attorney, Michael Avenatti, leaves a courthouse in New York on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-28T14:04:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince William and his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, show off their newborn son to the media outside St. Mary's Hospital in central London on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High school students hold a "die-in" in front of Gov. Doug Ducey's office in a protest against gun violence on Friday in Phoenix.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/28/asia-pacific/nations-welcome-korean-summit-urge-progress-toward-denuclearization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-28T15:51:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[.South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walk together after a tree-planting ceremony at the truce village of Panmunjom on Friday]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-28T15:53:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak waves to his supporters after his election nomination in Pekan, Pahang state, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/28/business/corporate-business/kobe-steel-posts-first-profit-three-years-despite-data-fraud-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-28T16:06:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kobe-a-20180429.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kobe Steel posted its first annual profit in three years in fiscal 2017 despite a data falsification scandal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/28/business/nod-trump-trade-pressure-japanese-ship-takes-first-many-u-s-gas-loads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-28T16:29:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/28/asia-pacific/north-koreas-first-lady-cheerleader-global-stage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-28T16:34:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-risolju-a-20180429.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-risolju-a-20180429.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's wife, Ri Sol Ju (left), walks with South Korean President Moon Jae-in's wife, Kim Jung-sook, during a farewell ceremony at the truce village of Panmunjom inside the Demilitarized Zone on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/28/national/media-national/confronting-definition-moral-education/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-28T22:44:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-moral-a-20180429.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Starting young: "Moral education" became an official school subject in elementary schools nationwide this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/28/national/media-national/new-zealand-rugby-teams-tackle-diversity-risk-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-28T22:42:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-samuels-rugby-a-20180429.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Media scrum: All Black forward Sam Whitelock takes part in a children's rugby clinic held in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/27/business/tech/ibm-ties-asahi-refining-others-blockchain-tech-track-jewels-mine-store/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-28T17:22:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jewels-a-20180428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jewelry industry companies and an independent laboratory are developing a blockchain network for tracing the provenance of finished pieces of jewelry from mine to store.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/28/national/bomb-survivors-praise-denuclearization-agreement-inter-korean-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-28T18:13:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/despite-warmth-merkel-trump-still-apart-trade-nato/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-28T18:16:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/28/national/crime-legal/man-served-second-warrant-quintuple-murder-kagoshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-28T20:17:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-murder-a-20180429.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomohiro Iwakura]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/28/business/corporate-business/xerox-fujifilm-deal-blocked-new-york-judge-alleged-conflict-linked-u-s-ceo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-28T20:17:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fujifilm Holdings' Chief Executive Officer Shigetaka Komori speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/28/business/corporate-business/subaru-admits-systematically-rigged-mileage-emissions-data-2002/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-28T20:18:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Subaru Corp. President Yasuyuki Yoshinaga (left) submits a report on the scandal-hit automaker's data-manipulation confession to an official at the transport ministry on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/28/national/japan-sumo-body-addresses-ritual-exclusion-women-ring-special-board-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-28T22:54:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sumo-a-20180429.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A YouTube screenshot shows women climbing into the dohyō (sumo ring) to assist Maizuru Mayor Ryozo Tatami after he collapsed earlier this month during a spring tournament in Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/28/national/media-national/junichi-fukuda-scandal-leaves-media-outlets-bind/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-29T14:38:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukuda-z-020180419.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man in the mirror: Administrative Vice Finance Minister Junichi Fukuda leaves the ministry in Tokyo on April 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/28/national/politics-diplomacy/new-comfort-women-memorial-removed-thoroughfare-manila-pressure-japanese-embassy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-29T15:05:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-comfort-a-20180429.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A memorial dedicated to the Filipino﷯"﷯comfort women" is shown in March. The statue, installed in December, was removed from a boulevard in Manila on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/29/asia-pacific/pakistan-moves-jailed-doctor-helped-track-bin-laden-possible-prelude-release/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-29T15:33:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ubldoc-a-20180430.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shakil Afridi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/29/asia-pacific/south-korea-scrambles-jets-chinese-military-aircraft-enters-air-defense-zone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-29T15:34:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-29T15:34:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber lands at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/29/national/time-honored-passport-stamp-gets-digital-elbow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-29T15:40:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-passport-a-20180430.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists show off passport stamps after arriving at Narita airport earlier this month. Many airports around the world are abolishing passport stamps and introducing biometric identification instead to speed up immigration procedures amid growing airport congestion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/29/national/writer-kazuo-ishiguro-former-u-s-secretary-state-madeleine-albright-decorated-japanese-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-29T16:05:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/29/national/politics-diplomacy/australia-canada-join-maritime-surveillance-effort-north-korea-sanctions-evaders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-29T16:59:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/29/asia-pacific/australia-plans-monument-mark-anniversary-1770-landing-british-explorer-james-cook/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-29T16:59:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/29/world/squeeze-iran-will-cave-like-north-korea-top-israeli-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-29T16:59:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-irank-a-20180430.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yisrael Katz]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/29/asia-pacific/modi-tweets-india-fulfilled-commitment-electrified-villages-ahead-deadline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-04-29T20:51:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-04-30T20:28:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/01/business/volkswagen-talks-manage-didi-fleet-codevelop-self-driving-cars/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-01T18:50:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-01T23:43:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-02T12:46:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House Chief of Staff John Kelly (left) walks with then-White House staff secretary Rob Porter to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-02T13:28:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-02T16:13:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to submit a smoking-ban ordinance to the local assembly, aiming to prevent passive smoking in restaurants and bars in the capital.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-02T17:51:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito, who is due to ascend the Imperial throne on May 1 next year, attends a meeting to promote blood donations with Crown Princess Masako in July last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-02T17:56:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-02T20:47:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpmore-a-20180503.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An illustration shows how a project to carve U.S. President Donald Trump's bust onto an arctic iceberg might ultimately look.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-02T21:17:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hisae Yoshiga, a Japanese born in Taiwan before World War II, is pictured in September 2017. Yoshiga returned to Japan when she was 10, following the end of the war in 1945.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-02T21:26:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tadao Yanase]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/02/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-israel-pms-hold-talks-mideast-peace-cybersecurity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-02T22:42:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, shake hands before their talks in Jerusalem on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-02T23:23:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-02T23:24:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/03/business/trump-asks-court-toss-foreign-payments-suit-claims-absolute-immunity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-03T06:36:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-03T09:09:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for the National Teacher of the Year (NTOY) reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/03/business/u-s-halts-talks-brazil-levies-import-tariffs-quotas-steel-aluminum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-03T09:17:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-03T10:54:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt removes his glasses as he testifies at a hearing of the House Appropriations subcommittee for the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, on Capitol Hil in Washington April 26. The lobbyist whose wife rented a condo to Pruitt at $50 a night sought EPA committee posts for a lobbying client about the time Pruitt moved out, according to a newly released EPA memo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-03T12:25:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An online forum known as the Government Monitor System allowed citizens to contact the Cabinet Office directly to express policy-related ideas, with the comments eventually being published online.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/02/business/corporate-business/xerox-ceo-resigns-lawsuit-puts-fujifilm-deal-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-03T12:33:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Xerox Corp.'s top executive and six board members agreed to step down amid the company's planned $6.1 billion (¥670 billion) takeover by Fujifilm Holdings Corp.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-03T12:36:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) shakes hands with North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho in Pyongyang on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/03/business/u-s-considering-restrictions-chinese-telecommunications-equipment-manufacturers-zte-huawei/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-03T13:31:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/03/business/economy-business/japan-eyes-pushing-back-fiscal-health-improvement-goal-2025/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-03T14:22:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-03T15:39:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Purported Chinese dredging vessels are seen in waters around Fiery Cross Reef in the South China Sea‘s disputed Spratly Islands in this image provided by the U.S. Navy in May 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-03T15:56:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nepali engineers pose beside their drone used to supply medicine to remote villages in Myagdi on April 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-03T16:15:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Herder Jugdur Samdan is seen at his winter camp in Arkhangai province, Mongolia, on Feb. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/03/business/brazilian-ethanol-producers-japanese-auto-emissions-take-hit-tokyo-caves-trumps-america-first-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-03T18:25:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sugar cane is harvested at a plantation in Valparaiso, Brazil, in 2014. Brazil is a pioneer in the use of sugar cane-derived ethanol to power cars.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/03/asia-pacific/trump-hints-imminent-release-americans-held-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-03T18:26:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man watches a TV screen showing file footage of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in the South Korean capital on March 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/03/national/temple-visitors-hospitalized-kyoto-chemical-smell-emanates-near-toilet/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters look after people who evacuated from Nanzenji temple in Kyoto, where a pungent chemical smell forced about 70 visitors to evacuate Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-03T18:32:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-denies-rumors-hes-planning-call-snap-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-03T19:46:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks in the Upper House on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/03/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-dream-revise-japans-constitution-drifts-farther-reach-long-running-scandals-chip-away-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-03T20:40:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People hold up signboards calling for the protection of Article 9 in Japan's pacifist Constitution during a rally organized by five citizens' groups Thursday in Tokyo's Ariake district. Thursday was Constitution Day, marking the date when the charter went into effect in 1947.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-03T20:43:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-russia-a-20180504.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's consortium failed to win support for the construction of a new terminal at Khabarovsk Novy Airport in the Russian Far East.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/03/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-middle-east-trip-support-u-s-highlighting-japans-mediatory-role-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-03T20:44:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu (second from right) attend a joint meeting between Israeli and Japanese businessmen in Jerusalem on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/03/national/trump-esque-fashion-abe-offensive-japans-established-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-03T21:11:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/03/world/u-k-s-theresa-may-crisis-cabinet-brexiters-outgun-customs-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-03T23:19:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on May 1, as she heads to the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session in the House of Commons.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/world/no-respite-millions-civilians-syria-war-drags-u-n-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-04T09:13:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian rebels and civilians prepare to be evacuated from the town of Yalda on the southern outskirts of Damascus on Thursday under a negotiated withdrawal to secure the last opposition holdouts of the capital. The evacuees are heading to opposition-held parts of northern Syria.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-04T11:41:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Akita puppy that is to be given to Russian Olympic champion figure skater Alina Zagitova is shown to the public in Odate, Akita Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/national/politics-diplomacy/chinas-president-xi-may-visit-japan-june-2019-diplomatic-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-04T13:18:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-04T13:30:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) speaks at a press conference about the National Defense Authorization Act in Washington last October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/03/national/80-elderly-drivers-involved-fatal-accidents-drove-without-incident-preceding-3-years-police-agency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-04T13:31:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 80 percent of drivers aged 75 or older who caused fatal accidents in 2016 had no records of any traffic accidents or violations in the preceding three years, the National Police Agency found.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-04T13:51:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-asahi-a-20180504.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man prays for Asahi Shimbun reporter Tomohiro Kojiri at the newspaper's bureau in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Thursday. Kojiri was killed on May 3, 1987, in an attack claimed by ultra-rightists.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/asia-pacific/trump-orders-pentagon-consider-reducing-u-s-troops-south-korea-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-04T15:15:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-sktroops-a-20180505.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sktroops-a-20180505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks before receiving a briefing from military commanders at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on Nov. 7. Beside him is Gen. Vincent Brooks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/03/world/depth-customs-deal-european-union-latest-brexit-headache-british-pm-theresa-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-04T15:26:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-brexplainer-a-20180504.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on May 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/rudy-giuliani-wants-limits-trump-interview-russia-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-04T15:59:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-giulimits-a-20180505.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-giulimits-a-20180505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rudy Giuliani]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/business/corporate-business/toyota-building-self-driving-test-facility-u-s-trial-dangerous-scenarios/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-04T16:25:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/world/look-whos-picking-tab-karl-marxs-birthday-bash-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-04T16:26:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-marxcc-a-20180505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Karl Marx's birth house in Trier, Germany]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/asia-pacific/south-korean-police-seek-arrest-warrant-korean-air-chairmans-daughter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-04T17:11:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/theresa-mays-conservatives-avoid-london-wipeout-local-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-04T19:15:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/business/corporate-business/hitachi-requests-support-british-prime-minister-theresa-may-welsh-nuclear-plant-construction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-04T20:14:58+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/national/politics-diplomacy/finance-chiefs-japan-china-south-korea-hail-inter-korean-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-04T22:03:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/turkeys-main-opposition-nominates-combative-former-teacher-challenge-tayyip-erdogan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-04T22:22:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-turkey-a-20180505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Muharrem Ince, a lawmaker with Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party, CHP, and the party's presidential candidate, gestures as he begins his campaign in Ankara on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/05/world/nuclear-deal-challenge-hassan-rouhani-iran-hard-liners-close/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-05T13:42:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rouhani-a-20180506.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a meeting with Muslim leaders and scholars in Hyderabad, India, on Feb. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/05/world/u-s-navy-re-establishes-2nd-fleet-northern-atlantic-counter-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-05T13:49:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-05T14:13:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/05/national/media-national/japan-high-profile-former-gangster-struggles-go-straight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-05T19:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-adelstein-ishihara-a-20180506.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gangsters in Japan typically aren't afraid to use violence to procure cash.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/05/business/trump-teams-trade-mission-china-lays-bare-yawning-divide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-05T16:09:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-uschina-a-20180506.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker cuts steel in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province, on Jan. 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/south-korean-national-security-adviser-visits-u-s-meet-counterpart-officials-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-05T16:14:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea's National Security Office chief Chung Eui-yong attends a meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on March 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-05T18:07:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump waves on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday after returning from addressing the NRA convention in Dallas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/national/memorial-held-japanese-police-officer-killed-1993-u-n-mission-cambodia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-05T18:14:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-memorial-a-20180505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia Hidehisa Horinouchi on Friday prays for police officer Haruyuki Takata, who was killed on May 4, 1993, during Japan's first U.N. peacekeeping operation, at a memorial service in Phnom Penh to mark 25 years since his death.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/national/number-children-japan-falls-37th-year-hit-new-record-low/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-05T18:54:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-kids-a-20180505.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kids-a-20180505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The latest government data show there were 15.53 million children in Japan as of April 1, down for the 37th consecutive year and the least since comparable data became available in 1950.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-05T19:21:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian National Council at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/05/national/media-national/news-outlets-quick-fall-love-prison-break-coverage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-05T22:44:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-schreiber-fugitive-a-20180506.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man on the run: Tatsuma Hirao is led down a flight of stairs after his capture in the city of Hiroshima on April 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-05T19:40:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-05T19:50:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/national/crime-legal/shimane-man-held-woman-went-missing-july-found-apartment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-05T20:33:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-05T22:03:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a caravan of migrants from Central America enter the U.S. border and customs facility in Tijuana, Mexico, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/05/national/media-national/susaki-otter-chiitan-leads-new-generation-mascots-personality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-06T01:14:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dynamic duo: Susaki's mascot, Chiitan (left), poses for a photo with its predecessor, Shinjo-kun.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/05/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-xi-agree-cooperate-tackling-n-korea-nuclear-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-06T09:06:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks with a reporter Friday at the Prime Minister’s Official Residence after a telephone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/06/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-says-japan-must-adapt-join-diplomatic-fray/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-06T21:31:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/world/u-s-facebook-users-active-since-privacy-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T04:35:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook Inc.'s annual F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, on May 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/world/crime-legal-world/22-collared-eastern-india-three-separate-rape-cases-attacks-gain-spotlight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T05:47:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aam Admi Party (AAP) supporters burn an effigy Saturday of Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das during a protest rally following the rape and murder of 16-year-old girl on April 3, in the Indian city of Ranchi. Police arrested 14 men Saturday after a teenager was raped and burned alive at her home in eastern India, in the latest case of sexual violence in the country. The 16-year-old was abducted from her home when her family was away to attend a wedding and raped in a forested area of Jharkhand state on Thursday, a local police officer said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/first-lady-announce-initiatives-childrens-well/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T06:44:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-melania-a-20180508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[First lady Melania Trump greets French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, at the White House in Washington April 23. The White House says Melania Trump will announce her initiatives as first lady on Monday. The first lady's spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, says the focus will be on the overall well-being of children.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/world/crime-legal-world/trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-not-rule-nuisance-payments-made-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T09:11:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-payoffs-a-20180508.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-payoffs-a-20180508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrives for the presidential inaugural parade in front of the White House in Washington in January 2017. Giuliani said on Sunday that Trump would not be required to comply with a potential subpoena from the special counsel investigating possible collusion with Russia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/republican-house-armed-services-panel-chairman-warns-trump-leaving-iran-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T09:17:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. Mac Thornberry, a Republican from Texas, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, April 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/conservatives-steal-liberal-term-illinois-counties-declare-sanctuary-status-gun-owners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T09:18:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A baby looks up at a firearms display in an exhibit hall at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center during the NRA's annual convention on Sunday in Dallas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/business/warren-buffett-skirts-controversy-politics-intrude-omaha-bash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T10:45:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-buffett-a-20180508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Warren Buffet, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., plays bridge at an event on the sidelines of the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, Sunday. Buffett said he doesn't want Berkshire Hathaway being a leader on cyberinsurance because neither he nor others in the industry really know the risk.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/06/national/rush-travelers-returning-golden-week-holidays-reaches-peak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T11:41:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wait for a shinkansen at Shin-Osaka Station on Sunday morning.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/05/national/media-national/japan-struggling-deal-foreign-tourism-boom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T12:43:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Standing room only: Tourists walk along Matsubara-dori street approaching the Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/06/national/japans-planned-sdf-dispatch-u-s-base-okinawa-amid-copter-mishaps-hits-snag/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T12:45:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-futenma-a-20180507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo taken in January by a resident of the village of Tonaki, Okinawa Prefecture, shows a U.S. military AH-1 attack helicopter at a heliport on Tonaki Island.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/world/crime-legal-world/rudy-giuliani-confounds-contradicts-defends-trump-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T13:01:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rudy-a-20180508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks at the 2018 Iran Freedom Convention in Washington Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/06/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-looks-team-island-nations-indo-pacific-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T13:43:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/06/national/politics-diplomacy/kishida-decide-ldp-leadership-race-diet-session/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T14:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kishida-a-20180507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Fumio Kishida speaks with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hanoi on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/clash-political-titans-mahathir-mohamad-najib-razak-brings-gripping-election-malaysia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T15:02:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-malayelex-a-20180508.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-malayelex-a-20180508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of former Malaysian strongman Mahathir Mohamad shout slogans during an election campaign in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Malaysia's general election on Wednesday will determine if scandal-plagued Prime Minister Najib Razak's coalition can extend nearly 61 years of unbroken rule.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/reference/caution-urged-okinawa-measles-outbreak-spreads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T15:49:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 1-year-old receives a measles vaccination at a clinic in Kawasaki. A recent outbreak of the disease in Okinawa is raising concerns in other regions over the risk of the disease spreading further.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/national/bomb-threat-forces-closure-aoyama-gakuin-university/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T15:55:05+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/national/japan-holds-drill-nankai-trough-quake-feared-strike-within-30-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T17:22:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nankai-a-20180508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials hold a drill to prepare for a massive earthquake that could occur along the Nankai Trough, at land ministry in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/business/corporate-business/nissan-withdraw-diesel-vehicle-market-europe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T17:45:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/b-nissan-a-20180507.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissan-a-20180507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. is set to withdraw from selling diesel cars in Europe.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/national/tokyo-based-bus-firm-brings-fresh-local-produce-well-passengers-rural-gifu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T17:59:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sales clerk at a supermarket in Tokyo's Suginami Ward stacks shelves with vegetables delivered by highway express bus from Takayama, Gifu Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/business/economy-business/bank-japan-warned-march-premature-exit-debate-meeting-minutes-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T18:02:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20180508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda holds a news conference at the central bank's headquarters on April 27.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/business/one-year-legoland-japan-faces-uphill-battle-bid-increase-visitors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T18:09:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors enter the Legoland Japan theme park in Nagoya in March 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/business/japanese-developers-flock-thai-property-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T18:54:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/b-developer-a-20180508.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-developer-a-20180508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese realtors are rushing to tap the property market in Bangkok and other cities in Thailand.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/national/japans-non-japanese-living-welfare/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T19:13:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-welfare-z-20180508.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-welfare-z-20180508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Authorities say the rise in foreign beneficiaries appears to correspond to the general trend of Japan's graying population.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/national/science-health/okayama-researcher-boasts-nontropical-banana-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T19:48:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-banana-a-20180508.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-banana-a-20180508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Setsuzo Tanaka stands beside a banana plant that can survive cold weather, in December in the city of Okayama.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/national/politics-diplomacy/rock-bottom-opinion-polls-japanese-opposition-parties-kibo-no-democratic-party-decide-merge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T19:50:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-newparty-a-20180508.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-newparty-a-20180508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kohei Otsuka (left), an Upper House lawmaker who led the Democratic Party, and Yuichiro Tamaki, a Lower House member who led Kibo no To (Party of Hope), attend the inaugural ceremony for their newly merged Democratic Party for the People, in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/national/hackers-disable-scores-canon-made-security-cameras-across-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T19:50:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-hacking-a-20180508.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hacking-a-20180508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A message apparently left by hackers is seen on a security camera screen at an unidentified solar power facility recently.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/national/politics-diplomacy/chinas-presence-trilateral-summit-likely-limit-japans-say-korean-affairs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-07T22:01:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-trilateral-a-20180508.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trilateral-a-20180508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The upcoming trilateral summit is expected to see Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (center) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in (right) dance around issues related to North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/world/science-health-world/hotter-seas-seen-threatening-catastrophic-loss-marine-life-2100/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T06:39:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-warming-a-20180509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-warming-a-20180509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People sit outside a pub on the banks of the River Thames as they soak up the sun in Richmond, southwest London, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/world/big-island-braces-lava-tourists-kilauea-eruption-surges-destroys-35-structures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T09:18:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-kilauea-a-20180509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kilauea-a-20180509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo taken from video an unidentified man gets close to a lava flow advancing down a road in the Leilani Estates subdivision near Pahoa on the island of Hawaii Monday. Kilauea volcano has destroyed more than two dozen homes since it began spewing lava hundreds of feet into the air last week, and residents who evacuated don't know how long they might be displaced. The decimated homes were in the Leilani Estates subdivision, where molten rock, toxic gas and steam have been bursting through openings in the ground created by the volcano.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/business/taking-fox-comcast-formally-notifies-brussels-intent-bid-sky/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T10:49:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-court-blocks-transfer-apparently-saudi-arabia-alleged-american-islamic-state-fighter-held-iraq/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T10:51:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/world/least-two-killed-trains-collide-southern-germany-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T11:03:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trains-a-20180509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters and rescuers work at the scene where two trains collided late Monday in Aichach, killing two people and Injuring several others. The Deutsche Bahn network operator said that a commuter service hit a freight train between Ingolstadt and Augsburg in Germany's southern Bavaria region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/business/tech/sales-sonys-new-aibo-robot-dog-off-solid-start/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T12:32:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp.'s new Aibo robot dog is shown to the media at the company's headquarters in Tokyo last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/national/education-ministry-pushes-open-kitchens-japans-kindergartens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T14:04:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-pence-wont-attend-opening-u-s-embassy-jerusalem-next-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T14:11:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. president special adviser Jared Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trum,p arrive for the a state welcome ceremony honoring French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House in Washington April 24. President Donald Trump will not travel to Israel for the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, the White House said Monday, announcing that his daughter and son-in-law will be members of the delegation.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-08T14:30:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The TK Holdings Inc. headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, is seen last June. The U.S. Department of Transportation is again urging owners of vehicles with defective Takata air bags to seek repairs immediately.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/national/china-opposition-likely-stop-japanese-students-speaking-u-n-disarmament-conference-geneva/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T14:33:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two high school students pose for a photo on April 4 in Nagasaki after being chosen as student peace ambassadors. A group of 20 student peace ambassadors from Japan plan to visit Geneva for the Conference on Disarmament in August, but they are unlikely to be allowed to address the meeting.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/national/japanese-researchers-work-create-ai-capable-generating-haiku-images/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T15:08:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-haiku-z-20180509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-haiku-z-20180509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A team of researchers and software developers is aiming to create AI that can analyze a vast amount of poetry to generate a haiku written about a subject or scene.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/national/japan-tightens-security-ahead-three-way-summit-china-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T15:31:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-08T15:46:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buses carrying rebels who were evacuated from Rastan are seen in Homs countryside, Syria, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-08T16:13:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jal-a-20180509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines Co. is thinking about launching a low cost carrier.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/business/economy-business/japans-march-household-spending-slumps-suggesting-economy-slowed-first-quarter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T16:55:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Household spending fell 0.7 percent in March from a year earlier.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/asia-pacific/focus-human-rights-fades-u-s-south-korea-pursue-north-korea-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T16:58:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean defector tries to stop an activist who opposes releasing balloons containing leaflets denouncing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, near the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/national/japanese-scholar-challenges-conventional-business-school-model-seeks-nurture-new-type-leader/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T17:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomoyoshi Noda gives a lecture at his Tokyo-based Institute for Strategic Leadership.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/asia-pacific/chinese-missiles-transforming-balance-power-skies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T17:21:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/national/congressional-group-backs-efforts-trump-japan-peace-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T18:15:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-08T18:25:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gait-a-20180509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A system for gait recognition — identifying someone by the way they walk — developed by Yasushi Yagi of Osaka University is displayed at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Koto Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-corp-profit-hits-record-higher-coal-prices-expects-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T18:52:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emissions rise from the coal-fired Santee Cooper Cross Generating Station power plant at dusk in Pineville, South Carolina, on March 21. Mitsubishi Corp. said its profit for last year jumped 27 percent to record levels due to stronger prices for coking coal and other commodities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/national/tokyo-based-startups-look-link-consumers-restaurants-curb-food-waste/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T19:33:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuma Kawagoe, president of CoCooking Co., is seen at his office in Tokyo. He founded Tabete, a food waste reduction system, in hopes of raising awareness of the issue of food loss in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-host-china-south-korea-summit-north-korea-likely-topping-agenda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T22:20:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe, Li Keqiang and Moon Jae In]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/national/crime-legal/young-girl-hit-train-central-japan-suspected-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T22:20:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-08T22:22:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tadao Yanase, a former aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaks to reporters Monday afternoon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/national/japanese-protest-taro-asos-sexual-harassment-comments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-08T22:23:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women protest against Finance Minister Taro Aso during a rally outside his ministry on Monday evening.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/high-ranking-north-korean-official-may-visiting-china-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T03:59:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Dalian, in northeastern China's Liaoning Province, in this undated photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/rare-criticism-obama-calls-trump-move-ditch-iran-abided-nuclear-deal-misguided/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T10:55:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-obama-a-20180510.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-obama-a-20180510.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama potraits are on television as traders work on the floor at the closing bell of the Dow Industrial Average at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday in New York. Wall Street stocks finished essentially flat Tuesday as investors tried to assess the potential fallout from Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear accord.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/business/japanese-firms-turn-referral-hiring-talent-search-amid-labor-crunch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T15:07:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuhiko Omae (left) and Kurumi Ohinata, who joined Will Group after Omae referred her to the company, chat in Tokyo in April.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/world/europe-iran-pledge-uphold-nuclear-pact-without-united-states/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T15:46:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing a proclamation declaring his intention to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/national/heatstroke-campaign-looks-raise-awareness-among-foreign-tourists-residents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T15:51:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials at the Japan Weather Association are seen Tuesday in Tokyo following the announcement of the Heatstroke Zero campaign, aimed at raising awareness of the risks among foreign travelers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/business/buy-like-sell-market-fancies-top-collectors-reveal-make-fortune-art/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T15:55:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A spectator enjoys the artwork of Yayoi Kusama at the Whitney Museum in New York in 2012. Kusama's various artworks owned by Kim and Lito Camacho have risen between 20 and 30 times in value over the past decade or so.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-09T15:59:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/national/crime-legal/ishinomaki-appeal-ruling-students-tsunami-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T16:13:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This March 2011 photo shows Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture after the school was destroyed by massive tsunami that hit the Tohoku region the same month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/national/chiba-prefecture-seeks-shed-nuclear-stigma-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T16:16:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chiba Prefecture, featuring its mascot character Chiba-kun, set up a booth to promote its agricultural products at the Agriculture Expo in Taoyuan, northwestern Taiwan, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/national/politics-diplomacy/senior-sdf-member-punished-insulting-lawmaker-street/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T16:33:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Upper House member Hiroyuki Konishi tells a reporter on April 24 that a Ground Self-Defense Force officer cursed at him while he was jogging on April 16 near the Diet building in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/national/japan-court-orders-damages-paid-wrongful-spousal-abuse-claim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T16:51:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/business/new-japan-u-s-trade-dialogue-not-intended-lead-bilateral-pact-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T17:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/asia-pacific/walking-away-iran-deal-trump-bets-heavily-u-s-power-move-backfire-east-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T17:27:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A giant TV in Tokyo shows a news report on North Korea's missile launch over Hokkaido on Aug. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/national/crime-legal/7-year-old-girl-likely-killed-hours-hit-train-niigata/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T17:44:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children and their parents walk to school in groups in Niigata on Wednesday in the wake of the apparent murder of a seven-year-old girl. The girl's death has sent shock waves across the community.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/national/finance-ministry-officials-given-training-sexual-harassment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T18:11:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Ministry officials attend a training course on sexual harassment at the ministry Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/business/corporate-business/big-spender-softbank-posts-record-profit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T18:57:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. store employees are seen working outside a branch in Tokyo in 2015. SoftBank logged a record annual operating profit for the business year that ended in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/business/corporate-business/challenges-await-takeda-62-billion-shire-victory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T19:21:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. President and Chief Executive Officer Christophe Weber holds a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/business/corporate-business/japans-recruit-holdings-buys-u-s-job-site-glassdoor-1-2-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T20:41:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past a Tokyo train station. The U.S. firm bought by Tokyo-based Recruit Holdings Co., Glassdoor Inc., is known for hosting anonymous employee reviews of company culture and management.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-09T20:42:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (from left to right), Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in pose for photographers prior to their summit in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/business/economy-business/toyota-announces-record-net-profit-%c2%a52-49-trillion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-09T20:42:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akio Toyoda]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-09T20:42:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reviews the guard of honor with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a welcoming ceremony before their bilateral talks at Akasaka Palace state guest house in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/national/crime-legal/japanese-man-arrested-thai-airport-empty-gun-magazines-found-luggage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T04:15:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-10T06:35:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-10T06:45:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A foreign soldier takes position during an attack and gun fire in Kabul Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-10T12:37:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former North Korean detainee Jeffrey Fowle, shown on May 4 at his home in Dayton, Ohio, has said his religious faith helped him survive his ordeal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/business/jr-east-launch-sightseeing-train-tokyo-izu-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T12:40:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An illustration shows a private room in a new sightseeing train to be introduced by East Japan Railway Co. to run from Tokyo to Shimoda on the Izu Peninsula.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/national/crime-legal/japanese-father-son-face-trafficking-child-abuse-charges-philippines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T13:12:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/national/japans-first-foreign-nursing-care-trainees-arrive-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T15:01:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan will receive its first two foreign trainees in the field of nursing care as early as next month after a supervising body approved their training plans.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/business/california-becomes-first-u-s-state-require-solar-panels-new-homes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T15:41:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A solar panel is installed on the roof of the Old Governor's Mansion State Historic Park in Sacramento, California, on Oct. 16, 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/business/cracks-british-nuclear-reactor-ring-power-alarm-bells/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T16:30:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hunterston nuclear power station in West Kilbride, Scotland, is pictured on May 15, 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/business/corporate-business/xerox-renegotiate-fujifilms-takeover-search-better-price-tag/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T17:04:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-xerox-a-20180511.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Xerox Corp. plans to renegotiate the acrimonious acquisition proposal made by Fujifilm Holdings Corp.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/national/emperor-expresses-hope-japan-china-ties-improve-meeting-chinese-premier-li-keqiang-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T17:24:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito talks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (right) during a meeting at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/business/corporate-business/ex-goldman-trader-yuzo-kano-hiring-old-rivals-build-cryptocurrency-empire-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T17:58:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bitflyer-a-20180511.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuzo Kano, CEO of bitFlyer Inc., poses in Tokyo in April. Kano, the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. alumnus who turned bitFlyer into Japan's largest bitcoin exchange, is scooping up talent as he embarks on an ambitious international expansion.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/business/corporate-business/casio-withdraws-digital-cameras-smartphones-eat-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T18:15:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-casio-a-20180511.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Casio Computer Co. has announced it will stop making its Exilim and other digital compact cameras due to falling demand.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/world/mount-kilaueas-violent-new-eruptions-hawaii-puzzle-scientists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T18:43:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ash rises from Mount Kilauea on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/business/corporate-business/japans-apparel-giant-uniqlo-make-foray-india-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T20:34:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past Uniqlo's flagship store in Osaka in April. Uniqlo, a unit of Fast Retailing Co., will enter India next year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/business/chinese-premier-li-keqiang-urges-japan-join-one-belt-one-road-infrastructure-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T20:34:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Li Keqiang speaks at a reception in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/national/countryside-success-starts-coffee-niseko-pioneer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T20:58:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-10T21:19:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea's President Moon Jae-in attends a trilateral summit with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/business/economy-business/boj-repeats-no-deadline-schedule-2-inflation-target/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T21:20:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at a Tokyo hotel on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-10T21:20:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greet guests after reviewing the honor guard, during a welcoming ceremony at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-10T22:27:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-10T22:58:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sunset is seen through a wind farm near Puck, Poland, located on the south coast of the Baltic Sea, on July 22, 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/world/europe-can-no-longer-count-u-s-military-umbrella-merkel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-10T23:09:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-11T00:50:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump applauds as American detainee Kim Dong-chul (second right) gives the peace sign upon his return to the United States with fellow detainee Kim Hak-song (back) and Tony Kim (center) after they were freed by North Korea, at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-11T06:45:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The East Rift Zone, along which the Leilani Estates neighborhood sits amid the ongoing Kilauea eruption, as seen from a helicopter flying around Pahoa, Hawaii, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/11/business/gop-u-s-sen-marco-rubio-pushes-bill-bar-sales-sensitive-tech-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-11T09:58:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-11T10:42:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tadao Yanase, a former executive assistant to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, listens to a question during a Lower House Budget Committee session at the Diet on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/national/crown-princess-masako-hopes-inherit-imperial-sericulture-tradition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-11T12:24:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Empress Michiko places eggs of silkworms on branches on May 2 at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Three sold-out Kitaro concerts in Iran were canceled after Americans in his group were refused visas.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-11T15:30:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A college student who uses the pseudonym Kaori Miyake visits a statue of a girl symbolizing the "comfort women" in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul. Miyake's struggle with her own experiences of sexual assault have prompted her to examine her country's history.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/10/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/former-strongman-mahathir-malaysias-comeback-kid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-11T16:47:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mahathir Mohamad celebrates his party's election victory Thursday in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-11T17:07:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad speaks during a news conference in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/11/business/corporate-business/panasonics-net-profit-soars-58-sales-batteries-vehicle-components/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-11T17:35:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic Corp. CEO Kazuhiro Tsuga, right, attends a news conference on Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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