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			<image:caption><![CDATA[There are growing expectations for Okinawa natives such as Ryo Kiyuna, pictured, who won his sixth-straight men's "kata" national championship in December, to seize gold in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-11T20:28:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yui Mitsuhashi works on the frame of a racing car at the campus workshop of Osaka University's Formula Racing Club on April 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-11T21:03:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Goodall holds a news conference on Wednesday, a day before his assisted suicide, in Basel, Switzerland.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-11T21:09:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters begin a peace march Friday from outside the gate of U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Schwab in Henoko, Okinawa Prefecture, calling for a world without military bases, nuclear weapons and war, ahead of the 46th anniversary of Okinawa's reversion to Japan from U.S. control.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-11T23:26:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-12T02:06:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters Friday in Sapporo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-12T02:06:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Board of Audit says the Monju fast-breeder reactor only achieved 16 percent of the results it was initially intended to produce while costing taxpayers at least ¥1.13 trillion.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-12T13:06:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-12T13:15:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An upgraded version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket lifts off Friday from the Kennedy Space Center, carrying Bangladesh's first communications satellite.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-12T14:15:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tero Varjoranta]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-12T14:27:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-12T16:20:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Center lane lines are partially visible along the lava-covered road in the Leilani Estates subdivision near Pahoa, Hawaii, on Friday. Kilauea has destroyed more than 35 structures since it began releasing lava from vents about 40 kilometers east of the summit crater.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/12/national/media-national/lawmaker-hiroyuki-konishis-encounter-irate-sdf-officer-stirs-debate-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-12T22:54:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroyuki Konishi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/12/national/crime-legal/canadian-held-smuggling-%c2%a5130-million-worth-drugs-via-minpaku-lodging/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-12T18:53:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/12/national/theme-parks-bank-cool-japan-wave-attract-experience-hungry-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-12T20:23:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/12/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-considers-new-target-reduce-fiscal-deficit-3-gdp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-12T20:45:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/12/national/science-health/amid-outbreak-okinawa-tighter-measles-vaccination-policy-implemented-japans-hospitals-nursery-schools/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-12T20:45:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/12/national/crime-legal/suspicious-man-reported-area-niigata-girl-slain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-12T20:45:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bouquets, drinks and snacks line a roadside Friday along the rail line where elementary school student Tamaki Omomo was found dead in Niigata late Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/12/business/economy-business/record-profits-japanese-firms-growing-jittery-protectionism-oil-prices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-12T20:48:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-13T02:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/11/business/corporate-business/three-megabanks-consider-sharing-atms-boost-profitability/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-13T12:49:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past a Mizuho Bank ATM in Tokyo. Japan's three megabanks including Mizuho are considering jointly managing and developing ATMs as part of cost-cutting efforts.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/11/business/corporate-business/mazdas-vice-president-marumoto-appointed-president-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-13T12:50:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mazda Motor Corp.'s next president, Akira Marumoto, attends a news conference Friday in Hiroshima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/13/world/israel-closes-gaza-border-crossing-damaged-palestinians/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-13T13:14:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kerem Shalom border crossing terminal between Israel and Gaza Strip is seen on Jan. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/13/world/offbeat-world/time-travelers-invited-stephen-hawking-send-off/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-13T15:13:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and his daughter, Lucy, arrive at the British Academy of Film and Arts awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London in February 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/13/national/history/new-memorial-victims-japanese-merchant-ship-sunk-wwi-unveiled-wales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-13T18:46:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese merchant vessel Hirano Maru, which was sunk by Germany at the end of World War I, is shown in this undated photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/12/national/media-national/classical-painting-hashtag-highlights-japanese-mothers-daily-frustrations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-13T19:27:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[By transforming highbrow art into snapshots of the mundane, the moms of Twitter are giving everyone a taste of what it's like to have a 24-hour job.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/13/national/south-korean-ship-seen-north-korean-tanker-high-seas-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-13T21:03:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-13T22:02:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/13/business/japanese-firms-pitch-next-generation-smart-city-technologies-new-york/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-13T23:21:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors peruse Hitachi Ltd.'s booth at an exhibition in New York on Wednesday focusing on next-generation energy technologies for urban areas that could increase efficiency and reduce traffic jams.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/13/national/social-issues/japans-employers-improving-support-workers-early-onset-dementia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-14T00:15:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsushi Oshiro, who was a car salesman before being diagnosed with early-onset dementia in 2015, cleans a car at an auto dealership in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/13/asia-pacific/chinas-first-homemade-aircraft-carrier-begins-sea-trials-demonstration-growing-military-prowess/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-14T00:16:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's "Type 001A," the country's first domestically built aircraft carrier, leaves Dalian, in northeast China's Liaoning province, for sea trials Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/14/business/hundreds-protesters-demand-russia-stop-blocking-telegram-messenger-app/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-14T06:52:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A balloon with a sign reading "#fed up!" is released as a police officer stands guard during a rally in protest of a court decision to block the Telegram messenger because it violated Russian regulations, in Moscow Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/14/business/john-bolton-u-s-sanctions-possible-european-firms-iran-even-eu-stays-nuclear-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-14T08:54:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Bolton, national security advisor, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House press secretary, walk on the South Lawn of the White House after landing on Marine One following an event at Joint Base Andrews in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/14/business/peace-talks-ignite-land-buying-frenzy-along-south-koreas-fortified-border/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-14T10:53:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors look at North Korea from an observation deck at the Imjinkak pavilion, near the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas, in Paju, South Korea, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-14T21:18:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-14T22:51:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-15T07:02:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gases rise from lava fissure 17 after it erupted early Sunday near Pahoa, Hawaii. The new fissure emitting steam and lava spatter spurred Hawaii officials to call for more evacuations on Sunday as residents braced for an expected eruption from the Kilauea volcano.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-15T07:59:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Palestinian man assists a wounded protester during clashes with Israeli security forces near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Monday as Palestinians protest the inauguration of the U.S. Embassy following its controversial move to Jerusalem.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-15T08:15:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman pass by a ZTE building in Beijing May 8. President Donald Trump's weekend social media musings about China injected new uncertainty into Washington's punishment of Chinese tech giant ZTE and planned trade talks between the two countries.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-15T08:26:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo combination, Palestinians protest near the border of Israel and the Gaza Strip, and on the same day dignitaries (from left) Sara Netanyahu, her husband, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, and U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, applaud at the opening ceremony of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on Monday. Netanyahu praised the inauguration of the embassy as a "great day for peace," as dozens of Palestinians have been killed in Gaza amid ongoing clashes.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-15T10:17:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children walk to school accompanied by parents in Niigata on Monday. A 7-year-old girl who attended the school was killed last week.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators hold signs during a rally against sexual harassment in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on April 28.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mie Bank Ltd. plans to start selling so-called testamentary substitute trusts in July in partnership with Mizuho Financial Group Inc..]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-15T17:23:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. is set to launch its first foreign-made Serena hybrid minivans in Malaysia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/15/business/japan-u-s-move-rapidly-trade-deal-ambassador-says/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador William Hagerty speaks during the Wall Street Journal CEO Conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-15T18:35:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This file photo shows a view of Jupiter's moon Europa created from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990's, according to NASA.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/15/national/crime-legal/acquaintances-classmates-shocked-arrest-niigata-murder-suspect/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman prays on Tuesday for the 7-year-old girl murdered in the city of Niigata near the site where her body was found, a day after a 23-year-old man was arrested in connection to the case.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (left), updates reporters on the condition of first lady Melania Trump as they walk to a closed-door meeting with Senate Republicans at the Capitol in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-16T13:34:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-16T13:53:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-16T14:13:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-16T14:54:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-16T15:21:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-16T16:31:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-16T17:15:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-16T17:43:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-16T17:46:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wind turbines operate at a farm in Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-16T18:27:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-16T19:41:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia in 2012. Facebook believes its policing system is better at scrubbing graphic violence, gratuitous nudity and terrorist propaganda from its social network than it is at removing racist, sexist and other hateful remarks. The self-assessment on Tuesday came three weeks after Facebook tried to give a clearer explanation of the kinds of posts that it won't tolerate.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of a bill seeking to achieve 50-50 gender equality in the Diet and local assemblies pose for a photo in front of the Diet building on Wednesday following enactment of the legislation.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's gross domestic product shrank in the January-March quarter for the first time in nine quarters, it was reported Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-16T21:32:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man at Seoul Station watches a news broadcast featuring North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/16/national/former-news-23-anchor-kishii-dies-73/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-16T21:34:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigetada Kishii]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/16/national/politics-diplomacy/bill-tackling-problem-gamblers-submitted-lower-house-clear-way-casinos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-17T04:09:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Formulating new policies to deal with problem gamblers is one of the legislative challenges to be solved before Japan eases regulations on casino resorts.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/16/business/japan-shouldnt-try-replicate-silicon-valley-spur-innovation-venture-capitalist-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-17T09:58:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[James Riney, head of venture capital fund 500 Startups Japan, poses for a photo in Tokyo's Otemachi district on March 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/17/business/britains-plan-nationalize-key-rail-line-sparks-new-row-ownership/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-17T10:22:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-17T10:54:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An electric-powered Tesla car burns after a crash on the Swiss A2 motorway on Monte Ceneri near Bellinzona, Switzerland, May 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-17T12:59:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-17T14:12:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-17T14:32:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-17T14:41:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano and Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah hold a news conference in Kuwait City on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-17T15:16:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-17T16:11:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Aso]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-17T16:11:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[TV Asahi's headquarters are seen in Tokyo's Minato Ward. The 2015 death of one of the station's drama producers was determined to have been caused from overwork, sources revealed Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-17T16:40:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past a Bic Camera Inc. store in Tokyo's Shibuya district.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-17T16:54:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chongqing Liangjiang Star rocket takes off from a launchpad in an undisclosed location in northwestern China on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-17T17:10:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spain's Avi Torres dives in for the 200-meter freestyle heats, leaving his prosthetic legs behind, at the 2004 Athens Paralympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-17T17:12:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Buddhist monk meditates in a temple on Mount Koya.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/17/business/economy-business/core-machinery-orders-3-9-march-lower-demand-manufacturers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-17T18:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-17T18:04:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nationalist demonstrators clash with anti-hate speech protesters outside a park in Kawasaki in June 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-17T18:05:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee assembles a sample lens unit for a smartphone at the Kantatsu Co. factory in Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture, this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-17T18:29:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lava spatters from an area between active Fissures 16 and 20 on Wednesday morning on the lower east rift of the Kilauea volcano near Pahoa, Hawaii.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/16/business/corporate-business/japanese-stationery-firm-itoya-joins-deletefacebook-movement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-17T19:20:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Itoya said Monday that it will soon delete its official Facebook page.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/17/national/tourists-deface-iconic-bamboo-plants-kyotos-arashiyama-district/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-17T19:44:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bamboo plants that have been vandalized are seen in Kyoto's Arashiyama district on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/17/business/tech/students-idea-app-pulls-athlete-profiles-demand-gets-nod-tokyo-organizers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-17T20:49:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/17/business/corporate-business/u-k-offers-hitachi-%c2%a52-trillion-loan-prop-costly-nuclear-power-project-wales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-17T21:08:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitachi Ltd. Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi held talks with British Prime Minister Theresa May in London on May 3 over the U.K.'s financial support for Hitachi's nuclear power project in Wales.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/17/national/japan-survey-suggests-96-sexually-harassed-media-workers-targeted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-17T21:09:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-18T08:59:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/18/business/drone-maker-accused-covering-bomb-bag-delta-flight-going-whistleblower/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-18T09:03:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign at a downtown city park informs people of no overnight sleeping and no drone flying in San Diego, California, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-18T11:27:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Billboards advertising junk food from vendors like McDonald's might be banned from London's Underground rail and bus network under new plans announced by the city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, as part of his efforts to tackle rising levels of childhood obesity in the capital.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/17/national/crime-legal/90-japans-child-abuse-sexual-crime-victims-didnt-receive-compensation-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-18T12:40:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The state provides lump sum benefits for bereaved families of victims, or those who were seriously injured or disabled in criminal cases.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/18/world/wests-knowledge-novichok-came-sample-secured-german-spy-agency-1990s-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-18T12:45:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The headquarters of Germany's Federal Intelligence Agency, known by its acronym BND, is seen in Berlin, Germany, on April 30, 2015. Four German media organizations have issued a joint report stating that the country's foreign intelligence service secured a sample of the Soviet-developed nerve agent Novichok in the 1990s, and passed on its knowledge to partners including the U.K. and U.S.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/18/world/australian-man-helped-save-2-million-babies-gives-blood-last-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-18T12:46:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-18T12:48:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions meets with California leaders and public officials in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/experts-slam-giuliani-claim-mueller-cant-subpoena-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-18T13:21:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rudy Giuliani and his wife, Judith Giuliani, arrive for the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington on Jan. 20, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/18/world/science-health-world/study-finds-one-third-worlds-protected-wildlife-areas-threat-development/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-18T13:52:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo taken in February 2017, elephants and buffaloes can be seen around a water hole in Tsavo West National Park, southeast of Nairobi. Scientists said Thursday about one-third of the world's protected wildlife areas are under threat from development.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/former-son-law-paul-manafort-jeffrey-yohai-cuts-plea-deal-will-cooperate-criminal-probes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-18T14:19:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/18/national/number-foreign-visitors-japan-january-april-tops-10-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-18T14:24:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers from the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship, operated by Cunard Line Ltd., follow a tour guide in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, in March. The estimated number of inbound tourists to Japan from January to April topped 10 million, rising at the fastest pace on record.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/18/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-defense-secretary-jim-mattis-eyes-visit-japan-late-june-discuss-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-18T14:30:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis stands with Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera during an Enhanced Honor Cordon at the Pentagon in Washington on April 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/18/business/chinas-multi-storey-hog-hotels-elevate-industrial-farms-new-levels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-18T15:12:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker poses outside a seven-story pig building of Guangxi Yangxiang's farm at Yaji Mountain Forest Park in Guangxi province, China, March 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/18/national/crime-legal/ruling-ldp-approves-bill-ban-trade-umbilical-cord-blood-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-18T15:15:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/18/business/corporate-business/phillip-morris-iqos-e-cigarette-capable-harvesting-smokers-data-ex-project-manager/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-18T15:36:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man uses an iQOS e-cigarette.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/18/business/japan-may-soon-notify-wto-countermeasures-u-s-tariffs-steel-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-18T15:38:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bulk carrier ship is moored at the Nippon Steel &amp; Sumitomo Metal Corp. plant in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture on April 18. The government may soon notify the World Trade Organization of its plans to consider measures against the U.S. imposition of higher tariffs on steel imports.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[YouTube will launch a music streaming service on May 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-18T18:13:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-18T18:20:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers investigate at a manga cafe in Nagoya where a man was fatally stabbed on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hop Japan Inc. President Makoto Honma (right) gives advice to a hop producer on how to plant a seedling in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With Japan's inflation stalling, the Bank of Japan's plan to exit from its massive monetary easing has hit a snag.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/18/business/japans-ponta-loyalty-program-becomes-usable-indonesia-malaysia/</loc>
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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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			<image:caption><![CDATA[University students attend a job fair. Government figures show a record-high 98 percent of university graduates in Japan landed jobs at the beginning of this fiscal year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-19T09:23:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-19T09:51:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-19T11:17:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This illustration shows an image of a Hello Kitty-themed bullet train to be operated by West Japan Railway Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-19T11:54:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Pacific Command chief Adm. Harry Harris meets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on April 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-19T12:53:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An H-6K bomber and two Su-35 fighter jets from the People's Liberation Army Air Force fly in formation during a patrol near Taiwan on May 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-19T13:14:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-19T14:38:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-19T16:09:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-19T22:57:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fall from grace: Haruko Obokata, a scientist at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, wears an apron given to her by her grandmother at its laboratory in January 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-19T17:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman Masayoshi Son speaks during the Wall Street Journal CEO Conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-19T20:13:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-19T20:18:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends the eighth Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-20T00:10:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force members dispatched to Iraq patrol the outskirts of Samawah in 2004. Several recent lawsuits have sought to define the role of the SDF within the scope of the Constitution.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-20T13:59:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A railroad crossing in Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture, is dismantled around March 2017.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Defense Ministry is looking to outsource some cybersecurity work to the private sector, sources have said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/21/world/science-health-world/congo-city-begin-ebola-vaccinations-monday/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents gather near a safety ribbon in the area  prepared to receive suspected Ebola cases, at the Mbandaka General Hospital, in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-21T06:58:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Saturday aerial photo released by the U.S. Geological Survey shows lava fountains from Fissure 20 in Kilauea Volcano's lower East Rift Zone in Pahoa, Hawaii.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-21T09:27:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-21T12:03:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain’s Prince Harry looks at his bride, Meghan Markle of the United States, during their wedding ceremony at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle in Windsor, near London, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to the Aquarium of Crab and Shrimp in Susami, Wakayama Prefecture, look at a Tasmanian giant crab on March 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-21T15:35:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers at Allergen-free Foods, a factory in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, produce chocolate bars that don't contain any of 27 allergens.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-21T16:59:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks during a ceremony held in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sunday about the return of some U.S. military facility sites to Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site is seen in a satellite image taken April 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-21T17:53:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seniors exercise at a temple in Tokyo’s Sugamo district, an area popular with the elderly, in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-21T17:53:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-21T18:13:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon gives an interview in Seoul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-21T18:33:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is seen as he and a U.S. delegation for trade talks with China arrive at a hotel in Beijing May 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/21/national/top-alpinist-kuriki-dies-eighth-attempt-conquer-everest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-21T19:24:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobukazu Kuriki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/21/national/social-issues/many-japanese-care-homes-turning-away-seniors-lack-guarantor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-21T19:24:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-21T20:13:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-21T20:17:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Komae Deputy Mayor Minoru Mizuno speaks at a news conference Monday at City Hall.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-21T22:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junior officers of the Maritime Self-Defense Force prepare to undertake navigation training aboard the destroyer Makinami at the MSDF's naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/21/national/social-issues/japans-social-benefit-costs-balloon-50-fiscal-2040/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-21T23:12:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-21T23:12:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura tells reporters that the Ehime Prefectural Government submitted a new document to the Diet related to a meeting between the local officials and Tadao Tanase, a former aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that took place on April 2, 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/21/national/fukushima-prefecture-radiation-monitoring-posts-installed-3-11-hit-glitches/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-21T23:12:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A radiation monitoring device is installed at a park in the city of Fukushima.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/21/business/familymart-let-airbnb-users-japan-pick-keys-convenience-stores/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-22T04:02:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This trial product for storing keys used for Japan's private short-term lodging facilities will be installed at FamilyMart convenience stores.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/21/national/smoke-fills-ana-plane-narita-sickening-eight-triggering-evacuation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-22T04:03:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke is seen in the cabin of an All Nippon Airways plane at around 9:45 a.m. Monday at Narita airport.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/21/national/politics-diplomacy/opposition-deal-tweak-japanese-labor-bill-likely-get-contentious-legislation-past-diet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-22T04:03:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-22T09:20:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This 1998 frame from video provided by C-SPAN shows George Nader, president and editor of Middle East Insight. As an adviser to Abu Dhabi's crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Nader worked throughout 2017 with Elliott Broidy, a fundraiser for President Donald Trump, in a secretive lobbying effort to alter U.S. policy in the Middle East. Nader is now cooperating with U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into foreign meddling in American politics.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-22T10:56:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pakistani volunteers spray water on people to keep them cool as temperatures reached 43 Celsius (109.4 Fahrenheit) in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday. The Meteorological Department has issued a heat-wave alert for three days.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-22T11:01:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-22T12:05:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Retsuko is a hardworking "OL" on Netflix's new anime show, "Aggretsuko," who screams heavy death metal at the top of her lungs whenever she encounters frustration at work.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-22T13:24:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-22T13:49:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This couple have been officially recognized as foster parents by the city of Osaka]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-22T13:55:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An asylum-seeker (center) talks about his experiences during a discussion in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, on April 21, held by Welgee, a nonprofit organization that supports refugees in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/22/asia-pacific/beijings-bombers-disputed-south-china-sea-raising-tensions-hanoi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-22T14:37:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Saturday video footage run by China's CCTV via AP Video shows a Chinese H-6K bomber flying along a runway in the South China Sea. The Chinese air force has landed long-range bombers for the first time at an airport in the South China Sea, a state newspaper said Saturday, in a move likely to further fuel concerns about Beijing's expansive claims over the disputed region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/19/national/shogi-phenom-sota-fujii-youngest-achieve-third-highest-rank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-22T14:43:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sota Fujii (left) faces off against Kohei Funae in Osaka on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/22/national/mayors-plan-re-create-nagoya-castle-without-elevators-draws-ire-barrier-free-advocates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-22T14:54:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo taken May 3 shows the main tower of Nagoya Castle with an elevator for visitors built next to it.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/22/business/g-20-ministers-discuss-digital-economy-environment-june-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-22T17:05:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/21/national/japans-restaurants-deploying-pictograms-help-picky-foreign-eaters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-22T17:30:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign explaining the use of dietary pictograms is placed beside a dish at a restaurant in Osaka in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/22/national/first-portrait-emperor-akihito-empress-michiko-since-enthronement-unveiled/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-22T17:41:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This portrait of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko was unveiled Monday by the Imperial Household Agency.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-22T18:05:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-22T18:43:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-22T20:36:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp. CEO Kenichiro Yoshida holds a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-22T20:36:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-22T21:48:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T09:13:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders listens to a question during the daily press briefing at the White House Tuesday in Washington. Sanders discussed Korea, media access at the EPA and other topics.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T12:59:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is seen during a tour in the Bataan provincial town of Morong, northwest of Manila, on May 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T14:37:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Americans with ties to the military participate in a fishing tour organized by former U.S. serviceman Edward Hosack. Hosack hopes the tours will build deeper connections between the local Japanese community and U.S. military personnel.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T16:34:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T16:57:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Co. hopes it's JPN Taxi will make up over a third of Tokyo's taxi fleet by the 2020 Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T17:27:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T17:56:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kunihiko Takahashi]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T18:10:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T18:30:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T18:32:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's economic recovery has kept "a moderate pace" thanks to a pickup in domestic and overseas demand, according to the Cabinet Office.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/23/national/crime-legal/police-arrest-kyoto-university-graduate-students-table-intersection-stunt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-23T19:50:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T20:04:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T21:58:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Corrosion is seen in a ventilation duct at the No. 3 unit of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T22:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Imported cars are displayed at a showroom in Nantong, in China's eastern Jiangsu province, on Tuesday. China announced the same day that it would cut tariffs on auto imports from July 1, in the latest sign of a thaw in trade frictions with the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T22:36:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T22:36:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-23T23:05:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Ministry officials bring boxes containing documents on the shady land deal involving school operator Moritomo Gakuen into the Diet building Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-24T09:07:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (right) and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono face reporters before their meeting at the State Department in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-24T10:44:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower and former employee with Cambridge Analytica, speaks during Bloomberg's Sooner Than You Think technology conference in Paris on Wednesday. Wylie confirmed that he is working with the FBIand said that Facebook has a systemic problem with data misuse.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-24T10:56:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This picture taken Wednesday and released by South Korean news agency News1 via Dong-A Ilbo shows a North Korean airport official guiding South Korean journalists upon their arrival at North Korea's Kalma airport in Wonsan. Pyongyang has given South Korean reporters a last-minute green-light to witness the slated demolition of North Korea's nuclear test site, Seoul said on Wednesday. Pyongyang announced earlier this month that it planned to "completely" destroy the Punggye-ri facility in the country's mountainous northeast.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/24/national/aum-death-row-inmate-former-doctor-publishes-vx-research-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-24T12:38:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomomasa Nakagawa]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-24T13:06:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Okinawa rail, an endangered species native to northern Okinawa Prefecture, is seen in the village of Kunigami in Okinawa.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-24T13:33:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-24T14:04:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-24T14:17:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-24T14:37:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pop singer Namie Amuro receives a certificate honoring her achievements from Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga at a ceremony at the Okinawa Prefectural Government office in Naha on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-24T15:02:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A federal judge ruled that U.S. President Donald Trump may not legally block Twitter users because doing so violates their right to free speech under the Constitution.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-24T15:28:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-24T15:53:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Kodera, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., gestures during an interview in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/24/national/jr-tokai-employee-fired-allegedly-embezzling-money-foreign-shinkansen-passengers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-24T15:59:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ticket counters at Shin-Osaka Station.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/24/national/politics-diplomacy/nuclear-policy-focus-campaign-begins-niigata-governor-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-24T17:03:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideyo Hanazumi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/24/business/china-fines-muji-packaging-lists-taiwan-country/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-24T17:04:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-muji-a-20180525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks outside a newly opened Muji store at a shopping mall in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/24/national/russian-residents-disputed-islands-make-first-visa-free-trip-japan-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-24T17:05:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-islanders-a-20180525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian residents of disputed islands off Hokkaido arrive Thursday in Nemuro port on a visa-free trip.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/24/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-u-s-agree-keep-pressure-north-korea-ahead-trump-kim-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-24T17:09:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-konopompeo-a-20180525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono meets with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the State Department in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/16/national/university-entrance-exam-question-moomins-series-leaves-japanese-students-bewildered/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-24T18:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-moomin-a-20180117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The geography section of this year's National Center Test for University Admissions included a question about the setting and language of the Moomins, characters in a popular series of picture books and comics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/23/national/tokyo-declaration-unites-11-global-cities-waste-pollution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-24T18:29:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-skies-a-20180524.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-skies-a-20180524.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joined by governors and mayors from global megacities, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike (center) prepares to drop a used cell phone into a recycling collection box during a two-day symposium that concluded on Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/24/national/lacking-direction-tokyo-japans-municipalities-struggle-implement-anti-hate-speech-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-24T18:55:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hate-a-20180525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather against hate speech demonstrations in Kawasaki in June 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/24/national/sake-kin-korean-residents-japan-seek-thaw-pyongyang-doubt-abe-can-bring-results/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-24T19:10:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-koreans-b-20180525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In an interview in May in Osaka, Chon Hi Sun holds a photo of her parents (left), who were born in what is now North Korea, along with her husband and younger daughter, and a photo of her taken nearly a half century ago with a group of Korean residents.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/23/national/no-systematic-cover-iraq-troop-activity-logs-defense-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-24T20:23:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-logs-a-20180524.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-logs-a-20180524.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Itsunori Onodera]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/24/business/economy-business/bank-japan-board-member-urges-winding-stimulus-avoid-destabilizing-banking-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-24T20:35:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20180525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Voices in the Bank of Japan seem to be calling for steps toward an exit policy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/24/business/corporate-business/sony-car-new-ceo-says-always-wanted-work-moving-objects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T04:08:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-25T07:41:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tariffs-a-20180525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered his Commerce Department to consider launching a probe into whether vehicle imports threaten U.S. national security.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/business/financial-markets/trump-inks-bill-rolls-back-crippling-dodd-frank-rules-put-banks-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T09:03:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/b-doddfrank-a-20180526.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-doddfrank-a-20180526.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump holds up S. 2155, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, And Consumer Protection Act, after being signed with administration officials and members of Congress in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday. The House Tuesday voted 258-to-159 to send Trump the most significant overhaul of banking oversight to become law since Dodd-Frank was enacted in 2010.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-25T10:10:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-sourcecode-a-20180526.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sourcecode-a-20180526.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Jeane Shaheen (D-NH) walks with her aide on Capitol Hill in Washington last December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/business/trump-looks-tariff-ante-u-s-launches-auto-import-probe-putting-asian-carmakers-defensive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T10:12:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/b-tariffs-a-20180526.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tariffs-a-20180526.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man and vehicles pass by an electronic display panel advertising video footage of Chinese President Xi Jinping on a street in Beijing Thursday. China and Japan have both condemned the Trump administration's decision to launch an investigation into whether tariffs are needed on imports of vehicles and automotive parts into the United States.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/24/business/no-need-google-search-shibuya-stream-opens-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T10:13:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/b-shibuya-a-20180525.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-shibuya-a-20180525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Shibuya Stream complex, scheduled to open on Sept. 13, is depicted in this digital image.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/world/social-issues-world/people-victimized-texas-mass-shootings-meet-governor-prevention-gun-control-topic-not-raised/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T10:51:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-texgun-a-20180526.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-texgun-a-20180526.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Santa Fe High School student Aaron Chenowith is comforted by his father, Richard Chenowith, during a discussion about school shootings with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott at the Capitol Thursday in Austin, Texas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/12/national/media-national/japan-redraws-line-sand-poverty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T11:54:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/p17-hoffman-poverty-a-20180513.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-hoffman-poverty-a-20180513.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unforgiving debt cycle: Personal bankruptcies in Japan peaked in 2010 at 180,000-odd cases nationwide.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/asia-pacific/canceled-trump-kim-summit-return-u-s-north-korea-crisis-mode/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T12:42:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-nkana-a-20180526.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkana-a-20180526.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women protest near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump canceled next month's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/world/u-s-targets-airlines-sanctions-iran-proxies-syria-lebanon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T13:07:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/world/science-health-world/u-s-conservationists-sue-trump-administration-migratory-bird-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T13:07:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/asia-pacific/trump-kim-summit-failure-improvised-diplomacy-skipped-meetings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T13:07:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-nkdip-a-20180526.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkdip-a-20180526.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Optimism that the U.S. and North Korea could reach a deal quickly began to fade following U.S. suggestions that the negotiations could follow the "Libya model," in which Moammar Gadhafi, shown in 2010, gave up his nuclear weapons in exchange for sanctions relief. Years later, Gadhafi was overthrown by his own people and suffered a gruesome death.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-25T13:10:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/national/maritime-self-defense-force-submarine-fires-torpedo-decoy-mistake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T13:34:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-torpedo-a-20180525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A torpedo decoy mistakenly launched by a submarine operated by Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force is seen in this undated photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/24/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-expresses-hope-peace-treaty-progress-departs-summit-putin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T14:15:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aberussia-a-20180525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, wave as they depart from Haneda airport in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/business/united-airlines-settles-owner-puppy-died-overhead-bin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T14:16:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-25T14:16:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkdeal-a-20180526.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump said a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would be positive for the world. Two days later, he canceled.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/business/tesla-boss-elon-musk-bashes-media-proposes-credibility-check-gains-vast-twitter-fans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T15:40:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elon Musk listens at a press conference following the first launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-25T15:47:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-25T15:55:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-25T15:55:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-25T15:56:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono speaks to reporters Thursday in Mexico City.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/11/national/gegege-no-kitaro-artist-mizukis-wwii-works-on-display-in-yokohama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T17:16:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20111111f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Drawing on experience: Artworks by Shigeru Mizuki are displayed in a special exhibit at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/business/toyota-touts-free-trade-opposition-u-s-auto-tariffs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T18:50:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A report indicates that U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking new tariffs of as much as 25 percent on automobile imports.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/national/oita-prefecture-temple-holding-study-meetings-islam-spread-understanding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T19:01:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A study session on Islamic teachings and customs is held at Zenryuji in Nakatsu, Oita Prefecture, in June 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/business/investors-reacting-trump-kim-summit-collapse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T20:40:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks in front of a screen in Tokyo on Friday flashing a news report on U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to cancel his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-25T20:41:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke and debris rise into the air as barracks buildings for guards and tunneling workers, at North Korea's nuclear test site at its Punggye-ri facility in North Hamgyong province, are blown up on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/national/parts-believed-fallen-japan-airlines-plane-hit-clinic-car-police/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T20:43:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-planeparts-a-20180525.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A crack is visible in a glass window at a clinic in Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture. Police believe parts fell from a Japan Airlines plane and hit the window on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/business/financial-markets/dollar-weakens-around-%c2%a5109-40-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-25T20:53:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Proof of hardship: Zambian farmer Joyce Mwanje (left) and Joseph Ssuuna, representative of a nongovernmental organization, show pictures of how African peasant farmers work during an interview in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sphere pressure: Digital globes depicting global warming and other problems on Earth are displayed at the international media center in Rusutsu, Hokkaido, ahead of next week's Group of Eight summit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Theoretical groundwork: Officials from 34 universities in 14 countries discuss the G8 summit in Sapporo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[You take paradise: The international media center for next week's Group of Eight summit stands on a ski resort parking lot in Rusutsu, Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Biofuel advocate: Brazilian Ambassador Andre Amado discusses the benefits of ethanol at his embassy in Tokyo on June 10.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshinobu Nisaka]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-28T15:01:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-28T15:18:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-28T15:27:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-28T15:32:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 300 cryptocurrency traders reported over ¥100 million in miscellaneous income on their tax returns for 2017, National Tax Agency data show.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/28/national/yokohama-get-aerial-gondolas-ahead-2020-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-28T18:05:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yokohama plans to build aerial gondola rides in its waterfront area ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koichi Hagiuda]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (left) speaks as Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei listens during a meeting with members of the government in Tehran on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-28T19:23:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Customs officials display 1,187 kg of seized methamphetamine worth some 71 million ringgit ($18 million) during a news conference in Nilai, Malaysia, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/28/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-says-end-one-size-fits-environmental-policies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-28T19:24:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wearing masks dance amid heavy smog during a polluted day at a square in Fuyang, China in January last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/28/national/state-panel-backs-expansion-yambaru-park-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-28T19:26:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A government panel Monday called for the inclusion of a large parcel of forest in northern Okinawa, including land returned by the U.S. military, into Yambaru National Park. The area hosts endangered species such as this Okinawa rail, seen in April in Kunigami, Okinawa.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/28/national/japan-start-rainy-season-northern-kyushu-shikoku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-28T19:27:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-28T20:19:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/28/national/politics-diplomacy/moritomo-document-ploy-not-linked-vow-resign-abe-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-28T20:19:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/28/national/crime-legal/japanese-calling-police-ever-address-nonurgent-matters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-28T20:19:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police dealt with a record number of consultations last year as the public relied on them rather than their community networks to address noise, graffiti and other nuisances, the National Police Agency said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/28/national/1852-japanese-war-dead-laid-rest-tokyo-cemetery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-28T22:15:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People attend a memorial service for unidentified Japanese who died in World War II, at Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/28/business/corporate-business/hitachi-continue-talks-britain-nuclear-plant-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T04:03:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-29T06:25:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Detained Reuters journalist Wa Lone is escorted by police after a court hearing in Yangon Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-29T06:28:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Doctors and relatives wearing protective gear carry the body of a victim who lost his battle against the brain-damaging Nipah virus, during his funeral at a burial ground in Kozhikode, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, India, May 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-29T08:27:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents walk past a man making barbecue in an alley at the Mohammadpur Geneva camp, where over 100 suspected drug peddlers were detained in a raid by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Dhaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/national/crime-legal/man-shot-dead-police-knife-attack-southwestern-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T12:50:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police seal off the scene of a knife attack in the city of Kumamoto on Monday. The suspected assailant was shot dead by a police officer.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/national/uss-ronald-reagan-aircraft-carrier-leaves-yokosuka-base-regional-patrol/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T13:14:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier leaves its home port in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday for a long-term patrol in the region.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/national/tokyo-bringing-step-free-buses-ahead-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T13:17:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man in a wheelchair boards a bus in Rio de Janeiro during the 2016 Paralympic Games.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/national/japans-airports-face-security-staff-crunch-ahead-2020-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T14:05:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Airport security officers compete in a race to test their skills at Narita International Airport last June.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/national/problem-hit-roller-coaster-halted-universal-studios-osaka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T14:49:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-usj-a-20180530.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Flying Dinosaur roller coaster at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka was temporarily halted Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/asia-pacific/pakistan-orders-probe-ex-spymaster-spy-chronicles-book/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T14:54:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This screen grab taken during a Nov. 3, 2001, broadcast shows a videotaped statement from Osama Bin Laden.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/business/corporate-business/infostellar-aims-knit-together-global-network-satellite-antenna-stations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T17:09:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naomi Kurahara, co-founder and CEO of Infostellar Inc., is interviewed in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, on April 12.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/business/japanese-investment-myanmar-soars-time-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T17:46:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/business/corporate-business/honda-starts-receive-orders-small-business-jets-middle-east/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T17:52:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-honda-a-20180530.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The HondaJet Elite small business jet is now on sale in the Middle East.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-considers-extending-diet-session-late-june-early-july-pass-labor-casino-bills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T18:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmakers attend a plenary session at the Lower House on Tuesday afternoon. Ruling bloc sources said the government and its coalition partners are now considering extending the current ordinary Diet session to the end of June or early July to secure the passage of bills on labor reform and casinos.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/asia-pacific/russia-says-wont-pushed-around-downing-flight-mh17/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T18:59:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/national/social-issues/osakas-lgbt-lavatory-signs-draw-flak-theyre-designed-help/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T19:59:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-toilets-b-20180530.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This sticker used for multipurpose restrooms in several Osaka municipal buildings drew an unexpected backlash from some LGBT people, who said it could draw unnecessary attention to sexual minorities using the facilities.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/national/two-bodies-found-niigata-mountain-thought-missing-father-6-year-old-son/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T22:48:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-planning-arrange-meeting-kono-north-korean-counterpart-ri-singapore-august/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T02:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[EMBARGOED-n-nkmeeting-a-20180530.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono listens to his Mexican counterpart, Luis Videgaray, while delivering a joint message in Mexico City on May 24. Japan is considering arranging a meeting between Kono and his North Korean opposite, Ri Yong Ho, in Singapore in early August.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/national/politics-diplomacy/diet-group-drafts-bill-aims-promote-japanese-language-learning-home-abroad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T23:15:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-language-a-20180530.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students from overseas attend a lesson at a Japanese language school in Tokyo's Taito Ward in June 2016. A cross-party association of lawmakers unveiled a draft bill Tuesday that would oblige the government to systematically promote Japanese education for non-Japanese both at home and abroad.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/national/japanese-eating-alone-amid-aging-society-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T23:16:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-eating-a-20180530.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children who typically eat alone at home gather at a local makeshift cafeteria in Sayama, Saitama Prefecture. Such children's diners have become common across Japan and aim to provide dietary education in addition to low-cost meals.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/national/crash-involving-90-year-old-near-tokyo-highlights-issue-managing-japans-elderly-drivers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-29T23:18:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A car driven by a 90-year-old woman is moved from a crash scene in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Monday. One pedestrian was killed in the crash, while three others were injured.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/business/san-francisco-subpoenas-uber-lyft-classify-drivers-eye-boosting-status/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T06:34:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/world/crime-legal-world/gop-sen-chuck-grassley-cool-calling-trump-jr-hearing-alleged-lying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T06:35:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/business/latvia-acting-u-s-warning-probes-russian-money-flows-used-meddle-europe-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T10:42:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics speaks during an interview in Riga May 23.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-urges-south-scrap-military-intelligence-sharing-deal-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T12:42:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during a news conference at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/kim-yong-chol-former-spy-chief-sent-north-korea-talks-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T12:45:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party's Central Committee, attends the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Olympics in February.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/national/politics-diplomacy/military-geek-shigeru-ishiba-not-afraid-criticize-abe-election-math-eludes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T17:14:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ishiba-a-20180531.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[All eyes are on former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead of the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential race.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/world/social-issues-world/least-40000-pregnant-rohingya-refugees-face-monsoon-donor-funds-run-dry-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T17:20:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-rohingya-a-20180531.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rohingya-a-20180531.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sand bag is seen on the roof of a shelter to weigh it down in preparation for the upcoming monsoon season in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, May 7. For the 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled to southeast Bangladesh in the past nine months, the approaching monsoon season poses the most serious threat since they were violently expelled from Myanmar.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/national/social-issues/influential-japan-businesswoman-katsuma-says-shes-sex-relationship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T17:44:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo posted on Kazuyo Katsuma’s twitter account shows Katsuma (right) with Hiroko Masuhara.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/national/science-health/gloomy-japan-highlights-loss-hope/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T17:44:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Research has found that people who experience setbacks may be motivated to overcome these difficulties, thus having a positive effect on hope.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/business/liter-regular-hits-%c2%a5151-japan-highest-gas-price-since-december-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T18:23:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-30T18:34:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-30T18:57:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past a stock market indicator board in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/asia-pacific/beijing-security-fair-arms-race-surveillance-tech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T19:04:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police robot patrols before the third plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing last March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/national/seibu-group-subsidiary-challenges-tokyo-firm-prince-hotel-trademark-infringement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T19:06:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-30T20:03:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk by Ajinomoto's headquarters in Tokyo's Kyobashi district. The leading seasonings maker is reportedly looking to sell Amoy Food Ltd., the maker of Hong Kong's leading soy sauce, though it doesn't break into the top five on the mainland.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/business/tech/nintendo-unveils-pokemon-titles-poke-ball-switch-controller-aimed-unifying-gaming-experience/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T20:17:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Packages of 'Pokemon: Lets Go Pikachu' and 'Pokemon: Lets Go Eevee' are displayed at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-slams-u-s-vehicle-tariff-hikes-unacceptable-diet-leaders-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T21:06:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe takes a question from Yukio Edano, head of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, during a party leaders' debate on Wednesday in the Diet.　]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/national/crime-legal/inmate-confesses-murder-9-year-old-okayama-girl-2004/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T21:06:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators enter the home of inmate Kunihiko Katsuta in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture, Wednesday after he confessed to involvement in the murder of a 9-year-old girl in 2004.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/national/crime-legal/nhk-stabbing-suspect-blasted-japanese-media-irresponsible-reporting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T21:07:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Authorities investigate the scene of a stabbing outside NHK headquarters in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on May 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/national/government-mulls-easing-restrictions-foreign-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-30T21:51:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-foreignlabor-Z-20180531.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Cabinet Office — the agency charged with putting together the prime minister's annual economic policy outline — would not confirm the exact number of workers being considered, but officials said that the government was "debating an expansion of foreign labor."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/world/kremlin-critic-arkady-babchenko-turns-alive-reported-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T01:29:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who was reported murdered in the Ukrainian capital on May 29, attends a news briefing by the Ukrainian state security service in Kiev, Ukraine on Wednesday afternoon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/world/crime-legal-world/michael-cohens-attorney-assails-stormy-daniels-lawyer-judge-sets-deadline-document-review/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T06:43:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-cohen-a-20180601.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Cohen, personal lawyer to U.S. President Donald Trump, exits federal court in New York on Wednesday. Cohen said a recent bankruptcy court ruling against Michael Avenatti's old law firm should disqualify the lawyer for Stormy Daniels from participating in a legal case over material seized from Cohen in an FBI raid.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-scraps-obama-era-rule-requiring-states-gauge-tailpipe-gases-global-warming-fight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T06:46:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/world/crime-legal-world/u-n-alleges-mexican-federal-official-involvement-wave-disappearances/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T06:47:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-unmex-a-20180601.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women carry a banner calling attention to the cases of people who have gone missing in the fight against drug cartels and organized crime, demanding authorities locate their loved ones, as they mark Mother's Day in Mexico City May 10. According to federal data, there have been more than 6,000 registered disappearances in Mexico's Tamaulipas state alone since 2006, more than any other state.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/national/politics-diplomacy/foreign-minister-fumio-kishida-potential-challenger-abe-can-get-job-done/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T07:23:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/business/wells-fargos-customers-3-5-million-fake-accounts-get-rough-justice-closure-roughly-35/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T08:58:45+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/business/u-s-missile-defense-systems-gaining-kims-icbm-threat-gao/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T09:01:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/b-gao-a-20180601.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-gao-a-20180601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This 2017 image provided by the North Korean government shows what the North Korean government calls the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, at an undisclosed location in North Korea. The U.S. General Accountability Office says the U.S. missile defense systems against ICBMs are steadily improving.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-says-robert-mueller-must-end-russia-probe-sept-1-avoid-comey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T09:05:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-rudy-a-20180601.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rudy-a-20180601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rudy Giuliani, attorney for U.S. President Donald Trump, wipes his brow as he attends the White House Sports and Fitness Day event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/world/crime-legal-world/ex-fbi-official-andrew-mccabe-gives-memo-james-comey-firing-russia-probe-chief-robert-mueller-nyt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T10:45:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-mccabe-a-20180601.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mccabe-a-20180601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former FBI director James Comey speaks about his book during an onstage interview with Axios Executive Editor Mike Allen at George Washington University in Washington April 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/national/japan-times-bee-winner-advances-next-level-top-u-s-spelling-bee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T11:41:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-spellingbee-a-20180531.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-spellingbee-a-20180531.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hanna Yoshida, a student at K. International School Tokyo and the winner of this year's Japan Times Bee, competes during the preliminary round of the U.S. National Spelling Bee in National Harbor, Maryland, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/national/politics-diplomacy/foreign-minister-taro-kono-eyes-u-s-visit-early-june-meet-mike-pompeo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T12:42:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-kono-a-20180601.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/national/fukushima-tells-world-radiation-exports-nuclear-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T13:19:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori speaks about the current conditions of Fukushima Prefecture on Wednesday at One World Trade Center in New York.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/world/cease-fire-monitors-accuse-south-sudan-rebels-killing-civilians/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T13:57:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Sudanese children released by armed groups attend a ceremony in the western town of Yambio on Feb. 7.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/national/emperor-akihito-welcomes-vietnamese-president-may-final-state-banquet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T13:59:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20180601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito (second from right) hosts a banquet for Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang (second from left) and his wife Wednesday at the Imperial Palace in what may be his last banquet inviting state guests before he abdicates.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/world/central-african-republic-approves-war-crimes-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T14:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/national/13-tokyo-metro-stations-added-google-street-view/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T14:33:17+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/national/japan-times-bee-winner-hanna-yoshida-u-s-spelldown-despite-verbal-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T15:03:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-spelling-b-20180601-copy.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-spelling-b-20180601-copy.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hanna Yoshida speaks after being eliminated from the U.S. Spelling Bee competition in National Harbor, Maryland, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/business/corporate-business/prosecutors-raid-kobe-steel-quality-data-fabrication/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T15:05:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-kobesteel-a-20180601.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kobesteel-a-20180601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prosecutors are planning to raid multiple Kobe Steel Ltd. offices in connection with the company's data fabrication scandal.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/national/former-komatsu-head-satoru-anzaki-held-farewell-party-revealing-cancer-dies-81/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T15:33:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-komatsu-a-20180601.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-komatsu-a-20180601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satoru Anzaki]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/business/economy-business/gender-pay-gap-cost-world-160-trillion-world-bank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T15:35:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/b-gap-a-20180601.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-gap-a-20180601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks along a street in Tokyo on Monday, June 5. Gender inequality in the workplace could cost $160 trillion in lost earnings globally, a World Bank study shows.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/national/princess-aiko-join-summer-school-program-london/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T15:55:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aiko-a-20180601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Aiko]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/business/trading-house-jalux-open-thailands-first-japanese-wholesale-market-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T15:55:26+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/national/japanese-high-tolerance-obnoxious-airline-passengers-expedia-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T16:10:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-expedia-a-20180601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recent survey shows Japanese travelers are the most patient in dealing with annoying airline passengers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/business/economy-business/japans-industrial-output-edged-0-3-april-robust-auto-production/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T16:55:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-output-a-20180601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke rises from chimneys at the Nippon Steel &amp; Sumitomo Metal Corp. plant in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture. Japanese factory output in April grew 0.3 percent from the previous month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/business/bike-sharing-race-expected-heat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T19:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bikenew-a-20180530.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wireless battery charging system for bike-sharing services is exhibited at the Bicycle City Expo 2018 in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/business/corporate-business/thailand-picked-totos-latest-washlet-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T19:01:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toto Ltd.'s latest Washlet plant in Thailand is to contribute to a target of 2 million unit shipments globally in 2022.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/31/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-issues-rules-get-tough-academic-integrity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-05-31T19:03:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-31T19:27:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-31T21:55:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[American newborns can still expect to live longer overall, but the last 10 years of American lives are not expected to be healthy, according to World Health Organization data.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-05-31T23:05:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T04:19:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis attends a meeting with faithful of the diocese of Rome at Saint John Lateran Basilica in Rome May 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T08:55:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T08:56:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing logo is pictured during the European Business Aviation Convention &amp; Exhibition (EBACE) at Geneva Airport May 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T10:36:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canon's last remaining film model gained popularity among camera enthusiasts, but demand shrank amid growing use of digital cameras.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T12:51:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trumps-art-unpredictability-foreign-leaders-concerned/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump arrives in Dallas on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T16:16:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T16:20:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T16:52:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/01/business/japan-considers-scrapping-social-spending-cap-casting-doubt-ability-tame-deficit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-01T16:54:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T17:01:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T17:24:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T17:26:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman shows a card the Sapporo Municipal Government began issuing Friday as proof of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender partnerships.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T18:16:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T18:23:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan Secretary-General Tetsuro Fukuyama (right) speaks during an Upper House Budget Committee session on Monday as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far left) listens.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T19:16:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T20:36:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Official records show no change in ownership of this pond in Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, since 1886, the year the pond was likely created.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T22:15:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-01T23:24:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[As Japan draws in record numbers of foreign visitors, Tokyo launches a multi-language call center on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crews watch activity at fissure 8 of Kilauea volcano on Thursday morning, when fountain heights continued to reach 70 to 80 meters (230 to 260 feet), feeding a lava flow that was moving to the northeast along Highway 132 into the area of Noni Farms Road]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/26/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-putin-hold-summit-economic-cooperation-security/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-02T18:26:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attend a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in the Russian city on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/putin-says-will-step-president-term-expires-2024/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-02T18:27:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-putin2024-a-20180527.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with heads of foreign companies the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/12/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-putin-meet-moscow-may-26/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-02T18:27:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-abeputin-a-20180513.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abeputin-a-20180513.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/national/politics-diplomacy/kim-jong-un-proves-popular-abe-south-korea-survey-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-02T18:27:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-abekim-a-20180318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abekim-a-20180318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Jong Un]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/06/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-mulls-inviting-russian-president-putin-2019-press-isles-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-02T18:28:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/n-rusjapan-a-20180106.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rusjapan-a-20180106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen attending a ceremony in Slovenia in 2016. Japan is reportedly considering inviting him around May next year in the hope of making progress in resolving a decades-long territorial row.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/01/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-former-tax-chief-nobuhisa-sagawa-faces-cut-retirement-pay-moritomo-document-tampering/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-02T18:35:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-sagawa-a-20180602.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sagawa-a-20180602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former National Tax Agency chief Nobuhisa Sagawa speaks to the House of Councilors' Budget Committee on March 27.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/01/national/crime-legal/labor-game-changer-supreme-court-smacks-illegal-gaps-allowances-paid-regular-nonregular-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-02T18:38:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-supreme-a-20180602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hamakyorex truck driver Masahiko Ikeda, a plaintiff in a labor equality lawsuit that went to the Supreme Court, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/02/business/japan-may-file-wto-challenge-u-s-steel-aluminum-tariffs-aso/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-02T19:43:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/02/national/politics-diplomacy/onodera-says-singapore-security-summit-important-not-reward-pyongyang-just-coming-dialogue-table/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-02T20:39:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-nkjapan-a-20180603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkjapan-a-20180603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo (right) arrives to speak next to his Japanese counterpart, Itsunori Onodera, at the IISS Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/02/national/media-national/can-kore-edas-success-shed-light-poverty-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-03T12:37:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/p3-adelstein-shoplifting-a-20180603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-adelstein-shoplifting-a-20180603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clockwise from right: Mayu Matsuoka, Kirin Kiki, Lily Franky, Jyo Kairi, Miyu Sasaki and Sakura Ando]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/business/g-7-finance-chiefs-blast-u-s-tariffs-move-call-resolution-leaders-quebec-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-03T13:01:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-trade-a-20180604.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trade-a-20180604.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ministers and delegates including (front, from left) Finance Minister Taro Aso, Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney, Bank of Canada Gov. Stephen Poloz, Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau, World Bank Group CEO Kristalina Georgieva and German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz attend the group photo session during the meeting of Group of Seven finance ministers and central bank governors in Whistler, British Columbia, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/business/u-s-trade-mission-travels-china-seeks-structural-changes-economy-mnuchin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-03T13:11:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin arrives at a news conference during a meeting for the G-7 finance and central bank governors in Whistler, British Columbia, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/world/hawaii-evacuees-leave-newly-lava-threatened-homes-big-island/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-03T13:11:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-kilauea-a-20180604.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kilauea-a-20180604.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The view from the intersection of Nohea and Leilani streets on Friday morning: Kilauea's Fissure 8 lava fountain, which at one point had sustained heights of 260 feet (80 meters).]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/02/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/indias-modi-threads-path-rising-china-uncertain-u-s-first-shangri-la-dialogue-appearance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-03T13:46:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-modi-a-20180603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-modi-a-20180603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers the keynote address at the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore on Friday. Modi called for countries to have "equal access" to shared maritime and air spaces, and for regional disputes to be settled under international law.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/asia-pacific/north-korea-get-relief-verifiable-irreversible-step-denuclearization-mattis-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-03T13:46:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis holds a meeting with Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera and South Korean defense chief Song Young-moo on the sidelines of the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/world/u-n-special-rapporteur-says-american-poverty-deepening-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-03T14:15:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/world/science-health-world/study-finds-many-women-early-stage-breast-cancer-can-skip-chemotherapy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-03T20:45:43+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/national/politics-diplomacy/finance-ministry-officials-say-sagawa-ordered-falsification-moritomo-papers-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-03T20:59:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/asia-pacific/onodera-meets-u-s-south-korean-counterparts-ahead-trump-kim-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-03T21:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-shangri-a-20180604.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shangri-a-20180604.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo (left), U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera shake hands before their trilateral meeting at the Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/national/artsy-guesthouse-raises-hopes-kawasakis-fire-hit-hostel-district/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-03T21:24:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-kawasaki-a-20180604.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kawasaki-a-20180604.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroki Yoshizaki poses at a low-priced guesthouse he manages in Kawasaki on May 12.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/business/italys-plan-b-euro-skeptic-currency-ideas-take-center-stage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-03T21:25:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-eurohoh-a-20180604.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italian Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini leaves after the first Cabinet meeting at Chigi Palace in Rome on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/business/corporate-business/state-backed-incj-dbj-start-investment-talks-toshiba-memory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-03T21:25:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toshibatalk-a-20180604.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two state-backed entities plan to opens talks this month on investing in Toshiba Memory Corp., which has been sold to a consortium led by U.S. investment fund Bain Capital, sources say.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/national/shimabara-residents-remember-claimed-mount-unzen-eruption-nagasaki-1991/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-03T21:26:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/business/young-japanese-warming-idea-switching-jobs-employment-prospects-grow-surveys/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-03T21:28:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jobhunting-a-20180604.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More young Japanese are taking to the idea of changing jobs, surveys say, signaling a further shift away from Japan's so-called lifetime employment system.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/syrian-president-bashar-assad-meet-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-pyongyang/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-04T02:18:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with Greece's Kathimerini newspaper in Damascus on May 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/business/singapores-shangri-la-hotel-brass-arms-merchants-spies-rub-elbows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-04T07:11:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gurkhas patrol at the IISS Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-04T07:14:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis holds a monstrance as he celebrates the Holy Mass during a visit to the town of Ostia, in the outskirts of Rome, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/business/media-pour-trump-kim-summit-venue-search-leads-old-singapore-pirate-hangout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-04T08:56:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-04T09:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-04T09:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kilauea-a-20180605.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lara Jackson, 34, of Manchester, Britain, takes a photo as lava lights up the sky above Pahoa during ongoing eruptions of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/national/two-japanese-tourists-killed-hawaii-head-car-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-04T10:24:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/business/big-investors-urge-g7-step-climate-action-shift-away-coal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-04T10:26:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-04T13:45:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-order-a-20180605.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (left), Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera and Chinese People's Liberation Army's Academy of Military Science Deputy President He Lei pose for photos at a ministerial roundtable on the sidelines of the International Institute for Strategic Studies' Shangri-La Dialogue forum in Singapore on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/national/now-wheelchair-japanese-ex-motorcycle-racer-still-passionate-bikes-aichi-shop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-04T15:21:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20180605.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ko Sawada, a former motorcycle racer who now uses a wheelchair, shows off classic bikes at his shop Motocyclette Sawada, in Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-finds-crossroads-pressure-policy-toward-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-04T15:29:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abepressure-a-20180604.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo (left), U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (center) and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera get together for a trilateral meeting in Singapore on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/business/data-shows-women-still-struggling-advance-japans-corporate-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-04T15:41:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/national/jica-gives-crop-diversification-training-afghan-officials-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-04T15:43:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/business/u-s-allies-push-trump-change-heart-trade-war-looms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-04T16:05:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-04T16:22:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-04T17:48:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-04T18:40:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-04T19:50:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff prepare food at an eatery in Yangon in May. A Japanese information technology venture in Myanmar has launched a gourmet food app assisted by artificial intelligence technology.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp.'s venture capital arm is investing in Roli, a maker of digital musical instruments like this Roli Seaboard keyboard controller.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte kissed a Filipino woman on lips while on an official visit in South Korea on Sunday in this screenshot taken from YouTube.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/business/corporate-business/toshiba-memory-mulls-changing-company-name-next-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-04T22:09:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Memory Corp. will be producing flash memory at this plant in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/business/tech/japan-aims-launch-self-driving-vehicle-services-2020/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government's draft growth strategy says Japan will work to introduce self-driving vehicle services on public roads by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Supreme Court in Washington is seen April 23. The Supreme Court is siding with the Trump administration over the American Civil Liberties Union in the case of a pregnant immigrant teen who was able to obtain an abortion after filing a lawsuit.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T08:57:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takehiro Tanaka, executive director of Satoumi Zukuri Kenkyu Kaigi, speaks at the Satoyama Cafe in Tokyo in March. JAPAN TIMES SATOYAMA CONSORTIUM]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T10:54:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T10:55:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kosuke Motani, chief senior economist at the Japan Research Institute Ltd., (left) and Kyosuke Inoue, executive producer at NHK Enterprises, Inc. speak in the opening session of the Japan Times Satoyama Consortium symposium in Tokyo on May 16. YOSHIAKI MIURA]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/business/satoyama-japan-beyond/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-05T10:57:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T12:09:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vapor rises into the sky from smoke stacks at the JXTG Nippon Oil &amp; Energy Corp. in Muroran, Hokkaido, in October 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/national/politics-diplomacy/panel-balks-proposing-killing-japans-political-fairness-clause/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-05T12:10:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T12:10:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T12:33:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/05/national/science-health/riken-develops-new-method-culturing-hair-follicles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-05T12:45:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riken will soon start animal testing of a newly developed method to culture hair follicles for transplantation.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T13:08:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark speaks during an interview on May 22 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T13:15:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz (right) hands the Vincent Lombardi trophy to Nick Foles after winning the NFL Super Bowl 52 football game against the New England Patriots in Minneapolis Feb. 4. The Eagles won 41-33. President Donald Trump has called off a visit by the Philadelphia Eagles to the White House Tuesday due to the dispute over whether NFL players must stand during the playing of the national anthem. Trump says in a statement that some members of the Super Bowl championship team "disagree with their President because he insists that they proudly stand for the National Anthem, hand on heart."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T13:29:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryuichi Oura and his son, Sunowa, take a selfie at their home in Tokyo in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T13:41:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot from the Sorehara website shows a range of icons corresponding to types of harassment that victims can select.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T13:55:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Recently declassified British documents about Japan's financial support to the multinational coalition during the Gulf War.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/reference/u-s-trade-deficit-japan-not-necessarily-bugbear-painted-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-05T14:17:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Accompanied by their negotiators, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump hold talks in Florida in April. Trump has played up the trade imbalances with America's trading partners as a major problem, but the reasons why remain the subject of widespread debate.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T14:21:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Special red and blue shots offered at Escobar bar to mark the summit meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are displayed on a table in Singapore on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T14:29:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[It's impossible to know these days when a mobile phone is going to capture some incriminating footage of questionable behavior.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to the researchers, natural killer cells, which attack cancer cells, increased for a group of patients who watched the comedy shows.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants discuss their activities and roles in their respective satoyama and satoumi fields on a panel at the Japan Times Satoyama Consortium symposium in Tokyo on May 16. YOSHIAKI MIURA]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T17:05:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Coinbase Inc. sticker is seen on a laptop computer at the company's office in San Francisco last Dec. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/national/2-7-tons-eel-dumped-last-year-japan-following-summer-promotion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-05T17:56:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to Greenpeace Japan, at least 2.7 tons of cooked eel was thrown away by retailers last year after the traditional summer promotion campaign.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/05/national/bear-dogs-help-resort-town-coexist-nature/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-05T17:57:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Handler Jumpei Tanaka (right) works with a Karelian bear dog in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. Picchio, a nonprofit organization devoted to conserving bears, raises and trains Karelian dogs to chase bears away from residential areas.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, arrives in the Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture after a scheduled patrol in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T18:27:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[When people of color ask for raises, they're a lot less likely than white workers to get the salary bump they request, a new study says.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T18:45:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up at the Chiba District Court on Monday for tickets to the opening of a man indicted for murdering a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl in March last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T18:46:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French marathon swimmer Ben Lecomte gets ready in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, on Tuesday for the start of his attempt to swim across the Pacific Ocean.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/05/business/japans-newest-bullet-train-makes-media-debut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-05T19:21:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new shinkansen model, the N700S, pulls out of Mikawa-Anjo Station in Aichi Prefecture on a test run to Shin-Osaka Station.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-05T21:13:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/05/national/prosecutors-raid-kobe-steel-quality-data-fabrication-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-05T21:14:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prosecutors enter an office of Kobe Steel Ltd. on Tuesday morning in Tokyo to search for evidence relating to the firm's data fabrication scandal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/05/national/japans-tourism-boom-spreading-economic-benefits-rural-areas-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-05T21:14:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists visit Zentsuji temple in Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture. According to the latest white paper on tourism released Tuesday, the number of foreign visitors has particularly increased in rural areas such as Kagawa, Saga and Aomori prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/05/business/growth-prioritized-fiscal-health-governments-draft-economic-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-05T22:44:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-06T06:35:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump holds his hand over his heart and sings the U.S. National Anthem along with members of the United States Army Chorus at his "Celebration of America" event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington Tuesday. The event was arranged after Trump canceled the planned visit of the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles to the White House.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/06/business/u-s-treasury-official-warns-allies-irans-financial-dealings-sanctions-reinstated/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-06T06:38:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-06T09:21:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vacuum-packed pork fillets imported from the U.S. are seen Tuesday in Mexico City. Mexico announced steep duties Tuesday on a raft of U.S. products ranging from whiskey to apples in retaliation for the "unilateral adoption" by Washington of steel and aluminum tariffs. The Mexican economy ministry published a list of American products that will be subject to duties of between 15 and 25 percent, including pork, cheese and grapes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/06/business/u-s-lawmakers-sides-seek-block-trump-push-impose-tariffs-national-security-grounds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-06T09:22:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump (right) greets. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. (left) and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., as he arrives at Nashville International Airport in Nashville, Tennessee, May 29 to attend a rally.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/business/tourism-flavored-history/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-06T09:58:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Z2-satoyama-municipalities-a-20180604.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Municipal leaders discuss their satoyama and satoumi policies and engagements in their respective prefectures and cities at a session during the Japan Times Satoyama Consortium symposium in Tokyo on May 16. YOSHIAKI MIURA]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/06/world/crime-legal-world/key-senate-republicans-warn-trump-obstruction-pardon-powers-house-ranks-take-softer-tone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-06T11:01:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-obstruct-a-20180607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-obstruct-a-20180607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Pr.esident Donald Trump smiles after addressing the U.S Naval Academy graduating class on May 25 in Annapolis, Maryland. Trump on Monday asserted an "absolute right" to pardon himself, once again lashing out at a probe into possible collusion with Russian election meddling and obstruction of justice.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/05/business/corporate-business/toshiba-eyes-selling-pc-business-sharp-5-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-06T11:44:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past an ad for Toshiba Corp.'s Dynabook computers in Tokyo. The electronics giant reportedly plans to sell its money-losing personal computer business to Sharp Corp. for around ¥5 billion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/05/business/corporate-business/subaru-finds-cars-affected-data-fabrication-leading-shake-top-management/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-06T12:04:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Subaru Corp. President and CEO Yasuyuki Yoshinaga bows in apology during a news conference Tuesday to announce the automaker has found more cases of inspection data falsification.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-06T12:27:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Facebook logo is reflected in a woman's glasses on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-06T12:31:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump confer ahead of a Group of 20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-06T13:35:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (right) walks with National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo (left) and Deputy Director Susan Gordon during a visit for a town hall in Springfield, Virginia, last August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/06/world/politics-diplomacy-world/luxury-resort-chosen-trump-kim-summit-singapore-islet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-06T14:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Capella hotel on Sentosa island, Singapore, is seen in this photo released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-06T14:34:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man carries a girl who was injured in a reported barrel-bomb attack by Syrian regime forces in June 2014 in the Kallaseh district of the northern city of Aleppo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-06T14:37:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Richard Grenell]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/06/asia-pacific/dennis-rodman-singapore-trump-kim-summit-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-06T14:39:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dennis Rodman]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/06/world/hack-genealogy-website-myheritage-exposes-data-92-million-accounts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-06T14:40:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-06T14:51:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers pick up plastic during a garbage collection on La Costilla Beach in Rota, Spain, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/05/world/singapore-launches-world-peace-medallion-mark-trump-kim-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-06T15:37:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A design for one of three medallions unveiled by the Singapore Mint commemorating U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's meeting in Singapore is shown in this image supplied Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-06T15:43:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tadaatsu Mori]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-06T15:51:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte leans in to kiss a Filipino worker at the podium during a town hall-style meeting with overseas Filipino workers in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/06/national/inquest-sought-osaka-decision-not-indict-finance-ministry-officials-document-tampering/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-06T16:10:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Kamiwaki(left), professor of law at Kobe Gakuin University, speaks during a news conference Tuesday in Osaka to announce his citizens group has filed a petition with a local inquest panel. They are seeking a review of prosecutors' decision not to indict former and current Finance Ministry officials involved in the manipulation of official documents related to a controversial sale of state land.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/06/business/financial-markets/u-s-economy-force-bojs-hand-rates-ally-gov-haruhiko-kuroda-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-06T17:10:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahiro Kawai, Bank of Japan adviser and project professor of the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo, speaks during a recent interview in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/06/business/financial-markets/global-investment-firm-kkrs-co-sees-japan-top-investing-priority/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-06T17:11:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-06T17:32:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sharpinterview-a-20180607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tai Jeng-wu]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump wants North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to commit to a timetable to surrender his country's nuclear arsenal when he meets Trump next week in Singapore for their historic summit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/07/business/corporate-business/chemical-maker-ube-industries-reports-quality-control-misconduct-dating-back-70s/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-07T22:01:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-07T22:01:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-anime-a-20180608.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The cover of Mine's "Nidome no Jinsei o Isekai de" ("Young Again in Another World")]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/07/national/60000-elderly-drivers-japan-suspected-dementia-license-renewal-police/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-07T22:02:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A border patrol car drives past the old border wall in San Ysidro, California, on June 4, 2018. The Trump administration has failed to kill a legal challenge to its practice of separating undocumented parents and children entering the U.S. to flee persecution at home.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/07/national/descendants-hawaiis-first-japanese-immigrants-mark-150th-anniversary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-07T23:11:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Descendants of gannenmono Tokujiro Sato, who was one of the first Japanese emigrants to Hawaii in 1868, search for their names on their family tree during a reunion at the Bishop museum in Honolulu on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/business/following-facebook-data-sharing-revelation-u-s-senator-quizzes-alphabet-twitter-huawei-relationship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T06:40:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square in March. Chinese phone maker Huawei claimed Wednesday that it has never collected or stored Facebook user data, after the social media giant acknowledged it shared such data with Huawei and other manufacturers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/world/social-issues-world/ice-sending-1600-immigration-detainees-federal-prisons-triggering-outcry-among-rights-advocates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T09:19:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-08T09:20:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former FBI director James Comey speaks during a stop on his book tour in Washington in April. Comey is about to get dinged in an internal review by the Justice Department, and President Donald Trump says he can't wait.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/06/national/japan-considers-replicating-measures-taken-overseas-amid-concern-elderly-drivers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T11:58:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roberta Kessler gets off a bus run by the nonprofit New York Foundation for Senior Citizens that offers transportation services to people age 60 and older in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/world/finger-pointing-officials-admit-alert-late-save-lives-guatemala-volcano-death-toll-hits-100/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T13:48:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brian Rivera, who lost 13 members of his family during the eruption of the Fuego volcano, holds his sister's guitar near debris of his home at San Miguel Los Lotes, Escuintla, Guatemala, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Kintamani dog]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/world/u-s-senate-staffer-indicted-allegedly-lying-fbi-unauthorized-disclosures-classified-information/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T13:57:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-08T14:59:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Progressive Conservative Party leader Doug Ford gives a thumbs-up during election night celebrations held in Toronto on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-08T15:20:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Exchange 106 tower in Kuala Lumpur]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-china-launch-defense-communication-mechanism-prevent-air-sea-clashes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T15:39:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-08T15:58:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign employees pose at Daiwa Royal Hotel Grande Kyoto, which is set to open Saturday near Kyoto Station. The hotel supports visitors with staff that can speak nine languages.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/national/japans-government-oks-plan-promote-bike-sharing-create-eco-friendly-society/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T16:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bike-a-20180609.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯The government approved a plan Friday to promote bicycle sharing in order to create a more environmentally friendly society.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/national/60-tokyo-fathers-cook-home-showing-steep-rise-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T16:07:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Husbands prepare meals during a cooking event in Nagoya in December 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/business/tech/google-bars-uses-artificial-intelligence-tech-weapons-unreasonable-surveillance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T16:44:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-google-a-20180609.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, California, May 8. Google pledges that it will not use artificial intelligence in applications related to weapons or surveillance, part of a new set of principles designed to govern how it uses AI. Those principles, released by Pichai, commit Google to building AI applications that are "socially beneficial," that avoid creating or reinforcing bias and that are accountable to people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/07/business/corporate-business/fujifilm-may-withdraw-xerox-purchase-deal-deadlock-continues-chairman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T16:55:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo of Fujifilm Holdings is seen ahead of a news conference held by the firm in Tokyo in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/07/national/airbnb-users-face-summer-crunch-japan-seeks-delisting-unlicensed-lodgings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T17:06:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Since last week, many property owners and guests who booked rooms through Airbnb have been surprised to find that thousands of previously listed lodgings, which had not obtained licenses to operate, have been delisted from Airbnb's website.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/business/economy-business/japans-current-account-stays-black-%c2%a51-85-trillion-april-17/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T17:17:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-materials-admits-labeling-substandard-concrete-making-material-jis-certification/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T17:49:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/01/29/national/kato-sorry-for-akihabara-massacre/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T17:55:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-08T18:11:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-08T19:22:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man offers a prayer on Friday at the crossing in Tokyo's Akihabara district where seven people were killed and 10 others were injured in a stabbing rampage 10 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/national/okinawa-car-rental-agencies-wary-chinese-tourists-improperly-obtained-licenses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T19:30:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff at a Luft Travel Rent-a-Car outlet in Okinawa Prefecture speak to foreign tourists on May 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/national/japan-professor-elected-u-n-panel-discrimination-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T19:31:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-08T19:56:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kaifu-a-20180608.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuko Kaifu]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/07/national/nankai-trough-megaquake-cause-1410-trillion-damage-japan-dent-economy-20-years-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T21:11:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In March, the Shizuoka Prefectural government designated coast near the Toi area in the city of Izu, seen here, as an area especially vulnerable to tsunami if a megaquake occurs along the Nankai Trough.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/national/lavish-nagoya-palace-tokugawa-shogun-unveiled-nine-year-restoration-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T22:31:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The reconstructed main Hommaru Palace of Nagoya Castle, seen here on Monday, opened to the public Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/national/politics-diplomacy/americans-optimistic-japanese-prospects-korean-denuclearization-singapore-summit-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-08T23:09:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/national/politics-diplomacy/ruling-coalition-holds-back-casino-bill-ahead-niigata-gubernatorial-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T03:22:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-mulls-informal-talks-north-mongolia-trump-kim-jong-un-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T03:25:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/business/economy-business/japans-gdp-contracted-0-6-first-quarter-2018-unchanged-initial-estimate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T03:26:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-gdprevise-a-20180609.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Revised data, released by the government Friday, confirms Japan's economy shrunk in the January-March quarter to mark its first drop in over two years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/business/economy-business/u-s-eu-agree-start-technical-talks-trade-g7-summit-standoff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T09:57:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump meets with French President Emmanuel Macron during the Group of Seven summit on Friday in La Malbaie, Quebec.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/asia-pacific/china-reportedly-hacked-u-s-navy-undersea-warfare-plans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T11:50:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ballistic missile submarine USS Louisiana transits the Hood Canal in Puget Sound, Washington, as it returns home following a strategic deterrent patrol on May 3.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/business/kia-recalls-507000-vehicles-u-s-air-bag-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T13:12:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kiarecall-a-20180610.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The KIA Motors logo is seen on a K7 sedan at a showroom in Seoul. The carmaker is recalling over a half-million vehicles in the U.S. because the air bags may not work in a crash.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/world/nearly-1800-families-separated-u-s-mexico-border-17-months-february/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T13:18:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sepfamilies-a-20180610.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Immigrants who turned themselves in to border patrol agents after illegally crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. wait to be transported for processing in the Rio Grande Valley sector, near McAllen, Texas, on April 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/asia-pacific/u-s-probe-malaysias-1mdb-picks-speed-najibs-election-loss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T13:27:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak shakes hands with supporters during an event in Pekan on May 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/business/corporate-business/toyota-mulls-using-driverless-vehicles-mobile-convenience-stores/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T15:55:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda shows a fully autonomous vehicle prototype in Las Vegas in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/national/media-national/communication-difficulties-continue-torment-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T22:44:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Whose line is it anyway?: AI researcher Noriko Arai believes young people often struggle to understand others because they lack "real life experience."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/national/media-national/japans-youtubers-go-long-crowdfunded-content/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T22:56:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man of the hour: Natsuki Aso is the focus of a documentary by Chris Broad titled "Natsuki: The Movie," which was uploaded to Broad's Abroad in Japan YouTube channel on May 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/national/facial-recognition-system-unveiled-japanese-passport-control-narita-airport-near-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T17:44:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facial recognition passport control gates are unveiled Friday at Narita airport.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-uneasy-prospects-trump-kim-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T21:50:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leave after holding a joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/national/politics-diplomacy/g7-leaders-stay-united-north-korea-despite-ire-u-s-tariffs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T21:51:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, are greeted by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie, on Friday at the Group of Seven summit in La Malbaie, Quebec.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/national/anti-korean-graffiti-found-japanese-city-following-cancellation-alleged-hate-speech-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T21:51:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters sit at a public hall in Kawasaki to block people from attending an alleged hate speech event targeting ethnic Korean residents on June 3, two years after Japan's anti-hate speech law took effect.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-special-counsel-indicts-russian-linked-spy-agencies-adds-charges-former-trump-campaign-head-paul-manafort/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T22:03:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, departs U.S. District Court after a motions hearing in Alexandria, Virginia, on May 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/national/emperor-empress-meet-nuclear-evacuees-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T22:22:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Imperial Couple on Saturday listen to residents of a publicly funded apartment complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, that was built for those displaced by the March 2011 quake, tsunami and nuclear crisis.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/national/armed-vague-guidelines-child-welfare-centers-failing-share-info-abuse-cases-police/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T22:24:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Offerings of snacks and flowers accumulate Thursday in front of the Meguro Ward apartment where 5-year-old Yua Funato allegedly died of neglect in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/business/corporate-business/porsche-picks-taycan-name-brands-first-electric-vehicle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-09T23:18:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Porsche AG Taycan electric automobile sits on display as the luxury automaker celebrates its 70th anniversary in Stuttgart, Germany, on Friday. Porsche AG named its first car to directly compete with electric leader Tesla Inc. the Taycan, as the German manufacturer gears up for what will arguably be its most ambitious and potentially risky vehicle project ever.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/10/business/swiss-vote-referendum-whether-introduce-real-money-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-10T22:19:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photograph, taken in Geneva on May 24, shows an electoral poster in favor of a "sovereign money" initiative. It reads, in French: 'Who should create our money?' Swiss voters Sunday cast ballots for the "sovereign money" initiative, which, if it passes, will legally bar any institution other than the central bank from creating new money.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/10/national/politics-diplomacy/heated-discussions-g7-leaders-issue-communique-abe-hails-outcome-quebec-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-10T23:08:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-g7summit-a-20180611.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and G7 leaders France's President Emmanuel Macron, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump take part in a working session of the G7 meeting in Charlevoix city of La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/10/national/politics-diplomacy/senior-japanese-officials-arrive-singapore-ahead-trump-kim-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T04:06:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/world/social-issues-world/italy-seeks-close-ports-migrant-boat-wants-reluctant-malta-open-doors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T06:21:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants line up after disembarking at the Reggio Calabria harbor Saturdsay in southern Italy. An aid ship carrying 629 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean was waiting to learn where it can dock. The NGO SOS Mediterranee tweeted on Sunday the migrants aboard the Aquarius include 40 plucked from the sea after their dinghy collapsed. Among the migrants are 400 migrants rescued by Italy's coast guard and navy and private cargo ships.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/business/trump-trade-aide-pins-nafta-failure-canada-says-theres-special-place-hell-trudeau/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T06:23:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House director of trade policy Peter Navarro dodges the press after speaking on Fox News at the White House in Washington on June 4.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/world/philippine-troops-kill-15-militants-air-ground-assault-ied-factory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T06:27:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/world/kilauea-summit-blows-ash-aloft-anew-lava-flows-pacific/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T08:56:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows fountaining from what is known as fissure 8 in Kilauea Volcano's lower East Rift Zone on the island of Hawaii at around 6:30 a.m. Saturday. Overnight, fountain heights were generally 130-160-feett high, with occasional bursts up to just under 200 feet high.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/world/social-issues-world/give-us-myanmar-citizenship-end-exodus-award-winning-rohingya-lawyer-urges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T08:59:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya Muslim refugees wait in line under the rain during a food distribution under at Nayapara refugee camp in Bangladesh's Ukhia district last October. The first monsoon rains have hit camps in Bangladesh housing around a million Rohingya refugees, triggering floods and landslides but for now no casualties or major damage, officials said on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/business/days-numbered-atms-japans-banking-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T10:15:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese banks are shifting away from costly ATMs, which are still widespread in the cash-based society.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/business/not-russia-funded-moscows-secret-agents-brexit-campaigner-aaron-banks-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T10:54:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/b-brexit-a-20180612.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Millionaire Brexit campaigner Arron Banks is seen in London in 2016. The chairman of the British Parliament's media committee says the millionaire backer of the successful campaign to leave the European Union has questions to answer about his contacts with Russian officials. Damian Collins says the Culture, Media and Sport Committee plans to question Arron Banks about a report in the Sunday Times on Sunday that he had undisclosed meetings with Russian officials around the time of the June 2016 referendum on EU membership.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/chinese-newspapers-contrast-sco-security-summit-success-g-7-disarray/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T13:40:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Sunday tweet from the official Twitter account of the People's Daily newspaper compares photos of the Group of Seven leaders summit and Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/national/crime-legal/china-indicts-japanese-man-allegedly-spying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T14:55:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/national/myanmar-strawberry-farmers-reduce-losses-japans-cold-chain-logistics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T15:51:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nay Lin Tun (left) and his wife sort strawberries in Pyin Oo Lwin, central Myanmar, on April 6 before shipping them by refrigerated trucks to the commercial capital Yangon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/national/mie-university-ties-local-cake-shop-reproduce-stress-relieving-ninja-snacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T15:52:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Hisamatsu holds up a bag of cookies inspired by preserved snacks carried by ninja.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-materials-president-step-data-tampering-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T17:59:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Materials Corp. President Akira Takeuchi bows during a news conference in Tokyo in March when the firm revealed details about a series of quality data falsifications.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/business/corporate-business/banking-veteran-slams-japanese-banks-fixation-archaic-trading-methods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T18:32:58+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/business/tpp-must-renegotiated-says-malaysian-prime-minister-mahathir/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T18:36:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad delivers a speech during the International Conference on "The Future of Asia" in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/business/corporate-business/japans-saishunkan-launches-anti-aging-skin-care-product-thailand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T18:37:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/b-skin-a-20180612.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masaaki Nishikawa (center), president of Japan's Saishunkan Pharmaceutical Co., and other company officials join an event to launch its anti-aging skin care product Domohorn Wrinkle in Bangkok on June 4.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/architects-south-koreas-sunshine-policy-north-say-paying-off/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T18:43:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-nksunshine-a-20180612.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in toasts with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his wife, Ri Sol Ju, during a banquet at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone on April 27.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/state-media-workers-security-offer-glimpse-tightly-regimented-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T18:43:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkmedia-a-20180612.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean cameraman reacts as he is chased by media outside Singapore's St. Regis hotel on Sunday, ahead of Tuesday's summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-expected-land-singapores-changi-airport-sunday-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T18:45:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-nkarrive-a-20180610.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkarrive-a-20180610.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pinatas with the caricatures of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un decorate the Lucha Loco restaurant Thursday ahead of the two leaders' upcoming summit in Singapore.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/asia-pacific/nobel-peace-prize-winner-ican-offers-pick-tab-trump-kim-summit-singapore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T18:57:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is seen during a visit to a nuclear weapons site in this undated photo released Sunday. The country's state-run media said Kim inspected the loading of a hydrogen bomb onto a new intercontinental ballistic missile, a claim that could not be independently verified.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/04/asia-pacific/north-koreas-top-military-brass-trio-replaced-u-s-official-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T18:57:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks alongside his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Friday following a meeting with a North Korean delegation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/business/currency-diplomat-asakawa-tapped-finance-ministrys-top-bureaucrat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T19:05:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatsugu Asakawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/02/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-says-kim-summit-june-12-puts-japan-south-korea-spot-economic-aid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T19:21:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump is presented with a letter from North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un by Kim's envoy, Kim Yong Chol, in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/01/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-receive-kim-letter-top-north-korea-envoy-nuclear-summit-takes-shape/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T19:22:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Thursday picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) onFriday shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (left) greeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Pyongyang.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/asia-pacific/trump-wants-quick-north-korean-denuclearization-experts-say-process-take-decade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T19:23:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The deputy director of North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Institute, who would not give his name, briefs reporters in Punggye-ri on May 24 about the dismantling of the country's nuclear test site.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/asia-pacific/kim-jong-uns-right-hand-man-bound-washington-summit-talks-progress-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T19:53:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, standing next to former spy chief and senior official Kim Yong Chol, waves to South Korean President Moon Jae-in after their summit at the truce village of Panmunjom, North Korea, on May 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/27/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-north-korea-back-track-says-souths-moon-secret-summit-kim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T19:53:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un leave after their summit at the truce village of Panmunjom on the border separating the two Koreas on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-11T19:54:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during a dinner at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-11T19:54:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Female activists march toward the Unification Bridge, which leads to the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, during the 2018 DMZ Women Peace Walk in Paju, South Korea, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-11T19:55:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks in front of a screen in Tokyo flashing a news report about U.S. President Donald Trump cancelling his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/national/14-hurt-car-slams-gunma-supermarket-driver-held/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T20:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A car is seen after it crashed into a supermarket in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, Sunday. Fourteen people were injured.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-11T20:01:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba makes s stump speech in Tokushima on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-11T20:10:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This combination photo shows U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/24/asia-pacific/north-korea-issues-direct-threat-yet-pull-summit-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T20:12:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Missiles are driven past the stand with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other high ranking officials during a military parade marking the 105th birth anniversary of the country's founding father, Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang in April last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/23/asia-pacific/u-s-north-korea-engage-diplomatic-dance-amid-shifting-prospects-singapore-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T20:13:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man watches a news broadcast showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump at Seoul Station on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/top-u-s-senator-says-trump-looking-end-north-korea-crisis-first-term/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T20:13:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/17/asia-pacific/south-korea-act-mediator-ahead-trump-kim-summit-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T20:13:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Koreans rally against the Max Thunder joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/16/national/north-korean-ruling-party-newspaper-rips-japan-desperate-amid-detente-urges-end-hostile-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T20:13:03+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/2018/05/15/asia-pacific/safety-verification-questions-hang-north-koreas-plan-close-nuclear-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T20:13:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-11T20:13:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site is seen in this annotated satellite image taken May 7. The North is scheduled to hold a ceremony next week to mark the site's dismantling.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/13/asia-pacific/north-korea-hold-ceremony-dismantling-nuclear-test-site-may-23-25/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T20:13:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This satellite image released March 30 shows the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea. The North said Saturday that it will dismantle the site between May 23 and 25, in a dramatic event that would set up leader Kim Jong Un's summit with U.S. President Donald Trump next month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-11T20:13:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday in Pyongyang.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/asia-pacific/singapore-likely-host-trump-kim-summit-mid-june-reports-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-11T20:13:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Park Sang-hak (center left), a North Korean defector and leader of an anti-North Korea civic group, speaks as he prepares to release 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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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideyo Hanazumi greets voters Monday morning in the city of Niigata after winning Sunday's gubernatorial race.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-11T20:32:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-independence activist Edward Leung walks inside a detention center before leaving for the High Court for a sentencing hearing in Hong Kong on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuhiro Soda (center) speaks with his legal team Monday at a Tokyo news conference following the first hearing of a lawsuit in which Japanese living abroad are demanding that the state recognize their right to vote on Supreme Court justices.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-11T21:04:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Around 800 people gather to celebrate the anniversary of young businesspeoples' community One Japan, in Tokyo in September, led by co-founder Makoto Hamamatsu (front, center).]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-11T22:08:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Kojima]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-11T22:09:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada waits for the Tokyo High Court to rule on his controversial 1966 murder case at his home in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/national/emperor-empress-visit-tohoku-region-attend-last-national-tree-planting-event/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/business/imf-chief-slams-trump-says-global-economic-outlook-darkening-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T06:30:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde looks on during a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/world/crime-legal-world/trump-ex-campaign-boss-paul-manafort-arraigned-friday-new-charges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T06:32:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, leaves the Federal District Court after a hearing in Washington in May. Special counsel Robert Mueller has brought additional charges against Manafort and a longtime associate, accusing them of obstructing justice. The new charges were unsealed June 8 against Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/world/chicago-bound-united-flight-rome-diverted-ireland-threat-message-found-board/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T06:42:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/world/science-health-world/climate-change-expected-make-water-green-vegetables-scarce-costly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T09:25:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Indian vendor sells vegetables at a roadside stall in Amritsar, India, in March. Global warming is expected to make vegetables significantly scarcer around the world, unless new growing practices and resilient crop varieties are adopted, researchers warned on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/business/germany-774000-mercedes-cars-unauthorized-software-defeat-devices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T09:26:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dieter Zetsche, chairman of the board of management of Daimler AG, head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, speaks at media previews for the North American International Auto Show in Detroit i n2013. Germany's transport minister said the government is ordering automaker Daimler to immediately recall 238,000 vehicles equipped with software that turns off emissions controls under certain conditions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/national/crime-legal/four-japanese-men-among-indonesia-arrests-immigration-violation-sweep/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T09:45:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-12T10:01:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sits with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana in the city-state Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/business/corporate-business/japan-beer-giant-wants-aging-customers-eat-healthily/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T11:34:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee inspects a can of Kirin Ichiban beer moving along a conveyor on the production line at the Kirin Brewery Co. factory in Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture. Kirin Holdings Co. aims to reach ¥100 billion in sales of food and beverages targeted at appealing to wellness concerns over the next two decades, according to CEO Yoshinori Isozaki.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/world/top-economic-adviser-larry-kudlow-heart-attack-walter-reed-medical-center-trump-tweets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T11:42:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow gives a press briefing about the G7 in the White House in Washington June 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/10/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-kim-said-planning-one-one-talk-summit-start/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T12:01:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves from a car as he returns to North Korea after the meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone on April 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/fair-trade-fool-trade-trump-tweets-ire-nato-allies-trudeau/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T12:09:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House Chief of Staff John Kelly picks up documents off of United States President Donald J. Trump's desk during an event to sign the Tax Cut and Reform Bill in the Oval Office at The White House in Washington last December. President Trump habitually tears up documents he is finished using, forcing White House record-keepers to gather up the pieces and tape them back together, news site Politico reported.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/national/japanese-transgender-professor-run-mayor-campaign-focused-curbing-child-abuse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T12:23:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ayumi Yasutomi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/national/pet-insurance-market-japan-expanding-rise-life-spans-veterinary-bills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T13:44:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pet owners are increasingly worried about soaring medical bills as the life expectancies of animals continue to grow with advances in medicine.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/national/shiga-farmer-strives-preserve-indigenous-japanese-horses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T14:20:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/national/giant-panda-cub-xiang-xiang-turns-1-year-old-tokyo-zoo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T15:21:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A father and son wait for the opening of Ueno Zoo, Tokyo, on Tuesday morning to see Giant panda cub Xiang Xiang on her first birthday the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/business/corporate-business/rolls-royce-starts-accepting-orders-cullinan-suv-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T16:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Rolls-Royce Cullinan, the first SUV by the British automaker, carries a price tag starting at ¥38 million in Japan. Dealers are now taking advance orders, with deliveries expected to start in January or later.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/business/tech/sharp-launch-smart-cat-toilet-can-identify-health-problems/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T16:08:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cat sits in Sharp Corp.'s Pet Care Monitor, a high-tech cat toilet that marks the electronics maker's full-fledged entry into the Japanese pet market.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/national/seven-injured-car-rams-pedestrians-central-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T16:09:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters check the vehicle that rammed through a group of pedestrians in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/national/okinawa-declares-end-measles-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T16:20:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/business/corporate-business/toyota-kddi-sign-automakers-connected-car-platform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T16:48:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Toyota Motor Corp. vehicle is displayed in Beijing. Toyota Motor Corp. and KDDI Corp. have persuaded several other Japanese carmakers to test and deploy connected-car technology.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/national/ethnic-korean-students-watch-historic-trump-kim-summit-closely/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T17:11:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students at Korea International School in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, watch the live broadcasting of the landmark U.S.-North Korea summit on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-mahathir-agree-cooperate-addressing-north-korea-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T17:27:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad greets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prior to their talks at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/business/u-s-companies-japan-want-washington-focus-trade-talks-services-pharmaceuticals-accj/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T17:33:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/11/business/corporate-business/mercaris-top-range-ipo-set-make-founder-shintaro-yamada-new-japanese-billionaire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T18:07:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mercari founder Shintaro Yamada stands for a photograph in Tokyo in March 2016. The online marketplace plans to sell 43.5 million shares at ¥3,000 apiece, at the top of the targeted range, the company said Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/asia-pacific/trump-kims-joint-statement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T18:12:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/business/economy-business/japans-wholesale-prices-logged-2-7-uptick-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T18:16:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/business/india-set-miss-key-target-japan-backed-bullet-train-project-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T19:15:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dashrat Purav, a 62-year old farmer, shows the area of his farm that would be required to build a bullet train track in Palghar, India, on June 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/asia-pacific/chronology-major-events-leading-u-s-north-korea-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-12T19:39:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-12T19:40:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-12T22:16:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella resort in Singapore on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/13/business/apparent-snub-trump-court-oks-atts-bid-buy-time-warner-85-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-13T06:37:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past an AT&amp;T store in New York in 2016. A US judge cleared the AT&amp;T merger with Time Warner with no conditions on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/13/business/trudeau-safe-now-amid-trump-trade-war-threats-angry-farmers-loom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-13T09:09:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-13T09:15:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Director-General of he WHO (World Health Organization) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks with medical personnel while visiting an Ebola treatment center in Itipo, Congo, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/national/laid-back-beach-community-attracting-city-slickers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-13T09:44:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andreas Vinther (left) and Eriko Matsumura decided to leave their home in London for Itoshima, Fukuoka Prefecture, with their two children for a year. They are now living in a house owned by a young startup called Kokkara.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-13T12:55:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump walks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore in this picture released on Tuesday by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/13/world/american-indians-fear-u-s-mexico-border-wall-will-destroy-ancient-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-13T13:28:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/13/national/kin-leprosy-patients-seek-damages-formal-apology-tokyo-alleged-discrimination/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-13T14:51:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs stage a rally near the Kumamoto District Court on April 27 prior to giving testimony in a damages suit. The plaintiffs claim the government mistreated them after their family members were diagnosed wtih leprosy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/13/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-sanctions-cambodian-leaders-top-bodyguard-human-rights-abuses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-13T15:59:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen weaves a krama cotton scarf during an attempt to break the world record for weaving the longest cotton scarf in Phnom Penh on June 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/22/national/latest-take-tokyo-shibuya-dark/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-13T16:36:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[American tourist Emi Estrada listens to guide Shogo Nomura during a nighttime tour last month of the Shibuya district in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grab's logo is seen on a smartphone screen. Toyota Motor Corp. will acquire a $1 billion stake in the ride-hailing firm in one of the largest investments by a carmaker in the industry.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-13T16:53:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's prime minister, pauses during a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-13T17:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-13T17:14:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-13T17:18:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sales of British American Tobacco's Glo e-cigarette device have stalled over the last seven weeks, after the tobacco-heating product hit a 4.3 percent share of Japan's tobacco market during its first six months on sale, according to the London-based company.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-13T17:40:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walk together before a working lunch during their summit Tuesday at the Capella Hotel on Singapore's Sentosa Island.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-13T17:53:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/b-takedaceo-a-20180614.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christophe Weber]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/13/national/bomb-survivors-hail-north-koreas-vow-complete-denuclearization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-13T18:16:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-hibakusha-a-20180614.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hibakusha-a-20180614.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kunihiko Sakuma]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-13T18:34:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un puts his hand on U.S. President Donald Trump's back as the pair leave a signing ceremony during their historic summit at the Capella Hotel on Singapore's Sentosa Island on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-13T18:44:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ring-a-20180614.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Primo Japan Inc. has stopped specifying whether its rings are for men or women.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-13T18:52:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks at an Okinawa Prefectural Assembly session on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/13/national/private-sector-test-results-account-20-national-university-english-entrance-exam-scores/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-13T19:44:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students take the national English test for university admission on Jan. 13 at the University of Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-13T20:15:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-deniro-a-20180614.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobu Hospitality LLC, after starting with one sushi restaurant in New York in 1994, now has more than 40 locations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/13/national/japan-approves-70-year-plan-scrap-nuclear-reprocessing-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-13T21:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Atomic Energy Agency's nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, is seen in 1997.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/13/national/crime-legal/japan-enacts-law-move-holiday-dates-ease-traffic-2020-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-13T21:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-holidays-a-20180614.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-holidays-a-20180614.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars fill the streets in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Feb. 9, following the closing ceremony for the Winter Olympics. The Diet enacted a law Wednesday to move national holidays to days linked to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic ceremonies to alleviate traffic congestion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/13/asia-pacific/chinas-massive-magic-island-maker-dredging-vessel-completes-sea-trials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T04:09:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-islandmaker-a-20180614.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A satellite image shows what appears to be anti-aircraft guns and what are likely to be close-in weapons systems on the artificial island Fiery Cross Reef in the South China Sea in this image released in December 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/world/crime-legal-world/embattled-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-looks-part-ways-legal-team/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T06:37:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cohen-a-20180615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen (center), arrives at federal court in Manhattan, New York, May 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/half-americans-back-trumps-handling-north-korea-quarter-expect-denuclearization-reuters-ipsos-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T06:47:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press before departing the White House for the G7 summit in Washington June 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/gop-rep-mark-sanford-loses-south-carolina-primary-trump-urges-ouster-disloyalty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T09:13:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) questions U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on President Obama's executive action on immigration as Johnson testifies at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-14T09:16:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour applauds the results of the vote to condemn Israeli actions in Gaza, in the General Assembly Wednesday in New York. The U.N. General Assembly adopted by a strong majority of 120 countries an Arab-backed resolution condemning Israel for Palestinian deaths in Gaza and rejected a U.S. bid to put the blame on Hamas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/world/crime-legal-world/house-republicans-press-justice-department-fbi-russia-probe-documents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T11:07:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-reprobe-a-20180615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rod Rosenstein, deputy attorney general, speaks during the International Economic Forum Of The Americas (IEFA) in Montreal, Quebec, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trumps-cultlike-grip-gop-keeps-party-ranks-line-critics-learn-hard-way/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T11:13:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., speaks to reporters after meeting with Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday. The meeting with Freeland comes after President Donald Trump insulted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Group of Seven summit, calling him "dishonest" and "weak," after the prime minister spoke against American tariffs on steel and aluminum.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/13/national/crime-legal/japan-enacts-law-lower-adulthood-age-18/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T12:21:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People who turned or were turning 20 attend a Coming-of-Age Day celebration ceremony at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on Jan. 8. The Diet on Wednesday enacted a law to lower the age of adulthood to 18 from 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/asia-pacific/moon-echoes-trump-says-world-escaped-north-koreas-nuclear-weapons-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T12:33:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha during a bilateral meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/world/meghan-markle-joins-queen-elizabeth-ii-first-royal-trip-without-harry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T13:45:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Royal family members (from left) Meghan, Duchess of Sussex; Prince Charles; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (with Princess Charlotte and Prince George); and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, stand on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to watch a fly-past of aircraft by the Royal Air Force in London on Saturday during the Trooping the Colour ceremony to mark the official birthday of the queen, whose actual birthday is on April 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/13/national/crime-legal/kyoto-kobe-video-game-bar-managers-arrested-alleged-copyright-violations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T14:33:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Video game consoles and game titles that police confiscated from bars in Kyoto and Kobe are seen at the Nakagyo Police Station in Kyoto on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/13/national/nara-deer-found-paper-dart-lodged-neck/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T14:39:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A deer in Nara City has what seems to be a paper dart lodged in its neck.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-14T15:16:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman reads newspapers fronting the news on U.S. President Donald Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Puhung subway station in Pyongyang Wednesday. The series of photos on the front page of the ruling workers' party newspaper showed something North Koreans never would have imagined just months ago — their leader Kim Jong Un warmly shaking hands with President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/right-wing-australian-party-loses-power-block-turnbulls-bills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T15:20:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks during a news conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/asia-pacific/verification-key-gauging-kims-commitment-denuclearization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T16:34:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks out from the Jubilee Bridge during a tour in Singapore on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/national/osaka-makes-final-pitch-host-2025-world-expo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T17:33:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinya Yamanaka makes a speech during the Japanese delegation's presentation at the general assembly of the Bureau International des Expositions in Paris on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/national/prayers-offered-10th-anniversary-deadly-iwate-miyagi-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T18:18:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People offer prayers Thursday in front of a cenotaph in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, set up near the former location of the Komanoyu hot spring inn. The inn was engulfed by a landslide triggered by a major earthquake that hit the region 10 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/world/science-health-world/global-emissions-hit-record-climbing-1-6-percent-paris-deal-targets-doubt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T18:44:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/national/social-issues/unsuccessful-ivf-japanese-actress-jun-senas-quest-child-succeeds-via-adoption/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T19:06:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-adoption-a-20180615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actress Jun Sena and her husband, Shinji Senda, pose with the baby they adopted, during a visit to a shrine in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-secretary-state-mike-pompeo-pushes-back-claims-north-korean-sanctions-relief-says-depends-denuclearization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T19:10:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (right) attends a meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha (center) and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/national/social-issues/many-japans-growing-number-singles-claim-comfortable-facing-death-alone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T19:34:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-single-a-20180615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Single women participate in an event held in Tokyo's Minato Ward in September 2015 to share ideas about how to enjoy the time they spend alone at home.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/world/science-health-world/polar-ice-live-blogging-human-history-capturing-frozen-snapshots-atmospheric-pollution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T19:50:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saunders Island and Wolstenholme Fjord, with Cape Atholl in the background, are seen during an IceBridge survey flight near Qaasuitsup, Greenland, in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/national/tepco-consider-decommissioning-fukushima-no-2-nuclear-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T21:40:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukushima-a-20180615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Thursday it is considering decommissioning the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear plant.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/business/corporate-business/airbnb-offers-new-services-refunds-day-minpaku-law-kicks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T22:13:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-airbnb-a-20180615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder and chief strategy officer for Airbnb, speaks at an Airbnb event in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/world/eu-must-brace-russian-threats-chinese-growth-u-s-crossing-red-lines-says-german-foreign-minister-heiko-maas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T22:41:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas speaks during a news conference in Dublin, Ireland, on April 12, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/world/north-south-korea-agree-restore-military-communication-lines-sea-japan-yellow-sea-areas-joint-statement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-14T23:10:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-korlink-a-20180615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea's chief delegate Major General Kim Do-gyun (center) is seen crossing the borderline to attend inter-Korea high-level military talks with a North Korean delegation at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas on June 14, 2018. North and South Korea have agreed to hold more meetings throughout this month to carry out agreements reached between their leaders at the April summit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/business/corporate-business/mercaris-blockbuster-ipo-shows-japans-startups-turning-corner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T04:13:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-startups-a-20180615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yozo Kaneko, president and chief operating officer of United Inc., poses at the company's office in Tokyo last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/world/russian-navy-put-high-alert-off-ukraine-suspecting-provocation-amid-world-cup-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T06:45:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ukraine-a-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People hold placards with an appeal to boycott the Russia World Cup 2018 soccer tournament in front of the Russian Embassy in Kiev on Thursday during a rally to demand the release Oleg Sentsov and other Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/world/crime-legal-world/james-comey-insubordinate-not-biased-hillary-clinton-probe-inspector-general-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T06:49:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-comey-a-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-FBI Director James Comey testifies before the House Oversight Committee to discuss Hillary Clinton's email investigation, at the Capitol in Washington in 2016. The Justice Department's watchdog faults Comey for breaking with protocol in his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. But it says his decisions were not driven by political bias ahead of the 2016 election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/world/civilians-flee-arab-coalition-bombards-houthi-held-yemen-port-hodeida/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T06:50:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yemeni civilians receive food aid in the coastal city of Hodeidah on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/business/new-york-sues-trump-charity-self-dealing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T06:54:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/b-trumpsuit-a-20180616.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trumpsuit-a-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump (right) sits with his children (from left) Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump during a ground breaking ceremony for the Trump International Hotel in Washington in 2014. New York's attorney general filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing Trump of illegally using money from his charitable foundation to settle disputes involving his business empire and to burnish his image during his run for the White House. The president blasted the case as politically motivated.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/business/att-agrees-government-set-conditions-time-warner-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T09:17:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/democrats-push-back-trump-allies-claim-fbi-bias-robert-mueller-probe-despite-reports-findings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T09:24:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-trumpals-a-20180616.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpals-a-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democrats (from left) Rep. Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee; Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer; House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi; Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee; and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, respond to the Justice Department's internal 18-month review of the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/business/governor-lays-40-new-jersey-kicks-off-era-legalized-sports-betting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T09:26:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/b-betting-a-20180616.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-betting-a-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks on Thursday before placing a bet at the Monmouth Park Sports Book on the first day of legal sports betting in the state, in Monmouth, New Jersey.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/national/politics-diplomacy/jim-mattis-briefs-onodera-u-s-south-korea-military-exercise-issue-assures-drills-japan-not-affected/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T10:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/business/oriental-land-plans-2-3-billion-expansion-tokyo-disneysea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T12:23:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-disney-a-20180615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oriental Land Co. plans to expand the DisneySea theme park, seen here, with new attractions in 2022.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/world/science-health-world/u-n-draft-says-global-warming-set-exceed-1-5-c-target-slow-economic-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T13:23:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-warming-a-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mountain guide Christian Pletscher walks toward the Aletsch glacier from the Jungfraufirn glacier in Switzerland in August 2015. One of Europe's biggest glaciers, the Great Aletsch Glacier coils 23 km through the Swiss Alps, but has retreated about 3 km since 1870 — and that pace is quickening.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/asia-pacific/china-carries-missile-drills-south-china-sea-amid-heightened-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T13:55:31+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/national/japan-adopts-steps-support-hospitals-treating-foreign-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T14:03:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-medical-a-20180615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-medical-a-20180615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medical interpreter is seen supporting foreign patients in February at a hospital near Niseko ski resort in Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/business/economy-business/cashed-grannies-splurging-grandkids-boost-japans-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T14:33:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A couple shop with their daughter-in-law (left) and grandchild at a Sayegusa Inc. clothing store in Tokyo's Ginza district. The nation's savings-rich elderly spend about ¥9.7 trillion a year on their offspring.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/business/second-jobs-rare-japan-reshaping-attitudes-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T14:38:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jobs-a-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masaki Shimizu, owner of a hedgehog cafe who also works at the IT firm En Factory, poses with a hedgehog at his ChikuChiku cafe in Tokyo on April 26.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/national/social-issues/japans-social-security-net-transgender-people-improving-obstacles-loom-seniors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T14:58:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-gender-a-20180615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gender-a-20180615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aki Nishino displays a health insurance card bearing his male transgender name on April 4 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/national/disaster-hit-fukushima-struggles-secure-forest-industry-workers-efforts-slowly-bearing-fruit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T15:29:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukushimafile-b-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shun Matsuzawa, an executive of a nonprofit organization that promotes local timber, poses with lumber in the town of Minamiaizu, Fukushima Prefecture. Logs marked in green are certified as environment friendly.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/asia-pacific/trump-says-agreement-north-korea-will-good-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T15:44:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trixi-a-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's President Xi Jinping attends a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/asia-pacific/seoul-says-presence-u-s-forces-cant-negotiated-away-u-s-talks-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T15:46:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nosonogo-a-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Maj. Gen. Kim Do-gyun (right) is escorted by a North Korean officer after crossing to North Korea for the meeting at the northern side of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/national/crime-legal/abe-directs-cabinet-take-child-abuse-death-5-year-old-girl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T15:49:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-childabuse-a-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a meeting of relevant Cabinet ministers on Friday to discuss measures aimed at preventing child abuse.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/world/trump-approves-disaster-aid-hawaiis-volcano-stricken-big-island/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T15:50:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kilauea-a-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New land has been formed by lava from Kilauea volcano where the bay and village of Kapoho once stood on the island of Hawaii, shown on Wednesday. The new coastline, following the ragged lava-ocean interface, is approximately 2.1 kilometers (1.3 miles) in length. The white steamy laze plume marks the location of the most active lava entry site.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/indigenous-taiwanese-seeking-rights-ancestral-lands-set-camp-taipei-city-park/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T16:26:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-tailand-a-20180616.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-tailand-a-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indigenous activist and singer Panai Kusui has camped out for months in a park in Taipei, protesting against a regulation that delineates traditional territory.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/business/new-regulations-minpaku-private-home-rental-services-begin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T16:55:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-minpaku-a-20180616.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-minpaku-a-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatada Suemitsu (right) and his wife prepare Friday to receive guests as they start a minpaku (private lodging) business at their home in Nishitokyo, western Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/business/huawei-samsung-electronics-patent-case-shows-chinese-courts-rising-clout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T16:56:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-chourts-a-20180616.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chourts-a-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Patents are displayed inside an exhibition hall at the Huawei Technologies Co. campus in Shenzhen, China, in August 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/national/tokyo-looks-kick-start-nighttime-spending-tourists-transportation-remains-obstacle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-15T17:07:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An annual U.N. General Assembly gathering is being considered as an opportunity for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to hold bilateral talks, sources have said.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump gestures toward Chinese President Xi Jinping as they arrive for the state dinner with the first ladies at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last November. Trump is closing in on a decision to impose punishing tariffs on tens of billions of dollars of Chinese goods as early as JFriday, a move that could put his trade policies on a collision course with his push to rid the Korean Peninsula of nuclear weapons.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan may soon open doors to more blue-collar workers from abroad, according to an economic policy blueprint approved Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-16T09:27:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-16T11:34:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new law on private lodging businesses, which took effect on Friday, enables private homes to be offered as accommodation for tourists if owners submit necessary paperwork to prefectural governments or designated municipalities.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-16T13:04:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High Luminosity LHC Project leader Lucio Rossis speaks at a news conference on Friday before a ceremony to launch civil engineering work upgrading the project at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin, near Geneva.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-16T13:34:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-16T14:04:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-16T14:36:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andrew Gilmour, assistant secretary-general of the U.N. Human Rights Office, speaks in an interview in Tokyo on June 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-16T16:12:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-16T22:40:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-16T22:32:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Susano'o, the Storm God, slays the dragon Yamata-no-Orochi (circa 1870) by Chikanobu Toyohara.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-16T22:42:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Down and out: Toyo Keizai magazine has concluded that Japan's society has fragmented into different classes based on income.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. naval hospital ship Mercy makes its first Japan port call in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Age gap: An 85-year-old driver was arrested after ramming into pedestrians in front of a department store in Tokyo in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-17T15:11:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An ancient Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple in 2012 is shown in January 2013 in Daejon, South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-17T15:12:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-17T15:13:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-17T22:54:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-17T23:11:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiromi Tsukuda]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-18T18:13:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers at a liquor store in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, clean up scores of cans thrown off of shelves by a strong earthquake that hit the Kansai region Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-18T19:33:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The newly married Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, leave Windsor Castle after their wedding to attend an evening reception at Frogmore House on May 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-18T19:35:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Twitter user's photo of a damaged electronic sign at Hankyu Railway's Ibaraki Station.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-18T20:22:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Le Anh Hao (left), father of murdered 9-year-old Vietnamese girl Le Thi Nhat Linh, arrives at the Chiba District Court on June 4 to attend the trial of suspect Yasumasa Shibuya. Prosecutors on Monday demanded the death penalty for Shibuya.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-18T21:29:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The interior of a joint FamilyMart-Don Quijote convenience store is seen in Tachikawa, Tokyo, on June 1. ﷯Don Quijote Holdings Co. Ltd. expects to hit its ¥1 trillion﷯ sales target in the next financial year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/18/national/rail-car-mover-used-carry-bricks-gifu-restored-40-years-retirement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-18T21:29:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kobei Kato (right) and Masahiro Sasada are seen with the classic freight car mover they are restoring in Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/18/reference/japans-criminal-justice-reforms-aim-enhance-transparency-interrogations-working/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-18T21:46:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers play the roles of investigator and suspect while recording themselves with a video camera at the National Police Academy in Fuchu, Tokyo, in September 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/18/national/residents-voice-fear-chaos-osakas-mega-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-18T21:51:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wall of a building in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, is seen collapsed Monday following a big earthquake that hit the Kansai region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/18/business/japan-display-looks-road-ahead-automotive-displays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-18T21:56:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Holger Gerkens, who heads Japan Display Inc.'s automotive display business, speaks during an interview in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on June 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/18/national/quake-sign-shaking-come-experts-warn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-18T22:04:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People who gave up waiting for taxis in Osaka’s city center walk across the Shin-Yodogawa Bridge over the Yodo River on Monday evening as they try to reach their homes.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-19T06:34:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An electric aircraft takes its first flight Monday at Olso Airport, in Gardermoen, Norway. Norway's transportation minister and the head of the Scandinavian country's airport operator took off Monday for a short flight aboard the small, Slovenian-made two-seater electric airplane.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-19T06:35:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-19T06:39:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bram Schot, board member of German car maker Audi AG, follows his company's annual press conference in Ingolstadt, southern Germany, in March. Audi chief executive Rupert Stadler was arrested on Monday in connection with parent company Volkswagen's "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal, with prosecutors saying they feared he might try to suppress evidence. Hours after the arrest, the VW group's management named Dutchman Bram Schot, who joined VW in 2011, to take over from Stadler as interim CEO.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-19T06:40:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/19/business/u-s-slaps-167-anti-dumping-duties-chinas-aluminum-sheet-trade-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-19T09:06:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-19T09:07:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Monday picture released by Indonesia's Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB), the accident mitigation agency, shows a survivor taken away in an ambulance after a boat overturned in Lake Toba in the province of North Sumatra in Indonesia. At least one person has died and dozens are missing after a boat carrying 80 people capsized in Indonesia, an official from the national disaster agency said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/19/world/science-health-world/screen-time-excess-gaming-addiction-now-classified-mental-health-disorder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-19T10:46:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gamer plays video games with a Xbox console during the 2017 Paris Games Week exhibition at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris in 2017. Video gaming can be addictive in the same way as cocaine or gambling, the World Health Organization said Monday in a much anticipated update of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/13/national/online-educator-itutorgroup-sees-stronger-demand-english-education-amid-japans-tourism-boom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-19T10:56:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-itutor-a-20180614.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ITutorGroup CEO Eric Yang explains vipabc, his company's English language learning platform in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/18/business/economy-business/japans-exports-accelerate-may-surplus-u-s-shrinks-smallest-since-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-19T12:23:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trade-a-20180619.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A laborer works in a container area at a port in Tokyo in  2016. Japan's exports rose in May this year at the fastest rate in four months, thanks to increased shipments of cars, car parts and semiconductor equipment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/18/national/crime-legal/survey-estimates-1-3-million-japanese-aged-15-64-used-marijuana-paint-thinner-second-place/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-19T14:05:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-marijuana-a-20180618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey by the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry estimates that about 1.3 million people have used marijuana in Japan as a crackdown on kiken (dangerous) drugs steers them toward pot instead.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/19/national/crime-legal/iwao-hakamada-convicted-quadruple-murder-1966-files-appeal-top-court-seek-retrial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-19T14:07:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers for Iwao Hakamada, a former professional boxer who was convicted of a quadruple murder in 1966, face the media at a news conference Monday in Tokyo about filing an appeal with the top court to seek a retrial.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/19/national/neighbors-family-members-mourn-deaths-osaka-quake-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-19T15:17:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman cries near a memorial adorned with flowers for Rina Miyake, 9, who was killed in the major earthquake that hit Osaka Prefecture on Monday morning when a school concrete wall collapsed on her as she was making her way to class.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/18/national/south-koreans-optimistic-north-korean-denuclearization-japanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-19T15:18:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island in Singapore on June 12 for a historic summit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/18/national/politics-diplomacy/china-sounds-japan-south-korea-holding-second-trilateral-summit-december/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thai workers toil away at the Green Leaf farm in Showa, Gunma Prefecture, on June 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/18/national/strong-m5-9-temblor-reaching-lower-6-japan-scale-rocks-northern-osaka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-19T16:18:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo, provided by a local resident, shows damaged electronic signboards at Hankyu Railway's Ibaraki Station, in Osaka Prefecture, after a strong earthquake hit the Kansai region Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-19T17:32:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amira Abdulgader practices driving on a simulator at Saudi Aramco Driving Center in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on June 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-19T17:53:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Convenience store shelves are mostly empty on Monday at a convenience store in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, after people flocked to buy food following a strong quake in the area.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-19T18:17:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping walks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Dalian, China, on May 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/19/national/anxious-travelers-cancel-bookings-spooked-deadly-osaka-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-19T18:45:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man and a child on a bike pass the collapsed gate of a temple in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, on Tuesday, a day after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake rocked the Kansai area.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/19/asia-pacific/u-s-south-korea-suspend-joint-military-exercise-planned-august/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-19T18:57:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. and South Korean Marines take positions after landing on a beach during the joint Key Resolve and Foal Eagle military exercises in Pohang, South Korea, on March 12, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-19T20:53:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kotaro Kake, head of school operator Kake Gakuen, holds a news conference on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/19/national/lower-house-passes-bills-casinos-smoking-controls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-19T20:53:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Lower House chamber passes a bill during its plenary session on Tuesday that establishes a framework for integrated resorts that include casinos.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-20T06:41:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Specialist Mark Fitzgerald works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday. U.S. stock markets opened sharply lower Tuesday as tensions over trade between the U.S. and China seem closer to a boil.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-20T06:45:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A grab from a AFPTV video shows Yemeni pro-government forces backed by the Saudi-led military alliance advancing during their fight against Houthi rebels in the area of Hodeida's airport on Tuesday. UAE-backed Yemeni government forces fought their way into Hodeida airport, pressing an offensive that has seen some of the most intense fighting of a three-year war against the Shiite Houthi rebels.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-20T06:48:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The inside of a ZTE smart phone is pictured in this illustration taken April 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/20/business/trumps-migrant-child-detentions-mean-458-million-nonprofit-minder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T09:34:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Casa Padre, an immigrant shelter for unaccompanied minors, is pictured in Brownsville, Texas, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-20T09:37:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump speaks in the Hall of Columns as he arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday to rally Republicans around a GOP immigration bill.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/20/world/italys-osteria-francescana-served-worlds-best-restaurant-prize/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T10:15:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Massimo Bottura, the chef patron of the Osteria Francescana restaurant in Italy, gestures after receiving the award for Best Restaurant during the World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards at the Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao, Spain, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/20/world/crime-legal-world/new-york-sue-trump-administration-family-border-separations-governor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T10:17:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-20T11:05:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits Berlin's Center for Transfusion Medicine and donates blood on "World Blood Donor Day" in Berlin June 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/20/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/china-based-hackers-breached-satellite-operators-defense-firms-symantec/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T11:16:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sophisticated hacking campaign launched from computers in China burrowed deeply into satellite operators, defense contractors and telecommunications companies in the United States and Southeast Asia, according to internet security firm Symantec Corp.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/20/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/malaysia-seeks-lay-multiple-charges-former-prime-minister-najib-razak-1mdb/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T12:43:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak arrives to give a statement to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on May 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-20T13:41:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mercari Inc. founder and CEO Shintaro Yamada (front, third from left) and others pose at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the Nihonbashi district on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/18/national/suit-style-work-wear-helps-attract-young-recruits-japans-blue-collar-trades/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T13:42:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiyoto Saito works in his rice field in Kawanishi, Yamagata Prefecture, wearing work wear that looks just like a business suit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/20/asia-pacific/thailand-turns-tech-end-slavery-sea-workers-push-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T14:03:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrant workers sort fish and seafood at a port in Samut Sakhon, Thailand, on March 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/20/world/science-health-world/cities-face-dramatically-higher-heat-flood-risks-2050-researchers-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T14:05:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-summerinthecity-a-20180621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The sun rises behind chimneys of a power plant in Moscow in May. Over 200 million people in cities across the globe face stifling heat within the next three decades, researchers have warned.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mexico-trumps-child-separations-trigger-wrenching-decisions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T14:31:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Salvadoran migrant Epigmenio Centeno and his sons, 9-year-old Axel Jaret and 3-year-old Steven Atonay, pose outside the shelter House of the Migrant in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Tuesday after Epigmenio decided to stay with his children in Mexico due to U.S. President Donald Trump's child separation policy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/19/national/unhcr-pitches-survival-tent-japans-shibuya-station-draw-youth-attention-world-refugee-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T14:57:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tent used to provide emergency shelter at U.N. refugee camps is set up in front of Shibuya Station on Saturday to raise awareness of refugee issues ahead of World Refugee Day on June 20.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/20/national/kansai-university-accept-refugee-student-united-nations-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T15:24:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-students-a-20180621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kansai University will join a group of universities in Japan and accept refugees through a program of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/20/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korea-tells-japan-initiative-targeting-violence-women-unrelated-comfort-women-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T15:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono speaks to reporters at the ministry Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/19/national/osaka-quake-highlights-dangers-posed-concrete-block-walls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T15:54:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The collapsed concrete wall that crushed 9-year-old Rina Miyake to death during Monday’s earthquake remains where it fell on Tuesday in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/20/asia-pacific/hiding-traffickers-prison-like-tents-rohingya-girls-dream-school/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T16:32:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Save the Children representatives walk after a storm at the Chakmarkul refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on June 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/20/business/economy-business/kim-visits-china-xi-flaunts-trade-bargaining-chip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T16:48:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks beside Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/20/business/russia-level-duties-american-goods-u-s-sets-metal-tariffs-move-seen-helping-sanctions-targets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-20T17:16:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Domestic paper manufacturers are boosting output due to a surge in demand for toilet paper that has coincided with an increasing number of foreign tourists.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated photo shows Eikichi Iso (right) and Megumu Suenaga (second from left) at a rice experiment laboratory in central Taiwan, now the Taichung District Agricultural Research and Extension Station.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda heads the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, which emphasized domestic carmakers' contributions to the United States in creating jobs and investment in a report Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-21T09:21:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-21T10:57:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-21T10:59:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-21T11:22:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-21T13:08:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-21T13:19:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Designer Yasukazu Asano poses with T-shirts he produced with the phrase "Osako hanpa naitte" ("Osako is way too good") printed on them in May in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-21T13:41:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to a joint survey conducted by the University of Tokyo and Benesse Holdings Inc., 74.1 percent of mothers and 68.8 percent of fathers with infants answered that they wanted more kids.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the State Agricultural Sci-tech Innovation Institute under the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Najib Razak speaks during an interview in Langkawi, Malaysia, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Portraits of students at Code Chrysalis, a software-coding boot camp, are seen on a window of a classroom in a basement room in Tokyo on May 23.]]></image:caption>
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