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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ever Castillo and his family, Hondurans trying to seek asylum in the United States, are escorted back across the border by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents on Thursday in Hildalgo, Texas, after the parents were told they would be separated from their children and voluntarily crossed back to Mexico.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take photos of a statue of Taro Yamada, the main character of the baseball manga series "Dokaben," in the city of Niigata in February 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-22T15:05:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets Adm. Philip Davidson, the head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, at the Prime Minister's Office on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-22T16:35:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-22T17:17:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rie Hirakawa, superintendent of the Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education, is interviewed on June 15 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-22T17:19:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-22T17:33:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n survey 20180623]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Only 10.3 percent of new hires indicated that they aimed to secure a role as company president — a record low in the survey's history.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-22T17:39:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, chairman and CEO of Renault, says the French automaker will not look to make Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors its wholly owned subsidiaries.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-22T17:54:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brian Krzanich, Intel CEO, speaks at the Intel Keynote address at CES in Las Vegas in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/22/business/japans-financial-watchdog-tells-banks-report-suspicious-transfers-joint-ventures-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-22T17:55:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/22/national/politics-diplomacy/defense-chief-itsunori-onodera-seeks-local-consent-deploy-land-based-missile-shield-akita-yamaguchi-prefectures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-22T18:23:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera answers questions from reporters on Friday at the prime minister's official residence, before leaving for Yamaguchi and Akita prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/22/asia-pacific/china-plans-build-railway-nepal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-22T18:24:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nepal's Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli (front left) walks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/22/business/airbus-threatens-yank-u-k-investments-london-fails-get-brexit-deal-eu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-22T18:54:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Airbus employees construct a wing for an Airbus A350 aircraft at Airbus' wing production plant near Broughton in northeast Wales on Dec. 1, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/22/business/corporate-business/japan-airlines-debuts-jet-featuring-disney-characters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-22T19:28:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Disney-themed Japan Airlines jet is seen on Friday at Haneda airport.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/22/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-eyes-leadership-race-sept-20-embattled-abe-seeks-re-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-22T19:29:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prepares to hold a joint news conference with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on June 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/22/asia-pacific/peace-doesnt-pay-foreign-companies-lost-fortune-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-22T19:34:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee of the Ryo Won Footwear Factory operates a machine making shoe parts in Pyongyang on June 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/22/national/warning-issued-flying-rocks-mount-shinmoe-erupts-southwestern-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-22T20:28:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Mount Shinmoe volcano erupts on Friday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/22/national/former-taiwan-president-lee-teng-hui-travels-okinawa-world-war-ii-memorial-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-22T22:33:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui is welcomed at Naha airport in Okinawa on Friday. He is there to pay tribute to Taiwanese killed in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/22/national/osaka-school-warned-three-years-ago-wall-crushed-girl-death-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-22T22:39:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiromi Tarui (center), who heads the city of Takatsuki's board of education, apologizes Friday at the city hall for the board's failure to prevent the death of a 9-year-old girl in Monday's earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/22/business/japans-antitrust-watchdog-agency-may-order-corrective-measures-carriers-4-year-smartphone-plans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-22T22:40:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Fair Trade Commission believes the payment plans offered by KDDI Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp. for the iPhone and other mobile devices may deprive customers of options to choose other carriers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/22/business/corporate-business/toshiba-recalls-3-4-million-ac-adapters-computers-fire-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-22T22:41:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mother-womans-search-baby-taken-u-s-immigration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T12:08:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather in Mishawaka, Indiana, on Thursday to protest the separation of migrant children from their families at the border.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/asia-pacific/chinas-hainan-says-will-partly-lift-great-firewall-lure-foreign-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T12:26:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/world/u-s-navy-drafts-plans-house-25000-immigrants-cost-233-million-half-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T12:36:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event with families who have lost relatives to crimes allegedly perpetrated by illegal immigrants in the South Court Auditorium, next to the White House, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/business/economy-business/trump-tariff-threat-european-cars-escalates-global-trade-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T12:41:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The European Union responded to U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminium by slapping levies on politically resonant products, including Levi Strauss &amp; Co. jeans.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/asia-pacific/identifying-remains-u-s-troops-returned-north-korea-may-challenging/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T13:41:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean soldiers carry a coffin believed to contain the remains of a U.S. soldier to the border with South Korea during repatriation ceremonies at the truce village of Panmunjom  in October 1998.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/world/defying-united-states-assad-presses-assault-southwest-syria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T13:42:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview in Damascus on May 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/asia-pacific/pentagon-says-u-s-will-indefinitely-halt-select-military-exercises-south-korea-talks-north-progress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T15:12:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean soldiers conduct an anti-terrorism drill as part of the joint Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise with U.S. forces close to the National Assembly in Seoul in August 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/22/national/rare-case-marijuana-found-growing-near-lawmakers-building-central-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T15:27:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marijuana cultivation or possession is strictly controlled in Japan. In a rare case, marijuana plants were discovered earlier this week growing near the Upper House building in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-flip-flops-north-korea-says-still-represents-extraordinary-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T15:33:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands after signing documents during their summit at the Capella Hotel on Singapore's resort island of Sentosa on June 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/national/media-national/struggling-stay-top-fake-social-media-posts-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T22:50:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stranded passengers walk along a railroad track following an earthquake in Osaka on June 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/national/japans-cosplay-culture-proving-hit-typically-conservative-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T16:39:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fans of cosplay gather for an event in Bengaluru, India, in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-23T22:51:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alarming statistic: Sidestream smoke is estimated to make up about 85 percent of environmental tobacco smoke.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/national/media-national/marriage-not-always-bed-roses-supposed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T22:40:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-marriage-a-20180624.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Domestic abuse: A 2018 Cabinet Office survey of 1,807 women found 13.8 percent claiming to have "often" suffered violence from husbands.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/national/crime-legal/mt-gox-creditors-get-new-avenue-years-long-attempt-recover-bitcoin-losses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T18:40:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Creditors of Mt. Gox may finally get their bitcoins back as the Tokyo District Court on Friday approved the start of civil rehabilitation proceedings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/national/okinawa-marks-73-years-since-end-bloody-world-war-ii-battle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T19:24:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family members pray for relatives who died in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa at Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on Saturday, the 73rd anniversary of the end of the bloody ground battle.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-23T21:55:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono meets with his Bhutanese counterpart, Damcho Dorji, in Thimphu on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/national/japan-offers-send-nuclear-experts-north-korea-aid-dismantling-facilities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T23:21:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean soldier stands guard in front of the second tunnel of the hermit nation's Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Hamgyong province before it is blown up on May 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/business/economy-business/bank-japan-eyes-lowering-fiscal-2018-inflation-forecast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T23:22:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/national/crime-legal/japanese-judge-elected-step-replace-owada-international-court-justice-bench/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-23T23:22:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuji Iwasawa speaks to reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York on Friday after he was elected to serve as an International Court of Justice judge.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/national/japanese-dancer-hyuma-kiyosawa-17-snags-silver-prestigious-u-s-ballet-contest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-24T14:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hyuma Kiyosawa dances at the USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi, on Friday. He won the silver medal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/24/world/russian-jets-strike-rebel-held-town-syria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-24T15:50:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A family takes shelter with their cows in Daraa, southwestern Syria, on Saturday after several days of intensified bombardment by regime forces.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/24/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/india-speeds-environmental-approval-process-major-industrial-projects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-24T16:30:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An electrician carries out work near a utility pole in Coonoor, in southern India's Tamil Nadu state, on June 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/22/national/science-health/baobabs-wake-call-action-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-24T19:44:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-hooper-natural-selections-a-20180623.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ancient life: Elephants in Tanzania rub against an old baobab, a type of tree that a recent report notes has suffered a huge decline in population in the past 50 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/24/national/environment-chief-nakagawa-calls-china-fire-ant-shipments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-24T21:16:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ants-a-20180625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 2,000 fire ants were exterminated at a port in Osaka Prefecture earlier this month after being discovered in a shipping container from China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/24/national/crime-legal/harenohi-kimono-chief-arrested-alleged-fraud-linked-coming-age-day-fiasco/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-24T23:31:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoichiro Shinozaki, head of a kimono rental firm that went bankrupt just before Coming-of-Age Day, arrives at Narita airport from the United States on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/24/national/japan-touts-completion-fukushima-cleanup-tripartite-environment-meeting-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T03:53:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/world/fighting-nears-center-yemens-main-port-hodeida-houthi-missiles-intercepted-riyadh/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T09:26:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen, is seen Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/business/uber-heads-court-appeal-keep-london-license-deemed-unfit-operate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T09:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-give-north-korea-post-summit-schedule-specific-asks-soon-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T11:04:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkasks-a-20180626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing June 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/24/national/politics-diplomacy/mikazuki-wins-re-election-shiga-gubernatorial-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T12:56:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shiga-a-20180625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiga Gov. Taizo Mikazuki receives a bouquet in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on Sunday after he won the gubernatorial election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/undocumented-immigrants-invade-u-s-dont-need-due-process-get-boot-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T14:01:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters hold up signs against family separations as U.S. President Donald Trump departs from the Trump National Golf Club, in Sterling, Virginia, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/24/national/politics-diplomacy/aso-says-ldp-garners-support-young-voters-not-read-newspapers-often/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T14:31:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aso-a-20180625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks during a news conference at the Diet building in Tokyo earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/national/living-labs-bring-old-young-together-tap-community-expertise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T16:27:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-livinglab-a-20180626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants exchange ideas about a prototype desk designed by Itoki Corp. for telework, during a Kamakura Living Lab event on April 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/national/fukushima-residents-return-see-hope-nuclear-tourism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T18:20:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tour guide Katsuaki Shiga (right) and tourists visit Ukedo Elementary School in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 17. The school is in an area devastated by the 2011 disaster, near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/national/ocean-pollution-crisis-agenda-next-years-g20-summit-osaka-yoshihide-suga-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T18:36:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/business/economy-business/next-two-weeks-u-s-china-expected-see-blinks-first-economic-game-chicken/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T18:45:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chicken-a-20180626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Treasury secretary, speaks during the SelectUSA Investment Summit in National Harbor, Maryland, on Thursday. The investment summit is dedicated to promoting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States and brings together companies from all over the world to facilitate business investment in America.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/business/economy-business/hedge-funds-bets-unpopular-cash-rich-japan-firms-yields-pretty-profits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T18:46:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An electronic stock board outside a securities firm in Tokyo shows stock prices. One Oslo-based hedge fund is betting on unloved stocks in Japan, in a strategy that has delivered returns.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/national/aichi-team-develops-self-driving-robots-tackle-labor-shortage-farming/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T19:20:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20180626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A self-driving, handcart-type robot, being developed to support farmers who grow flowers, is seen at Toyohashi University of Technology in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/business/hotel-okura-plans-reopen-september-2019-distinctive-main-lobby-fully-restored/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T19:23:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-okura-a-20180626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A digital rendering of the refurbished main lobby of the Hotel Okura, planned to debut in 2019, shows a design almost identical to that of the original hotel that was demolished in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/migrants-knock-front-door-asylum-trump-crackdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T19:46:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honduran migrant children are seen at the Senda de Vida migrant shelter in Reynosa, in Tamaulipas state, Mexico, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/business/japanese-firms-shift-clean-energy-despite-states-enduring-commitment-nuclear-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T19:54:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An engineer inspects solar panels in Awaji, Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/national/osaka-takes-stock-week-violent-rush-hour-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T20:29:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osakaquake-a-20180626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teachers at Juei Elementary School in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, offer flowers and silent prayers Monday for student Rina Miyake, who was killed when the wall around its swimming pool fell on her during the earthquake on June 18.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/business/japan-considering-appeal-wto-south-koreas-11-billion-financial-aid-shipbuilder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T20:29:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/national/kyoto-ramps-crackdown-illegal-p2p-lodging-sluggish-start-minpaku-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T20:29:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A meeting to crack down on illegal short-term lodging is held Monday in the city of Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-support-rate-rises-raising-chances-shrugging-off-scandals-become-japans-longest-serving-prime-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-25T20:30:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-abe-z-20180626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abe-z-20180626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ratings have been on a roller coaster since last year, when the public learned of the heavily discounted sale of state-owned land to a nationalist school operator with ties to his wife.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/business/financial-markets/wall-street-plunges-amid-escalating-trade-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T06:27:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-calls-turning-immigrants-away-border-divided-congress-struggles-fix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T06:32:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Oval Office of the White House Monday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/business/boeing-gets-jump-farnborough-air-show-14-4-billion-jetliner-deals-asia-market-tilts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T06:35:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A British Airways Boeing 747 lands at Heathrow aiport in London Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/world/crime-legal-world/texas-u-s-bases-fort-bliss-goodfellow-tapped-hold-migrant-detainees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T06:37:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usbases-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U..S Defense Secretary James Mattis speaks aboard his official aircraft on the first leg of a trip that will take him to China, South Korea and Japan Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/world/crime-legal-world/aclu-seeks-emergency-order-reunify-families-split-u-s-mexico-border/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T09:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-aclu-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jerry Martinez protests the detention of undocumented immigrant children outside a U.S. Border Patrol processing center in McAllen, Texas, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-democratic-congresswoman-clash-tempers-rise-immigration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T09:05:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpclash-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in Washington June 18 and Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters is seen in Detroit last October.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/world/science-health-world/paws-crossed-giant-panda-may-pregnant-washington-zoo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T09:08:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-panda-a-20180627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-panda-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mei Xiang, mother of giant panda cub Bei Bei, eats Bei Bei's birthday cake at the National Zoo in Washington during a celebration of Bei Bei's first birthday in 2016. Officials closed the David M. Rubenstein Family Giant Panda Habitat on Sunday to give Mei Xiang some quiet time because she is exhibiting behaviors that are in line with both a pregnancy and a false pregnancy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/business/harley-davidson-move-production-u-s-avoid-eu-tariffs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T10:32:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/b-harleyeu-a-20180626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-harleyeu-a-20180626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rows of motorcycles are behind a bronze plate with a company logo on the showroom floor at a Harley-Davidson dealership in Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, in this file photo taken April 26, 2017. Harley-Davidson, facing rising costs from new tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles heading for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/world/science-health-world/migrant-deaths-heat-u-s-mexico-border-55-48-border-patrol/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T10:50:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-borderdeaths-a-20180627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-borderdeaths-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A memorial cross for people who have died crossing the border is seen at Casa del Migrante in Reynosa, Mexico, in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-says-will-ignore-japan-tokyo-scraps-military-drills-measures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T10:54:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-nkjapan-a-20180627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkjapan-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/25/national/protest-held-sea-okinawa-land-reclamation-work-u-s-marine-corps-futenma-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T12:16:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-henoko-a-20180626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-henoko-a-20180626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People opposed to the relocation plan for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, use kayaks and other vessels to protest near the new site being built in Nago's Henoko district on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/pompeo-refuses-put-timeline-north-korea-denuclearization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T13:16:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-nkpompeo-a-20180627.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mike Pompeo]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/philippines-duterte-calls-god-stupid-faces-uproar-asias-biggest-catholic-nation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T14:23:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-dutgod-a-20180627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-dutgod-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures while addressing the crowd at the 120th Philippine Independence Day celebrations south of Manila on June 11.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/national/social-issues/children-poor-jobless-single-moms-become-underclass-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T14:25:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-singlemoms-a-20180627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-singlemoms-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Orie Ikeda, a single mother of two, says she can understand how a brutal assault like the one in Minoh, Osaka Prefecture, occurred.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/business/hello-kitty-bullet-train-shown-media-ahead-debut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T14:54:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kitty-a-20180626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bullet train with a Hello Kitty motif is shown to the media Monday at a train yard in the city of Fukuoka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/national/politics-diplomacy/taro-kono-announces-japan-aid-development-fishing-facilities-remote-indonesian-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T15:17:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-indonesia-a-20180627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-indonesia-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono meets with his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi in Jakarta on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/19/national/water-gas-supplies-still-cut-northern-osaka-deadly-quake-death-toll-revised-3/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T16:12:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-quakelead-b-20180620.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-quakelead-b-20180620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pay tribute to Rina Miyake, 9, who was killed by a collapsed concrete wall at Juei Elementary School in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/business/corporate-business/new-xerox-ceo-calls-fujifilms-bid-renew-merger-talks-delusional-casts-shadow-fuji-xerox-venture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T17:10:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Fujifilm Holdings logo stands outside one of the company's offices in Tokyo on Jan. 31.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-foreign-ministry-create-new-division-dedicated-solely-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T17:11:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-foreign-ministry-a-20180627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-foreign-ministry-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Foreign Ministry plans to create a new division dedicated solely to North Korean affairs.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/business/tech/vaio-first-nation-screen-vr-movies-theater/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T17:18:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/b-vr-a-20180627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-vr-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the all-girl idol group STU48, a sister group of AKB48, watch a virtual reality movie during a news conference on Tuesday in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/national/air-service-debate-rekindled-ogasawara-islands-mark-50th-anniversary-reversion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T18:05:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-ogasawara-a-20180627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ogasawara-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attention has returned to a plan to connect Chichijima, located about 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo in the Ogasawara Island chain in the Pacific, with the Japanese mainland using air services.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/national/crime-legal/knife-wielding-man-arrested-standoff-tokyo-pub/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T18:15:44+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/national/ex-prime-minister-yasuo-fukuda-visits-memorial-hall-nanjing-massacre-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T19:22:20+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/national/princess-hisakos-daughter-ayako-get-engaged-businessman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T19:32:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-princess-a-20180627.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Ayako waves during one of the Imperial family's New Year greeting sessions in January 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/brexits-big-short-hedge-funds-hired-pollsters-cashed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T19:53:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-brexit-a-20180627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brexit-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-European Union and anti-Brexit demonstrator stands among European Union (EU) flags outside the Houses of Parliament in London on June 20.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/business/corporate-business/prince-hotels-hack-results-loss-124000-customers-credit-card-numbers-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T20:46:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-princehotel-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Hotel President Masahiko Koyama (center) apologizes at a news conference in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Tuesday after customer data was stolen from its official foreign website.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/national/crime-legal/justice-ministry-panel-looks-enforce-custody-transfers-absence-uncooperative-parents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T21:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/world/mattis-becomes-first-u-s-defense-chief-visit-china-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T22:45:54+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/national/crime-legal/man-kills-two-toyama-stealing-police-officers-gun/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T23:12:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-shooting-a-20180627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shooting-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 21-year-old suspect killed a police officer at this police box in the city of Toyama on Tuesday afternoon, stabbing him, stealing his gun and then shooting him.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/national/ex-pm-hosokawas-tokyo-based-museum-donates-4000-ancient-books-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-26T23:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-hosokawa-a-20180627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hosokawa-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa (left) meets Luo Shugang, Chinese culture minister, in Beijing on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/world/social-issues-world/malta-agrees-take-rescue-ship-lifeline-230-migrants-aboard-italy-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T06:37:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-malta-a-20180628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-malta-a-20180628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This handout picture taken and released Monday by German NGO Mission Lifeline off the coast of Malta shows migrants resting on board the Lifeline. The ship, belonging to the German NGO, is moored about 30 nautical miles off Malta with 234 migrants who were rescued on June 20, including 14 women and four children younger than 3. Italian far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said the ship won't go to Italy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/helsinki-emerges-possible-location-trump-putin-summit-u-s-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T08:54:59+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/world/crime-legal-world/robert-mueller-says-putin-associate-shouldnt-see-evidence-u-s-criminal-case-unless-appears-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T09:01:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-putinchef-a-20180628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-putinchef-a-20180628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian businessman Evgeny Prigozhin looks on before a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, with representatives of civic organizations, business and media communities at the Kremlin in Moscow last July.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/business/put-probation-uber-wins-london-license-avoid-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T09:02:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/b-uber-a-20180628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-uber-a-20180628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo illustration shows the Uber app and a black cab in London Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/world/science-health-world/warmer-waters-cut-alaskas-prized-copper-river-salmon-haul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T09:03:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-salmon-a-20180628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-salmon-a-20180628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alaskan King salmon are encased in ice on a seafood counter at the Pike Place Market in Seattle last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/britains-prince-william-historic-jerusalem-visit-honors-holocaust-victims-meets-netanyahu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T09:05:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prince William speaks to choirgirls after a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/world/russian-police-evacuate-venues-world-cup-host-city-bomb-threats-find-no-explosives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T11:15:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/business/iran-doesnt-expect-oil-customers-including-japan-get-sanctions-waivers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T11:44:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh (left) speaks to reporters ahead of the OPEC meeting in Vienna on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/national/not-children-selfish-ldp-heavyweight-toshihiro-nikai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T12:53:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai speaks at a Tokyo hotel on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/world/u-k-temperatures-may-hit-record-june-highs-heat-wave-continues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T14:11:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/national/gov-ichiro-matsui-works-distribute-donations-quickly-affected-osaka-earthquake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T14:12:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osaka-a-20180627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, affected by the June 18 earthquake apply for certificates documenting damage to their homes. The certificates are required to apply for financial aid for restoration or repairs. The city has introduced a system allowing owners to submit photos as proof of minor damage to speed up the process.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/national/social-issues/tokyo-raised-american-chessy-prout-fights-rights-sexual-assault-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T14:24:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chessy Prout, a 19-year-old sexual assault victim, speaks out on her experience during a visit to Tokyo in May following the publication of her memoir.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-27T14:55:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/national/uzbek-envoy-eager-deepen-relationship-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T15:49:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gayrat Fazilov]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/business/household-assets-japan-hit-record-high-%c2%a51-83-quadrillion-end-2017-fiscal-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T17:46:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-asset-z-20180628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Assets held by companies excluding financial institutions rose 8.5 percent, to ¥1.18 quadrillion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/australia-set-pass-foreign-interference-bill-amid-tensions-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T17:46:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/business/financial-markets/mizuhos-online-trading-platform-crashes-ipo-stock-debuts-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T18:06:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-27T18:20:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cage similar in size to that used by Yoshitane Yamasaki to confine his mentally ill son for years is seen in this undated photo .]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/national/ready-japans-next-big-earthquake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T18:48:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-quakesurvey-a-20180628.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A burst water pipe caused a sinkhole in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, after a powerful earthquake hit the prefecture and its vicinity on June 18.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-says-question-time-outlived-usefulness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T19:24:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-debate-a-20180628.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/national/crime-legal/japan-reinforce-police-gun-holsters-prevent-firearm-theft/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T20:40:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer lays flowers Wednesday on a table set up before a police box in the city of Toyama where a police officer was stabbed to death the day before. The officer's gun was also stolen during the attack.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/national/tokyo-lawmakers-approve-anti-smoking-ordinance-capital-gears-2020-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T20:40:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Metropolitan Government passed an antismoking ordinance Wednesday as the capital prepares for a tobacco-free 2020 Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/national/crime-legal/toyama-murder-suspect-four-knives-showing-attack-likely-premeditated/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T20:40:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keita Shimazu]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/national/politics-diplomacy/lawmaker-hosono-late-reporting-%c2%a550-million-loan-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-27T20:41:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Goshi Hosono]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-27T22:13:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Indian girl participates in a street play to create awareness of violence against women during a protest in New Delhi in December 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-27T22:17:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A charging connection sits near an i-MiEV electric vehicle manufactured by Mitsubishi Motors Corp. during the 2016 Geneva International Motor Show.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/28/world/science-health-world/heat-stable-drug-save-thousands-moms-babies-post-childbirth-bleeding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-28T09:14:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-28T10:46:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British divers John Volanthen and Robert Charles Harper leave after they checked the Tham Luang caves during a search for the members of an under-16 soccer team and their coach, in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-28T10:51:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-life and anti-abortion advocates demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court early Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/28/world/social-issues-world/deported-trump-order-central-americans-grieve-lost-separated-offspring-left-behind/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-28T10:59:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-separated-a-20180629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Melvin Garcia, 37, a deportee from the U.S. who was separated from his daughter, Daylin Garcia, 12, at the McAllen, Texas, entry point under the Trump administration's hard-line immigration policy, shows a photo of his daughter during an interview with Reuters in Choloma, Honduras, June 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/national/hokkaido-pacific-coast-now-understood-face-higher-risk-powerful-earthquakes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-28T12:16:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/national/japan-reports-spotting-north-korea-tanker-suspects-transferring-goods-high-seas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-28T12:25:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/28/asia-pacific/xi-warns-mattis-china-wont-surrender-one-inch-territory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-28T13:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping as they pose for photographers before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/28/world/science-health-world/new-cassini-findings-suggest-saturn-moon-support-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-28T14:33:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At only 505 kilometers (314 miles) across, Saturn's moon Enceladus could fit within the length of the United Kingdom and in the U.S. states of Arizona or Colorado.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/28/national/miracle-japan-monkey-survives-struck-car-spending-day-inside-vehicles-hood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-28T15:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A baby monkey is seen stuck inside a hood of a car Monday in Kiyosu, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-28T15:03:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their summit in Panmunjom, North Korea, on May 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/28/national/crime-legal/toyama-shooting-highlights-need-revamp-safety-measures-schools/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-28T17:19:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-28T18:29:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/26/business/dissent-surfaces-china-begins-question-ready-trade-war-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-28T18:37:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker inspects the micro-motors for handsets at a factory in Huaibei in China's Anhui Province on Saturday. Some in Beijing are starting to openly wonder whether China is ready to wage a real trade war against the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/28/business/corporate-business/engineer-15th-toyota-crown-recalls-challenge-bringing-luxury-flagship-networking-age/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-28T18:40:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Akiyama, chief engineer of the Toyota Crown, was an avid fan of the sedan even before he joined Toyota.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/28/business/corporate-business/foreign-mega-deals-challenged-fujifilm-takeda-shareholders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-28T20:32:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-29T15:17:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stanford University is the epicenter of U.S. technology entrepreneurship.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Fair Trade Commission plans to urge the smartphone industry to correct its practice of favoring restrictive four-year contracts in cooperation with the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yemeni refugees wait for consultation at the Jeju refugee center in South Korea on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota’s new Corolla Sport is unveiled to the media at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture on May 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-29T21:56:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China has demanded that foreign firms, and airlines in particular, begin referring to Taiwan as Chinese territory on their websites,]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-29T22:02:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives of karōshi (death from overwork) victims watch as the Diet enacts a labor reform bill on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-29T22:03:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera and U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis review an honor guard before their meeting at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-29T22:04:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soccer fans celebrate Japan's advancement to the World Cup's knockout stage in Tokyo's Shibuya district early Friday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/29/business/import-cars-car-parts-not-threat-u-s-security-tokyo-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-29T22:22:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-29T22:25:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A large celestial object that comes out of nowhere like Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever observed in our solar system, would currently be impossible to stop if it threatened Earth.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-30T11:41:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy participates in a photo session with his fellow justices at the Supreme Court building in Washington on June 1, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-30T15:22:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Barbara Henmi, a Polish resident in Japan, watches Japan and Poland's match in the World Cup, the final game in the tournament's group stage, at M-Spo Sports Bar in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, on Thursday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-30T16:20:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kai, the iconic white dog featured in a series of television commercials for SoftBank Corp., died of natural causes on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/30/national/media-national/shinzo-abes-kake-gakuen-scandal-refuses-lay-die/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-30T22:57:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buried in the quake: Kotaro Kake, chairman of Kake Gakuen, speaks to reporters during a news conference on June 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/30/national/media-national/celebrating-memes-2018-soccer-world-cup-created/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-30T22:56:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking out the trash: Japanese soccer fans collect trash at the end of the match between Japan and Senegal at the 2018 World Cup in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on June 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/30/national/tepco-start-geological-survey-higashidori-nuclear-plant-aomori/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-30T16:42:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-06-30T18:25:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Momo-2 rocket burns after crashing near the launch pad Saturday in  the town of Taiki, Hokkaido, in what would have been Japan's first privately developed rocket to reach outer space.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/30/asia-pacific/u-s-intelligence-agencies-say-north-korea-boosted-nuclear-fuel-production-secret-sites-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-30T19:22:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea leader Kim Jong Un inspects Unit 1524 of the Korean People's Army (KPA) in this undated photo released on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/30/national/japan-bothered-ramifications-u-s-halt-korean-war-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-30T19:49:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono greets U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis before talks in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/30/national/season-peaks-japanese-fishermen-fear-confrontation-north-korean-boats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-30T19:49:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A crew member of the squid ship Hosei-Maru No. 58 waves to relatives as the ship leaves for a fishing run from Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, on June 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/30/national/japan-airlines-nippon-airways-start-new-carry-baggage-checks-powdery-substances/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-30T21:15:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/30/national/tornado-shiga-prefecture-injures-eight-blows-roofs-off-buildings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-06-30T22:06:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-01T12:27:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Susan Thornton]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/01/business/financial-markets/bitcoin-creator-writing-book-cryptic-note-indicates-yes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-01T13:30:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bitcoin-a-20180702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Like an increasing number of businesses, Healthy Harvest Indoor Gardening in Hillsboro, Oregon, accepts bitcoin as payment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/01/business/irans-leaders-seek-ways-defend-economy-u-s-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-01T13:55:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Iranian oil facility on Khark Island in the Persian Gulf.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/01/asia-pacific/north-south-korea-reopen-maritime-communication-channel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-01T13:56:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/01/business/trump-claims-saudi-arabia-will-boost-oil-production/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-01T15:22:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-saudoil-a-20180702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An oil tanker is loaded at Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura oil refinery and terminal in Saudi Arabia on May 21.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/01/business/australian-supermarkets-work-prevent-bag-rage-plastic-ban-takes-effect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-01T16:18:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-01T20:08:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester carries a leaflet mocking top officials during a march in Hong Kong on Sunday to mark the 21st anniversary of the city's handover to Chinese sovereignty from British rule.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/01/national/unesco-adds-sites-linked-history-japans-persecuted-christians-world-heritage-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-01T20:14:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/01/national/japan-buy-advanced-u-s-radar-missile-defense-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-01T22:26:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-aegis-a-20180702.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Missile Defense Agency conducts the first intercept flight-test of a land-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense weapon system from the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex in Kauai, Hawaii, in December 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/01/national/japan-sees-number-trained-dementia-care-volunteers-top-10-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-01T22:31:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dementia-a-20180702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of people who have received training to assist people with dementia has surpassed 10 million.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/01/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-north-koreas-cash-cow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-01T22:50:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement before saying goodbye to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after the summit in Singapore on June 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/01/national/social-issues/nursing-cafes-aim-promote-regional-growth-stimulate-dialogue-elder-care-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-01T23:03:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants meet to discuss nursing care for the elderly at a Kaigo Cafe event in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/myanmar-not-ready-take-back-700000-rohingya-red-cross-chief-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T06:31:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-myanmar-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), interacts with Rohingya children during his visit to a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-will-press-putin-election-meddling-denials-john-bolton/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T10:47:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin reacts during his annual end-of-year news conference in Moscow last December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/business/trumps-mixed-oil-message-wont-fix-supply-fears-amid-iran-squeeze-traders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T10:50:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/b-troil-a-20180703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-troil-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An oil tanker is being loaded at Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura oil refinery and oil terminal in Saudi Arabia May 21.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-north-korea-hold-working-level-talks-border-village-demilitarized-zone-reports-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T11:13:22+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-lawmakers-average-income-unchanged-2017-%c2%a524-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T13:53:55+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/national/emperor-akihito-84-resting-due-cerebral-anemia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T15:56:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko lead royal family members as they arrive at the annual autumn garden party in Tokyo in November 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/thailands-political-tough-guy-back-fray-support-military-vote-nears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T16:25:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-thailand-a-20180703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-thailand-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Politician Suthep Thaugsuban speaks during an interview in Bangkok on June 10.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/national/united-nations-command-stepped-use-u-s-bases-japan-last-year-amid-north-korean-weapons-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T16:28:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-unc-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean ballistic missile is test-fired at an undisclosed location in this undated photo released May 30]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/national/hundreds-dignitaries-honor-yoshio-okawara-former-japanese-ambassador-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T17:21:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photograph of the late Yoshio Okawara, who served as Japan's ambassador to the U.S. in the early 1980s, is displayed Monday during a gathering commemorating his life at Hotel Okura in Minato Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/business/corporate-business/nissan-cancels-sale-electrical-vehicle-battery-business-china-investment-fund/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T17:22:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/chaos-merkels-coalition-minister-dangles-resignation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T17:22:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-merkel-a-20180703.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks on prior a party leadership meeting in Berlin on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/national/60-japanese-commuters-kept-going-workplace-june-osaka-quake-survey-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T20:18:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osaka-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians crowd the Shin-Yodogawa Bridge in Osaka on the evening of June 18 after public transportation services were disrupted by the major earthquake that hit the region earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/business/corporate-business/toymakers-japan-boost-efforts-tackle-counterfeits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T20:41:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-counterfeits-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Starting in September, some Bandai products will carry a sticker certifying their authenticity.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-eases-alert-level-north-korean-ballistic-missile-launches/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T20:41:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-nkalert-a-20180703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkalert-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A TV screen in Tokyo shows news that a North Korean missile crossed over northern Japan before falling into the Pacific Ocean on Sept. 15, 2017. Japan has recently lowered its alert level for North Korean ballistic missile launches amid easing tensions.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/national/crime-legal/toyama-elementary-school-extends-closure-attack-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T20:42:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-toyama-a-20180703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-toyama-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flowers and drinks are laid out at the entrance of Okuda Elementary School in the city of Toyama on Monday while the school remains closed.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/reference/japans-driving-schools-squeezed-demographic-change-target-foreign-residents-stay-afloat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T20:42:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Drivers-to-be practice at Yokohama Driving School in Totsuka Ward in the city on June 22. The school is one of the remaining 1,300 authorized driving schools nationwide as the sector faces the effects of demographic change in the nation.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/business/handy-japan-ties-softbank-provide-free-smartphones-hotel-rooms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-02T20:43:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Handy Japan CEO Hironori Katsuse (left), Handy Japan founder Terence Kwok (center) and SoftBank Corp. CEO Ken Miyauchi pose for photos in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/national/japan-land-prices-rise-0-7-showing-higher-gains-second-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T01:18:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/b-land-a-20180703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-land-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A plot in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district in front of the traditional stationery store Kyukyodo was the most expensive land in Japan for the 33rd straight year, according to a National Tax Agency report.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/two-years-rodrigo-duterte-mixed-picture-drug-war-economic-boom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T01:19:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-duterte-a-20180703.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks before flying out of Manila airport on June 2.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/national/two-years-deadly-siege-bangladesh-claims-wins-militants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T01:26:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-cafeattack-a-20180702.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cafeattack-a-20180702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A flower display is dedicated on Sunday to commemorate the victims of a terrorist attack at the Holey Artisan Cafe and Bakery in Dhaka two years ago. Twenty hostages, including seven Japanese, were killed.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/business/corporate-business/japans-orix-buy-u-s-financial-firm-nxt-capital-%c2%a5100-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T01:28:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/business/investors-engaging-battle-climate-change-pri-chairman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T01:41:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/b-pri-a-20180703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-pri-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Martin Skancke, who chairs the board of the Principles for Responsible Investment, speaks during an interview in Tokyo last week.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/business/trump-threatens-action-wto-reports-wants-withdraw/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T07:02:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/b-wto-a-20180704.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wto-a-20180704.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Mark Rutte, Netherland's prime minister (not pictured) at the White House in Washington on Monday. Trump said the World Trade Organization treats the U.S. unfairly, even though the American government wins most of the cases it initiates with the body.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-will-travel-europe-middle-east-next-week-ink-free-trade-pact-eu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T09:39:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-abeeurope-a-20180704.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abeeurope-a-20180704.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/business/trump-looks-ban-china-mobile-u-s-market-security-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T10:28:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/b-chinamob-a-20180704.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinamob-a-20180704.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House press secretary, speaks during a White House press briefing in Washington on Monday. The Trump administration moved against letting China Mobile Ltd. enter the U.S. telecommunications market, saying the government-owned company would pose national security risks.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/business/facebook-says-cooperating-sec-fbi-cambridge-analytica-data-abuse-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T10:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/world/crime-legal-world/paul-manaforts-lawyers-want-know-jurors-get-news-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T10:51:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-manafort-a-20180704.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-manafort-a-20180704.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Konstantin Kilimnik, an elusive figure under indictment for alleged witness tampering by special counsel Robert Mueller, is seen seated on the far left in a March 2006 photo obtained by The Associated Press as part of a collection of internal corporate memos and business records from the international political consulting offices of Donald Trump's ex-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. Mueller has indicated that Kilimnik is in Russia and has ties to Russian intelligence, which Kilimnik disputes. The photograph represents one of the few images known to exist of Kilimnik. Seated in the photo (from left) are Kilimnik, Martha Young, Catherine Barnes, Tad Devine, Paul Manafort and Phillip Griffin; standing (from left) are Lee Avrashov, an unidentified individual and Christian Ferry.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/world/crime-legal-world/al-qaida-allied-suspect-july-4-cleveland-bomb-plot-appears-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T10:56:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-pitts-a-20180704.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pitts-a-20180704.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Sunday photo provided by the North Olmsted Police Department in North Olmsted, Ohio, shows Demetrius Pitts, of Maple Heights, Ohio, who was charged with trying to support terrorism. Federal authorities say Pitts talked often about his support for al-Qaida and recently scouted locations in Cleveland to attack people watching Fourth of July fireworks.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/business/tech/japanese-government-give-flying-cars-jump-start/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T12:00:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/b-flyingcar-a-20180703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-flyingcar-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist's rendering shows the SkyDrive flying car under development by Cartivator, a group of volunteers working in the auto and aviation industries.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/business/bmw-hyundai-join-gm-pressing-u-s-drop-tariffs-sake-jobs-expansion-plans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T12:01:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/b-cartariffs-a-20180703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cartariffs-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Toyota company logo is seen June 24 on a car at a Toyota dealership in Englewood, Colorado. Foreign automakers, American manufacturers and classic-car enthusiasts are coming out against President Donald Trump's plan to consider taxing imported cars, trucks and auto parts. Toyota Motor North America says the tariffs "would have a negative impact on all manufacturers, increasing the cost of imported vehicles as well as domestically produced vehicles that rely on imported parts."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/national/comic-naomi-watanabe-among-times-25-influential-people-internet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T12:26:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-naomi-a-20180703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-naomi-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naomi Watanabe]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/national/mobile-services-available-undersea-seikan-tunnel-next-march/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T13:39:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-tunnel-a-20180703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tunnel-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bullet train enters the undersea Seikan Tunnel in Aomori Prefecture in March 2016. Mobile communications will be available in shinkansen trains passing through the tunnel starting next March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/national/japanese-concierge-goes-extra-mile-iconic-london-hotel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T14:48:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-concierge-a-20180704.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toru Machida (left), head concierge at The Savoy in London, says the key to providing a five-star experience is to exceed guests' expectations.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/national/takatsuki-remove-concrete-walls-1-2-meters-tall-higher-following-school-girls-death-osaka-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T14:57:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-wall-a-20180704.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wall-a-20180704.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Last mongh this concrete wall at Juei Elementary School in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, collapsed and killed a 9-year-old girl in a major quake.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/world/britain-vows-end-gay-conversion-therapy-survey-reveals-burning-injustices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T14:58:31+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/national/japans-princess-ayako-says-fiance-kei-moriya-hit-off-start/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T16:10:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-princess-a-20180703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-princess-a-20180703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Ayako  and her fiance, Kei Moriya, attend a news conference to announce their engagement at the Imperial Household Agency on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stocks-drop-weak-yuan-unstable-shanghai-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T17:06:05+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/business/economy-business/bank-japan-expected-cut-price-forecasts-inflation-expectations-stall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T17:08:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security officer stands guard outside the Bank of Japan in Tokyo in March 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/national/automatic-brake-malfunctions-caused-82-car-accidents-across-japan-2017-transport-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T17:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-accidents-a-20180704.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-accidents-a-20180704.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vehicle with an automatic brake is tested at a facility of the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/national/clothing-manufacturer-ehime-loses-license-host-foreign-trainees-visa-violation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T18:06:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/09/national/science-health/tying-mental-health-patients-soaring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T18:08:15+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/national/renowned-rakugo-storyteller-katsura-utamaru-dies-81/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T18:12:55+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/01/national/girl-13-dies-four-teens-seriously-hurt-car-crash-okayama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T18:14:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-carcrash-a-20180702.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-carcrash-a-20180702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koharu Abe, a 13-year-old junior high school student, was killed when this car crashed around 4:55 a.m. Sunday in the city of Okayama. Four other junior school students in the same vehicle were also injured. Police are investigating who of the five was driving.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/business/roger-federer-leaves-nike-uniqlo-blockbuster-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-03T18:50:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/national/womens-university-tokyo-accept-transgender-students/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ochanomizu University in Tokyo will start accepting transgender students in April 2020.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-03T19:01:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T06:39:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T12:06:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T13:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T13:12:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T13:19:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T13:21:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T13:46:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T15:32:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T15:52:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T15:59:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T16:11:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T16:26:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T16:56:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T17:24:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T17:34:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly installed security cameras on a Yamanote Line train are seen in Tokyo in May.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump took credit for averting war with nuclear-armed North Korea in a tweet on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T18:53:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak arrives in court in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T18:53:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a U.S. congressional delegation (left) meet with members of the Russian Federation Council in Moscow on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T21:17:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-04T22:28:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[HNA's Wang Jian poses before the signing of an agreement between Aigle Azur and HNA Aviation in Paris in October 2012. Wang, the chairman and co-founder of the giant Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, died in an accident in southern France, the firm said Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-10T14:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A firefighter carries a girl over debris Sunday evening in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/09/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-cancels-trip-europe-middle-east-deal-rain-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T14:30:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura briefs Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on damage caused by the floods and landslides triggered by recent heavy rain in western Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/09/national/deadly-flooding-traumatized-hiroshima-wakes-blue-skies-starts-getting-life-back-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T14:31:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local residents collect water supplies near a flooded area at Mihara Daini junior high school, which is acting as an emergency water station, in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/09/national/torrential-rains-leave-trail-destruction-western-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T14:31:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue workers hunt for missing people at the scene of a home destroyed in a mudslide triggered by torrential rains in the town of Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Monday morning.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/09/business/operations-suspended-automakers-firms-across-western-japan-torrential-rain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T14:32:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue workers and soldiers clear debris from a street in a flood-hit area in Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Monday. Torrential rain across western Japan has forced some automakers and other companies to suspend operations.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/07/national/tourists-visiting-western-japan-stranded-amid-flood-warnings-canceled-trains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T14:32:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local officials monitor rising waters in the Katsura River in Kyoto on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/10/business/corporate-business/ana-cancels-another-176-domestic-flights-engine-inspections-come/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T15:17:43+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/06/national/warnings-issued-kansai-nearby-areas-heavy-rains-trigger-landslides-flooding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T15:27:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A landslide engulfs and crushes houses in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Friday morning. Rescue workers are trying to confirm the accuracy of reports a married couple in their 60s were buried alive.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/10/national/life-death-tokyo-pub-owners-fear-impact-tougher-smoking-laws/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T16:34:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Tanaka (left), the 78-year-old owner of Ozeki, an izakaya (Japanese-style pub) in Meguro Ward, Tokyo, says the capital's new anti-smoking ordinance could squeeze small businesses like his to the point they may have to fold.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/10/world/crime-legal-world/democrats-mobilize-fears-trumps-supreme-court-pick-endanger-landmark-roe-v-wade-abortion-decision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T16:38:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/10/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/south-korea-probe-alleged-plan-military-quell-park-geun-hye-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T16:39:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-skpark-a-20180711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-skpark-a-20180711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean protesters hold up candles during a rally calling for South Korean President Park Geun-hye to step down in Seoul on Nov. 19, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/10/business/cabinet-approves-guidelines-japans-2019-budget/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T17:48:22+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/10/business/corporate-business/softbank-phone-unit-makes-preliminary-application-list-shares-tokyo-stock-exchange/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T18:13:48+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/10/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-calls-summit-statement-north-koreas-kim-contract-suggests-china-may-interfering-nuclear-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T18:36:58+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/10/national/politics-diplomacy/new-foreign-secretary-jeremy-hunt-fluent-japanese-speaker-drew-years-japan-become-one-u-k-s-richest-politicians/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T22:21:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-huntjapan-a-20180711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-huntjapan-a-20180711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeremy Hunt, newly appointed U.K. foreign secretary, has a strong Japan connection.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/10/national/high-horse-crews-western-japan-rescue-miniature-mare-rooftop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T22:58:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rainhorse-a-20180711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 9-year-old miniature horse is stranded on the roof of the building in the Mabicho area in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture on Monday. ｜]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/10/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-says-still-rocket-man-cd-another-mystery-gift-north-koreas-kim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-10T23:12:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-nkelton-a-20180712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkelton-a-20180712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with reporters, as first lady Melania Trump stands beside him, before boarding Marine One to travel to Europe at the White House in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/10/national/womens-university-japan-officially-announces-new-policy-start-accepting-transgender-students-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T04:05:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-transgender-a-20180711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-transgender-a-20180711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kimiko Murofushi]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/10/business/corporate-business/softbank-buy-%c2%a5221-billion-yahoo-japan-shares-altaba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T04:09:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/b-yahoojp-a-20180711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-yahoojp-a-20180711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank is increasing its stake in Yahoo Japan through a complicated three-way deal with U.S. firm Altaba.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/world/social-issues-world/wmd-political-violence-threats-prompt-think-world-dangerous-two-years-ago-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T06:22:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-dangerous-a-20180712.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shelter sign is displayed in the case of a possible North Korean attacks at the entrance to a subway station in Seoul Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/world/crime-legal-world/british-man-poisoned-novichok-regains-consciousness-still-listed-critical-condition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T06:32:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-novichok-a-20180712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-novichok-a-20180712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An undated picture taken from the facebook page of Charles Rowley on Monday shows Rowley posing for a photograph in an unknown location. British police launched a murder inquiry Sunday after Dawn Sturdgess, his partner, died following exposure to the nerve agent Novichok in southwest England. Rowley regained consciousness Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/business/american-airlines-go-bamboo-eliminate-plastic-straws-cabins-lounges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T08:56:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/b-american-a-20180712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-american-a-20180712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[American Airlines aircraft are seen at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas, June 16. American Airlines says it will stop using plastic straws and drink stirs and replace them with biodegradable alternatives. American said Tuesday that starting this month in its airport lounges it will serve drinks with straw and wood stir sticks and begin moving to what it called eco-friendly flatware.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/world/crime-legal-world/paul-manafort-now-tells-judge-prefers-stay-distant-jail-cites-security-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T09:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/world/crime-legal-world/trump-pardons-oregon-arsonist-pair-inspired-deadly-wildlife-refuge-standoff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T09:03:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-pardon-a-20180712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pardon-a-20180712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rancher Dwight Hammond Jr. greets protesters outside his home in Burns, Oregon, in 2016. President Donald Trump has pardoned Dwight and Steven Hammond, two ranchers whose case sparked the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon. The Hammonds were convicted in 2012 of intentionally and maliciously setting fires on public lands.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/business/trump-set-slap-tariffs-extra-200-billion-chinese-imports-riling-u-s-businesses-gop-lawmakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T10:47:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/b-chinaslap-a-20180712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinaslap-a-20180712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman transports goods past workers sleeping on a street-side in Beijing Tuesday. In his trade war with China, U.S. President Donald Trump wields one seeming advantage: The United States could ultimately slap tariffs on more than $500 billion in imported Chinese goods. Beijing has much less to tax: It imported just $130 billion in U.S. goods last year.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/business/financial-markets/stocks-across-asia-slide-trump-reloads-tariff-bazooka-aimed-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T10:48:53+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/10/business/raisin-prices-japanese-grapes-ishikawa-fetch-%c2%a51-10-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T12:23:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/b-grape-a-20180711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-grape-a-20180711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This bunch of premium table grapes drew a bid of ¥1.10 million at an auction in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/10/national/didnt-tell-evacuate-asks-newlywed-losing-wife-three-weeks-hiroshima-landslide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T12:39:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-rainwife-a-20180711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rainwife-a-20180711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Tsunomori sits near the wreckage of his new wife Nana's house in Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, where she was killed in a landslide on Friday night. The couple had married just three weeks before. The search continues for her two sons and her mother]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/national/aging-japan-akita-prefecture-provides-glimpse-countrys-graying-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T14:25:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men in their 70s and 80s, who are members of the Shimohama Club baseball team, gather for practice in the city of Akita in June. The team members outnumber the students of a junior high school just down the road.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/national/hiroshima-hibakusha-recounts-experience-american-university-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T15:09:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman shakes hands with hibakusha Keiko Ogura (right) at Harvard Kennedy School in Boston in May.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/national/crime-legal/death-penalty-sought-man-charged-killing-chinese-sisters-yokohama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T15:12:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/business/ex-apple-engineer-accused-stealing-driverless-car-secrets-chinese-firm-busted-san-jose-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T15:44:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/business/economy-business/japans-wholesale-prices-rise-2-8-june-higher-energy-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T16:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/business/corporate-business/toyota-launches-app-hawaii-allows-customers-unlock-start-rental-cars-parking-stations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T16:14:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota has launched a Honolulu car-sharing service.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/business/economy-business/japans-machinery-orders-3-7-may-data-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T16:15:26+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/national/japan-snubs-homegrown-weaponry-buy-u-s-putting-domestic-industry-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T17:10:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/asia-pacific/clear-evidence-humanitarian-need-north-korea-u-n-aid-chief-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T17:11:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-nkaid-a-20180712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkaid-a-20180712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a farm in Samjiyon County in this undated picture released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/national/mount-fuji-trails-shizuoka-open-years-climbing-season/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T17:22:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-mtfuji-a-20180711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mtfuji-a-20180711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Climbers walk on Mount Fuji's Fujinomiya trail in Shizuoka Prefecture on Tuesday, as the climbing season begins in the prefecture for the 3,776-meter volcano.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/national/science-health/japanese-students-reach-stars-u-s-space-camp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-11T17:43:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-11T19:32:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Takimoto, a lawyer of Shoko Asahara's fourth daughter, speaks Wednesday during a news conference in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers stand up Wednesday at an Upper House committee to vote for a bill to increase the number of Upper House seats by six.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-11T22:26:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-11T22:43:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives to meet U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-11T23:06:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This handout video grab taken from footage released on Wednesday shows members of the Wild Boars football team being treated at a hospital in Chiang Rai.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T07:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T07:03:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T07:05:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Israeli man holds rubble as Israeli forces search the Sea of Galilee coast for the remains of a reported drone launched from Syria and intercepted by a Patriot missile on Wednesday near the Ha-On kibbutz, northeastern Israel. Israel intercepted the drone launched from Syria with a Patriot missile on Wednesday, setting off sirens in the occupied Golan Heights, the army said.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T07:07:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Internally displaced children from Deraa sit together near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in Quneitra, Syria, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/12/business/eu-urged-draft-law-child-labor-deforestation-coffee-cocoa-areas-voluntary-curbs-fail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-12T07:08:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T09:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T09:55:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors pass in front of the Chinese telecoms equipment group ZTE Corp. booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/12/world/crime-legal-world/lawmaker-indian-modis-party-charged-connection-rape-teenage-girl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-12T11:02:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a legislator of Uttar Pradesh state from India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), reacts as he leaves a court after he was arrested in April in connection with the rape of a teenager, in Lucknow, India.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/12/world/social-issues-world/failure-educate-girls-cost-world-30-trillion-year-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-12T13:42:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Indian woman waits with children for their school bus in front of a national "population clock" in Mumbai on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/12/business/asian-factory-workers-face-slavery-risks-rise-automation-manufacturing-analysts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-12T13:43:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T14:59:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Sakahara (second from right), the 57-year-old son of Hiromu Sakahara, who was convicted of murder but died in 2011, speaks in Otsu on Wednesday following the district court's retrial order.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T15:51:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T16:40:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T17:42:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees harvest Arabica coffee cherries at the Solok Radjo Cooperative coffee farm in Alahan Panjang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, in July 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T18:40:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk behind a SoftBank Corp. logo in Tokyo. U.S. hedge fund Tiger Global has invested more than $1 billion in SoftBank Group Corp., calling it undervalued.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T18:52:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T19:06:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T19:06:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves No. 10 Downing Street on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T19:07:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ogasawaraside-a-20180713.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ogasawara Islands have played a role in dramatic events in Japanese history, including the 1853 visit of American Commodore Matthew Perry and his "black ships," which eventually forced Japan to end its 214-year-old seclusion policy.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T19:08:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Signage for Kobe Steel stands outside the company's offices in Tokyo in May. The company is expected to be indicted over its data fabrication.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/12/national/japan-population-declines-fastest-pace-yet-125-2-million-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-12T19:47:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-population-a-20180712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan'﷯s population declined at the fastest pace in the past 50 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T19:56:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[George Yokota, 86, a former teacher at Admiral Radford Elementary School on Chichijima, one of the Ogasawara Islands, recalls his stint there before the chain reverted to Japanese rule in 1968, during an interview in Tokyo earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T20:47:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple iPhones are displayed at a SoftBank store in Tokyo. The Fair Trade Commission believes iPhone contracts in Japan may constitute a violation of antitrust regulations.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T21:35:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a news conference after a summit of heads of state and government at NATO headquarters in Brussels on July 12, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T21:55:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman holds up a garment at a Uniqlo store in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T22:18:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiro Mori, head of the organizing committee for the 2020 Games, speaks to reporters on Thursday following a meeting with Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T22:33:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Bercow, speaker of the House of Commons, suspends proceedings as copies of a key white paper are distributed to representatives while the U.K.'s Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union Dominic Raab speaks at the House of Commons in London on July 12, 2018, in this video still from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU).]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-12T23:17:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A logo of Seiyu is pictured at its chainstore in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/business/italian-hat-maker-borsalino-casablanca-fame-bought-auction-haeres-equita/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T06:28:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-13T06:29:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/business/u-s-justice-department-seek-appeal-approval-att-acquire-time-warner-85-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T06:36:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/world/crime-legal-world/paul-manafort-fails-win-freedom-challenging-jail-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T09:24:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photograph obtained courtesy of the Alexandria Sheriff's Office, Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign chief, is seen in this booking photo Thursday after his transfer to the Alexandria Detention Center in Alexandria, Virginia. Manafort, who is facing trial later this year on money laundering charges involving his work for Ukraine that predated the 2016 presidential election, is one of 20 people and three companies already indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller in the investigation into possible collusion with Russia by the Trump campaign, as well as possible obstruction of justice.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/world/crime-legal-world/toronto-deploy-200-police-officers-address-spike-gun-violence-shooting-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T11:02:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a police tactical unit are deployed at the Ripley's Aquarium of Canada in Toronto Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-13T13:12:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. first lady Melania Trump, U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May stand on steps in the Great Court as the bands of the Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards perform a ceremonial welcome before a black-tie dinner with business leaders on Thursday at Blenheim Palace, west of London.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/may-ropes-makes-europe-wary-rejecting-brexit-plan-outright/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T13:34:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at the EU summit in Brussels on June 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/asia-pacific/chinese-chemical-plant-blast-kills-19-injures-12/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T13:39:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-13T13:48:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos addresses the media about the New Shepard rocket booster and crew capsule mockup at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs on April 5, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/world/science-health-world/dog-food-legumes-tied-pet-heart-disease-u-s-food-drug-administration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T13:49:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A dog sits in the lap of a street musician on Wednesday in St. Petersburg, Russia, during the 2018 soccer World Cup.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mays-brexit-proposals-slammed-britains-finance-industry-executives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T14:07:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) Philip Hammond (center) and other guests await the arrival of U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump for a black-tie dinner with business leaders at Blenheim Palace, west of London, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/white-paper-may-spells-u-k-wants-post-eu-era/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T14:28:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The British Cabinet meets at No. 10 Downing St. on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/world/dane-charged-starting-colorados-second-largest-wildfire-ever/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T14:33:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jesper Joergensen]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/national/hokkaido-islanders-pray-victims-25th-anniversary-deadly-earthquake-tsunami/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T17:01:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lanterns are floated in the sea near Okushiri Island on Thursday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake and tsunami that left a total of 230 people dead or missing in Hokkaido and Aomori Prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/business/missouri-jury-orders-jj-pay-4-billion-22-women-allege-talc-caused-cancer-contained-asbestos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T17:14:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-talc-a-20180714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiff Gail Ingham (front) stands outside the civil courthouse with attorneys (from left) Lee Cirsch, Eric Holland and Mark Lanier following a verdict against health care giant Johnson &amp; Johnson on Thursday in St. Louis.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/business/poverty-japan-underclass-struggles-achieve-upward-mobility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T17:20:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-yenforliving-a-20180714.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yenforliving-a-20180714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With the exception of women who work to supplement household incomes, almost all part-time workers belong to the underclass.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/business/masatsugu-asakawa-stay-post-fourth-year-japans-top-currency-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T17:43:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatsugu Asakawa, vice minister of finance for international affairs, speaks to reporters at the Finance Ministry in January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/business/large-percentage-private-lodgings-okinawa-vanish-new-minpaku-law-takes-effect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T18:43:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawa-a-20180714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clocks hanging on the wall of a room rented out to tourists in Naha show the time in Japan as well as that of the guests' home country.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/national/crime-legal/court-gives-ok-psychiatric-exam-suspect-deadly-bullet-train-rampage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T18:53:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/business/uniqlo-owner-finds-success-abroad-downplays-trade-war-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T19:24:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Switzerland's Roger Federer's wears Uniqlo branded socks and Nike tennis shoes during his quarter final match against South Africa's Kevin Anderson at Wimbledon in London Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/national/least-four-firms-used-foreign-trainees-clean-radioactive-contamination-fukushima-nuclear-plant-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T20:26:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-trainees-a-20180714.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trainees-a-20180714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalists wearing protective suits view tanks containing radioactive water during a media tour of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in August 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/business/corporate-business/walmart-downplays-reports-looking-sell-japanese-unit-seiyu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T20:27:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer exits a Seiyu store in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/national/crime-legal/prosecutors-claim-relationship-problems-drove-inmate-flee-ehime-prison/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T20:27:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-prison-a-20180714.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tatsuma Hirao]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/soccers-world-cup-detoxifies-russias-global-brand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T23:11:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Booths marketing products by event sponsors Budweiser and Coca-Cola stand beside a statue of Lenin on Wednesday, as fans arrive for the semifinal match between Croatia and England at Luzhniki Stadium during the 2018 soccer World Cup in Moscow.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/national/crime-legal/ex-aum-member-yoshihiro-inoues-last-words-didnt-expect-things-turn-way/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T23:12:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-inoue-a-20180714.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-inoue-a-20180714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihiro Inoue]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/business/corporate-business/adobe-launch-photoshop-ipad-strategy-shift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-13T23:32:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-photoshop-a-20180714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, on June 4. Since its debut 10 years ago Tuesday, Apple's app store has unleashed new ways for us to work, play, and become lost in our screens.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/asia-pacific/grit-daring-terror-thailands-cave-boys-rescued-protected-like-eggs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-14T08:39:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-caveboys-a-20180714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thai Navy SEALs and military personnel board a plane at the airport in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand, Thursday. Their daring rescue mission in the treacherous confines of a flooded cave in northern Thailand saved all 12 boys and their soccer coach who were trapped deep within the labyrinth, ending a grueling 18-day ordeal that claimed the life of an experienced volunteer diver and riveted people around the world.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/12/asia-pacific/north-koreans-fail-show-talks-u-s-war-dead-media-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-14T08:40:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on July 7, 2018. Pompeo insisted that two days of talks with his North Korean counterpart on dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal had been "very productive".]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/national/emperor-empress-cancel-summer-retreat-nasu-flood-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-14T11:33:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20180714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko have cancelled their planned summer retreat north of Tokyo following last weekend's deadly torrential rain in western Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/national/water-outages-continue-flood-hit-areas-across-western-japan-death-toll-tops-170/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-14T11:34:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-rain-a-20180712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rain-a-20180712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An elderly woman is given assistance as people affected by the recent flooding rest at a makeshift shelter at a gymnasium in the Mabicho district of Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/11/national/japan-hit-worst-weather-disaster-decades-many-die/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-14T11:34:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rainfactors-a-20180712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers search for missing people near houses and cars buried in mud in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/14/asia-pacific/china-stifles-memorials-nobel-laureate-dissident-liu-xiaobo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-14T11:37:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-liu-a-20180715.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-liu-a-20180715.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo pay tribute in front of his statue during a candlelight vigil to mark the first anniversary of his death, in Hong Kong on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/12/national/death-toll-climbs-200-torrential-rains-pound-western-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-14T11:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-rain-a-20180713.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rain-a-20180713.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The JR Geibi Line railway bridge in the city of Hiroshima, damaged by flooding after heavy rains, is seen on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/12/national/large-scale-evacuation-key-concern-event-major-flood-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-14T11:43:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/flood-map-graphic-20180713.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[flood-map-graphic-20180713.jpg]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/12/national/ehime-residents-recount-horrific-landslide-death-beloved-friend-neighbor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-14T11:43:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-uwajima-a-20180713.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-uwajima-a-20180713.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Debris is strewn across a beach near the home of Hidefumi Izumi, a 64-year-old resident of Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, who was found dead on Monday. He was engulfed on Saturday by a mudslide caused by heavy rain.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/13/national/no-foreign-nationals-listed-among-dead-western-japan-rain-disasters-survey-prefectures-shows/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A display shows a facial recognition system for law enforcement during the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, which showcases artificial intelligence, deep learning, virtual reality and autonomous machines, in Washington last November.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded Thai cave are seen in their hospital room at Chiang Rai Prachanukroh Hospital in Thailand's Chiang Rai province in this image made from a video taken Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gated community: Yokohama’s Chinatown, which dates back to the 1850s, no longer symbolizes Japan’s diversified and growing Chinese population.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-16T14:17:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some of the water that flooded the Mabicho district of Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, had not receded as of Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-16T15:46:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits a shelter for people affected by the recent flooding in the Mabicho district Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-16T23:12:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-16T23:19:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-17T08:59:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman uses the internet on her mobile phone at a hotspot in Havana July 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-17T14:43:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Swiss star Roger Federer plays in the first round of Wimbledon on July 2 sporting a Uniqlo shirt.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/17/national/meiji-university-president-sees-new-japan-china-relationship-evolving-manga/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiichiro Tsuchiya]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/17/business/corporate-business/japanese-consumer-finance-company-acom-advances-philippines/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Consumer finance company Acom has targeted the Philippines for expansion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/17/business/trade-war-imperils-world-growth-imf-warns/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The International Monetary Fund lowered its growth outlook for Japan’s economy in its latest World Economic Outlook report.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/17/world/bridge-china-brings-threat-hong-kongs-native-pink-dolphin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-17T15:39:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese white dolphin, which appears pink, swims off Lantau island in Hong Kong on May 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/16/national/japan-provide-peacekeeper-training-asean-nations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-17T17:07:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force personnel leave Juba in May 2017 after completing Japan's peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/17/national/social-issues/new-genre-manga-casts-elderly-characters-leading-roles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-17T17:28:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new genre of manga with elderly main characters is increasing its presence as Japan's population rapidly ages.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/17/national/crime-legal/filipino-man-admits-2004-murder-female-student-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-17T18:46:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A courtroom sketch depicts Lampano Jerico Mori in his first court hearing, where he admitted to the rape and murder of a female university student in Ibaraki Prefecture in 2004.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/16/business/japan-extend-best-dates-pork-help-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-17T18:54:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is reportedly discussing plans to extend best-before dates for pork products in a bid to boost exports.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/brexit-campaign-group-vote-leave-referred-police-breaching-spending-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-17T18:59:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man holds an anti-Brexit banner on Westminster Bridge, in central London, on July 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-17T19:13:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer refuels a motorbike at an Idemitsu Kosan Co. gas station in Tokyo. Investor Yoshiaki Murakami played a key role in advising a merger between Idemitsu and Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-17T19:24:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers search for missing people in Aki Ward in the city of Hiroshima on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-17T21:31:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shareholders of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. head into the firm's annual shareholders' meeting last month in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/17/asia-pacific/thailands-rescued-cave-boys-address-media-wednesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-17T22:57:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-17T23:03:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-18T06:41:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NASA's Juno spacecraft captures Jupiter's southern hemisphere, as the spacecraft performed its 13th close flyby of Jupiter on May 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/business/china-heart-drug-sold-globally-may-impurity-since-2012/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T06:51:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/world/social-issues-world/brief-breathing-room-separated-immigrants-win-deportation-reprieves-two-u-s-judges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T09:15:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Director of Connecticut Legal Services Josh Perry speaks during a press conference Tuesday at the Yale Law School in New Haven discussing the litigation of the emergency lawsuits they filed on behalf of 2 immigrant children from Honduras and El Salvador that led to their release and reunification with their families recently as a result of a federal judges finding that the children's constitutional rights were violated. Yale Law School Professor Muneer Ahmad of the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (back left) Vanessa Suarez of Unidad Latina en Accion of New Haven, and Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy (right) listen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/world/social-issues-world/iraqi-police-quell-protests-outside-zubair-oilfield-public-unrest-grows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T09:19:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iraqi policemen throw sand to put out tires that protesters had set ablaze during a protest at the main entrance to the giant Zubair oilfield near Basra, Iraq, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-grand-jury-indicts-woman-charges-russian-agent-infiltrated-political-groups/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T09:21:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Public figure Maria Butina (right) attends a meeting of a group of experts, affiliated with the government of Russia, in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-lawmakers-double-trumps-embrace-putin-look-uphold-intel-services-punish-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T09:24:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-congress-a-20180719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis. (left) and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., review papers before answering questions from reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday. Responding to criticism about President Donald Trump and his Helsinki news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ryan said there should be no doubt that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/world/crime-legal-world/robert-mueller-asks-judge-immunize-five-witnesses-ahead-paul-manafort-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T10:42:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-mueller-a-20180719.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mueller-a-20180719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, walks with this wife, Kathleen Manafort, as they arrive at the Alexandria Federal Courthouse in Alexandria, Virgina, in March. Special counsel Robert Mueller is seeking immunity for five potential witnesses in the upcoming trial of Manafort. Mueller's office told a federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday that they were seeking to compel the witnesses to testify under condition of immunity.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/09/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-paper-calls-u-s-warships-passage-taiwan-strait-psychological-game/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T10:57:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold, home-ported at the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, transits the Philippine Sea on June 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-18T11:07:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump reads from prepared remarks as he speaks about his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the start of a meeting with members of the U.S. Congress at the White House in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/17/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-putin-summit-political-boon-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T11:46:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin share a laugh at the Kodokan Judo Institute in Tokyo in December 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/17/business/japan-european-union-complete-trade-deal-accounting-30-percent-worlds-gdp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T11:47:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with European Council President Donald Tusk as European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker looks on before signing a free trade pact in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-academic-critic-beijing-censorship-will-leave-china-losing-job/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T13:42:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. academic and critic of Beijing censorship Christopher Balding, seen in this photo from the Peking University website, has announced that he is leaving China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/worlds-poorest-risk-losing-brexit-britain-pushes-aid-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T14:14:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brexit supporters wait for the start of a Vote Leave rally in April 2016 in Manchester, England.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-18T14:54:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-18T16:22:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abdallah Afandi (right), a Sudanese migrant, tapes an episode for the Msh Gharib radio show with the help of journalist Christine Habib in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-18T17:57:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kobe Steel Ltd. executives are seen at the firm's annual shareholders' meeting last month in Kobe.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-18T18:18:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Detained Reuters journalist Wa Lone speaks to members of the media at the Insein court in Yangon on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/asia-pacific/chinas-version-saturday-night-live-pulled-amid-crackdown-content/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T18:18:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-18T18:25:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Tuesday via KNS shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting the September 1 Machine Factory under the Ranam Coal-mining Machine Complex in North Hamgyong Province.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-18T18:25:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during a commissioning ceremony of the country's first AH-64E Apache attack helicopter squadron in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/national/crime-legal/nagoya-high-court-orders-mom-return-son-dad-u-s-disputes-boys-claim-wants-stay-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T18:42:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/business/corporate-business/takeda-bets-china-global-growth-seeing-country-par-u-s-europe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T18:48:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-takeda-a-20180719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. is planning to sell seven new drugs in China in the next five years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/business/tpp-negotiators-gather-japan-confirm-domestic-progress-toward-full-ratification/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T18:51:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief negotiators from the 11-member Trans-Pacific Partnership gather in the town of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/national/politics-diplomacy/diet-passes-controversial-bill-adding-seats-japans-upper-house-first-time-nearly-half-century/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-18T19:05:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-18T20:30:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-18T20:30:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-18T21:02:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Diet on Wednesday passed an amendment banning smoking in public facilities for the first time.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teachers at Juei Elementary School in the city of Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, offer silent prayers Wednesday where a concrete-block wall collapsed in the June 18 earthquake, killing 9-year-old Rina Miyake.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-19T06:42:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aramco tanks and oil pipes are seen at Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura oil refinery and oil terminal in Saudi Arabia in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-19T06:45:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NGO Proactiva Open Arms rescue boat the Astral sails to Spain in central Mediterranean Sea Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-19T09:10:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pilots sit in the cockpit as they prepare Ethiopian Airlines ET314 flight to Eritrea's capital Asmara at the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-19T09:21:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The main plant facility at the Navajo Generating Station northeast of Grand Canyon National Park as seen from Lake Powell in Page, Arizona, in 2011. A new study concludes visitors may be steering clear of some U.S. national parks or cutting their visits short because of pollution.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-19T09:24:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers board a train on the Marunouchi Line. Tokyo launched the Jisa Biz campaign July 9 in a bid to combat jam-packed trains during rush hour. About 740 companies are participating.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/world/foes-ortega-go-hiding-vow-no-surrender-deadly-clampdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T10:50:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-19T10:57:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture taken on Tuesday shows damage in a street caused by regime airstrikes, in the rebel-held town of Nawa, about 30 km north of Daraa in southern Syria.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/national/hotels-tours-western-japan-see-cancellations-rain-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T11:48:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of tour buses arriving at the scenic historical quarter in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, seen on Sunday, has halved since the torrential rain earlier this month, even though the area is some distance from the city's Mabicho district, where more than 4,000 houses were flooded.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/national/non-japanese-speakers-turned-employers-help-aftermath-west-japan-flooding-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T11:48:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A local resident makes his way in a flooded area in Mabicho, Okayama Prefecture, on July 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/16/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-call-surge-public-works-bolster-resistance-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T11:49:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers conduct repair work on the destroyed embankment along Odagawa River in the Mabicho district of Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/16/national/farm-damage-japans-rain-disaster-put-%c2%a548-1-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T11:49:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unharvested tangerines lie on the ground Friday in an orchard in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, damaged by mudslides triggered by the recent torrential rains.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/16/national/mabicho-delays-lack-awareness-raised-death-toll-floods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T11:49:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Houses that have been badly damaged or destroyed are seen on July 9 near the site where the banks of the Suemasa River in the Mabicho district of Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, broke.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/national/12-dead-nearly-10000-taken-hospitals-last-week-ongoing-heat-wave-engulfed-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T12:41:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-heatwave-a-20180719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A volunteer worker washes his face at a stream Wednesday while clearing up the disaster-hit city of Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/national/heat-wave-grips-japan-demand-spikes-products-aimed-staying-cool-free-bad-odor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T13:16:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/20/national/summer-heat-clothing-gadgets-can-help-stay-cool/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T13:16:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-heat-d-20160721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The astronaut-inspired Jaxa Cosmode vest, developed in conjunction with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is displayed at Heat Solution Tokyo 2016 on Wednesday at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center in Koto Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/asia-pacific/thailands-cave-boys-wake-home-first-time-weeks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T13:41:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a soccer team rescued from a cave attend a religious ceremony Thursday in Mae Sai, in the northern Thai province of Chiang Rai.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/asia-pacific/north-korean-leader-kim-underscores-shift-focus-economy-rebukes-industrial-facility-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T13:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this undated photo released on July 2, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un is seen touring a factory in Sinuiju, a North Korean town opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/world/israel-adopts-divisive-jewish-nation-state-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T13:45:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Israeli herds cattle in the Golan Heights on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/day-acceptance-defiant-trump-claims-russia-not-still-targeting-u-s-calls-critics-deranged/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T14:07:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting at the White House in Washington on Wednesday. Trump said Wednesday that Russia isn't currently targeting the U.S., diverging from a public statement his own intelligence director made two days earlier.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trudeau-shuffles-cabinet-seeking-reduce-canadas-reliance-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T14:08:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives with Gov. Gen. Julie Payette during a Cabinet shuffle at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/17/national/250-schools-japan-damaged-rain-disaster-severed-water-supplies-exacerbate-fire-risks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T14:14:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-school-a-20180718.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-school-a-20180718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An overturned piano remains caked in mud in a junior high school classroom in the Mabicho district of Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, after floodwaters inundated the area more than a week ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/business/google-hit-e4-3-billion-fine-eu-told-alter-android-model/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T14:14:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-googlefine-a-20180719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Union Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager gives a joint press at the EU headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday. The same day the EU gave Google 90 days to end "illegal" practices surrounding its Android operating system or face further fines, after slapping a record €4.34 billion ($5 billion) anti-trust penalty on the US tech giant.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/national/number-foreign-visitors-japan-15-6-first-half-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T14:15:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tourists-a-20180719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People visit Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district. A record number of foreign tourists visited Japan in the January to June period, according to government data released Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/national/fourth-generation-japanese-descendants-overseas-seek-bring-families-new-residency-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T15:39:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cori Passos (right), who works for a visa application agency, explains Japan's new residency program to Cristiane Oji (left), a fourth-generation Japanese living in Brazil, at his office in Sao Paulo in March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/business/tech/fining-google-eu-fighting-past/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T15:44:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-googleu-a-20180720.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Android-themed shrubbery watches over Google's annual gathering of developers in San Francisco in May 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/asia-pacific/wage-hours-policies-south-korean-leader-moon-backfire-jobless-low-income-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T15:45:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction workers rally in Seoul on July 12 to demand job security.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/world/lava-kilauea-collapse-explosion-destroys-evacuated-hawaiian-structures/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kilauea's lower East Rift Zone in Hawaii is seen at sunrise on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/business/tech/google-shrugs-off-eu-fine-damage-hinge-rivals-next-moves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T16:12:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/16/national/2000-people-taken-hospitals-japan-bakes-heat-wave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T16:41:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-heatwave-a-20180717.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play in a fountain in a Nagoya park on Monday as a heat wave continued to scorch Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/16/national/two-people-dead-nearly-2000-suffered-heat-exhaustion-heat-wave-continues-across-nation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T16:41:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People are seen walking in Nagoya on Sunday. In many parts of the country,  when the mercury exceeded 35 C.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/business/singapore-airlines-tops-passenger-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T17:12:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing Co. 787-10 Dreamliner run by Singapore Airlines Ltd. is linked to a passenger boarding bridge at Changi Airport in Singapore, on March 28. Travelers voted Singapore Airlines the best carrier in the world, according to SkyTrax.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-19T17:21:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-19T17:39:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A self-driving taxi to be tested on public roads in central Tokyo next month is shown in a digital image.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/business/tpp-countries-start-accession-talks-new-members-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T18:16:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief negotiators from the 11 members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership pose in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/world/science-health-world/worlds-oldest-bread-found-jordan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T18:26:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A stone structure at an archeological site containing a fireplace, seen in the middle, where charred remains of 14,500-year-old bread was found in the Black Desert, in northeastern Jordan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/national/crime-legal/crime-japan-dips-lowest-postwar-level-first-half-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T18:34:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The total number of crimes recorded over the period stood at 398,615, down 52,054 from the same period a year earlier, according to the National Police Agency.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-19T18:34:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Sakitsu settlement, with the church at the center, is one of 12 sites recognized by UNESCO's World Heritage Committee as the "Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-19T18:45:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-19T19:10:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The chain had not widely announced the service in advance because it was planned to be a pilot project, but social media picked up on it just as beer taps were being installed for the test.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-19T19:38:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eiko Hashiba, co-founder and CEO of VisasQ Inc., stands in her office at Aobadai in Tokyo's Meguro Ward, on June 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/business/tech/sony-starts-taking-preorders-new-version-aibo-robot-dog/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T20:57:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An attendee plays with Sony's robotic Aibo dog during a sales launch in Tokyo on Jan. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/business/japanese-drivers-face-higher-pump-prices-tokyo-agrees-halt-oil-imports-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T20:57:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fuel pump nozzles sit at a Showa Shell Sekiyu KK gas station in Tokyo on July 10. Japan's top oil distributors are considering halting oil imports from Iran in response to U.S. demands.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/national/tokyo-2020-marathon-events-held-early-morning-due-heat-related-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T20:58:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cranes stand at the construction site of the New National Stadium in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/business/corporate-business/softbank-test-japan-ride-hailing-service-chinas-didi-chuxing-autumn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T20:59:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[DiDi Chuxing Vice President Stephen Zhu (left), SoftBank Corp. CEO Ken Miyauchi (second from left), DiDi Chuxing President Jean Liu (second from right), and SoftBank Corp. executive Keigo Sugano (right) pose after a news conference about their Japanese taxi-hailing venture in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/world/drought-creates-perfect-storm-wildfires-across-western-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T23:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inmate firefighters clear brush to create a fire break while battling the Ferguson Fire in unincorporated Mariposa County, California, on July 16, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/national/tokyo-emergency-personnel-respond-record-number-calls-amid-heat-wave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-19T23:06:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-heatwave-z-20180720.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The mercury continued to hover well over 35 C in many areas of Japan on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/days-helsinki-summit-trump-russia-shows-off-putins-super-weapons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T06:51:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/world/social-issues-world/pro-assad-villages-evacuated-deal-syrian-insurgents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T09:16:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Evacuated Syrians from Fuaa and Kafraya in Idlib province are seen through a broken bus window during evacuating pro-regime fighters and inhabitants Thursday. Several thousand residents evacuated two pro-regime towns in northern Syria today putting an end to one of the longest sieges of the country's seven-year civil war. Fuaa and Kafraya are the last remaining areas under blockade in Syria and a rare example of pro-government towns surrounded by rebel forces.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/business/sinclair-accused-misleading-fcc-3-9-billion-tribune-deal-goes-hearing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T09:26:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[WGN Radio sign is seen last year on the side of Tribune Tower, in downtown Chicago. The Federal Communications Commission will review Sinclair's $3.9 billion deal for Tribune's television stations after its chairman raised "serious concerns."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/putin-tells-diplomats-pitched-east-ukraine-referendum-plan-trump-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T09:30:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Russian ambassadors and representatives to international organisations in Moscow Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/world/crime-legal-world/rod-rosenstein-cites-growing-cyberthreat-foreign-adversaries-u-s-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T10:52:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington July 13. Rosenstein is defending the prosecution of foreign agents who may never see the inside of a U.S. courtroom. He says the prosecutions of agents involved in efforts to sow dissent in the U.S. political system or in cyberattacks serves as a deterrent even when they are beyond the reach of U.S. authorities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/business/oregon-wildfires-crush-hopes-wheat-farmers-bumper-harvest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T11:03:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wheat-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A truck and firefighters from Joint Fire District #2 work to put out a standing wheat and stubble fire just north of Walla Walla, Washington, Wednesday. The fire was started by combines harvesting wheat nearby.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/world/u-k-politicians-accuse-government-breach-trust-maternity-leave-vote-agreement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T12:46:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jo Swinson, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrat Party, is seen arriving at the party's annual conference with party leader Vince Cable in Bournemouth, U.K., on Sept. 19, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/national/crime-legal/nagoya-court-hands-woman-two-year-prison-term-destroying-54-violins-owned-former-husband/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T13:38:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/world/science-health-world/deep-reefs-wont-twilight-zone-refuge-fish-coral-dive-team-warns-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T13:39:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man snorkels in the "Coral Gardens" on June 11 near Lady Elliot Island on the Great Barrier Reef, northeast of the town of Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/world/science-health-world/archaeologists-disappointed-alexander-great-fails-turn-massive-egyptian-sarcophagus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T14:13:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supreme Council of Antiquities chief Mostafa Wazir inspects the site of the newly discovered giant black sarcophagus in the Sidi Gaber district of Alexandria, Egypt, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/business/north-korean-economy-declined-sharpest-rate-20-years-2017-bank-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T14:15:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gas station attendant fills up a taxi in Pyongyang in this file photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/national/comfort-sole-salarymen-opting-wear-sneakers-job/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T15:35:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sneakers-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The men's shoe section at Takashimaya department store in Shinjuku, Tokyo, now displays a wider range of sneakers, as an increasing number of major companies encourage employees to wear casual shoes while commuting and during work.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/business/corporate-business/kobe-steel-indicted-japan-fabrication-quality-data-products-used-trains-aircraft-vehicles-defense-equipment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T16:52:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/business/hong-kong-relax-four-prefecture-ban-japanese-food-imports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T18:06:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/business/corporate-business/tokyo-inventors-showcase-new-creations-offer-relief-sweltering-heat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T18:23:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-coolinggear-a-20180720.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers cross a street in the Shinjuku district in Tokyo on Thursday, in intense summer heat. A heat wave this year has brought unprecedented scorching temperatures across many parts of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/national/crime-legal/former-president-bankrupt-travel-agency-tellmeclub-gets-six-years-fraud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T18:24:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-travelfraud-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chikako Yamada]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/world/londons-mayor-wants-residents-put-walking-boots-boost-health/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T18:25:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers walk along Regent Street in London last December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/business/comcast-concedes-disney-bidding-war-fox-assets-still-vies-buy-chunk-sky/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T18:31:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/b-comcast-a-20180721.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-comcast-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Comcast Center in Philadelphia is seen last year. Comcast says it's dropping out of the bidding war for Twenty-First Century Fox's entertainment business, instead focusing on its bid for Sky.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/business/corporate-business/toyota-close-shizuoka-plant-next-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T18:32:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/national/annual-eel-day-becomes-increasingly-pricey-treat-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T18:37:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-eels-a-20180721.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-eels-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Declining catches of eel have meant higher prices for the endangered delicacy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-k-chief-whip-faces-calls-quit-lawmakers-accuse-mays-government-breach-trust-pivotal-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T19:08:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-swindle-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democrat deputy leader Jo Swinson stands beside party leader Vince Cable after he delivered the keynote speech at the party's annual conference in Bournemouth, England, on Sept. 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/business/financial-markets/dollar-softens-around-%c2%a5112-40-tokyo-trump-expresses-concern-currencys-strength/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T20:12:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/business/hi-im-soybean-trade-war-china-deploys-cartoon-legume-reach-u-s-farmers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T21:28:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker loads sacks of animal food made from soybeans at the Hopeful Grain and Oil Group in Sanhe, in China's northern Hebei province, on July 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/business/japan-eu-canada-industry-groups-oppose-proposed-u-s-duties-imported-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T21:42:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-usauto-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazutoshi Aikawa (left), deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in Washington, speaks during a U.S. Commerce Department hearing in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/national/social-issues/japans-government-increase-child-welfare-workers-wake-abuse-death-5-year-old-girl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T22:44:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-childabuse-a-20180721.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-childabuse-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Measures to tackle child abuse are discussed during a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/national/politics-diplomacy/diet-wraps-abe-re-emerges-front-runner-ldp-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-20T22:44:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-diet-a-20180721.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-diet-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, economic policy minister Toshimitsu Motegi (left) and internal affairs minister Seiko Noda pose for a photo before a regular Cabinet meeting Friday at the Prime Minister's Office. Later the same day the current Diet session, which started in January, was expected to close, with Abe having regained front-runner status in the Liberal Democratic Party leadership election slated for September.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/world/missouri-boat-accident-kills-17-including-nine-one-family/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T12:35:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-boataccident-a-20180722.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-boataccident-a-20180722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A duck boat sits idle in the parking lot of Ride the Ducks, an amphibious tour operator in Branson, Missouri, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/asia-pacific/china-invest-north-korea-infrastructure-u-n-diplomats-say-aid-violate-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T13:37:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-nkchina-a-20180722.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkchina-a-20180722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Beijing in this undated photo released June 20.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/asia-pacific/thai-secretary-myanmars-rohingya-panel-quits-citing-lack-progress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T14:19:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-rohingya-a-20180722.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rohingya-a-20180722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya play soccer at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-eyes-accepting-foreign-workers-manufacturing-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T15:29:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-workers-a-20180721.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-workers-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A volunteer teaches Japanese language to foreign workers who came to Japan as technical intern trainees in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, in December 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/world/science-health-world/nasa-prepares-fly-probe-suns-scorching-atmosphere/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T15:38:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-intothesun-a-20180722.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-intothesun-a-20180722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alex Young, solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (middle), Nicola Fox, Parker Solar Probe project scientist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (right), and Betsy Congdon, also from the university's APL and a lead engineer on the mission, speak during a briefing at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/asia-pacific/top-cia-official-says-china-waging-cold-war-replace-u-s-leading-global-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T16:13:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-ciachina-a-20180722.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ciachina-a-20180722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this undated photo, a Chinese H-6K heavy bomber is seen on patrol over the South China Sea.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/national/media-national/plight-mizuho-refugees-stirs-debate-banking-services-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T22:53:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/stmichel-mizuho-a-20180722.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[stmichel-mizuho-a-20180722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cutting off money at the source: Mizuho Financial Group Inc., the parent of Mizuho Bank, temporarily suspended ATM and online banking operations from July 14 to 16.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/national/media-national/learning-live-vulnerability-violent-actions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T22:42:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/p16-hoffman-vulnerability-a-20180722.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-vulnerability-a-20180722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman prays near the site of a 2008 stabbing rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara district on June 8, 2018, the 10th anniversary of the incident that killed seven people and injured 10 others.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/national/media-national/news-outlets-japan-question-belated-flood-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T22:54:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/p17-brasor-rain-fallout-a-20180722.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-rain-fallout-a-20180722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Picking up the pieces: A rescue worker walks on rubble in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, on July 8 while holding a girl in his arms.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/national/cultural-body-recommends-three-awarded-living-national-treasure-status/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T16:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/national/kawagoe-edo-standout-tourist-draw/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T17:49:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-ataglance-a-20180722.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ataglance-a-20180722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traditional Japanese warehouses stand in a row on the main street of Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/national/politics-diplomacy/wake-moritomo-scandal-government-unveils-steps-bolster-document-management-external-oversight-remains-taboo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T18:17:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/national/fatal-attack-japan-ban-carrying-knives-onto-trains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T18:26:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-train-a-20180721.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-train-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers will be prohibited from carrying unpacked knives onto trains as part of new security measures.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/national/japans-farm-fisheries-sectors-see-64-billion-damage-rain-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T18:28:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-raindamage-a-20180721.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-raindamage-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Debris from the recent rain disaster is seen piled up in the Mabi district of Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on Friday. Damage to the agricultural, forestry and fisheries industries in western Japan was estimated at ¥64.8 billion as of Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/national/haruki-murakamis-killing-commendatore-given-indecent-rating-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T18:33:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-murakami-a-20180721.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-murakami-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sticker warning of sexually "indecent" descriptions is seen pasted on this copy of "Killing Commendatore," the latest work by popular novelist Haruki Murakami, at a major book fair in Hong Kong on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/national/politics-diplomacy/diet-set-approve-casino-resorts-bill-despite-stiff-opposition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T19:21:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-casino-a-20180721.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-casino-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ruling coalition lawmakers applaud during a plenary session of the Upper House on Friday night as the chamber enacted a controversial bill to allow casinos.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/national/2500-300000-tokyo-olympic-organizers-release-summary-ticket-prices-2020-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T19:21:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-olympictickets-a-20180721.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-olympictickets-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Games is seen under construction in April. Organizers for the games revealed ticket prices on Friday, including a ¥300,000 price tag for the most expensive seats at the opening ceremony.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/business/economy-business/japans-core-inflation-rate-rises-0-8-june-higher-energy-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T19:27:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/b-inflation-a-20180721.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-inflation-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/national/crime-legal/shikoku-court-rejects-damages-claim-former-fishermen-1954-u-s-h-bomb-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T22:28:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-fishermen-a-20180722.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fishermen-a-20180722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kochi District Court sits in session on Friday before it rejected a damages suit filed by former fishermen and their families claiming the fishermen were exposed to radiation in the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/national/social-issues/share-working-moms-japan-tops-70-first-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T22:29:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/national/japanese-still-near-top-rankings-life-expectancy-2017-figures-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T22:30:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-lifespan-a-20180721.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lifespan-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The average life expectancy for women in Japan was 87.26 years in 2017, ranked No. 2 in the world. For men, the figure was 81.09, ranked No. 3.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/hundreds-protest-hong-kongs-move-ban-separatist-political-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-21T23:18:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-hongkong-a-20180722.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hongkong-a-20180722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy lawmaker Au Nok-hin (fourth from left), former lawmakers and pro-democracy activists Lee Cheuk-yan (fifth from left) and Leung Kwok-hung (sixth), also known as "Long Hair", attend a protest against the Hong Kong police seeking a ban on the pro-independence Hong Kong National Party, outside the police headquarters in Hong Kong on July 18.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/21/national/two-tohoku-beaches-ravaged-tsunami-open-public-first-time-since-3-11/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-22T06:06:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-beaches-a-20180722.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-beaches-a-20180722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People bathe at a beach in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Saturday, as the beach and another in Miyagi Prefecture opened to the public for the first time since the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent nuclear crisis.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/22/world/offbeat-world/tightrope-walker-stuns-parisians-netless-montmartre-performance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-22T13:39:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-bongonga-a-20180723.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bongonga-a-20180723.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tatian-Mosio Bongonga advances on a tightrope as she scales the Monmartre hill towards the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/22/asia-pacific/senegal-xi-pledges-stronger-sino-african-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-22T13:51:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-chinafrica-a-20180723.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinafrica-a-20180723.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping receives a decoration from Senegalese President Macky Sall at the Palace of the Republic in Dakar on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/22/world/u-s-launches-campaign-erode-support-irans-leaders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-22T13:57:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-iranamok-a-20180723.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-iranamok-a-20180723.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, shown giving a press briefing at U.N. headquarters in New York on Friday, has appealed directly to Iranians to oppose their government.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/22/world/crime-legal-world/los-angeles-shooting-hostage-standoff-leaves-one-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-22T14:23:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-lostages-a-20180723.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lostages-a-20180723.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A suspect is arrested after evading police and holding dozens of people hostage inside a Trader Joe's supermarket on Saturday in Los Angeles.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/22/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-defense-chief-visit-india-august/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-22T14:43:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-indodef-a-20180723.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-indodef-a-20180723.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Itsunori Onodera]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Companies are being urged to introduce telecommuting — in which employees are allowed to work away from the office — during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, to help ease traffic congestion.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A East Japan Railway Co. employee at Tokyo Station hands out information Monday about its escalator safety campaign.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-23T20:12:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Mako visits the immigration museum in Sao Paulo on Sunday as part of a Brazilian tour marking the 110th anniversary of Japanese emigration to the country.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators burn an effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte during a rally to coincide with his third State of the Nation Address on Monday at the Philippine Congress in Quezon city, northeast of Manila.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wartime Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo gives a speech in the Diet in January 1944.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, poses in Piazza Navona in Rome March 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-24T08:57:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Cohen arrives to court in New York May 30. A court filing reveals that a dozen audio recordings seized by the FBI from President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, have been forwarded to federal prosecutors. A court-appointed lawyer helping to decide which of the seized files are protected by attorney-client privilege, said in a court filing Monday that prosecutors got the recordings Friday after attorneys for Trump and Cohen dropped their argument that the files should remain confidential.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-24T09:02:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is shown in this booking photo in Alexandria, Virginia, July 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-24T09:13:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-24T14:16:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women shade themselves under parasols in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo on Monday. In the afternoon the temperature hit 41.1 degrees in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, a new record high for Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-24T14:20:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-24T15:06:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Faculty members and others attend an inauguration ceremony in New Delhi on Monday for India's first Japanese-language teacher training center.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/24/business/nippon-life-stop-financing-coal-fired-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-24T15:07:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon Life Insurance Co. plans to stop new investment and lending to coal-fired power projects in Japan and overseas.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-24T15:15:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. plans to use e-Palette autonomous electric vehicles to transport athletes during the Tokyo Olympics in summer 2020.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-24T15:53:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-24T16:18:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This flagship secondhand store in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, seen here in 2014 just after undergoing a major renovation following a tie-up between Yahoo Japan Corp. and Bookoff Corp., closed its doors for good Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-24T16:36:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satellite image courtesy of Airbus Defense and Space and 38 North dated Sunday and obtained Monday shows the apparent dismantling of facilities at the Sohae satellite launching station in North Korea. North Korea appears to have started dismantling key facilities at the rocket-engine test center, a group of experts said, potentially marking a significant step after last month's summit between Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-24T16:36:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/24/national/government-steps-preparations-imperial-succession-rites-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-24T17:16:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-24T17:17:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-24T18:16:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda Motor Co. says it will launch the PCX Hybrid scooter in Thailand in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/24/national/kumamoto-remembering-quake-aid-returns-favor-helping-flood-areas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-24T19:11:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mud from torrential rain this month is now dry and cracking in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, while a pile of debris awaits disposal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/24/national/japan-beefs-child-welfare-measures-soul-crushing-abuse-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-24T19:22:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mother and child lay flowers June 26 in front of an apartment in Meguro Ward, Tokyo, where 5-year-old Yua Funato died in March after alleged abuse by her parents.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/24/asia-pacific/singapore-disconnects-health-care-computers-internet-cyberattack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-24T20:37:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumio Kishida, policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a news conference on Tuesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/24/national/abe-asks-cabinet-speed-work-program-accept-foreign-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-24T21:29:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a ministerial meeting on Tuesday about the government's plan to accept more foreign workers from April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/24/national/tokyo-marks-two-years-olympic-games-amid-concerns-heat-congestion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-24T21:29:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Olympic marathon gold medalist Naoko Takahashi (front row, third from right) takes part in the opening leg of a 1,000-kilometer citizens’ relay in Aomori Prefecture on Tuesday, which was held as part of a series of events marking the two-year countdown to the 2020 Tokyo Games.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/24/national/record-breaking-high-temperatures-likely-new-normal-japan-experts-warn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-24T21:29:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign tourists walk with umbrellas to block the sun in central Tokyo on Tuesday as a heat wave continued to bake the nation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/business/stuff-dreams-u-s-mega-millions-lottery-tops-500-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T06:24:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign displays that the Mega Millions Lottery prize is estimated at $522 million, before the drawing, at a newsstand in the Brooklyn borough of New York City Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-25T06:35:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. Ryan said Russian President Vladimir Putin won't be invited to speak at a joint meeting to Congress on a visit to the U.S., and what matters is the message Putin will get from Trump — to stop meddling in U.S. elections and violating sovereignty.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-25T09:24:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Edvin Cazun (right), of Guatemala, hugs his son, Samuel, at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport as they reunite after being separated about a month ago at the southern border after they crossed the Rio Grande into the United States, Monday in Hebron, Kentucky. Edvin said they were separated at the "detention" and he spent 15 days without knowing anything about his son.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/business/britain-plans-first-foreign-takeover-rule-tightening-20-years-amid-china-worries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T09:25:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satellite dishes are seen at GCHQ's outpost at Bude, southwest England, in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/woman-killed-hostage-standoff-los-angeles-store-shot-police-officer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T09:26:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/business/u-s-airlines-yield-beijings-demands-will-refer-china-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T09:31:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A staff member assists a passenger near the check-in counters for Delta Air Lines at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing July 6. China says there will be "no room for negotiation" as it demands U.S. airlines describe self-ruled Taiwan as part of China ahead of a Wednesday deadline. Delta Air Lines and American Airlines are among the last major carriers to refer to Taiwan as its own region or country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/offering-no-evidence-trump-says-russia-time-will-back-democrats-midterm-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T10:57:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd as he addresses the Veteran's of Foreign Wars national convention Tuesday in Kansas City, Missouri.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/24/national/foreign-residents-extend-helping-hand-hiroshima-amid-ongoing-disaster-relief-efforts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T12:53:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mongolian Munkhbat Manduul, 27, (right) and his friend Bayartugs (center) take a break on Sunday from cleanup work on Ninoshima, an island in the southern part of the city of Hiroshima, which was among areas affected by the recent rain disaster in western Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/asia-pacific/trump-plays-north-korean-reports-missile-site-dismantling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T12:58:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A satellite image released and annotated by 38 North on Monday shows what the U.S. research group says is the partial dismantling of the rail-mounted transfer structure (center) at the Sohae launch site in North Korea a day earlier.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/24/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-lawmaker-mio-sugita-faces-backlash-describing-lgbt-people-unproductive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T13:22:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mio Sugita]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/world/science-health-world/carbon-emissions-goals-risk-clunker-cars-flood-africa-south-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T13:48:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traffic is seen in Addis Ababa on July 13. African and South Asian nations could miss greenhouse gas emissions targets unless wealthy countries stop using them as dumping grounds for millions of older cars, a study has warned.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/cambodia-puts-display-force-ahead-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T13:54:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cambodian police display riot gear and assault rifles on Wednesday at the Olympic stadium in Phnom Penh ahead of a general election this weekend.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/asia-pacific/mike-pompeo-says-south-pacific-nations-choose-u-s-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T13:54:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the Australia-U.S. Ministerial consultations at Stanford University's Hoover Institution in Stanford, California, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/24/business/corporate-business/yamato-says-overcharged-corporate-moving-service-clients-%c2%a51-7-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T14:13:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yamato Holdings Co. President Masaki Yamauchi apologizes at a news conference Tuesday at the transport ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/asia-pacific/dozens-feared-dead-laos-dam-collapse-rescuers-search-missing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T15:49:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents stand on a rooftop surrounded by floodwaters in Attapeu province, Laos, after a dam collapsed on July 23.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/24/business/chinas-caffeine-war-fast-growing-luckin-brews-threat-starbucks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T15:51:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A barista packs a coffee for online orders at a Luckin Coffee store in Beijing on July 17.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/business/corporate-business/eu-fines-pioneer-3-companies-online-price-fixing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T17:05:31+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/business/ex-bank-japan-chief-yasuo-matsushita-dies-92/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T17:55:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/b-matsushita-a-20180726.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-matsushita-a-20180726.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuo Matsushita]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/national/japan-crafts-new-cybersecurity-strategy-2020-tokyo-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T18:06:17+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/national/science-health/japan-endures-record-heat-wave-large-population-elderly-highest-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T18:19:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An elderly woman holds an umbrella to shield herself from sunlight as she walks along a street in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/24/national/fukushima-reduces-radiation-concerns-stricter-regulations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T18:52:35+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/24/national/multifaceted-support-recovering-communities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T18:52:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Scott Fardy teaches rugby to students in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/national/traumatic-memories-concerns-future-unnerve-displaced-hiroshima-rain-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T19:34:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Landslide evacuee Shigenobu Ikeda seeks refuge at an elementary school in Aki Ward, Hiroshima, that is being used as an evacuation center.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/24/business/japan-aims-make-new-passenger-cars-electric-2050-panel-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T19:57:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of an economy ministry panel discuss how to spread the use of electric vehicles in April.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/national/tepco-probe-directly-touch-melted-fuel-debris-fukushima-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T21:57:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Melted fuel in Fukushima No. 1's reactor No. 2 on Jan. 19]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/business/japan-germany-agree-promote-free-trade-rules-based-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T21:57:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono shakes hands Wednesday with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas ahead of their meeting at the Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/national/deadly-heat-wave-typhoon-hit-honshu-weekend/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-25T21:57:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-25T22:16:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-korend-a-20180726.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shakes hands with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha ahead of their meeting in New York on July 20.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/business/fcc-chief-stands-sinclair-tribune-merger-review-decision-despite-trumps-outcry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T06:33:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/world/science-health-world/much-world-see-blood-moon-21st-centurys-longest-lunar-eclipse-friday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T06:37:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-moon-a-20180727.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The "super blue blood moon" is seen over Los Angeles in January. The longest "blood moon" eclipse this century will coincide with Mars' closest approach in 15 years to offer skygazers a thrilling astronomical double bill on Friday, astronomers say.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-judge-may-consider-gag-order-case-accused-russian-agent-maria-butina/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T06:38:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Driscoll, an attorney for accused Russian agent Maria Butina, speaks to reporters outside U.S. District Court following a status hearing in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/national/government-sets-target-10000-vietnamese-caregivers-needs-additional-550000-2025/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T08:56:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-vietnam-a-20180726.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (second from right at the back) talks with Vietnamese students in a Tokyo-funded Japanese language course during his visit to Hanoi in July 2014. The students hope to work in Japan as care workers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mike-pompeo-confronts-senate-ire-trumps-policies-russia-trade-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T09:27:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/world/science-health-world/bodies-buried-congo-bracing-next-ebola-outbreak-busting-rumors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T09:28:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A child attends a class during a vaccination campaign against the outbreak of Ebola in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/06/national/crime-legal/profiles-top-aum-shinrikyo-members-including-six-still-death-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T10:12:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/national/japans-indigenous-ainu-sue-bring-ancestors-bones-back-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T10:15:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bitterness remains: Ainu people conduct an annual memorial ceremony at Hokkaido University's ossuary in Sapporo, where hundreds of sets of Ainu bones are still stored, in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-26T13:16:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile on Nov. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/asia-pacific/north-korea-transfer-remains-u-s-soldiers-korean-war-friday-yonhap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T13:37:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his wife, Ri Sol Ju, inspects the Wonsan Disabled Soldiers' Bag Factory in Kangwon Province in this photo released Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/national/crime-legal/key-events-related-aum-shinrikyo-cult/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T13:39:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this August 1995 file photo, Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, is seen being driven away from the Tokyo District Court to the Metropolitan Police headquarters after an extension of his detention was approved. The doomsday cult that carried out a deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways the same year also used the VX nerve agent suspected in the killing of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-26T13:40:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-26T14:11:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa speaks at a news conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/national/tepco-gets-low-rating-nuclear-accident-drills-draws-criticism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T14:51:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture is seen in this aerial photo taken in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/national/japan-promote-lgbt-tourism-disaster-hit-tohoku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T15:07:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new tourism information center at Sendai Airport in Miyagi Prefecture is seen in this photo taken in April last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-consider-new-document-mark-improving-ties-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T15:11:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha hold a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/25/national/heat-wave-killed-record-65-people-across-japan-last-week-22000-hospitalized/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T15:34:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women shield themselves from the sun with umbrellas in Tokyo on Tuesday as Japan suffers from a heat wave.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/business/financial-markets/nikkei-falls-back-selling-mainstay-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T16:49:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-26T17:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Imran Khan, head of the Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) party, celebrate in Islamabad on Wednesday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/business/japans-commercial-lenders-lobby-boj-stop-buying-corporate-bonds-negative-rates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T17:29:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda gestures as he takes questions during a news conference in Tokyo on June 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-26T18:15:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A trailer is filled with soybeans at a farm in Buda, Illinois, July 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/business/economy-business/value-japans-sharing-economy-estimated-%c2%a5500-billion-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T18:23:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/asia-pacific/south-korean-firm-backtracks-claim-130-billion-gold-sunken-treasure-ship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T18:35:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The imperial Russian cruiser Dmitrii Donskoi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/national/social-issues/female-leaders-encourage-women-confident-believe-tokyo-conference/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T18:38:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sarah Casanova, president and CEO of McDonald's Japan, speaks during the 23rd International Conference for Women in Business in Tokyo's Odaiba district on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/national/crime-legal/aum-executions-reignite-debate-japans-death-penalty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T19:21:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers stand guard in front of the Tokyo Detention House on Thursday in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/national/crime-legal/justice-ministry-begins-procedures-begin-execute-remaining-aum-members-death-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T21:10:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past a TV monitor in Tokyo's Yurakucho district Thursday showing news of the execution of six former Aum Shinrikyo members.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/business/japanese-veggie-prices-shoot-amid-heat-wave-inmate-dies-aichi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T21:10:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/world/california-met-ambitious-2020-greenhouse-gas-emissions-target-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T21:56:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bicyclist rides next to cars along Venice Boulevard under the 405 freeway overpass in Los Angeles, California, in 2010. California's Air Resources Board recently published an assessment showing the state had met an ambitious target, set in 2006, to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/business/unicef-lixil-join-hands-improve-toilet-access-children/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T22:06:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Showa Elementary School student tries a "magic mirror toilet" that simulates the practice of open defecation, at an event held Thursday at Showa Women's University.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/world/cockroach-bots-rugged-delivery-drones-wow-u-k-s-biggest-air-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-26T23:18:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-27T06:38:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture taken Thursday near the Ein Zivan settlement in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights shows smoke rising above buildings across the border in Syria during airstrikes backing a government-led offensive in the southern province of Quneitra. Syrian government forces raised the country's two-star flag on the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, four years since they were last deployed there.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-27T09:05:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This artist's impression provided by the European Southern Observatory in Julyshows the path of the star S2 as it passes close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. As the star gets nearer to the black hole, a very strong gravitational field causes the color of the star to shift slightly to the red, an effect of Einstein's general theory of relativity. European researchers reported the results of their observations in the journal Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-27T09:08:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-27T09:24:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro holds a bank note of the new Venezuelan currency Bolivar Soberano (Sovereign Bolivar) as he speaks during a meeting with ministers at Miraflores Palace in Caracas Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-27T11:58:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[African migrants in this still image from video climb the border from Morocco to Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/27/national/japans-oldest-person-chiyo-miyako-dies-117/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-27T12:57:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-27T14:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba gestures during a meeting with writers from a number of media organizations, held Thursday in Tokyo, where he indicated his willingness to run in the Liberal Democratic Party's leadership contest, set for September.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-27T14:31:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lava fragments falling from lava fountains at fissure 8 add to a cinder-and-spatter cone around the erupting vent on Mount Kilauea in Hawaii on June 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/27/national/five-killed-40-injured-huge-fire-construction-site-tokyo-suburb-tama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-27T14:45:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture provided to Kyodo News taken by a passer-by shows a massive black smoke rising from a construction site in Tama, Tokyo, at around 1:55 p.m. Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroki Shimada, co-founder of Scouty Inc., is interviewed at the his startup's headquarters in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on April 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-28T11:26:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-28T13:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Pentagon currently depends on foreign suppliers, including Chinese firms, for components in some military equipment.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pakistani politician Imran Khan listens to a speech in Peshawar in April 2011 during a rally against U.S. drone strikes in the country's tribal areas.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-28T15:24:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-28T15:54:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pretty in pink: Tokyo's Ueno Park is famous for its cherry blossoms in spring.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/28/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-established-team-negotiate-japan-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-28T22:21:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, along with members of the North Korea Political Bureau Ri Su Yong and  Kim Yong Chol, visit the Martyrs Cemetery of the Chinese People's Volunteers in Hoechang County, South Phyongan Province, in this undated photo released Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/28/national/olympic-organizers-plan-recruit-110000-volunteers-four-months-raises-eyebrows/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics organizing committee explain what volunteers are expected to do during the games at a promotional event in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/asia-pacific/subi-reef-built-chinese-appears-nearly-ready-host-first-troops-based-heart-south-china-sea/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This satellite photo shows Subi Reef on March 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/peruvian-president-martin-vizcarra-proposes-referendum-political-judicial-reform/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peru's President Martin Vizcarra walks to the Government Palace during celebrations of Independence Day in Lima on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-29T13:14:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-29T15:18:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-29T16:31:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abdul Suban and his wife outside their home in the Assam village of Nellie in India's northeastern state of Assam on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-29T17:58:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker assembles a sex doll at the WMDOLL factory in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, China, on July 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-29T19:28:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-29T21:09:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-29T23:15:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Toyota Motor Corp. worker installs an engine in a Crown sedan at the Motomachi plant in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Thursday. Toyota's North American chief says it may stop importing some models into the U.S. if President Donald Trump raises vehicle tariffs, and other cars and trucks will get more expensive.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/29/national/labor-reform-law-nudges-corporate-japan-rethink-working-styles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-29T23:20:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiko Noda (right), minister of internal affairs and communications, attends a teleconference dubbed "Telework Days" in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-29T23:21:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Aegis Ashore test facility is seen in January on Kauai Island, Hawaii.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-30T03:44:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Esports contestants take part in a trial in Tokyo in May to become Japan's representative at the Asian Games this August in Indonesia, where esports matches will be held as demonstration events.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-30T06:11:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-30T08:32:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about trade at the Granite City Works steel coil warehouse in Granite City, Illinois, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-30T08:34:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brothers David (left) and Charles Koch are seen in 2013 and 2012, respectively. In July, an estimated 500 Koch donors — each having committed at least $100,000 annually — gathered in the mountains of Colorado for an invitation-only "seminar" that featured a handful of elected officials and high-profile influencers. The conservative network remains one of the nation's most influential political forces.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-30T08:38:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, stands behind Trump as a group of supporters lay hands on Trump in prayer during a campaign stop at the New Spirit Revival Center church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-30T08:44:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man steps on a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a protest over the government's decision to increase the retirement age, in Moscow Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/national/apple-makes-free-repair-offer-product-users-disaster-hit-western-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-30T09:34:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple is accepting repair requests from individual Apple product users living in the areas hit by the torrential rain earlier this month in western Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-30T10:17:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man drives past the site where Mohammed Azam was killed in a mob lynching attack in Murki village in Bidar, India, July 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/29/national/tropical-storm-jongdari-disrupts-transportation-knocks-power-thousands-homes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-30T11:04:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman protects herself from the rain in Tokyo on Saturday as the country braced for Typhoon Jongdari, which veered away from the capital and toward the west.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/national/strategy-shift-japan-might-ask-china-join-road-building-project-west-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-30T13:58:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lower House Speaker Tadamori Oshima (left) greets Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on July 24 during his visit to Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/chinas-24-billion-promise-philippines-rodrigo-duterte-still-hasnt-materialized/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-30T14:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester holds a banner during the State of the Nation address by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, in Quezon City on July 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/national/social-issues/taking-workplace-bullying-japan-horns-power-harassment-prevention-education/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-30T14:17:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants discuss power harassment prevention during a course held by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Tokyo on Jan. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/asia-pacific/south-korea-probe-whether-north-korean-waitresses-forced-tricked-defecting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-30T15:38:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-30T15:41:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women walk with parasols amid a continued heat wave in Tokyo on July 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-30T15:42:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-30T17:18:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Sunday to discuss measures to help areas of western Japan hit by torrential rains earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/world/social-issues-world/robots-girl-power-getting-cameroons-women-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-30T17:28:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children conduct an experiment using a model hand made out of cardboard and string at the NextGen Technology Center in Yaounde, Cameroon, on July 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/asia-pacific/pilot-steered-helicopter-crowds-beijing-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-30T17:32:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue workers and investigators work at the site of a helicopter crash in Beijing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/asia-pacific/indonesian-earthquake-terror-hundreds-trek-volcano/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-30T17:33:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An earthquake survivor receives medical treatment at a temporary shelter in Lombok, Indonesia, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/business/economy-business/china-tempts-britain-free-trade-deal-says-door-u-s-talks-open/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-30T17:54:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt shakes hands with China's top diplomat, State Councillor Wang Yi, after a joint news conference at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/national/two-osaka-hotels-join-global-war-plastic-waste-banning-straws/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-30T18:43:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paper straws are served at a Hilton hotel in Minato Ward, Tokyo, this month. Many international hotel chains are moving to ban plastic straws to reduce pollution.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/business/major-milestone-inpex-begins-production-offshore-australian-lng-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-30T20:06:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inpex Corp.'s Ichthys liquefied natural gas production facility is seen off the northwest coast of Australia on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/business/japans-utilities-crank-oil-fired-power-face-heat-wave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-30T21:07:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play in the water as the mercury rose above 39 degrees Celsius in Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture, on July 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/business/economy-business/taming-tokyo-whale-bojs-stock-market-distortions-coming-new-scrutiny/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-30T22:41:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People look at stock price screens at the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week. Speculation is high that the Bank of Japan may change how it buys shares.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/business/corporate-business/e-commerce-giant-rakuten-ties-restaurant-finder-gurunavi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-31T03:54:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rakuten Inc. Chairman and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani holds a news conference in Tokyo in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/31/business/economy-business/wary-chinas-rise-pompeo-announces-u-s-initiatives-emerging-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-31T05:35:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the Indo-Pacific Business Forum at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T07:23:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (center) receives a briefing during a visit to a U.S. Aegis Ashore test facility on the Hawaiian island of Kauai in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T08:59:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T09:04:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Displaced Syirans return to their villages in the province of Daraa Sunday. More than 350,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since Syria's war started in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rbg-a-20180801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg answers a law student's question as she participates in a "fireside chat" in the Bruce M. Selya Appellate Courtroom at the Roger William University Law School in Bristol, Rhode Island, in January. For more than a decade, audiences and interviewers have had one pressing question for Ginsburg: When will you retire?]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T09:10:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Ryanair jet takes off from the airport in Palma de Mallorca, Spain Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T10:42:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-manafort-a-20180801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Manafort leaves the federal courthouse in Washington in February. The trial of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman will open this week with tales of lavish spending on properties and clothing and allegations that the political consultant laundered money through offshore bank accounts. What's likely to be missing: answers about whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T11:57:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Noriaki Fukuhara (left) and Takeshi Okumura, two Saitama Prefectural Government officials promoting parasols for men in Japan, pose last week at the prefectural government headquarters in Saitama.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T12:55:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen casts his vote during the general election at a polling station in Phnom Penh on Sunday as his wife, Bun Rany (center left), looks on.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T13:07:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force's new Maya-class destroyer is seen during a launching ceremony in Yokohama on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T13:38:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on during the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T14:01:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mansai Nomura]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T17:06:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Denso Corp. is facing a rough ride if the U.S. carries out threatened tariffs on imported cars and auto parts.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T17:36:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T17:37:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The labor market remained tight in June, with an uptick in unemployment blamed on people quitting jobs to find  better positions.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T17:37:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People attend a symposium about the conservation of European eels on June 10 at the European Parliament in Brussels.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T17:39:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T18:10:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T18:12:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox is greeted by economic revitalization minister Toshimitsu Motegi before their meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/national/crime-legal/court-rules-isahaya-bay-floodgates-must-remain-closed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-31T18:35:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The floodgates in the dike enclosing part of the Ariake Sea have been shut since 1997.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T18:39:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (third from left) stands beside a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile in North Korea in this photo released Nov. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/31/national/japans-saury-catch-expected-remain-low-fourth-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-07-31T18:40:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's saury catches are expected to remain low this year, partly due to a rise in seawater temperatures.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T18:51:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T19:02:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mansai Nomura]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T20:39:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda holds a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T20:39:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T20:39:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop (foreground, left) and Defense Minister Marise Payne greet U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (center) and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis after an Australia-U.S. ministerial consultation news conference in Stanford, California, on July 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T20:39:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp. logged ¥195.0 billion in profit for the April-June quarter, up 23.7 percent from the year before.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T23:02:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China will keep its economic growth within a reasonable range and achieve this year's growth target despite challenges, the state-run Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-07-31T23:02:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu attend the Navy Day parade in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-01T03:58:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Top corporate executives and former senior government officials from Japan and China agree in Tokyo on Dec. 5, 2017, to cooperate in jointly developing infrastructure in other countries as Beijing pushes its "One Belt, One Road" cross-border development initiative.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-01T11:02:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Farmer Ash Whitney reacts as he talks about the effects of the drought on his property, located west of the town of Gunnedah, in northwestern New South Wales in Australia June 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-01T13:19:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This combination of images provided by Facebook shows examples of one of the suspicious accounts the social networking site discovered on its platform that it says is possibly linked to Russia with the intention of influencing U.S. politics. The company said it removed more than 30 accounts from Facebook and Instagram because they were involved in "coordinated" political behavior and appeared to be from phony groups.]]></image:caption>
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