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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Obon Society co-founder Rex Ziak explains how the organization's scholars analyze WWII-era flags — brought into battle by Japanese soldiers for good luck — to determine the flag's origins, during a luncheon in Santa Barbara, California, on May 14.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waseda University student Eri Tamazawa (center) wears kimono-inspired abaya during her Tokyo Arabian Night fashion show on July 26 in the Roppongi district.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee inspects bottles of Mio sparkling sake on the production line at the Takara Shuzo Co. factory in Kyoto on July 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-01T18:10:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Sharp Corp. logo is seen at the CEATEC Japan 2017 (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies) at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba last October.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-01T18:11:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened an additional $200 billion with levies of 10 percent, a level the administration may raise to 25 percent in a Federal Register notice in coming days.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/01/national/okayama-photo-studio-offers-clean-rain-damaged-photos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-01T18:45:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Photos damaged in the recent heavy rains in western Japan are cleaned and dried at Yagyu Photo Studio in Kasaoka, Okayama Prefecture, on July 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-01T18:46:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-01T19:19:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-01T20:05:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/01/business/kirin-ramen-gets-new-name-amid-trademark-battle-beer-giant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-01T21:38:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ogasawara Seifun has changed the name of its mainstay product, Kirin Ramen, to Kirimaru Ramen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/01/national/matchless-political-dwarf-north-koreas-state-media-spews-venom-japan-amid-thaw-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-01T21:42:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean students play arcade games at the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School outside Pyongyang in April. The school for boys was originally set up by the North's founder, Kim Il Sung, to educate orphans of those killed in the fight against Japanese colonial rule.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/01/national/toyosu-market-good-go-says-tokyo-gov-yuriko-koike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-01T21:43:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks at a meeting with Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/01/national/first-u-n-chief-antonio-guterres-visit-nagasaki-73rd-anniversary-atomic-bombing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-01T21:43:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Antonio Guterres]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/01/national/video-clip-appears-show-missing-japanese-journalist-jumpei-yasuda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-01T21:43:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A still image captured from an online video shows a man believed to be Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda, who went missing in Syria in 2015, asking for help.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/01/business/corporate-business/kobe-steels-april-june-net-profit-halved-quality-data-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-01T22:58:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/world/crime-legal-world/prosecutors-hint-may-not-call-expected-star-witness-rick-gates-testify-paul-manafort-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T09:08:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters hold their banners in front of the Alexandria Federal Court in Alexandria, Virginia, Tuesday on day one of Paul Manafort's trial.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/world/iran-seen-readying-major-exercise-around-vital-strait-hormuz-tensions-u-s-simmer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T09:20:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Navy sailors stand watch on the fo'c'sle aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton as it transits the Strait of Hormuz last October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/business/eiffel-tower-shuts-workers-strike-monstrous-visitor-lines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T10:47:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors line up to visit the Eiffel tower in Paris June 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/world/crime-legal-world/kremlin-critic-vows-find-killers-tv-crew-central-african-republic-reporting-russian-mercenaries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T10:48:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture taken Wednesday shows flowers left in front of the photographs of Russian journalists (from left) Alexander Rastorguyev, Kirill Radchenko and Orkhan Dzhemal, who were recently killed in the Central African Republic, outside the Central House of Journalists.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/01/national/katsura-imperial-villa-allow-visitors-charge-%c2%a51000-november/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T12:15:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Imperial Household Agency will start charging a visitor's fee for the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/01/national/deaths-heatstroke-quadruple-96-people-july-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T12:32:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians brave the scorching sun as they walk on a street in Tokyo's Ginza district on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-malta-agree-maintain-rules-based-maritime-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T13:13:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with his Maltese counterpart Joseph Muscat at the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/world/crime-legal-world/trump-calls-attorney-general-end-russia-probe-rigged-witch-hunt-right-now/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T14:10:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This combination of pictures created on Wednesday shows U.S. President Donald Trump (left) during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington Monday and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions addressing the National Sheriffs' Association opioid roundtable in Washington on May 3. Trump called on Sessions to end the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, calling it "a disgrace to USA."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/national/bulgarian-love-story-athletes-tied-knot-1964-tokyo-games-grand-style/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T15:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bulgarian athletes Nikolai Prodanov (left) and Diana Yorgova wed at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games in the athletes village in Yoyogi Park on Oct. 23 the same year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/business/tech/bowing-censorship-google-plans-launch-search-app-lucrative-chinese-market-ending-long-boycott-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T16:10:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The former headquarters of Google China is shown in Beijing on March 2010.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/business/corporate-business/146-year-old-cosmetics-firm-shiseido-gets-makeover-woo-millennial-buyers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T16:12:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiseido Co. lipsticks sit on display at the company's news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday. The company is overhauling its entire makeup line.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/national/social-issues/person-online-bullying-led-2016-suicide-13-year-old-aomori-girl-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T16:15:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Go Kasai (center), the father of Rima Kasai, who took her own life in 2016, receives a final report on her death from Hifumi Narita, chairman of the local board of education, on Thursday in Aomori.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/01/business/tech/japan-display-plans-foray-consumer-markets-smart-motorcycle-helmets-mirrors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T17:28:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prototype smart helmets made by Japan Display Inc. are exhibited on Wednesday in Tokyo's Akihabara district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korean-minister-leaves-asean-meeting-singapore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T17:38:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho leaves Pyongyang on Thursday to attend an ASEAN meeting.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/national/japanese-government-aims-evacuees-miyagi-iwate-secure-new-homes-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T18:33:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shares meals with evacuees from the March 11, 2011 disasters who are living at temporary housing in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/business/economy-business/letting-jgb-yield-fluctuate-makes-stimulus-impact-stronger-not-weaker-boj-deputy-masayoshi-amamiya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T19:07:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[BOJ Deputy Gov. Masayoshi Amamiya meets with small financial institutions in Tokyo on June 20. On Thursday in Kyoto, he said the BOJ's latest policy tweak is designed to strengthen monetary easing.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/business/japanese-style-retailer-yata-keeps-offerings-fresh-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T19:14:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The website of Japanese-style department and supermarket chain Yata Ltd. of in Hong Kong is shown in this image capture. Yata shops constantly sell new food products from Japan in the highly competitive Hong Kong market.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/business/tech/congress-passes-bill-forcing-tech-firms-disclose-foreign-access-software-sold-u-s-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T19:36:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bill author: Sen. Jeanne Shaheen]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/national/crime-legal/financial-damage-special-fraud-cases-japan-juveniles-implicated-npa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T21:20:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/national/tokyo-medical-university-discriminated-female-applicants-lowering-entrance-exam-scores-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T21:20:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-tkmed-a-20180803.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tkmed-a-20180803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Medical University, seen in this photo, deducted points from female applicants' entrance exams to keep the ratio of women studying at the university at about 30 percent, sources said Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-propose-first-reorganization-japanese-government-ministries-agencies-since-2001/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-02T21:21:40+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/national/ldp-lawmaker-says-lgbt-relations-like-hobby/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T02:25:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-lgbt-a-20180803.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lgbt-a-20180803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tom Tanigawa]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/world/science-health-world/given-proximity-borders-congo-ebola-outbreak-poses-high-regional-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T06:39:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-ebola-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ebola-a-20180804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gov. Julien Paluku of the North Kivu province talks to Congo Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga as they lead an anti-Ebola delegation to arrive in the town of Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/world/southern-europe-issues-heat-alert-german-drought-yields-wwii-munitions-elbes-banks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T09:02:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-eurosweat-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young men leap off rocks into the ocean at Nice, south-eastern France, on Thursday as heatwave conditions prevail over Europe.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/business/u-s-confirms-duties-canadian-paper-used-newsprint-irking-ottawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T09:04:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-usduties-a-20180804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Production workers stack newspapers onto a cart at the Janesville Gazette Printing &amp; Distribution plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, in April. The U.S. Commerce Department is going ahead with a tax on Canadian newsprint, a threat to the already-struggling American newspaper industry. The tariffs unveiled Thursday are mostly lower than those originally announced earlier this year but would still impose an anti-dumping border tax as high as 16.88 percent.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/bipartisan-u-s-senators-introduce-russia-sanctions-bill-hell/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T09:07:32+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/amid-tumult-scorn-media-trump-takes-pennsylvania-rally-hard-line-gop-candidate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T09:16:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-trumprally-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican Senate candidate Lou Barletta (left) greets U.S .President Donald Trump upon arrival at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport in Avoca, Pennsylvania, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/business/hopes-north-korea-economic-reforms-instead-nuke-pursuit-spur-surge-chinese-tourism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T10:47:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-nktours-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists wait at the Dandong Customs before crossing the border with North Korea in Dandong, Liaoning province, China, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-staffs-team-topped-jared-kushner-roll-mystery-mideast-peace-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T10:48:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-mideastplan-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House adviser Jared Kushner speaks with people as they wait for President Donald Trump to arrive to speak about taxes during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington in June. U.S. officials say the Trump administration is staffing up a Middle East team at the White House in anticipation of rolling out its much-heralded but largely mysterious Israeli-Palestinian peace plan in the coming months. The National Security Council began last week to approach other agencies seeking volunteers to join the team, which will work for Trump's Mideast peace pointmen Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, according to the officials.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trumps-attacks-media-may-lead-real-violence-u-n-expert-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T10:55:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-mediattacks-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta attends a press briefing at the White House in Washington Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/world/social-issues-world/colombia-grants-440000-venezuelan-migrants-temporary-permission-stay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T10:56:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-venezuelans-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-venezuelans-a-20180804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Venezuelan Chief Prosecutor Luisa Ortega addresses exiled Venezuelan jurists in a hearing against President Nicolas Maduro, at the Congress in Bogota Thursday. The jurists, who proclaim they are the rightful members of the nation's Supreme Court, launched a largely symbolic process against Maduro on charges of corruption and money laundering.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/asia-pacific/russia-allowing-thousands-north-korean-workers-country-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T13:10:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/asia-pacific/trump-receives-summit-follow-letter-north-korean-leader-kim-second-meeting-not-firm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T14:19:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-nkump-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkump-a-20180804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walk together during their summit at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa in Singapore on June 12.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/business/heat-wave-ravages-european-fields-sending-wheat-prices-soaring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T14:35:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-wheatwave-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-wheatwave-a-20180804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wheat is harvested in Bieburg, Germany, on July 27.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-lodges-protest-seoul-south-korean-survey-ship-activity-near-disputed-islets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T16:07:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-takeshima-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-takeshima-a-20180804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Takeshima islets, seen here in September 2012, are located in the Sea of Japan off Shimane Prefecture. They are known as Dokdo in Korean.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/national/drivers-licenses-japan-start-showing-expiration-date-using-western-calendar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T16:08:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-drivers-a-20180803.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drivers-a-20180803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The expiration date of new driver's licenses will be shown using the Western calendar, as indicated by the red circle in the lower sample, instead of the Japanese calendar seen in the upper sample, according to the National Police Agency.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/national/crime-legal/nobel-laureate-toshihide-masukawa-others-sue-government-unconstitutional-security-laws/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T16:56:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/national/politics-diplomacy/foreign-minister-taro-kono-chinese-counterpart-wang-yi-odds-east-china-sea-aligned-trade-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T17:17:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-jpchina-a-20180803.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jpchina-a-20180803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (left) and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi pass each other before holding talks Thursday in Singapore.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/business/economy-business/japans-economy-needs-ai-robots-offset-graying-population-white-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T17:45:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-robots-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-robots-a-20180804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshimitsu Motegi, minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday after submitting an annual white paper on the economy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/national/crime-legal/justice-minister-yoko-kamikawa-orders-aum-doomsday-cults-trial-records-permanently-preserved/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T18:13:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-aum-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aum-a-20180804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoko Kamikawa]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/business/japan-may-create-sovereign-wealth-fund-u-s-infrastructure-investment-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T18:41:39+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/business/spacex-looks-poised-beat-boeing-become-first-send-astronauts-space-possibly-next-april/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T18:42:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/business/financial-markets/bank-japan-policymakers-fretted-stimulus-side-effects-june-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T18:42:41+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/business/corporate-business/sharp-plans-halt-domestic-production-major-appliances/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T18:45:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-sharp-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sharp-a-20180804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp Corp.'s Yao plant in Osaka Prefecture, is seen on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/business/corporate-business/ntt-docomo-follow-kddi-reviewing-smartphone-contracts-government-warnings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T19:17:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-docomo-a-20180803.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-docomo-a-20180803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee briefs a customer at an NTT Docomo Inc. store in Tokyo. The mobile phone carrier plans to review its two-year smartphone contracts by next March, after rival KDDI Corp. pledged to change its contracts in response to government warnings.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/business/japan-overtakes-china-become-worlds-second-biggest-stock-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T20:54:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-chinastocks-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinastocks-a-20180804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[After a stock market slump on Thursday, Chinese equities fell to a value of $6.09 trillion, losing ground to Japan's $6.17 trillion in the battle to be the world's No. 2 stock market.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/national/politics-diplomacy/ldps-leadership-vote-weeks-away-race-already/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T21:26:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-ldp-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ldp-a-20180804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on July 20.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/national/science-health/kagoshima-hospital-admits-15-patients-infected-drug-resistant-bacteria-deaths-linked-microbe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T23:24:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-bacteria-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bacteria-a-20180804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kagoshima University Hospital in Kagoshima city is seen in this photo taken Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/national/crime-legal/tokyo-high-court-upholds-life-term-man-2005-murder-7-year-old-girl-tochigi-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T23:26:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-murder-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-murder-a-20180804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters hold up banners saying "Unfair ruling" and "Appeal dismissed" after the Tokyo High Court on Friday upheld a life sentence handed down by the Utsunomiya District Court in 2016 for Takuya Katsumata.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/national/politics-diplomacy/foreign-minister-taro-kono-meets-north-korean-counterpart-singapore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-03T23:31:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-kono-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kono-a-20180804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono arrives for the ASEAN-Japan Ministerial Meeting on the sidelines of the 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting in Singapore on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/national/temperature-tops-40-c-second-straight-day-heat-wave-continues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-04T13:15:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-heat-a-20180804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-heat-a-20180804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students wipe away sweat amid sweltering weather, in front of the train station in the city of Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/04/world/science-health-world/trump-administration-lifts-obama-era-gmo-crop-ban-u-s-wildlife-refuges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-04T15:39:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-gmok-a-20180805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A class of insecticides called neonics has been linked to declining populations of wild bees and other pollinating insects around the world.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/zimbabwe-leader-emmerson-mnangagwa-promises-probe-election-killings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-04T16:11:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-zimbabwary-a-20180805.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-zimbabwary-a-20180805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of newly re-elected Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa celebrate Friday in Mbare, a district of the capital, Harare.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/04/asia-pacific/u-s-pledges-nearly-300-million-security-funding-southeast-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-04T16:19:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/04/national/japan-australia-vow-avoid-conflict-tokyo-looks-end-moratorium-whaling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-04T16:30:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop delivers a speech at the ASEAN ministerial meeting in Singapore on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/04/national/media-national/theres-no-easy-way-escape-smartphone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-04T22:57:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-schreiber-smartphones-a-20180805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[No rest for the wired: Researchers have found that people can have trouble sleeping if they spend time on their smartphone just before bed.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/04/national/media-national/japans-rigid-koseki-system-keeps-family/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-04T22:59:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-koseki-a-20180805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family ties: Some have criticized Hirokazu Koreeda's award-winning film "Shoplifters" for depicting a family that is not connnected by marriage or blood.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/04/business/economy-business/japans-negotiating-skills-put-test-trade-talks-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-04T17:42:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tradefocus-a-20180805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer speaks at the White House in March as President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross listen before Trump signs a presidential memorandum targeting what he called China's economic aggression.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/04/national/japan-mekong-nations-agree-keep-sanctions-place-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-04T17:55:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mekong-a-20180805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono delivers his opening address during the ASEAN Plus Three ministerial meeting on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' ministers' meeting in Singapore on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/04/national/cabinet-agrees-spend-%c2%a5105-billion-help-reconstruction-efforts-rain-hit-areas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-04T19:18:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-disasteraid-a-20180805.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-disasteraid-a-20180805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emergency teams rest beside buildings damaged by flooding in Hiroshima Prefecture on July 9.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/04/business/japan-proposes-15-percent-rise-pacific-bluefin-tuna-catch-quotas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-04T19:18:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bluefin-a-20180805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors watch Pacific bluefin tuna in an aquarium at Tokyo Sea Life Park.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/accountant-ex-trump-aide-paul-manafort-testifies-helped-falsify-documents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-04T22:02:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-manafort-a-20180805.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-manafort-a-20180805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Accountant Cindy Laporta leaves the Alexandria Federal Courthouse in Virginia on Friday, the fourth day of the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort over alleged tax evasion and bank fraud.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/04/national/politics-diplomacy/amid-growing-frustration-foreign-minister-taro-kono-tells-u-s-counterpart-mike-pompeo-desire-talks-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-04T22:37:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-konopompeo-a-20180805.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-konopompeo-a-20180805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shakes hands with Foreign Minister Taro Kono during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Singapore on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/05/business/job-perks-rise-japan-labor-crunch-reshapes-companies-attract-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-05T12:56:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-labor-a-20180806.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-labor-a-20180806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Companies in Japan are using flexible schedules and day care facilities to lure workers.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/05/national/doping-cases-mar-japans-fair-play-image-ahead-2020-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-05T17:43:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/04/national/media-national/theres-nothing-new-japans-online-backlash-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-05T18:28:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/p16-stmichel-tourist-a-20180805.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-tourist-a-20180805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tourist waits outside a Uniqlo shop in Tokyo's Ginza district.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/05/national/aftermath-deadly-rains-hiroshima-pins-recovery-hopes-tourism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-05T19:34:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-hiroshimaside-a-20180806.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hiroshimaside-a-20180806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists on Sunday look at the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima. The building, one of the few to survive the atomic bombing in August 1945, is one of the most popular tourist spots in the city. But several other places in the prefecture are trying to recover from damage caused by the torrential rain that triggered thousands of landslides throughout western Japan last month.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/05/national/postpartum-support-mothers-japan-defies-government-efforts-promote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-05T19:58:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-postpartum-a-20180806.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-postpartum-a-20180806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman pushes a stroller. A recent survey found that only 26.2 percent of 1,384 responding municipalities offer postpartum support services even though the central government has been offering subsidies since fiscal 2015 to finance half of the running cost.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/05/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-arranging-september-talks-xi-will-skip-yasukuni-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-05T20:01:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-abechina-a-20180806.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abechina-a-20180806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters on June 18 at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/05/national/using-noodles-fukui-schools-soba-club-hopes-roll-national-title/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-05T20:12:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20180806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akane Fujita (center) and other members of the soba-making club at Keishin High School in Fukui Prefecture practice for the national championship to be held in Tokyo later this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/05/world/tensions-u-s-rise-irans-revolutionary-guard-says-held-persian-gulf-drills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-05T22:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/05/business/tech/ding-alibaba-office-app-fuels-backlash-among-chinese-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-05T23:15:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-dingtalk-a-20180806.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-dingtalk-a-20180806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees work at DingTalk's office in Hangzhou, China, on July 20.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/world/social-issues-world/migrant-rescue-ship-aquarius-refuses-take-people-back-libya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T06:25:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-aquarius-a-20180807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-aquarius-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crew members wave as the rescue ship Aquarius, chartered by French aid group SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), leaves the harbor of Marseille, southeastern France, on Aug. 1 after having been docked for a month for maintenance work.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/world/science-health-world/experimental-ebola-vaccinations-begin-wednesday-eastern-congo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T06:34:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-ebola-a-20180807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ebola-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An attendant charged to handle access to the Ebola security zone disinfects shoes outside the Wangata Reference Hospital in Mbandaka, northwestern Democratic Repubic of Congo., in May. Congo on Aug. 1 reported an outbreak of Ebola in the east of the vast country, barely a week after it had declared the end to an outbreak in the northwest.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/business/breathing-easy-beijing-may-get-pricier-xi-targets-u-s-lng-amid-trade-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T06:34:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chigas-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vessel carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar approaches the new LNG terminal of China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, Aug. 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/world/crime-legal-world/third-party-motion-alleged-russian-agent-maria-butinas-charges-dropped-rejected/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T08:57:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-butina-a-20180807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-butina-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization in Russia, speaks to a crowd during a 2013 rally in support of legalizing the possession of handguns in Moscow. Moscow claims the Russian woman arrested in the United States on charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Russia is being mistreated in jail.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/world/crime-legal-world/italy-praises-egypt-excellent-cooperation-probe-students-2016-slaying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T09:03:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-egyptaly-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (center) and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (right) meet with Enzo Moavero Milanesi, Italy's foreign minister (left) in Cairo Sunday. It was the first visit by an Italian top diplomat since the 2016 murder in Cairo of Giulio Regeni, an Italian graduate student. Milanesi said at a news conference with Shoukry that they discussed "important" topics, including Libya, illegal migration and the murder of Regeni.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-secretary-state-mike-pompeo-plays-north-korea-sparring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T10:50:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-pompeo-a-20180807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pompeo-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (right) shows solidarity with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop before a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 51st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Ministerial Meeting (AMM) in Singapore on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/05/national/tourists-trading-japan-guidebooks-instagram/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T11:46:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-instagram-a-20180806.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-instagram-a-20180806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists started to flock to Motonosumi-Inari Shrine in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, after CNN profiled the town as one of "Japan's 31 most beautiful places."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/05/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/use-phone-app-database-credited-helping-imran-khan-win-pakistan-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T12:15:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-khanapp-a-20180806.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-khanapp-a-20180806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laborers who set up the venue for a campaign rally by Imran Khan listen to him speak in Karachi on July 22.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/world/risk-drone-strikes-highlighted-apparent-attack-venezuela/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T14:36:28+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/national/politics-diplomacy/nagano-gov-shuichi-abe-cruises-third-term/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T14:36:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/national/grandchildren-hibakusha-b-29-crewman-unite-press-nuclear-free-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T14:59:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-grandpas-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ari Beser (left) takes a picture of himself and Kosuzu Harada at the Nagasaki Prefectural Government building on July 9.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/national/history/patrons-recall-hiroshima-beer-hall-survived-bombing-bring-relief-survivors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T14:59:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-beerparlor-a-20180807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-beerparlor-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The three-story Kirin Beer Hall building remains standing in the city of Hiroshima, which was devastated by the August 1945 atomic bombing, in a photo taken in October 1945.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/south-koreas-die-hard-trump-fans-hail-guardian-liberty-others-feel-betrayed-embrace-kim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T15:25:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnam War veteran Chung Seung-jin attends an anti-North Korea and pro-U.S. demonstration in Seoul on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/asia-pacific/singapore-tests-eye-scans-immigration-checkpoints-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T15:34:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/national/south-korean-hibakusha-hold-memorial-mark-hiroshima-bomb-anniversary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T16:06:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-skoreahibakusha-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A memorial event is held in Hapcheon County, South Korea, on Monday to mark the 73rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/business/china-prepared-long-trade-war-u-s-state-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T17:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tradewar-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Containers are stacked at a port in Shanghai. China says it is prepared for a protracted trade war with the U.S.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/national/2000-households-yamagata-told-evacuate-amid-landslides-flooding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T19:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/national/crime-legal/killer-two-buried-alive-saga-soil-treatment-plant-2014-gets-life-sentence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T19:01:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-korea-says-demonstrating-good-faith-urges-u-s-drop-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T19:03:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smiles as he provides field guidance at a catfish plant in this undated photo released Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/business/softbanks-masayoshi-son-words-303513/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T19:03:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo of SoftBank Group Corp. is seen at the SoftBank World 2017 conference in Tokyo last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/national/80-japans-transportation-firms-violated-overtime-labor-rules-last-year-labor-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T19:03:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Long-distance night buses line up on a street in Tokyo's Shinjuku district in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/asia-pacific/least-39-dead-m7-earthquake-rocks-indonesias-lombok-island-triggering-brief-tsunami-alert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T19:04:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lombok-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Patients are seen outside a hospital following a strong earthquake on nearby Lombok island, at a government hospital near Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/business/corporate-business/heat-wave-boosts-sales-cooling-products-beer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T19:54:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-heatbiz-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians with parasols walk on a crossing in Tokyo. This year's heat wave is firing up several business sectors as demand increases for a wide range of products designed to help users endure, or escape, the scorching heat.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/national/french-woman-staying-nikko-missing-since-late-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T20:10:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-missingfrench-a-20180806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tiphaine Veron, a French woman who vanished in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture late last month, is shown this undated photo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/national/ican-champions-grass-roots-efforts-persuade-japan-others-support-nuclear-free-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T20:12:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ican-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Kawasaki (left), a core member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, speaks at a meeting in Sydney on Feb. 5.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/business/iphone-chipmaker-tsmc-races-recover-computer-virus-sees-shipment-delays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T20:12:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-tsmc-a-20180807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tsmc-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Morris Chang, chairman and founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., speaks at the company's shareholders' meeting in Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/business/corporate-business/prospect-u-s-tariffs-auto-imports-close-comfort-japan-carmakers-warn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T20:14:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-autotariffs-a-20180807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-autotariffs-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars bound for shipment are seen in front of a Nippon Yusen KK car-carrier at a yard in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/national/west-japan-flood-victims-still-living-despair-month-disaster-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T20:15:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-survey-a-20180807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-survey-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Evacuees offer silent prayers for those killed by the floods and landslides in the Mabicho district of Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on Monday, a month after the nation's worst weather disaster struck western Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/national/1400-guns-1200-swords-world-war-ii-found-buried-tokyo-elementary-school/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T21:41:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/business/corporate-business/softbanks-april-june-profit-jumps-vision-fund-investments-pay-off/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T21:42:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-sbearnings-a-20180807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sbearnings-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past a SoftBank advertisement in Tokyo. The firm said Monday its group net profit in the April-June period jumped as its investments through its Vision Fund are paying off.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/national/heatstroke-death-toll-tops-100-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-06T23:14:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-heatdeath-a-20180807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-heatdeath-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk with a parasol and canteens in the sweltering weather in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/business/new-york-sues-trump-administration-records-labor-law-rollback/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T06:24:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/business/canada-defiant-saudis-freeze-new-trade-rights-criticism-boot-ambassador/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T09:14:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-saudican-a-20180808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-saudican-a-20180808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated and unlocated image available on the Canadian Embassy in Saudi Arabia website on Monday shows the Canadian Ambassador Denis Horak official portrait. Saudi Arabia said Monday it was expelling the Canadian ambassador and recalling its envoy while freezing all new trade, in retaliation for Ottawa's vigorous calls for the release of jailed activists. The kingdom gave envoy Dennis Horak 24 hours to leave the country, in an abrupt break in relations over what it slammed as "interference" in its internal affairs.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/lebron-james-praised-ohio-school-district-trump-tweet-trashing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T09:15:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-lebron-a-20180808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lebron-a-20180808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NBA basketball player LeBron James (left) is seen in Oakland, California, in 2013 and U.S. President Donald Trump in Lewis Center, Ohio, Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/world/ranger-reaches-crashed-alaska-sightseeing-plane-peak-finds-four-polish-passengers-dead-pilot-missing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T11:02:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-denali-a-20180808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-denali-a-20180808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This 2016 photo taken above the Kahiltna Glacier near Denali shows peaks in the Alaska Range, as seen through the open cargo bay doors of a Chinook helicopter. Searchers said Monday they found four people dead in a sightseeing airplane carrying Polish tourists in Alaska's Denali National Park a day and a half after thick clouds hampered the response to a distress call. Another person is missing and presumed dead after the crash Saturday evening.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/national/companies-across-japan-take-action-protect-employees-unruly-customers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T13:54:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-complainers-a-20180808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-complainers-a-20180808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A notice in the cab driven by Atsuo Kamizono, of Hiroshima-based Nisiki Taxi, explains the company's guidelines that allow drivers to refuse transport to unruly passengers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/national/crime-legal/kanebo-pays-damages-women-skin-whitening-cosmetics-lawsuit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T14:04:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/04/business/corporate-business/struggling-railway-chiba-launches-foul-tasting-snack-boost-revenue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T14:28:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-rail-a-20180805.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-rail-a-20180805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Choshi Electric Railway President Katsunori Takemoto shows off a snack called the Mazui Bo, or "foul-tasting stick," in an effort to shore up the struggling railway's bottom line.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/strong-possibility-second-trump-kim-summit-years-end-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T15:15:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-nksummit-a-20180808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nksummit-a-20180808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during the signing of a document after their summit in Singapore on June 12.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/business/corporate-business/japan-tobacco-buy-bangladesh-firm-1-5-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T16:11:51+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-tobacco-a-20180808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tobacco-a-20180808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Tobacco Inc. is acquiring a cigarette company in Bangladesh, one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/national/japan-issue-coins-commemorating-emperor-akihitos-30-year-reign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T16:51:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-coin-a-20180808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-coin-a-20180808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A ¥10,000 gold coin is set to be issued next year to commemorate Emperor Akihito's 30th year on the throne. A phoenix will be depicted on one side and the Imperial seal of the Chrysanthemum Throne on the other.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/business/india-implement-5g-services-2022-catch-japan-asian-peers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T16:54:59+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/business/corporate-business/softbank-mulls-largest-public-listing-ever-90-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T16:58:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-softbank-a-20180808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20180808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., holds a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/business/corporate-business/hna-talks-sell-2-billion-avolon-stake-orix-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T16:59:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/business/economy-business/wage-growth-japan-hits-21-year-high-possibly-signaling-pickup-household-spending/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T17:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-wage-a-20180808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wage-a-20180808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Households spent less for the fifth straight month in June, the government said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/national/japan-can-learn-lot-detroits-recovery-efforts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T17:11:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-detroit-a-20180808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-detroit-a-20180808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction of a new building is underway in central Detroit five years after the city filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/business/positive-sentiment-among-japan-firms-thailand-six-year-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T17:12:45+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/28/national/tottori-airport-revamp-adds-stores-doubles-detective-conan-theme/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T17:38:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-airport-a-20180729.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-airport-a-20180729.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play with a mascot from the long-running comic book and anime series "Detective Conan" at the revamped Tottori Sand Dunes Conan Airport in Tottori Prefecture on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/asia-pacific/north-korea-releases-south-korean-man-detained-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T18:40:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/national/mayor-urges-easing-regional-tensions-hiroshima-marks-73rd-anniversary-u-s-atomic-bombing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T18:47:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-hiroshima-a-20180807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hiroshima-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People observe a moment of silence near the Atomic Bomb Dome at 8:15 a.m. Monday in Hiroshima to mark the 73rd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on the city.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/national/2020-tokyo-olympics-chiefs-unveil-pioneering-face-recognition-security-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T18:53:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-facial-a-20180808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-facial-a-20180808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teruya Goto, who plays for the NEC Green Rockets and represented the Japan rugby team at the 2016 Rio Olympics, demonstrates the face-recognition ID system set to be used at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/asia-pacific/australias-population-hit-25-million-decade-earlier-forecast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-07T19:06:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-08T18:11:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-09T03:58:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-09T16:06:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People try the roller skating rink at Ginza Sony Park in Tokyo during a media preview of the facility on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants wait ahead of a National Fitness Day event to herald the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Beijing Olympic Park on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-09T18:31:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike is interviewed at her office in Tokyo on Aug. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-09T18:39:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People head to work Thursday morning in front of Tokyo Station.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/09/business/corporate-business/ikea-caters-local-tastes-around-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-09T19:12:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers check out at Ikea's first store in India, which opened Wednesday in Hitech City on the outskirts of Hyderabad.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/09/national/tokyo-exhibition-portray-bond-helen-keller-japanese-akita-dogs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-09T19:37:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. author and activist Helen Keller holds her second Akita puppy, Kenzan-go, in Brooklyn, New York, in this undated photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-09T20:57:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative, is likely to press Toshimitsu Motegi, Japan's economic revitalization minister, to reduce Japanese tariffs on agricultural imports during their talks in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-09T20:57:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suzuki Motor Corp. CEO Toshihiro Suzuki (center) bows at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-09T22:21:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-09T22:25:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks in Tokyo on May 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-10T12:24:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In addition to restaurants, bars and a convenience store, the experience-oriented Trunk (Hotel) also boasts tour offerings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/world/three-women-shattered-glass-ceilings-become-first-female-chief-economists-global-banks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T13:30:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[HSBC Global Chief Economist Janet Henry]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-10T13:34:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system fires an interceptor missile as rockets are launched from Gaza toward Israel near the southern city of Sderot on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-10T13:36:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joseph Kabila and Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/national/construction-begins-large-hydrogen-plant-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T13:57:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-10T14:08:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koichiro Nakajima (center), chief of the Defense Ministry's Okinawa bureau, faces reporters after attending a hearing with the Okinawa Prefectural Government in Naha on Thursday. The prefectural government held the session to revoke its permission for land reclamation as part of construction of a U.S. military base in the Henoko coastal district of the city of Nago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/world/crime-legal-world/brazilian-murders-hit-record-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T14:18:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wania de Moraes grieves for her murdered 13-year-old son, Jeremias Moraes da Silva, during his burial service in Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/world/crime-legal-world/ontario-pledges-25-million-fight-rising-gun-crime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T14:19:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/business/japan-sticks-tpp-u-s-seeks-bilateral-deal-first-round-trade-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T16:06:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tradetalk-a-20180811.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic revitalization minister Toshimitsu Motegi (right) discusses trade with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (center, left) and Trump administration officials in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/business/china-promoting-atomic-technical-standards-aid-nuclear-push-overseas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T16:09:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/national/family-graves-fading-tradition-japan-bereaved-opt-cheaper-convenient-alternatives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T17:05:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yenforliving-a-20180811.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Graveyard businesses in Japan are undergoing a major shift as people find cheaper and more convenient ways to honor their loved ones.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/chinese-women-create-wechat-group-wake-wave-sex-harassment-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T17:12:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ricebunny-a-20180811.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Because China lacks a law against sexual harassment, women must use other legal provisions, such as those governing labor disputes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/business/tech/samsungs-new-1000-power-user-phone-reflects-slowdown-hardware-innovation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T17:33:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An attendee demonstrates a Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy Note 9 S-Pen stylus on a Galaxy Note 9 smartphone during the Samsung Unpacked product launch event in New York on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/business/corporate-business/lawson-start-banking-business-october/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T18:10:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/business/corporate-business/kao-buys-u-s-detergent-maker-washing-systems-bid-enter-north-american-laundry-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T18:12:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/business/goldman-sachs-starts-child-care-service-japan-employees-sick-children/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T18:34:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/national/mobile-bookstore-donates-used-books-affected-west-japan-rain-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T18:55:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bookbus-a-20180811.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children select reading material on offer from a "Book Bus" on the grounds of Sono Elementary School in the Mabicho district in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on Thursday. The children were evacuated from their homes following torrential rain in the area last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/business/economy-business/japans-wholesale-prices-3-1-percent-july-higher-energy-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T19:39:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/national/japanese-police-deploy-80-officers-search-french-woman-missing-nikko/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T20:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-missing-a-20180811.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tiphaine Veron]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/business/shibuya109-eyes-bigger-reach-partnership-south-korea-e-commerce-site-cafe24/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T20:02:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ecommerce-a-20180811.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo’s Shibuya109 Entertainment Corp. signed a memorandum to partner with South Korea’s e-commerce Cafe24.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/russia-tells-washington-curbs-banks-act-economic-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T22:08:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usrussia-a-20180811.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a meeting in the Kamchatka Peninsula region of the Russian Far East on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/asia-pacific/potentially-catastrophic-effects-red-cross-warns-north-korea-food-crisis-crops-fail-heat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-10T22:10:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkfood-a-20180811.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer spreads fertilizer on a rice field in Sariwon, North Korea, on June 13.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/national/chugoku-electric-power-co-applies-safety-check-new-shimane-reactor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T07:17:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shimane-a-20180811.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chugoku Electric Power Co. on Friday applied for safety screening of the No. 3 reactor being constructed at the Shimane nuclear power plant in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, seen in the foreground in this photo taken in May.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/national/politics-diplomacy/ex-defense-minister-shigeru-ishiba-formally-announces-ldp-leadership-candidacy-pledging-honest-fair-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T07:18:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba poses at the start of his news conference at the Diet building on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/national/economy-expands-1-9-percent-annualized-basis-april-june-quarter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T07:20:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-gdp-a-20180811.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-gdp-a-20180811.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Government data released Friday shows Japan's gross domestic product expanded at an annualized rate of 1.9 percent in the April-June quarter.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/business/economy-business/motegi-hints-japan-asked-u-s-exemption-planned-auto-tariffs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T08:40:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tariffs-a-20180812.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshimitsu Motegi]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/national/gunma-rescue-chopper-nine-aboard-vanishes-near-mount-kusatsu-shirane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T12:37:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-helicopter-a-20180811.jpg]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/business/corporate-business/lawsuits-accuse-teslas-elon-musk-fraud-tweets-indicating-firm-may-go-private/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T13:42:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-musk-a-20180812.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk holds a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-kicks-off-major-military-exercises-taiwan-leader-prepares-trip-abroad-salvage-remaining-allies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T15:37:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-chiwan-a-20180812.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chiwan-a-20180812.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (left) and Marshall Islands leader Hilda Heine review an honor guard at a welcoming ceremony in Taipei on July 27.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/national/media-national/social-media-takes-dim-view-daylight-saving-proposal-2020-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T22:54:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/p16-stmichel-summer-a-20180812.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-summer-a-20180812.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the summertime: The government has said it would consider introducing daylight savings time ahead of the Olympics in order to mitigate the effects of hot weather.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/national/media-national/hoarding-japan-isnt-dark-nhk-makes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T22:55:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The collector: Some people have trouble throwing away items because they think they might be useful someday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/asia-pacific/u-s-military-strong-words-beijing-warnings-flight-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T16:44:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese structures are pictured on one of the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea on April 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/national/kyogen-actors-mansaku-mansai-nomura-hold-performance-beijing-mark-40th-anniversary-japan-china-treaty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T17:35:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mansai Nomura]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/business/higashi-nippon-bank-chairman-step-lending-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T17:42:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-11T18:40:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-11T18:51:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeho Kitamoto and her children are evacuated from Bainbridge Island, Washington, to an internment camp in California on March 30, 1942.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-11T20:53:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tokyotech-a-20180812.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo has topped a list of the world's most innovative cities, leapfrogging London and New York after embracing the "globe-shaking trends of robotics and 3-D manufacturing."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/national/japanese-man-detained-north-korea-government-officials-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T21:03:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits an unidentified site in the country for a trial operation of a new type of trolley bus in this photo released on Aug. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-11T21:38:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers examine a farm ditch in Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, where someone's torso was found Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/national/nine-aboard-crashed-gunma-prefecture-rescue-helicopter-confirmed-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T23:16:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All nine crew members of this helicopter, which crashed Friday in Nakanojo, Gunma Prefecture, were confirmed dead Saturday. In this photo taken Friday afternoon, damaged trees at the crash site can be seen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/national/politics-diplomacy/70000-protest-u-s-base-plan-honor-late-okinawa-governor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T23:16:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters against a joint plan to relocate a U.S. military base in Okinawa observe a moment of silence Saturday for Gov. Takeshi Onaga, who died of cancer on Wednesday, at a park in Naha.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-gov-yuriko-koike-refrain-eulogizing-koreans-killed-1923-great-kanto-earthquake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T23:17:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuriko Koike]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-cites-great-responsibility-rewrite-article-9-preview-pitch-ldp-presidential-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-11T23:20:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe poses with participants at a summer festival in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Saturday. He was visiting his constituency to lobby rank-and-file members of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party ahead of the party's presidential race next month, which could turn him into Japan's longest-serving prime minister.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/12/national/anniversary-1985-jal-crash-relatives-friends-commemorate-520-passengers-crew-died-accident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-12T20:31:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women offer prayers Sunday to the victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash that claimed the lives of 520 people at Osutaka Ridge in Gunma Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/12/business/corporate-business/otsuka-kagu-tie-talks-taiwanese-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-12T23:08:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-12T23:09:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British author V.S. Naipaul speaking during a literary festival in Neemrana, in Rajasthan state, India, in February 2002. Naipul's family announced on Saturday that the Nobel Laureate had died at age 85 on Aug. 11, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/12/national/politics-diplomacy/onodera-may-visit-netherlands-italy-next-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T12:51:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera is considering visiting the Netherlands and Italy in September, according to a ministry official.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/12/national/politics-diplomacy/ascending-china-may-try-tap-japan-help-challenge-u-s-influence-region/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T13:45:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at a summit in Danang, Vietnam, in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/12/national/politics-diplomacy/40th-anniversary-signing-japan-china-peace-friendship-treaty-abe-li-exchange-messages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T13:55:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang make a toast at a welcome reception in Tokyo on May 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/13/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/arrested-killed-inside-bangladesh-prime-ministers-war-drugs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T15:55:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police search a house during a drug raid in Dhaka on June 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/national/media-national/solitude-appears-image-problem-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T16:57:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-solitude-a-20180812.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Loneliness is such a sad affair: Some 18.4 million adults in Japan live alone — twice as many as did 30 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/13/national/crime-legal/japanese-mother-arrested-allegedly-leaving-8-month-old-daughter-freezing-bathroom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T18:39:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/13/business/corporate-business/japanese-household-product-maker-lixil-launches-plumber-training-program-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T18:57:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee inspects toilet bowls at Lixil Group Corp.'s Enokido plant in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/13/national/crime-legal/suspect-held-police-station-osaka-prefecture-escapes-meeting-lawyer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T19:59:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junya Hida]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/13/business/corporate-business/japan-retailer-don-quijote-shows-interest-buying-supermarket-chain-seiyu-walmart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T19:59:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-seiyu-a-20180814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The president of Don Quijote Holdings Co. says he'd be willing to buy supermarket chain Seiyu GK if Walmart Inc. "is serious about selling."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/13/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-futenma-base-issue-line-vote-replace-late-okinawa-gov-takeshi-onaga-set-sept-30/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T19:59:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/14/business/economy-business/80-major-japanese-firms-expect-domestic-economy-grow-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-14T05:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[EMBARGOED-b-survey-a-20180814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A section of the Keihin industrial area in Kawasaki is illuminated at night. Over 80 percent of major Japanese companies expect the domestic economy to grow this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/13/national/fukushima-statue-child-clad-protective-suit-met-criticism-disaster-hit-region/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T20:27:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Sun Child," a statue of a kid clad in a protective suit, stands near Fukushima Station in the city of Fukushima on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/12/national/japanese-man-detained-north-korea-thought-shiga-prefecture-videographer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T20:46:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean citizens visit Mansu Hill in Pyongyang in July where bronze statues of late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il have been erected.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/13/business/corporate-business/softbank-mulls-major-investment-robot-pizza-startup-zume/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T21:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbankrobot-z-20180814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Veggie Zupreme is one of the items on the menu of Zume Pizza, which speeds up delivery times by employing robots to make the pies enroute.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/13/business/corporate-business/nikon-to-debut-first-fully-featured-mirrorless-camera-as-slr-leaders-face-threat-of-changing-technology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T21:07:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This still image from a Nikon teaser video shows the silhouette of the firm's first high-end mirrorless camera, which will be unveiled during a special event on Aug. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-prosecutors-wrap-manafort-case-trial-may-soon-go-jury/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T22:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-manafort-a-20180814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This courtroom sketch depicts Rick Gates testifying during questioning in the bank fraud and tax evasion trial of Paul Manafort at federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, on Aug. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/13/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-calls-submission-plan-change-japans-constitution-next-diet-session/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-13T23:32:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abe-a-20180814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/13/national/male-use-parasols-gets-government-push-hot-humid-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-14T03:42:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Saitama Prefectural Government is encouraging men to use ultraviolet ray parasols.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/13/business/economy-business/softbank-shun-tesla-deal-focuses-auto-bets-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-14T03:42:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 6 to announce the company's first-quarter earnings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/14/business/289-million-roundup-cancer-verdict-sends-bayer-shares-reeling/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester wears a pill-shaped costume bearing the names of Bayer and Monsanto during a demonstration against the takeover of U.S. seeds and pesticides maker Monsanto by German chemicals firm Bayer outside the World Conference Center, where the annual general meeting of chemicals giant Bayer took place in Bonn, western Germany, in May. A cancer victim's surprise court victory over U.S. pesticide maker Monsanto could open the floodgates to a slew of similar lawsuits, potentially leaving the firm's new German owner Bayer with a major case of buyer's remorse.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this July 19, 2018 file frame from surveillance video released by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Markeis McGlockton (far left) is shot by Michael Drejka during an altercation in the parking lot of a convenience store in Clearwater, Florida. Prosecutors charged Drejka, a white man, with manslaughter Monday in the death of an unarmed black man whose videotaped shooting has revived debate over Florida's "stand your ground" law.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Subhannah Wahhaj appears in New Mexico state district court to plead not guilty to charges of child abuse in Taos, New Mexico, Aug. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-14T13:32:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelan opposition activist Salvatore Lucchese speaks during an interview with Reuters in Bogota Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-14T13:41:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/14/national/indoor-playgrounds-hot-demand-japan-swelters-record-heat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-14T13:55:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-14T14:30:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Photographer Hiroko Doune gets multiple generations of hibakusha families to sit down together for portraits.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-14T14:36:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tourist takes a photograph of the latest foreign currency rates posted outside an exchange bureau in Istanbul on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (right) speaks during a joint news conference with his Ecuadorian counterpart, Jose Valencia, after their meeting in Quito on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-14T15:07:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok testifies before a congressional committee during a joint hearing on "Oversight of FBI and DOJ Actions Surrounding the 2016 Election" in Washington on July 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-14T15:37:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-14T15:41:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kei Komuro heads to Fordham University's law school in New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/14/business/worlds-biggest-bitcoin-mining-rig-maker-bitmain-eyes-move-ai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-14T16:01:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bitmain, a Chinese company that makes most of the world's Bitcoin-mining rigs — as well as a big pile of mining and cryptotrading profit — is thinking about a stock-market listing.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-14T16:03:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Chinese Premier Li Keqiang plans to attend a bilateral student exchange event with Japan at Peking University in Beijing later this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/14/national/lottery-sales-japan-second-straight-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-14T16:29:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sales of Takarakuji lottery tickets issued by prefectural governments and major cities fell 6.9 percent to ¥786.6 billion in fiscal 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/14/business/south-koreas-hyundai-town-faces-grim-future-idled-shipyard-rise-suicides/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-14T17:24:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/13/national/officials-test-sprinklers-tokyo-street-city-looks-ways-keep-olympic-athletes-spectators-cool/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-14T17:28:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials on Monday conduct an experiment on a pedestrian walkway in Chiyoda Ward to test the effectiveness of spraying water to reduce surface temperatures.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-14T18:02:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are seen visiting a park in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-14T20:07:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-14T20:50:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou attends a ceremony in Tainan on Tuesday to unveil a bronze statue symbolizing "comfort women."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-14T20:53:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-14T21:17:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In his lab at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Chuo University in Tokyo, Azuma Taguchi, a professor of traffic networks, simulates congestion at railway stations in the metropolitan area.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-14T21:17:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ginowan Mayor Atsushi Sakima announces he will run in the Sept. 30 Okinawa gubernatorial election at City Hall on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-14T21:18:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children at an elementary school in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward eat lunch in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-15T06:37:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/15/business/sarah-sanders-claim-black-jobs-trump-era-obamas-dead-wrong/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders holds the daily briefing at the White House in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatane Muto, representative director of WITH ALS, uses an electric-powered wheelchair in his Tokyo office Aug. 8.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors photograph El Capitan through a thin veil of smoke after Yosemite Valley reopened Tuesday in Yosemite National Park, California. The park reopened its scenic valley Tuesday after a nearly three-week closure due to nearby wildfires but advised visitors to expect some smoke in the air and limited lodging and food services in the popular California park.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman claps during an interview on the release of her book "Unhinged" in Manhattan, New York, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-15T13:25:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach talks in his office in Topeka in May 2016 about the voter ID law that he pushed to combat what he believes to be rampant voter fraud.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-15T14:20:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students at Nagahama High School in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, have developed a prototype for a cream to prevent jellyfish stings.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laptop and desktop computers, hard drives and DVDs confiscated in connection with child pornography investigations are displayed at a police station in Tokyo in May 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-15T18:19:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman rests in a public garden in Vienna Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-15T18:24:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-15T18:33:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Several lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Wednesday, the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-15T18:49:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (left) and his Peruvian counterpart Nestor Popolizio shake hands after a news conference in Lima, Peru, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-15T19:33:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A full frame sensor can be seen inside a Sony Corp. Alpha a9 mirrorless digital camera.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/15/business/corporate-business/don-quijote-plans-build-high-rise-complex-shibuya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-15T19:33:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist rendering shows discount retailer Don Quijote Holdings Co. Ltd.'s planned high-rise complex, scheduled to open in Tokyo's Shibuya district in 2022.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-15T20:01:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees release doves at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Wednesday to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the end of World War II.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-15T21:29:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-15T21:29:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Don Quijote's sales are projected to hit ¥1 trillion this year. It attributes the success to its ability to entertain customers.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-15T22:55:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-15T23:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recent survey by SMBC Nikko Securities expects a total net profit of Japanese companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's First Section this business year will decrease for the first time in three years.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-15T23:22:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-16T06:20:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at a news conference in Chicago June 14. Tesla is forming a special committee to evaluate Musk's plan to take the company private.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-16T10:56:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fireman is seen entering the cargo compartment of a Turkish Airlines flight parked on the tarmac of Budapest Airport Wednesday after one terminal of the airport and its surroundings were briefly shut down as the Disaster Management Authority ordered an investigation due to an overheated container carrying an isotope on an incoming flight. Neither the airport nor the disaster control authority confirmed that the flight affected was operated by Turkish Airlines.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-16T12:45:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-16T13:20:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Hinomaru flag, belonging to fallen WWII soldier Masamoto Abe and kept in the United States, will be returned to his relatives in Yokohama this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-16T13:41:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-16T14:52:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-16T16:28:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-16T17:54:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-16T18:22:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/16/national/famed-death-railway-stirs-thai-debate-unesco-world-heritage-application/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-16T18:29:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-16T19:09:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp., gestures at a news conference in Tokyo in February 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-16T19:12:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/16/national/female-panda-born-wakayama-zoo-western-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-16T19:15:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/16/national/social-issues/bucking-superstition-japanese-woman-tunnels-way-top-civil-engineering-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-16T19:16:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reiko Abe, president of Oriental Consultants India Pvt. Ltd., is interviewed at her office in Tokyo on July 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/16/national/mother-toddler-found-safe-western-japan-expresses-relief-joy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-16T20:02:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mio Fujimoto, the mother of a toddler found safe in western Japan, speaks at a hospital where her son received care in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/16/national/bugs-struggle-amid-japans-record-summer-heat/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruo Obata, 78, a search party volunteer who found a missing toddler in western Japan, explains to reporters how he tracked down the boy in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mazda Motor Corp.'s headquarters plant in Fuchu, Hiroshima Prefecture, temporarily suspended operations after the deadly rains last month. Operations have since resumed, but railway services used by its workers have yet to be fully restored.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-17T11:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-17T12:48:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-17T13:11:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/17/business/battery-technologies-seen-new-class-stranded-assets-innovation-rushes-ahead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-17T13:36:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-17T14:06:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-17T15:31:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-17T16:20:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[HNA Group Co., whose 850 Third Avenue building in New York is shown here, is in talks to sell the structure, according to sources.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Ken Saito (front, third from left) attends the opening ceremony of the Japan pavilion at Food Expo 2018 in Hong Kong on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-17T17:14:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-17T17:25:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles jam a road during the morning rush hour in Jakarta. Yamaguchi Wrecker Co. of Japan is providing tow trucks to local authorities in Indonesia to help them remove illegally parked vehicles.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-17T18:01:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-17T18:04:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-17T18:42:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-17T20:56:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Decommissioning work continues at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday. Ishiba said the ruling Liberal Democratic Party should not rush on revising the Constitution.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, standing by a section of the Berlin Wall, speaks to media at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A depiction of Japanese author and essayist Sei Shonagon (c. 966-1025) drawn by Kikuchi Yosai.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/18/national/media-national/tabloids-offer-potpourri-treats-mark-summer/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wheezy rider: The steady support Harleys have enjoyed from affluent pensioners may be coming to an end.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/18/national/media-national/debate-fukushima-statue-takes-life-online/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Going nuclear: Pedestrians look at "Sun Child," a controversial 6.2-meter statue of a child who is clad in a protective suit, in the city of Fukushima on Aug. 12.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Four brown bears have been successfully transported from a museum in Hokkaido to a wildlife park in England.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With Osaka likely to host the nation's first casino resorts, local politicians and their corporate allies are hoping to secure money and jobs from them.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald McGahn]]></image:caption>
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			<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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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the city of Koror, the largest population center in Palau, the Chinese pullback can be felt. Hotels and restaurants stand empty, travel agencies are boarded and boats which take tourists to Palau's green, mushroom shaped Rock Islands are docked at the piers.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-19T16:10:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-19T18:32:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-19T19:06:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boxes of sea cucumbers confiscated from poachers off the coast of Ishikari, Hokkaido, are displayed to the media in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-19T21:18:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The defunct Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which was hit by a triple core meltdown in March 2011, is shown in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-19T21:19:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Insurers are increasing dementia-related policies and services to keep up with the rapid graying of the population.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-19T22:35:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this undated photo released Sunday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is seen giving on-the-spot guidance during a visit to a construction site in Samjiyon county.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-19T23:16:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-20T06:22:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-20T08:57:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the clergy prays as he waits for Pope Francis to arrive at St. Patrick's Cathedral for evening prayer service in New York in 2015. Across the U.S., Catholics once faithful with their financial support to their churches are searching for ways to respond to the constant sex-abuse scandals that have tarnished the institution in which they believe, with back-to-back scandals in the past two months.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-20T10:12:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses supporters during his nomination meeting in Montreal on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯A 14-year-old boy pushed a 40-year-old woman to the ground and allegedly stabbed her in the chest and abdomen as she delivered newspapers in Osaka Prefecture in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-20T12:57:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is planning to accept more caregivers from Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Doctors say more Japanese women should be informed about how contraceptive pills can reduce pain during menstruation and also prevent conditions that can cause infertility.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the construction site for the Wonsan-Kalma coastal tourist area in Kangwon Province in this photo released on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beijing residents have been breathing some of the cleanest air in a decade as they begin to reap the benefits of China's anti-smog push.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Damage to a security booth caused by a gunshot is seen outside the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/20/national/chichijima-family-keeps-japans-earliest-coffee-cultivation-tradition-alive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-20T18:25:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Motomi Nose takes care of coffee trees at her family's farm on Chichijima, one of the Ogasawara islands, in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-20T18:40:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Lucid Motors Inc. Alpha Speed Car is unveiled in Ohio on Thursday, April 13, 2017. Tesla rival Lucid Motors Inc. is said to be in talks to receive investment from PIF, the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-20T18:52:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pray silently Monday in front of a monument set up at Bairin Elementary School in Asaminami Ward, Hiroshima. Monday was the fourth anniversary of landslides that killed 77 people in the city.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A heat haze is seen as pedestrians cross a street during a heat wave in Tokyo on Aug. 2. A new U.S. climate plan, expected to be released within days by President Donald Trump, comes during a summer dominated by hotter-than-normal weather. But the plan, which will replace one put in place by Trump's predecessor, President Barack Obama, may actually increase greenhouse gas emissions.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-20T19:11:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hisao Mesaki speaks in Nagoya during a recent interview about his experiences before and during World War II.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/20/asia-pacific/radioactive-material-reported-missing-malaysia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-20T19:12:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-20T19:12:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiji Furuya (center), head of a conservative bipartisan lawmakers group, speaks to reporters at the Prime Minister's Office on Aug. 6, after formally requesting that the government announce the nation's new era name after the accession of the new emperor.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-20T19:13:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The landslide-damaged streets of Hiroshima's Asakita Ward are shown in this photo taken by a resident on Aug. 20, 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-20T19:24:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An American man has been arrested after allegedly urinating on a Japanese businessman during a flight from Chicago to Japan, police said Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-20T20:03:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitachi Solutions Create Ltd., set to launch by the end of March 2019, that will employ artificial intelligence to study leftover hospital food, to analyze the nutrients taken in by patients.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-20T20:27:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/20/national/politics-diplomacy/liberal-party-exec-denny-tamaki-eyes-run-okinawa-governor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-20T20:51:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-20T20:51:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yudai Hirota, 23, speaks about his experiences as a truant at a Futoko wa Fuko Janai (Truants Aren't Unhappy People) event in Machida, western Tokyo, on Sunday. Similar events were across the country to discuss truancy and the difficulties students face when returning to school after the summer holidays.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-20T21:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (center) and other representatives of signatories to the Arms Trade Treaty pose for a photo during a five-day international conference on the issue that kicked off Monday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/20/business/japan-firms-welcome-skilled-foreign-workers-majority-open-open-immigration-system-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-20T21:01:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters cross a road in the central business district of Tokyo on June 27. A poll shows most big and midsized Japanese firms favor a more open immigration system to offset the country's labor shortage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/20/asia-pacific/malaysia-seizes-rhino-horns-worth-12-million-largest-haul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-20T21:52:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Malaysian Wildlife official displays seized rhino horns and other animal parts at the Department of Wildlife and National Parks headquarters in Kuala Lumpur on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/20/business/firms-promote-japanese-beef-australia-17-year-hiatus-due-mad-cow-disease/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-20T22:50:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese chef demonstrates how to cook wagyu beef dishes at the Premium Japanese Food Showcase, which was organized by the Japan External Trade Organization, in Sydney on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/20/world/russian-accused-spying-u-s-faces-borderline-torture-moscow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-20T22:55:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maria Butina appears in a police booking photograph released by the Alexandria Sheriff's Office in Alexandria, Virginia, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-21T06:11:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Special police leave after searching the apartment of a man who tried to attack a police station in Cornella near the northeastern Spanish city of Barcelona on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-21T06:17:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-21T08:13:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former CIA Director John Brennan testifies during a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing about Russian actions during the 2016 election, on Capitol Hill in Washington in May last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-21T08:15:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jay Nanavati (left) with the defense team for Paul Manafort, walks with Manafort's wife, Kathleen Manafort, as they return to federal court during jury deliberations in the trial of the former Donald Trump campaign chairman, in Alexandria, Virginia, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/business/trump-says-dangerous-twitter-facebook-ban-accounts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T08:53:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-21T10:40:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-21T11:42:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-21T12:49:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers unload food aid from a truck on the banks of the Yalu River, which divides North Korea and China, in the Sinuiju region of North Korea in December 2008.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-21T13:47:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U. S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island in Singapore on June 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-21T13:53:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-21T14:04:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-21T14:18:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jason Hall-Spencer, a professor of marine biology at Plymouth University in southwest England, prepares to dive off Shikine Island, south of Shimoda in Shizuoka Prefecture, in June 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/national/dog-found-alive-landslide-rubble-six-days-going-missing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T14:30:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Minami, a shiba inu, is stroked by Kuniko Miyamoto in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, on Aug. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-criticizes-countrys-health-sector/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T15:48:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the Myohyangsan Medical Appliances Factory in this undated photo released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/national/foreign-visitors-japan-hit-20-million-2018-record-pace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T16:06:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga visits the town of Teshikaga in eastern Hokkaido on Monday to inspect efforts there to draw foreign tourists to the town, which hosts the Akan-Mashu National Park.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-india-agree-begin-talks-defense-sharing-pact-counter-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T17:02:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-defense-a-20180821.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-defense-a-20180821.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (second from left) and his Indian counterpart Nirmala Sitharaman (right) hold talks Monday in New Delhi on a bilateral acquisition and cross-servicing agreement (ACSA).]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/australias-turnbull-survives-leadership-vote-rival-peter-dutton-quits-cabinet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T17:03:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-turnbull-a-20180822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-turnbull-a-20180822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull answers a question from the opposition in Parliament as Treasurer Scott Morrison (second, right) and Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton (right) look on in Canberra on Monday. Australia shelved plans to embed carbon emissions targets in law on Monday after a party revolt against embattled Turnbull.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/national/students-develop-fertilizer-shochu-distillation-remnants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T17:18:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-fertilizers-a-20180822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fertilizers-a-20180822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students in Kumamoto Prefecture have developed fertilizer from the distillation remnants of ﷯shōchu﷯ spirits that they hope will help farmers cut their use of chemicals on crops.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/national/pay-dirt-sacred-soil-baseball-mecca-koshien-traded-via-japanese-online-flea-market-app/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T17:39:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-mercari-a-20180822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mercari-a-20180822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A listing for soil allegedly taken from Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, is seen on the online flea market app run by Mercari Inc. after selling for ¥3,500.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/business/corporate-business/japans-daikin-thriving-asia-india-plans-go-head-head-china-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T18:41:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-daikin-a-20180822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-daikin-a-20180822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daikin Industries has established itself as a top player in India and is now turning to Africa for more expansion.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/30/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-looks-beyond-factions-courting-ldps-rank-file-support-presidential-election-nears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T18:48:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/n-ldp-a-20180531.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ldp-a-20180531.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leads a banzai cheer at the conclusion of the Liberal Democratic Party's annual convention in Tokyo on March 25.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/national/crime-legal/five-defectors-japan-sue-north-korea-%c2%a5500-million-rights-abuses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T19:07:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-defectors-a-20180822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-defectors-a-20180822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eiko Kawasaki (front right) and others who defected from North Korea to Japan hold a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/business/international-catch-documentation-plan-eyed-pacific-bluefin-tuna/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T19:25:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-tuna-a-20180822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tuna-a-20180822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan and other fishing countries are thinking of introducing a catch documentation system to help restore depleted stocks of Pacific bluefin tuna.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/business/japan-offers-clue-british-banks-future-europe-brexit-u-k-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T19:26:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-ukbanks-a-20180822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ukbanks-a-20180822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during a question and answer session at Reece Group, an engineering firm in Newcastle, U.K., on July 23.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/world/eyeing-u-s-iran-says-will-boost-military-might-unveils-new-fighter-jet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T19:32:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-iranmil-a-20180822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-iranmil-a-20180822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sits in the cockpit of the Kowsar domestically-made fighter jet at the National Defense Industry exhibition in Tehran on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/national/already-battered-western-japan-braces-two-typhoon-punch-weekend/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T20:57:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-typhoon-a-20180822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-typhoon-a-20180822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two typhoons are seen approaching Japan in this satellite image captured on Aug. 21.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/national/saitama-starts-recruiting-homestay-hosts-tokyo-2020-athletes-families/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T20:58:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-saitama-a-20180822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-saitama-a-20180822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saitama Gov. Kiyoshi Ueda (left) stands next to Olympic medalist Daiya Seto at an event linked to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, on July 21.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/business/corporate-business/nissan-boost-china-production-capacity-40-percent-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T20:59:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/business/department-stores-july-sales-see-largest-drop-three-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-21T22:52:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-departmentstores-a-20180822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-departmentstores-a-20180822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Department stores posted the largest year-on-year drop in sales in more than three years in July, as a hot, humid summer has kept many customers away, particularly elderly people, an industry body said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/business/trumps-rollback-power-plant-greenhouse-gas-curbs-kill-americans-epa-admits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T06:14:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-epa-a-20180823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-epa-a-20180823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyoming, in July. The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed a major rollback of Obama-era regulations on coal-fired power plants, striking at one of the former administration's legacy programs to rein in climate-changing fossil-fuel emissions.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/world/social-issues-world/peru-bound-venezuelans-flood-ecuador-defying-passport-rules-race-curbs-kick/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T06:16:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-venezuelans-a-20180823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-venezuelans-a-20180823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelan migrants get on a truck on their way to Peru at the Panamerican highway in Tulcan, Ecuador, after crossing from Colombia on Tuesday. Ecuador announced on Aug. 16 that Venezuelans entering the country would need to show passports from Saturday onward, a document many are not carrying. And Peru followed suit on Friday, announcing an identical measure due to begin his Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/world/science-health-world/camera-toting-robots-help-find-new-tunnels-3000-year-old-temple-peruvian-andes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T09:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-peru-a-20180823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-peru-a-20180823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A small robot equipped with micro cameras is being used Monday by archaeologists at the Chavin de Huantar archaeological site, 462 km north of Lima, where the intact burial of a person and pottery were found. Three galleries and burials were discovered in recent weeks at this site in the Ancash region, described as the "most important finding of the last 50 years," according to the Culture Ministry. The Chavin culture flourished between 1,300 and 550 BC.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/20/national/okinawa-marines-version-da-pumps-u-s-goes-viral/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T10:49:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-marines-a-20180821.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-marines-a-20180821.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recent Twitter post by the U.S. Marines shows servicemen in Okinawa dancing to the Japanese summer hit "U.S.A." by Da Pump.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-officials-confident-feared-al-qaida-bomb-maker-killed-believe-taught-cohorts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T10:58:07+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-qaida-a-20180823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-qaida-a-20180823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handout picture combo released by the Yemeni interior ministry in April 2009 shows suspected Yemen-based Saudi al-Qaida expert Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. The master al-Qaida bomb maker who hid out for years in Yemen while developing hard-to-detect explosives is believed to have been killed last year, a U.S. official told AFP on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/national/online-typhoon-hazard-map-helps-people-learn-strong-winds-will-strike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T13:41:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-hazard-a-20180822.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hazard-a-20180822.png]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot of the Life Ranger mobile website shows anticipated wind direction and strength in the event the center of a typhoon falls in one of the cells of the circle over the town of Yonaguni, Okinawa Prefecture. Red indicates strong gusts, while blue indicates weak winds.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/national/crime-legal/two-arrested-selling-fake-whisky-flea-market-app-mercari/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T15:40:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-suntory-a-20180822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-suntory-a-20180822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two men were arrested Tuesday for allegedly selling fakes of Suntory Spirits Ltd.'s limited-edition Hibiki 30 Years whisky for ¥990,000 via a flea market app.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/business/financial-markets/bank-japans-threat-global-bonds-fizzles-japanese-insurers-stay-put/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T16:06:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-boj-a-20180823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20180823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security guard stands outside the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. Despite the central bank's first policy tweak in almost two years, little seems to have changed for the nation's insurers.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/iran-cleric-says-israel-u-s-will-targeted-washington-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T17:14:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-iran-a-20180823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-iran-a-20180823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian cleric Ahmad Khatami delivers a sermon in Tehran in July 2009.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/australian-prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull-rejects-resignations-cabinet-members-backed-challenger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T17:21:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-turnbull-a-20180823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-turnbull-a-20180823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull pauses during a news conference in Canberra on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/national/japanese-firms-creating-green-areas-boost-biodiversity-factories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T17:28:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-wildlife-a-20180823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wildlife-a-20180823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some 30 species of birds, including thrushes, have visited a green area at Canon Inc.'s headquarters in Tokyo's Ota Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/national/editor-chief-yomiuri-shimbun-recovering-broken-neck/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T17:29:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-watanabe-a-20180822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-watanabe-a-20180822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsuneo Watanabe (right) watches the opener for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team at Tokyo Dome along with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on March 30.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/national/japanese-favoring-western-style-gravestones-cost-sturdiness-industry-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T17:33:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-grave-a-20180823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-grave-a-20180823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese-style gravestones have declined in popularity in recent years.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/national/shinkansen-operator-jr-tokai-holds-drill-involving-knife-attacker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T17:47:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-jr-a-20180823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jr-a-20180823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security guard approaches a man playing the role of a knife-wielding perpetrator with a two-pronged weapon on Wednesday during a drill conducted by Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) on a bullet train at a stockyard in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/world/tech-giants-dismantle-global-iranian-propaganda-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T18:12:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-techgiants-a-20180823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-techgiants-a-20180823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Through a network of fake news websites and fraudulent social media personas, an Iranian-linked campaign pushed narratives in line with the country's interests.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/chinas-top-broadcaster-sarcastically-thanks-trump-making-rival-great/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T18:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-chinatrump-a-20180823-e1534930704708.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinatrump-a-20180823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An anchor for China's top broadcaster is seen in a screenshot from an English-language video uploaded to YouTube on Monday night sarcastically blasting U.S. President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/business/corporate-business/chinese-phone-giant-xiaomi-struggles-live-ipo-hype/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T18:42:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-xiaomi-a-20180823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-xiaomi-a-20180823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Xiaomi Corp. officials hold a ceremony on July 9 at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to mark its listing on the bourse.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/business/corporate-business/japans-shogi-champ-makes-right-moves-ai-startup-hits-stratosphere/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-22T18:44:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heroz Inc. released its "Shogi Wars" game in 2012, and its stocks prices have soared since its April debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Mothers index.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuichiro Tamaki]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T10:09:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea in this undated photo released in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T10:38:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the hot spring district in Yangdok-gun, South Pyongan Province, in this undated photo released on Aug. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T10:44:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, heads to a closed-door briefing by FBI director Christopher Wray and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Neilsen to update lawmakers on cyberattacks on the U.S. election system, at the Capitol in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T10:57:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T12:40:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shotaro Yachi]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T12:59:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T13:08:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stormy Daniels speaks during a ceremony for her receiving a City Proclamation and Key to the City in West Hollywood, California, on May 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T14:17:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The unprecedented heat wave this summer boosted shipments of air conditioners in July to a record high, according to an industry body.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T16:22:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T16:23:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T17:47:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T18:34:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T19:32:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T19:32:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters in Tokyo after holding telephone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T19:41:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Easy-fitting, handmade bras are becoming popular with evacuees in disaster-hit western Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T19:57:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nikon Corp. President Kazuo Ushida introduces the firm's first full-frame mirrorless camera series on Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-23T22:37:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An estimated 4000 protesters rally at Sydney Town Hall on Feb. 8, 2016, to demonstrate their opposition to Australia's deportation and detention of asylum seeker children to offshore processing centers on Manus Island and Nauru.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/23/national/esports-looking-secure-olympic-future-asian-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-23T22:44:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-esports-a-20180824.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Esports contestants play during a competition in Chiba Prefecture on Feb. 10. Commercial stakeholders in the activity hope competitive multiplayer video gaming will become a medal event in future Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/23/world/chinas-growing-hunger-wheat-pushes-global-reserves-crisis-levels-heat-waves-droughts-hit-harvests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-23T23:04:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-wheat-a-20180825.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer drives a tractor in his field near Bouloire in north-western France on Aug. 21, after a harvest was weakened by a recent heat wave. The heat, which swept across much of northern Europe this summer, has caused reductions in wheat output in France — the EU's top producer of the crop — cutting estimates by some 2 million tons from last years figures.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/23/national/liveblog-updates-typhoon-cimaron-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-24T01:11:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-24T13:40:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-park25-a-20180825.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrives at a court in Seoul in August 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-24T14:47:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mizuho Financial Group's new CEO Tatsufumi Sakai is interviewed at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/24/business/tech/europes-new-gdpr-data-law-upends-global-online-advertising/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-24T14:48:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-gdpr-a-20180825.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mark Read, co-chief operating officer of WPP, the world's biggest ad agency, says, "If consumers feel confident that their data is being protected and they understand how it is being used and it's done with permission, ultimately that should be a good thing for clients and for us."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-24T14:49:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The destroyer Makinami of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, seen in this undated file photo, and the training ship Kashima took part in a joint drill with NATO in the Baltic Sea, the international defense organization said Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-24T14:49:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in August last year. On Sunday, Abe plans to officially announce his intention to run in the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential race, set for Sept. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/24/national/japan-sees-first-woman-qualify-f-15-fighter-jet-pilot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-24T14:58:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[1st Lt. Misa Matsushima of the Air Self-Defense Force is seen Thursday after becoming Japan's first woman to qualify as a fighter jet pilot earlier the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-24T15:54:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-typhoon-a-20180824.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[High waves generated by Typhoon Cimaron crash against the coast of Aki, Kochi Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-24T16:39:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ldp-a-20180822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plays golf Tuesday while on vacation in Narusawa, Yamanashi Prefecture. Abe is expected to announce soon his intention to run for the ruling party's presidential election, set for Sept. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/24/business/corporate-business/isuzu-bets-growing-demand-light-commercial-vehicles-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-24T17:11:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-24T17:47:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-24T18:01:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mudslide caused by Typhoon Cimaron is seen Friday morning near train lines operated by Kobe Electric Railway Co. in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/24/national/history/tourism-boom-highlights-evolution-japan-guidebooks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-24T18:31:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-guidebooks-a-20180825.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[English-language guidebooks on Japan published in the 19th century offer clues on how foreign travelers went about exploring an unknown and sometimes dangerous but exotic Japan in the years following the Meiji Restoration.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/24/national/jal-renew-uniforms-invest-%c2%a510-billion-2020-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-24T19:27:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines Co. President Yuji Akasaka (far left) poses during a news conference with flight attendants who wear past uniforms on Thursday in Ota Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/24/business/japanese-chinese-finance-chiefs-hold-talks-next-week-reinforcing-financial-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-24T19:58:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-24T21:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tradewar-a-20180825.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and his team meet in the White House last week. Trump has prodded China to offer more at the bargaining table to head off an all-out trade war.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-24T21:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saga Gov. Yoshinori Yamaguchi (center) speaks while holding a meeting with Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera at the Saga Prefectural Government office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-24T21:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-24T23:04:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during a news conference at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul on May 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-24T23:07:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Venta Maersk is seen in the Russian port of Vladivostok on Wednesday as it prepares to set off on its Arctic voyage.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-24T23:42:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A quiz question about the South China Sea is seen on a Vietnamese website.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-25T07:05:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to visit Tokyo next Tuesday to meet with his Japanese counterpart Taro Kono.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-25T09:34:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Palestinian protesters hold portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and U.S. President Donald Trump during a rally in support to the Fatah movement in the West Bank city of Nablus on July 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-25T10:53:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-morristralia-a-20180825.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison attends a news conference in Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday, before being selected by the Liberal Party as the country's next prime minister on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-25T11:21:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-25T12:15:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-25T12:23:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/25/business/economy-business/trumps-china-hawks-prepare-swoop-trade-negotiations-fail-produce-results/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-25T12:24:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese and U.S. flags adorn a Harley-Davidson motorcycle at a dealership in Shanghai on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/eu-aid-iran-brings-u-s-criticism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-25T12:47:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sits in the cockpit of a newly unveiled fighter jet in Tehran on Aug. 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/25/business/corporate-business/ceo-elon-musk-agreeing-tesla-drops-efforts-go-private/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-25T14:54:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk holds a news conference in Tokyo in September 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-scraps-pompeo-trip-north-korea-citing-stalled-nuclear-negotiations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-25T15:40:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/25/national/media-national/japanese-media-begins-break-war-orphan-taboo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-25T22:56:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aftermath: Journalist Toshio Kurihara wants the government to pay compensation to families of people killed in the Tokyo air raids of March 1945.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australia's departing Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull walks back with his granddaughter after a press conference in Canberra on Friday. Tresurer Scott Morrison was installed as Australia's seventh prime minister in 11 years on Friday after a stunning Liberal party revolt instigated by hard-line conservatives unseated moderate Malcolm Turnbull.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Ishiba speaks about his policies at a news conference at the Diet on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe receives a set of proposals from Akira Amari, adviser to the Liberal Democratic Party faction led by Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso, at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-27T22:30:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un visits construction sites in Samjiyon County in this undated photo released Aug. 18. The North announced Sunday that it had expelled a Japanese man recently detained during a tour of the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-27T22:30:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mayors and officials from municipalities in Tohoku take a group photo at the Juhyo International Summit in Yamagata in February 2017. They aims to boost tourism in the region by promoting winter landscapes and ice-covered trees.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-27T23:47:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tesla logo is seen in Los Angeles in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/27/business/four-toyota-units-form-joint-venture-develop-self-driving-technology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T05:10:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Presidents of four auto parts suppliers affiliated with Toyota Motor Corp. — Advics Co. Ltd., Denso Corp., Jtekt Corp., and Aisin Seiki Co. Ltd. — pose during a news conference in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-28T07:13:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Philip Levine talks to members of the media Monday near the scene of a mass shooting at The Jacksonville Landing in Jacksonville. A gunman opened fire Sunday at a video game tournament killing multiple people and then fatally shooting himself in a rampage that wounded several others.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-28T07:21:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This June photo shows 184 Kent Avenue in the Brooklyn borough of New York owned by the Kushner Cos. The Kushner family real estate company was fined $210,000 on Monday by New York City regulators following an Associated Press investigation that showed it routinely filed false documents with the city claiming it had no rent-regulated tenants in its buildings when it, in fact, had hundreds.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This picture taken Sunday shows a Harley-Davidson motorcycle parked in front of a restaurant in Shanghai. From Harley-Davidson motorcycles and American bourbon to Chinese parts and machinery, the world's two largest economies have exchanged punitive tariffs that slice through a wide swath of products.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/business/watchdog-denies-fcc-chief-ajit-pai-played-favorites-sinclair/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T10:45:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Ajit Pai speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland, in February.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riot police confront right-wing protesters Monday in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, following the death of a 35-year-old German national who died in a hospital after a "dispute between several people of different nationalities,", according to the police. The far-right street movement PEGIDA called for a second day of protests in Chemnitz after the alleged fatal stabbing of a German man by a foreigner.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-28T12:27:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-28T15:52:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pilot models of the Uber self-driving car are displayed at the Uber Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in September 2016. Toyota will pump about $500 million into the ride-hailing giant as part of a deal to work together on mass-producing self-driving vehicles, the carmaker said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/27/national/japans-child-abuse-hotline-may-go-toll-free-reduce-high-hang-rate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T15:56:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ministry revealed that 3,454 callers hung up when a recorded message explained that the calls to child abuse centers were not toll-free.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/national/students-flood-hit-area-back-school-first-time-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T16:18:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children get off a school bus in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on Tuesday for their first day of school since torrential rains hit western Japan in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/business/u-s-mexico-reach-nafta-overhaul-deal-upping-pressure-canada/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T16:24:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Mike Pence listens as Robert Lighthizer, U.S. trade representative, speaks following a phone conversation between U.S. President Donald Trump and Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico's president, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Monday. Trump said he would terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement and sign a new trade accord with Mexico, potentially leaving Canada out of the bloc.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/business/facebook-bans-myanmar-army-chief-others-unprecedented-move-spread-hate-misinformation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T16:44:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar Leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech during the meeting with the country's business leaders at the Myanmar International Convention Center in Naypyitaw Monday. Myanmar's powerful military chief is among 20 individuals and organizations that Facebook says it is banning from its site in order to "prevent the spread of hate and misinformation."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-called-off-top-u-s-diplomats-pyongyang-visit-belligerent-letter-north-korea-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T17:16:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island, in Singapore, on June 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/27/national/momoko-sakura-creator-chibi-maruko-chan-dies-breast-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T17:20:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-28T17:20:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers browse products in an Apple store in New York on Aug. 2. Apple Inc. is planning to unveil three new phones in September, sources said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/business/china-japan-slowly-learning-cooperate-age-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T17:23:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-aso-a-20180829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso will visit Beijing later this week for talks with his Chinese counterpart Liu Kun.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/27/business/tech/autonomous-taxi-trials-carrying-passengers-begin-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T17:28:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-taxi-a-20180828.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A trial run for an autonomous taxi service starts Monday morning in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/world/millionaires-jumping-ship-yet-another-symptom-brazils-woes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T17:43:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-28T18:03:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-28T18:05:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic Corp. has scheduled the launch of 20 television models in Thailand throughout July and August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/business/hotel-association-hot-spring-city-beppu-teams-airbnb/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T18:06:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/national/50-percent-people-japan-considered-living-near-parents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T18:19:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-housesurvey-a-20180828.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The percentage of people in Japan who have considered living with or close to their parents is nearly double the share of parents who have had similar thoughts regarding their children, according to a private-sector survey.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/national/residents-chibi-maruko-chan-creators-hometown-express-sadness-chinese-fans-also-react/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T18:25:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People sign a condolence book for Momoko Sakura, creator of the "Chibi Maruko-chan" manga and anime series, at Chibi Maruko-chan Land in Shizuoka City on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/national/four-die-japan-hospital-air-conditioning-fails-amid-heat-wave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T18:53:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/national/science-health/get-ready-robot-invasion-classrooms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T19:27:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robo-student: SoftBank Robotics' Nao is one of the types of robot observed by Fumihide Tanaka for his review of the effect of Care-Receiving Robots in the classroom.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/national/camping-becoming-popular-japan-options-including-glamping-increase/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T19:31:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women enjoy "glamping" at a campsite in Katori, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/national/businesswoman-promotes-glove-making-tradition-shikoku-brand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T19:32:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gloves-a-20180829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumi Matsushita holds gloves sold under her Tet. brand at a factory in Higashikagawa, Kagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/national/tsukiji-fish-markets-outer-shopping-area-invites-suggestions-new-name/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T20:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tsukiji outer market, which is currently adjacent to the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, is soliciting a new name before the fish market relocates to the Toyosu area.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-set-immigration-agency-cope-influx-blue-collar-ranks-abroad-new-status/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T20:38:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Justice Ministry is set to upgrade its Immigration Bureau to an agency, according to government sources.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-not-changed-north-korea-threat-assessment-despite-kim-trump-summit-annual-defense-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T20:38:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera visits the Ground Self-Defense Force's Higashifuji firing range in Shizuoka Prefecture on Sunday. The Defense Ministry's annual defense paper released Tuesday says Japan's threat assessment for North Korea has not changed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-man-freed-north-korea-flies-pyongyang-beijing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-28T22:29:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomoyuki Sugimoto, a Japanese man released by North Korea after being detained in early August, arrives at Beijing International Airport from Pyongyang on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/asia-pacific/trade-tensions-rise-fewer-americans-see-china-favorably-survey-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T03:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two workers check cranes that will be exported to the U.S. and Myanmar at a factory in Hengyang, in China's central Hunan province, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/defenders-rally-around-pope-fear-conservatives-escalating-war-oust/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T06:26:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis speaks with the media onboard a plane during his flight back from a trip to Dublin Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/world/social-issues-world/peru-declares-health-emergency-border-exodus-venezuela-nears-crisis-moment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T06:30:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Peruvian immigration officer checks the passports of Venezuelan migrants near Tumbes, Peru, Sunday as they sit in the back of the truck of a driver who picked them up after they crossed the border from Ecuador.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-29T06:31:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A child plays on her own on the outskirts of one of the IDP (Internally Displaced People) camps in Pulka, Nigeria, on Aug. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/business/tech/sucking-carbon-air-swiss-firm-wins-new-funds-costly-climate-fix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T06:32:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A facility made by Climeworks AG to capture carbon dioxide from the air is seen on the roof of a waste incinerating plant in Hinwil, Switzerland, last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-29T06:36:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/world/crime-legal-world/french-police-detain-suspect-viral-video-attack-woman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T09:06:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French woman Marie Laguerre, who posted online a video in which she is seen being hit by a man in the street, poses for pictures in Paris Aug. 1. A man has been detained on suspicion of assaulting the 22-year-old student who released a shocking video of the attack last month outside a Paris cafe that went viral online. Surveillance footage of the incident shows a man hurling an ashtray from a table outside the cafe at Marie Laguerre, allegedly after she told him to "shut up" following lewd comments.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/u-s-rohingya-report-consistent-u-n-findings-genocide-myanmar-regime-nikki-haley/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T09:10:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[United States Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in Myanmar at U.N. Headquarters in New York on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/world/bees-besiege-times-square-street-drawing-swarm-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T09:13:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People react to a swarm of bees in Times Square in New York City Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/17/national/japans-kendo-federation-reveals-widespread-corruption-promotion-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T09:14:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukimichi Nakatani, executive director of All Japan Kendo Federation, answers questions from reporters on Friday in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/world/science-health-world/300-endangered-sea-turtles-found-dead-apparent-net-off-mexican-coast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T10:48:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boat of the Mexican Navy sails near turtles killed while trapped in a fishing net in the municipality of Santa Maria Colotepec, in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/white-house-probing-google-trump-accuses-hiding-fair-media-coverage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T10:59:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpgoog-a-20180830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cursor moves over Google's search engine page on Tuesday in Portland, Oregon. Political leanings don't factor into Google's search algorithm. But the authoritativeness of page links the algorithm spits out and the perception of thousands of human raters do.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/business/u-s-energy-firms-fume-rejected-steel-tariff-exemptions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T11:01:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/10/national/ground-breaking-ceremony-held-new-yamanote-line-station/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T12:21:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yamanote-a-20170211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This illustration shows what the new station, to be built between Shinagawa and Tamachi stations on the JR Yamanote Line in central Tokyo, might look like.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/world/brazil-sends-army-border-venezuelans-flee-crisis-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T13:18:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Army soldiers patrol a street next to people from Venezuela after checking their passports or identity cards at a border control in Roraima state, Brazil, on Aug. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/national/fukushima-remove-controversial-statue-child-radiation-protection-suit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T13:45:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-sunchild-a-20180829.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sunchild-a-20180829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Sun Child" near Fukushima Station in the city of Fukushima, has been met with strong opposition from local residents since it was unveiled earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/asia-pacific/strong-quake-sends-small-tsunami-radiating-south-pacific-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T15:26:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/national/one-hokkaido-town-curbed-population-decline-graying-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T17:14:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor to a summer photography festival walks by a wall of photos on display in downtown Higashikawa, Hokkaido, in early August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/business/corporate-business/sky-canvas-tokyo-startup-looks-launch-worlds-first-artificial-meteor-shower/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T17:35:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lena Okajima, CEO of ALE Co., poses at her office in Minato Ward’s Akasaka district on Aug. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/national/activists-alarmed-bottlenose-dolphin-penguins-abandoned-closed-japanese-aquarium/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T17:40:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honey, a bottlenose dolphin, is seen at the abandoned Inubosaki Marine Park Aquarium in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, on Aug. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-29T19:10:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis (left) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford speak to reporters during a news conference at the Pentagon Tuesday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-29T20:09:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-29T20:36:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Y&amp;M Fujikake Daiichi Hospital in the city of Gifu is seen Wednesday, a day after the fifth patient in three days died there. The police have launched an investigation.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-29T20:42:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Denny Tamaki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/business/financial-markets/dollar-slightly-firmer-near-%c2%a5111-20-late-tokyo-trades/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-29T21:40:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-29T21:45:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italian architect Renzo Piano talks with journalists after a meeting about the Morandi highway bridge, which collapsed on Aug. 14 killing 43 people, in Genoa, Italy, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/asia-pacific/50000-evacuated-myanmar-homes-shops-flooded-dam-fails/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-30T00:11:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-30T06:35:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Namibian Culture Minister Katrina Hanse-Himarwa (third from left) and German Minister of State in the foreign ministry Michelle Muentefering (third from right) stand together during a handing-over ceremony for human remains that were brought to Berlin during its colonial rule of the African nation, on Wednesday in the French Church in Berlin. The skulls are among an estimated 300 taken to Germany after a massacre of indigenous Namibians at the start of the last century during an anti-colonial uprising in what was then called South West Africa, which Berlin ruled from 1884 to 1915.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/dimona-reactor-netanyahu-warns-israels-foes-risk-ruin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-30T06:39:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Israeli nuclear facility in the Negev Dest outside Dimona is seen in 2000.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/30/world/social-issues-world/drought-uncovers-dreaded-hunger-stones-czech-river/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-30T09:12:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the 'hunger stones' revealed by the low level of water in the Elbe River is seen in Decin, Czech Republic, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-says-fantastic-job-puerto-rico-told-2017-storm-killed-almost-3000/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulin Cruz, points as she visits the Playita community with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in San Juan last October. U.S. President Donald Trump's administration killed Puerto Ricans through "neglect," the mayor of the island's capital, Yulin Cruz, said on Wednesday a day after the official death toll for Hurricane Maria was raised to nearly 3,000.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waterworks Bureau's customer support center will have Chinese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish support, in addition to the already offered English service.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prompted by growing popularity of sport utility vehicles in Japan, Honda Motor Co. is reintroducing the CR-V series to the Japanese market.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/30/asia-pacific/china-launches-ai-backed-platform-eliminate-online-rumors/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-30T17:35:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A windmill for power generation is seen off Kabashima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, in 2013. The government now plans to deregulate installation rules to set up wind power plants to promote generation of renewable energy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses his advisory panel on defense policies at its first session Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/30/asia-pacific/south-korea-names-new-defense-chief-jeong-kyeong-doo-former-fighter-pilot-head-joint-chiefs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-30T18:21:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-30T19:42:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan addresses the Upper House on Feb. 24, 2004, during a visit to Japan. The deceased ex-U.N. chief was known as a strong advocate of Security Council reform plans that could have given Japan a permanent seat.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/30/business/corporate-business/toyota-target-tripling-china-output-3-5-million-vehicles-next-decade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-30T19:50:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Toyota Motor Corp. NS4 plug-in hybrid concept vehicle is displayed in November 2015 during the China International Automobile Exhibition in Guangzhou, China. Toyota plans to triple car production in China by as soon as 2030.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-30T20:57:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-30T20:59:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Akiba and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meet on Wednesday in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/business/historic-tokyo-house-become-gathering-place-executives-entrepreneurs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-30T22:57:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lounge inside Kudan House, a new business hub in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, is seen Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/31/world/world-changes-europe-rethinks-strategic-dependence-trumps-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-31T07:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/31/business/warren-buffett-says-firm-buying-back-stock-apple-shares/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-31T07:11:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett speaks during an interview in Omaha, Nebrask, in May with Liz Claman on Fox Business Network's "Countdown to the Closing Bell." Buffett says stocks remain attractive investments even at today's high prices when compared to bonds or real estate.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/31/world/social-issues-world/conservative-media-move-front-line-battle-undermine-pope-francis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-31T07:14:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano speaks during a pro-life youth Mass at the Verizon Center in Washingtonin 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/31/world/crime-legal-world/california-man-charged-enemy-people-death-threats-targeting-boston-globe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-31T07:16:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The front entrance of Robert Chain's house in the Encino section of Los Angeles is seen Thursday. Chain, who was upset about The Boston Globe's coordinated editorial response to President Donald Trump's attacks on the news media, was arrested Thursday for threatening to travel to the newspaper's offices and kill journalists, whom he called the "enemy of the people," federal prosecutors said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/31/business/tech/russia-said-failing-bid-tap-precise-tech-block-telegram-messenger-services/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-31T09:54:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A youth releases a paper plane, symbol of the Telegram messenger, during a rally in against a court decision to block the messenger because it violated Russian regulations, in Moscow May 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-31T09:58:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A combination of screenshots shows (top) an image taken from Flickr depicting the bodies of Bengalis being retrieved following their massacre in Dhaka in 1971. The same image (bottom) appears in the Myanmar army's recently published book on the Rohingya describing it as the brutal killing of the local ethnic people by Bengalis in Myanmar.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-31T10:04:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions hosts a roundtable discussion with foreign liaison officers from the Joint Interagency Task Force-South (JIATF-S) at the Justice Department in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/31/business/economy-business/trump-threatens-pull-u-s-wto-doesnt-shape/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-31T11:06:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-31T12:27:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon shake hands at Hofstra University in Hempstead on Wednesday ahead of their the Democratic gubernatorial primary debate. The winner of the Democratic primary faces Republican Marc Molinaro and independent Stephanie Miner in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-31T12:59:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an interview in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/31/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-vows-efforts-reach-40-million-tourism-goal-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-31T14:55:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tourism-a-20180901.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a Cabinet meeting on tourism at his office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-31T15:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/31/national/ipc-president-challenges-tokyo-2020-hosts-leave-lasting-legacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-31T15:52:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons praises Japan's efforts in preparing for the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, but he also says there is room for improvement in terms of changing the attitudes toward people with impairments.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/31/national/six-dead-two-injured-motorcycle-accident-nara/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-31T15:53:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two damaged motorcycles and a scooter involved in a fatal accident in the city of Nara on Friday are displayed to the media.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-31T15:58:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker sculpts a bust of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong inside a workshop at the Jingdezhen Porcelain Factory in Jingdezhen in China's Jiangxi province in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-31T16:05:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi speaks during an Upper House plenary session at the Diet in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/30/business/tech/uber-enlists-japan-among-5-candidate-countries-test-flying-taxis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-31T16:42:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-uber-a-20180831.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uber plans to develop electric flying cars, similar to the one seen in this computer-generated image, that can take off and land vertically and reach a top speed of 320 kph.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/31/national/english-speaking-storyteller-visit-portugal-relay-nagasaki-hibakusha-experience/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-08-31T16:44:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hibakusha-a-20180901.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atomic bomb survivors march in the city of Nagasaki in July, calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Given the advanced age of the survivors, Nagasaki Prefecture has been training people to become storytellers on behalf of them.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/31/business/economy-business/predicting-trump-chinese-turn-fortune-tellers-divine-trade-war/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2018-08-31T21:58:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. counterintelligence head says Chinese spies contact thousands of LinkedIn members at a time.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Center of attention: The Imperial Household Agency announced in February that the formal engagement ceremony for Princess Mako and Kei Komuro had been postponed indefinitely.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a Republican fundraiser at the Carmel Country Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/01/national/japanese-helicopter-destroyer-trains-u-s-aircraft-carrier-disputed-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-01T17:37:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte poses for a selfie with students after a wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate National Heroes' Day at the Heroes Cemetery in Manila on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/01/business/economy-business/rcep-ministers-approve-package-deliverables-reached-year-end/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-01T19:19:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko speaks at a news conference Thursday in Singapore.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/01/national/justice-panel-drafts-rules-facilitate-child-custody-exchanges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-01T23:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A legislative panel under the Justice Ministry has outlined rules to make the process of child custody handovers easier.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-02T12:52:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jim Mattis]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (right) meets Rosario Manalo (third from left), chairwoman of the Rakhine inquiry commission, and members Kenzo Oshima (second from left) and Aung Tun Thet in Naypyidaw on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-02T12:53:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Siraj Ibn Wahhaj (left) and Jany Leveille talk with with attorneys on Aug. 29 in the Taos County Courthouse.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-02T13:53:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-02T16:25:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-02T16:52:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideyo Kitakami, 60, poses in Kawasaki on Aug. 23. Kitakami has been searching for a part-time job doing translation work but has been rejected by more than 100 companies.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-02T16:56:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean national security chief Chung Eui-yong speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington in March to announce that U.S. President Donald Trump would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-02T17:08:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gate at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, is shown in December 2006.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/02/business/economy-business/china-party-journal-warns-trade-wars-impact-financial-stability/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-02T18:22:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/02/national/science-health/diabetes-camp-helps-japanese-children-take-control-disease-young-age/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-02T18:25:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play a ball game during a summer camp for children with diabetes held in Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/02/business/nestle-pivots-candy-bars-personalized-nutrition-taking-beverage-capsules-next-level/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-02T18:29:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kozo Takaoka, chief executive officer of Nestle Japan, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Aug. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/02/business/saudi-sovereign-fund-appoints-former-dow-chemical-ceo-andrew-liveris-special-adviser/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-02T21:56:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andrew Liveris]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/02/national/olympic-flame-2020-games-lit-3-11-anniversary-ioc-chief-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-02T22:01:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach is interviewed in Jakarta on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/may-stands-firm-brexit-plan-skepticism-among-lawmakers-persists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-02T23:22:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former British Brexit Secretary David Davis (right) appears on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC television in London on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/03/world/crime-legal-world/germany-suspends-probes-two-bavaria-policemen-nazi-salute/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-03T06:22:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Numerous editions of the Federal Constitutional Law (Grundgesetz) are placed in the treet by supporters of the alliance Chemnitz Nazifrei" (Chemnitz without Nazis) close to the place of a countermarch in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, on Saturday ahead a protest of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and anti-Islam Pegida movement. The far-right demonstration was organised in a reaction to a knife killing, allegedly by an Iraqi and a Syrian, that set off anti-immigrant mob violence.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-03T06:25:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Nigerian Military Police sits on an armored vehicle during the African Land Forces Summit (ALFS) military demonstration held at General Ao Azazi barracks in Gwagwalada in April. At least 30 Nigerian soldiers died in combat with Boko Haram jihadists who overran a military base in the northeast near the border with Niger, two military sources told AFP on Saturday. Scores of jihadists in trucks stormed the base at Zari village in northern Borno state late Thursday and briefly seized it after a fierce battle, they said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/03/business/amid-u-s-trade-war-chinas-xi-reiterates-reform-commitment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-03T06:42:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (second from left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping review an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/03/business/brexit-sway-scottish-voters-seek-independence-u-k-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-03T09:03:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Union Jack, Scottish Soltaire and European Union flags (from left) fly outside of the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-03T09:11:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-03T09:12:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's nominee to be associate justice of the Supreme Court, speaks as he meets with U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith  on Capitol Hill in Washington July 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/03/world/pope-calls-parties-safeguard-syrian-civilians-idlib/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-03T10:30:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children sit in the shade of a tent at a camp for the displaced in the rebel-held Syrian province of Idlib, at the village of al-Ghadfa, southeast of the province on Sunday. The Syrian regime and its Russian ally are threatening an offensive to retake the northwestern province of Idlib, Syria's last rebel bastion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/03/national/politics-diplomacy/defense-ministry-equip-aegis-ship-sm-6-cruise-missile-interceptor-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-03T12:43:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Defense Ministry plans to equip the Maritime Self-Defense Force's new Aegis destroyer Maya, seen in this photograph taken in July, with an SM-6 anti-air missile system to shoot down cruise missiles.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/03/national/japanese-police-test-ai-use-better-investigations-criminal-activity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-03T12:54:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The National Police Agency will conduct experiments on using artificial intelligence in investigations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/03/national/tokyo-earthquake-drill-60-foreign-tourists-transported-boat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-03T13:11:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-03T13:12:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated photo released by Egypt's Antiquities Ministry shows what is one of the oldest villages ever found  in the Nile Delta. It was unearthed at Tell al-Samara, about 140 km (90 miles) north of Cairo. There, archaeologists discovered silos containing animal bones and food, indicating human habitation as early as 5000 B.C.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-03T15:43:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A student who entered Chiba University under the academic acceleration program takes a personal training seminar designed for such students at the university.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/03/national/state-subsidies-decline-nagoya-university-turns-crowdfunding-support-student-activities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-03T15:44:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hironori Nagata (right), leader of Formula Team FEM, stands beside a race car as Naoki Kosugi sits in the driver's seat, at Nagoya University. The team is using crowdfunding to develop an electric car.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/03/business/corporate-business/ford-may-slash-12-jobs-revamp-europe-operations-sunday-times/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-03T17:22:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Keizo Obuchi holds up the kanji for the new era name Heisei on Jan. 7, 1989, the day Emperor Hirohito died.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot of the Fujisan Koko website shows places where Mount Fuji can be viewed throughout Japan. The site also shows what kinds of photos of the mountain can be taken from certain locations.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-04T02:17:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker walks past pipelines in Nagoya. Capital spending by Japanese firms rose at the fastest pace in more than a decade in the April-June quarter, according to government data released Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roberto Azevedo, director-general of the World Trade Organization, has warned U.S. President Donald Trump that his threat to leave the institution could undermine global business conducted by U.S. companies.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yakult Honsha Co., which manufactures the Yakult probiotic dairy drink, is finding that the power of product placement is so potent it works even when it's mistaken.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera review an honor guard during Abe's visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures in a meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Damascs Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-04T08:54:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Conference chairman Wolfgang Ischinger talks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-04T08:56:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-04T09:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-04T10:49:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-04T11:23:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shirt donated by Toyoko Matsumiya in 2012 to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum still shows stains from so-called black rain, containing radioactive fallout, that fell on Aug. 6, 1945, after an atomic bomb destroyed the city.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-04T12:11:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A child reaches out to an otter being held by a staff member in a train traveling from Shinagawa Station in Tokyo to Miurakaigan Station in Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sunday. The otter was taking part in an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Keikyu Aburatsubo Marine Park.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/04/business/nike-launching-ad-campaign-featuring-scorned-ex-quarterback-colin-kaepernick-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-04T12:12:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nike-a-20180905.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An ad taken from the official Twitter account of apparel company Nike shows Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who sparked controversy by kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice. Kaepernick will be the face of a Nike ad campaign for the 30th anniversary of its "Just Do It" motto.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/04/national/super-volunteer-haruo-obata-found-missing-2-year-old-honored-hometown-hiji/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-04T13:05:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruo Obata is honored by the town of Hiji, Oita Prefecture, on Monday for his actions and spirit of volunteerism.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-04T13:49:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-04T14:18:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/04/business/record-2-9-million-people-japan-led-fake-websites-first-half-2018-phishing-attacks-spike-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-04T14:52:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the first six months of this year, a record 2.9 million people in Japan were directed through phishing emails to fake websites.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/04/national/tsukiji-outer-market-begins-campaign-tell-people-staying-put/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-04T15:05:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives at a Tokyo hotel Monday to attend the opening ceremony for his campaign office for the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election on Sept. 20. Abe is expected to beat rival Shigeru Ishiba and extend his term as prime minister by another three years.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-04T15:52:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea's Son Heung-min celebrates with the team after they defeated Japan to win the men's soccer gold medal match at the 18th Asian Games in Bogor, Indonesia, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/04/business/corporate-business/japanese-startup-pd-aerospace-aims-commercial-space-travel-2023/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-04T16:27:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shuji Ogawa, president of the startup PD AeroSpace, stands by a test model his company has developed for a commercial space travel project in Hekinan, Aichi Prefecture, on Aug. 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/04/business/corporate-business/japans-dai-ichi-life-buy-suncorp-life-460-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-04T16:52:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-04T18:30:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[American talk show host Conan O'Brien, who is set to visit Hokuei in Tottori Prefecture — also known as "Conan Town" — this week, is seen in a screenshot from footage shared on his official YouTube channel. O'Brien claims the main character of the "Detective Conan" manga and anime series, after which the town gets its nickname, is actually fashioned after him.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/04/national/hokkaido-towns-road-heaven-becomes-popular-tourist-attraction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-04T18:58:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A truck drives on what has been dubbed the "Road to Heaven," which is becoming a new tourist destination in the Hokkaido town of Shari.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/04/national/lafcadio-hearns-great-grandson-working-boost-number-foreign-visitors-matsue-museum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-04T18:59:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lafcadio Hearn]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/04/national/science-health/taken-dip-bears-spotted-places-japan-theyve-not-seen-years/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this file photo taken between May 7 and 8 and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Dalian in northeastern China's Liaoning Province.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-05T06:33:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-05T06:39:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters burn the governor's building during protests demanding better public services and jobs Tuesday in Basra, 340 miles (550 km) southeast of Baghdad. Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition on hundreds of protesters, killing three civilians and wounding at least four.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Aso]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Industry minister Hiroshige Seko speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arndt von Loringhoven, NATO assistant secretary-general for intelligence and security, speaks at the World Summit on Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, Israel, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-05T11:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants are seen after they were relocated from government-run detention centers, after getting trapped by clashes between rival groups in Tripoli Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-05T13:32:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-05T15:48:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shield and other protective equipment that East Japan Railway Co. plans to install on its shinkansen are shown in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-05T17:12:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[BlackRock Inc. sees little reason to be concerned about the possibility that the BOJ may slow down its purchases of exchange-traded funds.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/05/business/businesses-across-kansai-reeling-aftermath-powerful-typhoon-jebi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-05T17:17:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-05T17:20:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past a Muji store, operated by Ryohin Keikaku Co., in Tokyo in July 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/05/national/trade-ministry-denies-report-power-companies-halted-funding-reprocessing-nuclear-fuel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-05T18:46:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshige Seko]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-05T18:51:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean special delegation led by national security chief Chung Eui-yong (second from right), leaves for Pyongyang from an airport in Sungnam, South Korea, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/05/national/preparedness-helped-jr-west-keep-passengers-safe-amid-raging-typhoon-jebi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-05T21:12:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/05/national/social-issues/men-pass-entrance-exams-women-80-japans-medical-schools-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-05T21:13:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Education ministry officials Tuesday announce the results of a survey conducted on medical universities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/05/national/secret-japanese-couples-80-years-marriage-wifes-patience/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-06T03:27:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masao Matsumoto (left) and Miyako Matsumoto, confirmed as the world's oldest living married couple by Guinness World Records, pose for a photo with a great-grandchild and care staff at a nursing house in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/06/business/facebook-twitter-defense-u-s-congress-foreign-bids-tilt-polls-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-06T06:42:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc., speaks as Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook Inc., llistens during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington on Wednesday. Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have increased pressure on technology companies on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign and other election meddling as well as issues including alleged anti-conservative bias and antitrust questions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/05/national/accounts-left-stranded-typhoon-jebi-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-06T10:02:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People stranded overnight at Kansai International Airport line up for buses bound for central Osaka on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/06/world/social-issues-world/despite-reform-efforts-native-american-females-face-high-rates-crime-violence-disappearance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-06T10:55:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Searchers pause while looking for clues in the disappearance of Ashley HeavyRunner Loring, who has been missing for over a year from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Babb, Montana, July 12. Ashley's disappearance is one small chapter in what one senator calls an epidemic, the unsettling story of missing and murdered Native American women and girls. No one knows precisely how many there are in the U.S., partly because some go unreported and others haven't been accurately documented.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/06/business/justice-department-probes-social-media-stifling-speech-trump-gop-conspiracy-theorists-gripe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-06T11:04:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and Alex Jones are seen in the halls of the Senate outside a social media hearing in Washington Wednesday in this still image obtained from social media.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The new Shibuya Stream commercial complex and its promenade, located next to Shibuya River, are seen in this photo taken Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/06/national/examining-potential-economic-impact-quake-japans-agricultural-capital-hokkaido/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People who were stranded at Kansai International Airport arrive at Kobe Airport Wednesday morning by high-speed ferry.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-06T16:56:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-06T18:59:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/06/national/liveblog-m6-7-earthquake-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-06T19:32:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A house lies in ruins across a road in Atsuma, one of the hardest hit areas of Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-06T19:54:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-06T19:59:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A person rests at Kansai International Airport on Wednesday night after the facility was cut off from major transportation routes amid the Typhoon Jebi disaster.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-06T21:02:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Self-Defense Forces members perform search operations in an area affected by landslides in the town of Atsuma, Hokkaido, after a powerful earthquake rocked the region.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-06T21:11:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uber Technologies Inc.'s Japan head Tom White (right) and Fuji Taxi Group President Hisashi Umemura pose as Uber announced a plan to launch a ride-hailing app for taxis operating in Nagoya on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/06/national/hokkaido-quake-spurs-mass-hotel-cancellations-tourist-spot-closings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-06T21:15:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-06T22:37:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aircraft are seen on flooded tarmac at the Don Muang airport in Bangkok in 2011, when the year's monsoon season brought the worst floods in decades and submerged a fifth of the city. As Bangkok hosts climate change talks from Sept. 4, 2018, the sprawling city of more than 10 million faces dire forecasts that it could be partially submerged in just over a decade.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/06/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/kim-agrees-cooperate-closely-u-s-denuclearizing-says-stronger-measures-possible/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-07T01:40:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean national security chief and special envoy Chung Eui-yong walks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting in Pyongyang on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/06/national/osaka-offers-free-2-day-subway-bus-passes-foreign-tourists-stranded-typhoon-jebi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-07T03:59:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Mizobata, who heads the Osaka Convention &amp; Tourism Bureau, speaks at a news conference on Thursday in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/06/national/abe-announces-typhoon-hit-kansai-airport-will-reopen-domestic-flights-friday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-07T07:07:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a government meeting on natural disasters at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/07/world/science-health-world/passengers-crew-two-flights-philadelphia-europe-suffer-illness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-07T09:53:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-07T09:54:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-twitter-a-20180908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks Wednesday outside of the Dirksen building of Capitol Hill after listening to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on 'Foreign Influence Operations and Their Use of Social Media Platforms' on Capitol Hill in Washington. Twitter is permanently banning right-wing conspiracy theorist Jones and his "Infowars" show for abusive behavior.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/07/world/crime-legal-world/rudy-giuliani-ap-trump-will-not-answer-obstruction-questions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-07T09:58:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rudy-a-20180908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[udy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump, addresses a gathering during a campaign event for Eddie Edwards, who is running for the U.S. Congress, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Aug. 1. President Donald Trump will not answer any questions, written or in-person, about possible obstruction of justice, Giuliani told The Associated Press. Giuliani's statement was the most definitive rejection yet of special counsel Robert Mueller's efforts to interview the president about any efforts to block the investigation into possible coordination between his campaign and Russians.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-07T11:03:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-novichok-a-20180908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vassily Nebenzia, Russian ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting about a chemical attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter using a military-grade nerve agent, at the U.N. headquarters in New York City Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/07/business/bad-news-around-mutual-funds-little-boost-japanese-peoples-appetite-investment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-07T12:39:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yen-a-20180908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recent report that the Bank of Japan had overestimated the value of mutual funds being held by individuals by about 30 percent has shocked the securities industry.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/07/national/fate-miyagis-aging-ufo-like-traffic-lights-hangs-balance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-07T13:03:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trafficlights-a-20180907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[UFO-like traffic lights, set up more than 30 years ago, are seen in Sendai in a photo taken on Aug. 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/07/national/crime-legal/hitomi-yoshizawa-former-member-idol-group-morning-musume-held-alleged-dui-hit-run/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-07T15:25:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yoshizawa-a-20180907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitomi Yoshizawa is seen in front of Nakano Police Station on Thursday after being arrested for an alleged hit-and-run incident involving drunken driving.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/07/national/body-found-explosion-kyushu-university-fukuoka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-07T16:34:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-blast-a-20180908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators inspect the scene of a blast Friday morning on the campus of Kyushu University in the city of Fukuoka. An unidentified human body was found in the debris.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/07/business/airline-travelers-topped-4-billion-2017-asia-pacific-leading-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-07T16:37:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-travelers-a-20180908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The International Air Transport Association says 4.1 billion passengers flew last year, an additional 280 million trips on top of 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/07/business/economy-business/japanese-household-spending-posted-first-rise-six-months-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-07T16:39:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/07/national/neon-lights-sapporos-famed-nightlife-district-darkened-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-07T17:02:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sapporo-a-20180908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Due to power outages following a powerful earthquake in the early hours of Thursday, the neon advertising lights that light up buildings in Sapporo's famed Susukino entertainment district were conspicuously absent Thursday night.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/07/business/abe-eyes-%c2%a51-trillion-extra-budget-disaster-relief-measures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-07T17:05:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/07/national/science-health/survey-finds-suicide-leading-cause-maternal-death-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-07T17:52:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-suicide-a-20180908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rintaro Mori, a doctor at the National Center for Child Health and Development in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, unveils on Wednesday the results of Japan's first nationwide study on maternal death.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/07/national/osaka-plans-offer-multilingual-disaster-information-foreign-visitors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-07T18:55:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will face off against former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the Sept. 20 vote to elect the next president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies on Thursday, the third day of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-08T14:39:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-08T20:54:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-08T20:40:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Safari Zone in Yokosuka offered fans a chance to catch a variety of rare Pokemon that are normally hard to find.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-08T15:38:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Iranian Consulate in Basra burns after being torched by protesters during demonstrations over poor public services in Iraq.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-08T16:52:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to Fargo, North Dakota, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-08T18:14:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-08T20:04:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-08T20:52:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-08T20:59:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boris Johnson, Britain's foreign secretary at the time, delivers a speech on Brexit at the Policy Exchange in central London in February.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This picture shows detainees inside the soundproof glass dock of the courtroom during the trial of 700 defendants, including Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, widely known as Shawkan, in Cairo on Saturday. An Egyptian court on Saturday handed a five-year jail sentence to prominent photojournalist Zeid, known as Shawkan, who earlier this year received UNESCO's World Freedom Prize. Shawkan was one of more than 700 defendants on trial in the same case, most of them facing charges of killing police and vandalizing property during the clashes.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-10T13:24:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takako Yamada, who offers educational and job opportunities for impoverished children in the Philippines, spends time with street children in central Cebu province.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suh Hoon, chief of South Korea's National Intelligence Service, shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp Corp.'s small humanoid robot, named RoBoHon, will offer sightseeing guidance in Kyoto starting Sept. 22.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks with U.S. President Donald Trump during a break in talks at their historic summit on Sentosa Island in Singapore in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-11T18:37:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-yahoo-a-20180912.jpg]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/11/business/corporate-business/leading-taxi-hailing-app-providers-japan-south-korea-collaborate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-11T18:50:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-taxi-a-20180912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Taxi Co. and South Korea's Kakao Mobility Corp. are working on integrating their services.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/10/business/corporate-business/sony-plans-power-global-operations-renewables-2040/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-11T19:11:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sony-a-20180911.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp. is joining other global companies, including Apple Inc. and Google Inc., to use renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power for business activities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/11/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-putin-meet-vladivostok-ahead-economic-forum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-11T19:56:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visit Mazda Sollers Manufacturing Rus, a Russian-Japanese joint car assembly plant, in Vladivostok on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/11/national/80-victims-atsuma-hardest-hit-hokkaido-quake-died-suffocation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-11T21:03:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children carry water from an evacuation center to their home on Tuesday in Atsuma, the town in Hokkaido hit hardest by Thursday's earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/11/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-south-korean-prime-minister-lee-nak-yon-agree-work-toward-nuclear-free-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-11T21:03:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon meet in Vladivostok, Russia, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/11/national/social-issues/73-8-japan-workers-service-sector-harassed-customers-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T04:10:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-harassment-a-20180912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey shows that 73.8 percent of Japan workers in the services sector have been harassed by customers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/11/national/no-rolling-blackouts-planned-earthquake-hit-hokkaido-least-wednesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T11:53:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many lights are off in the Susukino entertainment district of Sapporo on Monday night as businesses try to save electricity.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/11/national/science-health/japans-shut-elderly-men-likely-suffer-undernourishment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T11:54:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-elderly-a-20180912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Elderly men who go out less than once a week are likely to suffer poor nutrition, according to a health ministry survey for 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/11/national/hokkaido-quake-leaves-thousands-juvenile-salmon-dead-aquarium/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T12:53:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aquarium-a-20180912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors watch salmon at Chitose Aquarium in Hokkaido on Sunday, after the facility reopened following last Thursday's earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/business/going-global-trend-japan-lags-boardroom-diversity-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T13:15:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-gender-a-20180913.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gender-a-20180913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese companies without any female directors included telecom operator SoftBank Group Corp., Nintendo Co., Uniqlo-parent Fast Retailing Co. and 7-Eleven owner Seven &amp; I Holdings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/obama-weighed-pre-emptive-strike-north-korea-fifth-nuclear-blast-missile-tests-near-japan-2016-woodward-book-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T13:39:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkobama-a-20180913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia on Nov. 7, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/world/idlib-offensive-looms-thousands-syrians-flee-border-villages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T13:42:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/f-syria-a-20180913.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-syria-a-20180913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A newly displaced Syrian child walks near a refugee camp in Atimah village, Idlib province, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-target-foreign-meddling-u-s-elections-sanctions-order-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T16:02:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-meddling-a-20180913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump holds an Oval Office meeting on hurricane preparations for Hurricane Florence at the White House in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/business/corporate-business/pioneer-secures-540-million-rescue-baring-private-equity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T16:13:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/b-pioneer-a-20180913.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-pioneer-a-20180913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pioneer Corp. secured up to ¥60 billion ($540 million) with a planned share issue to Baring Private Equity Asia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/asia-pacific/russia-launches-biggest-war-games-decades-involves-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T17:15:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are seen after their talks on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/business/corporate-business/three-mitsubishi-materials-units-indicted-data-fabrication/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T17:38:52+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/national/science-health/japan-three-year-cancer-survival-rate-71/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T17:41:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-cancer-a-20180913.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cancer-a-20180913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[National Cancer Center researchers hold a news conference Monday in Tokyo prior to the release of three-year cancer survival rate data.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/national/sailors-rap-japan-dolphin-show-world-cup-opening/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T18:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-dolphinshow-a-20180913.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dolphinshow-a-20180913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese organizer of the World Cup sailing competition is criticized for holding a dolphin show at the opening ceremony on Sunday in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/business/corporate-business/japans-kubota-admits-falsifying-data-metal-components/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T18:19:45+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/national/probe-abuse-health-insurance-foreigners-japan-stirs-claims-prejudice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T18:31:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-insurance-a-20180913.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-insurance-a-20180913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The health ministry is being criticized by some experts for probing alleged cases of foreign nationals obtaining residential status fraudulently to benefit from Japan's public insurance system.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/07/business/tech/engineer-friendly-fukuoka-pitches-merits-ambitious-campaign-become-startup-hub/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T18:48:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/b-engineers-a-20180908.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-engineers-a-20180908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fukuoka Mayor Soichiro Takashima (second from right) talks to participants at a ramen shop and bar in Tokyo's Minato Ward during an event organized by the city of Fukuoka on Aug. 21 to encourage engineers to move to the city.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/national/prize-winning-fukuoka-dance-team-puts-kurume-youtube-radar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T18:53:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-dancevideo-a-20180913.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dancevideo-a-20180913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot of a YouTube video released by the Kurume Municipal Government in Fukuoka Prefecture shows the dance group Kyushudanji Shinsengumi showing off their moves at the Kurume Bird Center.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-xi-agree-cooperate-toward-denuclearization-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T19:10:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-abexi-a-20180913.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abexi-a-20180913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands Wednesday at a meeting held in Vladivostok, Russia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/national/long-crack-found-near-building-new-tokyo-fish-market-no-delay-october-opening-officials-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T19:21:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-toyosu-a-20180913.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-toyosu-a-20180913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo taken on Sunday shows the site where a long, 5-centimeter-wide crack was found next to a building at the new fish market in the Toyosu waterfront area of Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/national/work-begins-repairing-kansai-airports-bridge-aim-restarting-rail-services-end-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-12T21:34:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-airport-a-20180913.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-airport-a-20180913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A damaged girder is lifted Wednesday off a bridge connecting Kansai International Airport and mainland Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/13/business/online-firms-may-face-eu-fine-extremist-posts-stay-hour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-13T06:52:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/b-fines-a-20180914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fines-a-20180914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (right) jokes with former leader of the British UKIP party and member of the European Parliament Nigel Farage after delivering his State of Union speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/13/world/science-health-world/south-african-cave-stone-boasts-oldest-known-human-drawing-dating-back-73000-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-13T06:53:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/f-caveart-a-20180914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-caveart-a-20180914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A stone flake discovered in Blombos Cave with red ochre markings that archeologists say represent one of the oldest-known examples of human drawings, on South Africa's southern coast, is shown in this photo released Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/13/world/u-n-documents-syrian-regime-use-banned-chemical-arms-fears-idlib-massacre/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-13T06:55:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/f-syrchem-a-20180914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-syrchem-a-20180914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Um Majid tries an improvised gas mask on familiy members in her home in Binnish in Syria's rebel-held northern Idlib province as part of preparations for any upcoming raids on Wednesday. The Syrian regime and its Russian ally are threatening an offensive to retake the northwestern province of Idlib, Syria's last rebel bastion.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/13/world/science-health-world/egypt-prosecutor-says-e-coli-factor-deaths-two-british-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-13T09:48:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/f-egypt-a-20180914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-egypt-a-20180914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Aug. 24 photo taken from video shows the exterior of the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel in Hurghada, Egypt. Egypt's chief prosecutor said Wednesday that tests showed that e.coli bacteria were behind the death of two British tourists in the hotel in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada. Travel company Thomas Cook said last week that there was a "high level of e.coli and staphylococcus bacteria" at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel where John and Susan Cooper, a couple in their 60s, died Aug. 21.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/oslo-accords-peace-hopes-fading-memory-25-years-amid-unresolved-issues-new-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-13T09:54:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/f-oslo-a-20180914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-oslo-a-20180914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israeli military planning expert Shlomo Yanai (left) gestures as chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat (center) and the head of the Palestinian aviation department, Fayez Zidan (right), tour International Gaza airport in Rafah in 1997. The opening of the Palestinians' first airport, in the presence of U.S. President Bill Clinton, was a symbol of the hopes for independence and peace kindled by the Oslo accords. But 25 years after Israeli and Palestinian leaders signed the first of the historic agreements on Sept. 13, 1993, the airport in Gaza lies in tatters, along with Palestinian hopes for an independent state.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/13/business/trump-administration-steps-communications-china-tariffs-loom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-13T10:55:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/b-tariffs-a-20180914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tariffs-a-20180914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump holds his signed memorandum on intellectual property tariffs on high-tech goods from China, at the White House in Washington in March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/13/world/eu-lawmakers-call-global-ban-killer-robots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-13T13:48:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/13/world/slamming-door-trump-restricted-u-s-refugee-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-13T13:50:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trefugees-a-20180914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aden Hassan, a refugee from Somalia, holds his daughter Asmo, 2 days old, in their apartment in Columbus, Ohio, on Aug. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/13/national/politics-diplomacy/meet-top-contenders-seeking-lead-okinawa-atsushi-sakima-denny-tamaki/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-13T19:19:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-13T21:48:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during their meeting in Vladivostok, Russia, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters listen to a candidate's speech in Naha on Thursday, when campaigning for Okinawa's gubernatorial election kicked off.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-14T08:45:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-14T08:48:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-14T10:50:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-14T10:52:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-14T13:52:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-14T14:11:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ivory items are sold at an antique fair in Tokyo in August 2017. The Japanese arm of the Worldwide Fund for Nature has urged Yahoo Japan Corp. to impose tighter restrictions on the trade of ivory on its auction site, saying it serves as a major platform for ivory sales.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-14T14:11:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Hanoi on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-14T14:11:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-14T15:06:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rolls of sheet aluminum are seen Thursday at a factory in Zouping, in China's Shandong province.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-14T15:07:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Runners participate in the Run Tomo event, held Sunday in the city of Chiba to raise awareness toward creating a dementia-friendly community across Japan. The event will be extended to other cities through November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-14T15:27:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-14T20:51:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tony Wong, chief executive of the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, Australia, is the winner of the 2018 IWA Global Water Award.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Executive Officer of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation of Uganda Silver Mugisha]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/14/national/iwa-awards-recognizing-excellence-global-water-sustainability/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-14T20:51:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waseda University professor Hisao Ohtake]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/14/national/iwa-launch-call-action-agenda-geared-toward-urban-stakeholders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-14T20:52:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[IWA's agenda is to inform, influence and activate urban stakeholders to protect and invest in water resources, together with basin and catchment organizations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/14/national/tokyo-showcase-efforts-sustainable-water-cycle/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Director General of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Bureau of Waterworks Masahiro Nakajima]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/14/national/historical-gardens-among-unique-event-spaces-rent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-14T20:52:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koto Ward's Kiyosumi Gardens with landscaping stones from all over Japan.]]></image:caption>
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